Open AccessAffective racial politics in "How to Get Away with Murder" fan fiction
Author(s) -
Nicholas-Brie Guarriello
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2019.1471
Subject(s) - fandom , politics , queer , happiness , order (exchange) , dystopia , advertising , sociology , media studies , art , history , gender studies , literature , political science , law , business , finance , economics
This article analyzes fan fiction about Oliver Hampton and Connor Walsh (Coliver), an interracial queer couple in the TV series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–). An analysis of the two most popular fics in this pairing on Archive of Our Own, "It's Called Dating" by grimcognito (2015) and "deCode" by tuanpark (2014), indicate that there is a shift away from gift or sharing economies of fandom to a market-like economy of prompt revision in order to produce and circulate texts meant to provide happiness to fans.