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Can someone explain fanfiction?

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tiggy114 · 02/07/2012 19:19

Since shades of grey mania has hit, i keep hearing fanfiction mentioned. What is it? Am i missing something awesome?

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thisisyesterday · 02/07/2012 19:22

it's what it sounds like

fiction, written by fans, about the characters of which they are a fan.

50 shades was originally written as Twilight fanfiction. Christian is Edward, Ana is Bella

Debs75 · 02/07/2012 19:24

Fan fiction is where fans steal the characters and then add to the stories or take them in a direction the author hadnt. Or they develop parts of the stories which the author had just skimmed over like giving supporting characters a full back story.

It's a bit like watching a chick flick and wondering what happened after 'happy ever after'

Some authors like Anne Rice feel it is like theft and try to have the stories removed and some like JK Rowling like it as it keeps people buying the books

tiggy114 · 02/07/2012 19:27

Any good ones i should check out? Ooo true blood ones or twilight could be fun. I do like harry potter also. Gonna go look :)

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BertieBotts · 02/07/2012 19:30

It's extremely variable, as you would gather. Some of it's absolute drivel and some is really well written and adds an extra kind of depth to the story or world.

fanfiction.net has loads but there are no quality controls and no way of searching by rating or number of favourites or anything like that.

I have a good link for some Harry Potter stuff but I'll have to find it later.

RedBlanket · 02/07/2012 19:31

There's tons and tons of Harry potter fan fiction

Try fan fiction.net for starters. Be warned, there's a lot of crap.

ThisisaSignofthetimes · 02/07/2012 19:34

Thepetulantpoetess.com is good for HP, it's moderated so the quality is high, unlike fanfiction.net aka as "the pit of voles".

BertieBotts · 02/07/2012 21:12

Harry Potter link

tiggy114 · 02/07/2012 22:57

Thanks bertie Grin

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NeverHaveIEver · 02/07/2012 23:16

Pop over to the TSA thread and ask for recommendations. There is fanfiction based in pretty much every famous literary work and many TV shows/movies. There is even Bible-based fic and some alarming Tetris-based stuffHmm

Pick your universe: Harry Potter, Sherlock, Twilight, etc. Then choose your level of eroticism required from PG-13 to NC-17. Finally, the characters you would like to be involved. In Harry Potter, for example, you could have Harry and Ginny, or Harry and Hermione, or Harry and Draco. In fact, pretty much any combination of characters is out there.

There are sites out there that cater for specific relationships, so www.walkingtheplank.org is devoted entirely to fanfiction featuring Harry Potter and professor Snape in a variety of erotic situations, whereas www.thehexfiles.net has Harry/Draco fiction.

Then there are whole internet communities who recommend fanfiction, so google, say, Star Trek Fanfiction Recommendations and you'll save yourself reading an awful lot of shite.

And if you like Twilight, do yourself a favour and read Cleolinda Jones's blog and movies in 15 minutes. But don't drink tea while you're reading. Just saying Wink

strawberrypenguin · 02/07/2012 23:23

I love reading fan-fic but as others have said there is a lot of crap writing as well as the good ones. In my experience some genres/program's/books are generally better written than others. Bones (tv crime drama) is generally speaking pretty awful but Stargate (sci if tv) is generally pretty good for example.
Have a play, find some recommend ficfrom rec sites and see what you think. Happy reading!

BertieBotts · 03/07/2012 10:17

Fanfiction isn't just about erotica, though!

DisorderlyNights · 03/07/2012 10:41

I don't read much HP fic but this is one I enjoyed (Cedric Diggory lives at the end of GoF and it retells OotP.) ]]www.fanfiction.net/s/4594634/1/FINDING_HIMSELF]]
If you google it you will find a pdf which you can download to iPad/kindle etc.. if you have one.

Twilight fanfic is a strange thing, as a lot of it is AH (all human), with the vampire characters written as humans but with similar issues (Edward feeling not good enough for Bella for some other reason than being soul-less). That's all that I like really, SM's vampire inconsistencies annoy me.

