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I was excited to see a reference to fanfiction in The New Yorker. I was hoping for a loving parody of fanfiction tropes, or, if coming from a dismissive/derisive standpoint, at least to see what fanfic culture might look like to a smart outside eye. And then I read it, and I’m left wondering if perhaps the author has confused fanfiction with boring, amateur romance novels. Even the badfic I used to see on ff.net and the like usually seemed to follow conventions and tropes that I don’t recognize in this.
So has the author just never read an actual, popular work of fanfiction? Or am I just missing out on a whole sub-genre of actual self-insertion fic out there that really does look like this?
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There was a yellow plastic radio on her kitchen table, usually turned to the polka station, though sometimes she'd miss it by half a notch and get the Greek station instead, or the Spanish, or the Ukrainian. In Chicago, where we lived, all the incompatible states of Europe were pressed together down at the staticky right end of the dial.
Stuart Dybek, "Pet Milk"
Quite possibly Voltaire inspired clothing purchases. 😝 (at a store called New Yorker, how can you pass? 😝)
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