Creator Backlash / Fan Works

"Re-reading them now is not so much shameful as it makes me wonder if I was doing meth while I was 18 and didn't notice."

— Breech Loader on "The Chosen" and "Hyena Love".

• Bagel Brain, the author of Garfield in: "Along Came a Splut", revealed to a friend that he only wrote the story as a joke, and was shocked to find out it got its own trope page. He disowned the story, oddly not for its absurd nature, but for its more morbid, dark aspects (e.g. Abe Lincoln getting brutally killed off for laughs (and within minutes, if not seconds, after he'd already been brought Back from the Dead no less!), a Black Comedy bit which he felt was incredibly mean-spirited and unfunny). He said if he would ever write a sequel (which he is unsure if he'll do) he would make it Lighter and Softer, do things like bring Abe Lincoln back to life and give him a prominent role in the story, Retcon out the darker elements of the original story, or just write a story that actually made sense instead. Instead, he eventually deleted the story altogether.
• Nimbus Llewelyn, author of The Wizard in the Shadows and Child of the Storm, has expressed somewhat ambivalent views (at best) on them both:
  • Shadows was started when he was 14, first published when he was 15, and completed when he was 17. As such, he was a Hormone-Addled Teenager who was relatively new to writing, and he put a lot of his personal issues into it, leading to a fairly epic Creator Breakdown. For the most part, he's vaguely embarrassed by it, only keeping it around because it's still popular, but he does get a kick out of seeing his older stuff if only because it showcases how far he's come not just as a writer, but also as a person. He did consider deleting its tropes page (protip: he couldn't even if he wanted to), but thought better of it in part because he thinks it's still better than some of the other stuff we have pages on. (We just can't help it.)
  • Child of the Storm causes him some embarrassment not for its writing quality so much as its tone. He originally intended it to be a Lighter and Softer Fix Fic, but he changed his mind between Chapter 10 (the ominous introduction of the Winter Soldier) and Chapter 20 (which is more or less wall to wall Nightmare Fuel), where it takes a sharp turn into Darker and Edgier territory and steadily develops into an intricately plotted and very lengthy saga rife with Black-and-Grey Morality. He's tried going back and tweaking the earlier chapters, but a lot of things are set up early on, meaning that there's only so much one can change "without bringing the whole tower of Jenga bricks down around one's ears".
• Post straight-up deleted his X-Men: Evolution fanfic Between the Walls for this reason. He did repost his popular Teen Titans epic These Black Eyes, but the repost begins with this summary, which tells you what he thinks of it:
  "Noir, an incredibly overpowered Gary Stu, joins the animated Teen Titans. During his tenure with the heroic youngsters, many grammatical errors are made, many gross atrocities of the first-person narrative are committed, and a bunch of bloody drama is spilt in the name of lifeless nerdiness. Act One consists of his beating up the Titans and the Titans loving him for it. Act Two consists of predictable villains coming back to battle the Titans in a huge cataclysm of page length and sound effects. Act Three shall never again see the Internet because it sucks major donkey rectum. This has not been edited, but it has been preserved—not so much by me but by those few generous (depraved?) souls who felt this fic needed to stay in existence."
• Since becoming a published writer, Cassandra Clare has disavowed The Draco Trilogy and here it is.
• Greg X, one of the staff members of The Gargoyles Saga, has on several occasions publicly disowned his TGS work. Many of his issues stem from story structure to characterization (ask him how he feels about what TGS did to Demona some time), as well as a morass of fan-created characters whom no one cared about but their creators. That, and he just prefers Greg Weisman's plans and comics. A very diplomatically written blog post can be found here detailing how he feels.
• Since completing the series and moving on to webcomics, Cassie "Alohilani" Thomas has several times affirmed her dislike of Both Syllables, to the point that she had it erased from the Internet entirely. Despite this, she still gets asked about it, to her great displeasure. She eventually released her list of reasons for hating the series.
