[FFML] Continue dead or abandon fics by other authors

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Mythril Moth <mythrilmoth at mythrilmoth.net>
wrote:

> On 8/19/2015 5:39 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
>> I find myself curious, in a strictly academic fashion, what the longest
>> chain of fanfanfan...fics is, at least those with some small audience. Let
>> us say, ones where at least 10 human beings other than the author read the
>> whole final story (regardless of the audience, or lack thereof, of
>> intervening story generations); most stories posted to this list would
>> likely qualify. Start with the premise, from a literal reading of the
>> definition, that where the Bible retold and expanded on earlier stories
>> that were themselves adapted from yet earlier ones, those parts counted as
>> at least fanfanfics. I wonder if this question is even answerable, with the
>> original generations of oral history lost. Though perhaps approximations
>> might be made.
>>
>
> Well, in strict terms of modern fanfiction, I can certainly cite two
> examples


I can cite a lot more:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecursiveFanfiction

I'm wondering about ones that go back at least a couple thousand years.
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