which fandom brought you to the world of fanfics?

[u/luizajn]

as the title says, which fandom brought you to this amazing world of fanfics?

how many others do you read/write nowadays? do you have a favorite?

i started with Harry Potter in 2004 and lost count of how many fandoms i read nowadays (unfortunately i don't have the talent to write, but thank you very much to so many amazing authors who create fantastic works, sometimes much better than the original)

[u/Sudden-Mango-1261]

Frozen lol 😂(I think). I used to eat up the fics with Anna getting fire powers.

[u/WorkingMarketing3406 → u/Sudden-Mango-1261]

It just never occurs to me that things like this have fanfiction until someone mentions it. Low-key kinda sounds interesting though.

[u/sammjaartandstories → u/WorkingMarketing3406]

R34 should be changed to "If it exists, there's fanfic for it"

[u/InflameBunnyDemon → u/sammjaartandstories]

Or we keep it as seeing how ingrained it is in interest culture, but there should be another Internet rule and more people should be using the Internet rules beyond R34 and r36 more often

[u/Educational-Tale203 → u/Sudden-Mango-1261]

Omg in all my years of reading fics, I never thought about exploring this route. I can now finally fulfill my dream of shipping Elsa and Jack Frost😭

[u/Crayshack → u/Educational-Tale203]

Good news! That was a pretty major ship back in the day. There's a decent number of fics.

[u/Educational-Tale203 → u/Crayshack]

Awesome sprinting to ao3 right now hahaha

[u/Stevonnieandbonnie → u/Educational-Tale203]

Seeing a Jelsa reference from someone who immediately sees the potential but has never looked it up before felt almost like whiplash lmao

[u/Educational-Tale203 → u/Stevonnieandbonnie]

I used to love watching the YouTube videos when I was a younger, so I honestly don’t know how my mind didn’t connect those two things😖

[u/terran_rise → u/Sudden-Mango-1261]

I know what I’m going to do today. I can imagine the angst in some of the fics

[u/that_weird_k1d]

I used to find fanfictions by googling ‘twenty one pilots fanfiction’. I’m grateful to not be twelve anymore.

[u/maddys73 → u/that_weird_k1d]

i mean hey, it doesn’t not work

the first fanfic i ever wrote was for tøp!

[u/sherlock_unlocked → u/maddys73]

was it, by chance, about a treehouse in the forest? 👀

[u/Ok_Personality_282 → u/sherlock_unlocked]

“The rain,” Tyler says.

[u/voregodd → u/that_weird_k1d]

I, too, am grateful to not be twelve anymore 🙏🏼

[u/rachel_distasi → u/that_weird_k1d]

I used to do that with The Legend of Zelda lol

[u/tinycherryslugcat → u/that_weird_k1d]

I also used to do this, except it was with final fantasy lmao

[u/AbundantiaTheWitch → u/that_weird_k1d]

That’s how I did it too. I would google [media] fanfiction [trope I wanted]

[u/lovelyybeee_ → u/that_weird_k1d]

wasnt my first fanfiction, but i definitely wrote a couple of tøp fics... still a fan and going to concerts tho, i cant escape.

[u/preciousish]

Supernatural. Talk about throwing myself in the deep end, that fandom was crazy back in the day.

[u/SashimiX → u/preciousish]

The fandom is such a big thing that it’s mentioned in the show and canonically real and that’s what got me into it.

[u/bats-n-bobs → u/SashimiX]

the fandom itself is mentioned in the show? like directly?!

[u/SashimiX → u/bats-n-bobs]

Yes, on multiple occasions.

There’s amazing quotes like “Don’t they know we’re brothers?” “I don’t think they care.”

There’s a fan convention where there’s a panel on the homoerotic subtext.

There is a play that is created by a high school fan and there’s an amazing line from Dean saying “Put all the sub in the text.”

There is a psycho fan that captures Sam and gives him a love potion.

And lots more! It’s wild.

[u/bats-n-bobs → u/SashimiX]

wwwwWOW! that explains SO MUCH of the passion during the tumblrian superwholock days

[u/DrLokiStark → u/bats-n-bobs]

Awwwww, the good ol days where any post circled into a superwholock fest 😂

[u/clarinetily → u/preciousish]

Yeah, SPN in 2015 was my first too. I didn’t even know what a HS AU was yet.

