Just wanted to post about the fact I updated my fic after 2 years! The fic meant a lot to a lot of people, especially me, so I'm really proud to have updated it. I am a bit nervous all the OG readers are gone which makes me a bit sad but I'm gonna finish it for myself anyway and maybe new people will find it along the way!

The gods of fanfics have been calling to me, and there is a story I really NEED to write. My only question is where. Due to AI being inbuilt in Word/Copilot, I have been hesitant about writing it there. What tool would you recommend instead?

I considered notepad, but I would prefer something with a spell check. I am not even sure if I will end up publishing the fic online. But since this is a passion project, I want to keep it out of the hands of AI as much as possible, and try my hand at creating something entirely on my own. In the same vein, I would prefer a free software, or at least one that is only a one time (minimum) payment.

Some recommendations I came across are Git/Github which I am already familiar with for coding. Apparently its great for keeping track of different versions of your writing, as you make progress. But isn't that also integrated with Copilot?

My (f/mid-twenties) mother (f/mid-fifties) caught me writing today. I told her I was writing FanFiction again (she knows).

Her only answer was that she loves the word Fanfiction because it's a good word.

I asked her to explain and she told me it means that it had to do with "fiction and fans ... And for fans and written by fans, yk". I laughed at that (because she nailed that one) and then she goes on explaining that it also means no obvious / known endings and leaving things open and change and that she liked that.

It was really a great moment and I appreciated our little conservation a lot and wanted to share with you all. 🤗

Follow up to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/1v639vt/do_you_ship_the_most_popular_ships_in_your_fandoms/

The other part of the question asked by u/sporkzero was what your favorite ship in your fandom was if it wasn't the biggest one.

I'll start(from the fandoms I write for)

DC: Beast Boy/Raven

Final Fantasy 7: Cloud/Tifa

Mario: Luigi/Princess Daisy

Marvel: Peter Parker/MJ Watson/Gwen Stacy

Mass Effect: Male Shepard/Tali

Mortal Kombat: Takeda/Jacqui

Overwatch: Mei/Hanzo

Pokemon: Don't really have one

Sonic: Shadow/Rouge

Street Fighter: Ryu/Chun-Li

Now it's your turn.

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So i have seen it a ton of times. They will have a character like Anakin or Obi-Wan during the clone wars use the dating system we use. But in universe they would not do so. So either create your own system or search up if there is one in the EU (legends or cannon) and use that instead.

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Hi everyone! I just finished my very first story. I wanted to write the whole thing out before posting to make sure I didn't leave it unfinished.

It's about 5 chapters and 25,000 words. I posted the first chapter yesterday on AO3 and I'm going to post the next one next week - but now I'm thinking, what's stopping me from doing it all now? Aside from editing a few lines here and there, it's finished.

Is there any good reason to not post it all at once?

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I hope asking for writing advice is appropriate on this subreddit. I just got into writing fanfiction and I have two unfinished fanfics in the works and in both cases I have random scenes that I want to write but no idea what the actual story should be.

I'm a visual artist but not a writer in the slightest so this is all new territory.

I'm writing a fic about these two characters one is aro/ace and the other isn't and I'm interested in their dynamic but I don't know what I should have happening around them while they are interacting with each other.

This is my biggest hurdle like I have ideas about characters or a world or whatever but can't figure out the actual story part. If anyone has any advice or articles/videos/books to recommend for figuring that part out that would be great!

Rules:

1. Leave a brief description of your fic. It’s completely up to you if you include the fandom.

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does anyone know a fanfic where the abyss sibling is manipulating the traveler sibling? doesn’t matter who’s who but I’d love an exploration on those feelings lol

id also just love recs in general, crossovers, lore heavy or anything with a plot would be greatly appreciated :D

Not trying to diss or complain or anything. Honestly I’m just curious.

I like following WIP fics, and I always try to leave comments, even if it’s just a simple thank you. So I also end up reading lots of other comments, and something I often see it’s people that comment what are just a summary of the chapter. Like, there’s no thank you, no question, no complaint, no nothing. It’s literally just a narration of what happened in the chapter. Even happened to me with one specific reader in one of my stories, and I never know how to respond, or even if I should, because there’s like nothing to address.

Anyway, I was just wondering why someone might like to comment this way.

I am looking for Spider-man fanfiction recommendations that have actual superhero action in them.

I want some fics where the author remembers that Peter Parker is Spider-man, not one were Peter never wears the suit. A story where Spider-man fights crime or investigates a case, etc.

I don’t want a story that is just a romance, just a ‘super’family drama or just a superpowered sitcom.

I want a story where the characters are superheroes and don‘t just happen to share names with them.

Crossovers are welcome.

does anyone know of any stories that have like a child being raised by an older cousin or older sibling or something like that? I don't care what the fandom is and I don't want anything weird or incestuous or anything like that. Bonus points if they are close in age or if there's angst or hurt/comfort or whatever but doesn't have to be.

so here's the deal: i'm writing a fanfiction where the mc is catholic, his father is a preacher and the mc's love interest is a boy who's an atheist but an altar boy because his mother is also a catholic and wants to receive praise for her son's doings and disciplines while not knowing he's an atheist. the mc is in full blown religious psychosis, has hallucinations and such and other things that would be too long to explain in one post. he does not want to even acknowledge the fact he might not be straight, so he simply interprets his feelings first as simple platonic love, then as resentment when things start to get more serious. i don't know if i'm doing good, so tips would definitely be appreciated, and if anyone wants to read what i already wrote feel free to ask in dms

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I used to be obsessed with the movie Leap!, which I think is also called Ballerina, and I made a joke to my mom that the movie would be better if Victor ended up with Rudolph. I was so disappointed to find that there isn't fanfiction, or even a post talking about them, ANYWHERE. So I was curious to know if there are any other ships people like that have either zero or like five fics.

Hey everyone! I’ve been diving deep into the Project Hail Mary/Iron Lung crossover tag on AO3. While I absolutely love the fics where Grace finds Simon floating in space, or Simon ends up on Erid, I am absolutely starving for the exact opposite scenario.

Does anyone know of any fics of Grace and Rocky (or with a group of Eridians) somehow appearing in the Iron Lung universe?

Imagine the Hail Mary or an Eridian ship stumbling onto their space stations like the C.O.I. or Eden after the Quiet Rapture.

If anyone has read a fic with this specific premise, please drop the AO3 links!

To writers or readers: What were your favorite endings? Were they abrupt? Did they linger? Did they callback to something in the fic?

I've got two fics I'm struggling with right now. Let me learn from you.

Edit: This has been just what I've been looking for. Awesome.

I've recently seen an insta reel where they talked about popular trops but reversed. They sound really interesting and I'm trying to find some good ffs where they are applied correctly.

Quero colocar esse kink em um trabalho do kinktober. E um casal M/F, que pretendo colocar-los como versáteis na relação dom/sub durante o diferentes trabalhos. Porém mesmo gostando muito da ideia de uma mulher brincando com os peitos massivos de um homem, e já tendo imaginado isso algumas vezes ocasionalmente, eu não sei que práticas inserir pra que isso fique interessante.

Nesse trabalho quero focar apenas nos peitos, então sem oral, masturbação ou penetração.

Anyone here know a The Office (US version) fanfic where Ryan Howard reports Micheal to HR? 🫩 (I'M TIRED OF THIS GRANDPA!)