What is the best fanfiction ever written?

8 Fanfics That Are Even Better Than the Original Stories
  • “What You Don't Know” – Airplane. ...
  • “Three of Hearts” – MissHoneywell. ...
  • “Housebroken” – MissHoneywell. ...
  • “Crush” – ATetheredMind. ...
  • “The Blessing and the Curse” – The Black Arrow. ...
  • “Bound for Glory” – WTVOC. ...
  • “The Feint” – ATetheredMind. ...
  • “Inmate” – MissHoneywell.
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What fandoms have the best fanfic?

The top four fandoms on AO3 are Marvel, Supernatural, Sherlock, and Harry Potter – in that order; meanwhile, the corresponding data for FF.Net reveals that its writers gravitate towards Harry Potter, Naruto, Twilight, and Supernatural.
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What is the most famous fanfic?

Notable long fan fiction works

The longest fan fiction on the site is The Loud House: Revamped, a crossover fan fiction of The Loud House which is over 16,000,000 words long as of April 2022.
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Who is the best fanfiction writer?

The Daily Dot presents the Top 10 writers who write, or have written, fanfiction.
  • 1) R.J. Anderson. This U.K.-based Young Adult author publishes both her original work and her fanfiction under her own name. ...
  • 2) Lois McMaster Bujold. ...
  • 3) Meg Cabot. ...
  • 4) Cassandra Clare. ...
  • 5) S.E. Hinton. ...
  • 6) E.L. James. ...
  • 7) Neil Gaiman. ...
  • 8) Naomi Novik.
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What was the first fanfiction ever written?

In 1952, the world's first book of fanfic about fans appeared. The Enchanted Duplicator by Walt Willis and Bob Shaw was a metafiction based on Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, but which described a world populated with sci-fi fans. It chronicles the adventures of hero Jophan in "the land of Mundane".
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What is the longest fanfiction?

The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest is a Super Smash Brothers fanfiction that is over 4,100,000 words long and contained in a current 221 chapters. For the record that's more than 6.25 Les Miserables!
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Was 50 shades of GREY a fanfiction?

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction series originally titled Master of the Universe and published by James episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueen's Icedragon".
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Why do authors hate fanfiction?

Some writers think of fanfic as a hobby, while some say it's a form of stealing. Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series, really hates it, and asks her readers not to do it. She says that fanfic writers are "stealing an audience they're not entitled to".
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Is writing fanfiction healthy?

Writing fanfiction can improve academic writing, mental health, and sexual education. Sure, not all fanfiction is New York Times bestseller content, but fanfiction can take an incredible amount of time and effort to create, improving their authors' writing abilities, and helping teach the English language.
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What famous books started out as fanfiction?

5 Famous Books That Started Off As Fanfiction
  1. The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare. ...
  2. Point Pleasant by Jen Archer Wood. ...
  3. Paradise Lost by John Milton. ...
  4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith. ...
  5. 50 Shades of Grey by EL James. ...
  6. 10 Iconic Books Featuring A Love Letter.
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What is the biggest fandom ship?

Fandom's Top Ships For 2021
  • Renga.
  • EreMika.
  • DreamNotFound.
  • AruAni.
  • Xingyun.
  • KiriBaku.
  • Lumity.
  • Soukoku.
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What fandom has the most fanfics AO3?

Destiel is, as far as I can tell from the stats, the biggest ship on AO3 overall, with over 90,000 fics total. The next closest in sheer total number were Sterek and Johnlock, both of which were much further down in the 2020 numbers, as 29 and 53 respectively.
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What is the longest fic on AO3?

“CCW: Character Championship Wrestling” by NinjaCato on AO3 caps at about 3,817,471 words, which makes it longer than...
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What's the biggest fandom on Wattpad?

Fandoms on Wattpad

Another 2015 analysis of Wattpad fic showed 89% self-insert het and only 5% slash, with One Direction as the biggest fandom, and RPF overall representing the majority of fic content.
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What ship has the most fanfiction?

10 Fan-Ships With The Highest Number Of Fanworks On AO3, Ranked
  1. 1 Castiel & Dean Winchester — Supernatural.
  2. 2 Sherlock Holmes & John Watson — BBC Sherlock. ...
  3. 3 Derek Hale & Stiles Stilinski — Teen Wolf. ...
  4. 4 Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers — MCU. ...
  5. 5 Darco Malfoy & Harry Potter — Harry Potter. ...
  6. 6 Steve Rogers & Tony Stark — MCU. ...
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Is it illegal to write fanfiction?

Fanfiction is defined by the use of characters and expression from an original creative work and the creation of derivative works, all of which is illegal under current copyright law (McCardle, 2003).
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Is it illegal to print fanfiction?

As awesome as this is to see, I unfortunately have to tell you that using us to print copyrighted material is illegal, including fanfiction, even just for personal use.
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Can I sell my fanfiction?

Kindle Worlds, which Amazon Publishing announced on Wednesday, lets authors write "fanfic" based on licensed series and sell their works in the Kindle Store. Authors will receive 35% of net sales for books of 10,000 words or more, and 20% for short stories between 5,000 and 10,000 words.
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What does JK Rowling think about fanfiction?

Another notable author who supports fanfiction is J.K. Rowling, who has said that she is “very flattered by the fact there is such great interest in her "Harry Potter" series and that people take the time to write their own stories.” However, she is also on the side of the authors who are hesitant to support fanfiction ...
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Does Anne Rice hate fanfiction?

Despite popular belief, Anne Rice does not condemn every piece of fanfiction ever in existence for every fandom, she has been clear on Facebook and other sites that her discomfort comes only from fanfiction of her own works.
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Why can't authors legally read fanfiction?

So when a writer says they can't read fan fiction for legal reasons it's that their own lawyers are protecting them from outside lawsuits.
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What fanfiction was Twilight based on?

Stephenie Meyer said My Chemical Romance inspired 'Twilight'

The first Twilight book came out in 2005, with the first film following not long after in 2008. Meyer wrote on her blog that she had a vivid dream in 2003 that initially got her to start writing the first novel.
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What was Twilight inspired by?

Once a stay-at-home mom, Stephenie says the idea for "Twilight" came to her in a dream. "It was two people in kind of a little circular meadow with really bright sunlight, and one of them was a beautiful, sparkly boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal, and they were having this conversation.
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Is 365 days a fanfiction?

It's also based on a trilogy of books. As far as I can tell, 365 Dni is not based on fanfic, but it feels pretty typical of fanfic tropes and even romance novel tropes in much of the story. The kidnapping-as-romance trope is almost as popular as “there was only one bed!” in fic.
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What does Rated K+ mean?

K+: Some content may not be suitable for young children, usually those below nine years of age. There may be minor violence without serious injury, mild suggestive material, or minor coarse language that is justified by context. Equivalent to PG.
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