Forensic Science in Popular Culture
Fanfiction Sites – CSI and CSI NY and CSI Miami
The popular CSI trilogy has thee official wikis, one for each brand and countless unofficial fanfiction sites, where fans indulge in their wildest fantasies with the characters and plots in the popular CBS series.
All fans need to do to become part of CSI, is log on to the official CSI Wiki and start communicating with other fans and sharing their hates and loves. They can also link their websites and post CSI fan fiction to these sites.
Wikis for CSI, CSI Miami and CSI New York
The wikis for the three CSI fanfiction sites are pretty similar:
- CSI Cast
- CSI Characters
- Episode Guide
- Fan Art
- Fan Videos
- Fanfiction
- Memorable Quotes
- Screencaptures and all the goodies fans will devour in order to get busy writing their own fanfiction to post on the websites.
Highlights on the CSI Fanfiction Site
The Original CBS CSI fanfiction site is the mothership and CSI Miami fanfiction and CSI New York fanfiction sites seem to be like the shows on television - spinoffs, trying to keep up with big brother spreading into popular culture.
CSI Crime Scene Investigation, the one with Grissom, Warrick, Greg, Sarah and Catherine even has a CSI Autopsy room where fans can view the latest autopsies.
GSR – Grissom Sara Romance
Only on a program like CSI can GSR not mean gunshot residue –the three letters in the CSI fanfic world are for Grissom Sara Romance, which seems to be one of the main themes for CSI fanfiction. There is even a whole section on the CSR Wiki with GSR stories like Grissom’s hands and Five Tears she never saw. There are also, GSR songs and GSR Poetry.
The fiery Marg Helgenberger has more than her share of fans, as do the others, especially Warrick and Greg.
Fanfiction or Fan Fiction or Fanfic?
According to a definition in Wikipedia, Fan fiction (alternately referred to as fanfiction, fanfic, FF or fic) is a broadly defined term for fiction about characters or settings written by admirers of the original work, rather than by the original creators. Fan fiction writers use characters and situations already created by other writers in order to develop their personal and preferred views of the story.
Today fan fiction (or fanfic if you're in the know) is an Internet phenomenon where anybody with a computer and a connection creates can posts stories using existing fiction, television sitcoms, movies and their characters as the basis for their creations.
The CSI Effect can be seen clearly on the many fanfiction sites; not only by the rapid proliferation of the sites, but in the interest in and knowledge of forensic science, the techniques and the practice that has become prevalent in popular culture.
More CSI Fanfiction Sites
- Mossley’s CSI Fanfiction. Story archive that contains one of the longest CSI fan fiction works on the web titled "Too Late" (65 chapters)
- IrishDachsie's CSI Fanfiction. “All of the stories contained on these pages were written by me solely...with the exceptions of the collaborations...which are noted as such and rated”.
- Csidrabbles - a fanfiction community for 100-500 word drabbles focusing on CSI, CSI: Miami
- Olivia’s CSI Miami Fan Fiction. The Unofficial CSI: MIAMI Homepage. Includes a live chat, fan fiction, pics, and much more.
- The CSI Spot. Literally thousands of fics on FanFiction.Net
CSI Fans from the CSI Fanfiction Wiki
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