Continue on from the last thread. Do you write/read fanfiction /co/?

>>79130452
The last thread had a surprisingly good run, have to say.

>>79130452
I do, and I do.
None of that Slash/Yuri/Yaoi/SuperWhoLocke Tumblr-tier shit though.
I usually get into reading totally original stories, or stories that are written by authors who have a well rounded understanding of what they're wading into.

>>79130570
Yeah it was really good, lots of discussion about various tropes and fics. Pretty surprising to see that actually

>>79131093
>totally original stories
>fanfiction

Does not compute.

>>79131093
>Totally original stories
Elaborate, fanfiction by definition are not original works

Make it about parallel universes and scuttlebug raising.

>>79131093
Any specific fandoms?

I once tried to write harry potte fanfiction when I was 14. I didn't know bether and made a Mary sue. She was so unlikable thay years later when I opened my ff.net account I cringed and killed her In the most horrible way. I haven't written it since

But I still read fanfiction. Mostly marvel. loki/sif is my guilty otp unfortunately

Forgot to say in the last thread

To the author of >>79099126, it honestly wasn't as bad as you made it seem. I mean it's pretty bleedman-tier crossover shit, but it had some nice ideas.

6/10, would've been nice to see where it went.

>>79131325
Yeah, Marvel is pretty much fanfiction at this point.

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Yes to both, but only the smutty kind.

I hate when I'm ready a cute slow burn romance fanfiction then bam rape sex porn scene happens

I forget to check the rating because I assume it would stay the same throughout the whole thing.

>>79131378
>tfw trying to find smut/romance without mary sueing or bashing
Is two (or three) fictional characters getting it on in a believable way too much to ask for?

>>79130452
Somebody did, and it's a cute one too.
https://dump.to/fp9

>>79130452
I didn't really do neither for a long while but am now writing one (The Helsa fic linked in the last thread), and actually have sort of avoided reading any since starting it since I'm afraid of picking up bad habits.

When I did skim through some fics, I noted that there seem to be certain expressions or phrases that I've never seen elsewhere but are ubiquitous in fanfics for that fandom. Like using "orbs" for eyes or referring to a person by the hair colour.

It's sort of interesting, and also gets old really fast.

People who read fanfics, are there such staple phrases in your fandoms too?

>>79130452
I mentioned in the beginning of the last thread that me and my gf read it together. Really, just about random pairings that catch our eyes. We read a lot of FitzSimmons fanfics together, but we've been reading Edd x Marie, Venom Snake x Quiet, Chris x Ashley from Until Dawn, Batman x Catwoman, etc. Some of them are actually pretty good.

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I wrote edgy darkfic for anime when I was in middle school and haven't tried writing since, but I have a few ideas so when I get a new laptop I may try and get back into that. My writing can't be worse than a lot of the purple prose out there.

I mostly read it for the smut and have only gotten back into reading story/romance driven ones recently. I forgot how fun it can be.

>mfw I found a wonderful slow-burn arranged marriage AU for my newest OTP

>>79131457
I mean, I think I manage to accomplish that in my own writing. At least I hope so. The settings I write in are somewhere between their source material and a porn set. Where every woman is just a little bisexual, and every guy can cum on command.

The only character I think I've "bashed" is Mary Jane, and that was more neglect than anything else. Although she did die. Hm.

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>>79130452

At last, my tests are nearly done, and I can do that Gravity Falls one-shot I've wanted to do for a while now.

Which reminds me:

>That fanfic where Mabel died of cancer in Dipper's arms, reminiscing about the good times they had together and growing up, before cutting forward to Dipper's daughter at her aunt's graves, asking her father why her name is the same as the one on the stone.

>>79131201
>>79131223
Totally original stories, as in, Batman stranded on Mars, instead of retelling the time Batman punched that one guy in the face lots of times.

Stories that smash the walls that keep a character bound to a certain setting, time period, or formula. In some cases, just the names are borrowed, everything else about the character is altered. Fanfiction takes on many forms, what I define as totally original are stories that don't build off of what's already been done.

>>79131242
I tend to lean toward DC Fanfiction, Star Wars, Power Rangers, DIsney Princesses, and from time to time I endulge my inner weaboo and read some anime based Fanfiction.

Nothing about sex though, sex scenes always read like the author is having cybersex with themselves.

Then again, for some of them cybersex might have been the only experience with sex they've ever had.. So.. Ick..

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>That Anne Frank/Goku fanfic

I write Dragon Ball Z/WWE crossover fanfiction.

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>>79131887
I sort of hope you're talking about the same thing.

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>>79131628
I will say that my stories are never based on "Oh, I think X and Y would make a great pairing!" It's more about how that particular setting and fictional elements would help initiate sex.

Like the symbiote bonding with Black Cat and feeding off of her "sexual energy," Supergirl finding herself, sexually, and struggling to find a mate that she wont pulverize, or Rogue exploring her sexuality through becoming a webcam girl since skin to skin contact is out of the question.

http://www.hentai-foundry.com/user/TheDjinn/profile I'm always looking for more feedback. I'm a whore that runs on attention.

Also, https://twitter.com/fanfiction_txt?lang=en is always great for a fun summary of the "best" fanfiction has to offer.

If >>79111598 still around, I'm repeating this inquiery >>79122881

>>79130452
reading fanfiction is like diving into an Olympic sized swimming pool of diarrhea for a bar of 24 carat gold that may or may not be there

>>79131582
Slow burn love is the best. I don't like fics where they start going at it in the first chapter

>>79132262
>Read Fanfiction of a slow burn love
>Long ass story, maybe 100k words
>Love finally comes to fruition after a fuck ton of reading
>Story ends a chapter or two later and hasn't been updated in years
;-;

I've done a few Greentext fictions in KP threads.

And a few Teen Titans things I wrote whilst intoxicated.

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>canon has interesting super powers/sci-fi elements/fantasy elements
>fanfiction is all a bunch of shitty mundane AUs (high school AUs, fucking coffee shop AUs)

Every. Fucking. Time.

>>79132575
god i think this all the time! i dont understand AUs at all (these types of boring AUs at least... one of my fav fics of all time is technically an AU so i cant say i hate them all)

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>>79132292
What's sad about that? Sounds like a good story, and at least they completed it ;_;

>>79132575
I've never fully comprehended this. What is it about the coffee shop AU? Why Coffee shops?

:::

Also on an unrelated note, I'm the disgusting, shameless shill from >>79131552 and >>79093910.
I'm going to bed, but j-just in case the awesome anon from last thread who started to wade through the story despite not being in the fandom (let alone shipping the pairing) happens to come across this thread, I'm still extremely interested in your thoughts after completing what's written so far.

Especially, what could I improve? Was there anything you didn't like? Many thanks, you're a treasure.

Night, guys!

I write and read one fanfic a year, for the Yuletide gift exchange.

Best /co/-related fic I've read (gets a bit weak near the end, but otherwise holds up):

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10346300/1/The-Spectacular-Spider-Squad

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>high school au of game of thrones

>>79132575
>>79132757
I think it must be some kind of laziness? Or lack of imagination? It's easier to place the story in a familiar environment you frequent, and the high school dynamic with it's social customs if easy and familiar for most writers, I suppose. Whereas if you'd place the story in-universe or in a fantastic world, you'd have do more background work to make sure you have the details and customs right, or go through the trouble of making them up.

is father hulk here? I think I need a sin smashed.

no less than an hour ago I came up with a setup for a Brendan/Aisling smut fic based around Aisling goading Brendan into doing her on the grounds that she's a fairy and her very existence disproves Brendan's christian views, therefore he no longer has to live by monk rules, or something.

I have perverted sacred art. Forgive me father hulk.

>>79132846
Have you seen it?

Link it, go on

>>79132929
From the Secret of Kells?

Really anon, how old are they? Tut tut. As penance you shall write a fluffy coffeeshop AU vignette of them. There.

I write and read, but pretty much exclusively video-game related. I primarily do Fire Emblem-related stuff. Honestly, it's good practice. FE.net is too much of a hugbox for my liking (although desu getting praised feels pretty nice), and actual criticisms tend to be lacking, but exposing yourself to any sort of audience is good for your development as an author.

>>79133643

>Really anon, how old are they?

well, one of them's got to be, like, a couple of hundred years old, so...

Oh. Wait. That just makes it worse.

oh well. fluffy coffeeshop vignette it is. If the thread's still up tomorrow night I'll put it up then.

