Fair enough! Most internet fandom stuff will be found on Fanlore… although there is also Harry, a History, Melissa Anelli’s book about Potter fandom from her perspective as webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron.

YES I have read that and I liked it a lot. I was sad it never finished cause I would just have been curious how SHE ended that story. And I much appreciated that Peter wasn’t made into an idiot.

Check out work by Karen Hellekson or Henry Jenkins, although with Jenkins his books are pretty dated. However! It’s sort of useful to see where he was coming from. His blog archives go back to 2006 and are also a great resource. fanlore.org is a fan wiki and you could probably get lost in there (lots of history!). For fannish-themed link round ups, Meta News is excellent: https://metanews.dreamwidth.org/ They’ve started including mainstream sites, too, so it’s a mix of voices.

Get an AO3 account. Browse fandoms! Bookmark stuff! 😀 WELCOME TO FANDOM.

HA HA WELCOME TO THE RABBIT HOLE. 😀

My favorite fic of all time was a Marauders Era gigantic beast composed of letters and notes and photographs and illustrations and probably like a million other stuff. It was never finished, though (which I’m okay with, considering I know how that story ends and I’m perfectly happy never reading it again *sobs*). It’s called The Shoebox Project and an epub/mobi copy can be downloaded here: http://shoebox.lomara.org/
(also, when describing the story, the authors wrote “Don’t worry; Peter won’t be stupidified”, and I’ll love them forever just for that)

Okay, then–like I said, I just jumped into this like a month ago, and I’ve been digging through Elysian Fields pretty extensively. I think my favorite–which is like huge book-length–was West of the Moon, East of the Sun (I can’t link to it, because it’s NC-17, but you can search by title). I downloaded it to my Kindle and read it in a weekend. I also loved This Thing We Have (http://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=4225).

I read a lot of stuff tied to the comics; I could go on and on (and on) if you are into those!

Oh my god, Renay, I found the Veronica Mars fic on your pinboard and now I am spiraling down a rabbit hole! Thank you and heeeeelp!

THANK YOU RENAY. I will look into all of what you have linked. You will never scare me away with too many resources. I love all the resources, and researching new things is the sun that rises and rises and never ever sets on my life. TELL ME ALL THE THINGS FOREVER.