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Postby The Divine Emperor » Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:21 pm

Greetings, all. I just discovered this forum last Christmas (had perused the wiki on occasion prior), and am thrilled to find a thriving and thoughtful community of fellow Evangelion fans. So, right to the point: where would you recommend publishing fan-fiction? I recently finished penning my third effort at an Evangelion fanfic (and the first that I am actually willing to publish), and am looking for a suitable venue for its publication.

Bear in mind that this item is...experimental. It has only 409 words, and as such no "plot" to speak of. Some of Kafka or Borges' shorter works might be a vague analog. I am not certain that it will be well-received; nonetheless, it is an attempt at thematic complexity that I hope is worthy of the name "Evangelion".

Any ideas on where this would be read and appreciated? Thanks very much.
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Postby Guy Nacks » Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:05 pm

Fanfiction.net is usually the main go-to for posting general fics. It's also probably the most popular and frequented site for fanfiction.

If you're gonna post fics with more mature content or more unconventional structures, those usually have better homes over at Archive of Our Own.


I suggest you explore both those options and see which one seems better suited to your needs.
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Postby pwhodges » Sun Jan 15, 2017 3:12 am

For some reason AO3 (Archive of Our Own) has a high concentration of Kawo-Shin fics.
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Postby AngelNo13Bardiel » Sun Jan 15, 2017 6:47 am

^ Where doesn't these days? :tongue:

I've personally used FFN from day one (see signature), but going to AO3 a few times and looking it over, I might start putting them on there too (I've been recommended to, as well). Hey, I'll cram my stories wherever somebody will host them.
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Postby jcmoorehead » Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:01 am

I use both FanFiction.net and AO3 for my fics. AO3 houses all my lemon fics as they technically aren't allowed on Fanfiction.net, I don't think the rules are enforced too much but I'd rather not risk it. Fanfiction.net is where I get more views/reviews on my main fics though, I tend to write AsuShin content which isn't mega popular in AO3

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Postby The Divine Emperor » Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:57 pm

Thank you all for the recommendations. :D Archive of our Own seems a sensible option, all things considered; and I certainly would not have become aware of it without your help.
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Postby MisterHalt » Sun Jan 29, 2017 12:14 am

View Original Postpwhodges wrote:For some reason AO3 (Archive of Our Own) has a high concentration of Kawo-Shin fics.

Not just high. That pairing has like double the amount of all the other major pairings COMBINED.

So yeah, if you like/write Kaworu/Shinji, that's the place to go.
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Postby jcmoorehead » Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:40 pm

View Original PostThe Divine Emperor wrote:Thank you all for the recommendations. :D Archive of our Own seems a sensible option, all things considered; and I certainly would not have become aware of it without your help.


No worries! Best of luck with it and be sure to pass us a link when it's up! Always nice to have more people writing and sharing fics around here :)

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Postby The Divine Emperor » Sun Jan 29, 2017 9:10 pm

jcmoorehead wrote:
No worries! Best of luck with it and be sure to pass us a link when it's up! Always nice to have more people writing and sharing fics around here :)


Thank you. It will be a few weeks, but I will be certain to post a link to it here once it's up. I am interested to see what the reception will be.
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Postby The Divine Emperor » Fri Feb 03, 2017 7:07 pm

...And here the oddment is.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/9563732
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