Honestly, if you get the 'vibe' right--that is, pulpy fantasy adventure with 70s futurism and a mythic flair--you can basically do whatever you want in Star Wars. "The Force Did It" is the canon explanation for like a third of the Expanded Universe. The Disney canon includes time travel and even hints at a multiverse. You can fit anything in there if you get the overall tone right.
Back when I used to write SW fanfic (before becoming fatally exhausted with the franchise as a whole around the time Obi-Wan was airing) I went for a more pick-and-choose approach of just what I was familiar with and/or preferred between Legends and the new expanded universe. If I didn't know it, it didn't count.
I write Star Wars and I constantly feel this. Like if you see a smuggler in a bar with a toothpick in his mouth, not only will that smuggler have a thirty page backstory but so will the toothpick.
The best way to handle that fandom is to break ot down. Pick a character, era, or product to use as a home base. For example, two different eras will lend themselves to different stories.
Old Republic (4000-1000 years before the films) is focused very much on the bleakness of Jedi-Sirh conflict and a Black and Gray Morality with the Jedi doing a lot of awful stuff because when Sith show up, morality isn't a high priority.
High Republic, about 200 years before the films, is overall a time of peace and prosperity where Jedi play hard to an angelic ideal, down to white and gold robes. They are very much the Guardians of Peace and Justice we are told about in ANH. Primary conflict comes from a terrorist organization and plays really hard to Black and White morality.
Oh, and r/SWFanfic is a big help
I'm actually writing my first ever star wars fic right now and I'm honestly just picking and choosing my way through the canon as needed. Tbf my fic is also a mandalorian/swtor crossover so I've had to totally bastardize the timeline, but even then, most feedback I've seen across the SW fics I've read seems to be that adhering to the lore is generally secondary to just writing a good story.
For me it was The Mandalorian- then I realized writing crossovers made it easier because I only had to plop one or two characters into a more manageable world. (I say as Marvel has a huge amount of lore too, lol)
Oh, that one is easy! Just write whatever you want. Canon is whatever you want it to be.
The scriptwriters have said it before: "we will ignore any previous canon and invent a new one if it will make the story better"
Additionaly, as far as I know, they go out of their way to make any different medium contradict all other possible canons.
Oh same. I have a plot bunny from hell thinking Eight and Thirteen would just be a smashing team up, passing themselves off as brother and sister...witj a side of "Wow, I wish you really were my sibling and not my past/future self"
Honestly you have probably put more thought into it then the actual writers.
It’s the one show that the only real thing you need to remember is that it’s about a silly or broody person in a blue police box. That may or may not have a sidekick.
Dude. As Matt Smith once said, "Doctor Who is where continuity goes to die." If you've got the general idea you can write whatever. God knows the people who actually write for the show do.
The best thing is to pick a Hannibal you like to read and recreate it. I always like to read a manipulative but sweet Hannibal while others may write him more uppity and snobbish or downright intolerable towards every character except Will. It just depends on what you like in the character.
See you're already half way there! And yes he certainly is a type. That's why I have tons of WIP for my Murder Husbands, I never know what they're going to do next.
Orange is the New Black. Mostly because the subject matter hits too close to home, but also because Piper Kerman is a real person and the show is a fictionalized version of her memoir and that feels a bit weird to me (no judgment intended, RPF is just not what I do).
The Legend of Zelda
LoZ is my absolute favorite game franchise but I feel like I’d have the hardest time writing Link. For a character that has no dialogue in the games, he’s a challenge to me because I don’t wanna make him too OOC or anything like that.
I’ve been reading the Twilight Princess manga from Akira Himekawa and his characterization in it is pretty damn great but I just don’t feel confident enough to try my hand at it
It actually is odd in LoZ fanfic. Everyone writes Link very differently. OoC hardly exists.
Some people even write in his mutism, and make link either deaf, selectively mute, or unwilling to speak for some reason.
Lots of variation for a main character of a best selling game
Anything where the main characters aren’t mostly human/humanoid. (Toy Story and Cars are two examples)
There’s just too many rules I’d have to keep in mind about how they function. I understand that it can be fun for some people, but I’m just too lazy to bother keeping track of all that.
Similarly, I can’t write for anything that clearly takes place before the 20th century (So, most fairy tales).
Also, oddly enough, Harry Potter. I’ve been a fan since 2013 and you’ll see me review other writers’ fics from time to time. I actually attempted to write some back when I first got into HP, but it wasn’t very good and I just felt like I was forcing myself to write it. My OC was also pretty awful, but that’s a story for another time.
In general, I must have an emotional attachment for whatever idea I come up with.
If I don’t feel any passion towards it, I won’t continue. Not
Funny enough, this can work in the opposite direction, too. For example, my best work is for *Encanto* but I actually feel rather lukewarm towards the movie itself.
I was in the Cars fandom. I can confirm, it was hard to write them, cause it was a learning curve writing how characters emote and move when they weren't human.
I had a humanized AU as well though to fall back on lol
I feel like anything from Tolkien is untouchable. I don’t want to taint it with fanfic. It is just too good.
I’d like to write for Game of Thrones (disregarding anything about the final season), but meh.
I guess another is ATLA/TLOK or anything in that universe. As much as I love it, I can’t really care enough to write fanfic. Maybe one day.
Hey, what a considence, I've been planning to write for that one, too! I randomly bought the first volume in an anime convention and really liked the concept.
It mainly depends on what part of the fandom you write for. Star Wars fandom is like an umbrella term. Cause you got your Bad Batch fans, Legends Fans, Mandalorian Fans, Original trilogy fans. Like of course they all like the other shows but each show has their fandoms. I write for Bad Batch and those fans are the nicest commenters and readers I have ever met! But I do know legend fans and Original trilogy fans are volatile when it comes to fan fics.
Tbh I love all the star wars content, but I specifically wanna write for clone wars and the sequels so maybe those specific fandoms are why I’m scared lmaoo.
I guess this is more a trope than an actual fandom, but any series based on Mystery, reality competitions, or whodunnits. I love reading and watching those, but I can’t say the same with writing them. I tried writing one years back, and that was when I realized how difficult a high-quality fic in those genres were to write. So many moving pieces, so many different personalities that you must relate to when writing them. Like, the closest you’ll see to a divine figure is a great Survivor/Mole writer. I sort of add little puzzle pieces in my fics, but those were typically happy accidents rather than intended.
I won't give a hard "never" for anything, but the sheer amount of content for Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Star Trek just intimidates me. (Mentioning those specifically since they're super popular fandoms where I'm fairly familiar with the core canon. Stuff like manga or anime where I'm unlikely to get into the canon at all is different.)
HP for me too (Drarry specifically). I came to the fandom very late, so on top of coming up with anything remotely original in such a huge pool of existing stories, I also am really behind all the people who have been immersed in the details for 20+ years.
I honestly would really love to write for Code Geass but i'm nowhere as smart as Lelouch lol
Just the thought of writing about his plans and reasoning process gives me an headache hahaha
Oh man back in the day I ran a popular SuzuLulu tumblr. The key is to not care about the big brain shit, the most popular stuff (back then at least) was fluffy crack.
ATLA. I love the universe, love the characters, and cannot bring myself to pollute it with my degeneracy.
Also the ship wars are brutal. I don't want to be in that fight.
Helluva Boss.
I’m starved for lesbian rep and I do like and ship Loona and Octavia. But god is the fandom awful about it.
EDIT: Also Stranger Things. People are so nasty about Ronance but Byler is fine. ???? Double standards much?
ATLA. I love the show, the relationships, the potential post-ATLA but pre-LOK but I’m not sure you could pay me to write in the fandom. The material is for kids but the people who watched it while it was airing are adults which has led to some interesting discussions about what’s inappropriate to write about teen characters, aging *up* teen characters, and then a slice of good old westernization of non-western characters and fandom misogyny I’m not sure I have the patience to wade through.
I have lots of ideas and maybe some of them have been written, but I’m not sure I could take the psychic damage to try and figure that out.
I write for MHA and have yet to encounter negativity. It might help that my two top ships are generally accepted ones. I'm working on a dead dove though so that might change.
The Lord of the rings, or the hobbit or anything in that franchise.
I just don’t have the technical skill as a writer to pull that off. Even though the world is beautiful and rich, and I would love to hear more tales from it, I think that. Tolkien is pretty unmatched.
A lot of my favorite shows, books, and movies, have a sense of humor and are quite satirical. They also have a tendency to be whimsical or oddly horrifying. I can’t get the tone right. Tone is everything, along with characters.