• With thousands of reviews and numerous people saving docs of Fierce Deity's The Legend of Zelda fanfic series, you'd think that he'd be heartened. Nope, he wants nobody to ever mention those "pieces of crap" ever again, despite the latter story "Eternal Ark" being reasonably well-written with an engaging plot and interesting original characters.
• FanFiction.Net and FIMFiction.net author Meowth Rocket/Meowth's Toon Dragon is known for his A New Face in Ponyville story, considered one of the better "human in Equestria" stories, as well as some decent Pokémon and Sonic the Hedgehog stories. He's also written a couple of stories that he considered so bad that he basically erased them from existence. "Payback from a Pipe", his famous Family Guy fic, is still his favourite despite it likely being a source of embarrassment for most writers.
• Gregg Landsman, once a prolific and well-liked fic author, essentially gave up on the Neon Genesis Evangelion fandom and disowned his most popular fic, Nobody Dies, after severe fan backlash regarding a Wham Episode that Retconned several dozens of chapters.
• Shinnok, author of the New Look series, isn't too fond of Naruto's New Look.
• Darth Link 22, the author of The Nuptialverse, once stated that the popularity of Post Nuptials made him uncomfortable, as he'd felt it wasn't as good as the rest of the series.
• Though Magica Madoka Veneficus Puella remains the fifth-most favorited and followed Puella Magi Madoka Magica story on FFN, its creator has declared it a Dead Fic, and noted it to be fundamentally flawed and really, really stupid. Given the switch from the near-Rated M for Manly MMVP to more character-driven stories like Soul Intercourse and Sayaka Quest, he's practically The Atoner. The story itself remains a Berserk Button.
• The author of the infamous Homestuck Troll Fic "Daddy Dearest" (You Do NOT Want To Know what it's about) has declared on her Tumblr that she's come to hate the fanfic, regrets ever having written it in the first place, and is angry at the fandom for turning it into a meme. It's not hard to see why.
• The author of Equestrylvania has admitted that the first arc in the companion book Equestrylvania Adventure was a very boring excuse at Worldbuilding and laying groundwork for the rest of the stories proper in the series, and that if he could, he'd go back and rewrite it (but won't because it'd be a waste of time and effort).
• Despite what you may think, and despite providing material for it, the author of Turnabout Storm was not pleased with the novelization. She had a long and productive discussion with one of the authors of the novelization, the contents of which remain private. What came out of that is that what happened in the novelization (most likely the Interspecies Romance between Twilight and Phoenix) was due to a series of miscommunications or lack of communication on both sides. A second, more faithful novelization has also been brought up, and is a possibility.
• Many authors that wrote for the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic universe The Conversion Bureau went through this in some way:
  • Blaze, the author of the original story, expressed regret at having written it due to the harsh backlash he got for implications he never intended to convey.^note The idea behind the story was to explain his own personal hypothesis as to why Equestria has no humans (with a little bit of personal Wish-Fulfillment tossed in); the misanthropic overtones and implications of genocide were the last thing on his mind He got so much backlash, in fact, that he dropped the story entirely and left it unfinished, declaring the premise was better in the hands of the Recursive Fanfiction authors. One of those authors, Chatoyance, would eventually overshadow him with her more radical approach to the premise and penchant for causing Flame Wars, which allowed his side of the fic's meta backstory to become more noticed and the hate to ease up.
  • Starman Ghost, the author of The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone, came to dislike it over time in spite of its popularity and influence due to his own hatred of the TCB genre as a whole and didn't ever want to write for it again.
  • The group of authors behind The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum came to feel this way over the story due to regretting certain creative decisions and the behind-the-scenes problems going on during the creative process that soured their memories of working on the fic.
  • Bendy, an author known for writing anti-TCB parody stories and a brief member of the writing team for Other Side of the Spectrum, stated in 2020 that he regrets writing TCB stories.
