I know - it's probably sacrilege to start a thread about fanfic in a "books/reading" section - but this is my favorite kind of reading! When canon doesn't give you what you want (or enough of it), fic to the rescue!
So who here loves fic? Do you have a favorite source or site you use? Fandoms or pairings you can't get enough of? Favorite tropes? Are you a canon or AU person? Specific AUs you always fall for? Are any of you writers yourselves?
I feel like I spend half my life on AO3. I first discovered fanfic on tumblr through the Hunger Games fandom, and after seeing everything linked to AO3 from there, I made the jump. If you love fan works and aren't on there, you haven't LIVED.
So as I said, I started with Hunger Games fic (Everlark - which, even though I struggle with on a canon level sometimes, the fic authors have made me enjoy it a fair bit more), which evolved into Divergent fic from there (Fourtris) and since I discovered The 100 and my favorite ship of all time (Bellarke), I've been a goner. My bookmarks are out of control, I follow so many authors it's sickening, and the best part of my day is getting an e-mail that someone posted an update. I even ventured into writing a few times - the first fic I ever wrote was on a snow day, my job closed for the day and some friends and I had been talking theories and I just started writing. Before I went to bed that day I had put the finishing touches on ~15,500 words of spec fic. I wish I could get that motivated to do other things LOL. My second is about 7k of porn, so that escalated quickly haha.
As far as favorites go - from a writing perspective I find it infinitely easier to write canon, but I love reading both canon and AUs. I love a good "enemies to friends to lovers" trope among many others. I'm not really one for the "coffee shop AU" that a lot of my friends fawn over. I need some angst before my happy ending. Some bickering for good measure
So what about you! Now that I've gushed and revealed my level of fangirl, I know I can't be the only one!
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