Fandom Tagging Question

[seekingferret]

Question I've been mulling all day:

I've been doing this writing exercise: http://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/52973.html where I write Pale Fire-style footnotes for famous quotes from other books. If I were to put these on AO3, how the hell would I tag them? I think they're inarguably fannish, inarguably transformative, but it's not clear exactly what fandom they're in. Is it the fandom the footnote is about? Is it Pale Fire? Or is this origfic since it doesn't have the characters from Pale Fire and the actual characters it has are my invented OC specialists?

Comments

[elf]

I would tag it "multifandom" in the fandom field, mention any characters that showed up by name (even if they're only mentioned in passing), less because people searching for that character will want to see the fic (people searching for Mr Darcy will be muchly confused), but because seeing a list of 8 characters from 5 different fandoms lets readers know "this one is WEIRD, folks; don't expect a run-of-the-mill PWP or five things fic."

Might also tag it with "Pale Fire" in the fandom field. I'm not familiar with that, so I'm not sure if it's reasonable to copy a "pattern" from it--but "If on a winter's night a traveller" has fic that has no direct connection to the original.

[anatsuno]

This, pretty much exactly. :) though I would probably put a Pale Fire fandom label on it AND a homebrewed 'pale fire style' or 'pale fire pattern' tag.

[seekingferret]

:D I always enjoy adding a new fandom tag to AO3.

[seekingferret]

I know. I have written "If on a winter's night a traveller" fic that has no direction connection to the original.

Thanks for the advice. That will be a bewilderingly random list of characters. :)

[msilverstar]

Literary fiction is full of homages and inspirations, to the point where fannishness may be in the eye of the author and/or the beholder.

Is there a Literature Fandom tag?

[seekingferret]

Ha, yes. Nabokov mocks the phenomenon in Pale Fire with a series of notes in which Kinbote rails against lazy authors who title their poems with famous lines from other poets, as if hoping to glean some of the talent from their poem's namesake. (Of course "Pale Fire" itself takes its title from Shakespeare)

I'm certainly an advocate of a broad definition of fannishness myself.

[naraht]

Since I see you've asked the question here...

I'm an advocate of thorough (some might say obsessive) tagging. I would tag with both Pale Fire and the fandom the footnote is about. If you think of it as origific, you could always slap that on too. Basically, the more the merrier!

[seekingferret]

I probably need to start tagging my strange panfandom litfic crossovers with "L-Space" as the fandom.