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FicTalk

FicTalk was an unmoderated mailing list dedicated to discussing the writing and reading of X-Files fanfiction. Companion to the X-Files-Fanfic list, FicTalk hosted much of the meta-conversation about X-Files fanfiction from 1995 until 1998. FicTalk was privately owned and hosted on chaos.x-philes.com.
The list made a move in September 1996: "We've moved the fictalk mailing list to the chaos.taylored.com server. This means that it now has a digest version!" Gil Trevizo, The *New* Fictalk Mailing List, September 27, 1996 
 
In 1997, FicTalk hosted the first (and last) Morley Awards honoring excellence in fanfiction. On November 21, 1997, the list held an awards ceremony that included acceptance speeches written by the winning authors.
The list was discontinued in 2006.
==Some Descriptions and Comments==
It was described by one of its creators: 
It was presented as a safe haven from the non-moderated Usenet by one of its administrators, Gil Trevizo. Ironically, Trevizo was ousted just over a year later from FicTalk. See an open letter to the chaos.taylored.com mailing lists. 
A 1998 description: 
 
==Some Rules==
==1997 Turmoil==
In 1997, there was intense turmoil regarding FicTalk (and X-Files-Fanfic) that involved plagiarism, who owns what list, access to fiction and lists, flaming, open letters, power moves, censorship, personal disagreements, unsubscribing...
* Joining other xf fanfic mailing lists, January 17, 1997 
* an open letter to the chaos.taylored.com mailing lists, June 28, 1997
* an open letter to the chaos.taylored.com mailing lists, a second post, June 29, 1997
* Mailing lists and Archives and Usenet..., June 29, 1997
* An open letter to ATXC, June 30, 1997
==A Bit of a Play-by-Play from 1998==
A fan, Cici Lean, described some of the happenings of this list in her newsletter, The Acid Desk. She mentioned "Chaos Fictalk" in issues #1-6. There was no mention of it in issues #7-10.
==External Links==
* 
==References==
Category:X-Files Mailing Lists
Category:1995 Mailing Lists
Category:1990s Mailing Lists
Category:2000s Mailing Lists
Category:Fanfiction Meta
FicWad

FicWad is a multifandom fanfiction and original fiction archive that opened in 2005.
It has the slogan: "fresh-picked original and fan fiction."
The terms of service is here.
Description: "FicWad is an archive for original and fan fiction. We provide storage for member's stories, in addition to a system for reviewing, rating, and searching for stories, and contacting other members. In order to use this service, you must have access to the world wide web, and a compatible web browser." Terms of Service 
==Philosophy==
 
==Forum==
The site has a forum, which is located here.
As of about 2010, its content is mostly spam.
Topics:
* Announcements
* Site Issues
* Writing Tips
* Fic Recs
* Introductions
* Melting Pot
==Ratings==
==Warnings and Ratings==
==2010 Issues ==
In May 2010, the site's owner reported tech problems with the site: 
== References ==
Category:Multifandom Archives
Category:2000s Category:2010s
FicWorld

FicWorld was a fanfiction site; previously the Gen X Fanfic Archive, it was re-named and expanded to become a multifandom archive; as well as Raonaid's Home Page linked it as a slash multimedia site under the name The Fanfic Finder: TV-Film.Raonaid's Favorite Slash Links, via Wayback: 13 June 2001. (Accessed 01 March 2021)
==Comments about the site==
==References==
Category:Slash Websites
Category:Multifandom Archives
Category:1998 Archives
Category:1990s Archives
Fic A Palooza

