History Main / Fanfic

Authors often have conflicted reactions to fan fiction set in "their" universe, which sometimes leads to the aforementioned FanworkBan. Creator/JKRowling has largely embraced Franchise/HarryPotter fan fic, albeit with certain limitations, for example, and Creator/TamoraPierce [[http://tamora-pierce.com/faq.html#fanfic advises aspiring writers]] that fan fiction can be a good way to hone one's writing skills. By contrast, Sir Creator/{{Terry Pratchett}} acknowledged it exists and was cool about it, pointing out that ''everything works so long as people are sensible about it.'' He added two caveats: anyone doing Literature/{{Discworld}} fanfic shouldn't even ''think'' of doing it for money, and authors should take care not to put it where he might see it. Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, author of the epic fantasy series ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', [[http://grrm.livejournal.com/151914.html expressed his disdain for the practice]], saying that "creating your own characters is a part of writing." He's even gone so far as to threaten legal action should he become aware of any fan fiction set in the Westeros universe. In contrast, writer/journalist James Bow [[http://bowjamesbow.ca/2010/05/07/in-defence-of-f.shtml makes a rather firm case]] for supporting fan fic, pointing out that it forms a stepping stone ''towards'' creating your own characters and setting. As far as media businesses are concerned, reactions have ranged from Franchise/ArchieComics demanding immediate removal to ParamountPictures taking some of the better ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfics and having them published in print books.

-->-- '''[[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2081784,00.html This Time article]]''' [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls discussing a certain phenomenon]].

!!Fanfiction Stories:

* FanFic/AlphysVsUndyne
* FanFic/ThirtyHs
* FanFic/AlphysHoek
* Fanfiction/TheFanfictionWorldofDalekbuster523
* FanFic/AlphysBadSchoolDay
* FanFic/TheIronMettagiant

See also MemeticMutation and {{Shipping}}. For the Eastern equivalent, see {{Doujinshi}}. For fanfic-specific tropes, see FanficTropes.

* OriginalFlavour: A very good fan-fiction.

* [[RecursiveFanfiction Recursive Fic]]

Currently, the [[NotableFanfictionArchives largest source of fanfiction on the Net]] (and probably anywhere else) is the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] Website/FanFictionDotNet, which as of 2013, offers approximately nine million stories across all but a select few canons (which were banned due to creator request) and an automated system for posting. A newer site called an Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn is starting to nip at Website/FanFictionDotNet's heels though with over 1.7 million stories and less restrictions on what can and can not be posted. And to top it all off, in mid-2013 Creator/{{Amazon}} joined in the act with its Kindle Worlds program, which allows for the publication and sale (!) of fan fiction from specific 'verses.

* PornWithoutPlot: The story is dirty, but has no plot line.

* {{Lemon}}
* {{Lime}}
* NextGenFic: A fan-fiction about the descendents of the characters.

* to get the characters to have mad passionate (or occasionally [[CoitusEnsues just mad]]) sex with each other (see {{Shipping}}); or
* [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs to imagine oneself having mad passionate (or occasionally just mad) sex with the characters]] (see WishFulfillment).

Fan fic is the place where EpilepticTrees are planted and cultivated. Expect many, many, ''many'' more fics to star the EnsembleDarkhorse than TheHero.

Although fanfic exploded along with the Internet, it existed ''well'' before the Net did. Such luminaries as John Stuart Mill contributed unauthorized, original stories set in a fictional universe. Before medieval French troubadours were shipping [[ArthurianLegend Launcelot and Guinevere]], the ancient Greeks were writing plays about relationships between characters in ''Literature/TheIliad''. In Creator/{{Plato}}'s ''Literature/{{Symposium}}'' one character complains that a play by Creator/{{Aeschylus}} got the characterization of Achilles and Patroclus wrong. [[SlashFic Namely, that it got the]] LoverAndBeloved dynamic backwards.

* AfterActionReport
* {{Drabble}}
* {{Lemon}}
* {{Lime}}
* LogFic

* PoemFic
* ScriptFic
* SongFic

* AccusationFic
* CrackFic
* CurtainFic
* DarkFic
* DeathFic
* FusionFic
* GenFic
* HighSchoolAU
* HurtComfortFic
* KidFic

* NextGenFic
* PeriodFic
* PornWithoutPlot
* PornWithPlot
* RationalFic

* SeriesFic
* SlashFic
* {{WAFF}} (Warm And Fuzzy Feeling)
* WarFic
* ZombieFic

* AlternateUniverseFic
* {{Continuation}}
* DeconstructionFic
* ElsewhereFic
* FilmFic
* FixFic
* ForWantOfANail
* HateFic
* OriginalFlavour
* ParodyFic
* PatchworkFic
* PeggySue
* RevengeFic
* SuperFic
* TrollFic
* PseudocanonicalFic

Some franchises -- such as ''Franchise/StarTrek'' -- have actually turned fan fiction into a profit center by creating {{Tie In Novel}}s. These books are usually penned by young and upcoming authors, often former fanfic writers, and represent an intermediate step between fan fiction and completely original fiction.

Not all fanfic is written, though that's the most common form. It can be in any [[{{Formats}} format]] that can tell a story. In Japan, ''{{doujinshi}}'' (amateur "comic books") is a common vehicle; and with the increasing ease of their production on personal computers, [[FanVid fan videos]] (ranging from {{anime}} series, to ''Franchise/StarWars'') have already appeared.

* FanFic/TheFanfictionWorldofDalekbuster523

* FanFic/TheFanfictionWorldOfDalekbuster523

In the end, more and more media outlets are recognizing that fanfiction and other fan works are a simple fact of life. And as art imitates life, it's now possible to find "fake" fanfiction created as part of a marketing campaign. For example, the 2010 season of Showtime's ''TheUnitedStatesOfTara'' introduced a new character, an artist who had created and published a comic book character named "Princess Valhalla Hawkwind". As part of the promotional buildup for this, Showtime actually created a [[http://www.princessvalhalla.com "fan site"]] complete with fanfic, fan art, and fan video.

* Creator/NimbusLlewellyn