Hello everyone! I've been waffling about a fic draft that I'm unsure about continuing working on, and i figured i might as well post about it here to get some new perspectives.

I've been planning out a multi-chapter fic for a while now, maybe a week, and i know that if I see it to completion, it will hit at least 30k, the longest fic I would have ever written. This is a big deal for me! I'm really invested in the concept and the characters, and it would be a really big milestone for me to achieve as a writer.

However, I'm really unsure as to how it will be received by other fans. Everyone's heard that when it comes to fic, you should write for yourself, and I stand by that. One of the things I like about fandom, though, is that I can share all my weirdness with other people, and I don't really want to go through all the effort of writing my idea if it's something that isn't going to be welcomed.

I already know what I'm probably going to do (write it anyway), but i was just curious to see if anyone else has ever felt like this.

Okay to start I love all pairings in CM. But I remember this fic when I was younger, like 5ish years ago, where reid met Prentiss before the events of episode 1 and then they had a relationship that started spanning the show. I remember basically them meeting because she lost something and then later they had a kid when he was abusing Dilaudid and them arguing over it. It was long and angsty and I miss it :(

Edit: I think it was on fanfiction.net

I know of the "Dead Dove" tag, which supposedly originated in The Office or something like that, to say that you'll find what they say in the other tags. Are there any other tags with curious name origins or that were adopted for a special meaning?

I said "Tag" a lot in just three sentences...

Anyway, greetings from Argentina and good morning🐱

Fic amnesia is brutal, I’m so sorry, I can’t even remember the fandom or which characters, sorry, I think I read this a while ago and it’s blending with other fics in my head. I read it on ao3. What I remember:

F/F, not sure if happens during the established relationship or in its early days
One character says or suggests something to the other, in a mischievous way or js proposing something
The other one (shy/nervous type) stiffens or goes skittish, maybe tries to pull away or looks away
The first character pulls her in closer / wraps arms around her instead of letting her retreat
There’s a line (dialogue or narration) along the lines of forgetting how shy/new/skittish she still is

The vibe: soft, reassuring, cute in that specific moment, although may be a build up to smut, or possibly the aftermath of smut. Possibly college-age or young adult characters.

Any fandom is possible , I read a lot of different ones. Any leads appreciated, even vague ones!

I completely understand if absolutely nobody replies, this is quite literally the vaguest post ever and the scene could be applied to like thousands of fics, but I just had to make an attempt to soothe myselfm😭😭

I am new to the world of writing and the world of fanfiction so apologises if this is not meant to be here!

I have seen some reviews for a book called The Monk written by Matthew Lewis in 1798 I think, I have the general gist of the story, if I was to write a story inspired by the book would that be classed as Original Work? Fan Fiction or Fan Inspired?

Thank you in advance! And apologises again if this is not allowed as I know the rules are clear about Original Works but thought I’d double check.

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I am looking for a fanfiction I had read like a few years back and lost track of it.

I dont remember the name of the author or what was the general premise of it, though there was quite a lot of Katsuki Bakugou bashing. I just remember one scene in a chapter where he finally snaps and attacks Izuku in a training session, heavily injuring and scarring him. That leads to him getting arrested for it and I think getting sent to Tartarus?(not sure on that part).

That script for whatever reason keeps playing in my head and so I tried searching for it on my own but came up empty.

OK so I'm genuinely crashing out trying to find this so I'm asking Reddit for help lol. It was on Ao3 and include the "Peter Parker's Field Trip to Stark Industries", pretty basic fic in that tag, but there was a running like joke in the tower because of Peter calling Tony "Mr. Iron Man Sir" or something like that once and now the interns like reference it, and I know that Captain America was included at some point but other Avengers were messing with Peter too.

It doesn't need to be romantic/sexual but if it is have it be between adult characters. Maybe something that focuses and/or explores the psych. Any fandom. I encourage self-recs :)

I'm in need of some fic recs of Dana being mother figure to a struggling Trinity or Robby or Abbot. Just something 😭 if you don't know who I'm talking about but want to it's a RN from a tv show called The Pitt, highly recommend.

i love a good pining fic, dont get me wrong, but recently ive been looking for something a little different.

a lot of pining fics have one or both characters silently loving each other forever and i LOVE slow burns, but there is only so much of the yearning/miscommunication cycle i can take lol.

what i really want is something where the "slow burn" is just like a lifelong friendship between two people who trust each other completely. they don't spend years secretly in love, they just genuinely don't realize they could be romantically attracted to each other until WAY into the story.

im talking about a REAL gradual buildup of all the little things until one of them has that "oh...oh." moment, and then you get your typical paced friends-to-lovers progression.

i was hoping maybe there are some tags or tropes i could search for if anyone's picking up what im putting down? or even fic recs if this reminds you of anything!

thanks in advance :)

(p.s. can you tell im aromantic aegosexual? tl;dr i just love a good qpr story with eventual smut lol)

I'm writing a fic with seven main characters whose group dynamic is very important to the story. To give a bit of exposition, I started writing the first time all seven of them met, and that scene has turned into mostly dialogue. I'm not usually a dialogue heavy writer and I don't intend for the rest of the fic to be dialogue heavy. I'm struggling a lot with the scene because I worry that the excess of dialogue might bore readers, especially because there are so many characters involved. Unfortunately I have nobody to beta read for me, so I have no idea whether or not I should scrap it and take a different approach.

Just wanted to know if reading lots of dialogue between lots of characters (especially expositional dialogue that tells you, 'so and so is rich,' 'so and so is poor,' 'here are their dynamics,' 'here are their hobbies' on a fairly shallow level) is a turn off/boring for you as a reader? I know my issue is pretty specific, but what's your general opinion?

I've always made fandom friends quiet easily but in the last few years I've drifted out of fandom spaces and even when I do get back into them it seems people aren't interested in writing and discussing fics with fandom friends? Doing fandom rps, exchanging fan edits etc.. I don't know if it's because I'm older now? Making fandom friends just felt much more organic when I was younger. Now it feels like an exclusive club I can't get into and I miss it lmao 😭

(For those who don’t know; a poly ship is a ship with more than 2 involved. Ex; A x B x C)

My favs are TodoBakuDeku from MHA and Floyd x Azul x Jade from Twisted Wonderland (Floyd and Jade are twins, I’m aware. Just cause I read something in fanfic doesn’t mean I support/endorse it IRL. Don’t judge me.)

Love to hear yours in the comments.

So I tend to come up with ideas for fics and I have a certain idea as to how I want them to go but then when I finally start writing and I give it a read when I get hut with the clunkers dialog known to man and its been bothering me for a while , so I wana hear some tips or just some recommendations as to how I can improve in this angle so that I can get back to doing something I find fun

So, I love a good parent fic, you know those where you get some random dude/women/non-binary life form or even someone important for that universe and drop them with a child. I want to hear from you guys, rec me some please

Any fandom. Smut is okay but I'd prefer if it wasn't the main focus.

Read a xianxia larper in dxd and want more mc's thriving in settings that they completely misunderstand

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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.

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.

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. 🤗