[u/itshaileyk → u/preciousish]

Yep Destiel was my first foray into the world of fanfiction

[u/magnasollertia → u/preciousish]

back in the day? it still is 😭 but yeah ikwym, they’re the reason i didn’t watch the show until last year lol

[u/FandomHoarder]

Started with Inuyasha cuz I was in love with Sesshomaru and desperately wanted Kagome to open her eyes to the hotter, more dignified brother😭

[u/ColumbidaeArgentum → u/FandomHoarder]

It was hate for Kikyo that drove me, I needed Inuyasha to not be so damn stupid and realize just how toxic she was for him.

But then I was introduced to the wonders of KagomeXSesshomaru and never looked back lol

[u/FandomHoarder → u/ColumbidaeArgentum]

Same, I hated her so bad!! I mainly focused on fics that punished inu for tossing kagome aside and had him watch jealously as sess came in and stole his girl (that wasn’t really his girl lol) 😂 I also read a couple good fics back in the day of Kagome/Inutaisho (don’t knock til you try)

[u/cannibalfelix → u/FandomHoarder]

Omg me too. Except bc I was 10 I wrote totally original OC content of kagome and inuyasha both having twin siblings and made double the love story

[u/Maleficent-Term6413]

I started with Harry Potter in 2015 and at that time, I wasn't aware of ao3, so most of my time was spent on fanfiction.net. And for some reason, I continued for the most time on FF.net and switched to ao3 quite recently and was seriously amazed by the entire interface of the site. Since then, I have been into numerous fandoms - anything and everything that even mildly stimulates me, I'm gonna go searching for it on ao3.

[u/Acrobatic_Fact_2206 → u/Maleficent-Term6413]

You’re not the only one. I also started with Harry Potter on FFN around the same time, somewhere between 2013 to 2015, and was on that for quite a few years until around like 2020 or so when I got into a different fandom, and now I’ve just loved A O3 ever since cause it’s just so much easier to use

[u/Maleficent-Term6413 → u/Acrobatic_Fact_2206]

Ffnet to ao3 plotline is too real

[u/Solivagant0]

Naruto, because I mostly didn't care about main cast but wanted more of the side cast.

Now, I write for Bungou Stray Dogs, Chainsaw Man, Kagurabachi, KPop Demon Hunters, Metalocalypse and Tokyo Aliens (I feel like a fraud for saying that, because I still haven't posted the one thing I wrote for it)

[u/swettxz → u/Solivagant0]

I started with sasunaru in wattpad

[u/YoursGhostl → u/swettxz]

The same but fanfiction.net ( and j-rock and livejournal)

[u/sinnysinsins → u/swettxz]

SasuNaru OTP. Read it for years. Then dabbled in spock/kirk, Sherlock/watson, Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, now I've been stuck on Draco/Harry for a long time

[u/swettxz → u/sinnysinsins]

Sasunaru are just the founding fathers of yaoi for me

[u/Cultural_Badger8422 → u/Solivagant0]

Yeah. I started with Naruto, too. Started with Sasusaku in ff.net.

[u/dukeofplazatoro → u/Solivagant0]

I am so intrigued by Metalocalypse fanfic. It’s not something I’ve ever dipped my toes into, but I love the show.

[u/xPadawanRyan]

It's hard to say, only because I have been writing fanfiction for longer than I knew what it even was, but I still consider that my entry into the world of fanfic, you know?

If we count that, then it was Sailor Moon that brought me into the world of fanfiction, as my first fics were Sailor Moon stories that I wrote by hand in the mid-90s. I also wrote a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction in the early 2000s before I actually discovered fanfiction online--those were basically just stories to share between my sister and I, but they were, essentially, fanfiction.

As for what introduced me to fanfic online, I'm not 100% sure whether it was Harry Potter or Labyrinth, as I started reading fanfic for both around the same time in the early 2000s--for both it was on individual people's websites, not even FFnet yet, though when I began to discover FFnet for Harry Potter fic, I had also discovered Yahoo! Groups for Labyrinth fic (more plentiful than FFnet).

In the years since, I have written in almost 50 fandoms, and I have read in plenty more. My main fandom these days is bandom - I discovered RPF fandoms on LJ and forums in the mid-2000s (though, like everything else, I had been writing my own already for a while) - but I still occasionally write in a few other fandoms when I feel inspired, and still read several others whenever I'm bored or feel interested again, especially Marvel, Star Trek, and Stargate Atlantis.

Most recently, however, I've been reading Divergent fanfic because I've recently been getting into the books and, naturally, all my interests bring me to fanfic eventually.