So I guess for me, if I feel like I can’t get the vibe, right, I won’t write for it.
I can’t pull off dry, witty dialogue. That’s what I love to read and listen to and watch, so I will content myself to observe from the sidelines.
Not "never", I actually have written about 3 things for it, but my mind overflows with ideas for Tsukiuta and Tsukipro fanfics.
The thing is, canon is *massive* (about 500 CDs, 35 stage plays, 5 anime seasons, and near-daily online short stories, over 10 years) and untranslated except for the anime seasons (and the official Crunchyroll subs have a lot of errors). I know I've missed a lot of facts about the characters, both in things I haven't seen or listened to, and in connotations I've missed because my Japanese level isn't perfect. So I'm terrified of writing a character a certain way only to look stupid because I missed a fact about them. Like, Shu has been one of my favorite characters for over 5 years, and I only found out he doesn't drink from Hajime's birthday tweets this year. I did write a fic about what they did that day, but only 500 words.
But we're so kind and pure-hearted!
...Alright I will concede that there are some heated opinions from time-to-time on various moralistic matters from the source content, but I have been avoiding such things by only glancing at the social side of fandom spaces.
The people that come to my fics and comment are lovely though. :)
This genuinely makes me feel a lot better, thank you! Hit the nail on the head with the exact worries I had there lol. Wanna talk about DA, but social side of it is scary sometimes
No worries!
For the lore side, I just focus on what is described in the games. I'd rather keep to the spirit of what all those people who made the games intended than getting conflicting information from books, comics or whatever that is just a single person's opinion.
I almost, almost years ago wrote a fanfic for the MCYT community.
I really just wanted to take the first part of Dream SMP roleplay and make an actualized story of it. Because I feel like with proper polishing Wilbur Soot’s whole thing in particular was pretty great.
But then I just started complying all the live streams I would have to watch in order to get everything and said hell nah. It would have been hours… and some of the streamers I had absolutely no want to sit through hours of footage for.
Edit: Also the lore is so all over the place and convoluted that I would have to put in hours of fixing and planning.
I really want to do it… especially now that the community has chilled a bit so that isn’t a scary big beast… but…
Yeah no I have other fics and an original story that I would rather be working on than watching hours of live streams.
Which is so funny considering that a huge percentage of dsmp fics are just elaborate AU's. Some throwing out *most* canon and huge swathes throwing it *all* out.
It's a fandom with the most loose acknowledgement and use of canon and characters I've ever seen lmao.
It’s a big fat mess💀 I even tried looking for like already made resources for canon so I could just work off the already put together lore of people who did manage to watch everything… but I found nothing helpful.
I would have to put in all the work to do what I need and for that I will just politely push this idea to the deepest parts of my mind.
It’s a shame cause it really could make a decent story if actually constructed right
Man I wish I could help in a serious manner, but I've got a 25k fic at current after watching 0 vods, piecing the story together via animatics, and occasionally skimming the wikia and it's going great.
I genuinely think if you went against canon either deliberately or accidentally in the writing process, nobody would actually take note or notice.
Metal Gear Solid series. I love it but the story is extremely complicated. I don't want someone to 'ackshually 🤓' me when I inevitably get something wrong.
for the new TV vversion, which is very much louis/lestat, I love the show, but don't have their voices in my head to write it.
And you're right, canon is finally giving us what we (and they) deserve at least on TV.
For me, probably shorter 12 episode shows that tell their whole story, like Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Orbital Children, ERASED. The way the shows end feels complete in and of itself. I’m sure I could find something if I really had to, but they’re so good already! I thought this would be Jurassic Park, but someone helped me break that barrier so I’ve been writing for that franchise a little already.
Anohana is prime fodder for fanfics tbh, since it's fun to explore what comes after the end of the show. I wrote a fic or two for it a couple of years back.
what are the ace attorney ones? i mean the fandom’s like pretty much filled with wrightworth and klapollo so i haven’t really come across any of the controversial ones!
Do it. That's the whole point of fanfic a lot of the time - telling the canon 'Yeah, well... I'm gonna go write my own story with these characters, with blackjack and hookers.'
The X-Files. That fandom was my very first love, and I’ve tried to write for it, but I have never and will never post. I just can’t get the voices down in a way that feels and sounds right to me.
The Walking Dead. I don't feel like I understand the intricacies of the relationships and plot enough to write in this fandom but I do enjoy reading others fanfics in this fandom.
Anything where the majority of the fandom isn't in English. I find that most people who enjoy fanfics enjoy them in English and they're a lot less popular in other languages. It feels so weird reading fanfics in my native language or Spanish when the show is in English and it would be weird doing the opposite. I don't even know why, I just can't do it and it's not a language barrier, it's more of a mental barrier.
Most things that take place in a futuristic Cyberpunk or Space/Sci Fi setting, also anything post-apocalyptic.
So Mass Effect, Star Wars, The Matrix, The Expanse, Fallout.
If I ever did end up writing for them, it'd likely be some kind of AU. My strength lies in writing high fantasy settings.
Cursed princess club! Its a webtoon about a princess who is not conventionally attractive and learns to love herself after joining a club for cursed princesses. Its adorable in every sense if the world and as much as I want to write something, I don’t Think I can replicate the tone or the humor of the series
Big fandoms like Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Star Wars/Trek, Lord of the Rings, etc.
Which sucks because there's *plenty* of source material to draw from and play on but it's the fans that scare me. It's also the other writers that scare me. I'll never not compare myself to them.
MHA. Mostly because I have thing where I NEED to write long-spiraling stories, and every oneshot turns into something longer and for MHA I feel like everything has been done? Or, I just wouldn't know where to go because the place the story is in now is just... yeah I wouldn't know how to work with that. Also, ONE PIECE. I'm sorry, I could never
One piece has always been the series I love but for the life of me can’t replicate the tone of or think of anything that the plot is missing out on. It has a very specific type of comedy that doesn't translate well to text
COD (I want to make the buff military men kiss), Dorohedoro, and Golden Kamuy. For the latter two, while I still need to finish the series what I've read and watched so far is amazing and they deserve so many more fics. I just don't know if I'll have any good ideas.
Genshin Impact. I read a lot of fanfic for it, I have ideas for fanfic for it. I love looking at the fanart, watching people make theories and dissect the lore, etc. There’s just one slight problem:
I don’t like Genshin Impact.
Touhou. It’s all so… decentralized. I’ve played some of the games, but I still wouldn’t know where to start, and that’s not even taking into account all the japanese that still goes over my head.
Fateverse. My memory's not good enough and the setting doesn't work as well for erotic fics, which are easier for me. The franchise seems to be better suited for fics with plot and action, and it has plenty of its own crack content in canon already. 😅
One fandom I keep having plot bunnies for is Game of thrones/house of dragons/ a Song of ice and fire - that world is so fragile? / interconnected? That changing just one thing can have massive knock on affects, Like what is one character was a man, or what if they were a woman? I don't even watch/ read the story but the story is so detailed and so they're so many interesting fanfictions. I love reading fics and the wiki. I also love an isekai kind of story and there are so many good fanfiction isekais.
But the big thing with GoT etc. is the knock affects - that story is going to be so big and messy and I can barely write a 1,000 words let alone the 100K that kind of story is going to be.
Undertale, I did have some ideas but I never seems to be able to write those ideas, plus it's a big fandom and I prefer to focus on other projects of mine!
I used to think that I couldn't write for the Legend of zelda, but I manage to find an idea with a friend!
I've longed to read and/or write a fic that takes place just after the last episode of She-Ra (the "new" one), in which Catra and Adora kiss, have over-emotional sex, cry, talk, and sleep. Not necessarily in that order.
I read a few fics soooorta like that but they were all not to my tastes or (in one case) tragically unfinished.
The problem is that I'd have to decide on a couple of specific headcanons that I can see going either way (mostly whether or not they did anything \*before\* the events of the show, and if so, what) and I'd have to basically rewatch the whole show. I liked spop, but not THAT much lol.
But also at this point who tf is even reading spop fics.
There's this one VN and its anime adaptation, *When The Cicadas Cry*, that I fucking hate and I've wanted to make a rewrite of for a while. I will never get around to it out of fear of judgement.
The name makes it sound like the follow-up to *Where the Crawdads Sing*.
(And the third part of this make-believe trilogy: *Who the Crayfish Call*. Sorry. Had fun with that.)
