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What r/FanFiction is talking about this week

r/FanFiction has 457,091 members and 40 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 37.5 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

457,091members
40posts in the last 24 hours, newest 16 min ago
37.5comments an hour right now, newest 20 h ago
242points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/FanFiction this week

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Top threads this week

  1. Some Squidgeworld Info

    Heya fellow readers, since AO3 is down I decided to start crossposting to squidgeworld. I just wanted to give any fellow authors a heads up that if you do make sure to read their rules about...

    242 points61 comments6 d ago
  2. Where do y’all write your fics

    And I don’t mean, “what platform you post them on?” No, I want to know that when you are writing your fics, what is your go to site to write them on. I am aware that Ao3 (I miss you) has a draft...

    168 points302 comments4 d ago
  3. Has anyone else encountered the "Outadated by Canon" trope?

    One caveat of writing for a very recently released and ongoing series is that new updates can completely invalidate popular fanon ideas and perceptions. It can also leave a writer having to decide...

    129 points56 comments7 d ago
  4. Is it normal for beta readers to ask for compensation?

    I made a post on tumblr asking if anyone was interested in beta reading one of my fics. I haven't had a beta reader before, but thought it could be good since ao3 is down and I won't be able to...

    128 points74 comments3 d ago
  5. What age did you start writing fan fiction?

    Until this week I'd have said pretty late, well into adulthood. This evening, my 8 year old came in and asked me to read something he'd written. It was a story where the Hunger Games was taking...

    126 points147 comments3 d ago
  6. Do you ever see something in a fic that you really, really dislike/don’t understand, and genuinely just wants to know the author’s reasoning behind it?

    Like, a certain troupe, plot development, choice, anything. I’m not gonna name any names here, but this sometimes happens where the author makes a decision that I really just can’t understand, and...

    76 points90 comments7 d ago
  7. Any Discord communities you could recommend for older fanfiction writers?

    I am 40 years old and trying to get back to fanfiction, I wrote maybe a dozen or so in my lifetime (most of them in my late 20s). I have been sitting on an idea for a fanfic for about 3 months...

    75 points48 comments4 d ago
  8. What was your first ever fanfic/fandom you read?

    Mine was for Naruto when it was still airing.

    73 points161 comments2 d ago
  9. I still use Docs for fanfiction writing. How exactly is Ellipsis different? [Genuine curiousity]

    I see people saying you shouldn't write on Google anymore. Tbh I don't really know exactly WHY but I can assume Google is feeding your writing into AI, because of course they would. Is Ellipsis...

    71 points89 comments4 d ago
  10. How can a scene feel like a masterpiece when you write it, only for you to reread it later and feel like a toddler wrote it?

    Okay I don’t even know what to title this post and honestly don’t even know if my question is making any sense. I will try my best though. I think an experience most writers have in common is that...

    67 points22 comments6 d ago

Newest posts

  1. Female characters vs situations?
    1 points0 comments16 min ago
  2. Have you heard of Fanart Frenzy?
    1 points0 comments49 min ago
  3. Jim/Bones Star Trek fanfics
    1 points0 comments51 min ago
  4. Processing error on Fanfic NET...
    1 points0 comments58 min ago
  5. How many scenes do your chapters have? How do you decide where to start or end a chapter?
    1 points0 comments1 h ago
  6. Chinese LOTM Fanfiction
    1 points0 comments1 h ago
  7. Need advice - writing gunshot to the guts
    1 points0 comments1 h ago
  8. Maze Runner x Teen Wolf
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  9. Do you have any tropes you'd like to subvert? Or have subverted?
    1 points0 comments3 h ago
  10. Talkback Thursday - November 12
    1 points0 comments6 h ago
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