Started when I was fifteen, wrote MK/Avatar crossover. Too lazy to continue it, but came back four years later, started fresh. All crossover stuff, of course - there's a childish novelty/cool factor to it I can't ignore. But comparing my current writing with 2010 writing, there's an alarming difference.

I'm not sure if it's ingenious or fucking lazy, but I read a Pokémon fanfic following Red deciding to climb down from Mt Silver and go through the new regions after beating the E4 again.
But the thing was, Red was written as completely silent, save for a few attacks ordered.
I wish there were more like that, or at least that it would update.

>>79135938
I think that this is a really important aspect most LoZ fics ignore as well.

I read fanfic every now and then of the romantic/smutty/homo variety. I even wrote some about a year ago and it was fairly well-received. I've been mulling over continuing it for shits, but I know it wasn't very good. I'd probably have to start drinking again to get anywhere.

>>79131817
>Totally original stories, as in, Batman stranded on Mars, instead of retelling the time Batman punched that one guy in the face lots of times.

That's 50s Batman in a nutshell. During that period he was traveling to other dimensions and alien worlds.

50s Batman was a lot crazier than whatever terrible shit fanfic writers would come up with today.

Yes, I regularly write smut for an incest pairing.

>>79132575
pic related?

>oh boy, another Gravity Falls Pirate AU

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>>79138176

>A GF Pirate AU

Fucking why? You can do almost anything you want with the setting. Just have some magical crap happening in the woods, and there's the story, without any of this leap of setting bullshit.

Fanfic is worthless garbage. It's masturbation, either intellectual (Mary Sue self-inserts) or physical (shipping, sex fantasies).

Not only is it shit, as others have noted it's lazy shit, just the same old AU settings, tropes, etc.

I really seriously think fanfiction stunts people and the culture in general. Instead of making new, ACTUALLY original stories you're just playing with the toys someone else made. It's just channeling people's natural creativity into these narrow little boxes.

If someone is capable of writing "good" fanfic, then write your own original damn stories and actually contribute to the world.

>>79138374

My fanfic is devoid of self-inserts (hell, I think most writers are pretty paranoid of this happening) anything lewd, AUs, bashing, shipping, etc.

I write fanfic of my favourite shows because I LIKE DOING IT. You can say that original stories are good, and they are, but ultimately, I write because I like doing it, and when I'm writing about a show I already love, I love to write about it. My primary purpose in life is to have fun, so I'm doing that, not being ashamed of things I like.

>>79138589
I write Simpsons fanfiction from time to time just to stick it to the writers and prove that Zombie Simpsons sucks so much that we could make better stuff than the crap they pull from their butts.

>>79138589
Have you ever tried writing your own stuff?

Do what makes you happy, sure, but just think if the creators of your favorite show wasted their energies on fanfic and never made the show you love. The world would be poorer for it, right? Maybe you could bring something into the world that could inspire and move people like your favorite shows inspires and moves you.

Sometimes I dabble, but it's only for 3edgy shit or if I crave a pairing that has no/complete shit fics for it. (Most m/m or het)
Otherwise I vastly prefer RPing. It feels a lot less like angrily jerking off in an empty room.

I read and have written some fanfiction. I usually look for slash smut and I don't like reading pairings established in canon. Slow burns are good but I aldo like ones have sex throughout with the characters denying there feelings.

Like a lot have others have said it's really hard to find a good fanfiction and aldo can't stand the highschool AU and other tropes in fanfiction. As a slash fan I tend to avoid ones with seme/uke descriptions, since its usually a signal for bad yaoi tropes in the fic and I prefer switches.
Still even though I've stopped (I'm writing an original work right now so I can't divert my focus) I do get the urge to write more from time to time.

>>79139014

Yes, when I was 14 I wrote a 150,000 word novel that I intended to make into a trilogy. Problem is that it took so long to make that the political values it espoused I'd 180'd on, and I kind of like to forget it happened. Never made the other two books.

Fan-fic is what got me back into writing, but I still do some poetry on the side.

>>79138374

Calm down senpai. No one is writing fan fiction because they think it's some kind of intellectual medium.
It's either porn, which is always welcome, or it's an attempt to expand on characters/situations that don't happen in canon.
Which is especially awesome if the source material is meh-tier. One of my favorite series back in MS/HS was pretty bland and my favorite character got no screen-time. Fics actually developed the characters better than the original.

And why can't you do both? Most people who are serious about writing actually do more than just fan-work.

>>79138374

>Don't draw fanart! If someone is a good artist, they should be making ONLY original stuff

>>79132079
Holy fuck that's accurate

>>79138374
>original stories

Just because somebody uses an established setting and characters, it doesn't mean the story itself isn't original.

Also, there are no original stories.

>>79139014
Not the guy you're talking to, but I always had an idea for a cartoon about a tomboy loli who has wacky adventures over summer vacation.

I used to write fanfic back in the day. Some of it was cringe-worthy self insert bullshit, but other stuff was slice of life/ day in the life of minor characters, esp minor villainous characters.

I actually do like reading fanfic too, but I'm so picky that I've given up on trying to read most of it. Characters acting ooc? Dropped. Terrible dialogue / grammar? Dropped. Hamfisted romance? Dropped. When it's good, it's really good. When its bad, it's just awful. And it doesn't even need to be said what the majority of fanfic is.

It's too bad though, because I really do miss it.

I don't suppose anybody has recommendations for a WiR fic where Felix is an evil control freak? I've been toying with that idea for a while and can't be assed to search through 50 pages of turbo wankery in search of a fic where he just doesn't play that big of a role, and it's just fixit that's a douche.

>>79139825
Sold. Get started on it, your check is in the mail.

>>79139894
>>79139825
Yeah well, you gotta understand what sells on /co/.

>>79139856
You know, I've never done self-insert in any of my fanfiction and I'm not even exactly sure what self-insert is.

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I write graphic rape fapfiction. Got a fairly large following on Ao3. My most popular fic has 500 kudos. My reviewers are super flattering and positive. People write stuff like they thought something was so well written it really stuck with them and made them emotional, or that I'm their favourite fapfic writer and they like reading my stuff before going to bed. Really nice comments that boost my confidence.

But the shame... The shame anons. I can't admit it to anyone. Not my friends who even read porn fanfiction. I feel like such a fraud or something, sitting and listening to them discussing fic and trying to write their own while pretending I don't do any of that stuff at all. I also feel slightly disgusted with myself. People have always said I write really well and I should write some stories, and then I go and make this sort of shit? It's something I'm going to take to my grave probably...

Does it count as fanfiction if I basically plagiarize the plot of Silent Hill 4: the room, writing it in the style of a bunch of diary entries?

>>79139894
It's partially based on some IRL people I've known.

>>79140075

Self-Insert is pretty self-explanatory. You put a character into a story (or alter the personality of an existing character) to do or say exactly what you would do.

Technically, every character in all media has elements of self-insert, but in terms of Fanfiction, "self-insert" usually refers to a kind of obnoxious character who hogs the spotlight and makes it pander to the authors personal views or desires for the franchise.

>>79139856
Yeah I have a friend who loves the awful shit and I can't understand it. I drop them just as easily as well. Which sucks when I want to read something romantic because I find published romances so uninteresting.

>>79130452
>write
Nope, never done any.
>read
Oh, like you have no idea. Started reading fanfiction since maybe 7th grade.

>>79140172
I always assumed self-insert characters are strictly the 100% perfect, always correct, never wrong writer's mouthpiece however Calvin was very often Watterson's self-insert, yet he was absolutely not shown as a sympathetic, flawless character,

>>79140091
Someday you're going to be accepting your Pulitzer for writing the Great American Novel and some reporter will find your rape fic.

>>79140358

100% perfect never wrong characters usually get called Mary Sues, not self-inserts.

Self-Insert, like a lot of literature terms, has a kind of fuzzy definition, but you generally know one when you see one.

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>>79140435

What if a character is "literally you"?

What was the first fanfiction you read that got you into fanfictions?

I'd been reading a few on DA but never with real interest (although I did post some of my own). But then I found this slash pairing for Dragon Age 2 when I was in year 10. I've been in hell ever since.

>>79140591
>broke
>no job
>hangs around /co/ with the rest of us losers

>>79138360

It seems like that's half of them lately, I guess at least it's not coffee shop shit but I don't see the point with no magic or why it has to be pirates all the fucking time.

