fanonical

English

Etymology

From fanon +‎ -ical.

Adjective

fanonical (comparative more fanonical, superlative most fanonical)

1. (fandom slang) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fanon.
   • 2014, Mafalda Stasi, “The Toy Soldiers from Leeds: The Slash Palimpsest”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet New Essays‎^[1], page 124:

     Here canon and fanon freely mesh: on the one hand, we have canonical elements such as "green, slanted eyes" and "thin body," and on the other, we have fanonical elements built on canonical ones, such as "fine-boned, cat-like," "beautiful, fey, little ... child."

   • 2015, Jason Mittell, Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling‎^[2], page 279:

     Because I disagreed with the decision to eliminate imagined relationships from the site, I created a page titled "Pairings (fanon)" on March 27, 2009, to restore the "cruft" (excessive, detailed material) that had been edited out, albeit within its own fanonical space as dictated by Lostpedia policy.

   • 2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture‎^[3], page 280:

     Thus while the Ron/Hermione ship is canonical, because Rowling included a relationship between the characters in her books, the Minerva/Hermione ship is fanonical, because a romantic or sexualized relationship between those characters exists only in the minds of fans.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fanonical.