/lit/ - Literature

>>15297000
No and this is final. Anyone who has ever written something worth your time wrote original stories with original characters. Any autismo who ever wrote fanfiction was merely indulging their tumblerina dreams of being in charge of their favorite series and making the characters fuck each other.

>>15297000
No. Read Moby Dick.

>>15297012
Honestly. You’re right. Fanfiction writers are low quality. But, once in a blue moon you get fantastic writer that makes you question why they are writing fanfiction.

>>15297012
What would happen if there were a great writer, a brilliant writer, from our own age, whose works were universally lauded, but it was later revealed that he'd written fanfiction too?

>>15297041
Who are you talking about?

>>15297041
Those are the people who die of spontaneous combustion, for they must not exist.

>>15297000
The only fan fiction worth reading is My Immortal because it is the perfect parody of fan fiction.

>>15297000
Yeah, The Divine Comedy is pretty good.

>>15297086
Dude I just farted
Smells pretty good too you want a sniff?

>>15297000
My Immortal just for the laughs

unironically The Aenid

>>15297106
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4976703/alexanderwales

I read a few of this guys' stories a while back, they're pretty good. Alright prose, light sexual content, and some interesting story twists around engineering subjects, which appear to be his background.

>>15297000
Dante's Inferno

>>15297040
Take that rare good fan fiction writer, strap 10 more IQ points to them, and they'll be smart enough to realize that all they have to do is slightly change the names of the characters and other textual elements and they'll have an original work they can take to market. Why would you read someone exactly one standard deviation stupider than they need to be to be an actual writer?

Paradise Lost

>>15297888
Top kek you're unironically correct

>>15297012
>Any autismo who ever wrote fanfiction was merely indulging their tumblerina dreams of being in charge of their favorite series and making the characters fuck each other.
What about Tolkien?

the tendency of fanfiction is towards self indulgence

The lion’s share of fan anything is utter garbage. But there are authors out there who don’t care to make an independently project or already have some or plan to have them in the future.

They just really autistically love an existing work so much they want to build off it, or more often they love it but hate it so much they want to rewrite it and have other autists accept it as their personal canon.

not that I would know

Any good AsukaXShinji fanfiction?

>>15297012
>what is the Aeneid

>>15297000
Ovipositive

https://pastebin.com/1NkWG6qh

>>15297153
This but unironically. Its legit the world's first fanfic

>>15297100
Lmao

>>15297012
You're right, the sole purpose of fanfiction is to make canon characters fuck each other in ways no editor would ever allow, and it's amazing

>>15297000
If it’s a schizopost, then yes

Shakespeare

>>15297000
The Quran

>>15297000
The Bible

>>15297000
The Aeneid
The Divine Comedy
Fallout: Equestria

>>15297040
So in theory you could keep the writing but remove/change everything that makes it fanfiction in the first place?

>>15297000
The Aeneid

>>15297012
I can't believe Sophocles was a hack

>>15297000
In B4 someone recommends Yudkowski shit.

>>15297000
This fanfic is kino.

>>15297000
Tails Gets Trolled is the only fanfiction I ever genuinely liked.

>>15298070
Kek it's true

Is there any value in writing fan fiction? Is it just good for practice and fun or is it just dumb? Any chance of getting noticed and asked to write for said property?

>>15297000
Nice noughts.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5834947/1/Aeon-Entelechy-Evangelion
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3816236/1/Lelouch-of-Britannia
and of course Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2152968/BaalRules

>thread has not actually been deleted yet

Well, shit, okay then. Let's do this.

>>15301253
I remember reading Lelouch of Britannia back in the day. How far did it progress? Did it ever actually get completed? Did he ever fuck Milly, or Euphie, or somebody? Is it worth going back and catching up on?

>>15300950
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13490889/1/In-Another-World-With-A-Silver-Sword

I guess the types of fanfics you read depend on the sort of media you consume. I mostly read /a/ and /co/ related fics, myself, because that's what I do. I tend to watch stuff, as opposed to playing video games. I have read a few /tv/ related fics from time to time.

>>15300950
>>15301521
>Unironically making a self-insert so that you can steal the MCs girl away
Most pathetic kind of fanfiction

>>15302840
One the characters is named Hikuminmai Asaho. It becomes apparent at some point that it's a parody of the isekai genre and self-insert fanfics. At least I'm pretty sure it is.

>>15297000
Yes. Read The New Testament.

>>15303611
Based

>>15297000
Peter Watts' The Things

>>15298058
No, because that ship is shit and so are you.

>>15297086
>>15297153
>>15297895
These are actually pretty similar to Touhou fan content in that their ideas and characterizations ended up superseding the original source material in many people’s minds.

>>15301449
>How far did it progress?
I haven't read it in years and I remember 27 being the last chapter. I guess it died

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13467557/1/The-Devil-With-The-Big-Tits

You lads like Highschool of the Dead?

>>15297888
It could be that they hadn't known they were going to write something great. A rare case of natural talent. It is not unfeasible.
>>15297124
I can vouch for this. Start with Lost City for an example of what he writes. It is very short.

>>15297000
The only fanfiction worth reading.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3425232/1/The-Legend-of-Midna-Call-of-the-Twilight

Clovis and Rivalz: Vampire Hunters

>>15297000
the only worth while fanfic

https://fimfetch.net/story/79264/staying-sane-in-a-peaceful-world

There is well-written fan fiction, yes, but much of it falls outside the realm of meat-slapping wish fulfillment and thus goes largely unread.

>>15297000
Fate/Zero

>>15308792
This. I'm one of those faggots that like it better than any other piece of Fate media. I don't mind that it makes Fate fans seethe either, because I much prefer anything else in the Nasuverse compared to the Fate franchise.

>>15297000
Have had an idea for a star wars fan fic in which a wannabe sith hires a merc team to go get a bunch of sith artifacts for him so that he can play the part of a dark lord.
Merc squad gets killed and dude that hired them doesn't pay up so he goes after him for revenge.
Is it worth writing as a fan fic or should I just rework it into it's own separate story since outside of a few references and the setting it wouldn't be star wars?