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''Stranger Than Fanfiction'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult Fiction]] {{Novel}} by Chris Colfer, published on February 28, 2017.

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''Stranger Than Fanfiction'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult Fiction]] {{Novel}} by Chris Colfer, Creator/ChrisColfer, published on February 28, 2017.
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* DisappearedDad: Sam's father was absent in his life. The therapist concluded that this is why he identifies as transgender, although Sam knows it wasn't.

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* DisappearedDad: Sam's father was absent in his life. The therapist concluded that this is why he identifies as transgender, although Sam knows it wasn't.isn't.



* TransRelationshipTroubles: Topher has a crush on Sam, and Sam likes him back, but is afraid that Topher will reject him when he learns Sam is actually a trans guy. It's a major reasoning why he hasn't come out.

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* TransRelationshipTroubles: Topher has a crush on Sam, and Sam likes him back, but is afraid that Topher will reject him when he learns Sam is actually a trans guy. It's a major reasoning reason why he hasn't come out.
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* ComingOutStory: Joey is gay and Sam is a trans guy, but both keep this fact a secret for fear of how their family and friends will react. [[spoiler: They are both outed by Cash in the end.]]


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* TransRelationshipTroubles: Topher has a crush on Sam, and Sam likes him back, but is afraid that Topher will reject him when he learns Sam is actually a trans guy. It's a major reasoning why he hasn't come out.
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* DisappearedDad: Sam's father was absent in his life. The therapist concluded that this is why he identifies as transgender, although Sam knows it wasn't.


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* SobriquetSexSwitch: Sam still goes by such after he comes out, although he presumably changes his birth name "Samantha."


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* TransTribulations: Sam is a closeted trans guy, and over the course of the novel, he's constantly afraid if his mother and friends will ever accept him as such. He also deals with a therapist who insists he's just a confused mentally ill girl.
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Hypothetical Casting is now trivia about creator's comments (ie no fancasting). Examples are moved to Trivia/ if they fit or removed if they don't or lack context


* HypotheticalCasting: Joey tends to think that the perfect actor to portray {{God}} would be Creator/IanMcKellen. In his mental movie of God deciding to make being gay okay, he's accompanied by Moses (played by Creator/DenzelWashington) and UsefulNotes/JesusChrist (played by Creator/IdrisElba).

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* HypotheticalCasting: InUniverse. Joey tends to think that the perfect actor to portray {{God}} would be Creator/IanMcKellen. In his mental movie of God deciding to make being gay okay, he's accompanied by Moses (played by Creator/DenzelWashington) and UsefulNotes/JesusChrist (played by Creator/IdrisElba).

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''Stranger Than Fanfiction'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult Fiction]] {{Novel}} by Chris Colfer.

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''Stranger Than Fanfiction'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult Fiction]] {{Novel}} by Chris Colfer.
Colfer, published on February 28, 2017.



The night before they depart, Topher sends an E-Mail to the website of Cash Carter, the actor who plays Dr. Webster Bumfuzzle on Wiz Kids, and tells him he and his friends will be going on a trip. Seemingly out of nowhere, he decides he's going to come along with them. The four friends are absolutely over the moon at the star of their favourite show coming along with them.

Then they start getting to know Cash Carter as a person.

The book was published on February 28th, 2017. [[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with the]] ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction episode of the same name]].

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The night before they depart, Topher sends an E-Mail to the website of Cash Carter, the actor who plays Dr. Webster Bumfuzzle on Wiz Kids, and tells him he and his friends will be going on a trip. Seemingly out of nowhere, he decides he's going to come along with them. The four friends are absolutely over the moon at the star of their favourite show coming along with them.

them. Then they start getting to know Cash Carter as a person.

The book was published on February 28th, 2017. [[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with the]] ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction episode of the same name]].
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[DownplayedTrope Although Sam presents as female,]] Mo is the only girl of the road trip travelers.

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* ClosetGay: Joey. He's gay, but is afraid to come out because of how his family might react. [[spoiler:Even his friends didn't know until Cash outed him in front of them. Of course, after having time to process this, they ultimately accept Joey. However, it's also implied that when he came out to his family, they basically disowned him, so he went to live with Topher instead.]]

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* ClosetGay: Joey. He's gay, but is afraid to come out because of how his family might react. [[spoiler:Even his friends didn't know until Cash outed him in front of them. Of course, after having time to process this, they ultimately accept Joey. However, it's also implied that when he came out to His friends of course accepted Joey, but his family, they family basically disowned him, so and he went to go and live with Topher instead.Topher.]]



* FanCommunityNickname: Fans of Wiz Kids are known as Wizzers.
** Shippers of Dr. Bumfuzzle x Dr. Peachtree are known as "Peachfuzzlers". They used to be known as "Bumtrees" until the incident mentioned above involving Cash Carter's last girlfriend.

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* FanCommunityNickname: InUniverse.
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Fans of Wiz Kids are known as Wizzers.
** Shippers of Dr. Bumfuzzle x Dr. Peachtree are known as called "Peachfuzzlers". They used to be known as "Bumtrees" until the an incident mentioned above involving Cash Carter's last girlfriend.



* ThePastorsQueerKid: Joey Davis' dad is the leader of the second biggest congregation in Illinois. Since his whole family are pretty devout, Joey is afraid of what might happen if he comes out. [[spoiler:At the end of the book, he reveals that, when he did, they kicked him out of the house. Lucky him, Topher let him live with his family instead.]]

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* ThePastorsQueerKid: Joey Davis' dad is the leader of the second biggest congregation in Illinois. Since his whole family are pretty devout, Joey is afraid of what might happen if he comes out. [[spoiler:At the end of the book, he reveals that, when he did, they does, and his family kicked him out of the house.house in response. Lucky him, Topher let him live with his family instead.]]



** [[spoiler:Sam received a "Transition Fund", which she can spend however she likes.]]

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** [[spoiler:Sam received a "Transition Fund", which she with the implication that he can spend however she likes.use it for his gender transition.]]
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Okay, first off, Trans Nature is about things that want to be a different species. Also, describing trans people that way is...very not okay, lol.


* TransNature: Sam is a girl, but feels like a boy trapped in a girl's body.
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-->[[spoiler:'''Mo:''' Definitely not, I don't care what Cash said on the first day in the car-everything that's happened to us this simmer, well... it's all been ''stranger than fanfiction''.]]

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-->[[spoiler:'''Mo:''' Definitely not, I don't care what Cash said on the first day in the car-everything that's happened to us this simmer, summer, well... it's all been ''stranger than fanfiction''.]]
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* {{Transgender}}: Sam is a girl, but feels like a boy trapped in a girl's body.

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* {{Transgender}}: TransNature: Sam is a girl, but feels like a boy trapped in a girl's body.

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