• Jade Ring decided to end The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity midway through its planned penultimate story after re-reading it to regain enthusiasm had the opposite effect. This, along with no longer having free time to work on the series, led to things like major buildup to events that never came to be and key developments too easily missed out due to being in disconnected stories.
• Mass Effect: Human Revolution's author IgnusDei has declared his dislike for the length of the Noveria arc.
• Kingdom Hearts: Heather's Story, a crossover between Kingdom Hearts and Total Drama, was fairly well received and even got a recommendation on the Fanfic Recs page. However, a few years after it was finished, the author took it down due to no longer being proud of the work due to numerous reasons, which he goes into more detail here.
  And thus, even after the good memories, the more than awesome friends I made with my fic, it's time for this fic to not be online anymore. There are some things you write that you shouldn't put online and this fic is one of them.
• Some of the contributors to The Great Starship Battle expressed frustration at the fact that the person chosen to finish the story ignored pretty much everything that had been written before, resulting in a lack of resolution for the plot threads they had introduced.
• Both of the writers for Prehistoric Earth have expressed this to varying degrees due to the both of them having had wildly divergent ideas on how they wanted the story to unfold, at least one of them having major first-timer inexperience with several crucial narrative elements and also later getting the chance to start work on his personal passion project at the same time, and the both of them never quite properly talking things out and reconciling their Creative Differences:
  • Drew Luczynski is the original creator of the Prehistoric Park-style zoo full of animals from both the aforementioned series and the larger Walking with… franchise that the story is centered around and the writer who originally served as the story's main writer before later becoming the co-writer. He has quite vocally (and rather unnecessarily harshly) voiced his hatred and dislike for how the story turned out after completion of the story's "first season" once it ended up almost entirely in the hands of former co-writer turned main writer Nathanoraptor. In fact, he's gotten so angry about the matter that he's chosen to blame Nathanoraptor for everything that he believes (truthfully or otherwise) to have gone wrong with the story; he claims Nathanoraptor savagely derailed the story from his original vision, prioritized focus on "the wrong elements", downplayed the protagonist in favor of undeserving "side characters" and either callously rejected or outright mocked every suggestion Drew made to "save" the story.
  • Nathanoraptor, meanwhile, despite being very quick to defend the majority of his decisions as well as provide full explanations and context for the stuff that Drew has complained about (while also making clear that some of Drew's claims are wildly off the mark), has also made it clear that there were nonetheless a few things that he's not ashamed to admit he would have done differently if he had the chance to do the story all over again.
• Lt Colonel Summers, author of the Touhou Project fanfic Fantasy Blitzkrieg, revealed in a review for Operation Alexandria^note a spin-off written by another author by the name Omega E The Reader as a Take That! to the original series, which also shared a trope page with it on This Very Wiki that he has come to hate Fantasy Blitzkrieg for being "the poorly written clusterfuck that it turned out to be" and that he "would like to see the setting be utterly torched". In fact, his first review for Operation Alexandria has him praising its author for having its protagonists curbstomping their way through the setting with minimal effort. Summers' second review for Operation Alexandria has him saying that he didn't mind having Malicia Krisime be subject to a curbstomp, immediately after saying in the same review that he doesn't want to see another curbstomp again, as he called her his most hated OC in his entire fanfic-writing career.
• For the RWBY/Transformers fanfic, A Girl and Her Bike, author SwapAUAnon has admitted that he isn't fond of how he wrote Ironwood in chapters preceding the 11th chapter of the first volume. This is in part both because he barely resembled his canon self and because subjecting him to Adaptational Villainy resulted in Ozpin and Glynda inadvertently being subject to Adaptational Dumbass since it made it questionable at best why they ever trusted him. In the author's notes for chapter 15, he announced that he plans to go back and rewrite parts of the earlier chapters to better match his canon characterization.