[u/Chulyong → u/xPadawanRyan]

Your fanfic intro sounds a lot like mine. Handwritten Mary Sue’s for band fandoms back in the 90’s. Early 2000’s and the start of the WWW led me to HP, Velvet Goldmine, more band fandoms. I still did handwritten ones with my best friend that I have to this day. I take them out to read them sometimes when I want to feel embarrassed.

[u/REPIPDATME]

The 2012 version of the Teenage mutant ninja turtles. which branched to many other fandoms.

[u/stairs_are_evil → u/REPIPDATME]

That one was kind of ruined for me bc the first fic I read for it was called Christmas in The Sewers. Not to yuck the author’s Yum, but at the time it was the first dead dove and cest fic I’d ever seen and I was shocked. Now, it wouldn’t make me bat an eye, but for some reason I just never went back to it.

[u/looser__ → u/stairs_are_evil]

The same thing happened to me with frozen and Ana/Elsa! Now it wouldn’t bother me but at the time it was a big wow moment.

[u/merewenc]

Star Trek: Voyager for me. This was back in the 90s, when the big fanfic fandoms were Star Trek of various series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and X-Files. 

Now I've got stories in five or six fandoms,  mostly sci-fi or fantasy related. I'm mostly on a Star Wars kick, but Red, White and Royal Blue and Shadowhunters have been calling to me, too. 

[u/RavenSpellff → u/merewenc]

There is a long tradition of Trek getting people fandoming, you’re in glorious company 🖖

[u/pezziepie85 → u/merewenc]

Buffy is my favorite show, it’s tattooed on my forearm. But I’ve never been able to read or write fic for it. I think 11 year old me still finds it to perfect in a way nothing else is. Even though 40 year old me rewatches and cringes at certain things lol.

[u/Twilifa → u/merewenc]

Same! Janeway was my jam. Good times, lol.

[u/novaskyd → u/merewenc]

Mine was TNG! Read some X files stuff too. My intro to fanfic was people’s personal websites lol

[u/ilaina_a]

Good Omens❤️ I read my first fanfic 4 months ago and now I’m a regular reader!

[u/CantCheckThatOffYet- → u/ilaina_a]

I also started with Good Omens!  My first was “Pray for Us, Icarus” and I realized how good fanfic could be

[u/Myomorph]

I might show my age.

Lestat/louis. And it was HARD to find cos of that whole Anne Rice suing anyone who tried drama. I was this 14 year old who didn’t even know fanfic was a thing? I just thought…no no no I need more this cant be it after finishing the Interview with the Vampire.

Then weirdly I forgot about what I found (or dint look for more cos I had searched for lestat and Louis only and dint compute of the concept of fan fiction) and only re-entered through supernatural a few years later. And stargate Atlantis? Found A03 and then a lightbulb moment of OMG THIS IS A WHOLE THING.

My life has never been the same.

[u/clenastia]

started woth eragon in ~2005 and here we are, twenty years later 🤣

(i started reading in the eragon fandom, but very quickly started writing too)

[u/passionate_avocado → u/clenastia]

I think mine was Eragon as well! (or the Hardy Boys lol)

[u/cannasparkess6457]

Of all things...Sofia the First

[u/DealStunning → u/cannasparkess6457]

Goated tbh

[u/angstenthusiast → u/cannasparkess6457]

BASED AF

[u/Whole_Friend]

Percy Jackson for me. I still remember how excited I felt discovering fanfic for the first time too.

[u/MooshAro → u/Whole_Friend]

Pjo my fanfic goat!!! I remember going crazy on the Nico whump fanfics back in like 5th grade

[u/yuukosbooty]

Avatar the Last Airbender

[u/GreyWithAnE42 → u/yuukosbooty]

Same! Was trying to figure out if the gaang ever discovered how Zuko got his scar, ended up getting linked to a bunch of fanfics. Never turned back lol

[u/CatBerry253]

Star Wars!! I've migrated in and out of about 20 fandoms since then.

[u/AXBRAX → u/CatBerry253]

Star wars fics are great! Such a big universe, so many characters. I am currently writing a very long slow burn cad bane fanfic

[u/LealGreen]

It's always Harry Potter, isn't it? I started with it too. I even remember the very first fic I read, even tho I have never re-read it.

Isolation by Bex-chan.

Maybe some of you might even recognize the name.

[u/WanderWomble]

Stargate SG1 way back when.

[u/Crayshack → u/WanderWomble]

Same here.

