So, let's hear it. Do you read/write fanfiction? There are a lot of sites devoted to the stuff, and it exists for almost every genre, but how many of us avid RPers actually read it?

For me, I started roleplaying when I was 10 and am almost 18, and have only really taken breaks for a few months at a time. I started reading fanfiction when I was about 13, and only really actively read it for about 2 or 3 years. Now that I'm kind of taking a break from roleplaying due to RL stuffs though, I've started reading fanfic again.

Let's add on a bit here: favorite fanfic?
Mine is probably Before the Moon Rises by Penelope over at Astronomy Tower.

I used to write it. I should actually pick up on one of them at some point because I had a lot of fun with it. I wrote one for X-Men Evolution for a character that has recently undergone a revamp and has been thrown into RP. That was awesome--mini adventures with my waffly writing and lots of whammy.

I started work on a fic at FictionAlley a lonnnng time ago which was Marauders based. That showed a side to the Marauders that people don't play anymore. Arrogant bullies in boy-culture, like a Gregory Maguire style take on things. I ran out of steam when I realised I had written myself into a corner and I'm still struggling on how to manage it. I haven't touched fanfic in 5 years, however. I should really get on that.

The only one I ever read was Most Improper written by a very good friend of mine. The only reason I even started reading that is because she asked me to, otherwise I would have never read any fanfic at all.

I read Twilight FanFic, often just to read the Emmet [&] Jasper Pairing. SO hilarious!! Of course, i do sometimes write my own, but lets face it, we will never be able to capture Edwards beauty the way Stephenie Meyer does *sighs*

Heh, I read my first English fanfiction long before I read my first English book and wouldn't have read it if I hadn't started reading fanfiction and eventually stories over at Elfwood.
I can't really remember what the first fanfiction I read was, but one of the first genres I got really into was... Beyblade xD Can't for the life of me remember why, but yeah, I started with beyblade. Then I had a FFX and FFX-2 (or I think that's correct) period, before I finally ventured into the realm of HP fanfiction, and much like reading in general, I haven't stopped. I've no idea how many I've read, but I've read HP fanfiction for 10 years soon and since I've had period were I've read some 50 different ones in a week, there's a lot of them that I've read.

Anyhow, favourite fanfic? God, I've got almost all of them saved as favourites at my school laptop! <_< *Cough* Let's hope none of my teachers come here :p
The only one I can remember, and have a link to, is Lust...or Love by Sarinileni over at Portkey.org which is a Lily/James fic.
I also remember being really into the Alternate Universe fics by Slytherin-nette were Harry's in Slytherin and best friends with Draco, it's over at fanfiction.net

I started writing fanfiction when I was 11. An anime called Outlaw Star began showing on Cartoon Network, and I became obsessed with it. I wrote maybe two or three fanfics about it... they were really awful, ugh. And I'm pretty sure in one or two of them I was the main character, falling in love with Gene Starwind. LOL. I've written quite a bit since then, in various series (mostly anime), but I've never completed any except my one-shots.

I've always written more than I've read, and now I'm not writing that much of it anymore, since I'm not into anime, which is what most of the fics I wrote/read were about. The few fics I have read in the past few years are from Harry Potter. I wish I could write more; I have a lot of ideas for HP and Twilight fanfics, but never get around to writing or finishing them. Oh well.

My favorites:

Hinge of Fate by Ramos - Harry Potter - Rated: R - Snape/Hermione
Lukewarm (series) by Juxian Tang - Harry Potter - Rated: R - Snape/Lupin
Against My Better Judgment - Weiss Kreuz/Tomb Raider Crossover - Rated: R - Crawford/Aya

I actually started writing fanfiction when I was eleven. Granted I was just ripping plots off from old comic books, it all started at that time. I didn't write as much as I read, since my dialog and plots were so out there that I doubted anyone would really read it. At this stage I also tended to create Mary Sues who swept the protagonist/bishounen off their feet and whisked them away into the sunset :p

Thankfully, though, I don't do that anymore. I still write fanfiction, but I sure hope I've improved since then.

