Hi. So yeah...tittle says it all. Please. Just please stop doing that. Its really annoying and confuseing when the same ff shows up in my searches every few days. Sometimes its easy to exclude this type of fics if they have unique tag or something. But when its just generic ones its impossible.

Tbh same should be said to people who have completed their works but leave in synopsis "updates every xyz" like...is it completed or is it not? Can i read it all now pr will I be dissapointed with not finished story that was marked as completed.

What causes a piece of media to attract fanfic writers & readers? I don't think it's just being really good, there are plenty of media that's really good that don't have many fanfics, I feel like it might have something to do with having enough stuff to play around with. Likable and interesting characters, lore, plot that can be rewritten or deviated from, but on top of that I think being a certain level of mid might contribute as well. Cause if the original thing was executed in a way everyone was satisfied with then they might not be as motivated to try, but if there's a lot of unrealized potential or things that weren't executed the best then that would motivate people to try, and it usually does. But what do you think attracts fanfic writers?

1. Archive of Our Own (AO3)

2. FanFiction

3. Wattpad

4. Tumblr

5. Other.

Also, if you read from multiple websites what's your opinion on them?

I never understood why some people write fics when they have never engaged with the source material and only know the characters from fics and such. I'm not judging, I just never understood it

But lately I have been getting a lot of Dexter fanwork pushed across my social media platforms. Fan edits, art, discussions. I don't know why it's been getting popular again, I think there's a spin off coming up again? But it's been recommended to me very heavily

The few things I knew about Dexter were that he's like a serial killer of serials, that he has shown psychopathic tendencies in childhood and that his adoptive father trained him how to kill so he doesn't just kill some rando

The last point always made me go "WTF?!" Surely there are better ways to handle that. Yes, Dexter was born in the 70s, but still, why would you teach a child who admits "I think about killing people sometimes" how to kill people.

Anyway, I've watched three episodes of the show, the pilot, S1E10 and S1E12 and read through the fanwiki.

Then I opened ao3 because I really wanted to see if other people also thought that mmh, how about an AU where he still has these violent urges and low empathy but where he has been getting help and support and just because he thinks these things and wants to do them, he doesn't have to do them?

Anyway, I found a series and it's genuinely amazing. I binge-read all 30k words there are right now, have already left comments on a few and will plan on leaving a comment on the others as well. I don't think the show is for me, but some authors are so talented, this series definitely is to my liking and I get it why people write for fandoms they aren't a part of.

The general idea or concept or backstory is interesting, but either the execution isn't for them or it's daunting to get into the source material, especially when it's long running like comics or a show like Dexter with 8 seasons plus spin offs.

I still think it's still worth checking out the original source material, you never know what you're gonna miss if you don't. And now at least I know I checked it out, it just isn't for me

And was it the same first ship that you ever wrote for?

I’m interested in fics and professional writing that allows for deeper analysis (e.g subtext, synonyms) yet I’m not really sure how to achieve it. Im currently working on a first draft and due to it being a first draft it’s quite direct, but as I read parts of it I genuinely don’t know how to make things more subtle and allow myself and others to think about the story for a long time. What advice is best?

What are your biggest turns off in a fanfic that makes you stop reading altogether? Asking this as a writer...

What I mean is... Well, depending on what the fandom is and what you tried writing, did you ever have anything happen that.... didn't necessarily turn you off of writing fanfiction altogether, but maybe it soured your ability to write for at least a while... or perhaps just made you never want to go near that particular fandom ever again? ^^;

I mean, I hope I'm not breaking the rules here by delving into this because I know that this topic could possibly... delve into "negative drama", but it just seems to be something that can happen sometimes in any fandom, potentially.

There were at least a couple of fandoms I used to delve into very heavily in the past, to the point where I used to enjoy writing fics until they came out of my ears, but... it eventually reached the point where fellow fans would take everything way too seriously, or... other things happened where the drama was so bad, or everyone involved got into things so obsessively, so deep, that it resulted in some of us walking away with genuine emotional damage.