Fic A Palooza is a 226-page gen multifandom fiction anthology. 
* Fields Of Blue (MAGNIFICENT 7) (This story is about the aftermath in Mag 7 ‘Sins of the Past and Nemesis’. Vin comes to realize that his true home is with the rest of the seven) (54 pages)
* Adios El Ferrol (HORATIO HORNBLOWER) (Details the events surrounding the return of the Indefatigable’s to jail in Spain, and their subsequent release) (5 pages)
* Blood Moon (HORATIO HORNBLOWER/HIGHLANDER/FOREVER KNIGHT) (It is a Halloween story in which Simpson is turned into a vampire, and Horatio and Archie fight against him for their lives) (23 pages)
* The Strongest Tether (HORATIO HORNBLOWER) (One night soon after their return to the prison at El Ferrol, Archie and Horatio discuss nightmares, shame and friendship) (34 pages)
* The Unkindest Cut Of All (LORD OF THE RINGS) (On a beautiful summer afternoon, twelve-year-old Boromir and seven-year-old Faramir would rather have fun that obey their governess’ orders to get their hair cut. Their plan to get around the order does not quite go as they had hoped) (14 pages)
* Floating In Limbo (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) (It’s a fill-in-the-blanks from the pilot) (2 pages)
* Star Wars: Family Heritage (RETURN OF THE JEDI) (It takes place in Luke’s X-wing as he’s on the way back to complete his training with Yoda. He’s attempting to come to terms with his heritage) (2 pages)
* Make A Joyful Noise (VOYAGERS) (Arriving in a remote Austrian village on Christmas Eve, the Voyagers are confused about their mission but receive help from an unlikely source) (8 pages) 
* A Tough Nut To Crack (LORD OF THE RINGS) (A good-will gift to Aragorn arrives from Harad, and he, Faramir and Eomer spend the better part of a summer afternoon trying to figure out how to open a coconut) (12 pages)
* The Visiting Moon (THE DUCHESS AND THE DEVIL) (Missing scene) (3 pages) 
* The Magnificent Pimpernel (MAGNIFICENT/SCARLET PIMPERNEL) (Crossover England 1793. The grieving widower Sir Christopher Larabee is called upon to gather a group of men to assist the Scarlet Pimpernel, a mysterious Englishman working in disguise to rescue condemned prisoners from the guillotine during the French Revolution) (78 pages)
* Hornblower and The Bad Hair Day (HORATIO HORNBLOWER) (Brother officers support each other during the major crises that try men’s souls—and the minor crises that merely try men’s patience) (11 pages)
 
Category:Multimedia Gen and Het Zines
Category:2002 Zines
Fic Central

Fic Central was a multipurpose website largely invested in the Twilight fandom, however it is open to both other fandoms and original fiction.
The website functions to promote both little-known and popular fanworks through reviews and teasers, awards, contests, causes, and keeps a comprehensive calendar of fandom events. Fans can used a variety of embedded forms to submit any of the above or to have their fic updates tweeted from the @CentralFics twitter account.
==History==
===The Twilight Awards===
The Twilight Awards was founded in late 2008, housed at thetwilightawards.webs.com, simply a list of links to various Twilight fanfiction awards sites within the fandom. Sites were rated according to design, ease of use, and adherence to posted schedules.
In early 2009, the website began including Twilight fanfiction contest information.
In February 2010, in the wake of the Literate Union reporting MA fics on FanFiction.net, the website graduated to the Blogger platform under the domain thetwilightawards.com and included a list of fics that had been TOSsed, pulled, published, or moved by their authors. Interviews and fic update tweets were also added to the website.
In December 2010, The Twilight Awards absorbed the website TwiFic Promotions after it was abandoned by it's founder. The reviews from that site were moved to The Twilight Awards so that they would remain active and searchable.
===TwiFic Central===
In late 2011, The Twilight Awards outgrew Blogger, moved to WordPress, and changed the name to Twific Central to reflect the shift from simply awards to a more complete range of services and information concerning Twilight fandom. TheTwilightAwards.com was password locked.
In late 2012, as Twilight fans continued to branch out into other fandoms and fanfiction authors began publishing original fiction, the 'Twi' was dropped and the site became simply Fic Central.
==References==
Category:TwilightCategory:2000sCategory:2010s
Fic Clique

Fic Clique is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Nicole, Brenna and Reid. The introductory episode was released in October 2019.
Each episode, the hosts discuss three fics, one suggested by each of them. Other topics include meta and fannish history. Each episode is approximately an hour and a half to an hour and fifty minutes long. They also occasionally release themed minisodes, and have a series within the podcast called Fandom Classics. 
==Inception==
Fic Clique initially started in February 2019 as a "fic brunch" among the three hosts, who wanted to meet up for a discussion in the style of a book club, but with fanfiction as the focus. They each chose a fic, read it in advance, and then went out to get brunch and discuss. After mentioning a few fic brunches online, a couple of people expressed interest in knowing how the brunches were going, which led the hosts to the idea of starting a podcast. They made a beta episode in July 2019, sent it to six of their friends, and used the feedback to craft the format for the podcast as it exists today. 
==Special Episodes== 
In addition to their regular three-fics-an-episode format, Fic Clique also occasionally does minisodes as well. Some of the minisodes are about a specific one-off topic, such as their Writer-Beta Relationships episode, whereas others are more broad, like their annual top fics retrospectives Top Fics of the Decade2020 Fic Retrospective
They also have a series within the podcast known as Fandom Classics, which tend to run a bit shorter than a typical episode at about an hour each. Fandom Classics episodes focus on one singular fic and do a deep dive into what has made it such a notable fic within fandom.
==Other Events==
Fic Clique has also hosted a variety of general fandom events, including their annual Fic Rec Exchange, which occurs at the end of each year. Rec Exchange 2020
==References==
Category:2019 Fan Interviews
Category:2019 Podcasts
Category:2019 Meta
Fic Commission

