Fanfiction is good and the stigma around it is silly! That said, I haven't really read any in a long time, and haven't written any in a longer time, aside from Animal Crossing fanfic for TBT writing events lol. When I was in my teens though I absolutely thrived off "Character x Reader" fics ahaha (or shipfics where I could insert myself as the other character), but it was usually hard to find for the characters I liked and harder to find ones that were well-written/actually in-character
I don't really ever seek it out anymore though because it can take a lot of time to find/read them, and I'm usually content with source material/scenarios I come up with in my head and never write down.
I've been reading fanfiction for almost as long as I've been using the internet. It's actually a big part of how I got into writing, though I've never been good at writing it myself and no longer do (aside from the occasional Animal Crossing story for TBT events). I've always been more into reading it. I typically only read fanfics for stuff I'm really into, but I have read a couple fanfics for media I'm not interested in just because they were so compelling and well-written!
I currently have 2 fanfic folders, and they both mostly consist of The Hunger Games and The Last of Us fanfics LOL. I also used to read a bunch of The End of the ****ing World, Fairy Tail, Sleepy Hollow etc fanfics when I was more involved in those fandoms, though there was a criminally small amount of fanfics for TEOTFW... it was so bad I deadass started writing my own.
The Last of Us has been my biggest interest for the past year and a half, so I've only been reading fanfics for it.
I love writing fanfiction. I took a break from it for a while because I was focusing on other types of writing projects, but last month I came back to it because I just felt like something was missing. I missed writing about the franchises and characters I hold dear.
I use to use fanfiction.net years ago, but I feel like it isn’t as active as Wattpad, so I just use the latter. Plus, I also plan to write original stories involving my original characters, and you have to use a separate website from fanfiction.net to do so (it’s called FictionPress I believe), whereas you can write both on WattPad. ^_^
I’ve also tried making an account on AO3 before, but the process is a headache. >_<
You have to wait days to get an email and I tried doing that but the email was nowhere to be found.
I prefer reading original works of fiction rather than fanfic, but I understand why some like it. Some of it can be good but it all depends on the kind of writer. As long as they stay from superficial themes it can be good.
i used to read fanfiction a lot, usually like romantic stuff because it gave me comfort. now the characters that give me comfort are so niche i don't have anything to read of them, but ive been considering writing some. i very rarely write my own I'm just usually not motivated to
I’m working on a couple fanfic stories. First is a crossover of Family Guy and Married With Children which is a sequel to the MwC episode God Shoes where Al successfully sues Five Vibram and wins the case and moves away which causes Marcy to be happy at first until the Griffins move into the Bundy house and cause chaos. Basically it’s the movie Mad House in tv sitcom form without the house guests. Second is a crossover of Avenue Q and King of the Hill where Hank meets the Bad Idea Bears and they keep causing trouble for the man and it’s hard to tell if the Bears are actually real Or hallucinations as there is evidence of them being both. It will end in a Twilight Zone situation where the answer is rather ambiguous. The last is a one off sequel to Wish where Asha learns she royally screwed up and now sentient star people are threatening to erase her world’s existence because she now has created a massive threat to reality itself after an orphan’s innocent wish to see their parents alive again causes the zombie apocalypse and she inadvertently caused a man to become a genocidal maniac after granting his wish which had vague implications through the wording.
