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Fanfiction Thread Anonymous 33449

Thread for Fanfiction discussion: you're favorites, likes, dislikes, pet peeve, etc.

Anonymous 33450

Pet peeve as old as the internet: people tagging shit incorrectly. Just saw good ol' gay sex between two regular men tagged as F/F.

Anonymous 33451

>>33450
Every fanfiction that has sentence tags like "no beta we go down like men" or "they're such dorks haha" I insta-skip, guaranteed trash every single time.

Anonymous 33452

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>>33450
Same, hate when trannies don't tag their stupid fics correctly. I think I'm reading yaoi then get jumpscared by penis in vagina straight sex.

Anonymous 33453

>>33449
I've actually written a script that automatically excludes about ~50 tags on ao3 for me, it's so convenient. The only problem is that some small tags (e.g. female alpha/male omega) can't be filtered. Does anyone know why this is? Makes it that much harder to find content for my niche interests, you can't even sort by new

Anonymous 33454

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Tell us about fanfics you've written or are writing

Anonymous 33455

>>33452
Kek it wasn't about trannies. Just normal yaoi tagged F/F for some reason. I guess the writer cannot read?

Anonymous 33456

>>33451
Sometimes I'm into ships so small I have to lick these crumbs off the ground and I regret it every time.

Anonymous 33457

>>33454
I'm writing a self-indulgent character x reader fic that's not getting published, ever.

Anonymous 33458

>>33457
Based
Give us a paragraph of it

Anonymous 33459

>>33449
where did the other fanfic thread go? didn't even get to read nona's reply to my post

Anonymous 33460

>>33457
Kinda based, tell us the character?

Anonymous 33461

I've started writing some but haven't posted any yet. I'm afraid I'll get hate on for my choices/major change to the original character. Any advice?
I feel like this is probably one of the best places to ask since anons, by nature, want to avoid that sort of attention. The best advice is to probably to not care about it but I'll probably still worry.

Anonymous 33462

There were a few particular websites I loved to visit that had the best Street Fighter (Ken x Ryu), Bloody Roar (Yugo x Kenji) and Resident Evil (Chris x Wesker) fanfics. I was also into some Zelda and Harry Potter fanfic at the time.

Anonymous 33463

>>233694
this sounds cool

Anonymous 33464

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I haven't read/written fanfiction or been active in any fandom since 2014 but I don't like fics with too much smut and too little plot, I also hate OOC.
I used to love fics that has fluff and a healthy amount of angst.

Anonymous 33465

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>>233694
Any KH fic that uses the Disney characters and canon settings in a significant way is automatically 10/10. I remember being on ff.net back in the 00s and it was just wall-to-wall modern AUs featuring the FF/original characters. I know we're all just playing with dolls but that always rubbed me the wrong way.

Anonymous 33466

>>33449
I'm reading a fanfiction from 2008 and i can't stop thinking how whoever wrote it is probably married now… getting into dead fandoms is such a unique feeling…

Anonymous 33467

>>33466
Looking at profiles of long-inactive writers on fanfiction.net is such a strange feeling. Some of them even have their own sites you can visit on the wayback machine.

Anonymous 33468

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I dislike most of alternative universe settings, 90% of them are just about coffee shops and lazy highschool stories.

It is such a bless when you find a slow burn fanfic that respects the characters canon personality; knows how the characters would react in a new situation.

Anonymous 33469

Genfic is underrated, I'm tired of shipping

Anonymous 33470

>>33468
Completely agree. I like reading Game of Thrones/A song of Ice and Fire fanfic but in-universe works that respect the characters are incredibly rare. Such a shame.

I feel like a lot of fanfic writers also project themselves onto characters intensely. E.g. Rey from Star Wars is a tomboy who collects scraps from ships and fights battles, but so many fanfictions have her wearing dresses, getting her nails done and teaching kindergarden or some shit. It's ridiculous.

Anonymous 33471

>>33469
When i first got into fanfiction, i was so surprised that everything was about shipping.. there's so much to explore and elaborate on that doesn't involve two characters kissing

Anonymous 33472

>>33471
What's the point though? Fanfic writers aren't good at writing. They can fulfill people's base desire for smut but they won't be able to deliver good, interesting stories 99,99% of the time.

And I'd prefer if those that can create something of value write something of their own, not fanfics. That's a waste of creativity.

