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The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

Published by skeptic

For better or for worse, romance lovers have never been hornier for hockey. Now, the National Hockey League wants to cash in. As part of its new “Hot for Hockey,” campaign, the NHL is rolling out romance novel-inspired short stories starring the league’s players on audiobook platforms. According to the Sports Business Journal, the league contacted popular hockey romance writers to write and narrate the 60 to 90 second stories, and will tap creators on BookTok, the romance-heavy literary subculture on TikTok, to promote the content. The first batch of short stories, which dropped this week, feature players including the Philadelphia Flyers’ Trevor Zegras, the Carolina Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho, and the Las Vegas Golden Knights’ Jack Eichel. They’re written by Pucking Wrong author C.R. Jane and more closely resemble back-cover summaries than actual romance novels. And, despite the nods to genre tropes, the players aren’t paired with romantic partners. Much more boringly, the stories appear to be a bid to get people to watch the actual games. The entirety of The Summer I Turned Gritty …

The Love Hypothesis lands impressive Rotten Tomatoes score as audiences left divided over fanfic adaptation

The Love Hypothesis lands impressive Rotten Tomatoes score as audiences left divided over fanfic adaptation

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more An Amazon Prime Video adaptation of a Star Wars-inspired fan fiction has landed an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score. Ali Hazelwood’s best-selling 2021 novel The Love Hypothesis began as Head Over Feet, a fan fiction inspired by the romantic connection between Star Wars characters Rey and Kylo Ren, known by the “shipping” name Reylo. (Shipping is when fandoms imagine or support a romantic pairing between two characters or people.) The Love Hypothesis follows Lili Reinhart’s Olive, an ambitious Ph.D. student who enters a fake relationship with her department’s strict professor Adam Carlsen, played by Tom Bateman, to prove that she’s …

Do Normies Have a Right to Read ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fanfic?

Do Normies Have a Right to Read ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fanfic?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Last week, New York magazine published a cover story on Heated Rivalry and fujoshi, a Japanese term for women who love stories about sex and romance between men. The online discourse that the story inevitably inspired kept circling back to one specific detail. In his thorough and seemingly well-meaning story, the writer, E. Alex Jung, had linked directly to fanfiction on An Archive of Our Own (better known as “AO3”). Some people argued that this—directing a mainstream readership to pseudonymous fan writing that wasn’t intended for them—was unethical. The core question, as the literary agent Alyssa Morris wrote, was simple: What is a reasonable expectation of privacy for a community that publishes its work on the open Internet? The debate touches on something fundamental about the experience of online spaces, and it has further-reaching implications than it might seem. The Internet has a geography; it is a place more than it is a communication tool. It has cities and towns and houses and rooms and rooms within rooms. Each region of the Internet has its …

AI-Generated Anti-ICE Videos Are Getting the Fanfic Treatment

AI-Generated Anti-ICE Videos Are Getting the Fanfic Treatment

Published by skeptic

At first glance, the scuffle in the video seems shocking. A New York City school principal, waving a bat, stops masked ICE agents from trying to enter the building, and instead of violence, the encounter erupts with cheers from onlookers. “Let me show you why they call me bat girl,” she says to them. In other clips like it, a server flings a bowl of hot noodles at two officers dining at a Chinese restaurant, and a shop owner flexes her Fourth Amendment rights. None of the encounters end in bloodshed. The videos, equal parts tense and bombastic, are also clearly AI-generated. They are part of a constellation of anti-ICE AI content that is spreading across social media as the federal occupation of Minneapolis—part of the Trump administration’s attack on immigrants—has resulted in agents killing two US citizens in January. Both Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old US Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, were unarmed when they were fatally shot by government officials. In America, the role …