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This week's featured article
 manip and podfic cover by ladyflowdi The Student Prince is a popular Merlin/Arthur college and modern royal family AU, written and recorded by FayJay. It was written and posted in 35 chapters as a work in progress with a new part every day. The serial format contributed to the popularity of the novel because people were talking about it after every new part which created a lot of buzz so that more and more people checked it out. FayJay also recorded the podfic of this story.
The Student Prince was for a time the story with the second highest number of hits on fanfiction website Ao3. This occured in January 2012, when the AO3 version of this fic had more than 800 comments and over 90,000 hits. The story was also crossposted on Dreamwidth, where the final chapter received 90 comments. As of October 2021, the story has more than 2500 comments, 18500+ Kudos, 6500 bookmarks and a very impressive 715,000+ hits on AO3.
When it comes to Modern AUs, the story often gets described as "right up there with Drastically Redefining Protocol". Given the similar premises, the comparison is not particularly surprising.
It is now one of the most popular fanfictions in the Merlin fandom. Fans of this story have created fanart, gifs, vids, and other transformative works in the universe of The Student Prince. The Student Prince is widely recced and has often being referred to as a "Merlin classic".
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News and updates
October 18, 2021
Photographs of fans on Fanlore: A proposed update to Fanlore's Image Policy
Photographs of fans, whether they are images of cosplayers, group shots of a con gathering, or something else, are an important part of fandom's visual record and of documenting fandom.
However, we understand that deciding whether and how to upload photographs of fans to Fanlore requires consideration and care, with issues like privacy and identity protection to be borne in mind.
To help with this, we've drafted an addition to Fanlore's Image Policy with some guidelines on how to handle uploading photographs of fans to Fanlore, and things to consider. Please visit our Dreamwidth post for the proposed addition to the policy, on which we are soliciting feedback until 31st October.
If you have questions or concerns about any photograph uploaded to Fanlore that may identify you, now or in the future, please contact Fanlore Policy & Admin using the subject "Identity Protection" and we will take steps to address the issue.
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- Archives: The Common People Warehouse, Property Damage, Fanfiction Archive
- Fan Clubs: Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Grace Lee Whitney Fan Club, Australian Darkover Council
- Live-action Television: Houston Knights, Liv and Maddie, Paradise (TV)
- Podcasts: Fansplaining: The Year in Fandom 2018, Fansplaining: User-Generated Content, The Assassin's Den
- Science Fiction Conventions: Phantasmicon, MarsCon (Minnesota), Con*Cept
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