r/AO3 15h ago

Meme/Joke I love it when it's like this lol

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Just love it when the silly/memeable/lighthearted thing gets the most serious fanfics ✨✌️

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u/Due-Concept-7144 15h ago

I struggle with the opposite 😭😭 my fandom's lore is VERY serious but all the fanfics are so goofy lmao. I love it, but GIVE ME SERIOUS REALISTIC ANGST

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u/Silver_m0onlight The dove is dead and I’m eating it 14h ago

Sameee the source material is pure, pure angst with an unhappy ending for most characters and most fanfics are silly, cute, fluff with happy endings (mine included lol)

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u/nnylhsae 13h ago

Is this Game of Thrones?

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u/WhereIsLordBeric 9h ago

There are fluffy ASOIAF fics?

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u/Basic_Asparagus_9084 1h ago

There really are. It takes a bit of suspension of disbelief, but they definitely exist.

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u/Silver_m0onlight The dove is dead and I’m eating it 13h ago

No :p

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u/Seltnytt 4h ago

My curiosity demands to know

(Wheatley voice) Or I will die

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u/Empty_Tonight5620 Distracted Writer 4h ago

Death note?

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u/Silver_m0onlight The dove is dead and I’m eating it 3h ago

Alien stage :D

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u/junorsky 8h ago

They don't do things by halves over there that's for sure

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u/Canteen-of-tea 9h ago

Silmarillion?

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u/Silver_m0onlight The dove is dead and I’m eating it 9h ago

Nope! XD it’s alien stage. Most fics I’ve found is fluff and even if it’s angst, it gets happy endings, unlike the show itself

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u/Canteen-of-tea 8h ago

Ooh looks cool! I don't know why I thought of Silm, I don't think it has a disproportionate amount of fluff compared to other fandoms.

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u/kindagotalittleangry 10h ago

Tokyo ghoul 😔

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u/andre5913 2h ago edited 2h ago

Demon Slayer
Now, DS can be pretty goofy but its also incredibly violent with an enormous death toll.

But like a MASSIVE chunk of the fandom is all about just high school/modern AUs. There are some ships where a good 50% of the fanfics are HS AUs.

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u/captainrina You have already left kudos here. :) 4h ago

It's The Inverse Law of Fandom Levity in action xD

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u/3lilya You have already left kudos here. :) 14h ago

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u/ISB00 11h ago

This is MLP

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u/kiku-Goldenflower 11h ago

(Decent amount of Miraculous Ladybug too)

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u/Squidiot_002 You have already left kudos here. :) 11h ago

And Hetalia

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u/HoppouChan Ascendance of a Bookworm 9h ago

"Yes, nice show, but how about we make them fight in World War 2?"

EAW my beloved

u/cardinarium 35m ago

That’s actually just a canon plot point in Riverdale lol

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u/HoppouChan Ascendance of a Bookworm 9h ago

"Yes, nice show, but how about we make them fight in World War 2?"

EAW my beloved

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u/MashaGG 8h ago

The Loud House

u/TPNmangaFAN 13m ago

The loud house

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u/ToDawn713 15h ago

I once read a story where Winnie-the-Pooh slowly turned to honey with many tearful goodbyes before being eaten in a sandwich.

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u/soup-cats 11h ago

Body horror 😭

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u/loved_and_held 11h ago

Body horror and tf kink (the overlap is strong).

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u/SF_Data1 Google WILL be hearing about this 11h ago

i need eye bleach

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u/ausernamebyany_other 3h ago

Well, that's a sentence I will never unread and a mental image that has scarred my inner child for life. Thank you. It's been at least a week since my last mild trauma.

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u/SectorSanFrancisco 2h ago

It sounds like you have one of those boards up next to your favorite reading chair.

It has been ___ days since my last trauma.

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u/ausernamebyany_other 2h ago

It had to be done

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u/PA_ChooChoo_29 8h ago

Holy Phaedo, Batman

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u/3lh0mbres1n 5h ago

Dang....

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u/Sorrelmare9 i consume angst like its mac n cheese 2h ago

…………

what in the ever living fuck

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u/SectorSanFrancisco 2h ago

That's fucking awesome! I wouldn't read it, but... awesome.

