A formerly brillant site which has now spiralled into a sad pile of crappy Mary-Sues, pointless, restrictive rules, and endless server problems. Nevertheless, it still seems to have a monopoly on about 99% of fanfic writers on the Internet, though you have to trawl through a heap of Sueage to get to anything decent.
Fanfiction.net annoyingly bans, among other things: stories in script-form, stories in second-person (or "you-fics"), fics involving real people, and anything they deem "interactive", up to and including responding to readers' questions. As a member of the PPC once declared of scriptform: "If it was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for fanfiction."
It also doesn't support many punctuation marks, such as *, <, >, , , and /, despite several of these being vital to certain fandoms, for example as the <> "thought-speech" speech marks in the Animorphs fandom. It also removes any links or email addresses in stories.
The site furthers its bad reputation by randomly banning a lot of really good stories for absolutely no reason. Its reporting system also doesn't seem to be regulated, as it can and has happened that one person has reported another's story because of a grudge rather than the story having anything wrong with it, resulting in the story's unfair deletion.
Fanfiction.net is popularly known as "the Pit of Voles", or just the Pit. Have you ever heard the saying that a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare? Well, if that's true, then common wisdom is that whatever's writing the stories on ff.net can't be monkeys.
Fanfiction.net annoyingly bans, among other things: stories in script-form, stories in second-person (or "you-fics"), fics involving real people, and anything they deem "interactive", up to and including responding to readers' questions. As a member of the PPC once declared of scriptform: "If it was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for fanfiction."
It also doesn't support many punctuation marks, such as *, <, >, , , and /, despite several of these being vital to certain fandoms, for example as the <> "thought-speech" speech marks in the Animorphs fandom. It also removes any links or email addresses in stories.
The site furthers its bad reputation by randomly banning a lot of really good stories for absolutely no reason. Its reporting system also doesn't seem to be regulated, as it can and has happened that one person has reported another's story because of a grudge rather than the story having anything wrong with it, resulting in the story's unfair deletion.
Fanfiction.net is popularly known as "the Pit of Voles", or just the Pit. Have you ever heard the saying that a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare? Well, if that's true, then common wisdom is that whatever's writing the stories on ff.net can't be monkeys.
"I went on fanfiction.net and they'd deleted 'Harry Potter and the Battle of Wills'!"
"No! But it's at a really good bit!"
"No! But it's at a really good bit!"
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may involve real people or imaginary (sometimes copyrighted) characters.
often referred to as slash
may involve real people or imaginary (sometimes copyrighted) characters.
often referred to as slash
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Fiction written about already existing characters from movies, games, books etc, by a crazy fanboy or girl with an over-sexed mind.
A number of these stories focus around homosexuality and the fanboy/girl's own desires to be getting some.
A number of these stories focus around homosexuality and the fanboy/girl's own desires to be getting some.
" He Voldermort got up on his knees and pushed Indiana down on the sand. "Or we could make magic," he whispered, slipping his wand from his pocket."
Thats some hefty fagfiction right there.
Thats some hefty fagfiction right there.
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Some of the best stuff I've ever read can be found in the fandom!
Some of the best stuff I've ever read can be found in the fandom!
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by demilovatofan October 14, 2008
Get the Fanfiction Addiction mug.A formerly great site, which hosted a wide amount of stories over a broad choice of categories. As of popular opinion, it is currently a shit pile. It has lazy administration, random deletion of awesome stories and leaves the shit ones behind. Does not fulfil it's motto; 'Unleash your imagination and free your soul'.
Guy 1: Hahaha, check this really funny story on FF.net.
Guy 2: Dude, it got deleted.
Guy 1: You serious? Ok, what about this awesome one?
Guy 2: Nope, sorry.
Guy 1: Well... what about that Super Dragon Ball Z With LOTR story?
Guy 2: Uh, yeh...
Guy 2: Dude, it got deleted.
Guy 1: You serious? Ok, what about this awesome one?
Guy 2: Nope, sorry.
Guy 1: Well... what about that Super Dragon Ball Z With LOTR story?
Guy 2: Uh, yeh...
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Don't me wrong, I read/write for Fanfiction.net quite often, and if you're patient, you WILL find something good and worth reading. You'll just have to dig through a lot of garbage first.
Fanfiction.net also has a sibling website, Fiction Press, which is for original content.
Often abbreviated as 'Fanfiction' or 'Fanfic'
Don't me wrong, I read/write for Fanfiction.net quite often, and if you're patient, you WILL find something good and worth reading. You'll just have to dig through a lot of garbage first.
Fanfiction.net also has a sibling website, Fiction Press, which is for original content.
Often abbreviated as 'Fanfiction' or 'Fanfic'
"You should check out my new story on Fanfiction.net!"
"Check this out! After an hour of browsing on Fanfic, I found a story that's actually really good!"
"Check this out! After an hour of browsing on Fanfic, I found a story that's actually really good!"
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