Silly idea: fake fanfic

[TheWritingGroup]

Here's a silly one, not originally mine: create a hot fanfic story about a franchise that isn't real. Say it's for the streaming show Ozarks, about someone managing a dying but still kind-of-solvent resort in the Ozark Mountains, desperately trying to make the place relevant in the 2020s. She has her family there. Hubby is a work-from-home network systems architect, who travels frequently, leaving her alone with their three children and a cousin who lives with them for not-yet-explained reasons. It's a dramedy.

The fanfic could be transgressive incest between family members, or the main character's habit of seducing resort guests whenever Hubby is traveling. (Neither of those are in the actual series, you understand.) Or many kinds of "whatever else."

We would be open about it here in the Author Hangout, but totally straight-faced in the actual stories, pretending it's a real series.

Thoughts.

--Annie

 

[TheLobster]

If the franchise is fictitious, then so is its setting. I’m not sure I understand what’s the difference between such “fake fanfic” and a regular story set in an original universe.

 

[Bramblethorn]

 

[CalBishForNow]

If the franchise is fictitious, then so is its setting. I’m not sure I understand what’s the difference between such “fake fanfic” and a regular story set in an original universe.

Putting it in the Fan Fiction & Celebrities category and trying to trick readers into thinking it's fanfic when it's not, sort of trying to create a Mandela effect? Maybe be coy about what it's a fanfic of and what details might be changed other than the sex to make it more plausible?

Other than that, I agree, it's just an original universe.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Is it fake fanfic because it's not from a real show/franchise? Or is it fake beacuse you're not actually a fan? I'm confused.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Putting it in the Fan Fiction & Celebrities category and trying to trick readers into thinking it's fanfic when it's not, sort of trying to create a Mandela effect? Maybe be coy about what it's a fanfic of and what details might be changed other than the sex to make it more plausible?

Exactly. Maybe do it in March, release one chapter a week, with the reveal on April 1. Remember, I said up front it was silly.

--Annie

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Fan fiction for the fake movies in Tropic Thunder?

 

[PennyThompson]

I'm not super into fanfic, but are there expected genre tropes and story beats that get repeated regardless of the character/celeb?

Author inserts being starstruck? Oblique references that fans of the IP would instantly understand but an outsider wouldn't? Wish fulfillment of something that was left unsaid or unfinished in the original work?

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I never expected to see her in real life, but there she was, sitting in one of the uncomfortable plastic chairs at my Laundromat. Working up the courage, I approached her, trying desperately not to look like the fangirl I was.

"Ms. Franzibal? Is it really you?"

She looked up from her famous notebook, setting her pencil down and pinning me with her incisive gaze like a lepidopterist studying a moth. The crows feet around her icy grey eyes scrunched up adorably behind her black rimmed glasses, and her elegant hand brushed a silver-streaked lock of black hair behind her ears.

"Yes... Do I know you?" She leaned forward in her chair, and I caught a little glimpse of her leather shoulder holster under her sage green cardigan, cradling her snub nosed Smith & Wesson Model 36, no doubt loaded with silver bullets.

"No!" I blurted out, suddenly intimidated. "I'm just... I'm just a fan of your work. And... I'm wondering what you're doing in my laundromat."

Mabel Franzibal smiled at me, then stood up to her full 5-foot-nothing height and looked around the room conspiratorially.

"I'm doing my laundry, of course. But I take it your real question is, 'What am I doing in a quiet little college town like Plainview?'"

I nodded dumbly, my mouth suddenly dry, intimidated by the petite, mature, librarian/detective/witch of my dreams.

"It's quite simple, young lady. I have reason to believe that Jade Medusa is here, and she's up to no good."

"Jade Medusa?!" I exclaimed a little too loudly, then looked around fearfully, as if saying her name might summon her. No one else in the laundromat seemed to care. "But I thought she died at the end of The Tentacle Only Rings Twice!"

"So it seemed... and yet, she is here. Now, will you help me find her, defeat her for good, and save the universe?"

"Yes Ms. Franzibal, I'll do whatever you want!"

"Wonderful," she said with a mischievous grin. "Why don't we start with a quickie in the closet?"

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Is it fake fanfic because it's not from a real show/franchise? Or is it fake beacuse you're not actually a fan? I'm confused.

There is a show on Netflix called The Ozarks. I watched it and it was bullshit.

 

[dirk2024]

"But I thought she died at the end of The Tentacle Only Rings Twice!"

 

[Statius]

There is a show on Netflix called The Ozarks. I watched it and it was bullshit.

Agreed. What I wanted to know was, who didn't know who was selling/ growing drugs there!? Fucking everyone knew.

