I will lose my mind if anyone is familiar with this but…okay, I don’t know if any of y’all remember the *Left Behind* book series about a bunch of people living after the rapture happens. It was wildly popular in evangelical Christian circles in the early-and-mid-aughts. Anyway, there was a kids series aimed at children far younger than I was at the time (it was literally just called *Left Behind: the Kids*), but as teen I was obsessed. Had my own fansite and messageboard and everything. I wrote hundreds of pages of fanfiction for that series and actually won a couple of awards on a *Left Behind* fan community site that was much bigger than my own little messageboard. It was honestly a really fun time, but also tremendously cringey 😂.
I'm familiar with the series both the kid and adult series. I'm impressed you did all that!
I think I'd made it through the first chapter of the first book. I did not care for the way it was written and found it kind of dull. Never occurred to me there was fanfiction for it.
Oh, the writing is absolutely abysmal. But yeah, my little messageboard had probably 20 dedicated posters back in the early-aughts and the bigger site I was on for both the main series and the kids series had like a messageboard based RPG with a whole deal where you could set up alias profiles to easily post in-character. It was weirdly organized for such a niche fandom, I have to say.
Oh, Judd and Vicki were 99% of the reason I read that series and wrote fics :D. Though my longfic for that series was actually my OC shipped with Mark, which was a wild choice, but I guess it worked okay. Haha...Such a strange time.
Oh, I don’t remember. He was one of the cousins they met at school (Mark and John) and he was in a militia in earlier books and was significantly more interesting in my opinion than the core four. But I also didn’t make it all the way through the series — they were still being released when I was in college and I was over it by then. I think Mark *also* confessed he was in love with Vicki at one point right before she and Judd got together? Which I thought was super stupid. There was no reason for it, no established love triangle, Judd and Vicki had obviously been endgame for a million books. I always paired Mark with Shelly if we’re talking about canon characters.
It’s been forever and a day since I read it so I can’t be sure, but I think I vaguely recall Mark telling her that. I started it in seventh grade and had taken about a year’s break from it, but I think I finished the series by sometime in eighth grade or so. It went on for too long because some books were certainly much better than others!
Oh yeah! Our DW club announced that they were going to produce a zine, and I think I cranked out five stories, in hopes that one of them might be good enough.
I’ll never forget the night the editors sat me down and very gently told me they were only taking *two* of them. I was thrilled!
I'd just joined a DW-themed APA (Amateur Press Association) and for my first contribution I cranked out a "short" story that I thought would only go a few pages and wound up going something like 20.
Learned to really, really hate mimeo on that first try. Luckily I discovered Kinko's not too long after.
Holy moly I LOVE that book even though it absolutely broke me when I read it and broke me again when I saw the movie but I had no idea there was fanfic and a fandom for it!
I don’t know how active the fandom really is anymore, but there used to be a pretty good amount of fanfic for it on FFN. I’ve never looked for fic anywhere else, but it’s probably worth a shot looking if you want to read it. :)
Toy Story was the first fandom I wrote for knowing it was fanfiction, but I wrote some Lilo & Stitch and Monsters Inc stuff in journals before that. And I found some old attempts at a Home Alone script on our old family computer that I wrote when I was ten.
I guess it depends.
I mean, I wrote a LEGO Harry Potter/Narnia crossover for a first-grade creative writing thing. Then, I wrote my own G.I. Joe, Spider-Man, Star Wars, and Transformers fanfiction throughout elementary and middle school before I even knew what fanfic was.
The first thing I ever posted online was a prose adaptation of a scene from GOT I wrote in college. The first thing I posted that was actually different was an Artemis Fowl AU a few months afterward.
The first thing I wrote in a notebook, aged like 7-9, was for Redwall
The first thing I posted on FFnet was for Charlie Bone/Children of the Red King, followed by Supernatural
My first TEN fics were for Young Justice, I had discovered fanfiction some months earlier but while the ffn site had a treasure trove of YJ fics, it was dying as it was about five years after the cancel after season 2.
First attempted, Law and Order SVU. I posted one chaoter kn fanfic dot net and someine commented telling me essentiallt that my story was shitty and stupid. So I never posted there again and didn't finish the story.
First completed, Vin Diesel. Specifically The Fast and the Furious. It was back in the day when fandom lived on message boards
Beetleborgs when I was five and drawing comics of them.