>>79140368
The thought of anyone I know finding out about my secret online life as a degenerate fapfic author, is the stuff that keeps one awake at night.

>>79140626

Honestly, my GF fic is mostly just exploring the relationship with Dipper and Mabel, and I don't really focus on the magic stuff, but I at least try and make it feel consistent with the Universe it exists in, and don't yank them into a pointless setting that doesn't serve their strengths.

>>79140619
I can't remember, but it most likely had Tails and Cosmo from Sonic X in it. And the story was from Deviant Art.

>>79140619
First time I found out what fanfiction was when I was 12-13 and stumbled into Good Charlotte gay fanfic. I was very disgusted and shocked.

This is only technically related to fanfiction, but today I was faced with a dilemma, /co/.

More than a year ago I started writing a fanfiction, mostly as an exercise in discipline; I update every week, tuesday, between 3-5 pm, like clockwork. I've only ever missed an update because FF.net was down, and I have a good number of fans that follow my weekly updates.

Today it came time to post my weekly chapter, but I absolutely fucking hated the ending. I'd psted work I was unsatisfied with before, but usually in unimportant chapters: this one was a key moment for the narrative, and I hate that I couldn't get it right. I'd rewritten it a dozen times over but still wasn't happy, and I was out of time. I decided to post it anyway to keep up my regular schedule.

Did I do the right thing? Should I have chosen professional or artistic integrity?

>>79141260
Oh, but I think I got into by reading really bad Naruto fic on ff.net.

>>79138374

Uh, ever hear of the Aeneid, the New Testament, the Morte d'Arthur?

You uncultured fuckwit.

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>Story is real good
>When a story doesn't update anymore
There is at least one story you guys wish had been wrapped up or have the author explain what was gonna happen with it. What was it, /co/?

>>79141300

There's no objectively right answer. Personally, it all depends on whether you treasure the support and fame, in which case yes, or whether you cherish the writing, in which case no.

>>79141300
>professional
this. yeah, you did the right thing.

I think it's time for you to write something real senpai

>>79140619
I was never into fanfics.

I wrote a few creepypastas for /x/ and people read them, so when I got caught up in a fandom, I wrote a few fanfics. Didn't read other people's though.

>>79141300
I can't bring myself to post material I'm not satisfied with. If I cringe at it even once, it goes in the trash. Which is why i never finish anything or update very often.... Keeping up a consistent update schedule is also an art, so if that's what your main objective is, don't feel bad about it.

>>79141300
9 think ifvyou've never missed an update before your readers would have been fine with you missing it thisvtime. If you're really not satisfied with your work I think you owe it yourself to keep working on it until it feels right you. That being said sometimes there really isn't anything you can do to fix it. Do you have someone you go to for feedback? Could you update it later?

>>79142651
Sorry about the mess of errors

>>79141718

>Cringe once=trash

Don't you think you're being a little harsh? Just clean it up.

>>79142790
Well I don't trash the whole fic, but I sometimes end up deleting several pages and completely rewriting it because the first draft was lackluster.

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>>79139458
>or it's an attempt to expand on characters/situations that don't happen in canon.
>Which is especially awesome if the source material is meh-tier. One of my favorite series back in MS/HS was pretty bland and my favorite character got no screen-time. Fics actually developed the characters better than the original.

Case in point. We fanfic writers did a lot more to develop them character-wise than the writers in...

>every friggin' future episode
>same stale jokes about Maggie not speaking because they so, so don't want to take the trouble to actually give her a personality

>>79143541
But Simpsons-kun, there's so many other characters who needed more development. Why not Ms. Hoover, Lenny, Chief Wiggum, Helen Lovejoy, etc? Why a bunch of babies as if this show were Rugrats 2.0?

>>79141300

>one chapter every week for more than a year

If those chapters are all of decent length, you're probably one of the most productive amateur writers I've ever seen. Stop writing fanfiction and get a job.

I have a few journals of a single fanfic of Code Lyoko that never made past the first chapter. I kept rewriting it, for my whole sophomore year. It was tedious as fuck, and I never liked how I expressed what was going on.
I remember it being about a those kids being collage or young adult and having that Lyoko machine slowly come back to life.

Besides that, I use to read a shit ton Lyoko fanfic since the show went to shit after a few seasons.

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Cordless is still the worst and most autistic Simpsons fanartist of all time. Chinese baby guy is a mere, uh, baby compared with him.

>>79130452
read, no.
write, yes.

Writing more and more these past few days too. Attempting serious stories that don't revolve around shipping does net you much less reads/views/hits than others though.

>>79144202
Shipping is a necessity, but it doesn't have to be an ugly one if you make your ships at least somewhat believable and in-character.

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>>79141336
>story gets deleted by the author

>>79144133
I can't process the hideous stylization he uses.

>>79140619
Fucking Inuyasha.

>>79130452
I read a KND fanfiction that followed the years of Sector V after Nigel joined the GKND. It gave much needed closure to the other charcters and I considered it the ture end of KND until that thing happened last year

>>79140619
>What was the first fanfiction you read that got you into fanfictions?
Oh man, that's a tough one. I think, THINK it was an Azumanga Daioh fanfiction.

>>79144334
Or why he'd give Maggie a little brother. In my opinion, one of the cardinal no-nos of Simpsons fanfiction is "Marge has another kid."

>>79132786
Wait, you just used an Elsa fsjal and you're asking why coffee shops? Your fandom is one of the most notorious coffee shop-setting-users. *cough*Café Liégeois*cough*With You*cough*

Then again, you do Helsa and I've never come across a Helsa coffee shop one. It's always lesbians.

Do you still /snowchan/?

>>79130452
>Write
Haven't done so in years, I used to write mostly Naruto fics when I was 11-13, something like that.
>Read
Oh, hell yeah. I usually browse AO3 but I used to be on FF, Lunaescence, and even Quizilla, which is a whole chapter in itself.

I'm a little tempted to leave my old penname here, but then I start to cringe because it's a link to my weeaboo "M so randumm xD" phase

>>79138374
>Instead of making new

Implying most fanfic writers would write original material if they didn't write fanfiction

>>79144324
Why does some authors do this? I get it it's probably because they don't think the story is good anymore and they're embarrassed, but I find it such a shitty thing to do to your readers who maybe love your story but haven't saved it.

At least announce you're going to remove it in some days in advance so people can download it in time.

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>>79130452
What are your favorite kind of AUs /co/?

And do you have links with examples?

>>79140116
I also want to know about this. I'm currently doing a Vanilla Sky version except with my fandom's characters/setting shoehorned in.

I once read a Drake and Josh story where Megan stepped up her game and actually tried to kill Drake and Josh. Her first attempt was getting them in a car accident which they survived. The second I think is when she upright killed Drake. I forgot how(although I remember this one crazy scene when they tried to fight her off by kicking her in the breast and them commenting that's like kicking a man in the balls and that's what she gets). Anyways, It ended with Josh snapping and knocking Megan out than he ties her up in the attic and tortures her(beating her, threatening her with a loaded gun, drowning her, killing one of her friends right in front of her, hammering a nail in her ear), it ends with him hacking her the pieces with an Axe. The final scene is him leaving the attic where his parents come, Josh has already lost his sanity so he shots them and than the police instantly come knock the door down on top of him. When that happens Josh instantly regrets what he's done and shoots himself in the mouth.

And that's how it ended. Fucked up shit. Too bad it's deleted. Because I would link it.

>>79140619
Never actually read stuff that got me into, what got me into writing was just wanting to continue the story/make things happen/see what happened in the background.

>>79144787
I think it was called "Dwelling in Darkness" or something.Fuck, I know it had "in Darkness" in the title.

>>79144662
usually it's cuz the person went legit and doesn't want to risk any legal issues or public defamation if people find out they used to publish fanfiction intricateley detailing the sex lives and murder habits of minors

>>79144787
I once read a Drake and Josh fic where they both came to terms with how they wanted to fuck Megan. Thw author would give detailed descriptions on her pre-pubecent body and how she'd seduce them. Idk if it's still up but it was one of the first fics I ever read

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>>79144324
>delete their account and stories
Holy shit do I hate this.

>>79143541
Maggie x Herman otp.

>>79144272
I've kinda noticed this. Having a solid, stated ship gets you the instant viewership of that ship's fans. It's much harder when you're just trying to look at side-stories/side-characters or even a sequelfic.

