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*the question is also for letting someone share your fic in other ways, like podfics, as long as credit is given.

I recently got asked by a reader if they could translate my work and post it on another site (with it saying clearly that I'm the author) for other people have an opportunity to read it. They were very polite and I'm flattered by the question, though I haven't answered yet.

The only thing that makes me hesitate is that they want to post it on another site, but I'm not totally against it.

In general I'm very open to people using my works or transforming them, as long as I get credit. (Like another person who got permission to feature my fic on a podfic podcast).

I know some people hesitate to let others use their works to translate, make podfics, etc. No matter if you're mainly for or against it, I'd love to hear some people's opinions on the matter. Pros and cons, feelings about it, experiences, etc.

...when I read fic about healthy, intensely loving relationships in particular about two characters that i love because!! I want that!! But that's not it, that feeling is perfectly natural and rather common, I assume. The thing is i didn't use to feel this way when I was single, but now that I'm not, reading about these characters being loved in all the ways they need and all the ways I want just leaves me fucking yearninggg. Because the person i love doesn't love me like that!

(Rant over, sorry. This is only half-serious, really, I just needed to get it out.)

And it feels amazing!! Just finished and posted the second chapter to my Twitch Streamer/Kick Boxer AU for Animal Crossing. I can't wait to get into the thick of the plot and see people's reactions.

Referencing a post from two years ago because I am in need of good dick grayson centric fics. Im all out. Send whatever you’ve got. anything is appreciated.

I do always prefer angst fics, like in the original post but I am so fanfiction starved I will literally take ANYTHING.

This is the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/s/z7btxuTEUY

I wrote a sickfic recently and learned that putting someone in a cold bath when they have a fever isn't going to help them get better.

Hello all,

Just finished watching Grimm, and I loved it. I'm sure it had a fandom with active writers, but 2010 was a long damn time ago. I'm so late to the game, but do you have some recs for Grimm fic? I'll take crossovers too. Thanks!

I've got a pretty long fic I've finished (300K) with some kudos, and am starting another, and... I still feel like I've gotten basically no feedback on the finished one. And the one or two points of feedback are positive, even the story had some gaping flaws I fixed going back and reading through.

Even if it's just asking for "thanks, but no thanks," in the first chapter, is there specific phrasing y'all use to solicit feedback from visitors? Mostly on Ao3, maybe FF.net. This is a weird question, but I guess I'm trying to figure out how to ask without coming off as "needy"

Hi! Anybody have any recommendations for some GS Twilight fanfics? I know theres a lot out there, but I'm specifically looking for just Edward, Bella, and Jacob genderswapped. I want to leave the rest of the Cullens and wolves alone. Bonus points if the humans are genderswapped though, like Bellas friends or her parents.

Idk i noticed Emma Swan from Once Upon A Time was a police chief with the last name Swan, and it just gave me the idea of swapping not just Bella, but Charlie too. I know thats unrealistic, so i wont push for that particular genderswap, but i at least want the romantic interests swapped while leaving most of everyone else intact. Its just a bit too jarring for me to have EVERYONE changed.

Thanks in advance! 🥰

If, like me, you have been enjoying the Alphabet Challenge.  Then you want more!  The excerpt games keep me writing and I hope it motivates with your writing as well.  

I will be posting this challenge on Sunday Mornings / Pacific Time… because that day I need the most help to not think about Monday.

If you have stumbled into my game and are looking for more, remember to check out the Activities and Events flair for other writing challenges and fanfic swaps.

Here are the rules:

1.  The first word starts the game.  Once it is posted then you can use ANY letter from that word as the starting letter of your word.  Post your word in the top level comment.   Your word drives the next word to be posted… and so on.  

   Example:  LOVE  >>>>  VILE   >>>>  ELEGANT  

IF you cannot create something from the word posted.  Just start with a new word.  

1. Reply to any words that you like with an excerpt from any work you might want to share.  I don’t generally like word limits, so use your best judgment.  Enough to get the scene across but not so long that you lose your reader.  

2. Upvote your favorite words or excerpts.  We are all here to share and know how it feels to get a comment, so spread the love.  Leave a nice comment or at least a response if possible to those that post to your word.  

3. Want to see if your word has already been used?  Just click on the magnifying glass 🔍 in the search bar above with this post open and type in your word, then hit search (at the bottom).  Now scroll down.  If you see a green confused lizard and no comments then it has not been used.  Double check that someone did not just use it in an excerpt as every comment with that word will pop up.

Ganbatte!!  Do your best and I look forward to everyone’s excerpts!