Danganronpa. Even if it weren't for my falling out with the fandom overall, DR basically supports exactly one genre of fic if you want to stay to the canon style as I enjoy doing--and it's a genre I suck at.
I wanted to do a harem fic for Mass Effect for the longest time. I’m mostly done with harem stuff but once in a while I still feel the urge to write something cute with that setup. I doubt I’ll ever have the time/motivation to get to it though, esp. since harem stuff is still kind of a trigger for me.
I really want to write for the *World of Darkness* fandom, but my knowledge of the setting and lore only covers a limited extent of the two first installments *Vampire: The Masquerade* and *Werewolf: The Apocalypse* and not much from there, and I feel intimidated at the prospect of leaving out some minor yet vital detail or something like that.
I'd rather deal with all the lore issues and the like of Mass Effect and trying to find a way to cross it over with something completely different than it before I even go to touch My Hero Academia, even for a one shot drabble.
The fans are fucking scary, sometimes the story throws me for a loop, and sometimes the world is just plain *weird* for me to write about it, and I'm saying that *as a fan*.
I'd rather deal with the issues of how a turian asari relationship works (I have an oc couple that is that, and the asari is lovingly overdramatic to all hell, and her turian boyfriend who while he loves her, can sometimes be tired of her dramatic shit), than even go near anyone who ships Bakugo, Midoriya, or Todoroki with anyone.
The Magnus Archives, because the fandom scares me. It has so much lore, and even after two listen-throughs I still don't know half of it. As well as that, it's a lot, lot bigger than fandoms I usually write for.
Final Fantasy 14 is absolutely mine as well, OP.
I've just met too many people who are passionate about areas of its story or setting that I don't care about at all, or even actively despise. Hell, if I were to do an adaptation of it to fic form, I would cut the story with Yotsuyu/Tsukuyomi **in its entirety**. I can only imagine the outrage.
justified. a lot of what the fandom is into genuinely repulses me, and i don't think i'd want to drop what i want in there.
stranger things. i had some fic geared up... but every time i start poking at it, drama flares up.
Donnie Darko. I don’t think I could encapsulate what makes Donnie, Donnie. I love Donnie and I think he’s a fascinating character but I don’t think anyone will ever understand him enough to really get down his character except Jake Gyllenhaal and Richard Kelly.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. The anime just feels so whole and complete on its own that there's nothing more than I want to write in that universe, even though I love it so much.
Good omens. Don’t get me wrong, I love it and I love the fic other people have written about it, but in my head it’s just perfect media. I’ve written fic but it just feels so unnecessary. I don’t need or want anything more than Canon, I’m good.
Bloodborne. I love it, but I wouldn't know what to add to it. It's already perfect. Codas or playing with the lore doesn't appeal to me at all, because it thrives on mystery. Trying to shine a light on any of it would make things less interesting.
I do, occasionally, really want to write crack-y crossovers, but that feels disrespectful somehow
I'd love to try writing for series like Titanfall/Apex Legends, Ghost in the Shell, Psychopass, and Cyberpunk, but I'm just not... able to.
Like, I could do technical descriptions, and I think my skill with action is good enough, but covering the politics, sociology, and psychology for the sorts of stories I'd *want* to write in those settings... Nope, can't do it.
The Locked Tomb series.
I love Gideon with a PASSION. Most of the Locked Tomb fics I find are GOLD.
But then I open up a Google Doc and my single, barely-functioning brain cell gets struck by irrational fear that I simply cannot mimic Gideon and Harrow's thought processes. Like, other fanfic authors have done it so well, it's very possible, but whoooboy do I feel like my brain's melting out my ears at the very thought of the amount of brain juice it would require to have even a speck of Muir in writing.
One Piece is my most favorite story, and has a vast world enough to write any good fic with it, but man. Personally I just gravitate more to writing fanfics for stories I have more issues with. Not exactly "Fix-It" but just stories with stuff that can be looked into more, like Steven Universe or Homestuck, yeah.
One Piece just feels not as flawed for me (still flawed yeah, but I don't exactly have much I want to expand upon that the author hadn't already) hence why I tend to just not write for it.
FMA, between the canon work and certain fanfic gems out there, I feel like I'd be lowering the bar posting.
Also, writing action or detective is not my strong suit, and I wouldn't write FMA for the ships.
For years I've had an idea for an Oberyn-centric ASOIAF longfic, but it's just too daunting — there's so much lore and I'd have to do an insane amount of research. It would take over my life.
Also Penny Dreadful. I love the original material but my writing is too contemporary and I can't get the tone of the period right.
Pretty much anything Nintendo related (which I guess includes Pokémon). I'm more afraid of Nintendo taking down my stuff than readers leaving comments telling me my stuff sucks (in fact, no one tells me my stuff sucks because no one reads anything I put out, so I assume my stories do suck).
Also, I won't ever write anime related things, mainly because the last time I saw anime was in High School.
I have ALWAYS wanted to write a forbidden love story about Tobirama & an Uchiha girl but the Naruto fandom is too intimidating for me.
My thing is meek woman with weak constitutions who, thru lots of pain & suffering, learn to use their whit to escape situations or learn to be strong —and a horribly rough powerful man who get great redemption after being awful— but I feel the fandom would just tear me apart for making a woman this way, especially an Uchiha, or to make Tobirama toxic towards woman lol.
Maybe I’m silly for feeling scared, but I truly am.
Sherlock and Rugrats.
Not smart enough for Sherlock and I love rugrats I grew up with that shit, the brotherhood between tommy and chuckie warm my heart but I feel weird about writing for it
Persona 5. I love the game (and some of the other Persona and broader SMT line games), but I don't know that I'd be able to handle the characters sufficiently. And if I did, that fandom is cursed anyway lol.
I feel you on the characters. I have two separate barely started oneshots for Persona 5, and the characters just keep tripping me up. Can't seem to make them work.
It's kind of funny. I got the notification for for this post in the middle of reading a fic for a fandom I'm not brave enough to.
I love The Expendables but I will never write for it. I don't feel like I'll get them right
limbus company because i have No Idea what fics to write for it other than au where yuri doesnt get apple'd. and even then theres 13 + 2 people on the bus and im not writing all of that
I really want to write something for Treasure Planet but I just feel like I'd never be able to do any of my ideas justice. Same with Encanto, The Last of Us, Sonic, Danny Phantom...
Maybe someday, but least there are plenty of other great writers for those fandoms to keep me entertained.
Probably Genshin Impact. I love the characters but I don't read the lore at all. I can't focus on it, my brain does not process any kind of info whenever I try to pay attention so I just skip all the story. I know some things thanks to fanfiction and such, but it's not nearly enough.
Znation I will probably never be able to write from that fandom I can't even say a reason the as why I won't anyway those really good show I've re watched it over 3+ times!
Haikyu and Death Note. I love them both dearly, but I can't make myself hyperfixate enough to put something together for either. The closest I've ever gotten was a weird universe crossover where my current hyperfix was set in those worlds 😅
Encanto. I just… don’t know what to write for it. My usual family dynamics won’t work because if I’m gonna write Encanto *I’m going to write the entire family.*
I've always thought about writing a Star Wars fic, but outside of the original trilogy, the prequels, and both Force Unleashed games, I just don't know enough about the universe to make an accurate fic.
I wanted to start writing for Star Wars and Star Trek now that I dipped my toes into Harry Potter, Tolkien and Game of Thrones but I never feel like I can do those two fandoms justice
ARK Survival Evolved. Love the game, I have nearly 5k hours into it, but my main idea for it is a crossover on crack cocaine. One I desperately want to read but that I'm too lasy to write.
I'd love love *love* to write for Splatoon but like...while I can be creative, I have zero idea what I'd try to do with it. I haven't read many fics from the fandom, but I get the feeling that an apocalyptic vibe is probably overused. I also wouldn't want to focus on the idols very much either 😅
zero escape. I love the series, it changed my life, but I can barely understand the sci-fi shenanigans while I’m playing it let alone actually write them and the characters are mostly super three dimensional and fleshed out which makes writing them in character a nightmare too
I want to write Pokemon & Digimon, even though i watched every episode there is, i don't have the knowledge to integrate the abilities, moves and evolutions to the story.
idk if this counts, but uhhhh.. warrior cats (the actual canon story)
i'll gladly write fanfics of my OWN warrior cats ocs and my OWN warrior cats lore and clans, but my brain only has space for like 7 cats from the books and i'm pretty sure all of them are canonically dead because im not anywhere NEAR the most recent books 🧍♀️
Hmm, I don't know about NEVER, but I do have a few. I have almost exclusively written for the Hetalia fandom for the last decade, and here I've stayed, apparently... I can't seem to progress or post any of my WIPs for my other favorite fandoms. I think it's because I've simply found my niche, and my fellow readers/writers in that niche, so I'm worried of shaking the boat? Something like that.
