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Post by Crouton on May 2, 2014 4:24:27 GMT -6
AO3 is popular but still nowhere near as big as FF.net. A lot of the people who moved there left because they were sick of FF.net's censorship, but it's still way bigger in terms of authors and fics.
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Post by Liadan on May 2, 2014 17:30:38 GMT -6
I mean, FF.net's going to have a much larger previous body of works, if only because it's existed for years, but isn't AO3 where a lot of the newer stuff is coming out? Or at least, that was the (very uneducated) impression that I had.
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Post by Crouton on May 2, 2014 18:14:47 GMT -6
It depends on the fandoms. Some moved there while others are sticking to FF.net, and I know many authors who post in both. So they are both pretty active at the moment.
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Post by Liadan on May 2, 2014 18:18:58 GMT -6
Ah, fair enough. Yeah, it probably does entirely depend on what fandom you're following as well--hadn't even considered that.
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Post by Crouton on May 2, 2014 18:36:43 GMT -6
What fandoms do you read the most?
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Post by Liadan on May 3, 2014 0:41:37 GMT -6
If you're asking me--I've only read a limited amount of stuff, and that only in the larger fandoms. Some Naruto stuff (I stumbled onto one writer whose work I particularly enjoyed, and a number of short works, and occasionally I just want to read some light romance stuff, and it appears to be better written than published "romance" novels); I'm assuming that I managed to find some enjoyable stuff if only because of how vast the fandom is, since it also appears to include a lot of trash as well. A bit of Harry Potter as well--again, mostly shorter works, and also the much longer "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality." I'm not much of a fanfic reader tbh.
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Post by sjfaerlind on May 8, 2014 9:14:15 GMT -6
A number of years ago I read a TON of LoTR fanfics. Many were great, some were not...lol. Some were even hysterically funny! The best thing about the LoTR fanfics was that the fanfic writers often picked out lesser known characters in Tolkein's world and expanded on them. I read a lot of stories about Celeborn, Galadriel and Thranduil for example. One story about Celeborn in particular stands out. It was about what it was like to be married to a ring-bearer. That comment Galadriel made to Frodo in the LoTR films really stands out: "to bear a ring of power is to be alone." That was a great read: just as good or better than anything I've seen traditionally published for sure.
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 8, 2014 16:32:42 GMT -6
I write fanfics a lot, but I never, ever share them with people. I've been writing them since I was around 8 years old. I wrote a Lion King fan fiction called "Cheetahs Never Prosper" at age 8. It was honestly one of my favourite things that I've ever, and full of really dry and punny and I cried when our computer broke and I lost it all a couple of years later lol. I also wrote a really fun Harry Potter Fanfic about Lily, Sirius, Remus, and a character that I made up (who had a love story with Sirius).
As far as reading fanfic though, I can't say I've read much. Is FF.net a good place to start if I wanted to read some?
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Post by Liadan on May 8, 2014 17:41:21 GMT -6
According to Crouton, who appears to know way more about this stuff than anyone else on the board, FF.net's got the biggest collection of stories, but AO3 (Archive of Our Own) has a pretty thriving community too.
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Post by Crouton on May 8, 2014 18:29:07 GMT -6
Yep that's pretty much it. FF.net has a huge history and a massive archive of work. AO3 has a pretty impressive list too, and you can often find interesting stuff there since they don't have any censorship rules that FF.net though. Although, those rules are complicated. MOST of the time FF.net doesn't enforce any of their strict ratings rules. But there's this group of mothers or something who go around on FF sometimes reporting stories and getting them removed for violating their rating. Which is kind of annoying. But that's more info than you probably need to know haha. For this reason many authors post their stories on both sites.
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 8, 2014 19:11:42 GMT -6
According to Crouton, who appears to know way more about this stuff than anyone else on the board, FF.net's got the biggest collection of stories, but AO3 (Archive of Our Own) has a pretty thriving community too. I'll check out AO3 too. I think I'm going to write some fanfic to get my creative juices flowing. Might help with the book(s) I'm currently working on. Yep that's pretty much it. FF.net has a huge history and a massive archive of work. AO3 has a pretty impressive list too, and you can often find interesting stuff there since they don't have any censorship rules that FF.net though. Although, those rules are complicated. MOST of the time FF.net doesn't enforce any of their strict ratings rules. But there's this group of mothers or something who go around on FF sometimes reporting stories and getting them removed for violating their rating. Which is kind of annoying. But that's more info than you probably need to know haha. For this reason many authors post their stories on both sites. Wow, that's kind of ridiculous. I mean, is the content they report NSFW on a PG forum? Or are they just being twits? |
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Post by Crouton on May 8, 2014 19:14:10 GMT -6
Well, they usually report things with lots of extremely detailed and graphic sex scenes or violence. So it kind of makes sense. FF has an "M" rating, but it doesn't have an R rating, and some stories get pretty intense and messed up, in a way that even violates some of the M rating guidelines. So I know why they do it, but it is still a bit annoying anyway. I've had stories I liked deleted before haha.
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 8, 2014 19:19:05 GMT -6
Lol, well that's fair enough. Maybe they should have an NSFW section? Or not, I mean that stuff probably belongs in a special genre anyway, on a different site.
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Post by Crouton on May 8, 2014 19:36:50 GMT -6
I wish they would just get an R rating and restrict it to users with an over 18 account or something. I feel like that would be the best way of dealing with it.
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 8, 2014 19:38:21 GMT -6
I agree as well. I'm not sure what the average age of fanfic writers is there though.
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