Citations:fanwork

Noun: "(architecture) fan tracery"

 * 1911, Maurice Hewlett, The Song of Renny, Charles Scribner's Son's (1911), page 389:
 * The chapel — a soaring, slender-shafted building, with fanwork upon its roof and an apse deep and pointed — seemed full of light, withal it was hung with black velvet.
 * 2008, Geoffrey Ashe, King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury, Sutton Press (2008), ISBN 9780750948814, page 289:
 * There were bits of a vaulted roof with panelled fanwork and moulded ribs, recalling the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster.
 * 2008, Leonard Ginsberg, Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa, Trafford Publishing (2008), ISBN 9781425174378, page 48:
 * Now the Grand High Witch removes her mask and wig: A hideous beak and a decrepit bodice of skin and bones, like the stone ceiling fanwork in a Gothic chamber, her blotchy scalp a moonscape fermenting cobwebs.

Noun: "a fan-shaped network of lines or projections"

 * 1999, Anne Marie Winston, Lovers' Reunion, Silhouette Books (1999), ISBN 9781459258266, unnumbered page:
 * He smiled again, easily, dimples creasing his cheeks, and a tiny fanwork of lines crinkled the corners of his dark eyes.
 * 2006, Kage Baker, The Machine's Child, Tor (2007), ISBN 9780765354617, page 123:
 * The bud vase lay on its side near the bush; a lacy fanwork of roots had spread out over the tabletop, following the path of the spilled water.
 * 2007, Robert MacFarlane, The Wild Places, Granta Books (2009), ISBN 9781847081599, unnumbered page:
 * On a rock ledge, I found and kept a heart-sized stone of blue basalt, beautifully marked with white fossils: coccoliths no bigger than a fingernail, the fine fanwork of their bodies still visible.
 * 2013, Leigh Evans, The Trouble with Fate, St. Martin's Press (2013), ISBN 9781250006400, page 222:
 * He had three lines running across his forehead, and a fanwork of them radiating from the corner of each eye.

Noun: "a creative work produced by a fan, based on a book, movie, television show, musical group, etc."

 * 2008, Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 132:
 * Fans often declare that they prefer fanon to what actually happens in canon and fanworks to the actual series, which is lackluster by comparison.
 * 2008, Clive Young, Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera, Continuum (2008), ISBN 9780826429223, page 258:
 * In its own words, the OTW is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. . ..
 * 2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), ISBN 9781933771632, page 159:
 * The result is a proliferation of fanworks that explore narratives of transgression as fans play with the permissibility of Supernatural's supernatural world.
 * 2010, Fan-Yi Lam, "Comic Market: How the World's Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese Dōjinshi Culture", in Fanthropologies, Volume 5 (ed. Frenchy Lunning), University of Minnesota Press (2010), ISBN 9780816673872, page 239:
 * Other factors contributing to the increased interest in dōjinshi and in fanworks were the development of fixed otaku landmarks and the spread of computers.
 * 2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate (2011), ISBN 9780754679035, page 92:
 * The OTW correctly points out that the current uncertain situation, in which neither fans nor content owners truly understand the boundaries of fair use in fan works, benefits neither: “We seek to broaden knowledge of fan creators' rights and reduce the confusion and uncertainty on both fan and pro creators' sides about fair use as it applies to fanworks.”
 * 2013, Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, & Joshua Green, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, New York University Press (2013), ISBN 9780814743508, page 150:
 * They're in charge, they're always the last word on their own works, and the terrifying idea of fanworks taking their works away from them and futzing with them is not one that comes up a lot.

Noun: "(uncountable) such creative works collectively"

 * 2007, Gareth Schott & Andrew Burn, "Fan-Art as a Function of Agency in Oddworld Fan-Culture", in Videogames and Art (eds. Andy Clarke & Grethe Mitchell), Intellect Books (2007), ISBN 9781841501420, page 246:
 * From a culturalist perspective, such fanwork locates itself in a popular aesthetic opposed to the Kantian "pure gaze" and its social function of distinguishing cultural elites, as in Bourdieu's (1976) critique of post-Enlightenment bourgeois taste.