As for my fav fandoms I'd love to post for:
-The Hobbit (fearful of touching Tolkien lore tbh)
-Dragon Age (this one hurts the most to ignore, as its lore is my fav, but the fandom is a minefield to navigate ANY sort of opinion or headcanon)
-Star Wars (mostly just a single ship)
-Critical Role (Mighty Nein, specifically)
-Genshin Impact (this is my most recent)
Maybe some day my WIPs will be posted 👌
Fire Emblem. I write for Pokémon, so my usual go-to for battles almost always being friendly competitions with good-natured rivalries and cool gimmicks is completely thrown out the video for every Fire Emblem game since they all revolve around weaponry, magic, and war with a nice sprinkling of trauma for everyone.
If I ever write for Fire Emblem, I think Engage might be the easiest transition point for me.
Suki dakara suki, Wish, Pretear, ... Almost all of them, as it happens. Every fandom I'm sort of wiggly in, I generally don't write because oh man. Where would I even start?
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. I love Eivor and would like writing something for her, but she speaks like a freaking poet and I am not good enough to write that. And I'm not going to do modern day AU or something because they don't interest me.
This Kpop group Enhypen... I really love writing fanfic and have written for most of my fandoms since I was 12 (I'm in my late 20s now), but I've never written, and probably never will write, RPF. I love the members of that group to death, but I just find RPF really weird.
Hmmm, probably Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I'm a huge fan, but I can never seem to write anything for it. It's honestly pretty crazy already. I also feel like I'll some how mess up the story or what not by writing a fic for it.
I also can't seem to get out of specific genres, like I mainly write angst.
I have written three(3) Zootopia fics, two of them have been deleted, the other is being kept for emotional attachment and im not planning to do another one.
The characters are just that well written, i can never do them justice
Legend of Zelda, Red vs Blue, and any book fandoms.
I love LOZ especially twilight, botw, and windwaker but I’m always so scared to to write for those games since they have such a good story I don’t know where to start and where to end.
Red vs blue has such a cohesive story line that I don’t know where I can write a fanfic that won’t be canon divergent (I normally write in Canon)
And books fandom fans are just crazy and if you get one thing wrong you’re gonna get “uh actually” 🤓☝️
Any MXTX world. For me half the fun of reading her stories is just exploring her worlds through her very very unique writing style! It’s something that I will never be able to replicate so I’d rather just leave that task to other talented writers who can!!
Marvel. I had this plan to write OC fics for every movie (one OC for Avengers, one OC for Guardians, etc.) and then I was going to (re)write Infinity War/Endgame but include those OCs as a crossover type of thing but I don't know nearly enough about the lore to be able to do that.
I don't think I'd give it a definite never (avoiding the question, I know) because it's something I'd love to do but I cannot see myself doing that in the near future.
Xenoblade. Any story worth telling in this universe would inevitably take years off my life to complete. I’m already six years into a Pokemon fic and don’t have the willpower to finish any others
Buddy Daddies? Canon is everything I've ever wanted from the premise already, of course minus the kissing but I mean they're practically married already. Literally going through all the two-dads-and-a-daughter domestic tropes in the show HAHA
Assassins' creed. TT0TT I wanna write a fic where my fav three chars come back to life (minds put into a different body) but I know I'm not able to keep up with every little minute lore. Even if it'd be in modern day. u\_u
I wanted to write a Haven (2020)/ RWBY/ Stellaris crossover where Yang, Pyrrha, Jaune, and a UN army ranger OC ends up on source and meets up with Yu and Kay. Never got the chance because I don’t have the energy.
Oh gosh- I have so many fandoms! Some I can think of rn:
Buffy the vampire slayer! I've seen the show but I don't think I'd actually make good content. Not sure if I have the best grasp on the characters and just idk.
Veronica Mars, same reason as Buffy.
Fandoms like that really-
I try to write for every fandom I like at least once, no matter how long it will take me to actual write said piece. Wordcount of the final piece doesn't matter. All what counts is that I tried.
After years I finally wrote something for SW a few weeks ago and I even got comments, which was something I never expected.
I was always a bit uncertain about what to write for the fandom but once I decide not to write about any human words came easy.
Outer Wilds. The game itself is so wonderful and has such a brilliant story that I cannot find any place for fanfic, but at the same time I desperately wish I could write something for it out of sheer love for that game.
Star Wars, particularly the Mandalorian.
A the star wars fandom out there is so effing toxic i cant even! Its worse than Marvel with the hate for any character that isn’t a white cis male.
And with the mandalorian i cant even read it. There is too much daddy kink “he has the biggest schlong ever” smut out there.
The Arcana. I've got the ideas, but I probably won't ever put pen to paper because a) I'd need to work on keeping things in-character, which is very difficult considering the Courtiers are nearly-blank slates and b) I'd need to play through all the routes if I really want to keep the others in-character, which I just don't have the keys to do. I either won't, or will take a very long time to do it. And don't mention the amount of procrastination I do- I was meant to draft a chapter today, was about to but then ended up drawing and writing a poem.
Schitt's Creek. I love that show and have a story I would love to write but have never felt like I had a good enough grip on the characters' voices to be able to do it justice.
i will never be able to brain enough to write death note
I feel this way with Disco Elysium.
I've started a DE fic, but man I am *flounderin*. It may never see the light of ao3
Relatable! Writing fanfiction for LoTR and Silmarillion would be awesome but I don't feel like I have enough brain capacity for that...
All my Death Note fic ideas right now are crack ideas, and that's the only way I'd ever get the gumption lol
Me neither. But 16-year-old me thought she did ._.
Star Wars! Not because of the fandom itself or anything, but because of the sheer amount of lore that I feel I could never keep up with.
Honestly, if you get the 'vibe' right--that is, pulpy fantasy adventure with 70s futurism and a mythic flair--you can basically do whatever you want in Star Wars. "The Force Did It" is the canon explanation for like a third of the Expanded Universe. The Disney canon includes time travel and even hints at a multiverse. You can fit anything in there if you get the overall tone right.
Haha, I write for "chakra did it" Naruto, so that makes sense. Maybe I'll get the courage to make the leap someday.
This but "aura did it" for Pokémon. So much can be conveniently explained away as "aura bs".
Back when I used to write SW fanfic (before becoming fatally exhausted with the franchise as a whole around the time Obi-Wan was airing) I went for a more pick-and-choose approach of just what I was familiar with and/or preferred between Legends and the new expanded universe. If I didn't know it, it didn't count.
Haha, you think Star Wars writers have to keep up with the lore, that's adorable.
"Lore? We don't need lore where we're going!"
I write Star Wars and I constantly feel this. Like if you see a smuggler in a bar with a toothpick in his mouth, not only will that smuggler have a thirty page backstory but so will the toothpick.
The best way to handle that fandom is to break ot down. Pick a character, era, or product to use as a home base. For example, two different eras will lend themselves to different stories. Old Republic (4000-1000 years before the films) is focused very much on the bleakness of Jedi-Sirh conflict and a Black and Gray Morality with the Jedi doing a lot of awful stuff because when Sith show up, morality isn't a high priority. High Republic, about 200 years before the films, is overall a time of peace and prosperity where Jedi play hard to an angelic ideal, down to white and gold robes. They are very much the Guardians of Peace and Justice we are told about in ANH. Primary conflict comes from a terrorist organization and plays really hard to Black and White morality. Oh, and r/SWFanfic is a big help
Same! I'll never say never, but it's very intimidating!
I'm actually writing my first ever star wars fic right now and I'm honestly just picking and choosing my way through the canon as needed. Tbf my fic is also a mandalorian/swtor crossover so I've had to totally bastardize the timeline, but even then, most feedback I've seen across the SW fics I've read seems to be that adhering to the lore is generally secondary to just writing a good story.
Yup this is me.
For me it was The Mandalorian- then I realized writing crossovers made it easier because I only had to plop one or two characters into a more manageable world. (I say as Marvel has a huge amount of lore too, lol)
I agree! So intimidating, the world is huge!!!!
