I really, really hate fan fiction.

[Pikimon]

I'd like to think my fanfiction about Chris was half-way decent.

 

[spaps]

 

[Saney]

I like fanfiction, if it's good, then I have something entertaining to read. If its bad, then sooner or later it shows up at Project AFTER or Das Sporking (and formerly FanFiction Friday...fuckin' io9), then I have something entertaining to read. It's win-win!

 

[Plissken]

Fun fact, the term mary sue came from a harry potter fanfic, in which a character named Mary Sue outshined Harry Potter in every aspect, making him play second fiddle. I'll never understand the appeal of fan fiction, it may be a nice fantasy to write, but I never understand the people who read them and like them, because they are almost always shitty, self-insert fantasies.

 

[Saney]

Fun fact, the term mary sue came from a harry potter fanfic, in which a character named Mary Sue outshined Harry Potter in every aspect, making him play second fiddle. I'll never understand the appeal of fan fiction, it may be a nice fantasy to write, but I never understand the people who read them and like them, because they are almost always shitty, self-insert fantasies.

I thought it came from a Star Trek fic?

 

[Judge Holden]

I think I know what the thread maker is angling at. There are a disturbing number of people who are deeply obsessed with various fanfics and react with shrieking and tearful melodrama whenever anyone speaks ill of them, and they tend to be the most insane subgroups of the various fandoms around. Back in the "MLP is the BEST THING EVER!!!" era i noticed an unsettling habit of many such people to take to tv tropes (already a wretched hive of hypersensitive dweebs and hysterical fanbitches) to evangelise about how their chosen rainbowdash/futashy fanfic was the most wonderful piece of art in human history

I think the thing is it allows people with a predilection to act extremely melodramatic and obsessive about their favourite fictions to find validation in their own personal "head canon" by drooling over fanfics that "confirm" this version of their favorite stories. Since these people also tend to be hysterically hypersensitive to any criticism (I remember when someone in a nostalgia critic episode said season 3 of MLP sucked they started screaming about how "bronies found it DEEEPLY offensive" on tv tropes) it makes them prime troll targets and also ensures any relative outsider who stumbles across their verbal diarrhoea will almost certainly believe the entire fandom to be an accursed pit of lonely spergs

 

[champthom]

I don't care for fanfiction, it doesn't appeal to me BUT I've only made one exception - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's an alternate universe version of Harry Potter where instead of being orphaned and raised by the evil Dursleys, Harry is instead raised by a loving college professor and his wife and is into rational choice theory so he's always questioning the magic stuff. But then again, it's not so much a fanfic as it is a discourse in rational choice theory as it's written by one of the guys who's really developed the whole theory.

 

[Bgheff]

I don't read fanfiction, so it doesn't bother me at all. If people like to read or write it more power them them. Keeps them busy and in their own little community things.

 

[CatParty]

I never read fan fiction. To me, it feels like someone is taking a big dump on a character or franchise they love.

Yet, I play fantasy football, so I feel kinda hypocritical in that respect.

 

[Dunsparce]

Fun fact, the term mary sue came from a harry potter fanfic, in which a character named Mary Sue outshined Harry Potter in every aspect, making him play second fiddle. I'll never understand the appeal of fan fiction, it may be a nice fantasy to write, but I never understand the people who read them and like them, because they are almost always shitty, self-insert fantasies.

I thought it came from a Star Trek fic?

It did. One from a 70's Star Trek magazine. Mary Sue was good at everything, seduced Kirk and Spock, and made a selfless sacrifice that made everyone on the Enterprise cry and miss her.

 

[Fialovy]

There is one I'm reading now that reimagines Pokemon DPPt as a Cosmic Horror story. Too bad the author quit after only two chapters. It actually had some promise.

 

[Saney]

Fun fact, the term mary sue came from a harry potter fanfic, in which a character named Mary Sue outshined Harry Potter in every aspect, making him play second fiddle. I'll never understand the appeal of fan fiction, it may be a nice fantasy to write, but I never understand the people who read them and like them, because they are almost always shitty, self-insert fantasies.

I thought it came from a Star Trek fic?

It did. One from a 70's Star Trek magazine. Mary Sue was good at everything, seduced Kirk and Spock, and made a selfless sacrifice that made everyone on the Enterprise cry and miss her.

Knew it! Thanks.

There is one I'm reading now that reimagines Pokemon DPPt as a Cosmic Horror story. Too bad the author quit after only two chapters. It actually had some promise.

Link please? That actually sounds awesome.

 

[Christ-Chan]

Do people you have on Facebook really share their fanfiction publicly? ಠ_ಠ

 

[Judge Holden]

There is one I'm reading now that reimagines Pokemon DPPt as a Cosmic Horror story. Too bad the author quit after only two chapters. It actually had some promise.

To be fair, cosmic horror themed fanfics seem to be of higher quality in general... but that may just be me given I am a rabid lovecraft fanboy. Hell, a while back I even toyed with the idea of myself writing a Twilight "fan"fic based on Bella's dad and human schoolmates investigating a Shadow over Innsmouth type mystery and being drawn into a cosmic horror thats utterly unrelated to the tedious shite thats actually in the books.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Brother, the only acceptable fan fiction would be fan fiction about Hulkamania

 

[soIregistered]

Do people you have on Facebook really share their fanfiction publicly? ಠ_ಠ

Sadly, yes. Tagged and all.

 

[Overcast]

I used to write fanfiction for Valkyria Chronicles. Looking at my work now, I really can't see why I got so many good reviews. The writing is so stilted and badly paced. I mean sure, it was my first jab at writing a story, but still.

But yeah, I never really got those fanfictions that cross different characters from different franchises. At least ones that were meant to be taken seriously.

So yeah, whenever I read fanfiction, I usually just stick to the ones which remain in it's respective universe.

 

[Trombonista]

Do people you have on Facebook really share their fanfiction publicly? ಠ_ಠ

Sadly, yes. Tagged and all.

Okay, the problem here isn't that they're writing and posting fanfiction, but that they're writing and posting fanfiction on Facebook.

Are they too lazy to make a LiveJournal account?

 

[Null]

Trombonista writes fanfiction.

 

[c-no]

I don't really read fan-fictions so I don't have an opinion of them other than that there are some fan-fics that can be good, some bad, and some that are made by a troll. The only ones I have read was one where a guy took Nine-Ball from Armored Core and had him kill people like Christian Weston Ch@ndler (no joke, I have the link right here, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5794208/1/NINEBALL-KILLS-CHRISTIAN-WESTON-CHANDLER) and a fan-fic involving CWC about to kill Barb(I think thats what it was, it was either on this forum or the old one that got taken down back some months ago.). I do know there are infamous fan-fics out there that I kinda wish to read like Cupcakes or My Immortal. As far as writing fan-fics go, I have tried write some but they were just a CWC fan-fic, an Armored Core fan-fic, and a MLP:FiM fan-fic. As far as they go, only the MLP one actually seems finished since I only tried to write it as a short report-styled documenting the relations between Earth and Equestria , not some TwilightxOCPony fan-fic where the OC is apparently a Mary Sue/Marty Stu character that gets everyone to like him/her. Wouldn't really share them with the web, just some friends to see how the story is.