fanwork

English

Etymology 1

From fan +‎ work.

Noun

fanwork (countable and uncountable, plural fanworks)

(architecture) Fan tracery.
- 1911, Maurice Hewlett, The Song of Renny, Charles Scribner's Son, 's (1911), page 389:
  The chapel — a soaring, slender-shafted building, with fanwork upon its roof and an apse deep and pointed — seemed full of light, withal it was hung with black velvet.
- 2008, Geoffrey Ashe, King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury, Sutton Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 289:
  There were bits of a vaulted roof with panelled fanwork and moulded ribs, recalling the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster.
- 2008, Leonard Ginsberg, Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa, Trafford Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN, page 48:
  Now the Grand High Witch removes her mask and wig: A hideous beak and a decrepit bodice of skin and bones, like the stone ceiling fanwork in a Gothic chamber, her blotchy scalp a moonscape fermenting cobwebs.
A fan-shaped network of lines or projections.
- 1999, Anne Marie Winston, Lovers' Reunion‎^[1], Silhouette Books, published 1999, →ISBN:
  He smiled again, easily, dimples creasing his cheeks, and a tiny fanwork of lines crinkled the corners of his dark eyes.
- 2006, Kage Baker, The Machine's Child, Tor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 123:
  The bud vase lay on its side near the bush; a lacy fanwork of roots had spread out over the tabletop, following the path of the spilled water.
- 2013, Leigh Evans, The Trouble with Fate, St. Martin's Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 222:
  He had three lines running across his forehead, and a fanwork of them radiating from the corner of each eye.
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Etymology 2

From fan +‎ work.

Noun

fanwork (countable and uncountable, plural fanworks)

A creative work produced by a fan, based on a book, movie, television show, musical group, etc.
William saw Michaela's fanwork of The Powerpuff Girls, her favorite TV show of all time.
- 2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 132:
  Fans often declare that they prefer fanon to what actually happens in canon and fanworks to the actual series, which is lackluster by comparison.
- 2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), →ISBN, page 159:
  The result is a proliferation of fanworks that explore narratives of transgression as fans play with the permissibility of Supernatural's supernatural world.
- 2010, Fan-Yi Lam, “Comic Market: How the World's Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese Dōjinshi Culture”, in Frenchy Lunning, editor, Fanthropologies, volume 5, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 239:
  Other factors contributing to the increased interest in dōjinshi and in fanworks were the development of fixed otaku landmarks and the spread of computers.

Hyponyms

(creative work produced by a fan): fanart, fan fiction, fangame, fanvid