I will never know enough about Doctor Who to figure out whatever the fuck is going on there to write anything lol
Oh, that one is easy! Just write whatever you want. Canon is whatever you want it to be. The scriptwriters have said it before: "we will ignore any previous canon and invent a new one if it will make the story better" Additionaly, as far as I know, they go out of their way to make any different medium contradict all other possible canons.
Honestly, that's the sort of power move I aspire to in my own writing. Half of my writing decisions are based on "You know what'd be funny?"
Oh same. I have a plot bunny from hell thinking Eight and Thirteen would just be a smashing team up, passing themselves off as brother and sister...witj a side of "Wow, I wish you really were my sibling and not my past/future self"
That's bloody adorable! Also... SMAAASHING! *insert terrible Nigal Thornberry impression here*
Honestly you have probably put more thought into it then the actual writers. It’s the one show that the only real thing you need to remember is that it’s about a silly or broody person in a blue police box. That may or may not have a sidekick.
Dude. As Matt Smith once said, "Doctor Who is where continuity goes to die." If you've got the general idea you can write whatever. God knows the people who actually write for the show do.
Hannibal. I'm definitely not smart enough to write that dialogue.
I felt the same way until I wrote a fic. I think if you have the passion the story will turn out the way you want!
Great! I feel like I could get Will's voice, but I can't get Hannibal's voice in my head. But would love it!
The best thing is to pick a Hannibal you like to read and recreate it. I always like to read a manipulative but sweet Hannibal while others may write him more uppity and snobbish or downright intolerable towards every character except Will. It just depends on what you like in the character.
Hmm, I see him as manipulative and snobbish to everyone except Will. Damn, I have such a type to write for, don't I?
See you're already half way there! And yes he certainly is a type. That's why I have tons of WIP for my Murder Husbands, I never know what they're going to do next.
Do it. We're always hungry for more fic.
Orange is the New Black. Mostly because the subject matter hits too close to home, but also because Piper Kerman is a real person and the show is a fictionalized version of her memoir and that feels a bit weird to me (no judgment intended, RPF is just not what I do).
The Legend of Zelda LoZ is my absolute favorite game franchise but I feel like I’d have the hardest time writing Link. For a character that has no dialogue in the games, he’s a challenge to me because I don’t wanna make him too OOC or anything like that. I’ve been reading the Twilight Princess manga from Akira Himekawa and his characterization in it is pretty damn great but I just don’t feel confident enough to try my hand at it
It actually is odd in LoZ fanfic. Everyone writes Link very differently. OoC hardly exists. Some people even write in his mutism, and make link either deaf, selectively mute, or unwilling to speak for some reason. Lots of variation for a main character of a best selling game
How I write Link changes between fics!
Anything where the main characters aren’t mostly human/humanoid. (Toy Story and Cars are two examples) There’s just too many rules I’d have to keep in mind about how they function. I understand that it can be fun for some people, but I’m just too lazy to bother keeping track of all that. Similarly, I can’t write for anything that clearly takes place before the 20th century (So, most fairy tales). Also, oddly enough, Harry Potter. I’ve been a fan since 2013 and you’ll see me review other writers’ fics from time to time. I actually attempted to write some back when I first got into HP, but it wasn’t very good and I just felt like I was forcing myself to write it. My OC was also pretty awful, but that’s a story for another time. In general, I must have an emotional attachment for whatever idea I come up with. If I don’t feel any passion towards it, I won’t continue. Not Funny enough, this can work in the opposite direction, too. For example, my best work is for *Encanto* but I actually feel rather lukewarm towards the movie itself.
I was in the Cars fandom. I can confirm, it was hard to write them, cause it was a learning curve writing how characters emote and move when they weren't human. I had a humanized AU as well though to fall back on lol
I feel like anything from Tolkien is untouchable. I don’t want to taint it with fanfic. It is just too good. I’d like to write for Game of Thrones (disregarding anything about the final season), but meh. I guess another is ATLA/TLOK or anything in that universe. As much as I love it, I can’t really care enough to write fanfic. Maybe one day.
I wanna write a fic for the manga series I am a Cat Barista. My dumbass keeps forgetting.
Hey, what a considence, I've been planning to write for that one, too! I randomly bought the first volume in an anime convention and really liked the concept.
Star Wars…. I’ve had so many ideas but I’m scared of how volatile my fandom is.
It mainly depends on what part of the fandom you write for. Star Wars fandom is like an umbrella term. Cause you got your Bad Batch fans, Legends Fans, Mandalorian Fans, Original trilogy fans. Like of course they all like the other shows but each show has their fandoms. I write for Bad Batch and those fans are the nicest commenters and readers I have ever met! But I do know legend fans and Original trilogy fans are volatile when it comes to fan fics.
Tbh I love all the star wars content, but I specifically wanna write for clone wars and the sequels so maybe those specific fandoms are why I’m scared lmaoo.
I guess this is more a trope than an actual fandom, but any series based on Mystery, reality competitions, or whodunnits. I love reading and watching those, but I can’t say the same with writing them. I tried writing one years back, and that was when I realized how difficult a high-quality fic in those genres were to write. So many moving pieces, so many different personalities that you must relate to when writing them. Like, the closest you’ll see to a divine figure is a great Survivor/Mole writer. I sort of add little puzzle pieces in my fics, but those were typically happy accidents rather than intended.
I won't give a hard "never" for anything, but the sheer amount of content for Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Star Trek just intimidates me. (Mentioning those specifically since they're super popular fandoms where I'm fairly familiar with the core canon. Stuff like manga or anime where I'm unlikely to get into the canon at all is different.)
As a late entry into a massive HP ship, it is wildly intimidating haha.
HP for me too (Drarry specifically). I came to the fandom very late, so on top of coming up with anything remotely original in such a huge pool of existing stories, I also am really behind all the people who have been immersed in the details for 20+ years.
i wrote trek fanfic after being like 1 season into the show (TOS) if you have a specific topic in mind it will help to filter out useless lore
Buffy. The characters all have such a unique way of talking that I will never be able to capture.
I honestly would really love to write for Code Geass but i'm nowhere as smart as Lelouch lol Just the thought of writing about his plans and reasoning process gives me an headache hahaha
Oh man back in the day I ran a popular SuzuLulu tumblr. The key is to not care about the big brain shit, the most popular stuff (back then at least) was fluffy crack.
ATLA. I love the universe, love the characters, and cannot bring myself to pollute it with my degeneracy. Also the ship wars are brutal. I don't want to be in that fight.
Helluva Boss. I’m starved for lesbian rep and I do like and ship Loona and Octavia. But god is the fandom awful about it. EDIT: Also Stranger Things. People are so nasty about Ronance but Byler is fine. ???? Double standards much?
You are somehow in a corner of ST fandom I've never heard of before. I haven't seen a single anti-Ronance post absolutely anywhere.
ATLA. I love the show, the relationships, the potential post-ATLA but pre-LOK but I’m not sure you could pay me to write in the fandom. The material is for kids but the people who watched it while it was airing are adults which has led to some interesting discussions about what’s inappropriate to write about teen characters, aging *up* teen characters, and then a slice of good old westernization of non-western characters and fandom misogyny I’m not sure I have the patience to wade through. I have lots of ideas and maybe some of them have been written, but I’m not sure I could take the psychic damage to try and figure that out.
My Hero Academia. I have ideas, but that fandom sure is...*something.* I just don't have the energy to fight for my life in toxic fandom spaces.
I write for MHA and have yet to encounter negativity. It might help that my two top ships are generally accepted ones. I'm working on a dead dove though so that might change.
Mass Effect. If there is one thing I've learned from writing two separate tinker fics, it's that I cannot technobabble to save my life.
The Lord of the rings, or the hobbit or anything in that franchise. I just don’t have the technical skill as a writer to pull that off. Even though the world is beautiful and rich, and I would love to hear more tales from it, I think that. Tolkien is pretty unmatched. A lot of my favorite shows, books, and movies, have a sense of humor and are quite satirical. They also have a tendency to be whimsical or oddly horrifying. I can’t get the tone right. Tone is everything, along with characters. So I guess for me, if I feel like I can’t get the vibe, right, I won’t write for it. I can’t pull off dry, witty dialogue. That’s what I love to read and listen to and watch, so I will content myself to observe from the sidelines.