>>79144712
I like for want of a neil kind of stories. But there are a lot of interesting AUs out there.


Never coming from /co/ tho, because /co/ can'tem actually work together without it turning into a shouting contest or circlejerk.

>>79144712
For Want of A Nail and occasionally Time Travel/Peggy Sue. Groundhog Day stories can be alright, but it leaves a little too much leeway usually.

>>79132846
I read a modern day AU of GoT that had all the houses as companies with a share in a bigger company trying to fuck each other over while there was an impending world war coming. That shit was pretty good.

>>79144662
>halfway through the story
>go to next chapter
>"page not found" stating it was either removed or deleted
Makes me suicidal.

I read an embarrassing amount of fanfiction. I avoid most slashfics or OC/SI crap. I am slowly writing an original work, and have successfully refused to write fanfiction. It's... a lot more appealing than it should be.

>>79140619
It was a NaruHina fic. I vagueley recall she fell off a bridge or something on a mission, they hid in a cave while he nursed her back to health, with sexy results

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>>79144712
I love genderbend AUs, but its is SO hard to find good stuff.

>>79131551
>Mona The Vampire fanfiction

MY BRO!

>>79140091

>StarscREEEEEEEEEm.gif

>>79140619
the only good DAII ship is 'Femhawke has casual sex with everyone, blissfully unaware of how many people are madly in love with her'

>>79144662
>>79144917
I don't get the mentality when you have loads of chapters with hundreds of words along with loyal followers and just delete. Hell, if a wrote something like that and I think it's shit I would still keep it up because of all the time and effort I spent on it.

>>79140116
I'd say that still counts as an adaption of SH4 rather than a flat retelling

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>Those Blogspots set up that posted nothing but anime smut
Good times

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I wrote some Naruto, Teen Titans and a Halo fic. Deleted all of them though in a fleet of embarassment.
>wrote my first fanfic on pencil and paper in middle school

>>79145118
>Used to keep notebooks full of fic planning and smut
>Written in middle school
I feel you, anon

>>79144712
I like alternate universes with inverter moralitties. Good guys are bad, and the bad guys are good.

>>79145118

My reading comprehension is shit. Are you saying you wrote fanfiction of Naruto, Teen Titans, and also of Halo, or are you saying you wrote a story involving Naruto, Teen Titans and Halo?

>>79145181
The first one

>>79145051
Kek.

>>79145103
Yeah man. Hell, I hate when artists do that too with their accounts.

>I have a whole folder that is 1.42 MB in size full of plagiarized futa fanfictions. I literally have about 300 stories of fanfictions I stole, added different characters and futa to it.

Should I fucking kill myself? Be honest with me, should I?

>>79145245
Good, because the latter sounded autistic as fuck, unless you did an incredible job at making it good.

>>79145172

I swear at some point I read a like this of power puff girls. Mojo Jojo, Him, and Fuzzy Lumpkin were a super team that would fight the crazy machinations of doctor Utonium, a nazi Major Glory, and the Gang Boss. Who was the The Mayor, but in charge of the mob.

I couldn't make this shit up.

>>79137882
one of the best fanfics I've ever read was a post-game Twilight Princess fic about Link travelling the world pining for Midna and Shadow Link getting revived.

Within it Link was willfully mute. There was a fantastic scene where, I think it was the barmaid, was watching Link interact with people, and the thought came into her head that maybe the reason Link never talks is because he already conveys so much through body language, that he doesn't talk because then he wouldn't have any secrets left, he'd express himself so openly people would be able to see right through him, and that scared him.

I've been trying to find that fic again for years as reference for writing my own mute character but I've never been able to track it down.

>>79144712
I like the ones that change based on just one small insignificant thing changing.

I'm writing a story about how Zuko DIDN'T blast Aang in the Blue Spirit episode, and leads a whole other path of events from there.

>>79132929
this sounds like a chic tract, or that comic where the guy drinks unpasteurised milk , snorts a wheel of cheese and denounces god

>>79135938
>>79137882
>>79145355
Here's one about Red being legit mute.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7001716/1/Speak-Up

Shit's damn good. Although there's a bit of forced drama because Red never carries around a damn notebook and pen with him to get through with people. Overall, it deals the issue of his muteness pretty realistically, specially for fucking Pokemon of all things. How he gets gud at battling is fucking genius.

Can you source that Red fanfic you mentioned? I'd like to read it too.

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>read a great story
>it's left on a cliffhanger
>last update 2005

What's its name /co/?

>>79144712
I like the occasional quality crossover. There was that one with Mass effect and star craft that I liked. the one where the turians go against Raynor's Raiders on their first contact and get their asses handed to them. I also like the occasional Marvel/DC story, if only because I know it's the only way that it's ever going to happen.

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>>79145021
This so much.

But I know some real short stories that aren'tem worth a read.

>>79145497
I wish there was a way to block the date on a fanfiction because nothing kills your interest than knowing it hasn't been updated in almost a decade.

>>79145341
Nah. it's just porn you modified to fit to your specific fetishes. Nothing wrong with that. I'm being serious.

>>79145488
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8329125/1/A-True-Champion
Be aware, it's been two years since it updated.

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>>79145497
Tails X, Trip of a Lifetime, a few Invader Zim fics, a Portal story, etc, etc.

>>79145352

>The Gang Boss who was the mayor but in charge of the mob

That's sounds fucking hilarious anon, do you have a link?

>>79145103
when I quit writing Naruto fanfic I deleted not only the uploaded chapters, but also all my offline backups and notes.

I wanted Out, and I knew that if I left too many pieces standing I'd start rebuilding and be right where I started.

I really didn't care about the time invested. It meant as much to me as time spent shooting hoops by myself in the back yard.

>>79145500
Even though I like crossovers when done right, most of them have the most stupidest shit in them. If you don't choose your crossovers wisely you'll wined up reading the most ridiculous nonsense your eyes have ever had the misfortune of memorizing.

>That crackfic about a kid's show
What's the name, /co/?

>>79145341
This is how I started writing fic. I found myself constantly rewriting other people's stories to fit my own needs/standards. Then I realized I should just go write my own fics instead.

>>79145670
You know you ruined somebody's day, right?

>>79144712
I like AU's where the characters split into factions and there's lots of tense politics and masterminding.

I also like polyamorous AU's.

Only rareley do these overlap.

>>79145497
It was part of a kink meme a LJ I lost the link too. Their posting system is atrocious, I probably will never find it.

>>79144712
I'm a sucker for grimdark AU's, but only ones that build off and exagerate canon facts rather than adding in superfluous stuff like 'MC is actually from a cursed lineage'

>>79145670
But anon, even thought it was shit and meant nothing to you, maybe it meant a whole lot to some of your readers? Dunno... I think it's sad when stuff that could be appreciated by someone is destroyed just because the creator thinks it's worthless.

>>79145729
I got multiple death threats in my inbox

I don't think I can express how gratifying was for my ego. It really filled me with confidence.

>>79145497

I think it was only 2010, but it was... Homestuck. The only reason I even read it was because it had a 30 something year old kanaya pining over an 18-19 Rose, with Rose as the being forward about flirting with kanaya. I don't even like Homestuck, but it's so hard to find this kink.

>>79145730
Shinji & 40k might be up your alley.

Who's biggest weakness is not knowing how to fucking begin the story here?

>>79145856
Oh it is, I loved the shit out of it.

My liberal 8th grade teacher made everyone write Hunger Game fanfiction as a final project grade. I remember mine being too long and just getting an A.

>>79145864

Not a fanfic writer but I feel your pain. I wanna write an original super hero setting, focusing on one as the MC. Problem is that if I start with the origin story it will be way too fucking long before the actual super heroing starts, but If i skip right to the action and flash back to the origin later then that just gets all sorts of confusing.

>>79145693
yeah... one time i accidentally read a watchmen/nurse jackie crossover

>>79143541
fuck you, nobody cares about your Chinese waifu

>>79145927
>Hunger Games
Jesus.

>>79145864
I just pick the point where things get interesting.
>>79145930
flashbacks are overrated. trust your readers to be smart enough to figure out what happened from what characters have to say about it.

>>79145930
You should probably have the flashbacks to the origin story show up in bits sometimes.

>>79145980
>I just pick the point where things get interesting.
I think about trying that to but what if I differ off from my original destination with beginning? Like the original idea here and I end up fucking it up with a new idea with the beginning?

