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Fanfiction — the amateur creativity based on original works — in recent decades is evidently becoming an important way of the reader’s interacting with the text thus inspiring to think about the scientific reflection of the phenomena. Finding the origins of fanfiction in the literary game-playing seems to be possible, in the games of the reading children and teenagers in particular; examples can be seen in the memoirs of various epochs. The urge to play, though in their mind, followed by the results being written down (what distinguishes fanfics from children’s games as they are) may be considered as one of the crucial causes of fanfiction, beside the features of the original text.