Parafandom

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See also:	Oppositional Fandom, Recursive Fanfiction, Transformational Fandom, Blueprint Culture
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[P]arafanfiction… refers to a particular subset of parafictional art that claims to be fanfiction of, or some other record of, an external media object that does not actually exist. The most notable examples of this are the Homestuck Anime and Squiddles, both of which are spinoffs of the actual Homestuck hypercomic. The idea with those projects is to fabricate an entire alternate reality where Homestuck is an anime and the in-comic show Squiddles actually exists. The fans participating in these projects create objects ostensibly taken directly from the shows in question—screencaps, pictures of old VHS tapes, GameBoy Advance cartridges, gif edits, and so on and so forth—in order to sell the idea that these shows actually exist.

— Parafanfiction and Oppositional Fandom by stormingtheivorytower

[stormingtheivorytower]

straddles the line between truth and fiction. It's the art of truthiness--it purports to be real and accomplishes certain things by hoaxing the audience but it also depends upon the revelation of its fakeness. It's not JUST a hoax that accomplishes by trickery, it's ALSO A REVEALED HOAX, which accomplishes by the revelation of the truth."

Examples of Parafandom

• Cordelia (movie poster) - A historical romance about femdom and pegging, and made up.
• Empire's Tribute - A non-existent book and show series.
• Ghost Soup Infidel Blue - A series with at least 5 different canons such as Ghost Soup Infidel Blue, Ghost Soup Infidel Red, Ghost Soup Infidel Purple etc. and non-existent.
• Goncharov - A 1973 mafia film written by Matteo JWHJ 0715, presented by Martin Scorsese, and entirely made up.
• Sacred Texts - A non-existent book saga.
• Squiddles - A fictional cartoon that originated from Homestuck but turned into a parafandom pretending the show existed.
• FanPro - Tumblr project from 2013-2017 to create a parafandom by having character designs submitted and then have fans expand the universe via fanfiction, fanart, etc.
• That One Particular Blade of Grass In My Front Lawn - another Tumblr-created fictional fandom from 2013.
• Zepotha - Fake film meme originated on TikTok (2023)

Meta/Further Reading

• I'm gonna post some memes for a fandom that doesn't exist
• OUT OF MY FANDOM, ^{Archived version} - fanficrants, parody of overly picky elitist fans using a made-up book series