I could write whole papers, I believe, on the motifs and stereotypes of lemon fic in the InuYasha fandom. There is a huge amount of modeling on each other that goes on, a little fanon of its own, one probably for each major pairing, both canon and alt.

I...I would be all over that. Seriously. That's the sort of meta I salivate over, LOL.

If I was still in academe, I'd be doing some of this. But now I'm just curious and have no reason to really push to find the answers.

If you have any inkling of a clue where such study would be supported, please to be letting me know! Searching out patterns and looking for answers is something I really enjoy, LOL.

(Fanon conventions really make me go 'bzuh?!' sometimes. I've also never understood where the building a house = courtship thing came from, and I don't know squat about feudal Japan. It just seemed so out of place in the history of that time period that I was familiar with.)

I have occasionally run across a story which I believe was derivative of one or another of my post manga bits, but long as it's not real plagarism, but just derivative, I don't care a whole lot. I don't mind being an influence; I would be upset, though, about being ripped off.

I suppose it just depends on where you draw the line. After all, there's nothing new under the sun, but to what extent do you claim your intellectual property? In fanfic especially, these are some seriously gray areas.