#RPF fanfic that was published

[hotasfahrenheit]

i really love that Sunset x Vibes is making a big point about consent especially this week- Sun asks Lin's permission before kissing him, has previously, and is constantly asking Lin if he's okay with things. he also isn't the best at hiding their relationship since he's a giant golden retriever of a man and would lick Lin's face in public if allowed, but it's because he's enthusiastic and in love and not because he doesn't care. when Lin asked him to keep things on the downlow he agreed, and he's been doing his level best to respect Lin's wishes and make sure that Lin is comfortable.

meanwhile some random shit guy touches Lin's butt without consent and Lin kicks him in the face multiple times and takes him to the police station 🤣

[rotisseries]

I'm so unbelievably susceptible to the famous secret relationship trope it's unreal actually

[inlovewithaspiderguy]

*inserts meme man* righting

[angevinyaoiz]

i can't believe last year I was like oh no...historical RPF...is this ok...am I cringe for real this time....and then I look once at Goodreads and see the 1000000 batshit titles of ppl literally just Making Shit Up and AUing the hell out of everything lmao

[allylikethecat]

Not sure if this counts as Talk Shop Tuesday but:

Have you seen The Idea of You? What is your opinion on rpf!fanfic being published and subsequently turned into movies?

If you want it to be a Talk Shop Tuesday it counts as a Talk Shop Tuesday!

I have seen The Idea of You and I have also read the book. (I'm very happy they changed the ending in the movie lol) I enjoyed both the book and the movie, BUT as someone who reads, writes, and enjoys fanfiction it makes sense that I liked the book / movie because it was fanfiction at one point.

I think that RPF fic being traditionally published and then turned into movies is an interesting debate. On one hand it's a little odd to me, especially when it is so mind blowingly obvious like in the book they didn't even change Liam's name. But at the same time if someone came to me and was like "Ally we love All the King's Horses you should change it up a little bit to make it more original, and then we're going to publish it, and turn it into a movie" I would be like sounds amazing where do I sign?

BUT in terms of just like a fun romcom? I really enjoyed the movie. I'm also a big fan of Nicholas Galitzine and the scene with the chicken tenders? That's the dream right there I love tendies lol

Thank you so much for indulging me in a talk shop Tuesday and sending this ask my way! I hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday and that you have a fantastic week!

❤️Ally

[stormsthatrage]

It bugs me that so many people's default example of published fanfic is 50 Shades of Grey.

What about West Side Story, a famous modern AU of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

What about Dante's Inferno, a self-insert RPF if I've ever seen one?

What about Wicked, a pre-canon AU of The Wizard of Oz?

Hell, what about Percy Jackson? There's definitely an argument to be made that that's a modern AU of various Greek myths.

Humans have been writing fanfic as long as they have been telling stories. In about the year 20 BC, our dear Roman poet Ovid wrote the Heroides, a series of aggrieved "letters" from the female characters of famous myths to their respective male heroes. Are you telling me that Ovid, writing a letter from the perspective of Queen Dido to Aeneas -- Aeneas, whose fantastical adventures were put into poem by Virgil -- wasn't writing an outsider-POV fic? A fic that is, in fact, translated in Latin classes world-wide today!

There is so much famous fanfic out there, but people tend to forget that it is fanfic once it becomes mainstream enough. And as a consequence of that, people who aren't into fandom don't see how beautiful fanfic is, and some members of fandom feel shame associated with writing and reading fic. But fanfic is beautiful, and it is something humans have always done, and it is nothing to be ashamed about.

So if you ever find yourself in a situation to give an example of published fic, think outside the box. Remember that published fanfics hide in plain sight; once they're famous enough, we no longer think of them as fanfic. And never forget that fanfic is a very, very old human tradition, and your ancestors who partook in it would not have wanted you to feel ashamed of it.

[jamingbenn]

year in review - hockey rpf on ao3

hello!! the annual ao3 year in review had some friends and i thinking - wouldn't it be cool if we had a hockey rpf specific version of that. so i went ahead and collated the data below!!

i start with a broad overview, then dive deeper into the 3 most popular ships this year (with one bonus!)

if any images appear blurry, click on them to expand and they should become clear!

