Fanfics You Like That Have Since Been Deleted

Sometimes fanfics disappear offline. They're deleted by the author, they're deleted by the website, the servers or bandwidth dies, etc. Very few of these fanfics are downloaded elsewhere, so Keep Circulating the Tapes is rare.

So, what fics do you like that have disappeared?

Unstable Equilibrium was my favorite equalist!Asami fic for The Legend of Korra, but the writer deleted it after 30+ chapters. Someone has copies since it was uploaded to Archive of Our Own, only to be deleted again a few weeks later.

Edited by Pichu-kun on Aug 22nd 2019 at 10:02:52 AM

I got two (which sadly don't have Trope works here), both of which were by the same author.

Over and Over Again was a Persona 3 fic where, due to a bit of a hiccup in time, Minato's day keeps repeating. So he ends up exploring various possibilities as to what he can get away with during this one-day time loop. Definitely had a few good laughs in this one.

Reload is a sequel to the above-mentioned fic, where Minato, freed from his duty as the Great Seal, is sent back to Iwatodai to properly seal the 12 Arcana Shadows and prevent the Fall. Older!Minato works his way back into SEES, and actively works to help guide his younger self.

There was a Princess Lover fanfic I like that was a Yuri story between the two main princesses of the game. Then one day, the author suddenly deleted it along with other Yuri fanfics he wrote.

He later explained in a post that revealed why he deleted them; He had a girlfriend who was a Conservative Christian who didn't like his Yuri fanfics due to her beliefs and demanded he deleted them which he did. Long story short, things didn't work out for them so they broke up and he's back writing fanfics but he couldn't bring back his old Yuri fanfics since he didn't save backup copies.

From what I've heard, Unstable Equilibrium was deleted for similar reasons. The writer became religious and didn't like her stories about same-gender romances, so she deleted them.

Edit:

I haven't proof of this actually; I heard it secondhand. Looking at their Tumblr, it seems that the writer just thought the story was too stress-inducing. They hate Korra and Korrasami.

Edited by Pichu-kun on Sep 19th 2019 at 1:37:14 AM

I found this one Frozen fan fic that even has a trope page on here called Frozen: A Dark Retelling, which basically retold the movie but with added elements to expand on certain things, getting rid of Olaf, and more character development. I really liked it and was halfway through the fic until it suddenly got deleted with no rhyme or reason. It's a shame, because I really wanted to read the rest of it, and it was genuinely good!

There was also this really dark, gripping Lucky Star fan fic called Bonds, which is about the girls and everyone in their school having to deal with a school shooting caused by a girl who had been bullied. Again, I was only halfway through finishing the fic until it got deleted. But it was really sad and well written and really good. I really wanted to read the rest of it.

There was a really cute Zootopia fanfic called "Love Is a Chemical Reaction" about Chief Bogo and Clawhauser starting a relationship following the latter's removal from the front desk, but sadly the author cut it short and eventually deleted it.

Years ago, the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons fan-sites HM Farm and Ranch Story had a bunch of fics. I used to read the latter's a lot. However, one day they revamped the site and removed all the fics. I don't remember any but I remember being disappointed. I've never liked their new layout anyway.

Over ten years ago I read a nice (or at least, I thought it was nice at the time) Misao/Ayano fanfic where the two are in a Secret Relationship. I've tried looking for it but it seems to have been removed.

Edited by Pichu-kun on Aug 24th 2019 at 12:51:34 PM

There was this Merlin fanfic I read years ago called "Circle of Magic" or something like that.

I really liked it because of the premise.

It's set in S2/S3 and basically there's this grand magical summit on the Isle of the Blessed that Merlin is chosen to mediate to decide what magic users should do about Camelot.

But both Arthur and Morgana also sneak into it as well. So it ends up a story about the secrets between the three of them slowly coming out as they work together to ensure the more moderate faction wins the support.

The thing is though, I managed to find it years later in a dump of FFN stories. And it really didn't hold up.

My memories absolutely made it seem better than it was in hindsight.

Edited by 32ndfreeze on Aug 24th 2019 at 5:59:47 AM

I remember a Dark Fic for Ed, Edd n Eddy , how Edd snaps and...things take for a very dark turn.

It doesn't portray Then Let Me Be Evil in any good, positive way at all. Edd's been pushed so far he... urgh.

I remember the end, when some black corruption started consuming everything. It's been almost a decade since I read it tho

Edited by Dhiruxide on Aug 24th 2019 at 2:56:36 PM

The nice thing about the MLP fandom is that even though fics do get deleted all teh time by leaving authors, they're backed up quite extensively. The Fimfiction Archive does total backups of teh site every couple of months, and FIMFetch keeps ahold of it all for browsing later, even deleted fics can be seen.

That said, there have been too many deleted fics to count that I've liked before they were gone.

The one fanfic I remember liking very much and being deleted was Redwall fanfiction The Sword and His Flowers, though unfortunately I don't remember the name of the author, and I think his account was deleted as well.

Huh? According to the trope page, that fic still exists in AO3.

Edited by Adept on Oct 30th 2019 at 10:14:22 PM

There's a writer who goes by the name of RVD.

