I attempted to contact researchers and experts within the Transcultural Fandom for expert feedback on my intervention of comparing fanfic with original literature, but up till now nobody was available for an online chat for work, life and health reasons. So I extended my scope of researchers and managed to reach a professor of fandom studies from University of Novi Sad—–Prof. Bojana Vujin.

The professor explained that fanfiction mostly focused on specific characters and original fiction focused on literary techniques. As my stakeholders were all in original writing communities, it wasn’t hard for them to decipher this.

This explained what Prof. Henry Jenkins said during our interview: “What’s so good about fanfic is so much of it is bad. it creates a space where you can be bad and get better.” If I look at this result from a more holistic perspective, it does alter how I evaluate the results in a positive way.

Bonus: one of the stakeholders contacted me afterwards and told me she had started to read fantasy-based fanfics. Which was an astonishing surprise for me. Interventions do give the feedback that you are not aware of.