• The Pokémon Squad:
  • Everyone who ever worked on the series refuses to acknowledge the first episode, "Pokémon Roasting on an Open Fire", because of the horribly uneven writing and Random Events Plot. Rayquaza Master and Sailor Pikachu, in particular, hate it (and to a lesser extent, Season 1 as a whole) with a passion; the two admitted they had no idea what to make out of what the other was writing. Both of them outright refuse to put the episode up on DeviantArt and have even gone so far as to declare it non-canon. Even PlatinumMage, who likes the first season, has stated that he does not plan on reading it.
  • Season 1 was also given a potshot in a later episode, Season 13's "Cigarette Ash".
  RM: The target demographic hasn't really been kids since, like, season one. And that's the season we all like to forget ever existed.
• Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall had written Web of Dimensions, a Self-Insert Fic crossing Pokémon/Digimon/Sailor Moon under the name PsyWeedle. It appears to have been taken down, as that one is not on his list of fanfics. Bennett the Sage, however, did manage to get his hands on it for Masterpiece Fanfic Theater. Linkara is there, tied up and trying to stop Sage.
• Nameless_Flame, the author of Fate/Black Reflection has publicly disowned his fanfic after years of realizing its numerous flaws regarding the mishandling of the Nasuverse setting in favor of a Rule of Cool approach to the premise that didn't do its writing any favors.
• Prolific Lion King fanfic author ThatPersonYouMightKnow first wrote a series based on Alpha and Omega. Out of shame for their poor quality, he deleted them forever.
• The FanFiction Critic once swallowed her pride and reviewed an Underdog fanfic she wrote as a teenager in a Very Special Episode. It wasn't quite as terrible as she'd made it out to be, just amateurish.
• Notorious furry Sage Freehaven. As a teenager — and prior to entering the Furry Fandom — he wrote several awful Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers fanfics called The Dark Savior Saga, which saw various revisions over his tenure in the fandom and contained innumerable examples of bad fanfic tropes; he also made the mistake of writing them under his real name, only later changing them to bear his Furry Fandom pen name. Years later, he had the entire series — and anything else associated with both that name and his real name, including a MiSTing of the first fanfic in the series — stricken from the Rescue Rangers fandom's fan works repository. The only place you can read any of it now is at Everything What Is Crap, where the MiSTing of the first story in the series (found under the "American Works" section) remains intact.
• GeminiStar01 has been hovering around FanFiction.Net for a while, starting with the second season of Digimon and YuYu Hakusho fics. Don't bring them up when talking to her, unless it's in person and you want to see the funny color she turns.
• Eyrie Productions Unlimited's first project was Undocumented Features, a work they are still continuing more than twenty years after it started. However, their second was the spinoff (Gryphon and Zoner get) Hopelessly Lost, something that the original authors would prefer to have you forget (and which they are, in fact, recreating as Bubblegum Crisis: The Iron Age, a markedly superior work). Also, within the Undocumented Features body of work, the authors aren't too fond of the initial stories, which had started as a silly blend of wish fulfillment and in-jokes; Gryphon has referred to them as his "crap period."
• Author razzamatazz73 actually changed her penname because she was so embarrassed by her old fanfics. She even mentions on her profile that her general rule of thumb is to ignore just about everything published before 2007. Her newer material is noticeably better, considering her rather cliched first fics and later Star Trek (2009) and FusionFall successes. Her review responses to her older stories are particularly amusing, as she usually begins all responses by apologizing to the reader.
• Andrew Dickman created a short flash animation called Rockman Neo. He intended to create a Darker and Edgier fanfic and fan game based on the Mega Man series. However, after some time, Dickman abandoned the project. Not only that, but he started becoming outright hostile to fans who asked whatever happened to Rockman Neo.
• Monica Gilbey-Bieber has a commentary of his old Troll Fic, One Less Lonely Gurl, here.
• The first multi-chaptered installment of the For Good 'verse underwent a drastic rewrite as well as a change of titles, from Watermark to Breakaway. The author cites bad writing, among other things, and is embarrassed in general at the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command fics she wrote when she first entered that particular fandom.
