Archive Panic / Fan Works

• The Path of Destiny (a Pokemon fanfic that’s been published for twelve years) is over 541,000 words long, aka longer than Les Mis.
• Child of the Storm is over 820,000 words long, with a 27,000 word two-shot spinoff. The sequel is, as of chapter 63, averaging just under 15,000 words a chapter, and is already even longer at 999,000 words, and another in-progress spinoff of about 100,000 words. This is longer than the entire Harry Potter series put together, and half as long over again.
  • Moreover, the first book covers Prisoner of Azkaban, with the sequel starting on Goblet of Fire, thanks to the bulking out qualities of the Switching P.O.V., a grander scale plot, being a Massive Multiplayer Crossover, and the author liking the sound of his own voice. As it is, he's promised that the sequels will be shorter and more streamlined (which is true in a round-about sense — the main narrative is longer, but the arcs have become more compact), but it's still a pretty intimidating sight.
  • Further context: the next largest Harry Potter/Avengers crossover is 296,000 words long, barely more than a third the size of the first book.
• At over 1,080,000 and still ongoing as of 2015 Drifting is currently the second longest Naruto story on FanFiction.Net by far (barring Yet again, with a little extra help), the next closest one is Better Left Unsaid, at almost 900,000 words. For comparison, Atlas Shrugged is about 645,000 words long with War and Peace and Les Misérables at about 560,000 and 531,000 words respectively.
• Evangelion 303: This fancomic clocks in more than 1,000 pages and it has barely started the third part.
• A Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic, appropriately titled Yu-Gi-Oh! Forever. The sequel however has been discontinued at chapter 70. Roughly 1,400,000 words in total.
• Cyber Moon: Chronicles clocks in at 210 chapters, nearly half a million words. It has a prequel, a sequel and side stories, adding up to roughly 640,000 words in total.
• An Entry with a Bang!: the story-only thread is fairly digestible, but if you want to go the story+ discussion threads, with their old/rejected segments and what-not, the amount of reading you'll need leaps to around 90 times. Mind you, that's without considering the other technical threads you may need to "dig" everything.
• That Damn Mpreg by Dorksidefiker has a timeline spanning over three hundred years with over four hundred stories and a cast list in the hundreds, and the author shows no signs of stopping any time soon.
• Of Men and Mugic will make you cry the moment you see how many pages long it is. (140 at this time) The author has suggested taking the story slowly. It has been finished, though, so you don't have to worry about falling further behind. That's just how many pages the topic is. Try over fifteen books, nine chapters each.
• Shinji and Warhammer40k. Its reputation on This Very Wiki is memetic for how awesome it is, but considering that the prologue is long enough to be a fanfic by itself, and that there are almost fifty chapters, many people have decided not to attempt reading it.
• Tales of Flame Is around 360 change chapters, has tons of characters and is still an incredible story.
• Undocumented Features has been updated continuously since 1991, and is currently over 20 megabytes long. And it's still going.
• Forward is a Firefly fic that is seventy chapters long as of July 2012. It gets even more daunting when one looks at the sheer wordcount; the story is edging toward half a million words now, and is still ongoing. And almost all of the story is relevant, as every "episode" is interconnected.
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a fanfic that's 122 chapters long, clocking in at 660,000+ words upon its completion on March 14, 2015. And that's not including the epilogue released the following year.
• Dangerverse, a Harry Potter Alternate Universe fic, clocks in at nearly two million words now that the main series is finished. With AUs,^note  250,000+ words crossovers,^note  425,000+ words oneshots,^note 35,000+ words songfics and more, ^note  250000+ words the total word count is about three million.^note Except for the main series, numbers are from 2011. Several more spinoffs have been written since then.
• Fallout: Equestria consists of 45 chapters plus an intro, prologue, epilogue, and afterword, totaling 603,395 words. The recursive fanfiction Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons was completed, clocking in at around 1.6 million words, spanning 77 chapters and an epilogue. Then, Project Horizons, itself a recursive fanfic, has its own little universe of recursive fanfictions!
• Glee fanfic Story of Three Boys is, as of 26 April 2013, 2,036,133 words and the writers show no signs of planning to finish anytime soon.
• Austraeoh by Imploding Colon is one of the longest running fan fictions on Fimfiction.net, clocking in at a whopping 1,720,847 words as of December 3, 2014. The story is updated everyday, with 8 books completed, a ninth one in the works and 3 more planned after that.
• The Pony POV Series is a massive piece of fanfiction. The Audio Adaptation producer put it best by saying it could be made into a respectively long TV series (which they intend to do), and still going. And that doesn't include the massive amount of Recursive Fanfiction produced, some of which has become Ascended Fanon. Mercifully, its divided into seasons, each with a rather self contained story arc that, while they all need to be read, makes it a bit easier to get through. For some clearer numbers, the completed seasons total 1,478,897 words. Season 7 already has over 300,000 words to add to that. And that's just the main series.
• The Transformers fandom has These Games We Play which, as of nearly 4 years running, is 360+ chapters long.
• Even if you ignore the earliest fics of garfieldodie (which are vaguely connected to the 'verse through Continuity Nods), The Calvinverse is still a very long piece of work. Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, in itself, ran for eight years over five seasons, with over 100 "episodes" in all.
• The My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic fanfics are long and numerous. If you want to catch up, be warned.
• Not only is The Chase very long (over 2,300,000 words in 900+ chapters) as of March 2017, but the author once published at least two or three new chapters a day. Although, as of the above-mentioned date, updates appear to have slowed considerably; the latest update was in November 2016.