>>79145980
>>79146009

I'm thinking of having it be a mixed bag. Have the first chapter be the start of the origin story, then jump ahead to his first night out. have him develop a grudge against the first villain then jump back to the second part of the origin, then jump ahead to him making friends with the other local supers and making headway against the organized crime. Jump back to the part that ties the origin to his first night out then jump back ahead to him actually taking down the first villain. then the rest of the story moves linearly from there.

>>79146089

This would all be over the course of a good 6-8 chapters. I don't want to rush this.

>>79146089
Yeah, that works. Getting to what you want and filling the gaps.

>>79146058
I'm someone who plans his shit out meticulously, but writing is still an organic process. If you plan on uploading shit as you go, do a few 'pilot chapters', sit on them for a week, then go back and review them. if you like 'em, do a few more and now you have a buffer. If you don't, go back to the drawing board.

If you plan on doing the whole thing and publishing the finished product, just write and don't sweat it. You may find yourself jumping all around the manuscript and that's fine so long as you still keep approaching that ending.

>>79146089

What is his origin story? It sounds complicated if there's 3 parts to it.

>>79146317

He's a cop in a town called Venture City. Problem with being a cop in Venture city is that there are more than a few dirty cops that make the honest ones' jobs that much harder. For a good 5 months the gangs have been getting tipped off anytime the cops went for a drug bust or an arrest. One of the local supers, a guy called Brainwave with a decent TK power, has a lot of animosity towards the PD. When Underhill, our MC and some of the other officers fail yet another drug bust, making only one arrest WITH the help of Brainwave Underhill starts to think that maybe he should be looking into some other way to take down the city's organized crime. When the drug runner they arresting is sprung from custody not 2 days later he decides to take action. cont. if anyone cares?

>>79146666
I'm interested.

>>79141326

This fucking retard though

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>>79130452
Moved away from my family to finish up my schooling, had a bunch of free time so I started writing random shit to pass the time
One day I created a fanfic account and went ballsy and posted my short story, got three good reviews that egged me on to do more.
Seven stories and over two hundred positive and supporting reviews later I graduated and lost my drive to write.
mainly wrote NarutoxAnko and Booker/Liz, both surprisingly loved ships, yeah, I know my taste is shit.
Funny, none of this shit I wrote was /co/ related tho. Well there you have it OP

>>79145845
>I got multiple death threats in my inbox
Wut?

>>79147136

He dons some dark clothes and heads out at night. Years of police work make it fairly easy to get around on the city's roof tops. He steaks out in the bad part of town like that for few nights, until he overhears a few thugs talking about a meeting with 'the new boss' somewhere in the docks area sometime during the next weekend. He follows one of the thugs and approaches the guy in a bar. Now, Underhill is a pretty intimidating guy. 6'4, black, and built from his training, it wasn't hard for him to convince the gangster that he overheard he was with the gang and that he was looking to join in on the drug running business. The guy is a little bit skeptical, but tells him that there's going to be a sort of initiation/gladiatorial combat arena thing coming up at a warehouse down by the docks. The bosses way of showing new recruits exactly what was expected of them. Under hill shows up in gang colors to see exactly what he was dealing with. His plan was to call some of the cops he knew were trustworthy once he'd found out where the gang was meeting, but he didn't know exactly how big this thing was going to be and didn't want to send his friends into something that would get them killed. So he went into the warehouse just to see all who showed up. First villain makes an appearance as the gang boss, and when Underhill realizes he a super, sees that he's gotten in a little over his head. He tries to make his way out, but as chance would have it the gangster that had been sprung after the failed drug bust spots and recognizes him. He calls him on being a cop and Underhill is captured. They break his legs and leave him tied up in one of the gang's safe houses' basement. They decide to put him up for ransomed and he's left down there for three days. He manages to MacGyver his way free, knocks out the guard that was watching him, and uses the guards cellphone to call in his cop buddies on the safe house. Cont.

>>79140619
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4512329/1/Grains-of-Sand
A GarHina fic that feels like a Jane Austen novel. It was rec'ed to me by /a/ and a lot of us in that thread years ago couldn't believe how good that shit was.

>>79140619
Some shitty Dragonball Z fanfiction where you find out how Vegeta and Bulma get together. Even back then I could tell when it was a bad fiction. I kept searching for a better one, but to no avail.

It wasn't until I discovered Harry Potter time travel fanfiction. Now that shit is my niche.

>>79144579
I haven't read much of other Frozen fics since most of them tend to be shipping fics, mainly Elsanna, which icks me out due to the incest (and other things) so I don't touch it at all. I did read R9k/Eis quite far and found it extremely OOC and annoying.

I was just genuinely wandering why so many fics are placed in the coffee shop. I can get the appeal of the MAU since it's easier to place something in a familiar surrounding, but why is it always coffee?

rarely, the purityposting is a bit off-putting

>>79144712
I love Reincarnations AUs which also explains my love for asian LNs.

I also love AUs where for example Young Justice character accidentally slips into the darker comic book universe

>>79144712
Do Post-ending fics count? Otherwise For Want of a Nail.

Time travel fics seem like they are min-maxing from the descriptions and I can't give them a chance.

>>79147988
Have character A work at register interacting with character having a meet cute with customer character B. Or office AU where character A is boss of character B, or some other office politics. It writes itself. Just find fun ways to integrate other characters and settings into a mundane world.

For me I love reading slice of mundane life in a fantastical world. Like how does a superhero spend his free time in the real world outside of his suit. Things we would never get in the books because its too boring and slow.

>>79140619
If I recall correctly, it was a Pride & Prejudice fanfic. I'd just read it in high school and was eager for more content with the same characters and stubled on a site that had tons of Austen stuff, including an impressive fanfic archive.

There was one I thought was great, and I stuck around the site for months, reading through some of them (one massive three-parter even got pulled because the author published it, it was really well done).

Of course, last year I looked up the first fanfic, it wasn't nearly as good as I remembered. But at the time it made me interested in fanworks

I don't write fanfiction, but I do think of stories that could be turned into them. My main problem is that every time I try to use the characters or settings I make it priority #1 to never have anything resembling a mary sue. I could be thinking about two opposing sides who could think of nothing more to destroy each other, and the moment one gets information on the other I need to go in EXACT detail of how they did and make it believable in the contexts of the world

>>79148165
Writing Mr. Palmer must be fun.

>>79147697

>>79147697

It's one of the biggest blows against the gang the police have manged in a long time, but Underhill's legs are jank, ending his career as an officer. over the next few weeks his life pretty much goes to shit. The gang knew his name and face, so he had to go into hiding for a while. He was staying with his sister who lived just outside town. First villain apparently held a stronger grudge than the thought, and sent one of his lieutenants to burn the house down. His sister died in the fire, and he was left with newly broken legs and nothing really left to live for. this made him a perfect candidate for a group called the New Salem Project. Back during WWII the German's had the Thule Society. This being a super hero setting they were actually somewhat successful and a legitimate threat to America. As such America had they're own group to study magic and implement it on the battle field. The New Salem Project was technically disbanded after the war, but enough higher ups were interested in their work that they still found the funding to keep doing their research, albeit in the shadows where know one could see what they were up to. They take people who are otherwise as good as dead and offer them a second chance as their magic guinea pig. Underhill accepts, as most do, and becomes the primary tester for the phantom cloak project, alongside Carl Sweiggen. He'll be important later. The cloak is a magical artifact that NSP found in some crypt. Supposedly it belonged to some legendary thief back in feudal times. The cloak allowed the thief to become intangible, invisible, and to float through objects. the biggest problem the NSP had was the the cloak was somehow attached to the soul of the thief. To anyone else it was just a white cloak. They placed some runic tattoos directly on Underhill's heart, that would trick the cloak into thinking he was the thief. They also fixed his legs while they were at it. Magic. Ain't gotta explain shit. cont.?

Its weird, fanfiction to me seems like its really hard to spot readers and authors. Nobody I know really discusses it online or off.

It feels like a dirty secret that we all may do it but we don't bring it up. How else would we account for the millions of words out there being written?

>>79138374
>I really seriously think fanfiction stunts people and the culture in general
Well, you're an idiot then. It's not really up to you to decide what sort of content creative people should be allowed to use, or what sort of stories or methods of publishing count as "real". Fanfiction gives joy to the people who write and read it, it's enough.

It's also an excellent way to get into writing.

>>79130452
Yes and Yes.

Its for that containment board you know the one. and occasionally for /co/ and /tg/.

