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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Out of curiosity, I've clicked on some fan stories related to books and movies I've never read nor seen.
So many of those stories assume that the reader is already very familiar with the book or tv show in question, that unless the person has already seen them, they don't "get" the story.
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There's a collection on AO3 called "
No Canon Required" that's supposed to be for fic that can be enjoyed without knowing the source material. I'm not sure how true that is--don't know if the Sherlock Holmes fanfic will really make sense if one's never heard of Holmes--but it should at least be enjoyable without knowing more than the very basics of who the characters are.
There's another collection, "
Five Minute Fandoms," for fics about fandoms that can be picked up quickly--a single song, or a TV commercial, or a painting. (Or similar. And they're not picky about the exact five-minute line; it's just that original source material should be shorter than a single sitcom episode.)