What are your favorite fanfiction memories?

I grew up reading and writing fanfiction, as did a lot of other people to my knowledge. You can find tons of embarrassing stories about someone's first fandom or fanfic, but rarely do I see any nostalgia for someone's early fan phases - fair enough usually, some old behavior is best left buried.

But surely there's a fanfiction that you remember fondly, or an event that you can look back on and laugh at. This is a thread for those memories, the positive experiences from your early fan phases that have stuck with you ever since.

I have lots of fond and happy memories going to a Cyber Cafe to read One Piece and Naruto fics. I did cry many times but I doubt I would be so touchy feely nowadays, which makes me sad...IRONY!

I had a lot of fun ideating and writing The Great Desert .

It was something I did with a friend and it started out as an online-message roleplay between us and a general hashing out of story-ideas. In hindsight, the story is far from perfect. In fact, I find it kind of weird that the major plot-turns that were mostly what my co-writer proposed seem to cause the most controversy. I liked them and still do, but keep mulling over "Is there a way we can mesh them with the earlier parts of the story better?"

A remake was started but never completely got off the ground.

But, yeah... whenever I see this fanfic mentioned - either positively or with people screaming at me "Shadsie, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" I think "What I think is that I had a lot of fun creating this with a good online friend." - So the fic will always be special to me, despite its flaws.

During my second stint in the Fire Emblem Tellius fandom I wrote a PG-rated comedy of errors about a literal lemon just so that I could put "lemon" in the title and thus have an excuse to put "not a lemon" in the summary.

Also, around the same era I wrote a novella-length fic (partly) about a gay couple adopting just because I was confused by the existence of mpreg.

edited 18th Aug '15 6:56:05 PM by PPPSSC

I will never forgive myself for deleting the first version of my first fanfic, "Love or Infatuation" (a "South Park" fic). Because with it was the best review I ever got to date:

"I have no idea WTF is the plot...this is more fked than Pulp Fiction or the Breakfast Club." (I can remember it word for word, or close to anyway.)

And I also have fond memories of some of the fist crack-fics I ever read as a teen.

Honestly? Finally finishing my first novel-sized fanfic. I was very proud of this fact and accomplishment.

My other favorite memory is stumbling upon a rather realistic and honest portrayal of how a FF 9 Freya and Zidane sex pairing could work in Practical Medicine. Some twisted part of me probably wanted to see this happen. Love you Garnet/Dagger, but Freya is <3<3<3

I wrote every day after school in middle school, and I would come up with the craziest ideas with friends. In high school I made a fanfiction parody with some friends about said friends, because a few people kept on saying I would end up dating this one guy I thought was a jerk.

When I first began reading fanfiction, I'd only read short stories with plots I really liked from the get-go. The first time I branched out and read something out of my comfort zone, it was a 100k word high school AU about Avatar: The Last Airbender.

And it was really good, to the point where I feel that it defined my early Avatar fan period. I reread it recently, and it still reads really well - not as well as I remember, it's a story from 2008 that I read as a 12/13 year old, but it holds up. Even if it didn't, though, I'd still treasure my first exposure to a really well-done outside-the-box fanfiction.

My fondest fanfic memory would probably be reading the Meg's Family Series and The Spellbook back in middle school. Unfortunately The Spellbook in my opinion isn't nearly as good as I remembered it, though I still got a kick out of the former series (even if it is an Unintentional Period Piece, especially the second installment). I no longer watch Family Guy, but I still look back at those kinds of fics with fondness.

edited 18th Dec '15 6:16:22 PM by AshlynNyx