What do you think of fan fiction?

[Jenisautistic]

I have written quite a few fan fictions over the years anyone have a passion for this? What do you think of fanfiction in general? if you write fanfiction, what do you write about?

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I read some occasionally.

 

[Dagan]

My daughter has written it for about ten years, now. She's seen some of her ideas wind up on the shows she was writing about. I explained to her that there's nothing she could do about it besides just enjoying that she could prove it to friends or whomever else. She's cool with it, now. Anyone who does such and posts it public just has to know that the "overlords" do scan the internet and will absolutely take your ideas to use with their IP (intellectual property). If you can handle it....go for it.

She did the MCU, Supernatural, DC comics, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and some of the Eragon stuff.

There's a huge audience for it, so if it's your thing, you will have readers. You will have folks criticizing you or bugging you to do their ideas, as well, too. It can be a blessing and a curse, haha. I say, go for it. Do what you love.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Depends on the quality of the writing and if it feels believable, especially if it's a crossover between two or more franchises.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I read some occasionally.

I sort of daydream up a bit of it within my own head too when I get stuck on a series. I often daydream myself into the stories while imagining new episodes or entirely different outcomes for existing episodes.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I've read some good, and some not so good.

 

[Trinah]

I write fan fiction but I rarely read any. Mine are predominently Doctor Who.

 

[Shamar]

I have written quite a few fan fictions over the years anyone have a passion for this? What do you think of fanfiction in general? if you write fanfiction, what do you write about?

What I have seen ranged from good to bad, but is almost always sincere and faithful to the original. Sometimes it can be a major work as good as the original. One example I can think of is Nicholas Meyer's Seven Percent Solution. It became extremely popular and was made into a movie.

Can we get some samples from you. I don't generally read fan fiction, but I would like to give yours a try.

 

[velociraptor]

I have written quite a few fan fictions over the years anyone have a passion for this? What do you think of fanfiction in general? if you write fanfiction, what do you write about?

I mostly dislike it because it is so rare to find good stuff. As well, most do it without the permission of the original author, which is ... crass. Of course I say this as a photographer whose landscape work looks pretty much like everyone else's landscape work.

 

[AprilR]

I read it from time to time. Planning to write some too, someday.

 

[Dagan]

Thinking about it more, these IP's do it themselves, actually. Marvel's What if? series is straight up them doing fan fiction. Their whole multiverse is basically fan fiction. Honestly, the way major comics publishers allow resets and one-off series runs of popular characters every other year....is just paid fan fiction.

I guess, it could be argued that everything on netflix or hbo, when they butcher a beloved book series....is fan fiction, haha.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I have written quite a few fan fictions over the years anyone have a passion for this? What do you think of fanfiction in general? if you write fanfiction, what do you write about?

Which series do you write them about?

 

[Jenisautistic]

Which series do you write them about?

I’ve written about t glee one about my little pony friendship is magic one about South Park, which I’m currently working on
Also one about the outsiders

It is still a very significant challenge for me to write, but I have been getting help with that and I have been using speech to text too
But writing or at least thinking up stories like this really really makes me happy

 

[Metalhead]

Does pervy doujin featuring my favorite anime men in pervy situations with each other qualify as fan fiction?

 

[BloodyKun108]

I used to write a lot of Zelda fanfiction growing up, but I do think a lot of it stemmed from just wanting to make my own fan games without having the means or knowledge to do so. Since then, while I do a lot of fan art, I make an effort to ask why I like the stories I do and how I can take those inspirations and form my own stories. Even so, it’s a bit of a struggle even now to have some restraint when I get some ideas for something Hololive related. As for others I’ve enjoyed, there used to be a channel on YouTube I watched, I think called hellfire comms? They did dramatic readings from what I remember, and one really entertaining one was My Immortal, a really bad Harry Potter one that no one knew if the author was earnest or a really effective troll.

 

[UFO]

Used to write fictional stories myself, often copying other people's worlds with heavy modifications, but never wrote an actual fanfiction. It didn't (and still don't) feel proper to take other people's work and make it my own even if only partly.

But I do appreciate fanfiction of others, and I don't understand why the original should creator should get petty about it, because:
a) Original creator can't reach alone highest potential of his/hers own world. Fanfiction writers can help to create something memorable, living and great.
b) Good fanfiction can bring even more fans to the original works and make the original creator and his/hers world more famous.
c) At best it is one of the greatest signs of respect and adore, and a sign that fans actually are moved by the original work in such amount that they are engaged in the world further than just original stories.

Of course, the canon can be messed up by fanfiction, which I understand to be annoying to the original creator with a vision of his/her own. And at worst, things like "porn parodies" are just insulting and probably should be banned better than they now are. In America that is, EU bans everything like that by default with their copyright laws.

I like that USA has this "fair use"-concept. Europe's copyright laws are so much stricter that publishing fanfiction is pretty much unfeasible, even if it is non-profit and respectful work. There are some exceptions, but I have understood that at least one EU-based fandom site has still a strict policy to remove fanfiction stories, and to ask writers to at least change names of their characters before they allow the story to be published in their site. Of course, most of courts in EU just don't bother, as an effect is considered so small, insignficant and against popular opinion about what should be freedom of speech, and the original creators often see it likewise and don't take things to the court, but the actual threat is always there by the law.

(All this information is at least two decades old, so I might be wrong here)