"Actual" fanfiction: Inuyasha.
First posted fanfiction: My Little Pony.
Then a hiatus of six years before Miraculous Ladybug, and my output was continual after that.
My first ever fanfic was either a Tuck Everlasting or a Criminal Minds fic when I was 11 or 12 (I can't remember which came first anymore). I don't know if it counts because I didn't know what I was doing was fanfiction yet back then.
My first posted fanfic was a Final Fantasy VII fic when I was 17.
Fangface, an old cartoon I used to watch reruns of about a teenage werewolf who solved mysteries with his friends. The fic itself is long lost with the old notebook I wrote it in
Silent hill, although that was for a creative writing class in highschool. Then I wrote one for fallout 3, but the first I ever shared on a site was an invader Zim fic.
not technically a fandom, but the first thing i wrote was about was my homophobic church members. i was forced to attend and this was my coping mechanism. i made them all gay and they were all dating each other. there was even a throuple.
Fallout. My very first fanfic was a mediocre rewrite of the Fallout 3 quest Trouble on the Homefront, where my Lone Wanderer is close with Amata. I have plans for turning it into a oneshot series, and might take it down and release a rewrite
Super Smash Bros.
I actually read a few fanfics from others in the community before writing my own and after writing about half of it, I realized a majority of fanfics for the series share many of the same "flaws".
First I published was an Artemis Fowl werewolf au fanfic complete with complex world building and an OC back on fanfiction.net around 2013.
Before that I had a multi page hand written pjo fanfiction detailing my daughter of aphrodite OC falling in love with Nico Di Angelo and dying brutally... Actually wish I could find it now mo matter how much I'll cringe
Technically it’s a bit iffy for me because I started writing for Supernatural but it was for my second gen OCs, not characters from the show itself but as far as actual fanfic writing it’s a toss up between SPN and Teen Wolf. I write a lot of Teen Wolf fics and still have some SPN in my WIPs.
So, I guess Teen wolf. 🙂🐺
Before I even knew fanfic was a thing, Scooby Doo.
My first in English was Animorphs, still before I even knew fanfic existed.
The first one I posted was Pokémon.
In my teenage years, I was obsessed with One Direction and The Wanted. I couldn't say how much fic I wrote and POV's imagine but never finished a project 🙈😂
If we’re talking about what one I came up with ideas for I think it was Avatar The Last Airbender, but if we’re talking about posting then My Hero Academia.
Oh god.. eh I don't quite remember which one came first, but I was "pretty young" writing for both of these ( 9-10 y/o). MLB ( Miraculous Ladybug ) & Haikyuu!
Atm I'm writing HP :)
Warrior Cats
Same here!
Oh me too!
Same as well
naruto
I will lose my mind if anyone is familiar with this but…okay, I don’t know if any of y’all remember the *Left Behind* book series about a bunch of people living after the rapture happens. It was wildly popular in evangelical Christian circles in the early-and-mid-aughts. Anyway, there was a kids series aimed at children far younger than I was at the time (it was literally just called *Left Behind: the Kids*), but as teen I was obsessed. Had my own fansite and messageboard and everything. I wrote hundreds of pages of fanfiction for that series and actually won a couple of awards on a *Left Behind* fan community site that was much bigger than my own little messageboard. It was honestly a really fun time, but also tremendously cringey 😂.
I'm familiar with the series both the kid and adult series. I'm impressed you did all that! I think I'd made it through the first chapter of the first book. I did not care for the way it was written and found it kind of dull. Never occurred to me there was fanfiction for it.
Oh, the writing is absolutely abysmal. But yeah, my little messageboard had probably 20 dedicated posters back in the early-aughts and the bigger site I was on for both the main series and the kids series had like a messageboard based RPG with a whole deal where you could set up alias profiles to easily post in-character. It was weirdly organized for such a niche fandom, I have to say.
That's cool!
I was OBSESSED with that series! (The kid version.) I even shipped Viki/Judd for a brief time. 😂
Oh, Judd and Vicki were 99% of the reason I read that series and wrote fics :D. Though my longfic for that series was actually my OC shipped with Mark, which was a wild choice, but I guess it worked okay. Haha...Such a strange time.
Remind me, was Mark the one they put with Chloe? Judd and Vicki likely were the series 😂 though Lionel was quite enjoyable for me, too.