Fic Commissions are a newer fan activity based on the more established practice of commissioning fanart. It has been adopted by some fans as a method of writing fanfic for money, though not all fan writers who have commissions open receive any. Fans interested in commissioning fanfic agree to pay a certain amount for a story of a set length containing the tropes, characters, ships, etc. that they want. The resulting fic may then be given directly to the commissioner or posted publicly for everyone to read.
This relatively new activity challenges some previously held fannish social contracts regarding fandom and profit and fandom as a gift economy, as well as the fine lines of copyright and trademark.
Generally, money has played little role in the desire to create and exchange of fan fiction. In fact, the buying and selling of fan fiction has been almost universally condemned across Western media fandom. The sole exception would be the contributor's copies that fan writers received of print fanzines in which they were published. On occasion, during the early years of print fanzines, fanzine publishers would offer cash prizes to fan writers See Alien Brothers for an example. ; however, many fans expressed worry that the practice might cause TPTB to come down hard in fan fiction. To most fans, the lack of profit - or in this case the exchange of funds for fan fiction - was seen as their fig leaf of protection against potential copyright claims.
In more recent years, writing commission offers have emerged. Some are by fans who are struggling with financial issues, others by fans who simply want to be paid for their work. 
This has led some fans to ask:
And:
The general approbation against offering fanfic for money still does not stop some fans for asking:
==Further Topics of Discussion==
===A No-No on AO3===
For much more on this topic, see PSA: DON'T MENTION COMMISSIONS/PATREON ON AO3.
===General Comments===
 
 
===The Legalities===
===The Differing Attitudes Toward Fic for Profit and Art for Profit===
===Challenges to the Fannish Gift Culture===
===Possible Regrets on Wasted Words===
==Some Examples of Promotions==
* (unknown date, perhaps 2017)
* (2015)
* (2017)
* (2017)
* Gotcha for Gaza - fic commissions in return for donations (2024)
==Further Reading/Meta==
* Cousinjean and Profit Wank (2006)
* YOU DO NOT MAKE MONEY OFF OF FANFIC. EVER. (September 2006)
* How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor, cupidsbow (2007)
* What do you think about published fanfic? (2009)
* Profiting from fanfiction by fluterbev (2009)
* Fifty shades of exploitation: Fan labor and Fifty Shades of Grey by Bethan Jones (2014)
* Sherlockology and Galactica.tv: Fan sites as gifts or exploited labor? by Bertha Chin (2014)
* Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in fandom's gift economy by Tisha Turk (2014)
* (2015)
* PSA: DON'T MENTION COMMISSIONS/PATREON ON AO3 (2016)
* posts and comments at FFA regarding profit/links on site to advertising: (March 2017) -- (April 2017) -- (May 2017) (June 2017)
* Alexis Fegan Black is Dead (2017)
==References==
Category:Fan Activities
Category:Glossary
Category:Fiction Writing
Fic For All

Fic For All or FFA is an ongoing pairing-based Buffy crossover challenge on Twisting the Hellmouth. The rules are very simple;
In practice there is a long list of pairings for most Buffyverse characters, the latest shown first, which can be searched by character (e.g. Buffy Summers or by entering the name of the possible pairing (e.g. Loki). If a site user posts a story chapter using one of these pairings they can flag it as using an FFA pairing; the pairing is removed from the list of available pairings. The author can then post a pairing of their own (e.g. Xander Harris/Sif), and hope that at some point someone will write the story. Pairings need not necessarily be romantic, the story simply needs to have both characters interacting. A list of completed FFA responses is available on the challenge page, searchable in the same way.
The challenge is not routinely moderated, but stories must follow the normal site rules and can be reported to the site moderators if e.g. the pairing doesn't appear in the story.
==Links==
* Latest FFA pairings
* Latest completed FFA pairings
Category:2003 Challenges
Category:2000s Challenges
Category:2010s Challenges
Fic In A Box

