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Books & Literature
Harry Potter
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
The wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling, featuring Harry Potter and his adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Twilight
Twilight Series
Bella Swan falls in love with vampire Edward Cullen in Forks, Washington.
Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy Jackson discovers he's a demigod and goes on quests to save the world from ancient Greek threats.
Les Mis
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo's novel of revolution and redemption, supercharged by the stage musical and 2012 film into one of AO3's great literary fandoms. The archive's center of gravity shifted decisively to the barricade boys: Enjolras/Grantaire — the believer and the cynic who dies holding his hand — became a megaship sustaining thousands of modern AUs where Les Amis survive as university activists, baristas and artists. Valjean and Javert's quarter-century pursuit anchors the classic side, with brick-faithful fic prized for its Hugo pastiche digressions.
LOTR
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
The epic quest to destroy the One Ring and defeat Sauron in Middle-earth.
Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen volunteers for the deadly Hunger Games in dystopian Panem.
Warrior Cats
Warriors - Erin Hunter
Clans of wild cats living in the forest with their own code and traditions.
AFTG
All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
Neil Josten joins the Foxes Exy team while running from his past.
Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology
The oldest source material on the archive: gods, heroes and monsters of ancient Greek religion and epic, written and rewritten for three thousand years and counting. AO3's mythology fandom is dominated by Hades/Persephone retellings in every conceivable register — dark romance, domestic comedy, feminist reclamation — alongside Apollo's doomed lovers, Artemis's hunt, and Trojan War fic that argues with Homer directly. The umbrella overlaps with Lore Olympus, Epic and Song of Achilles readers, making it a perpetual crossroads of myth-retelling culture.
ACOTAR
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
Feyre's journey through the fae world, featuring romance, war, and political intrigue.
Six of Crows
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker leads a crew on an impossible heist.
Throne of Glass
Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
Assassin Celaena Sardothien competes to become the King's Champion.
Heartstopper
Heartstopper - Alice Oseman
Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson's sweet romance at an English grammar school.
The Cruel Prince
The Folk of the Air - Holly Black
Mortal Jude navigates the treacherous world of Faerie and its cruel prince.
RWRB
Red White & Royal Blue
The First Son of the United States falls for the Prince of Wales.
Raven Cycle
The Raven Cycle
Maggie Stiefvater's quartet about Blue Sargent and four Aglionby boys hunting a dead Welsh king through magical small-town Virginia. The fandom's soul is Pynch — dreamer Ronan Lynch and magician Adam Parrish — whose canon romance spawned an archive of Barns domesticity, dream-thing whimsy, and prickly boys learning tenderness. Gansey's borrowed time, Blue's curse, Cabeswater's sentience and 300 Fox Way's psychic household give writers an aesthetic vocabulary few fandoms match.
Discworld
Discworld
Terry Pratchett's forty-one-novel comic fantasy of a flat world on four elephants on a turtle, where satire and humanism share every page. Its AO3 fandom reflects the series' breadth: Ankh-Morpork City Watch casefic starring Sam Vimes's furious decency, witches fic with Granny Weatherwax and Tiffany Aching, DEATH speaking in small caps through other fandoms entirely, and Vetinari court intrigue. Good Omens readers crossing over keep the fandom growing, and pastiche of Pratchett's footnoted narration is its own admired craft.
Grishaverse
Grishaverse / Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo's world of Grisha magic spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the beloved Six of Crows duology, fused together by Netflix's adaptation. While the Crows have their own dedicated archive, Grishaverse-wide fic thrives on Darkling discourse — the fandom's eternal villain-romance argument — Alina's power and choices rewritten down every path, and Nikolai Lantsov's privateer charm. The show's cancellation turned fic into the franchise's ongoing home, with season-three-that-never-was stories a genre unto themselves.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
The original consulting detective of Conan Doyle's stories, whose Victorian canon has been continuously fanficced for over a century — the Sherlockian 'Great Game' is arguably fandom's oldest tradition. ACD-canon fic on AO3 is distinct from the BBC fandom: gaslit Baker Street casefic in Watson's narrative voice, post-Reichenbach grief and reunion, retirement beekeeping in Sussex, and Holmes/Watson romance written against period constraint. Pastiche craftsmanship is prized here; many fics are indistinguishable from Strand Magazine originals until the kissing.