Anonymous 33473

>>33472
>And I'd prefer if those that can create something of value write something of their own, not fanfics.
I get it but I'm saying that writing for an already established universe and already fleshed out characters and trying to fit scenes within its timeline and within the constraints of the characters personalities can be fun and challenging on its own and it's different than writing original fiction or meaningless smut.

Anonymous 33474

>>33472
>waste of creativity
It's really not. Practice is practice and the overlap of fic writer and "real" writer is bigger than you think. Try telling people that fanart is a waste of creativity and see how fast you get dog-piled.

Anonymous 33475

>>33474
I know I'd get dog-piled, that's why this is the only website I'd mention it on. I still think people that view fanfics as equal to creative writing where you do all the set-up don't know what they're talking about.

You completely miss out on practicing how to create characters that make sense and work well together, how to transmit their personalities to readers, how to set up a story (from ground up) and so many other things. What professional writers that write fanfics (except the author of 50 shades and city of bones, which both suck) do you know? I've never seen an author I would consider good showing anything more positive than tolerance towards fanfiction.

Anonymous 33476

>>33475
Neil Gaiman won a Hugo award for some Sherlock fanfic. Wide Sargasso Sea is Jane Eyre fanfic. Most historical fiction is some degree of RPF. Any work based on a myth falls under the fanfic umbrella. Shakespeare's plays are derivative works of older stories. You can build a lot in another person's sandbox.

Anonymous 33477

>>33473
DA but the more I do original stuff the more I seriously cannot find the appeal of writing fanfic, since anything 'serious' I'd instead want to do within my own setting/chars, while anything lighthearted I'd also just want to do with my own chars, even though when I was younger I did enjoy fics. I think I was just projecting onto various characters and now I don't need to do that anymore since my own setting/chars appeal to me more lol
But that's probably why you don't see much gen, since fanfic is generally the result of someone latching really hard onto a specific character or two, and if you can get the same or similar story ideas/beats that originally tickle you into an original story, you can compound it to be even more specified or even more intense because the canon itself can be built around those beats or character traits or w/e. By which I mean if you have a specific theme in mind the original canon becomes more and more of an impediment because it'll already have its own themes that you'll be fighting against to make 'work' (and if you're totally thematically in line with the canon, see, the canon already exists for that), as well as characters made specifically to suit that original story or 'point'. But if the thing tickling is 'I want to date sans' or 'wheatley/oneceler is hot' then by necessity a fanfic's the way to go and you don't need to overthink it.

Anonymous 33478

>>33475
Just saying that I agree. I don't know how to phrase this in a way that's not incendiary but the equation between something like Dante and your everyday fanfic genuinely seriously bothers me since Dante/whoever being biblically/mythologically literate (and genuinely believing in that mythology as the way the world works btw) does not make his/whoever's writing a legitimasation of your half baked porn fanfic and you know it. It's an attitude to placate people who are inexperienced or unconfident in their own stuff and it's altogether a lazy attitude. (I'm salty that most writing communities online are fanfic-centered or fanfic-adjacent since the focus of fanfics in general usually isn't very serious about 'actual' storytelling, insofar as I want to use that word, but you get what I mean right)

Anonymous 33479

>>33477
but nona from a reader's perspective I want THAT particular universe expanded and original fiction with a similar theme will not scratch the itch for me, I am talking about the craving to fill the hollowness you feel after finishing a series wishing it had more episodes or wishing things would've went differently. Gen fic will always have its audience even if it's not as popular as smut.

Anonymous 33480

>>33479
I get you nona but I'm talking from a position as a writer. There isn't much gen because the things a writer can do with gen that's motivated them to do gen they can generally do even more or as a more personally appealing thing as original stuff. Finding a gen that scratches the itch does scratch the itch but yeah that's why there's not much of it.

Anonymous 33481

>>33472
>That's a waste of creativity.
No such thing. It doesn't matter how good someone is at something when it's just for fun :)

Anonymous 33482

I'm sick and tired of people writing dilfs as 20yo's or even teenagers, that said I'm in the same situation as >>33456

Anonymous 33483

>>234107
Hell stories about dysfunctional people being dysfunctional lol, but maybe getting better. With other stuff sprinkled in too but it's my proxy vent for all the wrecks I've known who never went to rehab

Anonymous 33484

>>33481
I was talking about writing fanfiction instead of original works being a waste, not about bad writing being a waste.

Anonymous 33485

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Does anyone have any interesting ship recommendations? I like it when two characters really pine for each other and the woman has a strong personality.