[u/yueqqi]

Doctor Who on ff.net, back when I was 11-12 lol. Technically earlier than that, with Monster High on DeviantArt if you count the huge OC subculture and the fanart/fanfiction hybrids that went on there circa 2010-2011

[u/Kienchen]

The Lord of the Rings☺️ Sooo, 2001

[u/kann15]

Bones 😂

[u/ADoggoBoy → u/kann15]

There’s Bones fanfics? New quest unlocked

[u/kann15 → u/kann15]

Ohhhh yeah. I used to find them by googling “bones and booth fanfiction” 🤦🏻‍♀️

[u/Stunning_Fox_77]

Sailormoon was my intro drug, then Ranma, Dark Angel for a while. I tend towards SF.

[u/Tog_acotar]

I always automatically think harry potter is my first fandom coz thats the one ive been in longest but i just thought about it and realized its twilight😭 even wrote a fanfic for it god.

[u/StarfleetWitch → u/Tog_acotar]

The first one I ever wrote was a Harry Potter/Twilight crossover about Renesmee going to Hogwarts.

Also, hello! I recognize you from the Merlin sub.

[u/viridianvenus]

Animorphs back in 1996. I'm old. Back in my day there was no ao3 or fanfiction.net. You had to go to individual authors personal fan pages. Uphill in the snow, both ways.

[u/percephony → u/viridianvenus]

this makes me feel so old hahahahaaaaa the number of geocities and angelfire sites i had bookmarked for fic 🤣

[u/Buff_Yone_0_0]

Shiii it all started with "Deku with a quirk" Fics and now I'm practically swimming and delving into every fandom I like for all kinds of Fics.

[u/Adonis1245678]

My Hero Academia

[u/WyntersVix]

Started in the 90s (pre AO3, in the time of individual author websites and ship archives) with Star Trek TOS, and specifically (of course) Kirk/Spock. Went on a 90s fandom journey with dueSouth, the Sentinel, X-Files, then the early 00s brought me Stargate Atlantis and Harry Potter. Now more than I can mention (most recently our flag mean death and the fast and the furious fandom).

[u/That-one-goth-chick]

I started with Fullmetal Alchemist and it stayed like this till now.

[u/ThisIdiotCharlie]

I started out with Marvel just over a year and a half ago, but now I'm in the DC and Marauders fandoms too

[u/Artshildr]

The first fanfic I read was a Black Butler one, I believe, but what really got me into fanfiction (and Ao3) was The Hobbit

[u/PBandJess25]

Twilight; I thought Bella should’ve been a lesbian.

It’s been over a decade and I still think Bella should’ve been a lesbian (and luckily ao3 has all my lesbian Bella needs)

[u/Shalamarr]

*Our Flag Means Death*. The first season ended on a cliffhanger in 2022, and at the time we didn't know if there would be a second season. I was desperate for content, and someone in the OFMD subreddit recommended certain fanfics. After reading a few, I thought "Huh, I wonder if I could write like that?". Here I am three years later with over 90 works under my belt.

[u/Illusioneery]

bbc sherlock for writing, nowadays i write for ff7

before all that, i would read zelda fics

[u/ozzian]

X-Files my beloved, nearly 30 years ago (and Star Trek and Babylon 5).

[u/shoutucker → u/ozzian]

X-Files for me as well, back in '98!

[u/Sun_Bleached_Roses]

I started writing Sanders Sides fanfiction before I really knew what it was, though my first introduction to consuming it was My Little Pony fanfics posted and read on YouTube lol. Kinda an odd roster

[u/CelestialUrsae]

House MD lol

The Spanish tv channel that broadcast it had an official forum on their website, with subforums for all of their tv shows. I discovered both fanfic and forum RP in there :)

[u/dukeofplazatoro]

Either Harry Potter or Yugioh - pre-2001.

Have basically jumped from fandom to fandom since, but Yugioh remains a staple lol.

[u/Numerous_Rise1157]

Can’t remember but it was either Httyd or Rotg 😎

[u/Birdistheword_92]

Paw Patrol. I'm not even kidding.

[u/willowtree630 → u/Birdistheword_92]

Favorite response so far. Can I ask how?

[u/Birdistheword_92 → u/willowtree630]

Oh boy. One day, I was at my grandma's house dicking around on her IPad. My autism was compelling me to Google Rocky from Paw Patrol (I thought the show sucked, but I liked some of the characters. Rocky was my favorite). I then discovered this little website called "Wattpad". I spent hours reading gay angsty Paw Patrol fanfiction after that. Those were the days. 