Captive Prince
Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
Prince Damianos is enslaved and sent to a rival nation as a pleasure slave.
Carry On
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell
Simon Snow, the Chosen One, and his vampire roommate Baz at Watford School of Magicks.
Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis's wardrobe-portal classic about the Pevensie children crowned kings and queens of a land they can never keep. Fanfic gravitates to the aches Lewis left unexamined: the Golden Age's fifteen adult years erased by a lamppost, Susan's exile from the friends of Narnia, and Edmund's quiet penance. Problem-of-Susan fic is practically its own literary movement, while Golden Age courtly intrigue and post-Last-Battle reunions round out an archive that takes the books' theology seriously enough to argue with it.
Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller's novel retelling the Iliad through Patroclus's eyes turned an ancient romance into a modern fandom touchstone. Its fic is an extended act of grief management: everyone-lives AUs where Troy never calls, modern university retellings, reincarnation fic granting the lovers another life, and underworld reunions that extend the book's final mercy. The fandom overlaps heavily with broader Greek-myth writing but keeps Miller's particular register — figs, olive groves, and devotion narrated in elegy.
Locked Tomb
The Locked Tomb
Tamsyn Muir's lesbian-necromancers-in-space series, beginning with Gideon the Ninth, where memes, swordplay and soul-consumption coexist in a haunted empire. The fandom writes Gideon and Harrow's bone-deep codependency through every lens canon provides — death, lyctorhood, body-sharing, resurrection — plus John Gaius discourse, Sixth House academia comedy, and Camilla/Palamedes devotion that survives literal fusion. Tonally it is unique on AO3: shitpost humor and apocalyptic grief in the same fic, exactly like the source.
Cosmere
Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson's interconnected universe spans Mistborn's ash-choked heists and The Stormlight Archive's storm-wracked epic of broken oaths. Stormlight provides the fandom's core: Kaladin-centric fic exploring depression with the books' own care, Shallan's fractured selves, Bridge Four found-family pieces, and the long-running Kaladin shipping wars canon enjoys teasing. Mistborn-side fic loves Wax and Wayne banter and Vin/Elend court intrigue, while dedicated worldhoppers write the crossovers Sanderson only hints at.
Fourth Wing
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros's romantasy blockbuster throws brittle-boned Violet Sorrengail into a war college where dragon riders are forged or killed. The fandom is young, fast-growing, and centered squarely on Violet and Xaden Riorson's secrets-and-shadows romance, with fic filling the gaps between books: Basgiath training scenes, dragon banter from Tairn and Andarna, and alternate outcomes for the revelations each cliffhanger drops. BookTok energy carries into the archive — tropes are named, savored, and delivered with maximum tension.
Pride & Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Austen's 1813 novel of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy remains the template for half of romance fandom's favorite tropes, and its own fic scene is thriving two centuries on. Variations are the signature form — what if Darcy's first proposal succeeded, what if Elizabeth visited Pemberley earlier, what if the Gardiners never came — alongside modern AUs and Mary Bennet redemption arcs. The fandom prizes period voice and epistolary craft, and overlaps with a robust published-novel variation industry.
Murderbot
The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells's novella series about a self-hacked security android that would rather watch serials than deal with humans, and keeps saving them anyway. The fandom honors Murderbot's canonical asexuality and touch-aversion, making this a rare archive centered on platonic intimacy: fic about ART, the colossally smug research transport, and Murderbot's prickly bond with the Preservation humans vastly outnumbers romance. Mission casefic in Wells's dry first-person voice and 'Murderbot is reluctantly cared for' comfort fic are the signature genres.