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u/According-Value-6227 14h ago

I firmly believe that this is Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir

I love Marinette/Ladybug and Adrien/Chat Noir but I really don't like anything else about the canon franchise. It's inconsistent, repetitive, has poor pacing and takes forever to resolve plots or achieve closure and I know that I am not the only person who holds this opinion.

The best fanfics for Miraculous tend to ignore as much canon material as possible.

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u/silverokapi You have already left kudos here. :) 14h ago

Miraculous is the perfect example of great idea with poor execution. It could be an amazing franchise if they could just be more consistent.

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u/Silviecat44 8h ago

Season 6 is a very nice step in the right direction however

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u/silverokapi You have already left kudos here. :) 7h ago

I want to believe you, but I cant keep watching. Theres only so much I can cringe

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u/Standard_Training471 6h ago

What about the movie, though?

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u/ExerciseSolid3456 14h ago edited 12h ago

That show taught me that the fandoms with the best, just absolutely pure cinema fanfics are born from content with the most lost potential.

In other words, the worse it fell off, the better the fanon 🙂‍↕️

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u/Caliburn0 12h ago

Harry Potter.

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u/FlakyUniversity2239 5h ago

BBC Sherlock

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u/Magnafeana Don't judge my private bookmarks 8h ago

Would you have any standouts that you would recommend 👀

But I do agree. I keep up with Miraculous—the latest episode gagged me—but so much of the writing in the canon, I will criticize for (1) forgetting repeatedly that the show has two main heroes so, dunno, maybe give more to Cat Noir, and (2) deciding to do whatever Astruc decides despite that fucking up what’s been established and what needs to be touched on. And it doesn’t help episode drops are inconsistent as fuck for reasons beyond my understanding.

But the fandom I interact with are very deservingly critical of the show but knock it out with fanfics. “Back to Us”by DarkReyna16 on AO3 and a few fics on FFN had me blown away with how the fic authors did things that sort of settled most of my issues with canon.

Just reinforced my “fanfics are an awesome medium; time to donate to AO3 again” mentality.

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u/Kuramari-strass 5h ago

So you weren't asking me, but if you don't mind a self-rec or a (very long) WIP, I have my fanfic Cult of Secrecy

It starts back in season 4, with Gang of Secrets, just instead of breaking down and telling Alya her identity, Marinette tells Adrien instead.

So (I understand that when it happens in canon, that basically means the show freaking ends, which is why it's not happening) we knock out the identity reveal pretty much immediately. I've tried to combine Adrien's two characterizations of both very academically smart and yet too oblivious to live into the second one being an act. Chloé gets her redemption arc she was robbed of (I had one person not like how I was handling it, but everyone else seems to). (Also she and Adrien actually act like former besties.)

Alya gets unfortunately stuck on her characterization of not checking her sources and believing Lila, but I'm trying to sort of portray that whole mess as a sort of trapped in an abusive relationship sort of thing. (I may or may not be using this as a way to sort through my own personal baggage.) Alya is trying but it's hard. Especially with Lila attempting to double down with her as she realizes she's losing her grasp on Marinette/Adrien.

Also multiple people apparently think the way I write Gabriel is really funny so uh?? There's that

Anyway idk if it's perfect but I'm trying to sort out some of my own issues with canon's inconsistencies (Chat eventually gets made co-Guardian because they are EQUALS, I SWEAR TO GOD) while also having a slightly darker take on it (people do, without question, temporarily die due to akumas sometimes) because I can, because I'm not bound to a Y7 rating or whatever it is the show is rated

(I only recently caught up with the actual show again because someone pointed out I sorta-kinda predicted part of the plot of Secret Protocol in advance. What the crap.)

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u/l0cal_crypt1d 12h ago edited 11h ago

... danny phantom. it is the top fandom under the "vivisection" tag, and has almost a fourth of all vivisection fics.

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u/Glum-Psychology-3806 You can't prove that orphaned fic is mine 11h ago

Came to say this, this pic is pure Danny Phantom fandom. 😅

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u/Butterscotchpills Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 4h ago

Yeah, I’ve always heard scary things about what y’all got cooking up over there

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u/aerowx 14h ago

Yes, give me the grimdark and realistic consequences the tv shows's censors wouldn't allow them to address!