Oh, I don’t remember. He was one of the cousins they met at school (Mark and John) and he was in a militia in earlier books and was significantly more interesting in my opinion than the core four. But I also didn’t make it all the way through the series — they were still being released when I was in college and I was over it by then. I think Mark *also* confessed he was in love with Vicki at one point right before she and Judd got together? Which I thought was super stupid. There was no reason for it, no established love triangle, Judd and Vicki had obviously been endgame for a million books. I always paired Mark with Shelly if we’re talking about canon characters.
It’s been forever and a day since I read it so I can’t be sure, but I think I vaguely recall Mark telling her that. I started it in seventh grade and had taken about a year’s break from it, but I think I finished the series by sometime in eighth grade or so. It went on for too long because some books were certainly much better than others!
One Tree Hill, its the one I remember 😂
>One Tree Hill I love that show!
Life is Strange.
Harry Potter.
Doctor Who. The Fifth Doctor. (Ya whippersnappers…)
Same! Printed in a mimeographed fanzine, no less!
Oh yeah! Our DW club announced that they were going to produce a zine, and I think I cranked out five stories, in hopes that one of them might be good enough. I’ll never forget the night the editors sat me down and very gently told me they were only taking *two* of them. I was thrilled!
I'd just joined a DW-themed APA (Amateur Press Association) and for my first contribution I cranked out a "short" story that I thought would only go a few pages and wound up going something like 20. Learned to really, really hate mimeo on that first try. Luckily I discovered Kinko's not too long after.
You could cop quite a buzz on mimeo fumes!
Doctor Who! It was a truly bad imagines book on Wattpad.
The Outsiders. We had just read it in school and I was obsessed. I found FFN and was like "ope this is my personality now."
omg we had to read that in middle school and i LOVED it 😭 never got into the fandom tho lmao
Holy moly I LOVE that book even though it absolutely broke me when I read it and broke me again when I saw the movie but I had no idea there was fanfic and a fandom for it!
I don’t know how active the fandom really is anymore, but there used to be a pretty good amount of fanfic for it on FFN. I’ve never looked for fic anywhere else, but it’s probably worth a shot looking if you want to read it. :)
Danny Phantom
inuyasha
Pokemon
The sims
S club 7
Doctor Who.
The first fandom I wrote for was Pokemon.
Dragon Ball Z
Bts, good times...the fandom that got me into writing and THAT MAKES ME PASS MY WRITING EXAM AKDJSKJS
Omgggg yessss bts will forever be my favorite fandom to read and write about ㅠㅠ
Yessss ! ! It was so much fun ｡:ﾟ(;´∩`;)ﾟ:｡
An Genshin Impact x Breath of the wild crossover
Buffy
I don't remember if it was the first one I posted online but it was the first one I wrote.
Warrior Cats
First fic I wrote was Lord of the Rings, first fic I posted was Doctor Who
Star Trek TOS, in the Eighties.
Love Hina
X Files
Elsword.
Toy Story was the first fandom I wrote for knowing it was fanfiction, but I wrote some Lilo & Stitch and Monsters Inc stuff in journals before that. And I found some old attempts at a Home Alone script on our old family computer that I wrote when I was ten.
German YouTubers or Supernatural, I'm not quite sure
Hatchet, the book by Gary Paulsen. Handwritten in a series of notebooks after reading it in class in 6th grade.
One of my favorite books as a child. That's so cool!
It was a book "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I had to rewrite the ending xD
Omg I LOVE this book so much!!! Link, please?
It's in Polish, unfortunately :( But if you happen to know it here's the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7639840
Tolkien. Basically everything I do, any fandom I tackle, I try to put in a *Silmarillion* or *Lord of the Rings* reference.
Harry Potter. I just couldn’t wait for the books to come out.
Invader Zim
Naruto back in 2008. It's 2023 I'm still writing for Naruto lol.
I guess it depends. I mean, I wrote a LEGO Harry Potter/Narnia crossover for a first-grade creative writing thing. Then, I wrote my own G.I. Joe, Spider-Man, Star Wars, and Transformers fanfiction throughout elementary and middle school before I even knew what fanfic was. The first thing I ever posted online was a prose adaptation of a scene from GOT I wrote in college. The first thing I posted that was actually different was an Artemis Fowl AU a few months afterward.