• There was once a Sonic babyfic by Aerogreymon8.0, titled Eggman's New Invention, about Eggman inventing a weapon that turns male people into babies and the female characters having to take care of them. It got taken down somewhere between November 2005 and early in '06. When contacted (that is, while he even went by the aforementioned penname; unknown whether he changed his name or deactivated his account altogether since then) he stated that he was rather self-conscious about it.
• Link's Queen has since derided My Inner Life as something stupid she did when she was younger and hates talking about it.
• Cori Falls (a writer in the Pokémon: The Series fandom notorious for her use of Draco in Leather Pants on the Team Rocket Trio, among other things) apparently laughs at her old stories now.
• John Nowak, creator of The Nowakverse, began his MST of Under The Bridge (the first story in the series - which he wrote!) by describing himself as someone who should never have written Rescue Rangers fanfic. He would go on to insult the story in other MST works, as well.
• Stephen Ratliff, creator of Marissa Picard, was mostly enthusiastic about his creation... except for one story involving her. One MST of the story "Time Speeder" opens with a quote, taken from a Star Trek discussion group, where Ratliff states he never should have written "Time Speeder".
• Part of why Occam Razor (previously known as Cyber Commander) wrote a remake of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door was to purge it of the character Wanda Underwood, whom he came to despise for being a needless Take That! at Weevil. There were other parts of the old version he hated, like having Raven use a Dark Scorpion Deck with three new members on the team (violating the Five-Man Band status of the group). He has also forbidden any other authors from using those cards.
  • Also, in regards to his two Codename: Kids Next Door/The Powerpuff Girls crossovers (which have since been deleted) he pleads temporary insanity.
• Edrobot, of Jake English's Mysterious Theater of Scientific Romance from the Year 3000 once mocked the ridiculous crossover Hinata Ends With The Soul Calibur in an MST, only to reveal at the very end that he was the original author of the fic.
• The author of Sonic The Hedgehog: The Series pulled it from all online sources and deleted personal backup copies. It no longer even exists and the author has stated regret for spending time on it.
• Avenging Hobbits, the author of the Harmony's Warriors series, decided that the original version of Iron Mare was of such poor quality that he declared it Canon Discontinuity (even using the term), removed it from FimFiction, and rewrote the whole thing.
• Frollo Freak/CrazedWriter, creator of Back to the Frollo and The Disney Seven, very much hated her Claude and Me fanfics (based off the villian, Judge Claude Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and admitted they were awfully Mary-Sueish and poorly made:
  (On her old Frollo fics) "Warning! The early stuff – e.g., the "Claude & Me" series – is blatantly and awfully Mary Sue-ish. I hate it."
• Despite gaining a fair amount of praise, Steve Worek, creator (and mostly unseen co-star) of The Rocky Horror Picture Show fan film Bedroom Scenes generally scorns any discussion of it. The theme song for the unmade sequel, sung to the tune of 'Science Fiction Double Feature,' would've urged viewers to forget that Bedroom Scenes existed.
  • Steve has since removed Bedroom Scenes from his own channel, and outside of a mention of it in another video, he no longer acknowledges it at all.
• Frustratedstudent, the writer of the Les Misérables fanfiction A Thenardier's Redemption was mortified enough to do a rewrite of the entire thing, and pleads youthful innocence for some of the events there.
• SiFi270 has disowned Snow Angels and deleted it from fanfiction.net, and will mock it in his later fan fics every chance he gets. As far as he is concerned, the Recursive Fanfiction written by Racke is infinitely better.
• The creator of Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy Cure Shabon has commented that she now finds the story incredibly cheesy and flawed, and doesn't consider it her best work.
• Despite receiving near-unanimous praise during its active phase, the Metroid / The Legend of Zelda crossover fanfic Life of Samus has become its author's standard for terrible writing. Every instance of it being mentioned now is in an overwhelmingly negative context.