Standalone fanfic recommendations would also make me happy. I like strong women, soft men and adventure.

Anonymous 33486

>>33484
yeah I didn't agree. It's just for fun so not a waste if you enjoy yourself.

Anonymous 33487

>>33485
Ship as in a fandom? Or ship as in a canon? If it's the latter, check out Black Lagoon. Emotional support guy is forced to coexist with a violent mercenary. No large fandom to speak of, but the anime itself is fun to watch if you're into that kind of f/m dynamic.

Anonymous 33488

I like fanfiction a lot, but I agree that there are a lot of writers that project too much into characters, of they alter some character's personality so far that they're no longer recognizable. Honestly, it's a pet peeve of mine. Not everything has to be exactly like the original, but some works just go too far into ooc for me.

Anonymous 33489

I wrote a shitton of yandere fic. I stopped because people were getting… into it, if that makes sense. Plus it was getting so fucking depressing to write. Seeing other women/girls seriously becoming obsessed with these fictional men being abusive…

All i wanted was to go "what if?" and "how would this character react if"

Anonymous 33490

99% of fanfics are aimed at men, just like porn. Sorry, but that's the truth.

Anonymous 33491

>>33490
80% of ao3 users are women

Anonymous 33492

Ah yes, men, the primary consumers of flowery romance stories

Anonymous 33493

>>33491
>Source: it was revealed to me in a dream.

Anonymous 33494

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Anonymous 33495

>>33490
>99% of fanfics are aimed at men, just like porn.
Where did you get that idea from? Moids are the biggest haters of fanfiction, why would fanfic writers be catering to them?

Besides, moids don't have the patience to read, they'd just consoom r34

Anonymous 33496

>>33494
Well, yeah, 50% male and 50% female. But only about 20% of females are actually writing the fics, so 80% is written by men. You have to cope really hard to ignore that most fics are written from a male POV.

Anonymous 33497

>>33496
Have you ever read fanfiction or been on a fanfiction site? What fandom(s) are you in?

Anonymous 33498

>>33496
t. never used ao3 ever

Anonymous 33499

>>33496
Your hairline must look like a monkey's shiny ass of you think male POV (of which is majorly m/m) is written by men and not FUJOSHIS.

Anonymous 33500

>>33496
trolling so bad it's actually good

Anonymous 33501

>>33494
I feel like the number of women writing fanfic is even higher because of course "non-binary" doesn't exist and it's usually women tacking on that stupid made up identity to their profiles. Women will always dominate the fanfic writing world, even in fandoms where it seems like there are more male fans than female fans

Anonymous 33502


Anonymous 33503

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>>33494
here's the real one

Anonymous 33504

>>33496
It’s so obvious you haven’t spent more than 5 minutes on AO3.

Anonymous 33505

>>33496
there should be a term for when maleposters try to neg, pathetically, with bad logic.

dunno, negsopping?

>>33503
kek

Anonymous 33506

Why is Archiveofourown down? Who is behind the DDoSing?

Anonymous 33507

>>33506
russian spermsacks are triggered that gay fanfic exists, apparently.

Anonymous 33508

>>33506
it's retarded russian scrotes trying to get ransom money in the form of bitcoin.

Anonymous 33509

>>33496
since males like to explain so much, can you explain one thing for me: why do scrotes feel the need to talk about things they dont know shit of, even when they risk sounding retarded?

Anonymous 33510

>>33489
My main fic is a Yandere fic, though I base it a little more in anti-social personality disorder. I think the thing you have to do to drive off fetishizers is continually reinforce how the MC's "yandereness" (both her obsession in the moment and what made it come about) puts them into fucked up places / situations where they act entirely wrong. Drive home really uncomfortable moments and you'll get them to flee.

Anonymous 33511

>>33507
>>33508
So 2chfags seething that russian women pursue handsome yaoi boys and not chimplike eastern euro goblins, got it.
Maybe they're also trying to fight fujos becoming "not fuckable" anymore.

Anonymous 33512

>>33449
I hate being into femslash, feels like good f/f is sooo hard to find. If only I could write good romance and smut but I'm too emotionally retarded and inexperienced to write it well. At least if I look on ao3 for f/f I can ensure its probably not made by moids, moid writing is really easy to spot.

