Felicity (TV series)
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| Name: | Felicity |
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| Creator: | J. J. Abrams & Matt Reeves |
| Date(s): | September 1998 – May 2002 |
| Medium: | Live-action television |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| External Links: | Felicity (TV series) on Wikipedia |
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Felicity is a 1998–2002 TV series created by J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves and starring Keri Russell as Felicity Porter, a recent high school graduate who abruptly changes her college plans to follow her crush to New York City.
It has a small fanworks fandom, with 40 stories on Fanfiction.net and 11 works on Archive of Our Own as of 2025. Works most commonly focus on Felicity/Ben or Felicity/Noel, the ships that form the canonical love triangle.
While on the air, Felicity had a strong Internet presence. As a WB show, it was one of the TV shows featured on ACMEcity, and TPTB were generally supportive of Felicity fansites in a time when other fansites were receiving C&Ds:
"It's frankly the embracing of fans that is so much more important than trying to quash them," says Tony Krantz, CEO of Imagine Television, producer of the WB college drama Felicity, which has an active online following."An individual publishing photographs from Felicity is insignificant. It's not going to change our bottom line one penny," Krantz says. Instead, "it's going to create a richer experience for that particular fan and the people who click onto that particular Web site. If we can encourage that ... that's what we're going to do."
Show's fan sites fight off 'demon' Fox, USA Today (December 1999) [1]
In 2000, an extensive letter-writing campaign helped convince the network to bring the show back for a third season[2][3] after a second-season ratings drop blamed partly on Keri Russell cutting her hair.[4]
Example Fanworks
Fanfic
- The 'Break' series: Beer Break, Daybreak, and Breakthrough by Scarlet – Noel/Ben, NC-17. The first two stories were also archived at the RareSlash archive and feature the plot devices "Fight Club: UST flares into hostility which then gets... physical" and "Oh, no! There's only one bed!" (c. 2000)[5]
- The Road Trip by Caleon – Felicity/Ben novel set after the first season finale (May–December 2004)
- With All The Lies and The Books by anonymous_sibyl – Crossover with Dawson's Creek, Molly/Audrey Liddell femslash, rated R (July 2007)[6]
- Spiraling by nonky – Noel/Felicity vignette with a focus on Felicity's hair (October 2021)
External Links
- Felicity (TV) on Archive of Our Own
- Felicity on FanFiction.Net
- Felicity homepages on ACMEcity (archive link)
- TKTV Felicity, a fansite with fanfiction (archive link)
- felicity_icons on Livejournal, an icon community
- noelandfelicity on Livejournal, a small Felicity/Noel community
References
- ^ Johnson, Kevin V. "Show's fan sites fight off 'demon' Fox". USA Today. 23 December 1999. Transcribed by Amezri.
- ^ TKTV's Felicity site. Save the show! ...a.k.a "Operation Chia," "Operation Hair," & Operation "We deserve better than that Dawson's kid", Archived version. Page updated 03 May 2000. See also News, Archived version for a timeline.
- ^ SaveFelicity.com, archived 15 August 2000 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Felicity § Time-slot and hairstyle changes on Wikipedia. (Accessed 04 October 2025.)
- ^ Beer Break and Daybreak on the RareSlash archive, written by 29 January 2001. The first story contains spoilers for S2E16 "Revolutions" (aired 05 April 2000) and the third story contains spoilers for S2E22 "Final Answer" (aired 17 May 2000). Plot devices attributed to Sigrid's Big List of Plot Devices.
- ^ anonymous_sibyl on Dreamwidth. Fic: With All the Lies and the Books: Audrey (Dawson’s Creek)/Molly (Felicity): R, originally posted on LiveJournal 05 July 2007.