Fandoms been around for a bazillion years, since people started writing Gilgamesh's adventures in cuneiform, or maybe before that. It took a loooong time to coalesce into the form we know it today.
Oh indeed! One of the great examples of it, I think, is the expansion of the Arthurian corpus in the Middle Ages, as you get people making up stories about OCs and sticking them on by saying, "He's a Knight of the Round Table you've not heard of before!" The Guenevere/Lancelot ship was, I suspect, invented by someone who was squicked out by her original canonical ship (with her husband's nephew/son).
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Date: 2014-03-14 12:11 pm (UTC)