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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
The canon novels total a bit over 1 million words (1.08 and change) which means that there is approximately five thousand times as much fanfic as there is canon material. Five. Thousand. Imagine that you have one book in front of you -- say, Dune -- and the fanfic written about it amounts to five thousand more books of similar size. Shelves of them. Boxes of them. Stacks of them on the floor.
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Archive Of Our Own has 30 Harry Potter stories of more than 100,000 words each.
Walking the Plank, a Harry/Snape only archive, has 18, only one of which is also at AO3. One of them is almost 500,000 words long. Several of the others are parts of series which total over 500,000 words. (I don't, off the top of my head, know any Harry Potter single stories that are over a million words, but I do know of some series that are more than that. Longest single story I know of is Aspen's "A Year Like No Other," at 750,000 words. There are two sequel stories; the third's not finished yet.)
AO3 has over 2,000,000 words of fanfic, in over 1000 stories, for Inception, a movie that came out last year. The screenplay is less than 30,000 words.
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There might not be a need to devise a word for something J.K. Rowling just hinted at, but if even 1% of 1% of the HP fanfic goes beyond hinting, that's a hundred stories that have just described something they need a word for, so a word will appear.
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Severitus: fanfic where Snape is Harry's father. This can be by adoption (often to switch the "magic protection" from the Dursley's to someone actually willing to fight Voldemort) or as a secret kept from Harry, sometimes kept from Snape. (One drunken night with Lily; they both woke up with hangovers and fuzzy memories--in some fanfics, *nobody* knows Snape is Harry's father until some weird blood magic shows up.)
Knotting: I discovered this one two weeks ago. Apparently has something to do with animalistic behavior in werewolves or shapeshifted dogs. I don't want to know. (And if anyone *does* know,
don't tell me. I'll stay over here with my dubcon chan bondfic, and you can have your knotting thingstiel wingfic, and we can both pray that vore never catches on as a fanfic trope.)
There is no concept so weird or convoluted that it couldn't have its own special term in some corner of fanfic. That doesn't mean all concepts have such terms; there are plenty of ideas that haven't caught on enough to get their own term, and others that, for whatever reason, just never got their own label. "Woke up in a slave pit with amnesia, chained to best friend, which neither person recognizes" is a not-uncommon fanfic trope, but it doesn't have its own special name.