Do Fanfiction.net para as livrarias: as fanfictions de Crepúsculo que extrapolam o Fandom

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the profile of Twilight fanfictions written in English and published in their entirety on the Fanfiction.net platform, to conduct a discussion about their originality, and what attributes attract north-American publishers to this type of publication. The study has a quantitative and qualitative character, relying on bibliographical research, statistical analysis, and interviews conducted with north-American publishing houses that have published Twilight fanfiction. Its implementation is justified by the fact that it is a necessary contribution to the field of fanfiction studies, by the still small amount of research in this area, and by the political choice of bringing a systematic and careful approach to a production considered by many as bad taste literature because its audience is mostly female. At first, we studied a universe of 25,600 works of fanfiction published on Fanfiction.net, observing a prevalence of stories written in a range of 1,000 to 5,000 words, classified as Fiction M (mature audiences), of the romance genre, and with less than 1,000 interactions between readers and ficwriters. Due to the ephemerality of the content made available online, it was necessary for fandom to create memory tools to safeguard its productions. One such tool was TwiFanfictionRecs, which listed fanfiction published by the publishing market, totaling 458 stories by the publishing market. Most were published independently, as e-books, with the highest occurrence between the years 2012 and 2017. The authors of fanfiction assumed their true identities at the time of publication, and most stories went through a deep content editing process, affecting the title of the publication. Only 26 of the 458 works of fanfiction remained available on Fanficion.net, and in this new universe it was noted that 11 stories were over 100,000 words in length and were published as sagas, the age rating was mostly Fiction M, the most popular genre was romance, and the type of fanfiction mostly sought after was Alternative Universe. Surprisingly, the published narratives did not achieve very high numbers of interaction between readers and ficwriters. The questionnaire applied to the publishers showed that they validate the creative work of the authors of fanfiction and consider this an interesting business branch for the consolidation of their catalogs. Keywords: Fanfiction. Twilight Saga. Publishing market. Publishing.