Anonymous 33513

Femanon, you gotta find a discord group of other femfic enjoyers. There will be troons, but stringent modding should help cut down on it. The one I frequented was ragedeleted by the owner after weeks of harassment lol

Anonymous 33514

do you write fanfic for yourselves, others, or both? my husbando only has a few good fanfics and I'd feel weird writing some for him because I wouldn't get enjoyment from reading my own work, although maybe I could write it for others to enjoy. are there people who write for themselves and truly enjoy reading what they've written?

Anonymous 33515

>>33514
I've written for myself before, but I've also written stories for a friend of mine. I've also written stories based off a person's art.

Anonymous 33516

>>33515
when you write for yourself do you ever go back and read your work or is it the process of writing that you enjoy most rather than the final product?

Anonymous 33517

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Any advice or video advice for writing? I wanna be the change I want in the world, and by that I mean not having to put up with Twitter tards horrendous writing anymore

Anonymous 33518

What's the appeal?

Anonymous 33519

>>33514
>>33516
NTA, but, I certainly go back and reread my work for enjoyment. When a work gets large enough it becomes sort of impossible to hold it all in your head at once, and so you do kinda have that page-turn effect. The problem is your writing needs to be good in order for you to want to re-read it, and if you're writing a lot, you're going to be improving a lot, and so that.
>>33517
"Just write," but if you want specific advice:
- Watch the ratio of pronouns, prepositions, and articles to nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Abstractions generally tell the reader little, and it is almost always better to replace that abstraction with a specific (she -> [your character's name], stuff like that). The better an author is the higher this can get pushed, up to like 70%. I've managed to push up to about 50%, it takes time.
- Part of above is finding more efficient sentences, so, experiment with alternate sentence structures. Grammar rules are defined by transformations, and you can use this to accomplish better sentences.
- some schizo advice: Make sure what you're writing feels good to speak out loud. Not just that it makes sense, but sounds good when narrated. People move their larynx to the tune of their internal narration, and so my fear is always that if a sentence is clustered with difficult phonemes people will dislike reading it. I have no idea if this is true but I think it's good practice anyway.

Anonymous 33520

>>246184
Just for fics
>>33519
Thanks nona this is all very helpful. Actually that schizo advice is something I've tried before a couple of time, felt a bit dumb while doing but I wanted to feel the dialogue between the characters from another angle, whatever it was it's fun lol

Anonymous 33521

>>246199
Well, I understand, but it's something to keep in mind while trawling a thesaurus for the right word. Dialogue / monologue is fairly low stakes because you can write stream of consciousness and have it stick, just keep in mind a lot of people don't talk with in consonant-filled deluge. That last sentence is a good example; "consonant-filled deluge" is physically difficult to say, and you can find alternate constructions to communicate that same concept to the reader. Ex: "stream-of-consonants." Double points for the pun. I hope that sort of makes sense? Metaphor and imagery doesn't need to be big polysyllable words.
Oh and one more thing, learn to use semicolons, colons, and em dashes. Semicolons are especially helpful because you can typically get rid of a preposition that way in ways that you typically need to use verb aspect for.

Anonymous 33522

>>246210
Ya, this is just my schizo fear. Don't feel the need to limit yourself to only digestible phrases.

Anonymous 33523

>>246226
> I just think it's a bit sad if style is only seen as something that facilitates narration.
It's not, and that's not what I was trying to say. I just find that keeping narration in mind can provide useful alternative perspectives on sentences. Like, people tend to tag on additional phrases at the end of their sentences irl when they've forgotten something or want to correct something, and that's typically inaccessible in objective prose without bringing the reader's attention to the narrator's voice, but you can get around that with proper punctuation and ordering of sentence structures. Often that requires breaking grammar rules to be really effective, but if you prepare your reader enough, you can start violating a lot of rules at once. I find one of the ways that you can prepare is to keep track of phonemes and syllable counts.
You can use difficulty to read to effect as well. Ex:
> The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what might have been parsecs in all directions. White; blinding; waterless.
This is from the first dark tower book. That last sentence there is the important one; obviously it's violating a ton of rules (it's not even a complete sentence; the only reason it's makes sense is because you have a leftover implicit "the desert was…" hanging around from the previous line), but it's using a ladder of syllable counts to hammer home that this desert is an exhausting place. White (1); blinding (2); waterless (3). The reason this works is because it takes more effort to say the next word out loud each time.

Anonymous 33524

>70+ posts
>0 fanfic recommendations
Nice.