Fic In A Box is a gift exchange in which participants agree to produce a total of at least 10K of fanfic or the equivalent. They are permitted to split this total word count across as many works as they want. The minimum per work is 1k by default, but lower wordcount works are allowed if the recipient has opted into receiving them.
While Fic In A Box is primarily a fic focused exchange, there are opt-ins for pretty much any medium, for each of which a fanfic equivalence is calculated so that the 10K total can be established as fulfilled.
Unusually, Fic In A Box also allows the option of "swaps", where any participant who wishes may trade in part of their assignment for 1k increments of other people's assignments. This is optional, which means that participants are not required to give up any part of their assignment; nor can a desired swap be guaranteed. 
Participants who find they cannot complete the full 10k but have nevertheless created one or more complete works are permitted to default on just the remaining wordcount. In such a case, they are guaranteed to receive gift(s) equivalent to the amount submitted (rounded down to the nearest 1k). There are also options to "earn back" guaranteed minimum amount by taking pinch hits or completing the original assignment.
Category:2020s Challenges
Fic Promptly

Fic Promptly is a multifandom comment fic community on Dreamwidth that is similar to comment-fic on LiveJournal. Its prompts and fills are organized on their Pinboard archive. There is also an AO3 collection for those who want to upload there either directly or as well.
The various rules for Fic Promptly are listed in this entry.
On July 28, 2013, oneill took over the front of the house for secretstaircase.Introduction/State of the Comm post
Fic Promptly was abandoned in July 2019 and succeeded by the Prompt Dump.The Prompt Dump
== Links ==
* AO3 collection
* Community: fic_promptly tagged on AO3
* Pinboard archive
==References==
Category:2010s
Fic Talk Message Board

Fic Talk was a message board with a focus of discussion about X-Files fanfiction.
"Some fanfic is good, some is bad, and some is mediocre. Opinions will vary about which is which. This is a forum for people to discuss what they didn't like as well as what they liked. It's my hope that posters will be able to do this with civility. Those who believe you should keep quiet unless you have something nice to say should probably stay away."
Category:X-Files
Category:2000s
Fic on demand

fic_on_demand was a challenge community in which people could post requests for a short fic in any fandom. Requests continued until 2014, but the last fill was posted to the community in 2010. There were 4,982 entries and 16,237 comments posted to the community since 2004. The fandom with the largest number of fills in the community memories was Gundam Wing, with 320 entries.
The community was affiliated with tausch_fiktion and fic_sur_demande, equivalent communities for German- and French-language ficlets.
==Links==
*List of prompts (archived 2009)
*Taglist
*Memories
*AO3 tag
Category:2000s
Category:2010s
Fic vs Meta

Fic vs Meta is a cross-posted blog post by Barb Cummings from June 27, 2015. It has 92 comments on Dreamwidth and 82 comments on Livejournal (many of which are duplicates).
==The Original Post==
==Responses==
stultiloquentia: 
next_to_normal:
schneefink:
rahirah:
shadowkat67:
rahirah:
shadowkat:
torrilin:
shadowkat67:
feliciacraft:
rebcake:
ljs:
rahirah:
dwyld:
misskittydu34:
punch_kicker15:
Category:2015 Meta
Category:Meta on Journal Sites
Category:Buffyverse Meta
Ficcer pride

Ficcer pride is a 2003 essay by kattahj.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* pseudonyms
* keeping one's fannishness a secret
* the internet and increasing visability
* Anne Rice squashing fanworks
* the predictability and ridiculousness of mainstream press coverage of fandom
==From the Essay==
 
==Fan Comments at the Essay==
==References==
Category:2003 Meta
Category:Fanfiction Meta
Category:Meta on Journal Sites
Ficdb

Ficdb was a website built to review and recommend fanfiction based on a user's tastes. It was described by the creator as "Goodreads for fanfiction" and aiming to "build a machine-learning powered fanfic recommendation engine".I spent the past 3 months building Goodreads for fanfiction - feedback wanted!, samosa_samsara, December 3 2018
The site started out with a focus on Harry Potter and Worm fanfiction, but has expanded to many other fandoms since its opening. Users in the Ficdb Discord server could request new fandom categories to be added once there are multiple fics for that fandom listed on the site.
Ficdb allowed entries and reviews for original fiction as well.
In addition to leaving reviews, users could "Heart" other users' reviews, and could add fanfic entries to their "Bookshelf" with status Want to Read, Reading, Read, Waiting For Updates, Dropped, or Not Interested.
Ficdb went offline in December 2019. It had over 1,500 fics listed.15 fics per page × 101 pages (on 8-28-2019 archive) = 1,515 fics
==Trivia==
* In lieu of a password system as is usual on most sites for logging in, Ficdb instead emails the user a personalized login link.
* When creating a review page for a fic, editors chose the fic’s characters from a list of characters for all fandoms on the site, with the option to also choose “other” or “original character.” The character lists were copied from fanfiction.net and used the same format (think E. Garak instead of Elim Garak)
**Site users could only describe one romantic relationship per fan fiction submitted, without an option for gen relationships. However, the website was flexible enough to allow that one relationship to be poly
==References==
Category:Fiction Writing
Category:Recommendation Sites
Ficdom