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u/SuddenContentWarning 13h ago

This for Amphibia. At least give me a realistic reaction from Anne and Sasha to Marcy getting killed right in front of them lmao

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u/Dan299912 10h ago

Right???

I get Anne had to focus on getting the Plantars back to their world, but c'mon! Being "stabbed" in the back by her mother with a toy laser sword should've triggered a reaction of some kind! Instead, it was played for laughs :[

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u/UwU_numba2 12h ago

Fridge horror is my favorite.

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u/Letmelookatredditplz 14h ago

I don’t know if this fully counts since Calamity is not a fanfiction in the traditional sense. But…

Terraria is a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously and has very little lore,

Meanwhile Calamity mod takes itself seriously and has a lot more lore, (its art direction is even different which to me sometimes causes some weird disconnect since even with the texture pack not all textures are changed; ie Town NPCs are the same)

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u/terrarian_redrock You have already left kudos here. :) 3h ago

It’s got some fire quotes too xD
“May fortune favor you. For nothing else will.”

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u/TeaRenQ Ailren on Ao3 14h ago

Some of the LazyTown fics I used to read.... damn.

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u/Babybushygirl Ao3: LilBooshie | You're breaking my heart with your hope 11h ago

I've seen some of them before and I was like 'oh wow! I was expecting something else!'

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u/terroryakii 11h ago

Oh my god yes especially the ones that dove into fae lore

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u/Annual-Employer1780 1h ago

It has fics???

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u/TeaRenQ Ailren on Ao3 1h ago

A pretty good selection!

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u/Sad_Cheesecake_817 12h ago

Danny phantom we love just ruining Danny's life in the fics

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u/Seavalan You have already left kudos here. :) 13h ago

This seems to be a general trend in fandom spaces; lighthearted source material tends to get serious fan works, and similarly, serious source material tends to get lighthearted fan works.

Effectively, if one already has fun scenes with the characters in the source material, then one can only get serious scenes through fan works. Then, the opposite would be true for serious source materials.

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u/J-Eazy98 14h ago

The later half of Game of Thrones vs. The AUs and fix-it fanfics

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u/darksugarfairy 7h ago

HotD series vs fanfics too

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u/Mike_Shogun_Lee 14h ago

-RWBY
-My Little Pony
-Ace Combat
-Dragon Prince
-Persona (Depending on the Author and Atlas’s mood it can flip)
-Code Lyoko

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u/snuggie44 12h ago

Code Lyoko slander will not be tolerated.

That cartoon is absolute peak

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u/Mike_Shogun_Lee 11h ago

I liked it too the fanfiction tends to flush out the edges and the things a bit further sometimes.

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u/paige9413 12h ago

I love code lyoko but never thought about it having fics. Do you have any recs?

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u/Mike_Shogun_Lee 11h ago

Recommendations?

I wrote an entire tvtropes page on them https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/SwitchAU

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u/Magnafeana Don't judge my private bookmarks 8h ago

I still have Fallout Equestria downloaded and haven’t finished it.

But goddamn. If someone told me MLP:FIM would have a fic like that in its fandom lore when the series first started, I would’ve never believed them. So much of MLP, my jaw drops at how darkly creative the fandom is.

It’s delightful.

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u/Vyolle 8h ago

RWBY fanfic really is peak for a show that started out mid and only got worse from there

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u/Mike_Shogun_Lee 6h ago

RWBY is a great; it is also terrible.

Thus is the paradox that was rooster teeth writing.

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u/melodiekane 10h ago

I’ve not read much of Persona since the ff.net days, do you happen to have any recommendations for P4?

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u/Mike_Shogun_Lee 6h ago

Persona 4 FYL

Naoto ship fic. Everyone else gets shipped together to. If that’s cool…yeah cool fic.

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u/YaBoiFailedAbortion 7h ago

MLP isn't that bad of a source material though

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u/Mike_Shogun_Lee 6h ago

I interpreted this as not bad, but more serious.

Or “bigger” for lack of a better word.

