I remember when authors would interact with characters in the authors notes
2026-11-04 15:06:55
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Valya :
S.E. Hinton wrote fanfiction for her own book (The Outsiders) under a different pen name and still said she didn't own the charactersn😭
2026-11-04 17:23:32
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Cake 🎂 :
Remember when all those Abridged Series people on YouTube had to start each episode with "The following is a fan-based parody, please support the official release," lol
2026-11-04 16:51:27
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Crimsonhope :
They don't even know the citrus scale😥
2026-11-04 17:12:17
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photosinensis :
Wait, people don’t still do that? Man, I’m old.
2026-11-04 16:27:04
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leaf sheep :
anne rice was a world war in terms of fanfic eco system
2026-11-04 16:43:02
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Controll3dKaos2.0 :
I put that disclaimer right in the summary for all to see 😂
2026-11-04 22:15:58
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Bluemegz85 :
I remember when all RPF was removed from ff.net because of legal & moral issues about writing about a real person. There was even cease and desist orders for these types of fics. I started seeing them again the last few years, which I found odd since I thought everyone was still scared of writing those types of fics.
2026-11-04 21:35:47
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anonymous :
I still do it, she traumatized me YOUNG. That woman haunted every corner of the early internet
2026-11-04 15:01:39
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Austin Barnhart :
this brings me back to the time when people still thought JK Rowling was a defender of the oppressed because she was like the anti-Anne Rice back then
2026-11-04 17:42:43
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LeahD :
(I can’t believe I’m about to say this but) that disclaimer was so big of a thing that as a middle schooler in the early 2000s I wrote a fanfic for a class assignment and wrote it at the top of the page. I didn’t even know why people did it, had no idea who Anne Rice was, it was just THAT normal
2026-11-04 16:30:31
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Sournaut💫🧇 :
I used to do that when I was like 10-13 but for the past few years I've just been putting "(series name) fic" at the top with the title to make it clear that they aren't mine.
2026-11-04 21:38:42
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Cactus 🌵 :
I wasn’t around when it was common for us to put that in the notes. I still do it. I picked it up from my mom who was writing fics at the time. Honestly I still do it
2026-11-04 17:12:13
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Athene Noctua :
I do it out of reflex😂
2026-11-04 22:13:14
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Tiffany💚🧡 :
I remember when I started writing fics in 2017 at the age of 13, I didn't know why we added the "Disclaimer: All rights to the OG author" but I did it. I heard horrible tales about laws and I was hella scared of getting sued for my fic[Freudentränen]
2026-11-04 15:19:30
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Emily :
I was (very small) part of the VC fic community. People went underground. We spoke in code. I’m not kidding.
2026-11-04 15:38:09
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Al :
it took me until about 2018 to stop writing disclaimers and I'd been an a03 user since 2011 which, a huge part of the migration there was the protections they offer
2026-11-04 15:52:14
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Napalm Frog :
i remember how suddenly Interview with the vampire fics that haddend seen the light of day for decades were flooding the internet after she died
2026-11-04 21:58:39
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NorthernAurora🇧🇻 :
I remember when authors would have little dialogues with the characters in the notes before the chapter. Usually threatening them
2026-11-04 16:27:51
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Spiceepirate :
Eco systems collapse when the apex predator dies out 😞
2026-11-04 17:29:07
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Stewie242 :
the fact that people still think that they own fan fiction is crazy. I get the concept that your wrote it but you did it using other people characters, world and power system (if applicable).
2026-11-04 17:30:03
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HestiaJeanisReading :
sometimes I still look for the disclaimers 😅
2026-11-04 15:51:23
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inez :
fighting for my life against these cannon puritains
2026-11-04 16:41:14
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Ink :
I’ve been writing fanfic since 2003. I still put in a disclaimer just in case cuz of the trauma.
2026-11-04 16:29:01
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