Transformative Works and Cultures
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Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
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This article examines ChatGPT's biases around queer and heteronormative representation in creative writing and fanfiction. Interesting stuff!
Next in New Currents, @drtlwagner.bsky.social & Alison Harding use traditional analyses to examine work created using generative AI in ""Remember, love knows no boundaries and comes in many forms": The conceptualization of queerness within AI-generated fan works"! Read it in #TWC46:
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November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This article examines ChatGPT's biases around queer and heteronormative representation in creative writing and fanfiction. Interesting stuff!
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This article by Tara Heimberger delves further into the popular fan activity of creating, sharing and interacting with characters chat bots, and places this activity in a contimuum of creative and immersive fan practices.
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This article by Tara Heimberger delves further into the popular fan activity of creating, sharing and interacting with characters chat bots, and places this activity in a contimuum of creative and immersive fan practices.
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@journal.transformativeworks.org published an amazing fanzine on the theme of friendships in fandoms. It's really nice to read about what is, essentially, the core and result of many fandoms ! You can read it for free on their website : www.transformativeworks.org/fandom-frien...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
@journal.transformativeworks.org published an amazing fanzine on the theme of friendships in fandoms. It's really nice to read about what is, essentially, the core and result of many fandoms ! You can read it for free on their website : www.transformativeworks.org/fandom-frien...
#zine #fandom
#zine #fandom
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This is such a great article by Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang about a specific incident in fandom in which discourse around AI deepfakes was weaponised by fans. Beyond the incident itself, it offers a thoughtful example of how to engage with fandom incidents with care and respect.
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is such a great article by Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang about a specific incident in fandom in which discourse around AI deepfakes was weaponised by fans. Beyond the incident itself, it offers a thoughtful example of how to engage with fandom incidents with care and respect.
Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang close out the New Currents Articles with ""This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence"! Read it in #TWC46:
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November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang close out the New Currents Articles with ""This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence"! Read it in #TWC46:
Tara Heimberger moves beyond static fan fiction to examine immersive character chatbots that allow fans to carry out a conversation with fan objects in "Character.AI and the quest for immersion in fan fiction practices" for #TWC46! Read it now:
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November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tara Heimberger moves beyond static fan fiction to examine immersive character chatbots that allow fans to carry out a conversation with fan objects in "Character.AI and the quest for immersion in fan fiction practices" for #TWC46! Read it now:
Next in New Currents, @drtlwagner.bsky.social & Alison Harding use traditional analyses to examine work created using generative AI in ""Remember, love knows no boundaries and comes in many forms": The conceptualization of queerness within AI-generated fan works"! Read it in #TWC46:
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November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Next in New Currents, @drtlwagner.bsky.social & Alison Harding use traditional analyses to examine work created using generative AI in ""Remember, love knows no boundaries and comes in many forms": The conceptualization of queerness within AI-generated fan works"! Read it in #TWC46:
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Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
oooo, you want to be edited by these two, they are wonderful! <3
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Our account doesn't and will not promote AI fanworks or fanarts, as we value human made works of art. But if you want to know more the place of AI in fandoms, this editorial is a nice gateway to this subject ! #fanfic #fandom
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This article by @julianeugarten.bsky.social is a fascinating glimpse into fanfiction responding to Ancient Greek mythology as well as a meditation on the suitability of specific digital methods for analysing fanfic, emphasising the importance of close reading in computational literary studies 👀📖
In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:
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November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This article by @julianeugarten.bsky.social is a fascinating glimpse into fanfiction responding to Ancient Greek mythology as well as a meditation on the suitability of specific digital methods for analysing fanfic, emphasising the importance of close reading in computational literary studies 👀📖
In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:
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November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
#TWC46 features our first ever section titled New Currents! This section collects articles on new topics or approaches at a smaller scale than a special issue. In this issue, New Currents focuses on how fans and fan studies scholars engage with AI as a tool for transformative engagement! Stay tuned!
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#TWC46 features our first ever section titled New Currents! This section collects articles on new topics or approaches at a smaller scale than a special issue. In this issue, New Currents focuses on how fans and fan studies scholars engage with AI as a tool for transformative engagement! Stay tuned!
Taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some horror-related articles from our Archive!
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some horror-related articles from our Archive!
#TWC46's Article section ends with @janpoi.bsky.social's "Intergenerational dynamics of children's music fandom: An enculturation perspective"! This study of intergenerational music fandom, also looks at the continuation of fannish attachments and practices over time. Read it here:
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October 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#TWC46's Article section ends with @janpoi.bsky.social's "Intergenerational dynamics of children's music fandom: An enculturation perspective"! This study of intergenerational music fandom, also looks at the continuation of fannish attachments and practices over time. Read it here:
For #TWC46, James Brooks Kuykendall turns our attention to historical fan studies in his analysis of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society! Read "Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)" today:
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October 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
For #TWC46, James Brooks Kuykendall turns our attention to historical fan studies in his analysis of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society! Read "Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)" today:
In "Beyond the "fandom as religion" comparison: Measuring the sacred dimensions of Comic-Con fan devotion," Michael A. Elliott & Marissa Mowers challenge scholarship that considers fandom as a type of religious devotion via an exploration of Comic-Con attendees. Read it in #TWC46:
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October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In "Beyond the "fandom as religion" comparison: Measuring the sacred dimensions of Comic-Con fan devotion," Michael A. Elliott & Marissa Mowers challenge scholarship that considers fandom as a type of religious devotion via an exploration of Comic-Con attendees. Read it in #TWC46:
For #TWC46, @thekateprior.bsky.social offers a quantitative analysis of both platonic and romantic Spider-Man fan fiction in "Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction"! Read it here:
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October 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
For #TWC46, @thekateprior.bsky.social offers a quantitative analysis of both platonic and romantic Spider-Man fan fiction in "Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction"! Read it here:
In "Young women and fan fiction: Motives, reading practices, and reader types," Darina Valiakhmetova, Diana Shchelkanova, and Oxana Mikhaylova expand beyond the anglophone world with their work on Russian fan fiction readers! Read it in #TWC46:
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October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In "Young women and fan fiction: Motives, reading practices, and reader types," Darina Valiakhmetova, Diana Shchelkanova, and Oxana Mikhaylova expand beyond the anglophone world with their work on Russian fan fiction readers! Read it in #TWC46:
In #TWC46, Jaime W. Roots shares her method for promoting knowledge development and critical reflection in classes through fan fiction writing! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
Teaching with fandom: Promoting student subject engagement and critical reflection through fan fiction writing
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October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
In #TWC46, Jaime W. Roots shares her method for promoting knowledge development and critical reflection in classes through fan fiction writing! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
In #TWC46, Kelsey Cummings's analysis of real person fiction (#RPF) reveals the importance of cultural and political context to RPF in their Article, "Real enough: Power and politics in real person fiction"! Read it here:
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October 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In #TWC46, Kelsey Cummings's analysis of real person fiction (#RPF) reveals the importance of cultural and political context to RPF in their Article, "Real enough: Power and politics in real person fiction"! Read it here:
Ye Jiang's article in #TWC46 expands our understanding of the politics of Omegaverse fic by focusing on Chinese fans, whose localization of the genre's norms is complex and progressive. Read "Navigating gender in censored Chinese A/B/O fiction" now:
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October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ye Jiang's article in #TWC46 expands our understanding of the politics of Omegaverse fic by focusing on Chinese fans, whose localization of the genre's norms is complex and progressive. Read "Navigating gender in censored Chinese A/B/O fiction" now:
Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:
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October 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:
In "Surviving Armageddon (aka COVID-19) through "Good Omens: Lockdown" fan fiction," Rachel Loewen demonstrates how fans created health messaging that spoke to intersectional audiences through #GoodOmens fic! Read the Article in #TWC46:
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October 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In "Surviving Armageddon (aka COVID-19) through "Good Omens: Lockdown" fan fiction," Rachel Loewen demonstrates how fans created health messaging that spoke to intersectional audiences through #GoodOmens fic! Read the Article in #TWC46: