If you are a "Sherlock" fan, not unlike myself, it is likely that you have come across a decent number of fanfictions where Sherlock is meant to be asexual. ...

If you’re over twenty years old and in fandom, you probably haven’t heard of “Social Media AUs.” If you’re a teenager or young adult whose primary fandom eng...

Cry. That's it. That's all you can do. Okay, I'm being dramatic, but there's really little you can do when you reach the end of a work in progress. If you're...

I really hope this wasn't just a thing within the 1D fandom because I really want to laugh with someone about the time around 2013 when every new fanfiction w...

I used to love AO3's tagging system more than anything. It's still a great feature, but not something I use as often anymore. I've noticed over my time readi...

I've been recording and listening to podfics for, what, nearly four years now? So I have a vested interest in more people learning about them. But podfics ar...

UPDATED July 20, 2019 Even before I launched FANFICED, I debated on whether I would be accepting guest posts for the blog and, if so, what kinds of posts. I'...

A trope that tends to be found in multiple fandoms I've come across is the soulmate fic. While there are many different kinds of soulmate fics, they do tend ...

Is there anything better than Archive Of Our Own's search function? There probably is, but I refuse to acknowledge it. AO3's Work Search page is probably my ...

Last July, amidst boredom and an increased amount of reading, I realized that I had no real way to know how much I'd really been reading. So I started tracki...

Over the time I've been interested in fanfiction, I've read thousands of them, and keeping those thousands of fanfics organized when I download them all isn'...

Well, that's a great question. The short answer is: a blog about fanfiction. The long answer is the same as the short answer, but with a bit more backstory. ...