Article: Welcome to the house of fun: Buffy fanfiction as a hall of mirrors

Article: Linda Rust - Welcome to the house of fun: Buffy fanfiction as a hall of mirrors
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, March, vol.2, 2003.

Interestingly, in relation to my comments in this entry, Joss Whedon is both well aware of the existence of fanfiction and more importantly Slash. There are definetly episodes in the later seasons which can be construed as fanservice to all of us slashers!

The article linked to here looks at the relationship between Joss, the team of writers at Buffy and the fans and how the world and series has been developed with the fans involved and in mind.

As the author says:

This sort of speculation has been given Joss Whedon's blessing, with the comment "I think that it's part of the attraction of the Buffyverse. It lends itself to polymorphously perverse subtext. It encourages it. I personally find romance in every relationship (with exceptions), I love all the characters, so I say BYO subtext!"

Also, it has some references at the end of the article that are pretty good and links to Henry Jenkins who is one of the BNA's (Big Name Academic) in the field of Fandom.