Anyone here read or write fanfiction?

I am not sure if this is the right section to post this in because I am new to the site but I would like to know do you have any fanficition storys that you read or write? I read a lot of Avatar the last airbender fanfics and I was wondering do you know any good fanfics? What do you like or hate about fanfics?One of the things that I like about in fanfics are self insertions or create you're own adventure fanfics. I always like self insertion storys especially with Avatar the last airbender I don't know why. I like the idea of a normal person getting pulled into another universe or the other characters getting pulled here. Most of the times I only like to read those for their discussion about how advance we are compaired to them. That is the only reason why I like to read those. But I would like to know what do you like or dislike about fanfiction?

I did a few years ago. But they weren't great, and I lost the inspiration for it.

Fan fiction is the Chitendo Vii of literature.

I suppose I'm guilty of this.

I wrote Sonic fanfiction, GTA fanfiction, and American Dragon fanfiction back in the day, but never completed them; I am of the opinion they were horrid and would like to silently bury them and hope no one hears them screaming beneath the soil...

I roleplay quite extensively. In a way, Imperia Mobiana, my forum game that I'm wrapping up, counts as a fanfiction; I RP'ed quite extensively as Knuckles/Enerjak for the duration. Epilogue is on the latest pages.

Most of my fanfiction is PG, or PG-13 at most. But even my PG works have a tendency to turn people's worlds upside down. A harsh critique of one my most popular stories' opening comment was "I don't know where to begin."

Yeah, I did have a brief stint in fanfiction (about 6 months). I wrote FF mainly for Artemis Fowl. I finished only two stories - both were crap.

What really turned me off was that it's mainly girls who write FF. Needless to say, I found it hard to appreciate the fact that most of my peers' contributions sounded like Twilight with worse grammar . And that yaoi crap kind of creeped me out.

There's only one fan fiction that I've really bothered to read in its entirety and is, IMO, the best fan fiction ever written:

Doom: Repercussions of Evil said:

John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons.
"This is Joson" the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!"
So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the demons
"I will shoot at him" said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the demons" he shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are the demons"
And then John was a zombie.

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What aelf said.

I write Wookie fanfic.

Review of Doom: Repercussions of Evil

Genius! Pure genius! This is a cautionary tale that stresses the negative consequences of joining the armed forces. It also explores a Freudian struggle between a man and his father. Furthermore, I believe this story truly stresses that black-and-white thinking is detrimental to humankind, as you can neither say that John is a good person nor that the demons are truly evil Eventually, we learn that John’s amplified sense of masculinity leads to his downfall.

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I don't read any fan fiction. I did write some when I was a kid, long before I ever heard the term "fan fiction," and that was a nice framework to try my hand at creative writing when I was young - using a world and a cast of characters that I was already familiar with helped get over the enormity of the undertaking, like using training-wheels to learn to ride a bike. Since then, though, writing fan fiction just seems too limiting and just... wrong, in a way. I'd rather tell stories about characters and worlds that I'm not borrowing from someone else.

I have read... far more than is probably healthy. I did read a handful of good works (I mean I can literally count them all on my hand(s)), but the majority have been tragic wastes of virtual trees. Ironically, it's not something I go out of my way to find.

I did try my hand at a couple of tribute pieces to a comic I enjoyed, but they're so underdeveloped there's not enough to warrant a score.

What eternally frustrates me is when fanfic writers derail characters, especially when it's deliberate; previously-mentioned yaoi scenarios are prime examples. I can tolerate OC-crossovers, and even self-inserts, as long as they don't strip the personality from the inspiration. It's actually why I'm terrible at fan-art: I'm so committed to the original character interpretation that I mimic the art style.

lordsurya08 said:

Needless to say, I found it hard to appreciate the fact that most of my peers' contributions sounded like Twilight with worse grammar .

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Funny you should mention Twilight: is it still fanfic if it's better than the original?

Thorvald of Lym said:

Funny you should mention Twilight: is it still fanfic if it's better than the original?

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Sadly, yeah - it just means the original shouldn't have any fans to write fiction of it

I write fanfics based on CFC posters...

taillesskangaru said:

I write fanfics based on CFC posters...

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Creepy much?

@ Tailless: You have piqued my interest!

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As for yaoi fiction: It is indeed hard to do it yet make it seem IC.

Of course, here's my logic. Heterosexuals in reality sometimes experiment... why can't characters too?

Granted, that's normally just physical, but why can't it be romantic as well? Perhaps you relate to someone of the same sex more than someone of the opposite...

Or in the case of say, my characterisation of Scourge, you just want to be able to brag you've dated everyone because you're that sexy. He flirted with all the women in the Sonic series... but there are so many more men!

Here's also a perverse reason for homosexuality: if you can break someone else into liking the same sex, I imagine that gives quite the power rush! Very useful when you write fanfics for series where like... everyone is arrogant.

Sonic, the carefree hero... reduced to being Shadow's slave, having the epitome of love for him: wanting to do whatever makes him happy. Quite a power rush indeed!

I've never delved into the romantic side of yaoi myself. I should try sometime in the future. It requires a lot more effort than the sexual side, since you have to make it make sense.

Not an easy task!