kink meme
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[edit]kink meme (plural kink memes)
- (fandom slang) An online space in which requests for fan fiction (generally involving a specific kink) are posted and fulfilled anonymously.
- 2018, Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race[1], page 166:
- Kink memes are generally hosted on the blogging platforms Dreamwidth or LiveJournal, which have comment structures that allow for specific requests to be put up and responded to in a linked manner.
- 2019, Christiana Gregoriou, "The Fandom Is Afoot: BBC Sherlock and Its Fanfiction at Play", in Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era (Christiana Gregoriou, David Platten, & Gigliola Sulis), unnumbered page:
- Noticeably, most of these kinkmeme prompts revolve around Sherlock and John's sexual/romantic relationship in one form or another.
- 2021, Milena Popova, Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent[2], page 45:
- It was originally published in late 2010 in response to a request on the Supernatural kinkmeme.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:kink meme.