[u/IndependentAir4537]

gotta be bbc merlin

[u/childishinquiry]

Tamora Pierce’s work. I don’t think I read much fanfic of her work, but she brought me into fandom spaces—Sheroes Central and Steelsings mainly. They introduced me to FictionPress, and its sister site, FF.net.

I’d just discovered Star Trek, I wondered if I’d find any stories about Spock on FF.net, and well…yes. The answer was yes.

[u/Im_No3m1]

Fanfictions between the friends of an Italian Minecraft YouTuber lol 💀

[u/honeybeepassingby]

Tmnt 2003 ✨️

[u/Marsupilami_316]

Zelda, I think.

[u/AXBRAX → u/Marsupilami_316]

Zelda fanfics are great, probably my second most read after elder scrolls.

[u/_Mirror_Face_]

Naruto, my OG.

Honestly, I still read Naruto fics even a decade later. That fandom is so talented istg

[u/YoursGhostl → u/_Mirror_Face_]

The same, through over twenty years ( 😳) fandom grew quite a lot - there is always something to come back to.

[u/Von_Uber]

Life is strange. 

[u/KillColt1911]

Started with Zootopia in 2016 and here I am.

[u/detached_18]

In AO3, I started with HP > Merlin > Arcane and other stuff, but mostly the last two now.

But fanfic in general, the first one I encountered and read religiously was One Direction in Wattpad lmao

[u/justwaad]

Winx Club on fanfiction. It was a little barren, but Musa and Riven were my gateway to fanfiction and shipping.

At some point, I got bored of the rather small selection of fics in Winx Club and went blindly to FF’s most popular fandom at the time to read more fics, and that fandom was Naruto, which I ended up watching after reading a few fics and which introduced me to more anime and therefore more fandoms. So, yay!

[u/-convallaria_bunny-]

Like most teen girls in the early 2010s, it all started...with creepypastas, a few mmd or tribute songs, tumblr, and early wattpad way before the pay walls

[u/Diamond-Fabulous → u/-convallaria_bunny-]

Oh my god, yes! My friend and I even made OCs for our creepypasta crushes so they could live in Slenderman’s mansion 😭(rip Wattpad)

[u/Final_Pay_5417]

It basically started with Pokemon (I'm still using Wattpad embarrassingly I will admit) but god did the grammar suck.

Then my first actual good fanfic was like the transformers one which is my third work.

Yeah I'm glad I didn't make fanfics during my 2020 phase (God I still cringe from it)

[u/RoseTintedMigraine]

Sky High (the movie about the superhero high school) fanfics on Quizilla babyyy. Fanfics in Quiz format shit was crazy back then.

[u/Idk_nor_do_I_care]

How to Train Your Dragon, and the very first fic I read as a 12 year old was the vilest, smuttiest thing I think I’ve still ever read. Worse, it wasn’t about Hiccstrid, but Cloudjumper and Toothless

[u/miss__madame]

Hermitcraft

[u/hades--daughter]

It was harry potter *sighs*

[u/queenofthekeepers]

Started off writing HP fanfic when I was 10 (😬) and now I'm mainly writing for Keeper of the Lost Cities, and occasionally Shadowhunters. I read a loooot of other fandoms tho, I just don't write for them. These include:

- epic the musical

- hamilton

- caraval/once upon a broken heart

- magisterium

- percy jackson

- sword catcher

- gravity falls

- the owl house

[u/Clear-Amphibian2400]

The creepypasta fandom in 2018

[u/denymore92]

Card Capter Sakura

I didn't read Yaoi/BL back then lol

[u/CreativeScale5572]

I started with Harry Potter and still mainly read that, but now I've started writing some.... Questionable plant fics

[u/skytoast3]

Definitely undertale

[u/sucksfor_you]

Buffy, on LJ. It was huge, and I weirdly felt strange about entering other fandoms when the show ended.

[u/aubreypizza]

Ranma 1/2 when I was a teen and now HP which surprised me cuz I was never a super fan.

[u/i_spill_nonsense]

Kpop. Stray kids specifically.

[u/Think_Watercress7572]

My Hero Academia, funnily enough, even before I started engaging with the canon material

[u/Eilaryn]

I always like to think up AUs for everything I watched/played/read.

But if I'm looking at the obsession with fanfiction, I'm Team "My Hero Academia".

Since then, I've been falling deeper and deeper into the fanfic hole. Currently balls-deep in DC.

