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In Conversation with Character.AI
Ruth meets the controversial Character.AI to see why the chatbot has become so big in fanfiction.
Misty Online: The art of being gay in Naruto Yaoi Smut
Yes! Sasuke and Naruto can actually be gay and still punch each other a lot. From early internet fanart to professional erotica, Bella looks at how one artist redraws what queerness in Naruto fanarts can look like.
Flip the Coin: Politics of War and Friendship in Naruto Fanfiction
In a tale as big as the Hidden Leaf Village, Bella explores the AO3 fic where Naruto stops being destiny’s puppet and starts asking the real questions—like, why the hell are we fighting again?
The Art of Shipping
When mainstream stories fall short, fanfiction fills the gaps. The Art of Shipping examines how shipping culture creates space for intimacy, identity, and emotional depth that canon often leaves unexplored.
WATCH: The boyband fanfics didn’t start with One Direction
Click below to watch Domie go through the history of boyband fanfics!
Why the Wattpad hate is immature
Wattpad is where many of our journey’s into fanfic started and here’s why Aya thinks it deserves a bit more respect.
Completed Fics Destroy My Life. Unfinished Fics Destroy My Mental Stability.
Every fanfic reader has their own relationship with their habits and in this piece Nathalia breaks down her relationship with completed and unfinished fics.
The crossover fanfic line-up that we NEED right now
The fun of fanfiction is that it can be whatever story you want, so here are the crossover pairings that we, the fanfiction community, are absolutely owed right now.
Did you know these books are actually fanfiction? (probably but let me remind you)
Learn more about how some of the biggest books actually started out as fanfics.
WATCH: Ranking fanfic careers
Click below to watch Nathalia rank her favourite careers in fanfiction.
From crumbs to a full meal: how fanfiction filled the void before the rise of Thai GL
Before Thai GL gave us the love stories we deserved, fanfiction kept us fed. Now, the genre we built in the margins has taken over the spotlight.
‘Sorry, English isn’t my first language!’
The vast majority of fanfiction is written in English, but this does not deter those entrenched in fandoms. Ruth George meets four non-natives who have learned a second language via this wonderful world.
Ship Happens: How Writing K-pop Fanfiction Led to Real Love
Fanfiction isn’t just for reading. For one writer, it became the bridge between two lives, proving that sometimes the best plot twist happens off the page.
We need to thank fanfiction for Heated Rivalry.
We’ve all binged Heated Rivalry at an alarming rate and this is a safe space to admit it. But the reason you can’t drop this show isn’t because of the attractive leads or the rise of the BL genre, it’s because the series follows the fanfiction blueprint.
What happens when you become the Y/N in someone’s F1 fanfiction?
It’s normal in the fanfic world to choose the face of your main character but we don’t question the impact on the person casted. Nora Jo sits down with us to tell her side of the story.
The Omegaverse will always be weird – and that’s why it works
The Omegaverse has rules, patterns, and a structure that fans instantly recognise but it’s never stopped being strange. So, why has one of fanfiction’s most unconventional tropes also become one of its most long-lasting?