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before we jump in, some key things to highlight: - CREDIT TO: the webscraping part of my code heavily utilized the ao3 wrapped google colab code, as lovingly created by @kyucultures on twitter, as the main skeleton. i tweaked a couple of things but having it as a reference saved me a LOT of time and effort as a first time web scraper!!! thank you stranger <3 - please do NOT, under ANY circumstances, share any part of this collation on any other website. please do not screenshot or repost to twitter, tiktok, or any other public social platform. thank u!!! T_T - but do feel free to send requests to my inbox! if you want more info on a specific ship, tag, or you have a cool idea or wanna see a correlation between two variables, reach out and i should be able to take a look. if you want to take a deeper dive into a specific trope not mentioned here/chapter count/word counts/fic tags/ship tags/ratings/etc, shoot me an ask!

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with that all said and done... let's dive into hockey_rpf_2024_wrapped_insanity.ipynb

BIG PICTURE OVERVIEW

i scraped a total of 4266 fanfics that dated themselves as published or finished in the year 2024. of these 4000 odd fanfics, the most popular ships were:

Note: "Minor or Background Relationship(s)" clocked in at #9 with 91 fics, but I removed it as it was always a secondary tag and added no information to the chart. I did not discern between primary ship and secondary ship(s) either!

breaking down the 5 most popular ships over the course of the year, we see:

super interesting to see that HUGE jump for mattdrai in june/july for the stanley cup final. the general lull in the offseason is cool to see as well.

as for the most popular tags in all 2024 hockey rpf fic...

weee like our fluff. and our established relationships. and a little H/C never hurt no one.

i got curious here about which AUs were the most popular, so i filtered down for that. note that i only regex'd for tags that specifically start with "Alternate Universe - ", so A/B/O and some other stuff won't appear here!

idk it was cool to me.

also, here's a quick breakdown of the ratings % for works this year:

and as for the word counts, i pulled up a box plot of the top 20 most popular ships to see how the fic length distribution differed amongst ships:

mattdrai-ers you have some DEDICATION omg. respect

now for the ship by ship break down!!

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#1 MATTDRAI

most popular ship this year. peaked in june/july with the scf. so what do u people like to write about?

fun fun fun. i love that the scf is tagged there like yes actually she is also a main character

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#2 SIDGENO

(my babies) top tags for this ship are:

folks, we are a/b/o fiends and we cannot lie. thank you to all the selfless authors for feeding us good a/b/o fic this year. i hope to join your ranks soon.

(also: MPREG. omega sidney crosby. alpha geno. listen, the people have spoken, and like, i am listening.)

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#3 NICOJACK

top tags!!

it seems nice and cozy over there... room for one more?

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BONUS: JDTZ.

i wasnt gonna plot this but @marcandreyuri asked me if i could take a look and the results are so compelling i must include it. are yall ok. do u need a hug

top tags being h/c, angst, angst, TRADES, pining, open endings... T_T katie said its a "torture vortex" and i must concurr

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BONUS BONUS: ALPHA/BETA/OMEGA

as an a/b/o enthusiast myself i got curious as to what the most popular ships were within that tag. if you want me to take a look about this for any other tag lmk, but for a/b/o, as expected, SID GENO ON TOP BABY!:

thats all for now!!! if you have anything else you are interested in seeing the data for, send me an ask and i'll see if i can get it to ya!

[themarkofoxin]

every time i think about dan and phil becoming the internet’s go-to example of the Dangers of Shipping Real People it makes me so exhausted. for their entire fourteen year career together they have encouraged people to write fic about them and draw fanart and generally “be creative” as they always phrase it. dan specifically, outside of 2012/2013 when he was aggressive towards fans pestering him about it, at one point said he likes reading fic and that he’s often surprised about how good they can be. hell, they wrote fanfic of themselves in their own published book and hired a popular fanartist to illustrate a manga of them.

and then dan came out. and in his video he mentioned how stressful it was to suddenly blow up and have a bunch of people speculating about his relationship, and how it triggered him due to his trauma from being heavily bullied in school. and then followed up the segment talking about how past that point the fans’ support was actually very healing for him, and hearing people tell him that he had helped them be comfortable with who they were without him even being out was one of the things that made him confident in coming out in the first place.

but the people who write angry posts about the evils of rpf or whatever don’t care about dan and phil’s actual opinions. they saw or heard about how annoying the fans were, heard along a thousand-step telephone game that dan and phil hate their fans, and have now christened them the platonic ideal of creators whose lives were ruined because of shippers. it’s ridiculous. it’s unfounded. and it’s disrespectful to the actual existence of the people they’re propping up to support their argument

[lizardsfromspace]

I just want to say that if you've written anything, anything, then you're a better writer than the ones who never try. If the greatest, most gifted author on Earth never writes a word & just talks up how great they'd be if they ever picked up a pen, they're objectively a worse writer than a thirteen year old writing RPF of Minecraft Youtubers, bc at least they tried.