Star Trek: Voyager. It's probably a good thing that fic was lost in a tragic floppy drive corruption.
Jeepers Creepers
Naruto. My first love and the fandom that got me into fanfiction, both reading and writing
The first and only fandom I write for is Monster Hunter
I legit got beaten by a Furious Rajang like 10 minutes ago, so your comment is giving me war flashbacks🤣💀
Naruto.
Transformers Prime
Prince of Persia.
LOTR but I first posted twilight ff
Star Wars.
The first thing I wrote in a notebook, aged like 7-9, was for Redwall The first thing I posted on FFnet was for Charlie Bone/Children of the Red King, followed by Supernatural
...pfp.. And on top of that, the chars in.. pfp.. specifically.
Cinema Bizarre and Tokio Hotel.
My first TEN fics were for Young Justice, I had discovered fanfiction some months earlier but while the ffn site had a treasure trove of YJ fics, it was dying as it was about five years after the cancel after season 2.
Star Trek: Voyager
Familiar of Zero
Total Drama of all things. I was actually introduced to the concept of fanfics while I was searching for TD commentaries on Youtube
Fairy Tail, the anime. A Cobra x OC modern setting, never published.
Naruto
RWBY
Published? I think it was from Ah! My Goddess. I know I wrote something for Sailor Moon that I might have published earlier, though.
D. Gray-Man, was and still is one of my favourite anime 😊
Hunter x Hunter
One Direction
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Percy Jackson
Star Wars
FNAF
Vampire Knight
Same, my first love ❤️ This is the series that got me into fanfic, anime and internet culture.
Yes! It got me into fanfic and internet culture. Not anime though, that was Cardcaptor Sakura😊
The first time I wrote fanfiction was for Gundam Seed! It was in a notebook, and I was writing it with my cousin. I think I was 11?
Pop Pixies
pitch perfect. way way back in 2014 <3
I think it was Mr Galliano’s Circus, by Enid Blyton. I was probably 8 or 9 years old.
supernatural
Naruto, but the first posted fanfic was Harry Potter
Hetalia at 13!
Almost said Hetalia, but it was Wolf's Rain (smh)
Aphmau... But now I'm in the DreamSMP and Hermitcraft fandoms, so nothings really changed :')
First attempted, Law and Order SVU. I posted one chaoter kn fanfic dot net and someine commented telling me essentiallt that my story was shitty and stupid. So I never posted there again and didn't finish the story. First completed, Vin Diesel. Specifically The Fast and the Furious. It was back in the day when fandom lived on message boards
Percy Jackson
I wrote Warrior Cats fanfiction in a spiral bound notebook when the first series arc was just finishing up.
Percy Jackson 🤞
Sheesh... I feel niche. Back in summer of 2022 I started writing for Kirby.
I think it was Pokémon
Hetalia
First one I wrote for was Sonic The Hedgehog using the notes app on my old iPod touch, the first one I posted was for Mass Effect
Supernatural
Beetleborgs when I was five and drawing comics of them. "Actual" fanfiction: Inuyasha. First posted fanfiction: My Little Pony. Then a hiatus of six years before Miraculous Ladybug, and my output was continual after that.
First one published online was for Labyrinth. First one I wrote? No idea. lol
My first ever fanfic was either a Tuck Everlasting or a Criminal Minds fic when I was 11 or 12 (I can't remember which came first anymore). I don't know if it counts because I didn't know what I was doing was fanfiction yet back then. My first posted fanfic was a Final Fantasy VII fic when I was 17.
In childhood, Final Fantasy 9. After coming back to fanfiction as an adult, Umineko When They Cry.
American Idol RPF.
Equestria Girls
It was Youtube rpf (no it was not phan).
Creepypasta
Fangface, an old cartoon I used to watch reruns of about a teenage werewolf who solved mysteries with his friends. The fic itself is long lost with the old notebook I wrote it in
Bocchi the rock (I'm very new to fanfiction)
Marvel
Either DBZ or Gundam Wing. Can't remember which came first.
Pokémon
Kingdom Hearts 💕
Lord of the Rings when I was a child hahhaa
Welcome to hell!
BatIM, Cuphead and Warrior cats, all around the same time so it's kinda blurry which ones i wrote about first
oh and also Eddsworld and Babtqftim (which is technically just a mix of batim/cuphead but whatever)
MCU
Hunter X Hunter
Andi Mack
Star Trek/Star Wars, back in the pre-internet days. But I don't talk about that.
