Fandoms you'd like to see more fanfiction for?

[Legrio]

Nthing Berserk

Elfen Lied

Mega Man

 

[dacty]

Wheel of time and the Chronicles of Amber.

 

[V1.0]

Cursed Princess Club. A rather nice webtoon about self-love through the story of an unconventionally attractive Princess.

I want more fics of it damn it. Its brimming with potential for fluffy fics.

 

[BubbleFarts]

Frieren

Ajin

Re:Zero

Berserk

 

[ghoul]

I could go for more cyberpunk. Night city's sheer hopelessness has drawn me in.

There could also be some more Legend of Zelda fanfics tbh, especially with the recent games going open world, there's a lot to explore right now. Lincoln859's fic is amazing but he updates pretty irregularly.

 

[Z3r0Sama]

Code Geass. Not the new stuff, Resurrection Akito, the good old shit.

 

[Goku_san]

After sinking a couple hundred hours into Terra Invicta? Yeah, it would be awesome if someone did something with that.

 

[LordMentat]

Normal Terraria. Cause every one I've found is with the calamity mod, crossover or not.

 

[SeVdex]

Nthing Berserk

Elfen Lied

Mega Man

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I think the Megaman Zero series has some potential considering ZXA had a open end.

It's been decades...

 

[Blundo]

While fanfiction and webnovels have been my primary form of entertainment for almost half my life at this point, I have been reading a lot of fantasy and sci-fi over the past year and a half and I can't help but be a little sad and frustrated that almost none of the books I read have any piece of fanfiction for them. Well, the kind that I and the peeps here would enjoy anyway. Stormlight Archive, Warbreaker, Mistborn and Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere in general, Red Rising, Grishaverse etc. all have very little in the way of massive AUs, self Inserts and crossovers and only really have your typical shipping fics.

I'd love to see more epic fantasies getting fanfics. Only the biggest of the big seem to get them (ASOIAF, LOTR and WOT if you're lucky). I mean, your typical power hungry, systems exploiting munchkin would thrive so much in the Cosmere with all the different magic systems.

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Old post I know, but this is something I think a lot about. I've come to the conclusion that it's not actually about whether a book is good or bad (unlike earlier suggested reasons for this). Rather, books with no visual medium adaptation just don't get fanfics to any appreciable extent, unless they're a genre with a large and primarily female audience.

Books get fanfics when:
- They are adapted to a visual medium (film, tv, video game, to a lesser extent manga) and the adaptation is commercially successful.
- They have a primarily, or at least extremely large, female audience (YA, romantasy, etc.) which honestly blows sales figures for even the most successful epic fantasy out of the water (plus women are more likely to write fanfic).

When there's an adaptation, even fanfic which is theoretically "about the book version" is very often written by people who only actually saw the adaptation. You see this phenomenon with ASOIAF — I would be willing to bet significant money that a majority of authors writing ASOIAF fanfiction which contains book-only characters and whatnot have in fact not read the books. They watched the show and their knowledge of non-show material and differences comes from secondary sources like the wiki.

When one is talking about fanfic set within a popular multimedia setting, like 40k or Star Wars, it's exceedingly rare for writers to engage seriously with anything from the novels. There's a reason Star Wars fics are 99% based on movies or the cartoon, and at most bring in scraps of stuff from novels... probably sourced from wikis.

Part of this is that it's much harder for a book-based fandom to snowball into something large. Visual medium? A single well received fanfic can make a bunch of people check the original source out, and with a couple hours engagement (maybe 10 hours for a season of a show), they're part of the fandom and can produce their own fics. With a series of thick SF/F novels though? Yeah not many people are going to read all of that and start producing their own stuff. But mostly? Men just don't read novels all that much, don't write fanfic all that much, and aren't likely to write a fanfic they think will get an audience of 10 people when they could write about whatever's trendy at any given moment.

Theoretically Worm is an exception to all of this, but it's also one where it's very obvious most authors have never read the original work, and one which has a lot of SB-bait elements which allowed it to become the Current Thing in that ecosystem.

 

[NowaifuNolaifu]

Theoretically Worm is an exception to all of this, but it's also one where it's very obvious most authors have never read the original work, and one which has a lot of SB-bait elements which allowed it to become the Current Thing in that ecosystem.

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Yeah, there's huge difference in investment between whole books and a movie or two, regardless of the mass distribution. A popular series would have its own self-contained fandom like Harry Potter which has a huge backlog of fics by the time it hit theaters.

Worm is a bit like Manga in that being serialized it kept a constant audience, plus it was popular the Tumblr community IIRC and they are/were pretty active writers. from there it became popular for the sandbox potential and the relatively contained powerscaling compared to the Marvel/DC insanity, even now most of the 'actual plot' marvel fics just go for the MCU-verse

 

[Blundo]

Yeah, there's huge difference in investment between whole books and a movie or two, regardless of the mass distribution. A popular series would have its own self-contained fandom like Harry Potter which has a huge backlog of fics by the time it hit theaters.

Worm is a bit like Manga in that being serialized it kept a constant audience, plus it was popular the Tumblr community IIRC and they are/were pretty active writers. from there it became popular for the sandbox potential and the relatively contained powerscaling compared to the Marvel/DC insanity, even now most of the 'actual plot' marvel fics just go for the MCU-verse

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Even Harry Potter honestly didn't have an insane amount of fanfic until Goblet of Fire (the first book in the series that one could call YA) and the first film came out nearly back to back in 2000/2001! Its fanfic exploded in the early 00s as the films were coming out and release gaps between books got longer. Perfect storm of visual adaptation, YA, and heavily (at least 50%) female fan demographic which also skewed young (teens and early-20s write the most fanfic).

 

[Albedodragono]

Final fantasy 14 crossover story tbh. Not with Joker being the Mc and going through ff14 story what i mean is just take the Warrior of light from the trailers and let him enter diffrent worlds etc.