• Yoshizilla Rhedosaurus has Waluigi's Taco Stand and Life at Pizza Hut, two stories on Fanfiction.Net that have more than 400 chapters each and that's just the top of the iceberg. He has written 900+ fanfics.
• Traveler: At over a million words long, it can be an imposing challenge to get through. With only fourty-eight chapters, each individual chapter is a significant investment of time.
• There are more than 130 stories set in The CATverse, which are set in a specific timeline, lead into an overarching storyline, and aren't necessarily set in the order of stories posted. There are also stories that are only posted on the authors' various Character Blogs. Then there are the pop culture references scattered throughout the series that are the source of much of its humor, some of which are relatively obscure.
• The Blooming Moon Chronicles by BlackRoseRaven initially isn't so bad; the first book in the series has about 76,000 words. However, there are ten books in the original series alone, and the wordcount starts piling up towards the end; the tenth book, Glory Be, has 1.04 million words. There's also a 5-book sequel series, in which the first four books have an average of 97,000 words. Not too bad, but then the fifth book creeps up on you, and it's 1.1 million words long. There are also 12 sidestories, some of which are as long as the shorter main-series novels themselves. In total, the 'verse adds up to more than 6.8 million total words. Thankfully, the series is complete, with makes it easier to catch up on.
• The RWBY Loops has more then a million words. Its snip-based format makes it more digestible — each chapter is a collection of small scenes bound by an overarching plot — but it can still leave one wondering how it got that big.
• Earth's Alien History is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover, with numerous writers collaborating on it, each bringing with them their own plot threads tied into the main narrative. Altogether, it's already hundreds of thousands of words long, and doesn't appear to have an end point planned.
• A Thing of Vikings is an Alternate History AU of How to Train Your Dragon, dropping the first film into Real Life history and letting the effects ripple out from there. At 80 chapters and nearly 900,000 words as of March 2019, and with the author giving weekly updates of 10k+ word counts, it's been cited as an intimidating read.
• Ambience: A Fleet Symphony is one of the longest fanfics ever written, as it contains an unbearable 4.4 million words or over 400 chapters.
• While not the longest fanfic ever written, the Star vs. the Forces of Evil fanfic, All sorts has the most chapters of any fanfic on Fanfiction Dot Net, at over 800 chapters.
• A Third Path To the Future, a Harry Potter/Marvel crossover by Vimesenthusiast can cause this easily, with over 1.5 million words, and forty chapters as of November 2019.
• The Massive Multiplayer Crossover "Teraverse" started with 2011's The League of Extraordinary Women, an unambitious 123k words. Then came the 2012 sequel The Secret Return of Alex Mack, which clocked in at over 1.7 million words in 235 chapters. Then came the 660k word prequel. August 2014 saw other writers join the setting, setting off an absolute deluge of spinoffs, which by 2020 had over a hundred stories approaching (or over - no one has been brave enough to actually count) seven million words.
  • Oh, and this is a multiverse - the series exists in seven universes, each with its own variations on the characters ^note Namely, the main continuity is The Secret World of Alex Mack, plus the DC universe, the Potterverse, Stargate-verse, the Dresdenverse, the Bionicverse, and the Buffyverse occasionally linked by multiversal events.
• The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest is FOUR MILLION WORDS LONG, for several years the longest fanfic ever on Fanfiction Dot Net.
• Not only is With This Ring over 3 million words long, it also takes the form of daily updates of about a thousand words each — in a discussion forum. If you want the full reading experience, following all of the comments and omakes and inside jokes, then it's spread over fourteen threads, some of them with thousands of pages each, on three different forums.
• The Dream SMP alternate universe rewrite Between Dreams and Memories Universe clocks in at a word count in the hundred-thousands and counting, with the first installment (about Season 1 of the Dream SMP) alone, Between Dreams and Memories, featuring 176 chapters and 520,700 words of content, including a 35-chapter retelling of SMPLive, and several more lore chapters. The second installment, Between Heroes and Villains, has 85,044 words in the first 28 chapters, but hasn't even finished the Reconstruction Arc yet. However, considering that the Dream SMP itself has enough content to warrant its own place in the Web Videos section of Archive Panic, this is to be expected.
• As of December 2023, The Loud House: Revamped has 31.5 million words spread out across 2,277 chapters, making it at least fifty times longer than War and Peace. This makes it the longest piece of literature in history. The sheer length of the fanfic is also such that it broke FanFiction.Net's word-count, meaning other methods have to be used to record the word-count, as it can't display anything higher than 16,777,215 (the site uses 24-bit integers). This Very Wiki’s attempt at a Recap page for all the chapters was eventually cut after a while because it could never catch up!
• If you've seen how frequently referenced it is on This Very Wiki, and the premise of a Pokémon X Infinity Train crossover appeals to you, you may be interested in starting the Infinity Train: Blossomverse. If you are, put some time aside.
  • If you only want to read the main trilogy, the first entry, Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail is nearly 600,000 words. The other two in the trilogy round out to about another 500,000 words put together, all of which form a grand unified story.
  • If you're only interested in Chloe Cerise, the protagonist of the first entry, you may notice other stories which prominently feature her include Infinity Train: Boiling Point (300,000 words) and Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus (700,000 words).
  • And finally, if you're only interested in writings by the original author(s), don't forget to include the eight other side stories listed on the main Blossomverse page.

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