Join us on the TSA thread, we can link you lots of good Twilight fics, and there are some big HP fic fans there too.

DisorderlyNights · 03/07/2012 10:42

sorry link www.fanfiction.net/s/4594634/1/FINDING_HIMSELF

WicketyPitch · 03/07/2012 17:44

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BertieBotts · 03/07/2012 22:15

Slash is male on male erotica, specifically. So 50 shades isn't slash. More PWP (porn without plot)!

Thanks for the milk Disorderly, am enjoying that one :)

BertieBotts · 03/07/2012 22:15

milk?? Link!

DisorderlyNights · 03/07/2012 23:35

Bertie - I'm breast feeding my youngest as I type, so links or milk equally applicable!

There's a sequel to that fic, that I'm saving for on holiday. Hoping it's equally good.

madetomakeyourmouthwater · 03/07/2012 23:53

I write Bad Girls fanfic. I do roughly original plot but extending beyond the storyline, backstory, what happened next etc but some people use the characters and totally change the setting. There are some really good stories out there and some utter shit.

OliviaLMumsnet · 04/07/2012 00:07

There is lots of WestWing Fan fiction allegedly. A lot is Sam/Josh centric and sam is mine so I have never really looked.

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Alameda · 04/07/2012 00:13

oh please read 'my immortal' I might have been drunk or on drugs when I first read it but cried with laughter for hours Blush

can find it by googling 'worst fanfic ever', hope it is still there

NeverHaveIEver · 04/07/2012 00:16

What's wrong with a bit of gratuitous titillation? Grin

It would appear that there are levels of fanfiction and people who take it more seriously than others...

Alameda · 04/07/2012 00:28

"Draco didn't answer but he stopped the flying car and he walked out of it. I walked out of it too, curiously.

"What the fucking hell?" I asked angrily.

"Ebony?" he asked.

"What?" I snapped.

Draco leaned in extra-close and I looked into his gothic red eyes (he was wearing color contacts) which revealed so much depressing sorrow and evilness and then suddenly I didn't feel mad anymore.

And then? suddenly just as I Draco kissed me passionately. Draco climbed on top of me and we started to make out keenly against a tree. He took of my top and I took of his clothes. I even took of my bra. Then he put his thingie into my you-know-what and we did it for the first time.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! " I screamed. I was beginning to get an orgasm. We started to kiss everywhere and my pale body became all warm. And then?.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!"

It was?.Dumbledore!"

it is funny isn't it, it's not a chemical imbalance in my brain?

Alameda · 04/07/2012 00:33

"The next day I woke up in my coffin. I put on a black miniskirt that was all ripped around the end and a matching top with red skulls all over it and high heeled boots that were black. I put on two pairs of skull earrings, and two crosses in my ears. I spray-painted my hair with purple.

In the Great Hall, I ate some Count Chocula cereal with blood instead of milk, and a glass of red blood. Suddenly someone bumped into me. All the blood spilled over my top.

"Bastard!" I shouted angrily. I regretted saying it when I looked up cause I was looking into the pale white face of a gothic boy with spiky black hair with red streaks in it. He was wearing so much eyeliner that I was going down his face and he was wearing black lipstick. He didn't have glasses anymore and now he was wearing red contact lenses just like Draco's and there was no scar on his forhead anymore. He had a manly stubble on his chin. He had a sexy English accent. He looked exactly like Joel Madden. He was so sexy that my body went all hot when I saw him kind of like an erection only I'm a girl so I didn't get one you sicko.

"I'm so sorry." he said in a shy voice.

"That's all right. What's your name?" I questioned.

"My name's Harry Potter, although most people call me Vampire these days." he grumbled.

"Why?" I exclaimed.

"Because I love the taste of human blood." he giggled.

"Well, I am a vampire." I confessed.

"Really?" he whimpered.

"Yeah." I roared.

We sat down to talk for a while. Then Draco came up behind me and told me he had a surprise for me so I went away with him."

CrampedUpMissPiggy · 04/07/2012 00:39

Isn't there quite a lot me slash involving Frodo and Sam from LOTR?

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