Type-Moon Fanfic Idea Thread

[You]

With the advent of GO, the demise of the age of fanfics hastened and finally ended.

[Draconic]

What does Grand Order have to do with it? One would think that it would make Tsukihime and KnK fics start up.

My personal opinion is that the contests are actually responsible. People save their stories for contests and never post at any other time, because otherwise the site ignores them.

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Also, that shouldn't stop people from having ideas they'd like to see. Who knows, someone might pick it up to some degree.

I know this is bait for a cynical response, but try thinking for a minute as though some people aren't terrible. Even if you're not planning on writing something, it couldn't hurt to post the idea.

[You]

Before grand order new content in TM was rare. Therefore, people made up their own content in the form of fanfiction.
With the advent of the TM light novel brand, new TM content was being produced about every 6 months with the comiket cycle.
With fragments, content was being produced every month but tbh no one really cared about fragments until GO or ozy appeared. One or the other.
With the advent of GO, there is "new content" basically every 2 weeks to 1 month.
This isn't just for the writers but also the readers. There's no need to read and discuss fanfiction anymore when there's GO stuff to talk about and summaries to dissect and theorycraft. These summaries come out pretty fast too and are available to the english speaking audience with the proliferation of GO and reddit.

As to why there are no tsukihime and knk fics. Tbh they weren't very popular in the first place. From 2009 -> now it's mostly been Fate. And with new fans getting a foothold from Fate, they're going to write Fate if anything.

Although with the proliferation of GO there has been a focus on lemons. So if you're into that, good for you.

[Draconic]

…but …but fanfiction isn't just for the sake of new content. I always felt that the point of fanfiction was to touch on things that the canon wasn't. GO has a very wide range but there are still plenty of limitations. I mean, I might write a lot of GO fics myself, but my current focus is the Nasuverse internal crossover fic. Grail War, sure, but I'm using the scenario as a means of using non-Servant characters to interact with one another. Mage, or even more poignantly, normal human characters, largely go ignored, and giving them attention is one of the main reasons for writing fanfiction.

[forumghost]

I mean it's really a bunch of stuff.

A heap of BL's old writers stopped doing Fanfic/left the forum. The newer gen of Nasu fans go to FFN for a larger and more forgiving audience (we kinda have a rep for being nitpicking, pedantic, toxic assholes)

GO is just one more nail in the coffin.

[SeiKeo]

nobody who would have written on here is on ffn instead

[Magikewl]

people still use ffn???

[Raylen Cypher]

I always felt that the point of fanfiction was to touch on things that the canon wasn't.

focus on lemons.

Surprise, this was probably one of the main points of fanfiction in the first place. The original roots of FFN and prolly even before that were like this.

[Mattias]

nobody who would have written on here is on ffn instead

Beam and Moczo, maybe?

[SeiKeo]

Tumblr/ao3. FFN for a couple of years has gotten hurt, ironically, by being the most well-known fanfic site and getting flooded as an initial entry point.

[Seika]

Before grand order new content in TM was rare. Therefore, people made up their own content in the form of fanfiction.
With the advent of the TM light novel brand, new TM content was being produced about every 6 months with the comiket cycle.
With fragments, content was being produced every month but tbh no one really cared about fragments until GO or ozy appeared. One or the other.
With the advent of GO, there is "new content" basically every 2 weeks to 1 month.
This isn't just for the writers but also the readers. There's no need to read and discuss fanfiction anymore when there's GO stuff to talk about and summaries to dissect and theorycraft. These summaries come out pretty fast too and are available to the english speaking audience with the proliferation of GO and reddit.

TBH, I think this is just untrue. Fanfic activity doesn't die off for a TV show when it gets a new season: it picks up because there are new characters, new situations, new pieces of information to write about. FGO should be increasing activity (and, on AO3 for example, it has - Fate's hardly popular there, but the drip of 'fics is now a dribble). There's some other factor at work here which means we aren't seeing that same bounce.

I also don't buy in the least that contest are doing anything: everyone was astonished at how much participation they got, because Fanfics was so desolate. They've made it pick up, even to a limited degree.

[SeiKeo]

The difference between what you want to think of as the golden BL fanfic age and a more contest driven forum is length of engagement, in that multi-chapter fics naturally have more commentary running alongside them; contrast with contest style 10 oneshots at once, which doesn't bring forth that kind of author-reader partnership. So if you want to be the change you want to see in the forums try reviving the quest fic format

[Rafflesiac]

What about other sites like SV and SB? Aren't those alive and well in the fic department?

[SeiKeo]

Go and read some SB TM crossover fanfic and report back to us, it'll be inspiring

[Rafflesiac]

can i not

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besides, the saga of avada kedavra-spamming harry potter and the holy grail war never updated

and the saga of berserker percy jackson never updated either

[Seika]

What about other sites like SV and SB? Aren't those alive and well in the fic department?

A genie your fanfic forum, but all the authors are from SpaceBattles.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

funny enough I have a shitton more inspiration and motivation to write TM fanfics

but no time

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[You]

TBH, I think this is just untrue. Fanfic activity doesn't die off for a TV show when it gets a new season: it picks up because there are new characters, new situations, new pieces of information to write about. FGO should be increasing activity (and, on AO3 for example, it has - Fate's hardly popular there, but the drip of 'fics is now a dribble). There's some other factor at work here which means we aren't seeing that same bounce.

I can't speak for other sites, but that's the trend i've seen here.

[SeiKeo]

dude what about other sites like sb-

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[Dullahan]

dude what about other sites like sb-

peak SB right here