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I've written fanfic for the X-Men, Sapphire and Steel, the Tomorrow People and the X-Files.

I've written a few general filks, not specific to any given series. I find that The Beatles make wonderful songs to filk si-fi to.

I don't tend to read fanfics, but I did write one once. It was for Sliders and had me as the star. It was quite amusing.

Recently I discover fanfiction based on the Bible and Ed, Edd and Eddy cartoon as I wrote about it somewhere. Mostly slash

I read it on occasion, the fanfic.net site has some Star Trek stuff to keep my Star Trek jones happy.. It's a mixed bag. Some is horrible misspellings, too short, or too long (there's a Star Trek Enterprise one with 130-odd chapters, and 170,000 words....so far!... Some ain't half bad...

I take it all with a grain of salt. Sometimes the crossovers can be amusing. (Shadows of the night; a 50-chapter Borg Vs. the Sith Empire...Seven of Nine falls in love with Luke Skywalker...it just gets funnier from there...

For the absolute worst of the worst, I direct your attention to 'the Godawful Fanfic' web site..
As for writing it, never had the inclination...

I don't write fanfiction, but I read it quite a bit. I don't think reading or writing it is anything to be ashamed about, really... even if you're not creating your own characters and settings, it's still writing, and therefore good practice.
I'm not into 'shipping' (for the most part...), and therefore slash/femmeslash doesn't really interest me... though I have nothing against the concept, and I'll read anything if it's well-written. I tend to stay away from porn, though, especially gratuitous porn… so if it’s on the citrus scale, I’m probably not interested.

stjimmy2500 wrote:

sam and frodo are not Gay!! !

You can see how people would get that idea from the films though- Sam is always 'making eyes' at Frodo.

For the absolute worst of the worst, I direct your attention to 'the Godawful Fanfic' web site..

Got a couple going (one finished, one not) on a fanfic site - ST:DS9.

Most of the reason I wrote any fanfic was because I really wanted to read the stories and the only way to get to read them was to write them.

Also found some quite good fanfics on the same site.

Not "into" slash though, mind.

LuffyxNami fan here

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I like fanfiction (well written, of course) and used to write my own (badly written, of course).

I used to write/read a lot of fanfiction. I was pretty bad when I started, but I grew out of Mary-sues relatively quickly. XD I was very annoyed when I had to take down a Mary-Sue that people were assuming was a Legomance (which wasn't, it wasn't a romance at all. Still a 'Sue though). I do write some still, but verrrryyy slowly. I'm about five pages through a Glorfindel/Erestor fanfiction that I started two years ago.

I like slash AND femmslash. XD I've found a couple of good Harry Potter ones, but I generally stay clear of slash in LotR except for Glorfindel/Erestor (my absolute favourite fancouple) and Elladan/Elrohir. Because at least they're not married. =___=

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Redwall were the three big cannons I used to abuse, along with all the animes I watched back then. Lord of the Rings was what got me into it (as with almost everything else that I do), and is still my favourite.

Has anyone ever read fanfics that combine two stories? I remember a Harry Potter/ LOTR fic that some girl psoted on Mugglenet. Basically, Hermione Granger finds herself in Middle-EArth, where she becomes Fellowship member number ten. Oh, and she accidently kills Legolas in the process

Well, I keep trying to write it (mostly for X-Men, a little for Baldur's Gate and an unposted little for Star Wars), but I'm absolutely terrible at updating... so now I've got a sad, neglected FF.net account with several stories, several chapters each, none of them finished.
As for reading it... if I have a chance of knowing what's going on, I'll try to read it, but I'll only stick around if it's good. And I'm a terrible, terrible snob, so that means that 98% of the time I'll leave in disgust a couple paragraphs in.

Hmmm . . . I quite enjoy fanfiction. I read some, and I'm also an amateur writer. Lately though, I've been doing a lot of beta-reading. I have a knack for grammar, spelling, and punctuation, which makes me fairly good at it. XP In any case, my favorite fics to read about are various videogame- and anime-based stories, mainly Halo and Neon Genesis Evangelion (I am a dedicated fanatic of both XD ).

Now, as for the questions on the front page . . .

Fanfiction is a 'yea' for me, as long as it's well-written (and I'm sure every fanfic reader knows that you often have to sift through a couple pages worth of crappy stories before you find anything at least halfway decent).

As mentioned earlier, I both read and write.

I have no problem with either slash or femslash, and I read both genres just as often I do straight stuff.

I have no problem with lemon and lime either, as long as it's part of an enjoyable plot and not some mindless smut-fest.

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Going to make the different versions with different songs.