I got my start on /tg/ writing for a quest thread back in the early days of /tg/ quest threads. Went to you know after the show was banished from /co/ and now wright humorous stories there.

>>79148358
Actually in /lit/ hiroki opened up discussion for a fanfiction board. I don't know if that idea has been shot down, but I think it ultimately would have been a superfluous board.

>>79148216

What is his first name. I can't just keep calling him Underhill in my head.

>>79148410
>but I think it ultimately would have been a superfluous board
Yeah most fanfiction is fine where it is now. I almost think there should be a quest thread board however since that is what the majority of /tg/ threads are now.

>>79140075
Self-insert is a character who sort of represents you, or you identify with them, or write them as this wishful fantasy of how awesome it would be if these things were happening to you (and you were hotter and thinner and fit and popular and had an interesting name).

It's a little different from a Mary Sue (boringly perfect), but they often overlap into self-insert Mary Sues since if you're going to write yourself into the story under a different name, might as well make yourself awesome.

>>79148447

John.

>>79141718
>If I cringe at it even once, it goes in the trash.
You should edit and rewrite it until it's cringe-free, not thrash it.

>>79148258
It's because it doesn't feel like proper writing since you're using other people's characters. If it was original characters everyone would openly be talking about their creative writing hobby

>>79138360

I think cherryviolets does a series of fanart based in a 1920/30s prohibition setting. I'm not sure how it would work as fiction but the art is great. it's like she binged Lackadaisy and GF at the same time and a whole lot of cool art came out of it.

>>79145341

>1.24MB.

wew lad. nearly a whole floppy disks' worth of shit there. you madman.

>>79130452
>Do you write
Yes

>read fanfiction
Occasionally, if I find something interesting

>>79131093
>>79131817
>None of that Slash/Yuri/Yaoi/SuperWhoLocke Tumblr-tier shit though.
>I usually get into reading totally original stories, or stories that are written by authors who have a well rounded understanding of what they're wading into.
>Totally original stories, as in, Batman stranded on Mars, instead of retelling the time Batman punched that one guy in the face lots of times.
Mah fucking nigga
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who appreciates those kind of stories.

I think that fanfiction has a lot bigger potential than people give it credit for. If someone devotes himself to expand a universe he loves and puts some real thought into it, the story will end up being a really nice expansion to the established canon of said universe.
And while each of those kind of stories are noteworthy achievements, I think the real potential lies in stories that try not to be an expansion, but a new entry in that universe. I'm talking about original stories that are bound to the core elements of established universes.
Take digimon for example. Even though every digimon series(Adventure/02/Tri, Tamers, Frontier, Savers, Xros Wars) is different from each other, all of them share some core elements: a universe that contains digimon, digimon-human interaction (bonding, conflicts, etc.), digimon specific combat (evolution, joggress, etc.), a bigger than life threat, believable real world as a setting, an alternate world where the digimon come from, factions. If someone does decide to write something completely new digimon related, sticks to those core elements and brings something original and interesting to the table, then he has done something amazing.
This is the true potential of fan work and I think it's a real shame that most writers just stick to smutshit and don't even want to try to reach it, or at least make a good expansion.

>>79145355
Yeah, I've read that one too. Excellently done, and easily the best Link/Midna, but sadly discontinued. Can't for the life of me remember the title, but you can probably find it if you look on the loz fanfic recommendation page of tvtropes

>Do you write/read fanfiction /co/?

I've been writing two stories, but they're crossovers.

And they're crossovers involving a material that's temporarily banned from /co/...

And yes, I've posted them in /sug/. But when it comes to giving out questions/comments/criticism/suggestions, they're terrible.

>>79149837
Well but if it's just text files it can be quite a bit of material.
I have a text file with 50 000+ words and it's just 130 kb or so, for example.

>>79150290
SU isn't banned in /co/ at all, only the general is.

>>79130452
>Do you write
Did, stopped three years ago, only write green txt storys now for shits and giggles
>read fanfiction
All the time, almost every day, shits my crack cocaine. I have very little standards even if its a crackship crossover. That picture speaks volume to me too, If i need a cry or to distract me from life, I pop on a saved story and take my time
my two rule
no intense gross fetishes
make it believable, or its shit to me.

>>79150402
shame, if only they could keep it in there pants, thats the scary things with bombs, hard not to sperg with five new episodes all dog piled in on themselves.

>>79145864
I find the middle to be th eproblem fo rme. I know how mine start. I know the main events. I know how it ends. But I tend to get bogged down in filler filler filler because I enjoy filler.

p-post your best fapfic

>>79147988
>hates Elsanna
I love you.

Yeah, r9k was extremely OOC but then again, it's Frac's self-insert fanfiction. Knowing that, it starts to make sense.

I think the thing about coffee shops is, a lot of these kids spend time in coffee shops. Which is why most AUs are coffee shops and/or high school - because they're based off of author experience.

>>79150402
SUchan when?

>>79150471
http://pastebin.com/6eaUMn16

and

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10018243/1/Milkshake-Machine-Elsa


You have been warned.

>>79150402

I'm well aware of that, I'm just not sure where to get some sort of feedback on 'em.

>>79150429

You can blame that on CN's scheduling.

>>79150518

It would fail just all of the other series-centric chans.

>>79150429
It's not even about keeping it in their pants, other generals leak and shit/waifupost about as much, and the majority of the sperging is edgelords who can't bear the thought of something as cutesy as SU being popular in muh /co/ falseflagging and shitposting.

It's just mod bias and laziness. It moves too fast, they can't be arsed to monitor it, or something like that.

>>79150518
I don't think isolating the discussion into a separate site is good for the general level of mental health. It's good to have unrelated threads around people can check in between arguing about lore and waifus, it keeps things a bit grounded

>>79150471
http://archiveofourown.org/works/4290984

http://pastebin.com/3vvxFaEm

both Ben 10, first is sexchange and second is Khyber/genderbend!Albedo
there was a third but- it's not very good

What is the strangest piece of fanfiction you've read /co/

This is up there for me.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2637071/1/Pregnant-Pause

>>79145971
I remember writing some hunger games fanfic after seeing the first movie. Not out of love for the series but more of a here's all things that suck or don't make sence . I only did it cause of all the hype for the movie I did the same for twilight

>>79150617

>>79131864

>>79150527
>Milkshake-Machine-Elsa
I am horrified yet intrigued

>>79150658

Well, the fanfic I wrote one time got an absolute rave review from someone, but she at least structured why she loved it so much.

>>79150547
Advertise at /sug/ or even at r stevenuniverse , try to arrange a fic crit exchange, where you read and critique someone's stuff and they do the same to you.

Getting good feedback is hard though. From the normal readership audience, all the feedback tends to be ultraturbopositive due to the tumblr sjwish attitudes prevalent in the fanfic scene, stating that being anything but supportive is being an ableist hater or whatever.

Of course, considering that everyone writing tends to be an amateur which is obvious in the quality of the prose, it'd be awful for all the teenage wannabe authors if people would deal out actual critique, and sure it's great that people are encouraged to write and no-ones perfect when they're starting out or young etc. I get it.

But still, I feel the blind praise maybe sometimes keeps people from developing, because writing predicatable smut-fluff with jewel-toned orbs, burning cores and breaths they didn't know they were holding gets OMG THIS IS BETTER THAN PUBLISHED BOOKS YUO ARE A GODDESS tier rave reviews - so it's easy to stagnate and keep doing what you know, instead of trying something new and risk not getting your praise fix.

And also it can make people unwilling to listen to anything even remotely critical, even if there'd be a good reason for it.

(delete-edit since I effed up the spoilers like a retard)

>>79150668
Oh well that's good too. Constructive.

>>79150667
My reactions in order
>Ah!
>Wow this is short.
>Ah!

can anyone give me any advice regarding formatting?
I mean, I know all those paragraph rules but I'd love to create some more space, a single line seems to be all I can do with FF.net
>it sucks

>>79150720
tab the start of each paragraph

>>79150483
>they're based off of author experience
Yeah, that's probably why they're so prevalent. People write what they know.

I don't know why but High Shcool AUs just seem kind of meh to me. Especially the ones with vast crossover casts, like this trend of writing Elsanna high school MAU with the romance couples of all other Disney films also attending the same school, everyone very OOC.
I'm sure it could be done well (maybe), but still, it just feels so, I don't know. Tired.

