Fanfiction isn’t a monolithic homogenous entity. Some of the most entertaining, well written stories that expand on their respective narrative universe are works of fan fiction but there are also poorly written abominations that cause psychic damage just being read.

Like anything labeled indie: mountains of garbage, with some god-tier works sitting on top. The only issue is sifting through the garbage

Since there is no publishing barriers you end up with a lot of bad content that wasn’t filtered out from the platform in any way. That’s no necessarily bad, it’s just harder to find good writing, but it gives novice writers a way to just get out there and get feedback. When you find good stories it’s just a way to get more from characters and worlds you want more of. I specially like slice of life types of stories where you get to peek into the “boring” parts in between the cannon story lines. There’s also generally a lot of smutty content that you can filter out if you don’t want to see it.

I don’t think of it often, but when I do it’s like, “oh yeah, that’s neat.”

I’m glad people have the ability to put something together at home and throw it out there for the world to see.

Depends on the fanfiction. There’s a lot of good ones out there, but also there is way, way more low tier/low effort stuff written by grade schoolers, so sometimes it feels like you’re wading through a sea of oyster mucus to find a pearl.

Some of it’s really great, but I wish it wasn’t 90% shipping

Sometimes it can be better than the original source. Often the fans know just what to do with a world.

Every time the topic of fanfiction comes to mind, I think “I ought to read more of that.”

But when I actually try to find some fanfiction to read, I find I have to sift through a veritable mountain of erotic fanfiction to get to anything else. (Nothing wrong with erotic fanfiction, mind you, but it’s not really what I have in mind when I think “I ought to read more fanfiction.”) Maybe I’m not looking in the right places.

I do think it’s on balance a good thing, that more of it ought to exist, and that it should be legal. (It pretty unambiguously isn’t legal at least in the U.S., but it should be IMO.)

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I want more content of my favorite guys

I get more content of my favorite guys when i read fanfiction

I support people’s rights to make it but have very little interest in reading/watching most of it.

When it expands on a story/universe and can be considered canon to it, I quite like it. A good example would be Star Wars, which has a great fanfiction community that stays relatively canon. Now, what I do not like, is someone’s twisted fanfic about a sexualized Clifford the big red dog. That is disgusting in my opinion…

If ever I get access to a time machine, I’ll go back and introduce the Victorians to the concept. The resulting singularity of godawfulness could power the world for millennia.

Like others have said some of it can be shit but you can come across genuinely good writers as well. I don’t read it anymore but when I was younger I was really into it. There’s one story that was pretty much like the length of a book and being released by the chapter every few weeks or months or whatever and the writing and story had such an impact on me, I still think about it often.

I like the idea in concept but I’ve never come across one that I’d want to read.