What got you into fanfiction?

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:22:06 +0200

Frost Wolf

Frostwolf@lemmy.world

Feel free to share your journey below :)

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Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:30:41 +0200

Midnight's Hubzilla Home

midnightman@hub.hubzilla.de

I've discovered fanfic itself around the mid-2000s. I was neither a particularly active reader, nor was I bound to any canonical material.

What really got me going was when I discovered the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers fandom in late 2005. I had been a fan of the show since its German premiere in early 1991, and I was glad there was a fandom full of like-minded people. And especially, there was fanfic.

I had read some before I joined the fandom and the main forum. Mere hours later, I think, someone suggested I could start writing fanfic. Many of the few fans wrote fanfic in those days. First the suggestion seemed weird, also since I'm not a native English speaker. But then I decided to give it a try.

Let's just say that I was bursting with ideas just days later. That's how my fanfic-writing craze of 2006/2007 began. A pity it slowed down a lot afterwards.

By the way, I refused to read the often-recommended classics at first. I didn't want them to influence my writing too obviously. I guess they did later on, or my ideas for certain details were too similar.

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 01:51:36 +0200

Frost Wolf

Frostwolf@lemmy.world

I guess we all started the same way. I was the same. I started on a fansite on wetpaint (now defunct, under a different name) then moved on to ff.net until AO3 came around. I still write for my fanfom from time to time but life often gets in the way unfortunately. :(

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:05:32 +0200

Frost Wolf

Frostwolf@lemmy.world

Yeah, I think we’re similar. I tend to write my Naruto fanfics where Neji is actually alive. And I’m making it my goal to get TenTen and the rest to shine.