>HTTYD >Gravity Falls >Arcane I have never written a fanfic to those thought, i am a pleb lurker.

>>136 Just read crossovers

>>139 Thaaaat is rarely a good idea, especially if the author only has a surface knowledge of one component part. Or both.

>>140 Are there even any good crossovers these days? At least on AO3, the only ones I ever see are random series crossed with the flavor of the moment anime or the huge ones with 50+ series involved that have a thousand tags. To actually answer the OP questions: >Do you write exclusively for series you like/enjoy? For the most part. I have had thoughts of writing stories for series I dislike in that sort of 'here's how *I* would do things' way but I'll never do it because I don't have the patience. >How do you feel about reading a fic fandom blind? I don't think it's advisable for most people to do. While you can intuit details while reading, you end up missing out on a lot. It's like starting a TV show three seasons in. >What makes a description or hook appealing and understandable to both fandom and fandom blind readers? I have no idea. If the premise seems outlandish or compelling enough on its own, regardless of the fandoms involved, I imagine that would do it. But I don't really read outside the fandoms I enjoy, so I can't say.

>What series and fandoms do you follow? Introduce them here. Off my dashboard on AO3 >Ai no Kusabi (9) This series was basically a complete outlier. It's a scifi yaoi with way more plot and worldbuilding than the usual hentai OVA. The planet the story takes place on is 90-99% men, and women are rarely born. I thought the concept of an artificial intelligence ruling the world and suppressing human rebellions through centralized control of reproduction was fascinating and unique. The series ended with the stories of the main characters even though I was interested enough in the world to read more about it. The light novels were full of loose ends the author probably abandoned but could still lead to cool stuff. But the fandom was still focused on the characters or porn I didn't care to read more about. >Original Work (6) >Real Person Fiction (2) Was used as a secondary tag in crossovers. There's really only on fic that's RPF (Richard Stallman). Ao3 just mangled the buck breaking meme as RPF for some reason even though every character in it is fictional.

>Left 4 Dead (Video Games) (1) Was used as a secondary tag with Original Work (about COVID-19). >Helltaker (Video Game) (1) Some dude who may or may not be magic goes to Hell to flirt with demon girls and take them back to his place. Blatant set up for harem fanfics. I thought this game was just simple without being ambitious. But I was able to come up with a plot past the ending. >Warframe (1) Don't actually like this game much. The player is a space ninja that awakens from cryostasis after the most influential multi-planetary empire in the Solar System (The Orokin Empire) collapses. The four factions that fill the power vaccuum are the Tenno (players), the Corpus (a giant corporation), the Grineer (former clone slaves), and the Infested (mutagenic disease with a hivemind). Was used for the Richard Stallman fic to parody the F2P game mechanics. >Guilty Gear (1) Not a series I experienced the whole story to. From what I can tell, science invented magic, so most scientists or people with a STEM background (Dr Faust) are also magic. The US blew up Japan again but with something bigger than a nuke. There are creatures that could be anything from a mythical beast to a humanoid called the Gears that are also magic and have superhuman regeneration. The one fic I wrote was a what-if scenario branched off one of the character campaigns in Accent Core plus R. If I had a writing hobby sooner, the list of games I'd have written fanfiction for would've been completely different like Dragon's Dogma, Divinity, or other RPGs.

>>146 >Guilty Gear >From what I can tell, science invented magic Science found a extra-dimensional space of pure information that could be manipulated to cause changes in physical reality,some irish madlad decided that it would be pretty cool to rig up an automated system that handled to calculations to regularly rigg physics in small intervals to make things easier on humans. The System decided that due to (((modern life))) people weren't actually existing in enough of a state of self determination to be counted as humans so it decided it would nuke all electronics and purify the world of people so that the true humanity could be born. No one believed the irish madlad when he tried to warn people about it so he got his understudies to create a huge bunch of predetermined utility spells so that people wouldn't be stuck in the stone age before diving into the information-dimension to attempt to get the thing to stop. Didn't really work out too well,scientific research is regulated at best and banned at worst in every country except one because the understudies (minus one) took the wrong lesson from all this and decided to form an illuminati to prevent this shit happening again. People expanded on the tome'o'utility to come up with replacements for all the digital infrastructure they had and that's the state of the world as we come in to it.Most of the STEM people(that aren't thousands of years old(Sol,That Man) are actually magicians disguised as scientists,all phones are commnication spells etc. Oh and gears are bioweapons that got created because governments had funded the outlier understudy's research in exchange for developing them,they are made out of antimatter and instinctively tap into the Information Dimension,hence the various magic species.