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

[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.