• When he was 19 years old, Max Landis wrote a spec script for a possible Super Mario Bros. movie. When he released it for download on his website years later, he added a few pages at the beginning emphasizing its problems and how much it sucks.
• The author of Weiss Reacts once wrote an old Crossover fanfic about Weiss meeting various rich and fallen nobles from other media, before abandoning it due to its low quality of writing. He left it up for posterity, but doesn't respond to the rare request to continue the fic or any questions about it.
• The author of Sonic X: Dark Chaos ended up hating the original version of the story so much (and listening to the criticism of several reviewers) that he decided to rewrite the entire thing from scratch, and refused to write the sequel until it's finished.
  • He also considers several of his previous now-deleted stories (including Fall of the Seedrians, a prequel to Dark Chaos) as this trope. He also admits that his crossover between Sonic the Hedgehog and Whose Line Is It Anyway? is pretty bad too, but he only keeps updating it because he has fun writing it.
• The author of the The Land Before Time fanfic Out Of The Shadows 2 greatly dislikes the story. She had never intended on making a sequel and only done so for a friend. She regards the sequel as unnecessary and partially undermines the original story with the sudden revival of Rex. Her disapproval of the story was part of the reason it ended up being cancelled.
• Jabberwocky1996 was so embarrassed by everything he wrote before The Thing Beneath The Sea that he deleted all of them. He's especially ashamed by his Harry Potter fanfics due to the poor writing quality, random Original Characters and due to his lack of knowledge of the franchise (not helped by the fact that he's a non-fan). Suffice it to say, none of his early fics exist anymore.
  • Subverted with The Adventures Of Brianna Baggins, as he doesn't outright hate the fic and says it helped him flesh out his writing, but feels there were several missed opportunities, that he stuck too close to movies, and that much of the fic was loaded with Narm, hence the massive re-writes under the name A Hobbit's Tale.
• The fanfiction website Archive of Our Own acknowledges this possibility, and allows any author to "orphan" some or all of their works, so that all information about authorship is permanently erased (alternately, the author's name is still mentioned, but the work itself isn't associated with the author in the database.) Useful if you're ashamed of a story, but for whatever reason don't want to delete it entirely.
• Sort of an In-Universe example (or rather, several), the Mary-Sue Hunter franchise Anti-Cliché and Mary-Sue Elimination Society features an organization with the belief that Sues are, by nature, abhorred by their own creators, and indeed, many of the Sues who are hunted are placed in the fic by request of authors who want to show that.
• Mr. Fanfic Guy deleted Saki: After Story for this reason, calling it "the worst fanfic (he's) ever written."
• Breech Loader, the author of such dark and dramatic fics as Prison Island Break and My Time Of Dying long ago wrote The Lion King fanfics The Chosen and Hyena Love under the name "Loa". They are considering putting them up, warts and all, on their FF account. While admitting they are deeply ashamed, they've also admitted that it's just part of learning to write.
  • They've also mentioned Bloody Domination 2.
    Breech: "I don't actually regret writing it. There's quite a lot of it I'd still write today. But as they say, when it's good, it's very very good, but when it's bad... it's horrid."
• This is common in the Loud House fandom.
  • Animationfan15 wrote The Diary of A Loud, a story where Lincoln hospitalizes Lola over a show-and-tell. After Peeking Through the Fourth Wall did an episode on it, the fic was deleted.
  • Bobbybooboobear's infamous The Boy Who Cried Idiot is another such example.
• Chapter 9 of the Azumanga Daioh fic Control was rewritten because the writer thought the original was embarrassingly bad.
• Downplayed with the Metroid Dark Fic Rise from Darkness. It was written when the author was only fourteen. The writer notes that the fic is a bit embarrassing and is a product of its time, but they can't hate it.
• The writer of Mary Phillips Story discontinued the story due to discontent with it.