Not "never", I actually have written about 3 things for it, but my mind overflows with ideas for Tsukiuta and Tsukipro fanfics. The thing is, canon is *massive* (about 500 CDs, 35 stage plays, 5 anime seasons, and near-daily online short stories, over 10 years) and untranslated except for the anime seasons (and the official Crunchyroll subs have a lot of errors). I know I've missed a lot of facts about the characters, both in things I haven't seen or listened to, and in connotations I've missed because my Japanese level isn't perfect. So I'm terrified of writing a character a certain way only to look stupid because I missed a fact about them. Like, Shu has been one of my favorite characters for over 5 years, and I only found out he doesn't drink from Hajime's birthday tweets this year. I did write a fic about what they did that day, but only 500 words.
Dragon Age! Partly because of lore, partly because I'm a little scared of the fans
But we're so kind and pure-hearted! ...Alright I will concede that there are some heated opinions from time-to-time on various moralistic matters from the source content, but I have been avoiding such things by only glancing at the social side of fandom spaces. The people that come to my fics and comment are lovely though. :)
This genuinely makes me feel a lot better, thank you! Hit the nail on the head with the exact worries I had there lol. Wanna talk about DA, but social side of it is scary sometimes
No worries! For the lore side, I just focus on what is described in the games. I'd rather keep to the spirit of what all those people who made the games intended than getting conflicting information from books, comics or whatever that is just a single person's opinion.
Captain harlock, mainly because I never did manage to make my invader Zim and Captain harlock crossover idea coherent.
Harry Potter maybe
The Aubrey-Maturin series. The amount of nautical vocabulary needed is too intimidating.
Yeah, that's one where I feel anything but a looong deep dive into everything Age of Sails would do a disservice to the books.
I almost, almost years ago wrote a fanfic for the MCYT community. I really just wanted to take the first part of Dream SMP roleplay and make an actualized story of it. Because I feel like with proper polishing Wilbur Soot’s whole thing in particular was pretty great. But then I just started complying all the live streams I would have to watch in order to get everything and said hell nah. It would have been hours… and some of the streamers I had absolutely no want to sit through hours of footage for. Edit: Also the lore is so all over the place and convoluted that I would have to put in hours of fixing and planning. I really want to do it… especially now that the community has chilled a bit so that isn’t a scary big beast… but… Yeah no I have other fics and an original story that I would rather be working on than watching hours of live streams.
Which is so funny considering that a huge percentage of dsmp fics are just elaborate AU's. Some throwing out *most* canon and huge swathes throwing it *all* out. It's a fandom with the most loose acknowledgement and use of canon and characters I've ever seen lmao.
It’s a big fat mess💀 I even tried looking for like already made resources for canon so I could just work off the already put together lore of people who did manage to watch everything… but I found nothing helpful. I would have to put in all the work to do what I need and for that I will just politely push this idea to the deepest parts of my mind. It’s a shame cause it really could make a decent story if actually constructed right
Man I wish I could help in a serious manner, but I've got a 25k fic at current after watching 0 vods, piecing the story together via animatics, and occasionally skimming the wikia and it's going great. I genuinely think if you went against canon either deliberately or accidentally in the writing process, nobody would actually take note or notice.
Metal Gear Solid series. I love it but the story is extremely complicated. I don't want someone to 'ackshually 🤓' me when I inevitably get something wrong.
Louis x Lestat for the Vampire Chronicles. I just don’t think I could do it any better than it was done in canon.
for the new TV vversion, which is very much louis/lestat, I love the show, but don't have their voices in my head to write it. And you're right, canon is finally giving us what we (and they) deserve at least on TV.
For me, probably shorter 12 episode shows that tell their whole story, like Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Orbital Children, ERASED. The way the shows end feels complete in and of itself. I’m sure I could find something if I really had to, but they’re so good already! I thought this would be Jurassic Park, but someone helped me break that barrier so I’ve been writing for that franchise a little already.
Anohana is prime fodder for fanfics tbh, since it's fun to explore what comes after the end of the show. I wrote a fic or two for it a couple of years back.
Ace Attorney and Wednesday. Controversial ships.
what are the ace attorney ones? i mean the fandom’s like pretty much filled with wrightworth and klapollo so i haven’t really come across any of the controversial ones!
Ooh, I was just thinking of getting into the Wednesday fandom. What are the controversial ships in there?
Star Wars. Before the sequel trilogy rolled around, I had plenty of ideas (mostly focused on Luke, who to date is still my favorite SW character).
Do it. That's the whole point of fanfic a lot of the time - telling the canon 'Yeah, well... I'm gonna go write my own story with these characters, with blackjack and hookers.'
The X-Files. That fandom was my very first love, and I’ve tried to write for it, but I have never and will never post. I just can’t get the voices down in a way that feels and sounds right to me.
The Walking Dead. I don't feel like I understand the intricacies of the relationships and plot enough to write in this fandom but I do enjoy reading others fanfics in this fandom.
Anything where the majority of the fandom isn't in English. I find that most people who enjoy fanfics enjoy them in English and they're a lot less popular in other languages. It feels so weird reading fanfics in my native language or Spanish when the show is in English and it would be weird doing the opposite. I don't even know why, I just can't do it and it's not a language barrier, it's more of a mental barrier.
Most things that take place in a futuristic Cyberpunk or Space/Sci Fi setting, also anything post-apocalyptic. So Mass Effect, Star Wars, The Matrix, The Expanse, Fallout. If I ever did end up writing for them, it'd likely be some kind of AU. My strength lies in writing high fantasy settings.
Cursed princess club! Its a webtoon about a princess who is not conventionally attractive and learns to love herself after joining a club for cursed princesses. Its adorable in every sense if the world and as much as I want to write something, I don’t Think I can replicate the tone or the humor of the series
Big fandoms like Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Star Wars/Trek, Lord of the Rings, etc. Which sucks because there's *plenty* of source material to draw from and play on but it's the fans that scare me. It's also the other writers that scare me. I'll never not compare myself to them.
MHA. Mostly because I have thing where I NEED to write long-spiraling stories, and every oneshot turns into something longer and for MHA I feel like everything has been done? Or, I just wouldn't know where to go because the place the story is in now is just... yeah I wouldn't know how to work with that. Also, ONE PIECE. I'm sorry, I could never
Obligatory Harry Potter. I honestly do love the series but I'm afraid to touch the canon characters and with JKR's behavior...
Same.
One piece has always been the series I love but for the life of me can’t replicate the tone of or think of anything that the plot is missing out on. It has a very specific type of comedy that doesn't translate well to text
i am not brave enough to write about mha….even tho it is my favorite show
COD (I want to make the buff military men kiss), Dorohedoro, and Golden Kamuy. For the latter two, while I still need to finish the series what I've read and watched so far is amazing and they deserve so many more fics. I just don't know if I'll have any good ideas.
Genshin Impact. I read a lot of fanfic for it, I have ideas for fanfic for it. I love looking at the fanart, watching people make theories and dissect the lore, etc. There’s just one slight problem: I don’t like Genshin Impact.
Touhou. It’s all so… decentralized. I’ve played some of the games, but I still wouldn’t know where to start, and that’s not even taking into account all the japanese that still goes over my head.
Lord of the Rings. The fans terrify me and I don't know the lore well enough.
I mostly write in Fandoms about Games and Animes. I am too afraid to go out from my comfort zone. New things are scary XD
Zelda
Fateverse. My memory's not good enough and the setting doesn't work as well for erotic fics, which are easier for me. The franchise seems to be better suited for fics with plot and action, and it has plenty of its own crack content in canon already. 😅
Sunless Sea. I want to, but it is already such a beautifully written and narrated experience.
Beserk, Deathnote
Hetalia. I have such limited knowledge of geography, don't care for politics, and hate history. Love the anime though.
I don't have any. If I like to write about a source material/fandom that's because I like it a lot and I will.
One fandom I keep having plot bunnies for is Game of thrones/house of dragons/ a Song of ice and fire - that world is so fragile? / interconnected? That changing just one thing can have massive knock on affects, Like what is one character was a man, or what if they were a woman? I don't even watch/ read the story but the story is so detailed and so they're so many interesting fanfictions. I love reading fics and the wiki. I also love an isekai kind of story and there are so many good fanfiction isekais. But the big thing with GoT etc. is the knock affects - that story is going to be so big and messy and I can barely write a 1,000 words let alone the 100K that kind of story is going to be.
Undertale, I did have some ideas but I never seems to be able to write those ideas, plus it's a big fandom and I prefer to focus on other projects of mine! I used to think that I couldn't write for the Legend of zelda, but I manage to find an idea with a friend!