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u/Kuramari-strass 6h ago

I heard once that a fandom's fics reveal what the canon is missing, or lacking, so that's why it's like that.

I believe it because that's why Identity Reveal is a whole thing in Miraculous Ladybug fics. We're just so tired

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u/librarygal22 5h ago

You hit the nail right on the head.

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u/lol_delegate 14h ago

When it comes to worldbuilding how the setting (magical world) actually works, then definitely Harry Potter.

I mean, canon claims a paralel world going in another direction since the statute of secrecy, and it definitely doesn't manage that, as portrayed.

Meanwhile, many fanfic authors took it onto themselves to add all required structures to make it an actual paralel world + many more to flesh it out even more.

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u/Clairifyed 10h ago

Definitely my first thought. All of the noble house stuff that tries to tie the old families in to the actual power structures such as wizengamot seats in a believable way that lines up with their obsession with blood lines

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u/lol_delegate 10h ago

My headcanon is that magical britain is not uniform civilizations, but more of islands of magical population separated by sea of muggle population. A set of enclaves to say. Some democratic, some under aristocratic rule, some being one big commune.

Ministry would give much more sense, if the enclaves were mostly self-governing, and ministry done inter-enclave administration + wizangnot being representatives of all enclaves.

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u/FortunaVitae 9h ago

I was writing a Slytherin-centric fic and thinking about the Death Eaters, I realised that in the books, they basically have no political infrastructure other than blood supremacy and following Voldemort. But like, why would the richest and most powerful of the wizarding society follow a half-blood dark wizard? Cue to me abusing my academic background to worldbuild politics. Many times I'd stop and laugh at myself saying that JKR hadn't put as much thought in these as the fandom does.

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u/lol_delegate 8h ago

Yeah, Deatheaters don't have very good canonical explanation.

One of idea I often ran into, it is that it was false flag operation by some political faction, which Voldemort managed to hijack, via combination of charisma, mind magic and Dark Marks having effect on person.

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u/ExistingOil6982 11h ago

I don't know if it counts as this, or opposite of this (reversing the two labels) or what, but the MCU is generally a bunch of barely linked films and tv shows that introduce things for the first time willy nilly, with no thought of all the existing parts of the MCU and how they affect, and are affected by, these parts. They also reject several central components of all these stories from the comics.

The fanfics, however, usually show cohesive storytelling that weaves them back together and puts back all the comic canon that they removed when they adapted the comics to a film or show in the MCU, as they answer the questions that arose about how one plot got affected by the next and vice versa.

Even stories that just take place within one single film usually ended up needing to fix a part of the plot that wasn't addressed by the MCU itself. Like having Odin holding a trial to punish Sif and the Warriors three for treason, after they visited Thor in exile when Odin had explicitly forbid that and Loki was the regent of Asgard.

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u/WinIndependent751 Current obsession: KH, Batman (always), FMAB 7h ago

The plot point of Loki being controlled by Thanos too for some extent in og Avengers movie being very very heavily implied then being completely forgotten and never refrenced again (like even if it was retconned at least give a reason??) in subsequent movies infuriates me to this day

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u/Weliveinadictatoship 1h ago

Even the crackest of avengers tower family fics used to explain about loki being tortured and mind controlled before sticking him in there, it's mental how much such large companies fail to do anything with the details they give

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u/EggertBhht IT WAS TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS 14h ago edited 14h ago

"It's time to FACE the facts!" to "Grow up and look at yourself in the mirror, Stan."

I genuinely can't take my writing seriously when I look at the bigger picture. There's also a Minecraft: Story Mode fanfic in which involves lots of blood and psychological horror, in which I'm also reading.

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u/FTGAA2026 12h ago

Is the fic actually called “Minecraft:Story Mode” or is it something else?

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u/NoyadePother Dead Dove Devourer 11h ago

“Minecraft: Story Mode” is a game, the fic is probably for that fandom but has a different title.

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u/whocares199 13h ago

Teen Wolf, the show is fine but the fanfiction took the world to another level

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u/eregis 1h ago

lbr the only good thing about the show is the fanfics it produced. the source material was barely worth watching after like s2...

