First Fanfic Ever Read?

DoWnEr · Nov 30, 2014

I was just reminiscing today and realized i've been reading fanfics for about 15 years, give or take a year and tried to remember what the first fanfic i ever read was. That got me wondering what other people's first fanfic might have been. So....

Do you guys remember the first fanfiction you read?

I can't recall names but i do remember i got into fanfics because i was looking for dirty stories as a kid. Got into some weird original story where the MC,his girlfriend and his best friend some how get super powers, go into space and kick ass. With copious amounts of sex. Also the story ends up crossing over with Buffy and other series out there and more sex hijinks ensued. Just remember author was like Enterprise-d or something.

This led me to looking for actual fanfiction, which led me to a Ranma/Le femme nikkita fanfic. Then i found FFML (Realized some people might not know what this is. FanFiction Mailing List. This was before we had FF.NET or many dedicated websites/forums for fanfiction). The rest is history, been hooked on fanfics since.

Anybody else remember their first forays into this soul sucking hobby we call fanfics?

PCHeintz72 · Nov 30, 2014

DoWnEr said:

I've been reading fanfiction since about early/mid 1999 myself.

First Fandoms for me were Ranma, Tenchi, and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

I cannot remember the very first fanfiction I ever read. BUT, I can recall the first *large* fanfiction ever read.

That would be in the Ranma fandom, 'A Tale of Two Wallets' by the recently deceased Jim Robert Bader aka Shiva-kun

EDIT: of what I have read, looking back on release dates... among the oldest are:
- a Ranma story from 1996 called 'Deep Reflections' by Scott K Jamison (aka SKJam),
- a Ranma crossover story from 1995 called 'Ranma Vs Predator' by Jason Wages
- a Ranma story from 1993 called 'Kasumi's Story' by Karl Rim

seitora · Nov 30, 2014

Not sure about first fanfiction, but I do know the first Naruto fanfic I read was Konoha's Legacy: An Alternate Version

(Funny how I liked it at the time and found NaruHina cute, and then after a gazillion crappy NaruHina stories I dislike the pairing)

DoWnEr · Nov 30, 2014

PCHeintz72 said:

RIP Jim Bader. I remember ATTW. I can't remember details but i do know i enjoyed it.

My first epic length fanfic was "Waters Under Earth" by Alan Harnum. That thing took me weeks to finish.

seitora said:

It's amazing how our tastes change. Ranma was my main genre and i shipped everyone at one time and hated the rest at another. You start looking for more out of the box match ups after reading nothing but the same ones over and over.

NuitTombee · Nov 30, 2014

First fandom I read was Harry Potter, back in '09 iirc. First one I can remember reading is kb0's The Grass Is Always Greener. It seems so great at the time, now not so much.

da_fox2279 · Nov 30, 2014

The first fanfic I ever read (for a series I had seen all of 2 episodes for, and had read none of the manga) was Richard Lawson's 'Out of Sync', and it's sequel 'The Price of Heaven' (Ranma/Sailor Moon).

Then I started link-walking, and discovered the Transpacific site, with stuff by authors Mike Loader, Susan Doenime, and Alan Harnum. 'Ill Met by Starlight', 'Bliss', 'Dies Irae', and 'Gardens of Proserpine' are still some of my favorite R1/2 fics. They just had that level of clean, neat writing that I was only seeing in professional authors.

Harnum's 'Jaquemart' was the first Utena fic I ever read, and it still pains me to this day that it remains unfinished.

I still try to find a PokÃ©mon fic that was heads and tails above the more common crap that was being written for the fandom at the time.

When I discovered the Tenchi Muyo Fanfiction Archive, one of the first fics I read was 'Empire', by Thomas '009' Doscher. A great author, with some great ideas that I simply hadn't seen or considered for the 'verse.

... Man, now I'm all nostalgic...

Jimbobob5536 · Nov 30, 2014

I have absolutely no idea what the first fanfic I ever read was. I'm at least fairly certain it was something in the Naruto fandom, and that it was probably garbage. Very quickly found the vast amounts of Ranma fics.

Started in..... 2007.

DoWnEr · Nov 30, 2014

da_fox2279 said:

Oh man. Crazy nostalgia right there. I remember Richard Lawson but "Ill Met by Starlight" was a classic. Original, dark and actually had an ending.