He wrote a couple of good Gunda SEED crossover stories, namely "Gundam SEED Alternative" and "Divine Intervention".

Discovery, a Star Wars fanfic on Archive Of Our Own where Kyle Katarn discovers some Clone Troopers and Ahsoka Tano frozen in carbonite, and brings their carbonite slabs back to the New Jedi Order, presenting them to Luke Skywalker.

The author was Keegsrawrats (who has deleted his account on AO3, but is still active on Tumblr).

Edited by BrightLight on Nov 20th 2019 at 9:56:01 AM

Oh my gosh, it is! Thanks for letting me know! But apparently not all the chapters are up, though. I better read it as soon as I get home from work!!

Edited by TwilightPegasus on Oct 29th 2019 at 9:51:21 AM

I have way too many to list all of them, considering there had been a few account purges of my favorite authors after their fics had been uploaded without permission, flames got too much, one day read it as usual and next day when I tried to read next chapter the account/fic is gone, and etc..

Most recently, I went back to re-read a well-written Good Omens fanfic on AO3, where Crowley intentionally lost the Antichrist to grow up as a normal human kid, and pretended Warlock is actual Antichrist while he bought a house at Tadfield and had been watching Adam growing up. I believe it was one of Raphael!Crowley fanfic, and I liked it a lot because there aren't many fanfics where Crowley acts alone rather than involving Aziraphale until the last day. Also, Adam's interactions with Mr. Raphael (the name Crowley went by) before learning he is the Antichrist were amusing- like Adam saying Mr. Raphael doesn't mean it, that just acts mean because he thinks he should act that way.

Considering the fact the bookmark is gone from my bookmarks of AO3 and cannot be located after I spent hours trying to locate it, I believe it had been deleted.. I have no idea how long it had been gone either.

Edited by Kalias on Apr 7th 2021 at 1:43:45 AM

I remember a Tankman fanfiction about a group of Tankmen fighting a Sirenhead like monster, it was written from the POV of one of them, she called herself Rose and as the fanfiction progressed, she learned that the monster was female, befriended her, and went insane

There was a Fullmetal Alchemist fic about Ed's recovery post-human transmutation I really liked called One Year, but the author took down her Fanfiction.net account years ago.

This satirical Titanic fanfic on Wattpad where Jack has sex with Fabrizio.

A Homestar Runner fanfic called The Kids of Free Country, USA. It was mainly about Homestar and Marzipan's kids and their OC friends fighting an original character who was in love with Marzipan and is now trying to kill Homestar, and Homestar's son mentioned that the show existed in-universe and the characters had always existed but were never included in the show for some reason. The characters were very out of character (for instance, Strong Sad of all people went "oh no, we're gonna die!), there was as a scene where Homestar's daughter's girlfriend went "girls aren't weak!" for no reason, and even the King of Town was happily married. I read it several times because it was So Bad, It's Good, and miss it tremendously.

Edited by VTHU243 on Dec 30th 2021 at 9:00:11 PM

There was a really good Madoka Magica one shot I loved called Tip of the Spear, which was a character study for Kyoko Sakura where both her former idealistic mindset and her current cynical and (mostly) selfish one were explored. Sadly it was just straight up deleted for some reason and I have no idea why.

There was this Winx Club fanfic called Amaranthine Shadows. It had a stunning narration and the characters were explored in-depth. One of the characters got PTSD from the shattering of her wings and she had a dissociative episode in one of the chapters. The author used a metaphor of a spider capturing a butterfly in its web to eat the butterfly's wings.

The premise was the following. To retrieve the Water Stars, Musa had to renounce the opportunity of reviving her mother. When Bloom refuses to kill Valtor with the Stars, Musa gets very pissed. Meanwhile, Darcy has got tired of Valtor and tempts Musa to the dark side. Also meanwhile, Bloom is in a magical coma and Galatea struggles from the trauma of Icy breaking her wings and the pressures of being an "inadequate" princess.

It was cool but cut very short (about 10 chapters + some interludes) when it was deleted. The author said she wasn't comfortable sharing her stories with the world as she pours her soul into what she writes and that makes her feel too uncomfortable. Plus the customary pile of personal problems.

a yandere baldi x reader ft Jacksepticeye. The title of it was called "Don't Forget Fun".

I read it back in 2018 because I liked the plot of it. I wasn't too keen on being shipped with Jacksepticeye so I imagined someone else in his place. Also I remembered comment on one chapter where I compared Baldi to Monika at some point. Also there were two endings and one of them was a Bittersweet ending where the reader dies. The other was the bad ending with lemon, if you catch my drift.

Edited by Wheatleyfangirl on Feb 13th 2022 at 5:10:53 AM

I spent a month archiving all that was left of Total Drama Do Over because the author randomly deleted their account. They'd already deleted a ton of journals and other bonus content, this was just the final blow. Luckily I preserved most of what I could on the wiki. Sucks cuz I helped write some of it and made the trope page back when I was just a fan.

Edited by mightymewtron on Mar 6th 2023 at 4:06:25 AM

There was a continuation fic for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn called "Drops of Jupiter" that was probably among the best fanfics I've ever read. I can't seem to find it on FF.net anymore.