For example, after analysing the fan site titled "Bonny's Devoted Site To Ryan Phillippe" (see appendix 1), and reading the contents under the section "Fun Stuff", the understanding of how fans can be very "devoted" and creative with their knowledge of their passion becomes apparent. In the "Fun Stuff" section were four further links, titled, "Quiz", "100 degrees of Ryan Phillippe", "Marry Ryan", and "Fan fiction". The example of how "Bonny" created a fictional text using her readings of Ryan as a star image as well as his character from the film "Cruel Intentions" amazed me (see appendix 2). In this fictive story (that the fan titled as "fan fiction") Bonny calls the characters by their real star names "Ryan" and "Reese", and uses real associations with the stars ("Reese has an agent?"). However, Bonny also applies elements from the movie in which they starred together (Cruel Intentions) by using the plot of that film, "she got all mad about me not wanting to sleep with her, but do you blame me?", and then illustrates his/her understanding of the way the star system works, "then the press got involved and I was stuck with her." Although, the story speaks of the characters, "as if they had an existence apart from their textual manifestation", the fact that the fan has labelled the story "Fan Fiction" already indicates that he/she has acknowledged that text is just "fiction". .
The idea of using elements from both a real production from these media figures (the movie), as well as demonstrating knowledge of the star system (the agent, the press) illustrates the way the fan actually is aware of what is real and fictive but has created a text to play on the idea of integrating reality with fiction. The fan is therefore "active" and "critical" as Henry Jenkins might put it. However, the story ends with Reese dead, Ryan hating Reese, calling her a "skanky, nasty, Britney Speares wannabe whore", and Ryan stuck with a Chinese baby that isn't even his.
