For lovers of fanfiction...

[MrsGulDukat]

Inspired by another thread by HensTeeth44, here is a thread for lovers of fan fiction either writer or just an avid reader.

I do have some unfinished Harry Potter fan fic to share but I'm at working at the moment.

Dont be afraid to share your favourites.

@TheCrowening

I've read a lot of your stuff. Going for re read later.

I'm sat at work trying figure out if I can write some fanfic and work at the same time.

I cannot.

I'm looking after my DC at a park and vaguely kicking around some ideas about what the Room of Requirement might provide you with for sex.

I wonder if the room of requirement is a perve. Will it turn into a sex dungeon if you ask?

Right? Does it give you what you want, or what it thinks you'd want? The kink potential is endless.

And the beauty of it is, you'd never have to clean it because it all disappears.

I'm a fanfic fan - I've posted a James Bond one on AO3 but others are in such niche fandoms I'd be outing myself.

I tend to read fandoms where the stories are mainly at least literate and interesting. Which means I rarely glance at HP unless I get a recommendation, as it's so hard to find the good stuff.

At the other end of the spectrum, Dorothy Sayers fic is invariably excellent but so hard to meet that standard that there's almost none of it.

I often search AO3 for 'completed works only' and >2500 words, as most of the unreadably-bad works are very short. FF.net tends to have even higher dross ratio in the fandoms I've looked at, so I haven't checked for a few years.

Any other tips for finding good stuff apart from avoiding fandoms beloved of teenagers? Some older fandoms are quite good - Serenity/Firefly, Bond, The Professionals, Chalet School and Antonia Forest...

Go for explicit or mature mostly. Check for tags too.

When you find a quality author, check their bookmarks/favourites. Odds are they will have bookmarked only good stuff.

@MrsGulDukat If only... The amount of totally unrealistic sex scenes produced by virginal teenagers...

But tags reminds me - if the list of story tags is longer than say 20, don't bother with the story. Especially if any of them include 'ha ha' in.

Recs from good authors are definitely a rabbit-hole I run down!

Good point.

I only use a handful of tags at most. No point banging a load of tags in.

I like to think my sex scenes are pretty good. The only thing I struggle with is the kissing part.

I love fanfiction, but I think I spend as much time filtering tags as I do reading, particularly in HP. The exclude tags function is so useful though, being able to instantly filter out “incest”, “vaginal fishing” and “harem” do make it much faster to find something semi decent.

Few things are as disappointing as when you get really into a show, go to check and there’s only a handful of fics!

Vaginal fishing?

Lord I hope that's a typo.

I used to read seaQuest waaaaay back in the day (over 20 years ago), there's still the odd story posted on it even now!

😂😂 that should have said fisting

@MrsFionaCharming

I thought it was fisting but its AO3, you never know.

So it turns out vaginal fishing is actually a thing.

Only one hit on AO3 😂

I mostly used to read Star Trek fanfic with a smattering of Mass Effect fic.

After binging The Expanse, I've read a few decent fics for that show. Surprising amount of Avasarala/Draper on there, wasn't aware they were considered a common headcanon.

I only have one cringey fanfic to my name, a Star Trek Voyager one written over a decade ago, where Tom Paris has erectile dysfunction.

@QuibbleTribble

No Maximum warp for him then.

I'm still holding out for those Bucky/Sam recs, especially after last night's finale!

All of these @bunglebee. Perfection. archiveofourown.org/users/notcaycepollard/pseuds/notcaycepollard

Yay. Chapter 2 of Harry Potter done.