#when i was 13 i actually wrote an isekai fanfic with twilight lmao

[faeofdusk]

I was just going to ramble on the tags, but it was getting so long I decided to do it as an actual addition. With the caveat that I only read fanfictions in portuguese back then and some might have been exclusive to the brazilian scene, here are some of the memories this post unearthed

The silly interactions between the author and the characters that would happen before and after each chapter, almost like some behind the scenes extra. It was usually for the author to ramble about their thought process and make silly jokes about their ships, about how hot their favorite character is and how much they hate another one

Too often the hated character was hated simply because they "got in the way" of the main ship, be it by being part of a love triangle or by being the canon love interest of half of the ship, and would be subjected to all sorts of tortures in these after scenes

Sometimes these interactions would be longet than the actual chapter (which itself would also be riddled with authors note with silly jokes regardless of genre)

This sort of silly interactions spawned two subgenres of fanfictions: the "fanfics gone wrong", the "Talk Shows"

Fanfics gone wrong would silly comedy pieces where the author tries to write a serious story, but things keep going wrong. There are many ways this could happen, but a common one was for the whole thing to happen in a studio of sorts and things keep going out of control. Things like they not being able to afford the electricity bill so the studio has the shut down the sun and noe the scene takes place at night.

Talk Shows were just the author interacting with the characters without worrying about silly things like writing an interesting fanfic in the middle. There would be an attempt of normalcy at the start, but shenanigans were inevitable

There were also reaction fanfics for a time, but those weren't as exciting. Too many times it would just be the characters reacting to their own future story, which would be reproduced verbatim and be intercut with the random comments from the character's past version. It was specially problematic if the source material is an actual novel that is just being copy pasted.

And honestly? I ate that shit up everytime. I would read those into the night and have to muffle my laughter because it was late and I wasn't supposed to be in the computer. Sometimes I still giggle when I remember a random joke from one of these or cringe at my own.

Let's never do anything like that ever again.

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009