Hmm, nope. This is rad and I'm proud of my past self 😇
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I hope none of you dig up old fanfictions you wrote as a young teen
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Hmm, nope. This is rad and I'm proud of my past self 😇
I used to write fanfics for a MMO known as Dragon Nest. I like to think it was decent enough, precisely because I was specifically avoiding really cringe stuff. It had a slight focus on world building because it was explicitly about my cast of characters doing their own thing and interacting with the game's cast of NPCs, while following the game's plot as the actual player characters did their things offscreen.
I never finished it because I felt like I was actively regressing over time. Especially when I made the mistake of making a second fanfic series featuring my guild later on.
I would link it here, except it all got tossed into the void when Nexon lost the rights to host the NA version of the game and the forums were deleted.
I never finished it because I felt like I was actively regressing over time. Especially when I made the mistake of making a second fanfic series featuring my guild later on.
I would link it here, except it all got tossed into the void when Nexon lost the rights to host the NA version of the game and the forums were deleted.
I wrote and drew fanfic comics of my own Pokemon trainer when I was 8-9.
I don't think a page survived me turning 10 lol.
I don't think a page survived me turning 10 lol.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII fic......... how the time flies. tho tbf I cringe rereading the stuff I wrote yesterday lmao
This is cool. I like how the Samus vs Ridley fight mimics Gandalf vs the Balrog.
The ending is …
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While not fanfiction I often look back on old art I did and have saved most of my art that I've done my whole life. It's humbling and I think it's a good way to understand who you were and who you are.
While a lot of old stuff is embarassing I'm also often impressed by the types of ideas I had and had forgotten considering what I was going through in most instances (also, free ideas! I've totally stolen ideas from my younger self. Unrestrained creativity is hard to obtain once your older). And then I have to think, is it really cringy? I'm an old man judging a depressed 12 year old who's just trying to find a way to express themself. That's probably more cringy? Be nicer to yourself you were probably really talented.
While a lot of old stuff is embarassing I'm also often impressed by the types of ideas I had and had forgotten considering what I was going through in most instances (also, free ideas! I've totally stolen ideas from my younger self. Unrestrained creativity is hard to obtain once your older). And then I have to think, is it really cringy? I'm an old man judging a depressed 12 year old who's just trying to find a way to express themself. That's probably more cringy? Be nicer to yourself you were probably really talented.
Please tell me the main character was an absolute chad, and after going "no, legendaries are too cheap", he rolls up with Wobbufet/Skarmory/Blissey.
not a bad idea for a real game tbh
The "gym leaders" are just criminals who are using pokemon for nefarious purposes and beating them convinces that they shouldn't somehow.
Your job is to catch em all and transfer them from the real world back to the pokemon universe.
The map is basically just earth where you visit key countries, large scale game.
You meet other likeminded people throughout to battle and train with and they're all trying to do the same as you. The team rocket group is trying to get more from that universe. Your rival wants to rescue the Pokemon and be the hero but he's focused on his ego or something and not because it's right.
There are many professors, and they are....actual professors and scientists from the real world trying to solve the phenomenon. And they're quoting pokemon games from all years to learn more. Meta shit.
On our first date my partner told me about the fanfic her and friends wrote about their favourite boyband when they were teens and that it still existed on the net.
For their birthday a couple of years back I recorded myself narrating the whole fanfic and they were equal parts mortified and astounded I would commit to the bit.
For their birthday a couple of years back I recorded myself narrating the whole fanfic and they were equal parts mortified and astounded I would commit to the bit.
I didn't just write fanfiction as a teenager, I submitted it in middle school for creative writing class and got As for that shit.
It's very funny to look at in retrospect, though.
It's very funny to look at in retrospect, though.
Mine was a poem about Final Fantasy Tactics, and my god... I tried for years to get that wiped after I was trying for an actual writing career.
It may be gone now... I'm not even going to search to look.
It may be gone now... I'm not even going to search to look.
I just found an old notebook where I tried to make a pen and paper RPG based on the robot masters of Mega Man 1-3.
I think it's time to burn that one now.