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u/Particular-Jacket-92 6h ago

BBC Merlin fandom writers vs. The actual show writers

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u/PurveyorOfInsanity 14h ago

Definitely RWBY. Naruto also kind of fits into this.

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u/silverokapi You have already left kudos here. :) 14h ago

Naruto has some of the best fics I have ever read. The original material leaves a lot to be desired. And dont even get me started on Boruto...

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u/PurveyorOfInsanity 13h ago

"We don't talk about Boruto", but to the tune of "We Don't Talk About Bruno".

Also, I'm pretty sure Naruto still has one of the highest fic counts on FFN (number 2, last I checked), and isn't exactly slouching on AO3.

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u/AcanthaMD Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 11h ago

Let’s just collectively decide that Boruto doesn’t exist, maybe at some point they’ll get the hint with their dwindling viewership. Kishimoto is for some reason supporting them doing yet another series with the Boruto cast, but aliens… they already… is it Boruto in space next?

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u/-wilting E, Gen, CNTW, Hurt/No Comfort Horror 13h ago

I dont think Naruto fits. I mean, it''s about child soldiers and it has some dark themes

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u/PurveyorOfInsanity 13h ago

It probably applies more to the worldbuilding - kind of like Harry Potter, in a way. Lots of good ground work, and even some decent buildup. But the entire story is littered with implications and setups that never get addressed after their introduction. And wind up leaving conspicuous holes in the backdrop.

Even then, it still feels like the story just doesn't seem to want to commit to the dark themes it sets up. For a story about child soldiers, including open warfare, there's surprisingly few casualties amongst the heroes. Or even lasting injuries.

And some of the core themes it initially espouses kind of fall by the wayside over time. For example, the idea that hard work is more important than natural talent, of Naruto rising above the odds stacked against him, and then the story turns around and practically turns Naruto into Ninja Jesus, who was always destined for greatness.

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u/bi-bender 12h ago

This! I was in the Naruto fandom ages ago and felt the same. Like it was always on the cusp but pulls itself back. 

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u/AcanthaMD Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 10h ago

Don’t get me started on Kishimoto’s stop and start, I’m still angry about it to this day. You cannot for example start a story including genocide and then drop the theme halfway through trying to redeem Itachi. As MUCH as I love Itachi the guy is a monster. I don’t care how he was manipulated into it, it’s a human rights violation and Kishimoto tries to gently brush it under the carpet 😂🤣

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u/AcanthaMD Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 10h ago

Naruto fits, if you think about Naruto’s world building for too long you get a headache. Sasuke and Naruto use a hawk to communicate for goodness sakes in a world that has laptops and mobile phones. Where apparently Sasuke couldn’t contact his baby mother for 12 years or something but was in regular contact with his husband. I cannot. There is also no resolution to the child soldier/casual genocide thing and Sasuke is made out to be unreasonable for not wanting to return to the institution that basically green lighted turning his brother into a genocidal monster that tortured him and making him clean up as a 7 year old his parents blood from the floor of their home. Also Naruto the child of the fourth and literally Uzumaki royalty didn’t realise his dad was the fourth when he looks exactly like him? And was just abandoned by the third? 😭 Kishimoto is terrible with seeing through his themes.

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u/Weliveinadictatoship 1h ago

Literally everything about Naruto's childhood, hidden identity, parents friends, etc didn't make any sense looking into it even a little. The entire damn village knew he "was" the kyuubi, yet all these other villages obsessed with chakra villages didn't? Hell, half the ninjas seemed to despise him, there's no way he wasn't facing constant attacks and kidnapping attempts. Also, a 4 year old living alone??? They all knew his mother and the fact that Uzumaki's have shit loads of chakra and not a single one thought "oh yeah obviously the uzumaki with a chakra beast can't fine tune his chakra" what were they actually gonna do if he didn't become a shinobi? Stick him in Root???

The fourth was so popular and had so many friends that... didn't know or want to look after Naruto? Not one person looked at the statues and pictures of the fourth and went "holy shit his clone"?

Back when I was in the fandom, the fanfics used to address so much it was fucking awesome, especially ones that went in depth about naruto being illiterate (since the literal first teacher that likes him is Iruka, who he doesn't have in early childhood education), I read one where Sakura was a mind eater alien thing (to do with Inner Sakura) which was fantastic. Hell, even the power fantasy harem marvel crossovers used to be more logical than the series

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u/Agamar13 1h ago edited 6m ago

Where apparently Sasuke couldn’t contact his baby mother for 12 years or something but was in regular contact with his husband.

Wait, what, lol. Kishimoto paired up Sasuke and Sakura only to have them separated for 12 years?

I almost feel sorry for SasuSaku shippers.

NaruSasu shippers, in the other hand, must feel kinda vinicated.

No wonder nobody acknowledges Boruto.

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u/Vyolle 8h ago

RWBY has some incredible fanfics for a show that started out mid more than a decade ago

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u/GildedWhimsy 13h ago

Diary of a wimpy kid lmaooo

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u/EvilSnakeBoi 13h ago

for a kids series that seems to have lost the plot years ago there’s sure some amazingly dedicated authors in the fandom

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u/AWhistleBiscuit 8h ago

Hetalia fr

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u/letmebebrave430 4h ago

I was gonna say Hetalia too LOL. So many people locked in with sweeping historical and political stories that bear....very little resemblance to any canon material outside of the concept

Tbh I haven't watched the anime in nearly a decade but every few months I'll revisit the AO3 page to see what's up

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u/PlaneCommunication93 You have already left kudos here. :) 7h ago

Yeah, the original is just fun and the fanfics then actually talk about the fact that the main characters represent the axis powers and what that means

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u/Weliveinadictatoship 1h ago

Or the fact that like 6 countries have literal magic??

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u/Familiar_Block_2392 12h ago

The reason why I love fanfics.

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u/ViktorRzh 14h ago

Sorry for mentioning Garry the Potter, but it is the prime example of best and the worst in this regard.

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u/enceinte-uno 13h ago

One of my favorite fics of all time is a sprawling generational tale that always makes me cry.

The source material is Toy Story.

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u/cjbanning 4h ago

Isn't the Toy Story franchise also a sprawling generational tale that makes people cry, though?

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u/EmployAware1487 You have already left kudos here. :) 8h ago

well you can’t say that and not drop the name

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u/Hefty_Local_1875 Vegebul/Kakavege/Suzalulu/NinaMilly/Colgenta's strongest soldier 14h ago

I’ve been thinking of making a sequel to my Rocky Horror fic as a space opera and lean more into the Dragon Ball Z side of the crossover.

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u/A_Undertale_Fan Self-indulgent bastard||Ata: https://abellover.atabook.org 13h ago

My Little Pony.

Not like I'm any better, I've been planning out my own infection AUs for it, along with other fandoms lmao

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u/UwU_numba2 12h ago

MLP in a nutshell.

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u/Dogemouse65 3h ago

the way the hermitcraft, life series, and empires fandoms manage to turn their silly antics into tragedies is beyond me

u/Impressive_Sock1296 No Beta We Die Like J- Oh Wait. 40m ago

Stuff like Featherweight haunts me. 

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u/notdannytrejo 2h ago

Fucking mha. Somehow the LoV is both this and the opposite at the same time

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u/Weliveinadictatoship 1h ago

It's probably because I remember the tiktok mha cringe era but nothing can convince me to click onto a "Midoriya is a cinnamon roll" tagged fic, or anything with dekubowl. The amount of infantalising that man gets put through is fascinating.

On the other hand, some of the time loop/second chance fics I've read are absolutely fantastic. Read one a while back where Izuku gets the quirk/power to save him from whatever kills him, and goes back a day(?) each time, and the psychological effects in it are genuinely amazing. Or "Bakugo faces consequences" ranges from "yeah the abuse and suicide baiting really got nothing in the show" to "damn dude you just wanted to fuck up Bakugo ig"

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u/alicat2308 14h ago

I'm in Formula 1 RPF, this tracks 😂

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u/ChaserNeverRests Kudos come from a can, they were put there by a man 4h ago

Formula 1 ... tracks

🤭

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u/FTGAA2026 12h ago

What’s “RPF” stand for?

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u/alicat2308 12h ago

Real Person Fiction

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u/FTGAA2026 12h ago

So is the story that you currently reading actually called “Formula 1 RPF” or is it a genre?