And good Pokemon stories are crazy hard to find. I remember that Dark Pokemon fanfic that was pretty cool back in the days. But right now there's probably 3 that i enjoy. Pokemon: Chaotic World, Game of Champions and Traveler.

Shirotsume · Nov 30, 2014

IIRC, it was a megaman X fanfic that I don't remember the name of, back in like 2001.

It was a story that bridged the gap between Megaman Legends and Megaman X5, pretending X6+ never existed.

Main thing I remember about it was being impressed as hell, because there was a author SI higher up than X and Zero in the Maverick Hunters who always seemed to know exactly what the enemy was doing. He didn't show up often, maybe only 6-7 paragraphs in the entire story before the reveal, but when he did, you knew the Hunters would win the engagement.

It turned out the reason for that was because the SI was actually The Dragon to the big bad. None of the Hunter victories were large but they existed just enough to get the Hunters to over-commit.

I just remember that blowing my mind, because OF COURSE he would know what's going on- not because he's an SI, but because he's the tactician for the enemy, and an SI actually being evil? Not just bad-boy 'evil' but legit genocidal fuck evil? I've never seen it since.

WizardOne · Nov 30, 2014

Not a hope in hell of remembering the first fanfic I read.

A couple of decades ago or thereabouts I was a young kid who loved fanfiction. I don't have any clue how I found it in the first place either. I do remember printing off like 100 page long fanfics to read in school though.

At the time it made perfect sense, but now, looking back, I just wonder what the fuck 14 year old me was thinking.

Its weird to look back on yourself and not understand your own decisions or thoughts. Kids are strange.

da_fox2279 · Nov 30, 2014

WizardOne said:

Tell me about it. I was in college studying Accounting when I discovered fanfics, and I remember visiting a Geocities site that had all these odd Star Trek fics. I used to go to the computer lab during my lunch break and read them. I also used to print out the 'best' ones so I could read them at home.

Some of them were funny, from what I remember, but damn if I could really remember any of them.

Stupid shit we do as kids, I guess...

mgsaintz · Nov 30, 2014

First fanfic series I started was from the Dark Elf novels by R.A. Salvator mainly from this site. First anime/manga series was Ranma 1/2 with "Ill Met by Starllight" which had a rather darkish look into Ranma's persona because of the neko-ken.

PCHeintz72 · Dec 1, 2014

da_fox2279 said:

Hmmm... college years... between 1991 and 1995 I wrote two fan fiction stories (not that I knew to call them that at the time) for star trek, though I've never posted either to the internet. One was for a creative writing class, the other was a much longer private project. Still have them.

I also started back then, and update it every few years... a complete plan for reorganization and distribution of forces for star fleet. ships by class, type, percentage of fleet, auxillary vessels, and facilities... The last time that was really updated was a few months ago and now covers 4 eras for Star fleet (2255+8, 2295+8, 2335+8, 2375+8, I refuse to look at STO 2409 timeframe), I originally only did 2 eras (2295, 2372ish (remember, DS9 was not over with during that time, so we were only up to about that)).

Master of Squirrel-Fu · Dec 1, 2014

I remember I discovered fanfiction by looking up anime online and got a link to that Yuri Fanfic site. Ended up looking up the Ranma section and the rest is pretty much history. Though my early interest in Ranma was in looking for yuri pairings I very quickly developed an OTP for Ranma/Ukyo which lead me to breach my sphere of Yurifics. It's a rare pairing to see be done at all well, most being forgetable and boring, I only really remember two, one was a Yuri fic and the other was a For-want-of-a-nail fic where Ukyo ended up going to Ranma's middle school.

It actually took a while for me to start looking into crossovers, about a couple months, and about I guess a year or so before I discovered TFF and Anime Adventure.

Fun fact, I discovered anime in a similar way. IE I went to the library and found out some of the "Comics" had bewbs in them, Whatever-is-the-opposite-of-ironic-ly enough the first manga series I actually started reading was Ranma. The first one I read from beginning to end was actually Love Hina, which is why I have a hard time being able to read porn of it.

Solaris · Dec 1, 2014

My first fanfic was a Legend of Zelda self insert fic called Worlds Apart by Lydia with the anime Slayers elements. Found it on a fansite while looking up legend of zelda stuff and the rest was history.