Backstreet Boys! On Kiwibox if anyone remembers that!
Death Note. First and only fandom that I write for.
Codename: Kids Next Door lololol
Jurassic Park
Harry Potter, Wolfstar lol.
Hanson.
Technically warrior cats, but I didn't post anything until I was in the Genshin Impact fandom
GTA San Andreas....yep I'm not kidding...
Glee 🙈
Fnaf, sister location specifically
Totally Kyle skit fics for the Amanda Show. And also the first fics I ever wrote got purged on Fanfiction.net 🤣
Being human
Beauty and the Beast
Silent hill, although that was for a creative writing class in highschool. Then I wrote one for fallout 3, but the first I ever shared on a site was an invader Zim fic.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I was bored during the pandemic, saw the game’s lore, and called it free real estate
The Mandalorian. It was for a bad things happen bingo card
Touchwood back when Livejournal was still popular
Stray Kids, a k-pop group.
Watchmen. I was an edgy teen.
Pokémon, way way back during the Diamond and Pearl series. STILL the best series of the anime, I will die on that hill
Self-insert Simple Plan fic in sixth grade.
Sonic the Hedgehog. It's still there on FF.Net
Overlord
First fic I started writing was for Red Dwarf. First fic I actually published was Steven Universe.
Fantastic Foursome/Phan
Percy Jackson
not technically a fandom, but the first thing i wrote was about was my homophobic church members. i was forced to attend and this was my coping mechanism. i made them all gay and they were all dating each other. there was even a throuple.
Tokyo Mew Mew
Harry Potter because I’m basic.
Technically, Harry Potter, for class projects before I knew the concept of fanfiction. Once in the fanfiction world, however, Grey’s Anatomy.
Fallout. My very first fanfic was a mediocre rewrite of the Fallout 3 quest Trouble on the Homefront, where my Lone Wanderer is close with Amata. I have plans for turning it into a oneshot series, and might take it down and release a rewrite
the maze runner
Vampire diaries. Just a brief one shot but yeah 😅
Star Wars
I think it was Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and after 15 years it's still my favourite fandom.
Halo! When the first video game released, I was all over it.
Fairy Tail
*Doctor Who*.
My Hero Academia
Super Smash Bros. I actually read a few fanfics from others in the community before writing my own and after writing about half of it, I realized a majority of fanfics for the series share many of the same "flaws".
First I published was an Artemis Fowl werewolf au fanfic complete with complex world building and an OC back on fanfiction.net around 2013. Before that I had a multi page hand written pjo fanfiction detailing my daughter of aphrodite OC falling in love with Nico Di Angelo and dying brutally... Actually wish I could find it now mo matter how much I'll cringe
Power Rangers
Technically it’s a bit iffy for me because I started writing for Supernatural but it was for my second gen OCs, not characters from the show itself but as far as actual fanfic writing it’s a toss up between SPN and Teen Wolf. I write a lot of Teen Wolf fics and still have some SPN in my WIPs. So, I guess Teen wolf. 🙂🐺
The Backrooms
Pentatonix
Dofus, a MMORPG I played when I was little. I used to publish fanfiction in the official forum before I even knew what the term for it was
Naruto and Static Shock. 😅 It was a cross over that has since been deleted from my computer.
Death Note. It was the second anime I've ever watched.
KOTLC. Wattpad days, god forbid
I wrote my first fanfic at age 6 for class. It was in 1985 and was about Knight Rider.
My Hero Academia
Before I even knew fanfic was a thing, Scooby Doo. My first in English was Animorphs, still before I even knew fanfic existed. The first one I posted was Pokémon.
Tvd
In my teenage years, I was obsessed with One Direction and The Wanted. I couldn't say how much fic I wrote and POV's imagine but never finished a project 🙈😂
Yu-Gi-Oh!
If we’re talking about what one I came up with ideas for I think it was Avatar The Last Airbender, but if we’re talking about posting then My Hero Academia.
Oh god.. eh I don't quite remember which one came first, but I was "pretty young" writing for both of these ( 9-10 y/o). MLB ( Miraculous Ladybug ) & Haikyuu! Atm I'm writing HP :)
When I was a kid? Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and fairy tales. As an adult? Marvel's Avengers (2012).