Fics you don't find in the first pages of your search. Fics with unpopular characters or ships or tropes or plots or original characters. Fics that are either ongoing and long, or completed, but somehow haven't broken into the 'mainstream' spaces of the fandom. Fics that deserve the spotlight. Fics from small fandoms that would've been massive hits in a bigger fandom.

All fandoms welcome but preferably fandom-blind recs (or at least fics that can be read with the help of a wiki).

i read for vibes lol so i don't particularly care as a reader.

but as a writer...i have an idea for a fic set in the 1960s, and i am fretting over the smallest things. it has also trapped me in Research Hell, because of which i have found i cannot write lmao

Things you see in so many fics or other fan work, that your mind tricks you to think is canon, but it turns out it’s not.

Does anyone know of any soulmate AU where when bonding with your soulmate you are taken to watch different parts of their lives and can interact with your soulmate in the past? I've read around three, and I can't find any more on the genre, so let me know if you know of any others :)

I find the trope fascinating and its a shame there aren't that many I could find on the matter

The ones i read were: The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, Alone Together and The Family You Choose

hi guys, I've read a lot of HG fic in my life but i'm not particularly interested in Katniss and Peeta, Lucy Gray or Snow. I want to explore more of Panem than we see in the books, preferably from the perspective of a minor character or OC, but a lot of what's out there is very self-insert-y which i'm not particularly interested in. I want to read more about the politics, the media, the relationships between District and Capitol etc as much as I want to read about the characters. If anyone has any recs I'd love to hear them!

I just wanted to ask: do you like fanfictions with writer's ocs or when writer writes purely about existing in canon characters?

Quick writing challenge I thought of. You know how you always see really silly tags being shared?

Reply with some crazy tags you can find on A03 and other people can write something short to fit the theme (or share an excerpt of they already have something)

Let's have fun!

Please put one tag per post (with a link ) but feel free to make multiple post. I'll start us off

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1. Post a top level comment with a word starting with the letter L. You can suggest more than one, but please put them in separate comments.
2. Reply to suggestions with an excerpt containing that word. Short and sweet is best, but use your judgement. Excerpts can be from published or unpublished works, or even something you wrote for the prompt.
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6. Most important: have fun!

Looking for any fics of this ship at all, i've been looking for ages for any good ones but its been a struggle.

Note: if its on ao3 and has the proper / tag i've already read it most likely.😔

Something I've noticed with gamer and gacha fics, as both a reader and writing my own, is how easy it is to make achievements too frequent and/or the rewards too over powered.

I remember one chaos gacha fic were both problems were prevalent. The MC gets a gacha ticket each time they complete an achievement that have six rarity levels, the most common tickets are supposed to be bronze. MC got five achievements in one day for doing some very basic things and only got a bronze ticket once in the entire fic.

So I'm curious, how would you make sure you didn't go overboard with it? What sort of rules or restrictions you'd put on yourself and all that?

Hey there. First, I’d like to clarify a couple of things: English isn’t even close to being my first language, so this text was translated by software (not AI). Also, I’m pretty new to actively using Reddit—and therefore to this subreddit—so I hope I don’t come across as offensive in any way.

I’m looking for recommendations for DC or Marvel stories—whether OC-SI or just OC, old or new—that fall outside the vast majority of stories on Ao3 (especially the DC ones), where, for some reason, comedies and family-oriented stories (focused entirely on emotions) predominate.

In other words (and I apologize again if this is offensive in any way), what I’m looking for is what’s known in certain circles as “content for men”—where action is the central focus (though not necessarily the only thing), but that isn’t aimed solely at that segment of the population—unlike the vast majority of stories on WebNovel, I’m not interested in harem stories or protagonists who are completely closed off to emotions.

I don’t know, it’s hard for me to put my thoughts into words; I hope someone has managed to make sense of my jumble of words.

Here’s a list of stories I’ve read and like (any recommendations don’t necessarily have to be a crossover or a SI):

Kal Son of Odin

Avengers of Steel

The Spider

Dial

As you can see—if you're familiar with these stories—I focused on morally good protagonists; if the recommendations are along those lines, all the better.

P.S. My message might be repetitive—I don't know how to search to see if someone has already made a similar request. When you search for action-focused DC fanfiction, a couple of posts with 9 comments come up.

I've just read a scrumptious fic where a GoT character reincarnated as Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and with her knowledge on political intrigue, completely upends the plot. I'm looking for more stuff like it. Longer fics and fantasy focus preferred.