If you're reading this and you've written anything - a short story, a poem, even a fanfic - even if it wasn't published or didn't make you any money, even if it's just sitting on your hard drive forever - I want you to know you're a better writer than people who sketch out an outline, and sue real writers for stealing concepts; you're better than people who talk up their ideas all the time, and how someday they'll be recognized for their genius, but who never ever do the work to create anything; you're better than people who "write" by feeding prompts into an AI. Because you write. Because you wrote something more than a plan, or a rant about your genius. You put in the effort to create something that wasn't in the world before.

The world is full of people who want all the benefits and acclaim of writing, but who don't want to write, or who even treat writing and the arts with open disdain. And if you've so much as written a three paragraph story about your Warrior Cats OCs, you're better than them

[belles1011]

Fake relationship LFG!!!! 👀👀👀

Trope Months – December – Fake Relationship

Any pairing (doesn’t have to be the pairing of the month).

Alternate Universes (AU) very welcome.

All casual, no signups, participate at will. Start posting at midnight in your time zone. Tag your stuff #indy fake relationship so we can all see them.

Nothing is off limits, even dark and dead dove is acceptable. Just tag appropriately so people can avoid it if it’s not their thing. NO SHAMING!

Longer fanfics and Ao3 links welcome, even if they’re not finished within the month.

Look for a new poll around the 15th to pick the trope for January.

What’s your favorite flavor of fake relationship?

To temporarily appease loving but annoying family members worried about you being single. Normally you plan to break up after That Big Christmas Gathering but we all know what really happens.

To infiltrate a couple's retreat for [reasons] where you need to pose as a married or committed pair. This works nicely with criminal investigations.

To meet the requirements of a trust from your Estranged Great Uncle who requires that you be engaged/married/whatever in order to inherit fifty gazillion dollars.

To make your/their ex jealous.

To show everyone at your school reunion/ex's wedding what a fantastic partner you have.

Because you were interviewing at a famously "family oriented" company and panicked and claimed you were engaged at some point because you thought you'd look like a better fit for the company and then you landed the job and you and your spouse-to-be were invited to The Big Company Shindig and now, oh shit, what do you do?

Your grandma/pa/dad/mom/elder caretaker is very sick and their only wish is to see you with a partner before they die, so you get someone to be a stand-in. But after that they miraculously recover, what to do now?

Ditching an actual but obnoxious suitor you don't want, but can't tell to pound sand for reasons.

Formal event (ie a ball or business affair) requires a date. Chaos ensues.

It's the idea that the first manned mission to Mars (or any similarly long voyage) had a crew chosen for maximum psychological cohesion and teammate stability - in Heinlein's mind, that apparently means several pairs of stable long-term astronaut spouses. What if two astronauts wanted in on a particular mission (for various motives - research, fame, maybe international intelligence) so they fake-married their way aboard? (Hinch/Rossi, anyone?)

Character A is tired of people asking why they're single anymore so they beg Character B to fake date them.

Marrying (or getting engaged) someone because of visa related reasons?

(all of the above swiped from various sources on the internet to use as example. Google searching trope fake relationship will get you all sorts of ideas)

[blutopaz15]

timeskip Rayla got really into writing self-insert rpf fanfic about her and Callum, published on Archive of Xadia's Own

[thesunoficaruss]

daniel publishes his interview with louis. almost immediately, people start posting RPF fanfic about louis and lestat on ao3, but one writer frequents the tag way more than anyone else. louis starts getting anonymous letters with countless pages of printed out fics. he hires someone to figure out who it is because it's getting relentless and frankly, killing his vibe. frequent trips to the rock room are made. they find the author. it's lestat.

[anotherdragon]

prime defenders has been gone long enough gonna start making batshit headcanons on forgotten npcs. do you think summer writes wavelength x reader fanfics. do you think shes published ghostknife rpf on ao3. do you think she has a fujo tumblr blog

[ingravinoveritas]

I've been seeing posts about some replies from AL on Twitter tonight, and wanted to share some of my thoughts. For those who might've missed it, Anna replied to the below thread--not once, but twice--despite not being tagged or mentioned anywhere in it:

The fanart above is based on an Ineffable Husbands AU fic that is currently published on AO3 and has nothing to do with Michael other than using his face for the character, which makes AL randomly leaving those inane comments an obvious bid for attention, as she would've had to be stalking fan accounts to find that tweet. To make matters worse, however, someone in the comments on one of the replies sent her a link to the fanfic in question. Particularly egregious is the fact that the person who sent the link was not the author, and the author is now (quite understandably) pissed off and upset about this.

