Fanfiction is a private universe that's become a welcoming community, particularly for those from marginalized groups.

同人小说是一个私人世界， 现已成为一个受欢迎的社区，尤其是对那些来自边缘化群体的人来说。

I'll leave that to your fanfiction to decide.

我会把它留给你的同人小说来决定。

There are so many characters and honestly, an upsetting amount of fanfiction.

角色如此之多， 老实说，同人小说的数量令人沮丧。

This is a social media network that was built by people in the fanfiction community.

这是一个由同人小说社区的人们建立的社交媒体网络。

Maybe there's a film festival going on, maybe there's a fanfiction contest, maybe there's performative aspects.

也许有电影节正在进行，也许有同人小说比赛，也许有表演方面的活动。

What's more, the talented young people we happened to know all had heavy involvement in fanfiction reading and writing.

更重要的是，我们碰巧认识的才华横溢的年轻人都对同人小说的阅读和写作有着浓厚的兴趣。

73 percent identify as female, and interestingly, more fanfiction authors identify as gender nonconforming than male.

73% 的人认为自己是女性， 有趣的是，与男性相比，更多的同人小说作者认为性别不合规。

You probably have a teenage relative or neighbor who reads or writes fanfiction.

你可能有一个十几岁的亲戚或邻居在读或写同人小说。

Then I came up with this theory… again, this is only a fanfiction, imaginary theory that I pitched to my daughter one night.

然后我想出了这个理论… … 再说一次，这只是我一天晚上向我女儿推销的一个同人小说、虚构的理论。

To find out, we did a deeper dive into mentoring in fanfiction communities.

为了找出答案，我们对同人小说社区中的指导进行了更深入的研究。

One author told us she started writing fanfiction at age 13 when she had this intense crush on a fictional character.

一位作者告诉我们，她在 13 岁时就开始写同人小说，当时她非常喜欢一个虚构的角色。

For those of you who haven't heard the term before, fanfiction, sometimes known as transformative literature, is said by some to go back centuries.

对于那些以前没有听说过这个词的人来说，同人小说有时被称为变革文学，有人说它可以追溯到几个世纪前。

In the past 20 years alone, over 60 billion words of fanfiction have been written and posted on a single online site: fanfiction.

仅在过去 20 年里，就有超过 600 亿字的同人小说被撰写并发布在一个在线网站上：同人小说。

(Sighs) It led her to write fanfiction with phrases like " gorgeous cerulean orbs" , or (Laughter) " manly hunks of muscle." (Laughter) Kind of embarrassing.

（叹气）这让她写了同人小说，用了诸如“华丽的天蓝色球体”或（笑声）“有男子气概的肌肉男”之类的短语。 （笑声） 有点尴尬。

(Laughter) But today, scholars generally feel that modern fanfiction traces its origins to typewritten zines written by " Star Trek" fans in the '60s and' 70s.

（笑声） 但今天，学者们普遍认为，现代同人小说的起源可以追溯到 60 年代和 70 年代《星际迷航》粉丝们用打字机打印的杂志。

And I just wanted to look up cool pictures of Sailor Moon or go on ICQ and talk about animals and gargoyles, and I found fanfiction, and I didn't look back.

我只是想查找美少女战士的酷照片， 或者上 ICQ 谈论动物和石像鬼，然后我找到了同人小说， 然后我就没有回头。

Fanfiction, a whole world of people equally obsessed with stories and sci-fi, to the point they were going online to write their own versions of the stories they loved, X-Files, Lord of the Rings.

同人小说， 全世界的人们都同样痴迷于故事和科幻小说，以至于他们在网上写自己喜欢的故事的版本，比如《X档案》、《指环王》。

And so through this research, Katie and I found ourselves not only believing that, yes, kids can be good writers, but also that fanfiction and distributed mentoring could be used in formal education.

因此，通过这项研究， 凯蒂和我发现我们自己不仅相信，是的，孩子可以成为优秀的作家， 而且相信同人小说和分布式指导可以用于正规教育。

Research has shown that adolescence is a wonderful time to improve your writing skills, and the popularity of fanfiction in this age group shows what an opportunity there is to use it as a learning tool.

研究表明，青春期是提高写作技巧的好时机，同人小说在这个年龄段的流行表明，将它用作学习工具的机会是多么大。

One author we interviewed, who wrote both traditionally published fiction and fan fiction, told us that she received more feedback in a single week on her fanfiction than she did in two years on her published novel.

我们采访过的一位作家，既写过传统出版的小说，也写过同人小说，她告诉我们，她在一周内收到的关于她的同人小说的反馈比她在两年内收到的关于她出版的小说的反馈还多。