A new hobby has taken wing these past two decades, and it has come to roost on the internet: fanfiction. Fanfiction is a generic label used to group together a variety of stories based on movies, television shows, and books—stories written by fans. The phenomenon is so pervasive that students have even written papers on this new genre of literature. Although the characters who come to life in these stories—such as Mulder and Scully of the X-Files—are often the property of o