I know there have been multiple discussions about this in the past, but apparently it needs to be repeated: It is absolutely NOT acceptable to send fanfic to creators/creator-barely-adjacent people, especially without the author's knowledge or permission.

Yes, we know Michael enjoys GO fanfic. Yes, we know he has read and likely written GO fanfic and probably RPF. That still does not make it okay to send him fics--at all, for any reason, but most significantly because if anyone knows where/how to find fics if he wants to read them, it's Michael. Also worth noting is that Anna is not Michael. Anna could dislike or be entirely disgusted by GO fanfic or AUs...in which case she could have commented on the photo edit as a way of making fun of it, thereby potentially setting the creator up for ridicule and/or harassment.

It's also distressing to see people in the comments on Twitter encouraging this behavior/cheering AL on while seemingly not caring one jot about the actual creator's feelings (especially when I know that several of the comments are fan artists themselves). I had honestly thought fans knew better than that by now, but it seems not, and to say that all of this is infuriating is an understatement...

EDIT: It's been brought to my attention that it was the person who created the Professor Fell AU/made the photo edits who was upset at Anna's comments, not the fic author (who linked their own fic, rather than someone else's). My apologies for any confusion...

[mcytblrconfessions]

When I first got into fandom, I thought that when someone talked about shipping real people, they meant people they knew personally, and not, like, celebrities. I wasn't sure why it was such a controversial topic, because I figured that as long as I didn't mention it to them, there was nothing wrong with thinking some of my friends would make cute couples. This inevitably led to wondering why people were writing fanfic about people they knew irl and publishing it online. I didn't interact with fandom, so it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out what rpf actually was. To be fair, a friend and I were writing AUs about people we went to school with, so that probably contributed to that whole misunderstanding. (We weren't putting them online, just writing in our notebooks. I also wrote psychological profiles of several people so I could figure out how to make them like me and be my friend. This isn't connected to the fanfiction, it just was in the same notebook).

[wipbigbang]

2025 International Fanworks Day Mini Bang Schedule & FAQ

Schedule

All times are by 11:59pm PST. Convert time zones.

Writing Begins- January 1st Earliest Posting Of Fic To Platform Of Your Choice- February 1st Regular Posting Of Fic To Platform Of Your Choice- February 7t Bragging Rights Posting Starts- February 15th Bragging Rights Posting Endss- February 22nd

FAQ

What is the WIP Big Bang International Fanworks Day Mini Bang? Good question! This is a Mini Bang with one goal in mind: to clean out your fanfic drafts folder for the fics that were too short to be completed during the main Big Bang (ie, finished works are 7.5K words and under).

Do I need a Livejournal/Dreamwidth/AO3/etc. account to participate? No! You don’t have to have an account on anything to participate, though you will need to have somewhere to post your finished work. Having one or more accounts will help for you to follow what is going on with the bang (we crosspost to Dreamwidth and Tumblr and heavily use our Discord server at the moment), but they are not required to participate. You can always leave comments anonymously or with an opensource ID.

How many fics can I write? We absolutely don’t mind multiple fics! There are no sign-ups for this, as it’s an informal Mini Bang, so as long as it stays under he max word count, you can finish as many fics as you want between January 1st and February 15th.

Will I get emails about the bang? We do not send out any emails for the Mini Bang, as we currently do not keep an updated email list of participants, so we only send individual emails as needed rather than mass emails.

However, email is the fastest way to communicate with the mods. If you have any questions, please do email us! We will do our best to respond quickly.

What do you mean by maximum word count? You don’t have to have a set minimum of your fic to start, so an outlined fic is fine, but it must be under 7,500 words when it’s finished.

Are multi-chapter fics allowed? Yes, multi-chapter fics are allowed, as long as they stay under the maximum word count.

What about fics that are already posted on ao3 in part? Do those qualify for the bang? It's okay if you have posted some of your fic already (you never know when the muse deserts you, after all), we just require you to refrain from posting more until posting begins here. All we ask is that you not post any public updates to the fic until February 7th (a week before posting your bragging rights to Dreamwidth and/or Tumblr starts). We don’t want you to lose kudos and comments so don’t worry about pulling the fic down, just hold off on updates for now.

