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formation. In the same sense that these multiple meanings may deny us the
power to categorize, at the same time they will emphasize our potential to map
out.
What does fanfic and reading have to do with this? Yuri reads
fanfiction all the time, though sometimes she will read it less often if she has
other input possibilities: “For example, I get my hands on the entirety of
GetBackers (a Japanese anime – 2002); I’ll watch that instead of reading
fanfic, and after I watch it, I’ll move into fanfic.” Yuri does, ultimately, prefer
canon to fanon, but there are two fandoms in which both, official and fantexts,
are equally satisfying to her: Saiyuki (2002) and Harry Potter. As she
explained to me how she goes about reading fanfic, she opened an Internet
Explorer window and went to her book-marked favorites. She showed me her
“fanfiction” favorites folder, and explained that she went to the top ten
displayed URLs every day, and only resorted to the others in case she was
very much bored. She also visits very large multi-fandom archives such as
fanfiction.net and mediaminer, as well as goes to regular archives. In the
multi-fandom archives, she searches for Saiyuki first, and once she has
depleted those fics, she moves on to Fruits Basket, followed by Rurouni
Kenshin (both popular anime series; Rurouni Kenshin was aired in the USA
2003). At the point of this conversation, she had just started looking into
GetBackers fanfiction, after she had begun to screen that anime at the
college’s weekly anime nights.
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