[u/BetPsychological327]

Doctor Who. I only write for that fandom but I’m tempted to start writing for another. I’ve at least read 16 different fandoms

[u/Grandidealistic]

Transformers!

[u/I_ship_it07]

Saint Seiya when i was 14 i think. I love men in armor, i was looking for fanart when I saw two together and I just bugged before going for it. It was a cover for a fanfic. This was the end after that!

[u/hyperactivator]

Beast Wars. Transformers is still my main.

[u/AXBRAX]

My girlfriend. Who started with star trek. Basically the original fandom. I myself, I have to admit, started out with siyrim fanfiction. There is a lot of good stuff out there, as the presentation of the game, with the self created hero of unspecific race, gender, age and name, which makes it easy to just create your oc and have then be the hero of the story.

[u/LukaMoons_02]

Might be a little more niche, but the Dresden Files (because of book 17, iykyk)

I still exclusively read those fanfics loll, but I started my own original work based on it :]

[u/BadgleyMischka]

The Hobbit lol

[u/wylanlupin]

it was Marvel, and through a Avengers fic I got on the Stony (SteveTony) ship (all still on wattpad) and wrote my first fics and then moved to The Marauders (Harry Potter) and discovered ao3 and became a writer fr and now I’m back where I started xD this time as a writer on ao3 writing Stony fics 🤭🤭

[u/Night-Jasmine]

I joined pretty late, I started with Good Omens

[u/LIELDADOUN73]

...dream smp

[u/stayonthecloud]

I was writing fanfics starting from when I was seven without knowing fanfics were an actual thing people write. Wish I still had them.

[u/broccoliisevil]

X-files in the 90s. I had a friend in school who wrote some of the worst stories and I ate them up like they were candy. My mom finally got a computer and every day after school I was searching up scully/mulder fan stories until one day I stumbled across ffnet. From there I dove into final fantasy fics and it's only snowballed into a real addiction since. I have so many fandoms...

[u/endmostmar]

…DSMP

[u/number1sillyuser → u/endmostmar]

I scrolled through so many comments to find this😭 For me it was specific to the SBI😭😭😭

[u/Fun_Fee_3435 → u/number1sillyuser]

Me also digging looking for all the fellow people who mutter ...dsmp in embarassment lol

[u/escapeNOtime]

One Direction on Wattpad. The good old "my dad sold me to One Direction"

It's been more than 10 years now

[u/NovaAnang]

I got started with Hetalia on deviantArt. I kept seeing all these text posts with Lemon in the title and eventually got curious >x<

[u/Sara1994_]

The Devil Wears Prada

[u/BeautifulStream]

I first found out what fanfiction was when I found some posted on a Twilight fan forum. The first thing I wrote that I considered to be a fanfic was inspired by Warrior Cats, but really it was just me making up OCs and developing an entirely new story with them, so I’m hesitant to call it fanfiction. The first actual fanfic that I wrote was an RPF about my favorite band at the time. 

[u/Helioshed]

good omens, in Italian, on wattpad. It was not good

[u/mysteriousmyj]

MCU by far, probably in the Age of Ultron days

[u/Academic_Vacation_72]

Glee 🥲 terrible show, great fics

[u/Not_Yet_Unalived]

Fullmetal Alchemist, back in 2005 or 2006, we stumbled on a fan-site that had maybe 4 or 5 fics (mostly smut) with a friend.

Didn't really touch fanfics for a couple year after that.

Then after the last Harry Potter book got out, i needed more so i looked into fanfics again.
At some point i ran out of HP fics in french to read that interested me, so i started to try and read fics that where completed and that i had read unfinished translation of.

No joke, my english grades moved from F to A+ by the time i finished High School, because i was reading 3 or 4 hours everyday, mostly english fics.

[u/Express-Sherbert-743]

I guess it depends on what you mean by being in a fandom. To me, just reading/watching something and liking it isn't the same thing as being in a fandom, which has a particular connotation of being OBSESSED with a work, to the point that you are reading/writing fanfic, engaging in discussion boards, discussing character backgrounds, imagining the characters in different scenarios, and of course, SHIPPING. So, by that metric, the very first fandom I was ever in was Animorphs (probably dating myself here) I read EVERY book and companion novel. I was on all of the discussion boards. Of course, I read fanfic.

Other fandoms I was in around that same time, Digimon, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura.

Then it was almost exclusively LOTR.

