Fangirl Life Tip #9

#9-Fanfiction

I guess i should be pretty on the spot with this topic as i am a  lover of all things fanfiction along with a fanfiction author myself. There's this wonderful website called www.fanfiction.net where all of us angsty  young writers bring our stories about our angsty fictional loves and give fandoms what they want: stories. There are three subcategories to fanfiction

• What we want to be canon
• What is canon but we don't get enough of
• What is canon, we get plenty of, but want different scenarios of it

The first point is about all those 'crack ships' who don't even talk to each other but we ship together, or couples who aren't really together but should be and that's where fanfiction comes it. People write stories about the characters we love and the fandoms devour it.

Then there's those couples that truly are together but there's no development of their relationship in the canon show or movie or book and you as a consumer require more insight to them to survive and bam. Merry Christmas. Pick a story any story fanfiction has you covered.

Finally there's those fanfictions for all the greedy little jerks in the world (which i am one of ). You have something and it's completely canon and has pretty intense depth and fulfills any desires one might have for said thing, but you still want more. That's where AU's - or, Alternate Universe's (or the atomic symbol for gold for all the chemistry nerds) - come in.

                   Example time: Say you love Star Trek and everyone knows the basic plot for that is set in stone but you don't want the space family to go gallivanting across the galaxies, you want them working in a restaurant as waiters. Bam. Restaurant AU.

Now there's absolutely now way to delve into all the realms of fanfiction but i can tell you certain key things to remember

• RATING - check the rating before you read. it's like a movie. you don't want to open something thinking it's going to be a cute little fluffy thing and read all about the brutal murder of your favourite character (been there done that it's pretty not okay)
• K - eh you get like, conversation
• K+ - oo maybe a few bad words? not sure
• T - maybe some kissing between characters or language or some violence
• M - (aka 18+) blood, gore, language, hardcore...ya know, you name it. 
• AU's = Alternate Universe = not the real canon storyline
• Canon = true, the author / director / writer of the actual work validated it
• www.fanfiction.net = a great site to go to to fulfill any kind of need.