Electro_Kitten20’s Reviews > Fangirl > Status Update

Ah yes, when you’ve reached the point of fanbase legend when people start selling meme shirts on Etsy about your fic, beautiful. Nowadays this is art on tumblr that might end up on Redbubble, but still. Also surprising that Rainbow had a pseudonym for most other sites used, but not Etsy, hmm. (8/?)

It’s really cool to see what the most popular theories are and what people think will happen, and looking back after the last of the series has released. Or even if the show goes on hiatus or the like, it leaves fans to interpret what we’ve been given so far. Such a beautiful thing. (7/?)

It’s so cool to see an author that clearly has been influenced by fandom, to write a book surrounding it. Additionally, I’ve also experienced the “fic before the end”, that last ditch effort by the fans to tell what they think the ending of the series will be through fanworks like fics and comics. (6/?)

Additionally, and I can’t find it now but Cath mentions that she’s a kind of first named fan within the “Simon Snow” fanbase. Which again, is a very real concept that fandoms have. Every single one I’ve been in have these sort of “fans that have fans” within them. AJR has them, the Hellaverse has tons of them, I could go on. (5/?)

This book depicts fan spaces how they actually are, sometimes full of critics and lovers alike. It mentions how Cath’s fic has been getting great reviews but that some fans have turned against her for her characterization being incorrect. This is exactly something a fanbase would do for a very popular fic. (4/?)

Which, while this is literally the first I’ve ever seen this happen, it’s really cool that it still does. The article was from a site called Fanmade or fanmademagazine.co.uk just incase you want to check it out later (fic named “Discordant“ btw, it’s great). (3/?)

Firstly, this page brings up how another fansite, titled “Fic-sation”, posted about Cath’s fic and then it got a lotttt of hits. Typically, I don’t see a whole lot of this in the “modern” era of 2026. Although, I was just reading a fanfic, which is one of the top in the fan base by kudos and hits, the other day and it linked an article discussing the fic, with an interview with the fic’s author, in the notes. (2/?)

Ok so I really want to talk about pages 48 and 49, so that’s what we’re gonna do. To start with a general statement, this book is both a product of its time and a love letter to classic fandom culture; Fandom culture I sadly did not get to experience firsthand, but I’ve heard the legends. (1/?)

Ps for the above, the page numbers with this scene in Carry On are 168-169

The only things changed are the tense and the “writers voice” for lack of a better word. Also the word “git” was exchanged for “wanker”, former being “Simon Snow” and the latter being Carry On. Even though the words in between the dialogue changed, their sentiment stayed the same. I’d say that Rainbow, like I said above, looked back at these excerpts when writing Carry On. (2/2)