• The writer of the Korra/Asami fic Unstable Equilibrium deleted the story because the writer dislikes both Korrasami and The Legend of Korra as a whole.
• Man Called True opened the FF.net upload of Chapter 33 of Yu-Gi-Oh: Tilting the Balance with an apology for Chapter 25 of the same story and its loads of transphobic implications. In his own words, "The only thing I still like out of that chapter is the idea that Gerald makes an attractive woman."
• There's a Phineas and Ferb fan fiction writer called "Blackspiderman". A long time ago, he hated Candace, and almost every single thing he wrote had Candace going through all this shit and sometimes some characters will go OOC to rage about her and her busting obsession. Yes, but now, he likes her, and has stopped writing revenge fics, and now he even considers them his Old Shame.
• Seth in the Pokécity: Series creator KalloFox34 halted production after six episodes because he wasn't satisfied by them. He felt the writing was scentless and the jokes were very hit-or-miss, and the series starred an OC that he was getting bored of.
• Tokusatsu blogger Sean Akizuki resents creating much of his former fanfics, most notably Super Sentai vs. Power Rangers, but even extends to Super Sentai vS Nickelodeon. Considering that fic's reputation, it's not hard to see why he deleted them in 2020, believing, in his words, that they deserve to be "burnt and ripped".
• DeathDealer Inc., the writer of Fire Emblem Fates fic A Brighter Dark, admits to having written the fic as an edgy teenager and looks back on it now with embarrassment.
• The author of Thirty Hs added a disclaimer several years after first posting the story apologizing for most all of its content, including its high amounts of profanity and mentions of rape to be "edgy."
• The writer of A Student Out of Time has come to dislike the majority of Season 1 and much of Season 2. Not only are their early arcs Old Shame, but two particular arcs have been largely despised by both him and the viewership, and have influenced much of the later storytelling in trying to fix those mistakes. Much of this has been, in their own words, the product of depression, writing even when they don't feel up to it, a lack of planning and real-life issues creeping in, which they've been trying to learn from and not have repeat. Many of the later arcs have felt much better-paced and better-written as a result.
• Zim'sMostLoyalServant, author of The New Adventures of Invader Zim, spent a lot of years hating the character of Gaz as she was presented on the original show (where she was one-dimensional and fairly unlikeable), and ended up becoming fairly well-known for the number of Revenge Fics he wrote aimed at her, an attitude and trend which continued into New Adventures. However, since then Gaz has canonically gotten Character Development in both the comic continuation and sequel movie, which has made ZMLS seriously reconsider his view of her and state that he regrets writing her so negatively in New Adventures.
• Lightning The Pikachu is usually proud of ideas she has but is often ashamed of her execution in her stories, especially in her past works such as the old version of The Hater Good, Toons Of A Feather, and espeically Bread Flubs.
• Lime Metz used to keep the earliest builds of his Cave Story fangame Torotribution up for anyone to play on his fangame's Legacy Collection, which ranged from prototype builds to even the betas from the era before the game's main plot changed. But on one of the special anniversaries in Halloween, he took them down out of embarrassment. He's made it clear several times that he doesn't really like them that much due to that version's problematic nature and that he doesn't want any more people downloading and playing them, but he at least allows others to play the earlier beta builds that came after the story change.
• SaoirseParisa turned against her Pretty Cure fanfic Twilight Pretty Cure due to the backlash she received over her handling of issues such as rape, victim-blaming and disability. She initially tried to rewrite the story to fix the problematic elements, but eventually the controversy led to her giving up on it completely, as well as effectively quitting the Pretty Cure fandom, and she later deleted all but the first chapter. Her feelings about the story are summed up in her fanfiction.net profile:
  I consider this the fan fic I most regret writing, but I admit it's not the worst thing I've written. A bad yaoi story I wrote in high school was WAAAAAAAAAAY worse, along with my super bad Super Robot Monkey Team fan fics from seventh grade.

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