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A Wizard of Goatse posted:this basically sounds like how fanfiction works, complete with incredibly convoluted cross-media narratives. difference being if anyone tries to commercialize that poo poo it at least gets an editorial pass to make sure the story holds up as a standalone work even when scrubbed of deep Crash Bandicoot lore, instead of the publisher huffing that detailed knowledge of what their OC got up to in the ask blog is at least as important as being able to recognize significant US presidents and then wondering why their work isn't doing 50 Shades numbers. fanfiction is absolutely not like this - at least, the stuff that really pulls in the readers isn't. it's generally single-author, self-contained, and only assumes knowledge of the source material (if even that much) which you probably already have if you're looking at a fanfic for that source work; and even then, anything that is really significant to the story but kind of obscure for the average consumer of the source work, the fanfic will probably give you a refresher about. a lot of published works that are "derivative" in the sense of having a huge backlog with lots of previous authors, or lots of related stories in the same universe like DC/Marvel, could take lessons from how successful fanfics onboard readers into the details and convey the significance of things. of course, "successful" fanfics is a tiny fraction of the overall medium - i'm sure there are also a lot of stories exactly like what you describe. really successful fanfics are generally impossible to scrub into a standalone work because they're deeply intertwined with the original work and responding to its themes and narrative; it's the attention to detail and thoughtful exploration of the original work that draws people in. they generally aren't asking you to digest a huge corpus of pre-existing material scattered across multiple product lines though.
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