Earlier last month, I made a draft on AO3 for the first chapter of my 200k longfic, which I have been working on for almost two years now. That draft will be deleted tomorrow, and I still haven't worked up the courage to hit post. I have a hundred worries in my mind, the main ones being 1: It's not as good as I think, and I'll go back and reread it and realize it needs to be rewritten (not helped by the fact that even now I'm still going back and changing things), and 2: I wrote about some very sensitive and heavy topics, and I'm terrified of getting it wrong. But I realize these are probably excuses, of which the actual, overarching fear is hiding behind: I'm just scared of putting myself out there.

I'm hoping that someone can give me the push I need to get out of my head and just post already. I really want to share my writing with my (honestly extremely chill, idk what I'm so worried about) fandom, but at this rate, it feels like I'll never be able to overcome my anxiety.

I've been trying to find fics to read for two of my fandoms that aren't that popular (600+ and 2k+ fics on AO3) and every time I find something with a good summary- there's at least one tag that triggers my distate. I'm not a fan of AUs like vampire or abo or soulmates (honestly, I just enjoy canon divergence and time travel) I see those, I run. But they're just so common! Authors write what they enjoy and they don't owe me anything but omg I can't lower my expectations and it's so frustrating! I would write my own if I could but these aren't really the easiest fandoms to write for. I'll need to do a lot of research if I try to write something that I'm looking for. Ultimately, it's a sad day being a fan of a less popular/busy fandom withers and dies

Hey all so I have been working off and on several works over the past 5 or so years each of them involves historical figures places and such (inspired by my love for GUP) has anyone seen any successful fanfics involving the blend of anime series with history. I’m curious cause I’m running into some issues blending the topics effectively.

The fic started with Naruto dying and being reincarnated as the son of Artemis. Naruto is renamed Naret/Narat/Neret [I don’t know the correct spelling] He was raised by one of Artemis’ sacred animals up until I believe the age of 8. Artemis introduces Naret\Naruto to the hunt. He trains with the hunters but before being able to join the hunt he had to kill some monster [don’t remember the name of the monster] The fic ends with Naruto becoming the first male hunter of Artemis.

I found it from a reddit comment-a series of short pieces following Cobra Commander as he travels through Rand's rather incoherent dystopia, contrasting his literal cartoon supervillainy with the supposed Heroism of a Randian hero. However, I can only seem to find the parts starting with II onward. Unknown if I'm allowed to link anything. Name is "Atlas Shrugged: The Cobra Commander Dialogues".

I write fanfics for series like My Hero Academia and Pokémon, and I'm wondering if I should explain stuff even if the viewers probably already know that information. Stuff like character appearances, the world they live in, setting descriptions, etc.

Good night, everyone. I am looking for a work that I haven't visited in a while and can't seem to find (the website is Ao3). On it, Orion Pax was Megatron's partner until he was assassinated by Autobots, before the Great War. As it turns out, they took his spark from his body and tried to create a soldier useful to their cause that resulted in Optimus Prime. During Soundwave's plot in "Human Error", he finds out the truth and shares it with the rest of the Decepticons and the Elite Guard when they arrive on Earth. Please, if anybody knows where is this work, let me know. It's a treasure I wish to re-read.

Anyone know what's going on with Tthfanfic? It's been down since early this morning. I checked the forums and there was nothing about it, so I waited for a couple of hours and checked again, and the forums have gone down too.

Have you ever written a fanfic where the narrator is not only canon, but undergoes character development through the very act of writing and reflecting on the story for the audience?

I'm writing a fanfic where the narrator was once the mentor and father figure of the main protagonist, and after death he's now duty-bound to chronicle the events of the unfolding new age. An immoral inaction he took in life due to his inability to confront the shame of a prior great failure he committed is ultimately what allows the plot to happen for the present living characters; they have to clean up the horrible mess he tried to sweep under the rug, which has since only festered.

In the prologue, he still can't emotionally bring himself to discuss his abdication of responsibility for his failure and the even greater atrocity it blossomed into, which keeps from spoiling the the plot hook from the reader (especially important since the reveal is supposed to be a horror element). However, compelled by both his obligation to record unfolding history in-universe as the protagonists discover the problem, and the metanarrative of writing the story for the reader, he has to force himself to finally face and work through his shame, relaying every explicit, sickening, heartbreaking detail to you alongside his emotional journey to accept the truth.

