/fanfic/ - Fan Fiction

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GO FUCK YOURSELF ASSFUCKNIGGERTITSFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK

>>287

Congratulations!

>>449

There are some fandoms/universes were not having any of the main characters readers are most familiar and invested in would be a very hard sale.

I think you’d easily get away with it in something like Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter – where the world is so big and developed and filled with characters it would be easy to explore in greater depth.

Ultimately I like the fics that deviate as much from canon as they can while still making sense

Both fics can be a really good reading if done alright.

When it diverges from the original story, the new plot has to make sense and/or to contribute with significant changes that the original story didn't have, otherwise it totally loses its meaning.

you can do both of them at the same time tho

>>379

I've found over time that I don't really care anymore how much the plot diverges from canon so long as it's coherent and not completely asinine, but what I really read fanfiction for is the characters. Whether it's expanding on the characters, or interaction between the characters, or exploration of the characters while exposed to differing situation, I can't read a fic anymore that does nothing with the characters.

Along the same lines but with slightly less intensity is my view on using the setting, but that might just be because most of the "fandoms" I have interest in have a vast potential for setting exploration/explanation that isn't too present in the source material.

I don't really care how much the plot sticks to canon so long as the characters and setting are used well.

Depending on the fandom of course, I do enjoy fics that focuses on minor characters and lets us see things from their perspective, and follow their exploits. I rarely find the main characters of a story to be the most interesting ones to follow.

These stories work if the universe it is set in is already large enough for it to be lots of things happening, and interesting characters that aren’t given nearly enough screen-time in favour of the creator’s vision.

>>442

what's SV?

>>442

what's SV?

>>447

Cancer. Have you fucking looked at the "internet trial" shit? That's even worse than SomethingAwful.

I prefer FFN for the larger userbase. And I can't really into AO3. I didn't know about the difference in userbase. I thought AO3 users were just a subset of FFN users.

>>456

I think you are right about there is a difference in certain fandoms. I mostly have been around the fandoms I'm interested on there so you may have a point is a fandom thing. I want to write a crossover, and one of them is… sigh, harry potter. Mostly because I kind of like the worldbuilding and I'm fond of some of its fanfiction out there, but the fandom is full retardation. The other one or two fandoms are pretty much small or dead and there is no fanbase worth of taking into account.

I liked ao3 because of its workskin feature. It lets you do some small tweaks with css. As far as I know, ff.net lets you use bold, cursive and underline as much.

>>458

I have the feeling it used to be/was supposed to be, but tumblr for what I saw won't stop talking about it as "the better ff.net" and I get the feeling it got filled with that kind of userbase. As >>456 says, however, could just be a fandom thing. I'm not really into that many fandoms when it comes to fanfiction.

Isn’t FF.net more likely to remove ‘adult’ stories? I think I’ve read some authors being worried about that in the past.

My biggest problem with FF.net is their reliance on Google scripts, and ‘robots.txt’, which makes it impossible to see past versions of the site with Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. AO3 also allows you to download stories as PDFs, which is nice if you’d want to preserve/archive stories.

>>459

Yeah, if you're writing in the HP fandom you're going to run into shit, however desu senpai from what I know the HP fandom is shit pretty much wherever it manifests, so even on ff.net you'll be swimming in fecal matter. ao3 is worse in general than ff.net from a community standpoint, but in this case it's not "shit v. not shit" it's "dry shit v wet shit".

>>461

From what I know ff.net only really removes lewds if they contain some less-acceptable elements, such as involving minors, being excessively violent, or being extremely explicit at length, and even then it's usually only a chance it'll happen.

>>461

Thanks for pointing that out about ff.net and its robots.txt, I didn't know.

And I heard about ff.net removing explicit stories too at some point years ago. Wasn't that why they created sites like adult-fanfiction.org ?

Any idea if ff.net keeps doing that nowadays tho?

>>462

I get your point. Guess it's inevitable. Gotta deal with it. Like I kind of already expected to deal with shit from that fandom but I still can stand the casual so cool and random xD default retardation from there, is the tumblr branch that kinda scared me after seeing some fics tagged on ao3 with stuff like nonbinary, demigender, demisexual and that kind of tumblr buzzwords. Lucky I think there aren't as many of that kind of fics (and people) as I thought at first.

>>452

wait, so you only read chapters 1-8 of 44?

Which fic?

>>453

This one: http://archiveofourown.org/works/992242

Even the guy who saved the fic and uploaded it to the site seemed to get that chapter eight is where the story appears to take a nose dive.

I’ve tried moving onto to chapter nine, but it mainly deals with the aftermath of what happened in chapter eight that made me stop reading it.

>>454

Goddammit. Now I just remembered how delectable Alice's actress was. No way am I imagining her with KStew.

Also….600 THOUSAND words. Goddamn. This shit is longer than the actual Twilight, isn't it?

>>460

Don't like current KStew but I loved (wanted to bang) her in Panic Room.

>>434

in that case, yeah. haven't published them formally online though. Just…snippets of stuff.

Bondage/bdsm/torture guy, major fetish is crucifixion. but totally not into gore/snuff. so it's a delicate balance.

>>437

Farting is one of those "I really don't get" etishes.

>>439

Fetishes in general scream that. There was this guy with a fetish for floor tiles.