 

[fakingadulthood]

porn fanfic with all sec removed could be a thing…


Her heart skipped a beat at the first knock on the hard wood of her front door. By the third rhythmic pound she was on her feet, her soft, full lips forming the words “just a second” as she walked quickly to the door. The thought of the sausage that would soon slide down her hungry throat made her mouth water. She was about to be filled, she knew that this much meat would rearrange her guts if could handle even half. When she looked through the peephole she saw him, his big strong hands were wrapped around exactly what she was waiting for… she wasn’t sure he’d be able to hold it in only one. She clumsily undid the chain, her excitement making measured movements impossible. As the door was flung open the man stepped back, then as he ragained his composure she heard the words she’d been waiting to hear:

“Hey, did you order two racks of ribs?”

She’d barely finished nodding before he gave her the food she’d ordered, said to have a good night and walked away.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

porn fanfic with all sec removed could be a thing…


Her heart skipped a beat at the first knock on the hard wood of her front door. By the third rhythmic pound she was on her feet, her soft, full lips forming the words “just a second” as she walked quickly to the door. The thought of the sausage that would soon slide down her hungry throat made her mouth water. She was about to be filled, she knew that this much meat would rearrange her guts if could handle even half. When she looked through the peephole she saw him, his big strong hands were wrapped around exactly what she was waiting for… she wasn’t sure he’d be able to hold it in only one. She clumsily undid the chain, her excitement making measured movements impossible. As the door was flung open the man stepped back, then as he ragained his composure she heard the words she’d been waiting to hear:

“Hey, did you order two racks of ribs?”

She’d barely finished nodding before he gave her the food she’d ordered, said to have a good night and walked away.

 

[Statius]

porn fanfic with all sec removed could be a thing…


Her heart skipped a beat at the first knock on the hard wood of her front door. By the third rhythmic pound she was on her feet, her soft, full lips forming the words “just a second” as she walked quickly to the door. The thought of the sausage that would soon slide down her hungry throat made her mouth water. She was about to be filled, she knew that this much meat would rearrange her guts if could handle even half. When she looked through the peephole she saw him, his big strong hands were wrapped around exactly what she was waiting for… she wasn’t sure he’d be able to hold it in only one. She clumsily undid the chain, her excitement making measured movements impossible. As the door was flung open the man stepped back, then as he ragained his composure she heard the words she’d been waiting to hear:

“Hey, did you order two racks of ribs?”

She’d barely finished nodding before he gave her the food she’d ordered, said to have a good night and walked away.

Damn. That's frigging well done.

 

[fakingadulthood]

Thank you for improving my life by sharing this

 

[fakingadulthood]

Damn. That's frigging well done.

Who knows, maybe I’ll write a real one someday

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Thank you for improving my life by sharing this

There's a whole series of them.
You're welcome!

 

[fakingadulthood]

There's a whole series of them.
You're welcome!

You’ve done it again!

 

[Britva415]

If the franchise is fictitious, then so is its setting. I’m not sure I understand what’s the difference between such “fake fanfic” and a regular story set in an original universe.

I also can't figure out why OP refers to "the actual series" when the entire premise is that there isn't one

 

[DeMont]

Here's a silly one, not originally mine: create a hot fanfic story about a franchise that isn't real. Say it's for the streaming show Ozarks, about someone managing a dying but still kind-of-solvent resort in the Ozark Mountains, desperately trying to make the place relevant in the 2020s. She has her family there. Hubby is a work-from-home network systems architect, who travels frequently, leaving her alone with their three children and a cousin who lives with them for not-yet-explained reasons. It's a dramedy.

The fanfic could be transgressive incest between family members, or the main character's habit of seducing resort guests whenever Hubby is traveling. (Neither of those are in the actual series, you understand.) Or many kinds of "whatever else."

We would be open about it here in the Author Hangout, but totally straight-faced in the actual stories, pretending it's a real series.

Thoughts.

--Annie

@TheWritingGroup,
Good evening my dear colleague/s,
In my mind "Fan Fics" are meant to be totally fictitious, often "off the wall" encounters between folks that you admire in either movie/television/literature etc.
As soon as you use, or intimate, that the story is a "Fan Fic" the illusion of reality, necessarily, flies out the window and, if it doesn't, then you are opening up a slanderous or libellous can of worms should it ever come to light.

For example, I have a "Doctor Who" series in planning stages (based on an old television show from way back in the day that still finds regular viewership, primarily in the U.K.) in which "The Doctor" (that's all he is ever called (names dodged) sets forth on a series of adventures with his ever present "Assistant/Companion" - in my case Emma Watson of "Harry Potter" fame. Since "The Doctor" remains a non-specific person then the only thing I have to fear is if Ms. Watson ever finds her way down here.

I would suggest that "Fan Fic" can't, easily, be translated into real life situations so, "No harm, No foul", No?
Deepest respects,
D.

 

[SkyBubble]

Fanfic for fake celebrities. I love the absurdity of it.