By the (planned) end of the plot, because the conclusion is ultimately positive (though still far from happy) and provides closure for the many people the narrator grievously hurt, the narrator also feels a sense of closure for his wrongdoing, grateful the protagonist he trained (and who ultimately succeeded him in his former living role) ultimately ended up being nobler than himself.

I can't wait to have more to share in greater detail.

I am in fandoms that has a predominantly sapphic audience. The ships within are of course mostly sapphic. However, I do have a few pairs that are m/f and people seem bash the m/f pair and their shippers. I understand some people who enjoy an m/f pair, especially if they’re canon, can be a bit much (I know first hand, trust me) but I still think as long as somebody isn’t hurting anyone, enjoying their ships is perfectly fine.

What is a ship you enjoy that a large portion of your fandom hates or just strongly dislikes?

For me, it’s Chad and Tara from the Scream movies. I know Tara’s mainly shipped with Amber, but I personally disliked her a lot. I loved Chad and Tara and would love to write fanfiction of them some day.

For the context, as my end-of-scholarity project, I write a small novel. The theme I chose was rewriting a myths and it's what i'm doing now. But the novel is only half of what we submit at the end of the allowed time (March 2025), we also have to write a preface to it and one of the subject we have to talk about in the preface is what got us into reading and writing, what we read and most importantly why these 2 things are related to our choice of theme (so rewriting the myths in my case).

Here's my problem: the main reason why i write and read, and also why i've been reading and writing my whole life is because of fanfiction. Now, in my coutry, fanfiction isn't very common (or at least it's not an officially widespread thing) and also, I'm scared that it would be deemed as unprofessionnal to be mentionning it as my main reason for choosing something so important. The thing is, my teacher told me (as a general rule, I didn't ask him about ff) that it's better to put a white lie than write something that won't look good in the preface. But fanfiction is a big part of my life, I don't really know what I would mention other than that.

My question is, what would you do in my place ? Would you talk about writing fanfiction in a school project even if it's relevent ?

I don't know if i make sense, I'm not an expert in school-related vocabulary as English isn't my first language. But if you have thoughts or any pro or cons arguments, I'm all ears!

I enjoy writing fanfiction, but one thing that keeps me from doing it more is the fact that it makes time pass so unbearably quickly. I start writing and, ah, two hours have passed. Repeat this a couple of times and the day is gone like that.

I don't know how to call this feeling, but I really hate it. I'm the type of people who feels good after making progress on several assignments/projects, so spending hours only on one thing and it making 16 hours feel like 6 is not my jam. Rip my wip.

I love robots. I love robots probably as much as I love dragons, so please recommend me stories featuring a great deal of a robot or robots with some sort of personality. It it's a bad robot, even better.

Any type of robot.

Any fandom.

No smut please.

I didn’t know this series had omakes! These series if fanfics are by far some of my favourites and to find out there is content I haven’t read yet excites me!

But I can’t find it anywhere so could I have some help please?

So I’ve read a lot of fics. But I seems like a lot of well written ones across different fandoms were abandoned in 2018. I know this is not uncommon and fic’s get abandoned all the time. It’s not a job and shouldn’t ever feel like one. It definitely feels like a lot were abandon that year. Why do think that is? What’s your opinion? Mostly just likely life getting in the way. Do you think there were a lot abandoned that year? If not, what year do you feel a lot of fic were abandoned?

I am a new writer and so far I have written 7k5 words for my fic. But with the current outline the story I want to write, my lowest estimation is that it will end up 100k+ at least. I am really inconsistent with keeping a hobby, let alone be able to pump out chapter by chapter until that mark. I tend to quit things before finishing them as well (like art for example).

How do you guys deal with this? How do you push through?

I'm reading a fantastic short story collection Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (definitely read it!) and one of the stories, entitled Especially Heinous, is essentially a Law and Order SVU fanfiction detailing increasingly absurdist and unhinged episode summaries. So, how did this happen? This is considered literary fiction but this particular short story wouldn't be out of place on AO3. Have you ever encountered a similar example of fanfiction in the wild?

Cause mine does. Usually I just need an idea and then my brain came up with a whole plit unraveling like a movie in my head way too fast for me to write it down as everything is happening and then when its over its just GONE. POOF Like it never existed to begin with Anyone else struggles with this?

It’s December 1st and that means the holiday season is in full swing! To celebrate, this game will focus on all the preparations we do to make sure the holidays are fantastic!

Rules

1. Post a comment or phrase related to something people do to prepare for the holidays.

2. If you have an excerpt that matches, post it in the replies.

3. Suggest a word, leave an excerpt and vice versa.

4. Don’t forget those comments and kudos and have fun!