Robust, established online networks of Harry PotterВ and Twilightfans played a significant role in making The Hunger GamesВ books into best sellers and, after that, blockbuster films. Like it or not, the once-Olympian creators of the canon - known among fic writers as TPTB, or вЂњthe powers that beвЂќ - now have little choice but to listen to them. The internet changed all that by ushering in the era of the networked fan, often a girl who sampled her first taste of fic in Harry PotterВ fandom. For decades, fanfiction communities - soon to migrate en masse to the web - functioned as a subset of science-fiction and fantasy fandom, where they were treated, by the mostly male nerds who ran things, like a younger sister best banished to her room whenever company came by. Spock swooning in the arms of an ardent Captain Kirk. AbramsвЂ™s Star TrekВ and Star Warsreboots - which take the original source materials (called вЂњcanonвЂќ in fic circles) and shape them to new ends - if not examples of the fanfiction spirit when enabled by hundreds of millions of dollars?ДЄlthough human beings have been stealing and reworking each otherвЂ™s stories for millennia, fanfiction as we now know it began back in the days of Star TrekВ fanzines, on whose mimeographed pages female Trekkers wrote of Mr. EвЂ…L JamesвЂ™s Fifty Shades of GreyВ started as TwilightВ fic. FandomвЂ™s untrammeled imagination is also colonizing the wider world. Romances, often torrid, between ostensibly straight male characters like Harry Potter and his onetime nemesis Draco Malfoy are especially popular, and thereвЂ™s an entire category of fanfiction, calledВ mpreg, in which beloved male characters and celebrities (e.g., One Direction singer Harry Styles) are able, bizarrely, to get pregnant. Millions of fanfiction stories have been uploaded onto vast online archives where other fans read, rate, and comment on them. And they donвЂ™t want to wait for anyone elseвЂ™s permission to do it. As Proulx realized, fans these days arenвЂ™t satisfied to just sit back and consume. Once exiled to obscure corners of the internet, fanfiction - amateur fiction based on characters from preexisting works or real-life celebrities - has lately become a force driving popular culture. Proulx is far from the only mainstream artist being dragged unwillingly into a new, fan-dominated world. So they rewrite the story, including all kinds of boyfriends and new lovers and so forth after Jack is killed.вЂќ The resulting stories, Proulx grumbled, вЂњjust drive me wild.вЂќ вЂњUnfortunately,вЂќ she said, вЂњthe audience that вЂBrokebackвЂ™ reached most strongly вЂ¦ canвЂ™t bear the way it ends - they just canвЂ™t stand it. Less reverent than her typical reader, these fans have busily set themselves to producing what Proulx has termed вЂњpornishвЂќ fiction based on her storyвЂ™s two main characters,В Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar. Proulx first got ficced when a whole new audience came to вЂњBrokebackвЂќ after the Academy AwardвЂ“winning film adaptation was released in 2005. But in the last few years, writers, filmmakers, and other artists have seen fans seize control of their creations and reВimagine them as fanВfiction, or fic, as its aficionados like to call it. Having fans is a good thing, especially for authors of Вquiet, spare realism - not exactly a cohort with a healthy surplus of readers. In a recent interview in the Paris Review ,В the Pulitzer PrizeвЂ“winning author confessed that she wishes sheвЂ™d never written her most famous work, the short story вЂњ Brokeback Mountain,вЂќabout the star-crossed romance between two cowboys.

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