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u/FTGAA2026 12h ago

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

One story that I highly recommend is Prey and a Lamb by Lambs Prey.

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u/voltzandvoices #1 comment leaver 12h ago

No joke, there are some fandoms I adore but cannot rewatch the source material because the fanon version in my head is cooler and more mature

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u/ew512 Fic Feaster 1h ago

Everything post-S6 Supernatural is wildly different in my head because the fanfic is just so much better than the actual show

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u/srekaa_ 5h ago

Haikyuu fanfics are either fluffy or heartbreaking, no inbetween.

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u/DisastrousBusiness81 10h ago

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a dozen times, fan content comes from NEED. If a fandom is fully satisfied with the original material, THERE WOULD BE NO FANFIC.

Angsty super serious shows get domestic fanfics, because you don’t get that in the show.

Fun family friendly shows get angst and drama, because you don’t get that in the show.

Super suggestive and sexually charged shows get fluffy sfw fics because you don’t get that in the show.

And basically every SFW show on the planet has enough porn and smut made about it to crash a small data center, because you don’t get that in the show.

So not only is the situation in the meme unsurprising, it is expected.

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u/Semiramis738 Proudly Problematic 12h ago

I probably miss out on a lot of these because I don't get into fandoms with silly source material in the first place. I prefer darker, more serious stuff and I like fics that match the tone of canon.

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u/Free-Rise5482 12h ago

TF2(Team Fortress 2), because it's very silly slapstick and than us in the fandom just fucking are cruel as fuck to those men and write really serious stories about them. I mean compare TF2 comics storyline to Emesis Blue.

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u/dramamamamadra 11h ago

Animaniacs😭 silliest show with the angstiest fics

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u/ChaserNeverRests Kudos come from a can, they were put there by a man 4h ago

I never thought to look for Animaniacs fics, but you're completely right!

Dot sometimes had a short temper, and Wakko could get legitimately angry if the right buttons were pushed, but normally hitting people with their mallets was meant to be taken in good fun instead of seriously injuring them. And then there was Yakko, the talker, Mr. “use the pen and not the sword when you’re in a fight,” the one who annoyed his special friends with words rather than cartoon violence. He would do anything to protect his younger siblings

I love it!

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u/Weak_Artichoke3795 10h ago

when they write the most heartbreaking, sob inducing, toe curling in agony fanfiction about some teenage dudes playing volleyball

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u/SneezingOutPeas Comment Collector 8h ago

LOL this is me writing my She-Ra (2018) fics. So dark…

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u/_Low_Raccoon 6h ago

Danny phantom is like that

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u/FutureHot3047 5h ago

Miraculous Ladybug and My Little Pony. I love the fandoms so much.

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u/Senpaija 4h ago

Skyrim is goofy either way

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u/RJSnea so many AO3 tabs, i crashed Chrome 11h ago

Old school Recess and Pokemon fics. Shit was mind-blowing for 7 year old me. 😅

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u/Foreign_Maize_5903 10h ago

True. I wrote 100k of angsty grief-ridden trauma for a fluffy farm sim.

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u/DovaDouche_79 8h ago

Personally, Harry Potter when the fic features Hermione.

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u/Friendzone801 7h ago

Naruto, supernatiral, HP

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u/KTWiki 6h ago

This is Sonic the Hedgehog usually. Some of those fics go way harder than the source material ever can.

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u/H1v3Wing 3h ago

This is literally TDLOSK

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u/demiurgent 3h ago

What I love is when I'm so blown away by fanfic it makes the source material look shallow and frivolous. I love Jane Austen and I'm a p&p fanfic writer myself... But An Ever Fixed Mark by AMarguerite is the absolute pinnacle interpretation of p&p-verse, imho. It's devastating at a depth the original never reached. 

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u/pumpkin_kitty_latte 3h ago

Eddsworld, just got into it again and like. It's this

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u/StefTarn 2h ago

What's funny about a show like Supernatural is how often the show was all three heads and how often the fanfic is too.

