A corpus analysis of Warhammer fanfic on Archive of Our Own
Fanfiction — that is, ‘stories produced by fans based on plot lines and characters from either a single source text or else a “canon” of works’ (Thomas 2011, 1) — is a form of cultural production in which female writers and readers are widely recognised to dominate. By contrast, Warhammer enthusiasts are stereotypically male. However, …