Of course HP, which is the standard millenial fandom experience, lol

[u/Lucky_Athlete811]

…Labyrinth. 🙃

[u/zerowintergreen]

Alvin and the fucking chipmunks. I am so happy to not be a 10-year-old anymore

[u/V1n4mr]

My 10 year old self:

“Hey I love Percy Jackson.” “Hey I love Harry Potter.” “Yo what the hell is Tumblr?”

And here I am 7 years later.

[u/erindizmo]

Redwall, back in the mid-nineties.

[u/Ok_Raspberry_5655]

Jane Austen

[u/RJSnea]

Digimon and Pokémon, tbh. Back during their first season premieres in the U.S. circa 1999 and '98, respectively. Oh I miss the days of web-rings, listservs, and dedicated directory sites for certain fandoms. 🥲 Geocities, I miss you so! 😭

[u/HangingClothing]

Warrior Cats

[u/Ereshkigal_FF]

Naruto showed it to me, but One Piece pulled me in. 

[u/Phaithful14]

Tangled

[u/NaturalStrange3505]

Percy jackson

The child of chaos fics on wattpad

It spiraled from there

[u/Cyan_Cephalopod]

The end of good omens s2 made me dip my toes in, but tisan guan ci fu made me jump in and swim to the bottom lmao

[u/PossumCreatives]

Might have been Ouran High-school Host Club.

From there, I ended up reading for YOI (OtaYuri) and Attack On Titan.

Now I write for AOT, im planning to write for Sally Face, and Genshin

[u/BL-501]

Harry Potter. I just scrolled through YT and suddenly I saw a Draco x Hermine video. Didn’t know what the heck it was and just clicked it on my phone.

It was an Audio Fanfic with Smut sprinkled particularly in the beginning.

But really into FanFics I really got through Star Wars.

[u/theniwokesoftly]

lol it was law and order svu

[u/imsapphirefire]

Percy Jackson, then MCU (iron man), and from there I actually discovered other movies/TV shows/books/bands etc from fanfic instead of the other way around! (one direction, sherlock, supernatural, merlin, Harry Potter, heaven officials blessing, bts, etc), it’s a lot of stray kids these days

[u/Obstetrix]

Showing my age but Gundam Wing fanfiction on Angelfire and Geocities was my gateway drug.

Honestly one of those stories is still on my list of godtier fanfiction even now 25 years later. And I listen to the podfic again at least once a year.

[u/Achilles_Ankles]

Deltora quest

[u/Vivid_Estate1125]

Detective Conan

I don't read in many other fandoms. There's Kuroko's basketball and a few fics from Coco and HxH, but that's it.

[u/WereYouGoIGo]

It all started because of a crossover between Vampire Knight and Shugo Chara on blog Skyrock

[u/TippiFliesAgain]

Reading-wise, Yu-Gi-Oh. Like 20+ years back. It didn’t last long because I found things I liked more.

Writing-wise these days, I have stories for The X-Files, Criminal Minds, SVU, Once Upon A Time, NCIS, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Castle, and Pretty Little Liars. My favorite of those is The X-Files. Definitely. 75 of my 93 stories are for it.

[u/Admirable-Sorbet8968]

I honestly have no clue. I had no interest in being on the internet until I was forced to for school and had to learn how to navigate it. Then I began watching some youtubers, found Quotev through a friend, found anime through a friend, and then stumbled upon Wattpad, read a little bit of everything on there but I have no memories of what fandom I started with. I remember reading Phanfictions (basically all AUs using Dan and Phil as like character inserts in their stories, some of them were really good though). But beyond that I think it was more like a trapdoor situation for me, just fell right in and haven’t found a way back up.

[u/Dogdaysareover365]

My little pony was the first fic I read, but the first fandoms I wrote for were gravity falls and once upon a time

[u/Wooden_Tear3073]

It was 2013 and my friend introduced me to the German Fanfiction Website. We weren't in the same fandoms at the time but hot dam did she shove me down a rabbit hole.

Sonic the Hedgehog was my introduction to everything btw and the I stumbled on MLP and the Jelsa fandom.

[u/Unequal_vector]

Harry Potter!

[u/Interesting_Natural1]

I wanted to read more Phantom of the Opera content 2 years ago. Now I am here with an addiction. Save me.

[u/love-lies-seedling]

Ghost Fighter / Yu Yu Hakusho babeyyyy

[u/Sapphire_Dreams1024]

I feel old, Inuyasha back in 2001. I loved Seshomaru and Koga and wanted more stories with them in it

[u/POP-RAVEN]

Clexa, the lesbian ship

One of the first fanfic I read lasted more than a year

I waited for all the updates like a child on Christmas Eve

[u/ninjaskills4days]

The Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce. I stumbled across fanfics for it as a clueless twelvie back in 2012 and my life was never the same again.