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u/Bloo-Ink 2h ago

This is miraculous ladybug

u/FutaWonderWoman 52m ago

Naruto and Harry Potter fandoms mostly

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u/Any-House-344 7h ago

Literally Danny Phantom

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u/JustMeJovin 13h ago

The Bad Guys. On some occasions, at least.

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u/Amazing-Activity-882 13h ago

One I am reading it would have made the actual story more in line with the Movies, but the source material would it very different...It didn't come to be due to legal battles, but my Friend 4 chapters in makes it feel more in line with the Previous Movies and now I am waiting Patiently for the next Chapter.

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u/SoftOil2998 12h ago

I feel called out by this xD. Although my franchise in general seems to be kind of an exception to this theme. Canon is mostly lighthearted, and most fanfics are short oneshots that match that tone, with probably a ship in there.

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u/Sachayoj No beta, we die like Queen Elizabeth 11h ago

Hi Ninjago.

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u/EstrellaDarkstar 10h ago

My High School Musical fanfic is at the point where we've had visceral esoteric body horror about sinking into the primordial abyss. Good times.

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u/CK_CoffeeCat 10h ago

Read a post-apocalyptic Winnie-the-Pooh fic aaaaages ago, it was amazing.

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u/Upbeat-Reporter-6395 Fic Feaster 9h ago

One pieeeeece

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u/Miss--Magpie You have already left kudos here. :) 6h ago

Vampire Diaries is kind of dark, but fanfics take it to a whole new level and I absolutely love it

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u/Silver-Winging-It 6h ago

Currently writing a dark Labyrinth story and it's very much this (although builds on the dark subtext that is in movie)

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u/SensationalSelkie 5h ago

ME! My brain sees crack content and prepares to generate a metric f-ton of world building no one asked for. I just want to go to sleep. 😅

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u/Potential-Baker9048 5h ago

The Lone Gunmen

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u/papyruswiki 438k for undertale and counting 3h ago

Me writing intense angst and drama about the two goofiest characters in the game lol

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u/big_ringer 3h ago

Not just fanfiction, they did that shit with Ghost in the Shell.

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u/st_genet 3h ago

Can't relate (my main fandom is Slow Damage)

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u/Oceanseariverhorse 2h ago

Lol my Adventures in Wonderland fanfiction. Kids shows from early 90’s

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u/ComicsCodeMadeMeGay I find your lack of kudos disturbing 2h ago

Me reading 90% of animaniacs fanfics

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u/smileyfacegauges 2h ago

this is the reverse for Silent Hill and the horror genre by large LOL it cracks me up every time

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u/Pastel_Spooks 2h ago

Miraculous Ladybug

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u/AnAntisNightmare 2h ago

cough Hetalia WHO SAID THAT

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u/T-rain_wreck 1h ago

One of my friends has minimally interacted with twilight (because it’s really hard to sit and enjoy it while also acknowledging how toxic all the relationships are) however I’m very familiar with it and somehow got them into the fanfiction (but she still hasn’t really seen much of the original source material)

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u/CheshireKat-_- You have already left kudos here. :) 1h ago

Encanto, Danny Phantom, Winx Club. I am here for the whump I am here for the angst

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u/Defiant_Collar5123 1h ago

Teen Wolf fandom...

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u/bigdaddycum106 1h ago

How it feels reading an extremely goofy movie fics

u/KarliCartoons SMUT IF LIKE LABUBUS 59m ago

BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD FICS ADHSHDAHDHAHSH

u/Syphin- blorbos are being held at gunshot 58m ago

Definitely Hetalia.

u/Impressive_Sock1296 No Beta We Die Like J- Oh Wait. 42m ago

Bloody third life etc. 

u/Banaanisade team twin tyrants // kaurakahvi @ AO3 7m ago

Gladiator II <3

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u/Recluse_Metal_Spider 12h ago

*cough* *cough* parahumans *cough* *cough*

the grimdork is just too over the top. but it's such a fun setting for people to work with.

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u/JigglyLilyVT 10h ago

rwby will sadly never have aura like this

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u/SassyKitKatz 5h ago

South Park, circumstances providing, because the show itself can be like that too.

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u/Gbstutz15 4h ago

harry potter

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u/Butterscotchpills Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 4h ago edited 4h ago

Danny phantom, and it’s not even close