As for my favorite, I have too many to mention. But my current one is Hindsight by YamiPaladinofChaos, over at FF.Net. :lol:

I read a bit of good HP, fanfic, ocassionally. And found a wonderful take on the epilogue, that I am now consdering printing out and sticking into the back of my book. And I lurk on God Awful FanFiction every now and then, for a bit of light entertainment when I am feeling particularly sardonic. Mostly, I will not read fanfiction unless it is recommended to me. My gripe with it is that there is so much godawful stuff to shift through before I find something worthwile to read.

I used to write fanfiction a while ago but I stopped because I found it a whole lot easier to write my own original stories. I still read them every now and then though, especially from this one particular author that had inspired me.

I've written my own on occasion - but haven't ever posted it up on the web. It's mostly just random mind-musings.

I've read a few good ones, though. 'The Shoebox Project' is a way fun read. And it's got illustration. ^^

I read and write it. Not as often as I used to though.

I do write and read fan fiction. I can't say honestly which one I started first, fanfic or RPG, because I started them about the same time. But because I do write fan fiction, I don't read as much of it as I would like, because I am focused on my own stories and don't want to accidentally take from another story.

~Jade~

I read AND write fanfiction. Occasionally I go through periods of obsession where my first thought after seeing a movie/finishing a book/watching a TV show is "omg i wonder if there's good fanfic on this"

And there oh so rarely is.

My favourite fanfictions aaaaaare...

Avatar - A Teen Titans (TV Show) Fanfiction by Cyberwraith9. RIDICULOUSLY well written, 40 chapters long and completed.

Adaptation - Sequel to Avatar, ongoing.

198 Could Have Beens - X-Men (Comics) by vine. I adore these little one shots, and these ones are so saaaaad.

Don't read it, don't write it. When I'm really, really bored, I browse ff.net's Harry Potter fanfiction (I don't read it) to see some of the crazy pairings that actually have stories.

Some of that will freak you out.

I wrote fanfic briefly, but it felt like a waste, and I always got a bad feeling from writing in someone else's world, with someone else's characters.

You don't have to tell me twice! When I told my roommate that, if she could think of it, I guaranteed there was fanfiction of it, she didn't believe me, so we spent about half an hour putting it to the test. The winner? Dobby and the Sorting Hat. The losers? Our poor, poor dissolved brains. :sweat:

So while I do tread carefully when I'm in the HP section, and while I wouldn't suggest HP fics to a new fanfiction reader who didn't know the lingo (not after what happened last time...), I've probably read more Harry Potter fanfiction than anything, except for maybe Sailor Moon, simply cuz it came first. I dabble in just about every series that I'm interested in though. Heck, I've read Pong fanfiction, for crying out loud!

I first got into fanfiction because of Sailor Moon, back on moonromance.net before it died. I guess I was ten or eleven at the time. Of course I immediately started writing these absolutely horrendous insults to plot and character development that I called fanfics, but I have gotten better (I hope). I rarely finish anything nowadays, but I like to write 'em anyway, just for my own amusement.

I read fanfics every so often, mostly in an obsessive craze when I find a new series before my interest dies down a bit. Normally it's just cutesy fluff or humor, cuz if I want substance I'll just open up a novel, but I do read more serious fics if they seem decent enough.

Never could write fanfic. Just don't feel comfortable writing someone else's character. It's like the original author is going to come up and smack me down for being an idiot if I try. Same reason I don't play canons. :D

I was never a huge fanfic reader, though I did dabble. Would have been six or eight years ago now.. can't remember what I read, but it was probably awful. I read a few really nasty slash fics from Eddings's Belgariad series, I remember that! Talk about needing therapy...

I tend more to write off-shoots for my RP characters. I feel much more comfortable with that.

I don't think I've ever written fanfic, probably because I have enough rp characters and original stories to write, I don't need something else. I used to be very anti-fanfic, too (the whole "it's not original" bandwagon) but my opinions have changed over the years. Right now I'm only reading one fanfic that I am very fond of: Match. by mental over at hpff.com; it's Marauder's era, Sirius/oc. Very well written. :pink:

I read and write fanfiction although not as much as I used to since I'm too busy RPing xD

I read some but not alot. I used to love to write it until I lost my inspiration.

All fanfics end up looking like this for me:

So to answer your question:

Yes, I read fanfic, and I absolutely love it.

