No Homo (Teen Wolf fic)

No Homo is a popular Derek/Stiles College AU fanfic by RemainNameless, and is often recced as a fandom favoriteComments by several fans on this r/sterek reddit post, October 13, 2018 or a must read for fans of the Sterek pairing.Sterek Starter Pack, April 27, 2015 Tumblr post It was posted in 11 chapters to Archive of Our Own over the course of two months in 2014. The story is based on a real m4m Craigslist ad and features Stiles Stilinski in deep denial about his bisexuality.
Scott goes on a semester abroad, leaving Stiles, his college roommate and best friend, up to his own devices. Stiles promptly posts an ad on Craigslist for a "str8t" jerkoff buddy but with "no weird touching. just 2 dudes jerking it"; Derek, who has had a crush on him since high school, answers the ad. Stiles and Derek have a lot of sex before Stiles is willing to admit his feelings.
In January 2015, the story ranked 22nd in hits, 16th in comments, 18th in kudos, and 21st in bookmarks out of 54,263 Teen Wolf fanworks on AO3.The story had 1318 comments, 8076 kudos, 2946 bookmarks, and 210766 hits. Found using the works search on 3 January 2015. On Goodreads, the story was voted the most popular out of a list of 258 Sterek fanfics, with 111 votes cast; the story garnered 127 reviews and 399 ratings for an average of 4.14 stars out of five.Goodreads entry for .
On 9 August 2018, the author announced that they were planning to delete their AO3 account, tumblr post by meechwoods, 9 August 2018. due to no longer being involved in fandom and wanting to be published professionally. answered by meechwoods, 9 August 2018. The fic was orphaned.
==Fan Reactions/Reviews==
One of many excited comments on AO3:
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On Goodreads:
Fail_fandomanon's resident Teen Wolf reviewers predictably criticized the fic for being ATG or OOC, though opinion was divided on whether it was just awful or a fun guilty pleasure idfic. 
==Orphaning==
On August 9, 2018 RemainNameless posted an announcement to Tumblr entitled "Friendly Warning" in which she notified readers that she was thinking of deleting her AO3 account. In response to questions about why she was deleting her account, she revealed that she was no longer active in fandom and would "probably never complete another fanfiction", and that she wanted to transition to publishing original fiction. She also stated that she was considering leaving No Homo online as an orphaned fic:
RemainNameless made PDF and MOBI files of her longer works, including No Homo, available to download, but did leave No Homo on AO3 as promised. In a Tumblr post about having difficulties deleting her account, she noted in the tags, #i orphaned no homo ok #before you come at mehahahaha by meechwoods via Tumblr, published August 16, 2018 (Accessed July 25, 2021). She also published a YouTube video in which she explained the decision to leave fandom and delete her works, and said,
"I did orphan one of the works because that one apparently spoke to a lot of people, and I don't wanna take that away."Why I deleted my AO3 by Laurel Writes via YouTube. Published August 16, 2018 (Accessed July 25, 2021).
==Fanworks Inspired By No Homo==
* chemm80 made a podfic of the story.chemm80. (Podfic of) No Homo by RemainNameless, posted on AO3 2014-06-17.
* monsterpages on Tumblr baked the Yes Homo cake mentioned in the story.
* lupusululaturusest on Tumblr made a cover.
* by derekhaie
* Poem by liquorish
==Example Art Gallery==
File:No Homo Podfic Cover Art.PNG|Podfic cover art by laisserais (2014)
File:Yes Homo.jpg|Art by screamingwithstiles (2014)
File:No Homo Moodboard.jpg|Moodboard by brokebackhills (2014)
File:No Homo art.jpg|Art by vulcains (2014)
==References==
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