Fan labor
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Fan labor, also called fan works, are the creative activities engaged in by fans, primarily those of various media properties or musical groups. These activities can include creation of written works,
A booth screening a Star Wars fan film at a convention
Filk music
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Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has existed since the early 1950s and been played primarily
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…domain, especially for video games, exists also in the form of fan patches, fan translations, mods, fan-made remakes, server emulators and source ports. Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom, involving the writing and performance of songs inspired by fandom…
Filking at ConClave XXX (2005)
Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Emma Bull, making music at Wiscon, 2006
A filk circle at BayCon 2006
Filk circle