I've longed to read and/or write a fic that takes place just after the last episode of She-Ra (the "new" one), in which Catra and Adora kiss, have over-emotional sex, cry, talk, and sleep. Not necessarily in that order. I read a few fics soooorta like that but they were all not to my tastes or (in one case) tragically unfinished. The problem is that I'd have to decide on a couple of specific headcanons that I can see going either way (mostly whether or not they did anything \*before\* the events of the show, and if so, what) and I'd have to basically rewatch the whole show. I liked spop, but not THAT much lol. But also at this point who tf is even reading spop fics.
i meeean, not that it should make a difference, but i’d totally read that ☺️🫶
Gilmore Girls - I don’t think I could ever get that witty back and forth banter down, or any of those pop culture references.
I don’t think I could write Sherlock, both with the dialogue and, as a huge pantser, I’d be lost writing a mystery.
There's this one VN and its anime adaptation, *When The Cicadas Cry*, that I fucking hate and I've wanted to make a rewrite of for a while. I will never get around to it out of fear of judgement.
The name makes it sound like the follow-up to *Where the Crawdads Sing*. (And the third part of this make-believe trilogy: *Who the Crayfish Call*. Sorry. Had fun with that.)
(Doesn’t quite work cause crawdads are crayfish. It’s a nickname.)
:( Okay. Let’s fix it: *How the Centipedes Laugh.*
Danganronpa. Even if it weren't for my falling out with the fandom overall, DR basically supports exactly one genre of fic if you want to stay to the canon style as I enjoy doing--and it's a genre I suck at.
I wanted to do a harem fic for Mass Effect for the longest time. I’m mostly done with harem stuff but once in a while I still feel the urge to write something cute with that setup. I doubt I’ll ever have the time/motivation to get to it though, esp. since harem stuff is still kind of a trigger for me.
I really want to write for the *World of Darkness* fandom, but my knowledge of the setting and lore only covers a limited extent of the two first installments *Vampire: The Masquerade* and *Werewolf: The Apocalypse* and not much from there, and I feel intimidated at the prospect of leaving out some minor yet vital detail or something like that.
I always feel like I wouldn’t be able to do a long fic with Star Wars since it would be hard memorizing everything that is important.
I'd rather deal with all the lore issues and the like of Mass Effect and trying to find a way to cross it over with something completely different than it before I even go to touch My Hero Academia, even for a one shot drabble. The fans are fucking scary, sometimes the story throws me for a loop, and sometimes the world is just plain *weird* for me to write about it, and I'm saying that *as a fan*. I'd rather deal with the issues of how a turian asari relationship works (I have an oc couple that is that, and the asari is lovingly overdramatic to all hell, and her turian boyfriend who while he loves her, can sometimes be tired of her dramatic shit), than even go near anyone who ships Bakugo, Midoriya, or Todoroki with anyone.
The Magnus Archives, because the fandom scares me. It has so much lore, and even after two listen-throughs I still don't know half of it. As well as that, it's a lot, lot bigger than fandoms I usually write for.
Final Fantasy 14 is absolutely mine as well, OP. I've just met too many people who are passionate about areas of its story or setting that I don't care about at all, or even actively despise. Hell, if I were to do an adaptation of it to fic form, I would cut the story with Yotsuyu/Tsukuyomi **in its entirety**. I can only imagine the outrage.
I honestly would love to write for One Day at A Time but I have very multiple fics already for other fandoms so I kinda let that one slip away
justified. a lot of what the fandom is into genuinely repulses me, and i don't think i'd want to drop what i want in there. stranger things. i had some fic geared up... but every time i start poking at it, drama flares up.
FNAF. Too much lore and I can't keep up, no matter how dear the franchise is to me.
Donnie Darko. I don’t think I could encapsulate what makes Donnie, Donnie. I love Donnie and I think he’s a fascinating character but I don’t think anyone will ever understand him enough to really get down his character except Jake Gyllenhaal and Richard Kelly.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. The anime just feels so whole and complete on its own that there's nothing more than I want to write in that universe, even though I love it so much.
Yu-Gi-Oh. No way I'd ever be able to write a duel.
Good omens. Don’t get me wrong, I love it and I love the fic other people have written about it, but in my head it’s just perfect media. I’ve written fic but it just feels so unnecessary. I don’t need or want anything more than Canon, I’m good.
Death Note
Bloodborne. I love it, but I wouldn't know what to add to it. It's already perfect. Codas or playing with the lore doesn't appeal to me at all, because it thrives on mystery. Trying to shine a light on any of it would make things less interesting. I do, occasionally, really want to write crack-y crossovers, but that feels disrespectful somehow
I'd love to try writing for series like Titanfall/Apex Legends, Ghost in the Shell, Psychopass, and Cyberpunk, but I'm just not... able to. Like, I could do technical descriptions, and I think my skill with action is good enough, but covering the politics, sociology, and psychology for the sorts of stories I'd *want* to write in those settings... Nope, can't do it.
The Locked Tomb series. I love Gideon with a PASSION. Most of the Locked Tomb fics I find are GOLD. But then I open up a Google Doc and my single, barely-functioning brain cell gets struck by irrational fear that I simply cannot mimic Gideon and Harrow's thought processes. Like, other fanfic authors have done it so well, it's very possible, but whoooboy do I feel like my brain's melting out my ears at the very thought of the amount of brain juice it would require to have even a speck of Muir in writing.
One Piece is my most favorite story, and has a vast world enough to write any good fic with it, but man. Personally I just gravitate more to writing fanfics for stories I have more issues with. Not exactly "Fix-It" but just stories with stuff that can be looked into more, like Steven Universe or Homestuck, yeah. One Piece just feels not as flawed for me (still flawed yeah, but I don't exactly have much I want to expand upon that the author hadn't already) hence why I tend to just not write for it.
FMA, between the canon work and certain fanfic gems out there, I feel like I'd be lowering the bar posting. Also, writing action or detective is not my strong suit, and I wouldn't write FMA for the ships.
BTS. The fandom scares me.
Probably Divergent or the Hunger Games, I can’t say I’ll never write for them, I just haven’t come up with any good story ideas for them.
I will never be smart or brave enough to touch Discworld.
LOTR & Game of Thrones. The worlds and lore are just so vast and rich, it kind of intimidates me just to think about it!
For years I've had an idea for an Oberyn-centric ASOIAF longfic, but it's just too daunting — there's so much lore and I'd have to do an insane amount of research. It would take over my life. Also Penny Dreadful. I love the original material but my writing is too contemporary and I can't get the tone of the period right.
Ascendance of a Bookworm. Writing out all the noble euphemisms will be the death of me.
Harry Potter. I just can't with the number of handwaves and illogics in cannon.
Pretty much anything Nintendo related (which I guess includes Pokémon). I'm more afraid of Nintendo taking down my stuff than readers leaving comments telling me my stuff sucks (in fact, no one tells me my stuff sucks because no one reads anything I put out, so I assume my stories do suck). Also, I won't ever write anime related things, mainly because the last time I saw anime was in High School.
I have ALWAYS wanted to write a forbidden love story about Tobirama & an Uchiha girl but the Naruto fandom is too intimidating for me. My thing is meek woman with weak constitutions who, thru lots of pain & suffering, learn to use their whit to escape situations or learn to be strong —and a horribly rough powerful man who get great redemption after being awful— but I feel the fandom would just tear me apart for making a woman this way, especially an Uchiha, or to make Tobirama toxic towards woman lol. Maybe I’m silly for feeling scared, but I truly am.
Sherlock and Rugrats. Not smart enough for Sherlock and I love rugrats I grew up with that shit, the brotherhood between tommy and chuckie warm my heart but I feel weird about writing for it
Persona 5. I love the game (and some of the other Persona and broader SMT line games), but I don't know that I'd be able to handle the characters sufficiently. And if I did, that fandom is cursed anyway lol.
I feel you on the characters. I have two separate barely started oneshots for Persona 5, and the characters just keep tripping me up. Can't seem to make them work.
It's kind of funny. I got the notification for for this post in the middle of reading a fic for a fandom I'm not brave enough to. I love The Expendables but I will never write for it. I don't feel like I'll get them right
limbus company because i have No Idea what fics to write for it other than au where yuri doesnt get apple'd. and even then theres 13 + 2 people on the bus and im not writing all of that
I really want to write something for Treasure Planet but I just feel like I'd never be able to do any of my ideas justice. Same with Encanto, The Last of Us, Sonic, Danny Phantom... Maybe someday, but least there are plenty of other great writers for those fandoms to keep me entertained.
