by Anabella Prodan | May 26, 2026 | KUDOS
The more I learned about writing, the less I wrote (in which I mourn my former productivity and lack of self-awareness). I first opened the notes app on that one old Samsung S6 sometime during cold November 2015. At 11 years old, I typed up the title of my first story...
by Anabella Prodan | May 25, 2026 | LORE
With over 800,000 hits and over 500,000 words, Inrainbowz’s Flip the Coin series is the 16th most read Naruto fanfiction on AO3. “Writing still gives me such a rush. It brings me solace,” says Inrainbowz, 32, a middle school math teacher who has been writing...
by Ruth George | May 25, 2026 | #That'sHot
Artificial Intelligence is the death of human creativity – or at least that’s the rhetoric that sci-fi films always told us. Arnold warned us in The Terminator. Keanu fought back with some flying karate action in The Matrix. Black Mirror was basically a user’s...
by Anabella Prodan | May 25, 2026 | LORE
“Queering characters is no less, and no more, political than anything else a queer person does,” says Aleksandr, a 21-year-old agender fanfiction reader from Novosibirsk, Russia. “So yes. It is political.” Decades of underserving queer communities in literature and...
by Ruth George | May 25, 2026 | KUDOS
For me, fanfiction is entirely self-serving. I write what I love, and I love to write. I write when I find time, adding chapter after chapter to my beloved seven-part book series that has reached over one million views across three platforms. I started it because I...