Many, if not most, fandom members (including our interviewee) don't belong exclusively to a single fandom, but follow several fandoms at once. These multifans give rise to a unique form of fan work—the crossover. One of the most prominent examples, SuperWhoLock, a mash-up of the Big Three fandoms on Tumblr, is a portmanteau of the three TV shows Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock.
The nascent fandom of SuperWhoLock (a fandom of Supernatural, Doctor Who, and the BBC’s Sherlock) exemplifies this playfulness: fans mix and match texts to create unique fan texts outside what canon offers.
2013, Sofi Goode, "Sofi says farewell", Tiger (South Pasadena High School, South Pasadena, California), Volume 99, Number 11, 6 June 2013, page 5:
I suppose that deciding what I want my final words in Tiger to say is really deciding which part of myself I want to express—the editor-in-chief, the existentialist, the Superwholock fan, or the student incredible[sic] grateful for her community.
2013, Nistasha Perez, "Gif Fics and the Rebloggable Canon of SuperWhoLock", in Fan Phenomenon: Doctor Who (ed. Paul Booth), Intellect Books (2013), →ISBN, published 15 August 2013, page 152:
Gif fics are not proprietary to the SuperWhoLock fandom.
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