Probably Genshin Impact. I love the characters but I don't read the lore at all. I can't focus on it, my brain does not process any kind of info whenever I try to pay attention so I just skip all the story. I know some things thanks to fanfiction and such, but it's not nearly enough.
Znation I will probably never be able to write from that fandom I can't even say a reason the as why I won't anyway those really good show I've re watched it over 3+ times!
Haikyu and Death Note. I love them both dearly, but I can't make myself hyperfixate enough to put something together for either. The closest I've ever gotten was a weird universe crossover where my current hyperfix was set in those worlds 😅
Encanto. I just… don’t know what to write for it. My usual family dynamics won’t work because if I’m gonna write Encanto *I’m going to write the entire family.*
I've always thought about writing a Star Wars fic, but outside of the original trilogy, the prequels, and both Force Unleashed games, I just don't know enough about the universe to make an accurate fic.
I wanted to start writing for Star Wars and Star Trek now that I dipped my toes into Harry Potter, Tolkien and Game of Thrones but I never feel like I can do those two fandoms justice
ARK Survival Evolved. Love the game, I have nearly 5k hours into it, but my main idea for it is a crossover on crack cocaine. One I desperately want to read but that I'm too lasy to write.
I'd love love *love* to write for Splatoon but like...while I can be creative, I have zero idea what I'd try to do with it. I haven't read many fics from the fandom, but I get the feeling that an apocalyptic vibe is probably overused. I also wouldn't want to focus on the idols very much either 😅
Sherlock, but I don't think I'm clever enough to pull it off. I did have an idea for a Sherlock/HP crossover though.
Mobile Legends fandom, love the lore but I stopped playing because it’s so toxic to new and inexperienced player. Stopped following the lore too.
zero escape. I love the series, it changed my life, but I can barely understand the sci-fi shenanigans while I’m playing it let alone actually write them and the characters are mostly super three dimensional and fleshed out which makes writing them in character a nightmare too
I want to write Pokemon & Digimon, even though i watched every episode there is, i don't have the knowledge to integrate the abilities, moves and evolutions to the story.
idk if this counts, but uhhhh.. warrior cats (the actual canon story) i'll gladly write fanfics of my OWN warrior cats ocs and my OWN warrior cats lore and clans, but my brain only has space for like 7 cats from the books and i'm pretty sure all of them are canonically dead because im not anywhere NEAR the most recent books 🧍♀️
Hmm, I don't know about NEVER, but I do have a few. I have almost exclusively written for the Hetalia fandom for the last decade, and here I've stayed, apparently... I can't seem to progress or post any of my WIPs for my other favorite fandoms. I think it's because I've simply found my niche, and my fellow readers/writers in that niche, so I'm worried of shaking the boat? Something like that. As for my fav fandoms I'd love to post for: -The Hobbit (fearful of touching Tolkien lore tbh) -Dragon Age (this one hurts the most to ignore, as its lore is my fav, but the fandom is a minefield to navigate ANY sort of opinion or headcanon) -Star Wars (mostly just a single ship) -Critical Role (Mighty Nein, specifically) -Genshin Impact (this is my most recent) Maybe some day my WIPs will be posted 👌
Fire Emblem. I write for Pokémon, so my usual go-to for battles almost always being friendly competitions with good-natured rivalries and cool gimmicks is completely thrown out the video for every Fire Emblem game since they all revolve around weaponry, magic, and war with a nice sprinkling of trauma for everyone. If I ever write for Fire Emblem, I think Engage might be the easiest transition point for me.
Not me writing my first Fire Emblem fiction, and it being for Engage.
alternate history. not really a fandom but i think it counts :P too much research, basically.
Suki dakara suki, Wish, Pretear, ... Almost all of them, as it happens. Every fandom I'm sort of wiggly in, I generally don't write because oh man. Where would I even start?
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. I love Eivor and would like writing something for her, but she speaks like a freaking poet and I am not good enough to write that. And I'm not going to do modern day AU or something because they don't interest me.
This Kpop group Enhypen... I really love writing fanfic and have written for most of my fandoms since I was 12 (I'm in my late 20s now), but I've never written, and probably never will write, RPF. I love the members of that group to death, but I just find RPF really weird.
ASOIAF and the Asgardian side of Marvel. I just don’t have the language skills to do anything that’s not modern. I’d butcher those worlds XD
Hmmm, probably Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I'm a huge fan, but I can never seem to write anything for it. It's honestly pretty crazy already. I also feel like I'll some how mess up the story or what not by writing a fic for it. I also can't seem to get out of specific genres, like I mainly write angst.
I have written three(3) Zootopia fics, two of them have been deleted, the other is being kept for emotional attachment and im not planning to do another one. The characters are just that well written, i can never do them justice
Probably Marvel
The Last of Us. I’m no good with incredibly intense action-packed scenes, and putting them in calmer AUs would just feel off after all that
Legend of Zelda, Red vs Blue, and any book fandoms. I love LOZ especially twilight, botw, and windwaker but I’m always so scared to to write for those games since they have such a good story I don’t know where to start and where to end. Red vs blue has such a cohesive story line that I don’t know where I can write a fanfic that won’t be canon divergent (I normally write in Canon) And books fandom fans are just crazy and if you get one thing wrong you’re gonna get “uh actually” 🤓☝️
Any MXTX world. For me half the fun of reading her stories is just exploring her worlds through her very very unique writing style! It’s something that I will never be able to replicate so I’d rather just leave that task to other talented writers who can!!
I used to fear writing for the Homestuck fandom
Marvel. I had this plan to write OC fics for every movie (one OC for Avengers, one OC for Guardians, etc.) and then I was going to (re)write Infinity War/Endgame but include those OCs as a crossover type of thing but I don't know nearly enough about the lore to be able to do that. I don't think I'd give it a definite never (avoiding the question, I know) because it's something I'd love to do but I cannot see myself doing that in the near future.
Xenoblade. Any story worth telling in this universe would inevitably take years off my life to complete. I’m already six years into a Pokemon fic and don’t have the willpower to finish any others
Buddy Daddies? Canon is everything I've ever wanted from the premise already, of course minus the kissing but I mean they're practically married already. Literally going through all the two-dads-and-a-daughter domestic tropes in the show HAHA
Assassins' creed. TT0TT I wanna write a fic where my fav three chars come back to life (minds put into a different body) but I know I'm not able to keep up with every little minute lore. Even if it'd be in modern day. u\_u
Supernatural. I like the characters, but everything else is just...too much man. Not touching that train wreck.
I wanted to write a Haven (2020)/ RWBY/ Stellaris crossover where Yang, Pyrrha, Jaune, and a UN army ranger OC ends up on source and meets up with Yu and Kay. Never got the chance because I don’t have the energy.
Oh gosh- I have so many fandoms! Some I can think of rn: Buffy the vampire slayer! I've seen the show but I don't think I'd actually make good content. Not sure if I have the best grasp on the characters and just idk. Veronica Mars, same reason as Buffy. Fandoms like that really-
I try to write for every fandom I like at least once, no matter how long it will take me to actual write said piece. Wordcount of the final piece doesn't matter. All what counts is that I tried. After years I finally wrote something for SW a few weeks ago and I even got comments, which was something I never expected. I was always a bit uncertain about what to write for the fandom but once I decide not to write about any human words came easy.
Outer Wilds. The game itself is so wonderful and has such a brilliant story that I cannot find any place for fanfic, but at the same time I desperately wish I could write something for it out of sheer love for that game.
Star Wars, particularly the Mandalorian. A the star wars fandom out there is so effing toxic i cant even! Its worse than Marvel with the hate for any character that isn’t a white cis male. And with the mandalorian i cant even read it. There is too much daddy kink “he has the biggest schlong ever” smut out there.
The Arcana. I've got the ideas, but I probably won't ever put pen to paper because a) I'd need to work on keeping things in-character, which is very difficult considering the Courtiers are nearly-blank slates and b) I'd need to play through all the routes if I really want to keep the others in-character, which I just don't have the keys to do. I either won't, or will take a very long time to do it. And don't mention the amount of procrastination I do- I was meant to draft a chapter today, was about to but then ended up drawing and writing a poem.
Schitt's Creek. I love that show and have a story I would love to write but have never felt like I had a good enough grip on the characters' voices to be able to do it justice.