Ficdom is the part of fandom interested in reading and writing fanfiction. 
According to a cursory 2015 google search, the term appears to be used more frequently in K-pop, but does turn up occasionally in almost any fandom. Harry Potter FanFic Archive has a splash page at ficdom.com, though the site itself is at a different domain.
Examples of usage:
*We're just now getting going in this feisty fic that features probably the sexiest Edward in ficdom (srsly, this is my DREAM Edward). (Twilight, 2009), posted by alonelilylanded to LiveJournal on October 8, 2009.
*it’s so hard to run away from ficdom when most of my fandom friends are amafuckingmazing writers (2013)tumblr post by himchan, April 11, 2013.
*hello! i'm new to the bts ficdom, so i was just wondering if there are any super standout must read classic fics? (K-pop, 2015)anonymous ask sent to bangtanficrec on Tumblr January 7, 2015.
==References==
Category:Fiction Writing
Ficlet

In fandom, a ficlet is a very short story, usually fan fiction but sometimes original fiction. The term is commonly applied to stories under 1000 words, although there is no hard and fast rule about how long a ficlet can be. "Ficlet" is preferred to drabble by some fans as a term for stories that are near the length of a drabble (around 100 words) but not 100 words precisely.
The term is seen by some fans as an unnecessary, overly cutesy affectation when there are already existing terms for the form, such as flashfic, short-short, vignette, or snippet. For these fans, "ficlet"'s only saving grace is that it's at least better than "ficcie".
==Archives & Resources==
* Ficlet tag on the Ao3
Category:Fiction Writing
Ficlets100

ficlets100 was a theme community on Livejournal that hosted an open challenge for short standalone fanfiction, with seven total tables of 100 prompts. There were 1,863 entries and 3,359 comments posted to the community since 2006.
==About==
==Links==
*Taglist
*Hall of Fame
Category:2000s
Category:2010s
Category:Theme Journal Communities
Ficpic

A ficpic is a fanfic type story told through pictures with speech bubbles and captions. The term is sometimes used to name an image that inspires a fic, leading to confusion.
Ficpics resemble the popular Italian Photo comics also known in English as fumetti,M. Keith Booker (ed.), Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 1821 ("Webcomics and New Media"). photonovels, photoromances, and in Portuguese as fotonovelas, where stories were serialized through photos of actors' performances instead of through illustrations.
The use of images with speech bubbles organized in sequence to create a cohesive textual scene is quite common throughout the fandom as a whole. Films, series and soap operas were printed and sold this way in several countries, such as Star Trek. Fans then started to create their versions with images from these media, but with their own stories.
==Examples of Use==
*Some Jason Dohring Photo Manips by saoirsekonstantin
==References==
Category:Fiction WritingCategory:Visual Art
Fics by Fennelseed

Fics by Fennelseed is a Lord of the Rings fanfiction site. Most of the stories are Frodo/Sam slash. There are also parodies and a Frodo/Legolas story.
The page was a member of the LOTR Fanfiction Sites webring. 
File:Fennelseed's Fictions.png|screencap of the page
Category:Slash Author Pages
Category:Lord of the Rings Websites
Category:2000s
Fics on a Plane!

Fics on a Plane! was a very casual con zine for Pacificon 2008.
One contributor writes: "... the "Fics on a Plane!" 'zine... was put together from fics and art that people did en route to Bitchin' Party 2008 (more formally, Pacificon) in Seattle. It was copied and put into the 'zine as scrawled--thus the ampersands instead of ands, and the utter lack of editing!" from author's notes on one story posted at Archive of Our Own 
==Partial Contents==
* When I Need Somebody To by spuffyduds (Due South, Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser)
* Chicago: A Five (Ten) Things Meme by omphale23
* other unknown content
==References==
Category:Multimedia Slash Zines
Category:2008 Zines