Anonymous 33525

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i was reading a older evil woman x young edgy but soft woman.
drink or answer type of shit, slow burn, perfect.
younger one drops a ''I'm non binary'' type of shit and i cringe so fucking hard reading…
don't tag something for lesbians if is not for the lesbians.

Anonymous 33526

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>>33525
real mfw author drops untagged "boy" pussy in the yaoi

Anonymous 33527

My immortal <3

Anonymous 33528

>>33526
Candace posts here

Anonymous 33529

Writing a Naruto fanfic that takes place in an alternate Leaf Village with some familiar characters and a bunch I made up.

Has nudist ninjas and a central male character named Sisda (like sister) who gets shit on for having a name like that. Also a controlling konoichi mother who grooms her shinobi son in a very very unpleasant way.

I can't imagine anyone being interested but if you are go ahead and ask

Anonymous 35211

My favorite fic just updated after 2 years of hiatus, I love the author so much rn

Anonymous 35328

Please guys rec me something long and angsty, preferable with males suffering and being pathetic

Anonymous 35409

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>>35328
Sisyphus Smiled and its continuations by stilitana is pretty good, but be warned it's a fanfic of 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' and everything that may entail.

Anonymous 35415

>>35409
Where is that? Tried looking it up and only get weird ass results

Anonymous 35418

>>35415
Sorry for not being clear, it's on Ao3.
archiveofourown.org/series/1212699

Anonymous 35472

I finally found a sex scene so hot between two characters that was perfectly written, but the authors other fics and usage of singular 'they' means she's likely a gendie, with a potentially high doseage of hate and slurs.

I wanted to send her some rare character merch, but I don't dare click on her profile, lest I find out she's a gendie and actually hates me and wants me to not have a job or wishes actual violence upon me.

Anonymous 35478

>>33452
This redditor speaks for us all methinks

Anonymous 35491

>>33452
I'm a yumejo, and even I got mad when I read a fanfic about my husbando being dommed by another guy, and that guy turned out to be an FtM tranny. NSFW content of my husbando is already rare as it is, so even though I believed in trannyism at the time, I still was upset. I obviously prefer the idea of my husbando being dommed by a female character than a male one, but this shit ain't it, especially since I like the character that was transed and it just doesn't feel right to portray him as a female "man". I wouldn't even have minded a genderbend because then I know what to expect and I would've probably been more into it than M/M. And this particular fic was extremely focused on the transed character's vagina, making sure you didn't forget this was a MANLY MAN with a pussy. It was horribly written, too. kek

It just reeks of wanting to self-insert "but not really". Just make your damn mind already, Aiden. Either you want to write about two pre-established men (AKA males with dicks) fucking, or about your husbando licking your most certainly female pussy. They don't give a shit about the character they're transing, they just project their own desires and personalities onto them and pretend to be writing for better, more moral reasons than pure self-indulgence.

Ok, so they're free to write whatever the hell they want for fun even if I don't agree with tranny shit. At least tag your self-insert cuntboy porn properly for the rest of us who expect a male character to have a dick in smut, it's common courtesy and basic etiquette.

>>33469
Me too. I find that fandom in general is too obsessed with shipping everything and everyone. Two characters that are obviously not set up to become a couple (age difference, canon love interests, incompatible sexualities, blood relation) form a strong friendship? Yeah they totally want to bang each other and the writers intended it. Sweet moment shared between the characters? Yeah, that's totally sexual tension. Fuck off, relationships that are not romantic or sexual also exist, and are exciting and beautiful in their own way. You can have an intense and complex relationship with someone without wanting to have sex with them. They're incapable of interpreting feelings and emotions in any other way.

>>33482
Me too but it's not a fanfic-exclusive problem.

Anonymous 35566

anyone here read 'Manacled' the dramione fic? i have a few more chapters to go, i liked the mid flashbacks section but since it goes back to when hermione is in malfoy manor its a little boring for me

Anonymous 35574

>>35472
can you link the fic?

Anonymous 35593

A pet peeve of mine is phallic objects in lesbian fanfic. Found a seemingly decent femslash genderbent A/B/O fic but the female alpha was described as having broad shoulders, sturdy thighs, and 'she' had a dick when they had sex. What the hell is the difference between this and just straight up het? Shit like this tells me the authors don't know what's sexy about the female body.

Anonymous 35611

>>35566
Not as good as Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

Anonymous 35675

How about sharing some recs?
I'll start:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/35109247/
I can count the number of decent Tomarry fics I've read on one hand (and I've read many), this is probably the best one.



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