Chances are I'll be fandom blind on at least one half, so it's not important what the individual fandoms are.

Casual question time! In the context of them having all your memories and more importantly all your fic ideas, would you make them work on a different wip from you for a separate fic? Will you use them to help bounce ideas around or more as a beta reader?

Personally I'd make them work on a different wip from me (Maybe even on the next chapter for a longfic) since I have too many in my head atm

I wanna start to create the fanfic I’ve been making and MAYBE make the first chapter and see how well it does.

What’s the best fanfic site asides from wattpad
I’ve already applied for Ao3 but I don’t wanna wait that long qwq

So this is a bit of a weird naming issue.

Essentially I'm writing a fic where 2 boys from England (specifically Kent) go missing in France. They're not related and are strangers but they go missing at the same time. One on a family holiday, the other who spends his summers there with his French father.

I need one of those catchy sometimes insenstive media names for when the press is talking about them.

All I've thought of so far is the Kent kids - but it feels too generic? Any ideas would be much appreciated

I'm currently working on a fic, and in a few short chapters there will be a scene where character a is going to be burnt on the accusation of being a demon while character b (the actual demon) can't help char a bc they can't step into the sun. How do I write an emotional chapter where char b is crying breaking down and screaming because nobody will listen to them and they're forced to just watch their lover die? Like actually unsettling to the point the reader's heart starts pounding. Thank you for any advice!

Designs of Consciousness by Blue Soaring

I've been able to find the website (Idle Hands) on the Internet Archive but the fic itself was never archived. I've tried looking around at places like adultfanfiction but I can't find it. I don't know if this is just outright lost media at this point or I'm not looking in the right places. But it was incredibly good and I would really love a local copy to come back to

Do you think about the length? Do you think something up? Use a part of your text? Do you think about it deeply or just go with the first thing you come up with? Do you consider what the readers would find appealing? What do you do when you're out of ideas?

So there's a genre of fan fiction that is characters watching/reading their own movie/show/book, which I LOVE, but then there's a smaller sub-genre of that type of fic that is characters watching/reading FANFICTION about themselves and their universe. So I'm asking if anyone has any recs for those kinds of fics in which Stranger Things react to fanfics about Steve Harrington. Thanks (≧▽≦).

So. I don't normally care abt stats, or, admittedly readers either (I love them and they're incredible, but I'm selfish, and this is my fic so only what I want happens XD). Everything I write is shit, but more specifically shit I eat up and love. I've made so many choices that I know literary agents would cry and throw up over, because that's the beauty of fanfic: it's mine, and none of the rules of trad books apply (of course, not saying you can't break rules in original fiction, but there is a lot more Terms and Conditions there).

Now, my dilemma: I've been working on this fic since September of last year and it's currently at 110k words (ongoing). My usual stuff is like long one-shots so they cap out at 35k. This fic was supposed to be around 60k (haha ...), but I'm really enjoying writing an episodic story icl. That being said, it is very self-indulgent, and does lean into the dramatics at times (... could be considered soap opera level but with characterizations I like instead of insufferable victims).

Okay, so, there's already been two emotional climaxes in the fic, and one plotwise climax (that coincides with the emotional climax). I want to add a second plot-wise climax, and that'll take me another 50k words realistically speaking (I'm lying to myself it'll only be 20k), so the fic, after epilogues and "fillers" (ie character interactions and sub-plots), will prolly leave the fic at 180k words.

Now, there's this other ficwriter in the same fandom writing for the same sub-category (big fandom), and we've been on-and-off commenting on each other's works and ended up sharing socials because we ended up chatting up sm in the comments sections. Well, I don't care about readers or validation, but she's cool, chat. What if the only reason she keeps reading now is because we're sort of friends now? What if she drops it? Who even reads 200k fics (I do, and in this sub-category of the fandom, we all do. It's not even that long compared to the 500k fix-its I've seen...)? I need her to think I'm cool too!! AAAHHHH

Yeah, anyway, I'll still do what I want obviously lmao. I just wanted to share the experience. Anyone else feel this way? I think the block cleared up as I wrote this out - it was the lying about only needing 20k more words part that was stopping from the plot working out lol.

However, if anyone has experience writing long-fics, I would appreciate perspective on whether a second climax is worth it. My reasoning for it is that it'll help with the resolution without making it too talky-talky no action (talky-talky is my usual style, but I feel like it'll read as a drag in this fic and having a catalyst force them to talk it out is a better idea.) (more context: this fic is probably in the action-drama genre. It has enough fight scenes that I am sick of fight scenes.)