>>79148258
>Nobody I know really discusses it online or off.
people talk about it openly all the time on tumblr

>>79150741
that's what I'm doing,
I still only have one line
I could tab+enter all the way and in the end it would still only be one line

reminder that Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, as well as its sequels, can be found in books shops around the world

>>79150850
>>79150720
ff.net for some reason only allows the one empty line. I think it's due to people abusing blank space in their fics in the past.

The only thing I've thought of is putting a small mark, like . at the start of the line, then changing the paragraph again, so you'd get

.

this kind of space, which you can continue if you need the room. Or sometimes I've centred the period, or something.

Yeah it sucks. If anyone has a better way I'd like to hear it, too.

>>79150872
50 Shades of shit is also a Twilight fanfic with the names and some other details changed.

>>79150892
doesn't work and I'd hate to use the full lines

Fuck it, should I just post 'em?

>>79150681

The funny thing is I've gotten some feedback one one of 'em, they guy said he liked where it was going and that he'd keep an eye on it.

But he also mention that crossovers tend to have a smaller (which is understandable) reader-base because of the nature of crossovers themselves.

>>79144712
Noir AUs

crossovers of two franchises with the similiar themes, I'm tempted to do an Until Dawn/X-files fic at some point in the future

>>79150924
>doesn't work
Really?

I've been able to make more space with putting 3 ball symbols, •••, in the line and then centering that, pic related. I was under the impression the same thing would work with the period, too.

What about if you'd use more than one mark, but still not a full line? Like :: or --- and center that?

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>Have thread discussing some comic or cartoon
>Endless shitposting, meme, frogposting and bants
>Have a thread about fucking fanfiction
>Two long threads filled with nothing but discussion, content, critique and sharing of ideas and thoughts in a civilized manner

I don't know how to feel about this

>>79150964
What are they crossovering with? SU and which franchise?

I'd say post 'em. I mean with fanfiction the general quality is so all over the spectrum anyway you surely have nothing to be ashamed of.

>>79151136

One's a crossover between SU and Ratchet and Clank and the other's a crossover between SU and Kingdom Hearts featuring OCs because really hate writing dialogue for Sora, Donald, and Goofy.

Here's the SU/Ratchet and Clank one.
>http://pastebin.com/7KX3ygYc


And here's the SU/Kingdom Hearts one.
>http://pastebin.com/6S3wbWYu

>>79151129
Fanfic isn't cool or popular enough to warrant shitposting, I guess

>>79150483
>spoiler
y-you too

>>79130452
I'm reading dome right now.
I love reading so fanfiction is a fucking drug because its pretty much guaranteed that I'll be able to find a fic for my interest, no matter how niche or obscure.Plus there's no better feeling than when you find that fic thats novel length and beautifully written.

I really liked this one that's in Pacifica's pov.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8425485/1/Northern-Pines

But if you don't like /u/ , angst or Gravity Falls then don't bother.

>>79140619
Crappy harry potter fanfics on some message board. Got linked to FF.net and the rest was history.

>>79141336
Theres never one. There are millions, many of which have faded from memory. The perils of reading things made as a hobby, I suppose.
If I could ever get one fic updated, it would have to be Memory of a broken dimension. Fuck, that was my absolute favourite Pacific Rim fic and it stalled after four chapters, but those chapters are so good that I'm happy just to have that.

>>79151314
Fanfictions need more more /u/.

What is the fandom that produces the most autistic fiction? I mean what fandom in particular just cannot help themselves and develops the most badly written shit?

>>79152169

sonic

>>79152169
Probably whatever combines relationship drama and an early teenage fandom, so that you get 13-year olds writing about tragic love triangles.

If it's combined with magical elements, I'm assuming it'd be even worse.

Of course, the bigger the fandom, the greater the likelihood for awful shit.

So I don't know, Naruto? Harry Potter? Sherlock? Supernatural? Hetalia? Sonic?

>>79152169
while short lived, Onceler fandom was like a single condensed point of fandom autismo.

It only had one attractive pretty-boy so to get their fujo fix people shipped his naive impressionable self from the first half of the movie with his slightly older, slightly more selfish self from the second half of the movie

>>79152214
There are some good ones though. But it's like looking for a needle in a haystack and you have the "so bad it's good" ones.

I suggest you to try Variant Strain, a Spiderman/Prototype fic.

It surprisingly very good.

>>79130452
>>79130452
I read erotic fanfiction all the time.

I only write fetish shit for myself then delete it later.

>>79153098
Which fetishes?

>>79153098
Is there a better site to read erotic fanfic than adult fan fiction. It's basically become a gay site.

>>79153179
archiveofourown?

>>79153138
Cum eating and time stop.

>>79153179
archiveofourown org
asstr org
hentaifoundry also has a few good ones.

Most of the stories I remember reading on adult fan fiction have deleted by now.

>>79152372
omg i was in the onceler fandom! i always forget about it. it honestly wasnt that bad (not all of it at least lol). it introduced me to selfcest, which has been my favorite fanfic/art trope/fetish ever since

>>79141336
I have several, actuallyIf I should make a top 3, i would say:

-Muv Luv: another time into the loop. I love this fanfiction, but the autor has stopped giving a shit and now he's writing Rwby fics.
-Shinji and Wharhammer 40k: best Evangelion fic togheter with Shinji and the Doctor. Sadly, the author is now rewriting the fic instead of pulling out other chapter. He doesn't even do that on fanfiction.net, or on another fic website, but on a fucking forum; it's barely readable
- Harry Potter and the Natural 20:honestly, I think the author just died.

Honorable mention: Magical Relation (hp) I thought it was a dead think, but the author updated yesterday.

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>That Ranma joins the Xavier School fic

Oh Ranma, you work in any situation.

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>>79140619
Some pokemon one where Ash and Misty get handcuffed together and eventually turns into a lemon.

>>79141336
Gwen Tennyson's Alien Encounters by TheDeceiverGod

>>79144324
Pic related.

>>79153179
It's not that gay.

>>79153272
>Cum eating and time stop.
Can you explain that to me?

>>79153614
no

>>79141336
I'd rather a story be dead then be cursed to the fate of having a single couple thousand word update every few months.
Berserk and Hiatus x Hiatus give me enough of that, thanks.

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>>79153632
Please.

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>>79141336
>>79153717
>"I promise to update soon."
>It's bean 4 months

>>79151112
I will try that, thanks

>>79138374
Fanfic are like non-canon comics, a whole diverse range of people are writing about characters in already established continuities, like Marvel and DC, most of the original writers to most characters are dead, so we have people like Moore, Johns, Morrison, Loeb, etc. writing those characters instead, everything has been done before so nothing is original, mate.

>>79151314

Thanks for that; breddy gud. I really like Mabel/Pacifica and while there's lots of Mabifica fic, there's not much where they're the main pairing instead of being pushed into the background by the juggernaut. So I'm always looking for some.

>>79153875
>I promise to update soon.
>starts new fic

>>79154820
>It's an MLP story

>>79131551
>>79145046
There are people who still remember Mona the Vampire!

>>79141260
I had a similar experience.
I was 9 or 10 and on some Pokemon fansite that explained how to catch the various glitch Pokemon in R/B/Y when I stumbled upon one of the contributor's graphic fapfic where Gary rapes Misty in a public washroom. I was completely disgusted.

The only time I read a lot of fic I liked was when Lost and Fringe were on.

>>79144923
I know...you're talking about stupid/unbelievable ships.

Watching /co/ talk about fanfiction is one of the most cringe filled threads I've seen on this board.

>>79150843
I guess that just means I don't go on tumblr then.
I know /a/ has a stigma about it but I feel like I'm missing out on the good parts and bad parts, fanart, thrill, memes and fiction, since I'm not on there.

>>79150406
>no intense gross fetishes
>make it believable, or its shit to me

I agree.

>>79156200
Be quiet.

>>79156000
Thank god I was never around for ATLA's Zutara shippers.

>>79153179
Unfortunately, most of the well written erotic stuff is done by girls, so it's 90% homo. Males are more likely to draw their waifu in sexy positions/getting fucked, females write 20k erotic fics about their preferred male characters crying/loving/fucking.

>>79156681
But those two were made for each other.

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>>79152169
Not /co/, but Supernatural. Good lord, Supernatural. It has some really loony fans who are convinced the actors are secretly in love but have network-mandated beard marriages and are trying to signal their love to the true-believing fans, Paul Is Dead style. There is so much disturbing fic about the actors themselves (and sometimes their families).

