#classic fic

[caffeinated-croissant]

What are some of the classic pjo fics?? Cause like almost all the fandoms I've been in have a classic fanfic that everyone knows the name of

[s0me-writer]

Kicking off Day 4 of Primarch Week with an oldy but goodie. The Banner Of the First Regiment is such a good fic with a focus on the friendship between Garrus and Adrien. I recommend this to everyone!

[fairyetc]

Can you see Kyle ever having a thing for Cartman if he calmed down and got some help?

I can see that happening without the change and Kyle hating himself for it

[myopicfriend]

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

in the middle before i knew - jontinf - Doctor Who (2005) [Archive of Our Own]

[thefanthropologist]

How To Find Good Classic Fic

Originally published on May 12, 2025

I'm looking into early Star Wars fandom because it's notoriously hard to track down and piece together. I for sure know it existed, but I think a lot of it must have centered around in-person events and screenings given its wider popularity. I'm still gathering info, but what I found while looking around was that Star Wars kind of invaded Star Trek fandom in its early years. Star Trek zines and cons suddenly included Star Wars stories or merch. The lead-up cons to the formation of MediaWest*Con were all Star Trek in origin, but by the third con Star Wars fans seemed to make up half the crowd. The first split the FanQ Awards ever made was into Star Trek and Star Wars.

A Conversation with Paula Smith in Transformative Works and Cultures (Vol. 6)

So. The FanQ Awards. Let me put a pin in them for a second. There's are a lot of old zines and stories going around from fandoms that date back to the 70s. They also happen to be my most-loved fandoms. While there are continuing efforts in some communities to get the zine stories on to Archive Of Our Own (AO3) where they can be listed, tagged, rated, and reviewed, the vast majority of them are offline - plus, even when the story is on AO3, the original impact isn't there. New comments might allude to the story's classic status but none of the contemporary reactions are available.

Popular stories used to be available and spread on Livejournal through curated rec lists (you might follow a fellow fan simply because their rec lists are so great or in tune with your tastes). Experienced fans would make masterlist fic posts that would prime or entice newbies for that show's fandom. I find, though, that with the majority of fandom on the visual-heavy tumblr or searching through their own filters on AO3, there isn't much public group chat about fic anymore.

So, I've developed a system of my own to determine what stories I should pursue.

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How To Find Good Classic Fic

I'm looking into early Star Wars fandom because it's notoriously hard to track down and piece together. I for sure know it existed, but I th

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[thefanthropologist]

Developing a Fanfic Canon

I've recently been considering what kind of local fandom-inspired events I could put together and one that really appeals to me is a book club for slash novels and longer zines. A zine club could be difficult to put together depending on the era and availability of the zine but it also present the issue of what zines we would even pick. Obviously new works would be welcome but there's such a richness and history to older works that including them seems natural. Fandom agnosticism is helpful and fun but only to the point that the work is interesting in itself and not just for fans of that show or film. A club I run would probably preclude most anime and manga-based works since Eastern fandoms are a completely different history and context than my areas of study. (And scary big. Like scary big.)

The word canon is particularly fraught inside and outside of fan spaces for numerous reasons. The Western literary canon was drawn at a time when wealthy white men's cultural opinions and influence got to determine what legitimate art meant for the rest of us. To stray too far from a canon - whether in literature or art or film - can mean that one does not have the education one ought to have according to the social group with power. I know this because I am a film major who has never seen The Godfather. (I don't know what example I'm going to use for this once I eventually inevitably see The Godfather. Maybe Rocky.) And hilariously, to fandom spaces canon essentially means word-of-god for the universes we like to inhabit and share. Canon is what happens on the screen which we (mostly) have no control over and all we can ever hope to be is canon compliant.

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Developing a Fanfic Canon

I've recently been considering what kind of local fandom-inspired events I could put together and one that really appeals to me is a book cl

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[elysiumwaits]

I went a little ham with this. 

So this week I’ve decided to mention the fics that shaped me in fandom, from fandoms I’m not even in anymore. I started out in the Inuyasha fandom back in like 2003 which is what I started writing my first fics on - the very first was a songfic to “100 Years” by Five For Fighting, which was actually #1 on the radio in like December of that year. 

You may be thinking “Damn, Ely! That’s young! You had to have been like 10!”

I was. Long story.

Anyway, I jumped from there to Kingdom Hearts when I was around 13, wrote an apparently very good for the time detective fiction and made friends, and then went on to FF7.

And then Supernatural. 

So here’s a few fics that made me the writer I am. 

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Boys by CaseyValhalla - Kingdom Hearts - Riku/Sora, Axel/Roxas - T

Actual Summary: “It's about growing up, mostly. Sometimes it's about the guy you totally didn't kiss in the locker room and sometimes it's about the guy who climbed in your window. Sometimes it's about hockey. But sometimes it's about the difference between what's real and what's fake, between what you own and what you fight, between being a boy and being a man.” (I used to be able to quote this word for word like the fucking Preamble to the US Constitution). 

Ely’s Summary: It’s a 90s AU, coming of age kind of high school fic. Period typical homophobia, complicated relationships, Roxas reads romance novels in the bathroom stall, and Sora’s an ex-hockey gang member from California. So I originally read this on LJ circa 2008, and it was honestly the first fic that I went beyond enjoyment and straight into obsession with. I credit this fic with saving my life, actually, as I was in a dark place with terrible people and used the updates to keep going. 

A Spotlight on These Desolate Dreams by _MourntheWicked - SPN RPF - Jensen/Jared - Explicit - located on LJ

Actual Summary: In high school, Jared Padalecki had it all. He was surrounded with rich, famous, beautiful friends and partied with young Hollywood's elite. As if all of that wasn't exciting enough, he used the tricks he learned from his grandfather to become an amateur sleuth with his billionaire best friend, Jensen Ackles, playing the role of trusty sidekick. But when he got in over his head and lost everything he once held dear, he knew that it was time to move on. That was ten years ago. Now he lives the lonely life of a hardboiled private investigator on the streets of Manhattan, and his fabulous past is nothing but a distant memory. That is, until a tragedy forces him to return to California and the world he left behind. Between juggling rabid paparazzi, sarcastic detectives, and a spurned ex-best friend, it's a wonder that he can possibly find the time to solve a murder that has left the city of angels reeling.

Ely’s Summary: Frickin’ detective noir, this fic haunts me as one of the best I ever read. The thing about the early-ish SPN fandom is that it was insanely good - like, should have been a movie good. Like I lost sleep listening to podcasts good. Anyway, yeah. This fic is located on LiveJournal, I recommend just sliding down and downloading the PDF and reading it there.

Someone You Might Have Been by Fleshflutter - SPN RPF - Jensen/Jared - Explicit - located on LJ

Actual Summary: A J2 AU in which Jared is a secret agent and Jensen is his handler/support tech.

Ely’s Summary: Okay, so that summary does not at all encompass what this fic is. It is like 96k words of ripping your heart out and fixing it eventually. This is the most gripping fic I ever read - and then I downloaded the 11 hour podfic and lost three nights of sleep listening to it in both graphic design class when I could and for like 4 hours a night. It’s amazing. The reason we have SPN fandom as it is today is because Fleshflutter did so much for it. Okay, I can’t find a download link literally anywhere - not a single pdf. I have exactly one (1) link to a podfic in m4b format. Like, character death all over the place. It’s so good, though. It’s the kind of fic that gives you a hangover.

[christinasarchive]

Magnetic Attraction by frizzy - KIPDF.COM

Magnetic Attraction by frizzySummary: Draco Malfoy is a Veela and has just come into his Inheritance. His Veela blood ...