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Meet the Game Developer Turning Fanfic Into Deadpool DLC

Before she started writing video games, Emma Kidwell loved Twilight fan fiction. “I’m role-playing when I'm writing Marvel IP for Firaxis,” Kidwell says. “Fan fiction gave me that foundation to build off of.” Fan fiction has often been considered a lower form of writing, as either self indulgent or outrageously erotic, the sort of work one does in secret. “I think because of fan fiction’s relationship to marginalized communities, it wasn't initially seen as being a valid form of writing,” Kidwell says. “I think a big, common misconception with IP writing is that it's super restrictive,” Kidwell says.

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