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Tin_hat

It's also the fandom that gave us the Alpha/Beta/Omega Dogfuck Rapeworld plague.

I haven't watched the show since the first season but I love to watch the fan drama from outside.

>>79156757
That's the only advantage Yaoi has over Yuri.

>>79156761
here. we. go.

Don't really care though. I'm an Asami x Bolin guy myself.

>>79157063
Not Korra x Bolin like it should have been.
Shit taste.

>>79153717
Really? Better no updates ever again and an abandoned fic than an update every few months?
Why?

>>79150872
I love reading Jane Austen works, and I read that one too in my youth when that first came out. My only reactions were, this is kind of dumb.

Dude, is P&P one of the series that has more legitimately published/produced fanfictions or what? Bridget Jones, P&P&Z, Death Comes to Pemberley, Lizze Bennet Diaries, Diary of Mr. Darcy, etc?

Do you want ratio bad to good or just sheer amount?

>>79140619
hpmor
im a newfag on this shit.

>>79156799

As a big Yuri fan who likes to read fanfiction sometimes, this really sucks. Now, there are a small handful of fandoms where the Yuri offerings are decent or even dominate fanfic, Steven Universe and to a lesser extent Avatar comes to mind, but they're few and far between. It sucks.

Ironically anime where yuri fanfic dominates is more common than Western works but anime also produces less fanfic. Sigh.

>>79152372
>didn't know what the Onceler fandom was
>googled it
H O L Y S H I T. I don't know what I expected but it sure wasn't that.

I'm reading a really good kylo ren/rey slow burn fanfiction right now. The author updates once a week thoguh. I hate that

>>79157380
When did hpmor get so friggin popular even in the hp fanfiction world? It was certainly novel in the beginning, now its all drowned out to me, ever since I looked into more fanfiction? I mean it is well written but it has since then dragged on as most fanfiction are ne'er to do.

Is it the baby first fanfiction?

>>79157432
That's better than once every couple of months. God, you're spoiled.

>>79157398

The fact that there was only one character so they had to make Oncler X Onceler porn is fucking hilarious to me for some reason.

I laughed at the "Welcome to Tumblr" youtube video when it was mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-e4PgiVfM

"Let's just ship him with himself!" "LOSER."

>>79157467
or one every 1.5 years. Never knowing if it is every going to update. I say that's worse than a dead fic, because then the pain of expectation is already mourned.

>>79140619
I was on this Wikipedia and accidentally read a Hermione/snape fanfiction where he was a vampire. At first I didn't know what I was reading. Even years later i have nightmares about that fanfcition

I love reading fanfiction where the charcters have Facebook accounts and online chat rooms

>>79157447
Pretty much.
I mean the quality and the plot go well with all the people who have read Harry Potter a long time ago and find it now kind of dumb.

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Let loose the pigeons. Let the /u/ ships begin.

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>>79157447
I have no idea.
I could never get into it, isn't it one of those "explains magic with science babble with extremely mature minded Harry" type stories?
trying to take away the magic of magic with scientific explanations annoy me.

>>79157659
I hate Harry Potter with a passion you cannot begin to comprehend.

>>79157725
WTH. Its a book now too? Well I hope, it at least gets a good editor because that shit had so many problems.

>>79156757
I think there was something of a study on this, men prefer erotic pictures and women prefer theirs written (hence why Harlequin romance books are a thing).

>>79157432
>once a week
What's there to hate about that? It's an exemplary, very normal pace.

You mean you'd expect them to update even more frequently?

Have you ever tried writing anything yourself, btw?

>>79157752
Most likely it's self-published and not edited much at all, just laid out in book format with some nice illustrations perhaps thrown in the mix

>>79157533
Love and Bunnies? because that one takes bloody ages to update, yet there are 119 chapters.

>>79130452
I don't read any for the most part, but I have sort of been working on a Touhou one as of late.

>>79150617
Thirty Hs, easily.

>>79145864
I mean, just start it out with the MC doing something menial while you describe them. Never fails.

or do you mean you have ideas for later conflicts and just can't think of a good inciting incident?

>>79157447
It's essentially a weird sermon for the author's bizarre logic cult. He's a major transhumanistfag and claims to be working on some big secret AI project that he won't tell anyone about. Once you realize that, it loses a lot of its luster, and you notice that Big Yud really doesn't know how to write kids.

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>>79130452

I wrote a fanfiction about Captain America fighting in WWII.

He doesn't f Nazi Super Science or Red Skull, in fact he's the only super human in the world. He's sent to Italy to help break the stalemate at Anzio.

Throughout the course of the story, he realizes how, even with all his agility, strength and combat prowess, he's unable to make a big change in the course of the war because it's just too big.

He also becomes more isolated and disconnected from the men he's fighting alongside with, because they not strong or fast enough to keep up with him, and they die much easier than he can.
Coupled with the fact that his mind is not invulnerable to the effects of PTSD, he becomes more irrational and mentally unstable the more he stays in the fight.

I haven't finished it, nor have I showed it to anyone. I think I need to do more research on the battle of Anzio before I progress further on it.

>>79159404
It sounds pretty cool desu.

>>79159404
That sounds like a pretty good premise. I like that it's a more mental struggle rather than physical. Especially with a character like Cap.

>>79140619
Some Golden Sun shipping fics that they used to have on the wiki

This was surprising. I didn't expect a Bad Boys/Hannah Montana crossover.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4926444/1/CRASH

I'm not against smutfics if they have at least a modicum of believability.

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>>79159654
>>79159507

Thanks! I could elaborate more on it and share some of the writing issues I have about it if anyone's interested.

>>79130452
yes and yes
havent done it in a while but plan to get back to it
especially since a friend of mine would really like one

>>79131457
>without mary sueing or bashing
also without like 50 alternate universes rolled into one
>oh look its the genderbent omega high school orphans outer space pirates personality swap au

>>79159404
Meh, could be interesting. But even small unit actions had big consequences in WWII.

>>79160634
>>oh look its the genderbent omega high school orphans outer space pirates personality swap au

Never understood the appeal of this. If you change the environment and characters themselves so much they don't even resemble anything in the source material, why write fanfics at all?

I can understand AU's like 'what if The Avengers were vampires!?' but making them teenagers, completely changing their personalities around and putting them in the 1800 century on top of that? Man, just write your own characters then.

>>79134184

well, I'm writing it now.

>>79160717
They definitely did, but it's more focused on the point that Cap thinks he can have a bigger effect on the war than he actually does and the Army is holding him back.

Basically his power makes him egotistical.

The problem I always had with smutfics is that it seems like the author is having cybersex with himself.

>>79160932
That can apply to any author writing erotica and smutfics, it's usually to fill their own needs and fetishes. Almost literally fucking themselves.

>>79153595
Yes, it is. I'm struggling to find some new straight fanfiction for fucking Harry Potter, let alone for less known fandom, for fuck sake.
>>79153236
>>79153272
Thanks.

>>79140619
>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4774447/1/Ground-Zero
Left 4 Dead fanfiction adaptation, and it's sequels.
Starts off adapting original game, but as time goes on adds on some original stuff; yet by that time it feels earned, and it never goes that far out of the realm of possibility. Author also stopped updating at the exact moment it might have jumped the shark.

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>>79160777
EXACTLY
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How do I increase my attention span enough to write more then one-page smut?

>>79161405
By trying to write stuff that isn't more then one-page smut?

>>79160932
What do you mean by this?

>>79161486
Glorified self-insertion.

There is no power pack fanfiction in ff.net
fuck

I like writing dramatic smut. Something like "Velma feels conflicted about her lust for Scooby, but fucks Scooby anyway"

But feeling conflicted is the most important stuff.

>>79131942
Every time I see Gogo I think of linetrap.

>>79161559
Power pack? Sorry, I don't use FF.net(yet).

>>79130452
I only wrote fanfiction as a young teenager fresh out of puberty. Now I just do fanart, writing never stuck with me.

I still really enjoy reading fanfiction though- I'm not a fan of AUs or crossovers at all, I really enjoy seeing people take a world and adding more depth to something I already love. If it's OOC or set in a highschool for no reason, I really don't see the point of it being fanfiction- seems more like a lazy writer who doesn't want to have to explain their characters and environment.

>>79161643
AU seems like an easy way to get noticed, I guess.

>>79145647
So many great unfinished IZ fics, it kills me.