It was also the reason I got into Slayers in the first place.

bigbabidi · Dec 2, 2014

The Story of Magus by Zealpropht. It was on a different site (its name eludes me), but I was just some kid who randomly clicked on Chrono Trigger fanfiction at the time.

DoWnEr · Dec 2, 2014

PCHeintz72 said:

da_fox2279 said:

Hmmm... college years... between 1991 and 1995 I wrote two fan fiction stories (not that I knew to call them that at the time) for star trek, though I've never posted either to the internet. One was for a creative writing class, the other was a much longer private project. Still have them.

I also started back then, and update it every few years... a complete plan for reorganization and distribution of forces for star fleet. ships by class, type, percentage of fleet, auxillary vessels, and facilities... The last time that was really updated was a few months ago and now covers 4 eras for Star fleet (2255+8, 2295+8, 2335+8, 2375+8, I refuse to look at STO 2409 timeframe), I originally only did 2 eras (2295, 2372ish (remember, DS9 was not over with during that time, so we were only up to about that)).

Man. Think i tried writing a few fanfics too. Think i even submitted a couple to a certain Ranma site. When i think back on it now though, it's just embarrassing because i sucked really really really bad.

I love reading but i could never get the hang of writing anything. Which wasn't fun when it came time to write essays and research papers.

da_fox2279 · Dec 2, 2014

One night, after spending most of the weekend reading Sailor Moon fics by author LeVar Bouyer (especially his *very* dark fic, Innocence in A Minor), I spent most of the night writing a SM fic where Usagi was slowly corrupted by the spirit of Beryl/Mettalia, who had attached herself to Usagi at the last moment during their fight.

It had quite a number of clichÃ©s, and it really needed some character building, but I put a lot of effort into that fic, and regret losing it when my computer went down.

I might try re-writing it one day...

KurokamiDG · Dec 4, 2014

I think the first fanfic I ever read was Patriots Dawn by The Pro. And at the time I was admittedly a avid Naruto fan and I kinda accidentally stumbled on it. I honestly never even heard of fanfiction before that day either, but it was something that rekindled my interest in reading stories and whatnot.

And it also gave me an appreciation for any well done NaruIno fics. :snigger:

But yeah, I'm somewhat envious of the writers. I get all these ideas and stuff but I can never find the way to write it out.

It's frustrating, honestly.

grant · Dec 5, 2014

The first one I can be sure I remember was the Evangelion-R one, though I think there must have been some before it.

Ordo · Dec 5, 2014

The very first piece of fanfiction I ever read was a pun-happy story I think was called 'Ranma and the Pundulse' I recall it because of the line "Hurricane Akane stormed out of the house and moved in a Ranmaly direction."

The story that actually convinced me to keep reading fanfiction was a Ranma/Tenchi cross called "A Good Day" from 1998. A sequel to Mike Noakes 'A Bad Day'.

PCHeintz72 · Dec 5, 2014

Ordo said:

Don't forget the other sequel/side story to that called 'A Bad Day Akane's Scar' by Strumwulf. Admittedly, it was very short.

A_T_Sigma · Mar 29, 2015

Hmm, I can't remember the first fanfic of anything i've read.

But the first series i read fanfiction for was Tenchi Muyo, when tmffa was active. from there, I think I ventured onto Inuyasha next...damn all I know is somehow over the yrs, I've read fanfics from Tenchi to Naruto to Harry Potter and Final Fantasy...

Then suddenly I'm writing mediocre stories and the escape from fanfiction wasn't as easy...

Until you get older, your writing improves, your writing your own shit that takes yrs to complete and everything in the fanfiction world becomes the same unoriginal story...on rare occasions you can still find an entire fandom with really good written fanfics.

And in others, finding one out of every twenty is like digging through a mine for that one decent gem. Of course it's all subjective.

silentorphan · Mar 29, 2015

Something by the Eyrie Productions crew. I honestly don't remember which. Possibly one of the Undocumented Features stories; more likely, considering the time I started reading such things, Neon Exodus Evangelion.

seitora · Mar 29, 2015

I had like a seven or eight year lull in between reading fanfiction. No idea what I read back in the day before stopping for that period of time, but it would probably have been something from Pokemon.

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