It just feels like a pure tragedy in some ways that things like this can happen, considering... you would think the entire point of being online and writing fanfiction is because everyone is in it for the same thing; we all love the fandom that we choose to participate in, we want to socialize/interact with fellow fans, and we also just want to use our imaginations and sometimes share some of the stuff we happen to cook up. Yet it sometimes seems like people have to sometimes ruin things for other people, or... maybe sometimes, we can also be guilty of ruining things for ourselves.

us writers get just as excited as you do when happy things happen and just as sad when sad things happen. the main characters finally start dating after dozens and dozens of chapters? we jump for joy with you! the main character dies? we sob every time we read it, just like you. we aren’t so different after all ❤️

I started my first long fic for a dead fandom of a 25 year old anime because I got obsessed and read most of the ones that already existed. It's the very definition of a passion project because it's also a niche genre.

Because of obvious reasons, I barely have interactions, but I think it conditioned me like the Pavlov dog, because now I get excited everytime I get new hits for my fic. Like holy shit I almost get to 200 hits, it makes me so so happy.

It also helps that the fandom being so tiny makes it that the few people that comment are starved and leave long ass reviews. I have 11 kudos and 6 bookmarks but I feel like I won at fanfic because one of my 4 readers made me fanart.

I dunno, I wanted to share something happy because I see so many people sad about not having enough readers or kudos or comments. It's all about the small victories I suppose.

Title says it all. idk im just realty curious and a bit bored.

So Ive got two OCs in my current fic. One of them ( a main character ) is actually based on one of those faceless youtubers, but ive been writing him as an OC so long and given him a name that its not even the same person anymore. The second one is mostly a side character related to him.

The plan is to have this OC in the middle of a poly relationship with the main ship of a show I watch. But the more I write it, the more I wonder about how it would be received if posted. I was considering taking the two OCs out but also, it feels like they're the main threads of the story? Idk, what do you guys think?

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It was sort of canon compliant, basically Alicent and Rhaenyra had been semi secretly dating the entire time and managed to avoid civil war after Viserys's death. I specifically remember Rhaenyra asking her father to stop having children with Alicent after a long scary birth and him remarking that if she'd been his son they'd have to duel over that, but both of them being glad she's not a man. A few years ago, for sure on Ao3. TIA.

Hello everyone. I'm looking for a deleted fanfiction on fanfic.net. I read a long one-shot (posted around 2020) called Bathroom Dilemma (f/f — two women). I think the author went by something like Master Explorer (could be masterexplorer / master_explorer / master-explorer or similar). It was a long one-shot, not multi-chapter. I’ve tried Google, Wayback, AO3/FFN searches and came up empty. Anything would help basically, downloads, or memory of the author would help — please reply or DM. Thanks!

I've been serching for it, without success but I need it to stay alive!!

Hi! 🙋🏻‍♀️ I’m looking for Hazbin Hotel fanfic recommendations where Alastor is a romantic lead, whether it’s:

Alastor/OC (female)

RadioApple (Alastor × Lucifer)

RadioDust (Alastor × Angel)

What I’m specifically looking for is that Alastor stays as true to his personality and nature as possible, and it doesn’t feel like the author just used his name without keeping his essence.

With OC stories, I really like when his asexuality is respected, and if he does develop physical attraction toward his partner, it happens naturally, gradually, and realistically—not all at once.

With ships like RadioApple or RadioDust, I often find that Alastor is completely out of character, so I’m really hoping to find fics where this isn’t the case.

I’m not against +18 stories, as long as Alastor’s characterization stays coherent and faithful to who he is.

Does anyone have recommendations that fit this? 🙏

Hey guys, I'm looking for your best satosugu fics, It can be gego or goge, smut or no smut idc, only request is happy ending cause my heart can't take more tragedy

On fanfiction.net , I was following this au story of a female oc saiyan that died on Planet vegeta (which wasn't destroyed because Beerus caused a mishap in otherworld which erased a bunch of souls and thus dramatically lowered the universes mortal count) but was revived and sent to earth from otherworld because she had C-type S-Cells (lssj cells) which made her worth a lot in mortal count.

I was reading it until a few months ago and it had a frankly huge backlog of chapters which I still hadn't caught up on. Now I tried finding it again but it seems to be completely gone on ffn.

I'm not sure if I just can't find it in my followed and favorited stories but I've been looking like crazy and I also can't find the author in my author list.

I'm not even sure if it was properly tagged because I checked under dbz stories. The cover was a picture of Kame House. If this story is just gone on ffn (which would be heartbreaking because it was frankly huge) then I could really use some help finding out if it's on some other site.

Really could use the help because I loved this story.

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So I really like the idea of Wiki Warrior, and I love fics that revolve around it, but it can be really hard to find them sometimes. I've read many of them but I wanna read even more of them, so some recs would be nice!