>>441

I remember that thread cap.

This would probably be cheating, but

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4023068/1/THE-MARIO

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11744752/1/Mind-Rape

holy shit.

Complete one semi-minor (20-40k words) fic, complete another one. Maybe get four chapters done on my main one. ;_;

I'm going back to finish I fic I left dead and rotting for two years.

>>430

which one? or what fandom?

>>432

I never considered anime before when looking for fics. Now I gotta check.

>>412

anything would be cool, actually.

>>413

Ok, I'll take a look then

>>413

Hey, sorry how long it took me to get back to you until now. I went through some of your stuff, and in all honesty, it's all really good. I wouldn't change much of anything, tbh. Perhaps the one criticism I have for you is to just watch some of your punctuation (mostly comma usage), but other than that, like I said, I wouldn't change much of anything that you've done. Hope this was some help to you. :)

OP here. I feel like this thread was a good idea in theory, but unfortunately I just don't think it's going to work out for several reasons, all of them undisclosed because they're my own personal issues. If anyone wants to take over this thread and fill my role then go right ahead, but as for me, this is my last post here. I'm sorry for wasting your time, especially to the first (and so far only) anon in this thread.

>>418

Thanks! I've realized that is one of my major pitfalls - especially when quoting/using the single apostrophes for quoting within dialogue, etc. I'm always unsure where to put the period. :/

>>403

self-insert != bad character automatically.

So long as it's an actual character with real/believable traits and decent characterization that's treated semi-realistically by the fic then it's not bad by default.

Let random people on the internet read it if you don't want people that know you to recognize yourself in your OC.

And at least there's therapeutic value in shittily self-inserting. Kinda like daydreaming, only in a more permanent and revisit-able way.

>>404

Nice ERROR GET!

On topic: Would a self insert in a crackfic be inherently shit? because that is how I write 95% of my fanfics. Except for my Brave Little Toaster fanfics, that is

>>406

>dat Toaster pic

Best reaction face ever.

I'll post a link of my fanfics later, they're in Dutch, though.

>>408

Here: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4544301/

The Goes to Mars fanfic is still a WIP and it will be for the time being, if not forever. The To the Rescue fanfic is finished and I am gonna update it one last time.

>>356

I've had an account since the site started, I got a credit for it in middle school English. I can't get back in now though dammit

I hope that the numerous tie ins don't piss everyone off so bad…

(Mah main page)

http://archiveofourown.org/users/TheGreatShiniGami

(Love and Justice in Osaka)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/682698/chapters/1252553

(And my HP work: A Glance Askance)

http://archiveofourown.org/series/218873

Warning: I'm slow to write and post; but I think that if I had more interaction on my material, I could speed that up.

This one isn't exactly fanfiction, but it does have characters from other works. Please be aware that this story was originally a joke. Also, no, I'll probably never finish it, especially not if I go through with my original plan for it to be novel-length.

>>415

Shit, forgot the link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3921814/chapters/8781490

>>402

Find a Frozen fanfic titled "Operation Fimbulveter" or something like that. totally no liberal bullshit there.

>>402

I wish pol stayed on their fucking shitfest of a contaiment board.

You guys truly are the right wing tumblr.

>>387

I HATE THAAAAT.

Worst of all.

FIRST PERSON PRESENT TENSE.

>>388

>>293

Personally I think second person present tense is marginally worse – anything in second person really.

First person & second person present tense are definite deal-breakers for me.

Also:

* No sense of spacing/formatting the text, usually taking the form of a massive wall of text

* Lengthy author's notes at the beginning and end of chapters

* Original characters, often taking the form of self-inserts

My only green flag is having to look up the definition of a word whilst reading a story. If the author uses a rich and varied vocabulary that tends to show a certain degree of writing skill as well.

>>391

second person in fanfiction is and will always be shit; I've have in all my years of reading fanfics never seen it done well even once.

OCs are more of a yellow flag than a red one, if they're just used as filler characters to expand the setting or fill tertiary roles in the fic then they're usually alright, but if they start taking attention and massive amounts of time from canon characters then 9/10 times they're annoying as fuck.

>>393

>I've have

I'm a faggot, kill me.

While I'm still here:

>>391

>having to look up the definition of a word whilst reading

Maybe I'm just more literate than most, but I've never had to look up a word found in a fic that wasn't foreign. I can imagine it being not that fun though; wouldn't it break the flow of the writing considerably, especially if you had to do it multiple times?

>>394

>Maybe I'm just more literate than most, but I've never had to look up a word found in a fic that wasn't foreign. I can imagine it being not that fun though; wouldn't it break the flow of the writing considerably, especially if you had to do it multiple times?

English is not my first language, technically my fourth – sorta – and I didn't even get that good grades in English at school. I think the main reason I now can speak, read and write it somewhat decently is due to getting access to the Internet pretty early on ('99), and being exposed to mostly English TV shows and movies.

Also, reading a lot of Lovecraft & Poe with their antiquated English has helped me me pick up a lot of dated words and phrases.

It sorta breaks the flow, but it doesn't take long to look up a word on Wiktionary, and I'm really into understanding and picking up new words. I even have a small notebook dedicated to writing down dated and less common words I come across and might want to use myself.

I don't think I've had to look up a word more than twice in one story at most, so it doesn't happen all that often any longer.