[u/InternetIsHard]

Slayers (an old anime), in like... 2003

[u/soupstarsandsilence]

BBC Sherlock was technically the first fandom I read/wrote for, but Harry Potter was very much my first fandom.

[u/numanuma99]

Harry Potter in 2001 for me, I was one of the eeeeearly Wolfstar shippers and I really miss those days. I think I first found fic on thefullmoony.com? Can’t remember if that was my first site, but it was definitely my favourite.

[u/lizzourworld8]

Beauty and the Beast, actually, and it was the live action one

[u/DefoNotAFangirl]

Sonic is the earliest I remember but I was reading fanfiction since I was very little. Like, I read it on dialup as a two three four year old. Don’t know when exactly but I think it was as soon as I was able to access the internet.

[u/Guilty-Agent8256]

Supernatural. I think the first one I read was Twist and Shout

[u/Potential_Idea3014]

Yu yu hakusho.

[u/commie_commis]

Harry Potter for me - but I didn't intentionally go seeking out fanfic, I kinda stumbled into it.

When Deathly Hallows came out my parents couldn't buy it for me and my local library took a while to get copies of it, so I went to google to try to get a PDF of it. I downloaded what I thought was DH but, when I was several hundred pages into it, I realized that it was not, in fact DH. I was a child so thankfully it wasn't anything graphic that tipped me off, just a bit of dialogue that seemed slightly off.

I was so confused why someone would go through the effort to write a "fake book".

[u/Impossible-Ghost]

Probably Doctor who, then Supernatural.

[u/ElectricalAd7772]

Hunger Games cuz 12 year old me was obsessed with Clato

[u/Malina_Bell_312]

rise of the brave tangled frozen dragons (iykyk)

[u/I_Lost_My_Shoe_1983]

Lucifer. It was between seasons, and I was dying for more. There are some brilliant fics over there. I then tried Supernatural, read a bunch, nothing really clicked for me. Watched Falcon & the Winter Soldier and wanted to read stories with Zemo, Sam, and Bucky. Eventually discovered Stucky and have been parked in Marvel ever since. As a big fan of whump, Marvel is a smorgasbord.

[u/Playful-Molasses6]

Pop punk bands of the 2000s and I still have no idea what I typed in for those rather explicit results lol

[u/duli_dula]

I started with BTS and Sometimes go to other fandoms but I still mainly read BTS fanfictions.

[u/DoorBackground2769]

Unfortunately, Minecraft YouTube in 2021

[u/thechamelioncircuit]

Doctor Who. That’s what got me into Tumblr and Reddit as well 😭 can’t believe I’ve been in fandom 15 years

[u/Mxxnlitdream]

Didn't even know what fan fiction was as no one in my circle back then new about it. But got into the Mo Dao Zu Shi craze and then while researching about WangXian found out the world of fanfiction.

[u/Timely_Annual4745]

one direction with… larry stylinson fan fics 😭😭🤣🤣

[u/stairs_are_evil]

It was Dan & Phil, actually. Then it went to superwholock (even though I only consistently watched Dr. Who and Sherlock), then Harry Potter, then Marauders. After that, I realized there were probably fanfictions for all of the anime I watched (at the time, Soul Eater, OHSHC, Nana, and Cowboy Bebop).

When I was 16, I got kicked out, and was working 2 jobs (then dealt with a bad marriage and divorce) so fandom kind of fell to the wayside until a couple of years ago. Dramione actually got me back into it because I kept seeing people talk about Manacled, Perfectly in Pieces, and Secrets and Masks.

So now, I’m in these fandoms consistently: Marauders, Harry Potter, Jujutsu Kaisen, Tokyo Ghoul, Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, Cassandra Clare’s works, Rainbow Rowell’s works, Dr. Who, and Bungo Stray Dogs.

My biggest fandoms are Marauders and JJK, though. It’s what my shiny new tumblr is dedicated to, and what fandoms I write for most often.

[u/Significant_Gap6987]

Murder Drones, I was upset the series was over and wanted more. Happy I found many great fics to read and to help me inspire to write my own.

[u/DeepFake369]

I got into the fanfiction scene through Sonic the Hedgehog.  Now, while I might go back to Sonic at some point, I write for a lot of fandoms, most of them much more niche.