I have to be honest.  Although I had heard of Anime, I really never payed too much attention to fanfiction.  I didn't really know what it was before investigating it further after this week's readings.  I didn't realize it, but I can definitely connect fanfiction to my personal experience.  One of our unit's this past year was on Tales of the Strange and Mysterious.  At the end of the unit the culminating project was for students to write their own strange and mysterious tale, incorporating the themes that we learned about and utilizing appropriate plot structure.  Many of the girls wrote their own versions of Twilight with their own characters and twists.  I also had a boy write a story based on parts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  I feel like the readings this week have really caused me to think about this type of student writing in a different way.  Now that I have a greater understanding of it, I am definitely more accepting of it.  I actually think it's a great way to create interest and get students (especially those reluctant to reading and writing) to become more interested in reading and writing.   This was a great site on explaining fanfiction: What is Fanfiction?