Fanfiction Tropes
This type of fanfic deviates from canon.
What is an AU (Alternate Universe)?
This fanfiction site known for having an extremely intuitive search engine to help find exactly what you're looking for.
What is AO3 (Archive Of Our Own)?
This was originally a Twilight Fanfiction before being made into it's own story, published, and turned into a movie.
What is Fifty Shades of Grey?
This renaissance book is a self insert by the author to go on a journey with Virgil.
What is 'The Divine Comedy/Dante's Inferno'?
A fanfic which includes characters from two or more different works.
What is a Crossover?
This fanfiction platform is notorious for bringing a more social media oriented spin on fanfiction, it's humorous comments, and its abundance of Y/N fanfiction.
What is Wattpad?
This Harry Potter fanfic, known for its numerous author's notes, questionable grammar and spelling errors, and disregard for the source material is considered so bad, that readers are undecided as to if it was written satirically or seriously.
What is "My Immortal"?
A pairing beloved by many, this ship is the most written about online.
What is Destiel (Dean Winchester x Castiel)?
Look out world, this ragtag troupe of character's have found a home in one another.
What is Found Family?
This is the world's largest fanfiction archive and forum. The site is split into ten main categories and uses a basic messaging system that is unique from other websites.
What is Fanfiction.net?
What Star Trek fanfiction did the term 'Mary Sue' come from?
What is 'A Trekkie's Tale'?
Modern fanfiction as we know it in the west was popularized in the 1960's through this medium.
What are Star Trek Fanzine's?
A subgenre of erotic fanfiction in which humans are broken down into a dominance hierarchy based on wolves.
What is Omegaverse?
Known for its great purge that started 2007, this platform utilizes 'communities' when organizing its users and fanfiction.
What is LiveJournal?
Of all of the fandoms online, this one in particular contains the most omegaverse fanfiction.
What is BTS?
Famous BakuDeku My Hero Academia fanfiction that led to a inside joke within the fandom goes by this name.
What is "Kacchan, We Were Five!"?
This more obscure trope involves the victim of unrequited love crying colorful tears that make a crystalline sound as they fall, resulting in colorblindness.
What is Star Tear Disease?
This fanfiction site is known for being an automated fanfiction archive site with the majority of it's stories being about K-pop.
What is Asainfanfics.com?
Where is the following line from?:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
What is "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"?