I've read a few fanfics in my time, mostly for video games over anything else since I don't find them terribly interesting to begin with. And even now I don't remember what they were about >>; I'm not big on fanfics, really. Not sure why. I know I read them for The Legend of Zelda and Golden Sun. But only on spontaneous spurts when I had nothing better to do. Now I do enough Rping/writing that I don't have time to read them. And although I've toyed with the idea of writing one, I never would.

I used to read fanfiction. Its a great way for fans to work up a spin-off plot from their favorite shows (and not an excuse to write porn *hinthint*). I've read a pretty good lot of them way back when and really enjoyed the stories and interesting twists made. although lately, I'm finding most are more immature than others (or are these dumb pairings of other stuff) and pretty much stopped hunting for them. I'm into a more professional sort of writing nowadays for my reading pleasure, but they're a good read now and then.

Currently reading "Match" thanks to a suggestion on here, and will probably refer to this thread the next time I need a good read :)

I read it! And I used to write it yeaaars ago *hides her godawful fanfic* but now I just stick to reading it.

Mostly slash stuff. >_> For video games. Like the Final Fantasy series, Tales of the Abyss, and also some manga/anime stuff. *shameless* What can I say? Those boys are so slashable! xD

*cough*

My favorite author for Final Fantasy 9 stuff would be Sforzie of fanfiction.net. Her stuff is hilarious. And she's a big Kuja writer, and he's totally my favorite Final Fantasy villain of all time. <3

I've never dabbled in HP except to giggle at the horrid, horrid writing, but otherwise while I liked the books well enough, HP fanfic just doesn't interest me at all.

But Draco/Harry are so extremely slashable! <3
As are Remus/Sirius, and Seamus/Dean. There are some great pairs.

God bless fan fiction.

There is nothing I like better than to sit down with a good parody (I only like the parodies). What could be more spectacular than a Sweeney Todd/ Sirius Black/ Doctor Who parody?

I also like any type of parody. I've never liked the serious fan fics because I feel they betray the author.

I only read fanfiction when I'm really, horribly, extremely bored. It's hard to find stuff I really enjoy, mostly because I don't like it when a character goes, well, out of their character, and because I'm picky about literacy. I can't write fanfiction very well (read as: at all). I'm just not any good at it. I feel more comfortable inventing my own characters and worlds, so while I love original stories and some of the fanfiction that other people make, I just don't feel comfortable with it myself.

I only just discovered fanfics this year thanks to my good friend Jen who writes Buffy Fanfics...(I don't read um because I don't watch the show....) But I absoultly love The Chosen One SG-1 Fanfic site...and I also shamelessly troll about on Wraithbait for some SGA slash...but I have to say that my fav fanfic has got to be Wincest...just love the Supernatrual Sam and Dean Slash.

But, I have not yet attempted to write fanfics and honestly I don't think I will because, like so many of you have said before, I don't feel write writing in someone else's world.

I've read it and written it, but I don't anymore. Not because I don't appreciate it, but because I've aged and matured (-snickers-) and I expect much more from my reading material. I feel that in most cases, my time is better spent reading something else. A lot of fanfiction is useless crap: no offense to those who write fanfiction, but I find that the number of good, or even decent fanfictions, is greatly exceeded by the number of awful fanfictions.

From time to time, I find myself reading fan fiction. I've never really devoted myself to that type of thing. I guess I'm not a story person. However, I catch myself thinking about writing it when I see it around places. It seems entertaining and something that would boost my RPing skills a lot.

Do I write fanfiction? no, but I write it. :)

I read lots of fanfiction though usually slash. I also write some, but I find that I usually can not write it well unless it is morbid and has very little dialogue...otherwise it is rushed and a big mess sadly.

I'm not really a fanfic person. The only time I'll really read stuff is if friends link me to stuff they've done. From time to time I write stuff myself, usually with the intention of setting up a series of stories, complete with a website (once I even made desktop wallpaper for a fic series I was working on- lame, I know) I usually lose interest somewhere during the first or second story and have never got as far as setting up a site for any of them.

"No, Never" and "No, Not Really" because I've read a couple of pieces, but I don't do it on a regular basis. At all. The piece that I read was absolutely fantastic, but I'm just not interested enough in fanfiction in order to read it.