So, after years of avoiding it, I recently decided to embrace the wonderfully horrific world of fan fiction. What would you say are some of the best fanfics of all time you've ever read? What's the worst? How many were actually finished? (Doesn't necessarily have to be Sup Forums)
Next part is spoilered because it's just my boring analysis on what I've read so far. Over the last few months, I've read roughly a few dozen or so fan fics, and out of what I've read, to be completely honest, I'd say that: 10% was amazing 20% was pretty good 20% was decent 35% was mediocre 15% was complete dreck
Of course, the reason I haven't read that many bad ones is both because I haven't read too many and I know to avoid something if I can tell it will be horrible, for example, I'm not going to read a fanfiction called "[Character]'s Big Butt Farting"(yes, that was an actual fanfic someone made) With over half of all of those being unfinished, something I noticed happens a lot.
there are some good ones try looking on the tvtropes recomended fanfic list for the series you're intrested in. a lot of them are bad and put there by the author for self promotion but average quality of the fics in the list is a lot higher than what you'll find just browsing through the ff.net archive
Colton Jenkins
I find it so hard to find good fanfiction that I rarely read it tbqh.
I don't know if I just expect too much but I don't read anything that has: >non canon shipping/yaoi or yuri shipping >characters acting ooc >If the summary reads "I'm not good at summaries but please read" I won't even give it a chance >If hell exists my personal hell would be, to be forced to read "High School AU" versions of [show] for eternity. >first person point of view is never good. The author almost nevers captures the character correctly but is instead self inserting as the character and voicing their own opinions and how they would act. >Any "M" rated fanfic where the sex scene has the guy having an 18 inch dick with unlimited stamina or the girl being a virgin yet taking penis like a champ. This is especially important because most people have no idea how to write sex scenes as they focus on the lust and their constant need to one up the level of arousal (resulting in unrealistic sex scenes) instead of focusing on the sensuality of the sex scene. This is the difference between a Michael Bay movie Vs. A Tarkovsky >cliches (girl is married off, runs away, becomes evil, etc etc)
And last but not least, the absolute bane of ALL fanfiction >OC's
Mason Foster
Refinated?
Aaron Fisher
I blame Fanfics as one of the big reasons why I'm was socially inept through high school and have an undefinable quirk.
Joshua Clark
>First thing is a disclaimer >Second is song lyrics Generic FF opening. >Fucking They Might Be Giants >Posting Tmbg lyrics unironically > Stomp box of all songs, a barely audible mess of sounds meant for Tmbg to have fun with. Yeah I can't do this user.
that first is definitely you having too high of standards, a lot of the best fanfic involves non-canon shipping and/or yuri(although yaoi almost always ends up awful for some reason)
Luke Mitchell
>Doesn't necessarily have to be Sup Forums Where do you think you are?
Aaron Ortiz
you can also check out spacebattles' creative writing section they're not all winners but the quality of the fics there is a lot higher than the ones in fanfiction .net. if you liked worm the author has a list of fanfics on his site some of the fics on th list and the index he linked on that page are pretty good. parahumans.wordpress.com/fanfiction/
Connor Myers
>Scoot Summers >It's pure pansy! >Arch of Trumph >“Oh mon h?ros!!!!” she huged Wolverine so firmly and affectionately. >"what in god’s name is going on" bolded and in huge text
I've read this so many times and I crack up every time.
Ian Baker
OP here:
>non canon shipping/yaoi or yuri shipping Same, I'm pretty vanilla when it comes to shipping, only really supporting the canon ones.* >characters acting ooc Ditto >If the summary reads "I'm not good at summaries but please read" I won't even give it a chance Those are usually super short or half finished, I give it a very quick skim of the first chapter and decide from there. Of course, that only happens rarely because, get this, the sunmary doesn't entice me enough to read it. Usually I drop it. >"High School AU" This, so VERY much >first person point of view is never good. Once again, I agree.* >Any "M" rated fanfic where the sex scenes are unrealistic I hate these, always skip them. >cliches Same >OC's Couldn't agree more. An OC is okay if it is a minor background character used to move the story along, like a shop vendor, but any greater is horrible.
Another thing I really hate is the "a group of friends find themselves transported into the world of the series" schtick, never giving that one a chance.
*One fanfic I have in mind is actually one of the best ones I've read, and is both technically in first person and has a non canon pairing. The first person works because it isn't REALLY first person, just every instance of that character's name outside dialogue being replaced with "I" or "me". Secondly, the pairing is only a minor focus of the story, and is worked up slowly and realistically overtime from where their relationship is in canon, which is only kicked off because of the life altering situation the main character finds themself in, all while managing to stay in character. It certainly helps that it was truly a result of the natural progression of the story and not the author inserting their dumb opinions, seeing as even the AUTHOR didn't support the pairing. Any other time, you're right, though.
And no, I'm a tad bit embarrassed to say the name of the fic, it being Sup Forums among other reasons.
Ryan Fisher
What was that thing authors threw in there summary along the lines of >Don't like, Don't read, Don't review
Those authors back then got so butt hurt over nothing. Sup Forums makes Tumblr seem the most sensitive bitches to ever graze the Internet.
Tyler Harris
>after digging through mountains of shit you finally find a good fanfic >find out that the story isn't finished and the author vanished years ago >you'll never ever get an ending
I don't read a lot of fanfic, mainly because I only look 'em up related to ships I like, and most shipping fics are pretty bad. I can't stand ooc behavior or implausible plot developments that move way too fast (Ooh we're enemies! But you're just so hot! Let's fuck right now!").
I do feel there must be some real gems there somewhere, and I did read one pretty nice fic for a ship of mine, but of course it hasn't updated in nearly a year.
Hunter Diaz
M8, fan fiction is all about selfish wish fulfilment. Before you can start asking people for reccomendations you have to figure out what you want. You wanted that one bad guy to become a good guy? There's a fic of that. You wanted theb heroes to go to that one place? Theres a fic of that. You wanted those two characters to end up together? I guaran-fuckin-tee theres a fic of that. Get greedy lad, get in touch with your most selfish desires.
Jace Ramirez
I spent a whole lot of highschool reading fanfiction.
Mostly Naruto or FLCL or other animes (and mostly lemon)
Half of it was due to the fact my PSP had a web browser that couldn't even handle a .gif But pages of text? NO PROBLEM So I'd usually have all 3 PSP tabs with a page of down fanfic I was reading and have something to read during class.
Some of it was pretty good.
Grayson Jenkins
Any piece of fanfiction that's actually, genuinely good could just replace the canon characters with original, similar characters, thus turning into its own original story.
But fanfiction is rarely good (if ever) so it has to ride on the existing fandom that already exists for these shows.
Landon Wilson
I usually go through fanfiction binges when I find myself following a series I get really invested in. It all started with Kingdom Hearts long ago, when I was in middle school and that was brief but still set me on a path down degeneracy. Then it was Homestuck. I never looked for original stories, just shipping shit. Otherwise if any show has any smutworthy potential I look up some written stuff but its often in very underwhelming amounts and quality.
Ao3 is pretty great for finding exactly what you want to find.