I think it's time to burn that one now.
I wrote a whole series of Animorphs fanfictions when I was in middle school. I even drew covers and flip books in the corner. I don't have any of them because they're all physical and that's a good thing I'm sure.
Also I hope you never discover your LiveJournal that you had 20 years ago and realize that LiveJournal was taken over by the Kremlin 10+ years ago, and it has your fuckin proper name on it and you desperately need to get rid of it. But the email you used for it legitimately does not exist anymore and LiveJournal gives you no option for recovering it in any way.
Hope that never happens to any of you.
Hope that never happens to any of you.
But if it does... I was actually able to get my account back and erase *everything* ... and the way I did it was insane, but I legitimately shared my photo ID with the customer help line and also offered to pay them in crypto for my account if they could get it back. Whatever person in Russia that handles that did me a solid and at like 12:30am one night I got an automated email with a link that I could recover my password, about 1-2 mos after I was desperate trying to get it back. And... I was able to get the account back, remove everything, delete everything, deactivate it, request deletion...
I am so glad that the internet wasn't a big thing when I was a teen, and that I didn't get it until college, so none of my terrible decisions from that era ended up preserved on the internet.
They're still up and I still occasionally write fanfiction. We all go through a cringe stage, why fight it?
All my fanfiction is on the old family computer at my parent's house which I'm pretty sure doesn't even work anymore.
My cringe is sealed away.
My cringe is sealed away.
My FFX songfic and that one fic where my best friend and I were sailor scouts but also sent to fuedal Japan to hang out with Inuyasha are excellent talking points. Why would I ever wipe those masterpieces from the internet?
That said I am very glad social media wasn't really a thing until high school, and also that my mom drilled in internet safety so I didn't tie my accounts to my real name.
That said I am very glad social media wasn't really a thing until high school, and also that my mom drilled in internet safety so I didn't tie my accounts to my real name.
I wrote a Matrix porn parody once called "The Mattress". I should look it up to see how it holds up, haven't read it in a while
I still get email updates that people have liked mine. It could be bots but it's a fuzzy feeling. Helps my shit holds up *looks nervously*
I never did any fan fiction but I remember sending in video game reviews/news to my local newspapers when I was 15 or so in an attempt to start a video game column. I'm sure a combination of my shitty writing plus it being too early for the general media to be interested in that were some reasons why I never heard back.
At 10-11 I once started writing a Star Wars theatre play. I'm pretty certain back then I had never seen a play, ever, so I really have no idea what compelled me to it. It was about Luke's girl neighbour who would be in love with him, following him in every step of his adventures and having adventures on her own.
Why did I even thought of that? No idea.
Did I ever show it to someone? No, but I did carry it with me in my school notebook,a teacher saw me hiding it then took a look at a random page of it. She then looked at me both confused and disappointed at the same time.
Am I glad there's no single word of it left, having just written it with pen and paper? Oh boy how glad I am.
Why did I even thought of that? No idea.
Did I ever show it to someone? No, but I did carry it with me in my school notebook,a teacher saw me hiding it then took a look at a random page of it. She then looked at me both confused and disappointed at the same time.
Am I glad there's no single word of it left, having just written it with pen and paper? Oh boy how glad I am.
I wrote a couple of Star Trek stories, one of which featured characters based off people I knew in RL. I still have them but would never read them now. In some ways though I look back at non-creative things I wrote back in my 20s and they seem better than what I can do now in my late 40s. I don't know if it's just the effects of age or the fact that I was much closer to my college years at the time. They were a lot more eloquent and professional in style.
never wrote a fanfic but stuff i wrote in my teens and even up to my late 20s is pretty embarrassing. i have it all on a thumb drive and i'm seriously thinking about just letting it collect dust instead of preservation
that said i wish i stuck with it, probably could've churned out some decent manuscripts in my 30s onward with practice
that said i wish i stuck with it, probably could've churned out some decent manuscripts in my 30s onward with practice
I never wrote fanfiction but I did create it in my head. I basically combined Final Fantasy VIII and DragonballZ. Balamb Garden was still a military school but one that trained saiyans.