I see that the fic maximum is 7500 words and that published WIPs are acceptable - but what if the WIP I’m considering is already more than 7500 words? If your WIP is already over 7,500 words it is ineligble for the Mini Bang. Hoever, you can submit it for the regualr WIPBB.

What happens if an author finishes the fic they signed up with but it’s more than 7,500 words? Do they have to drop out at that point? By all means, we want your stories to feel as natural as possible, and if it’s over 7,500 words when you finish it, that’s great because you finished the fic! But you can’t submit it for the International Fanworks Day WIPBB Mini Bang because it’s over the maximum word count. But be proud of yourself for finishing the fic!

Is there anything not allowed? As long as you wrote it and you want to finish it, you're welcome to participate. Original fiction is fine. RPS/RPF is fine. Incest pairings are fine. Things like that I know have been hinted at in questions asked and as long as you tag for them, we’ll allow it. Also, canon settings with mostly OCs is allowed. We just ask that it be tagged properly with any content warnings you would deem fit and be given the appropriate rating for the level of sex/violence there is in the fic.

What's the etiquette around OC-centric stories? Ones that are set in a well known fandom and use several characters, but still lean a lot on original characters? Are they discouraged, or fine? As there is no art claims for this Mini Bang, having mostly OC-centric stories is more than fine.

What is, and do I need, a beta? A beta is basically a person who goes over your work to make sure that there are no spelling/grammatical errors and they can even be of assistance in helping you with story lines, etc. It is highly recommended that a beta looks over your work before posting. If you are having trouble finding a beta, try the Discord community.

Where can I post my fic/art? Stories and art can be posted to your own personal journal, Tumblr, ff-net, AO3, or wherever you like. For those of you with AO3 accounts, we will set up a collection that will go live on the first day of the posting. If you don’t currently have an AO3 account but would like one, you can contact the mods for an invitation code to see if they have any available. You can also add yourself to the AO3 Invites Request queue.

What does posting look like? Do we have to post the whole thing on the day, or can we stretch it out between when posting starts and our date? I’ve had a few longfics get killed by big bangs forcing posting to happen on a given day, and would prefer to avoid that if possible. For most fics, posting to AO3/FF.net/other places will be allowed to start on February 7th and you can stretch it out as many posts as you want as long as the complete fic is up by the posting dates (February 15th to Febrary 22nd). However, if you need to post earlier you can start posting February 1st. we want to work with writers to give them ample time to post the story up to their posting date.

Now, as for posting to the communities, you can post at any time between February 15th and February 22nd, without picking a posting date. You’ll post bragging rights similar to those used during the full length WIPBB to Tumblr and/or Dreamwidth with a link to your fic an your bragging, if you choose to include that portion.

How come there aren’t 'art claims'? The quick turnaround in time and the length of time set to write doesn’t leave a lot of time for artists to make art, so the only art allowed to be posted during this event is unfinished art from the 2024 round that has been finished.

Can I get an extension? Community extensions may be given in the event that the majority of the authors/artists need one. They may also be given individually under certain circumstances, but this must be discussed with the mods and will only be a short extension for posting.

Can I swap out a fic if my muse abandons it again? Since you’re not signing up with specific works, you are more than free to swap fics out with other ones.

Can I drop out? Absolutely! This is a lo pressure event so since you aren’t signing up to finish any particuar fic, you can drop out of the event without telling the mods as well.

Are we allowed to participate without joining the Discord? Absolutely! The Discord server is optional, as just another way to interact with your fellow writers and get updates on important dates. It’s not mandatory you join, however.

I was just wondering if there’s any way to enter the bang anonymously? Like would it be okay to put our work in an anonymous collection on ao3 or something? Unfortunately, I can’t think of a way for that to work. The collection that we use is moderated but it’s not anonymous, and there are the bragging posts that you post to Tumblr and/or Dreamwidth, which you would have your username on whichever platform you use. If you don’t want to use a Tumblr or Dreamwidth account for posting your bragging rights, however, you can always send them to the mod account and we can post them on your behalf.

I was just wondering whether I'm sworn to secrecy on which fics I'll be finishing up, or if I can shout it out to the world? No one is sworn to secrecy once they’ve picked a fic to write (aside from posting new parts to fic that’s already up somewhere…we ask that you refrain from doing that until at least February 1st)! If you want to share snippets of your fic as you make progress, that’s fine, just don’t share the whole thing until posting time starts.

I have a question/concern that’s not mentioned here. If you need help, you can always contact a mod and we will do our best to make sure that you get your story/art finished. The best and fastest method of contact is through our email, wipbigbang@gmail.com.