Specifically AU fanfics cause multiverse is like the hit thing rn but honestly? The whole thing reads as Simon, Fionna and Cake travelling between different fanfics! We got genderbent, Coffee shop, apocalypse, future, reverse and more!
I mean the show LITERALLY references it in the last episodes by calling it a fanfic! And the whole concept of canonisation is like the author recognising your work!
What I like most tho was Prismo’s small explanation on why he made Fionna and Cake. Describing that he just really liked watching fin and Jake (like us!!) and wanted to me his own thing. Of course being new he just copy’s what Fin and Jake is. Many people use fanfics as a means to begin their creative journey and tbh it’s quite a good means to start! You get a pre-established world and characters and lore so the hard part is done! You can write what you want freely!
<Tbh idk why fanfic gets a bad rep compared to other forms of fan creation, like (smut) artwork of characters exist, (admitted quite cringy) fan songs/lyric videos exist that all have faults, official books that are literally just a porn prompt is on real shelves! yet fanfic is labelled the weird, sometimes perverted, one? (Not denying their existence, but I’ve come across some ‘questionable’ artworks of shows freely o-0 and no one cares) >
Back to it; the show practically inbraced the idea of fanfics and acknowledged their place in fiction. Work influences Fandom and in turn they influenced work back. I wouldn’t be surprised if some writers on shows now had written fanfics before. The villain I like too, he’s essentially a know-it-all obsessing with canon and lore and everything fitting. He wants to erase the fan works and only acknowledge the official stuff. Think people who get mad you drew a character slightly off or wrote them OOC (I wouldn’t be surprised if the ‘boss’ is actually a meta nod to the writers of the show). I just- really love how this show promotes fanfiction and making it!!! <3 more people should be creative and if fanfiction is their portal to that then there should be no shame in it :)
I can’t think of the amount of work that started as a fanfic (50 shades of grey is obvious) but how many works got created cause of one really popular one? Thousands.
(Tl:fr) I’m ranting so basically Prismo is us, creating fan works (fan fiction specifically). The villain is an over crazed fan who hates all fanworks, trying to erase them all but grows to be able to make his own. Fionna and Cake traverse through different fanfics (AUs) showing how cool they can be :)
Fionna & Cake is already setting us up for an amazing and angsty adventure. Simon and Fionna are so relatable. Honestly needed some comfort while I struggling rn... Finn is entirely something else.