Aristotle and Dante
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz's tender YA novel about two Mexican-American boys in 1980s El Paso slowly discovering each other and themselves. The fandom is small but devoted, writing in the book's hushed, interior voice: truck-bed stargazing, desert rainstorms, letters between Ari and Dante during separations, and futures that carry them through college and adulthood together. Coming-out fic and family-acceptance stories dominate, reflecting the novel's gentle handling of identity and its rare portrait of supportive parents.
Movies
MCU
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring the Avengers, Spider-Man, and countless heroes across interconnected films and TV series.
Star Wars
Star Wars
The iconic space opera franchise spanning movies, TV shows, and more, set in a galaxy far, far away.
Frozen
Frozen
Disney's snow-queen phenomenon about sisters Elsa and Anna remains one of animated fandom's largest archives, sustained well past both films. Sister-bond fic is the foundation — childhood reconciliations, post-coronation healing, the locked-door years finally talked through — alongside Kristoff/Anna domesticity and a vast Elsa-centric literature exploring her powers, isolation, and (in much modern fic) her queerness. Crossover culture is huge here, with the Rise of the Guardians Jelsa pairing a long-standing institution.
IT
IT (2017)
Andy Muschietti's two-part adaptation of Stephen King's novel turned the Losers Club into one of late-2010s fandom's biggest ensembles. Chapter Two's revelation about Richie Tozier's repressed love for Eddie Kaspbrak detonated the Reddie phenomenon: thousands of fics where Eddie survives Neibolt, Richie comes out, and forty-something disasters finally get their childhood feelings right. Everyone-lives fix-its, Derry summer nostalgia, and adult Losers reconnection fic define an archive far more romantic than its horror source.
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean
Disney's swashbuckling franchise launched a thousand ships in every sense, with Captain Jack Sparrow's ambiguous charm at the center of an enduring fanfic fleet. The classic trio's entanglements — Jack/Elizabeth's dangerous fascination, Will and Elizabeth's separated marriage, Sparrington's naval-officer antagonism — share the archive with Davy Jones lore and curse-of-the-Dutchman fix-its. Modern fic still returns to the golden first film's energy: rum, leverage, double-crosses, and freedom as the horizon.
HTTYD
How to Train Your Dragon
DreamWorks' trilogy about Hiccup, the Viking misfit who befriends the dragon he was supposed to kill, built one of animation fandom's most durable archives. Hiccup and Toothless's bond fuels boy-and-his-dragon fic of every register, Hiccstrid romance spans the films' decade of growing up, and an entire AU industry explores what-ifs: Hiccup leaving Berk, joining the dragons, or never shooting Toothless down at all. The Hidden World's separation ending keeps fix-it writers permanently employed.
Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli
Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata's animation house gave fandom some of its most beloved gentle worlds, from Spirited Away's bathhouse to Howl's moving castle. On AO3, Howl/Sophie carries the largest share — boosted by Diana Wynne Jones's source novel — followed by Haku and Chihiro reunion fic that finishes the promise Spirited Away left open. Ghibli fic tends to inherit the films' textures: domestic magic, quiet courage, meals lovingly described, and wars observed from the ground.
Top Gun
Top Gun: Maverick
The 2022 sequel sent Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell back to teach an elite class of naval aviators, and sent fandom into a frenzy over Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw and Jake 'Hangman' Seresin. Icemav — Maverick and Iceman's thirty-six-year rivalry-turned-partnership — anchors the legacy side, while Hangster's cocky antagonism became the new fandom's engine. Fic runs on aviator bravado cracking open: beach football aftermaths, Goose's long shadow, call-sign banter, and the dagger squad as one insufferable family.
Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim
Guillermo del Toro's kaiju epic built fandom's perfect machine: drift compatibility, a canon mechanic where two pilots share one mind to fight giant monsters. AO3 writers took the drift and ran — it powers soulmate-adjacent intimacy in Raleigh/Chuck and the enormously popular Newt/Hermann science-rivals pairing, whose bickering canon drift made them one of the 2010s' defining nerd ships. Shatterdome ensemble fic, Mako Mori character studies, and AU drifts in every other fandom's setting are the lasting legacy.
James Bond
James Bond (Craig Era)
Daniel Craig's run as 007 gave the venerable spy franchise an AO3 fandom of its own, almost entirely thanks to Skyfall's introduction of Ben Whishaw's young Quartermaster. Bond/Q — 00Q — dominates the archive: the field agent who destroys equipment and the genius who builds it, written through mission comms flirtation, post-mission patch-ups, and domesticity that canon would never allow a double-O. Vesper's ghost, M's maternal steel, and tailored-suit competence kink are recurring fixtures.
Encanto
Encanto
Disney's Colombian family musical about Mirabel, the only Madrigal without a magical gift, holding her cracking family together. The fandom writes almost no romance and an ocean of family repair: Bruno's reintegration after years in the walls, Isabela and Mirabel's mended rivalry, Luisa allowed to rest, and Abuela Alma's generational trauma examined with surprising rigor. Post-canon fic about the rebuilt Casita learning healthier patterns is the archive's heart, often tagged with therapy the Madrigals collectively need.
Dune
Dune
Denis Villeneuve's adaptations of Frank Herbert's epic reignited a literary fandom around Paul Atreides, the Fremen, and the terrible mathematics of prophecy. Film-era fic centers Paul/Chani's doomed sincerity against the Irulan marriage, Feyd-Rautha's magnetic brutality (and a startling volume of Feyd/reader work), and Jessica's transformation into Reverend Mother. Writers play in Herbert's gaps: Harkonnen court intrigue, golden-path alternates where Paul refuses the jihad, and Arrakis worldbuilding rendered with sand-grain care.
TV Shows
Supernatural
Supernatural
The long-running CW series following brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they hunt demons, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures.
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf
Scott McCall becomes a werewolf and must protect his town from supernatural threats.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
The time-traveling adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord exploring the universe in the TARDIS.
Sherlock BBC
Sherlock (TV)
BBC's modern adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes.
Star Trek
Star Trek
Gene Roddenberry's starfaring universe is where media fanfiction as we know it began — Kirk/Spock zines in the 1960s coined the term 'slash.' Today the AO3 umbrella spans the Original Series and its films, the Kelvin reboot's enormous K/S boom, Picard-era Next Generation fic, Deep Space Nine's Garak/Bashir literary tradition, and new-series fandoms for Discovery and Strange New Worlds. Across every era the throughlines hold: five-year-mission episodic adventure, alien cultural negotiation, and devotion between officers written with half a century of craft behind it.
Merlin BBC
Merlin (TV)
The BBC series reimagining the legend of Merlin and Arthur as young men in Camelot.
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
Noble families vie for control of the Iron Throne in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
Good Omens
Good Omens
Based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, following an angel and demon who team up to prevent the apocalypse.
Hannibal
Hannibal (TV)
The dark relationship between FBI profiler Will Graham and psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter.
House
House MD
Medical drama following the brilliant but abrasive Dr. Gregory House and his diagnostic team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit profiling and catching serial killers.
9-1-1
9-1-1 (TV)
Procedural drama following the lives of Los Angeles first responders including firefighters, paramedics, and police officers.
The 100
The 100 (TV)
100 juvenile delinquents sent to Earth to see if it's survivable after nuclear apocalypse.
Buffy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon's genre-defining series about Buffy Summers, the chosen Slayer balancing apocalypses with growing up in Sunnydale. One of fanfiction's foundational fandoms, its archive culture predates AO3 itself, and it still produces steady Spike/Buffy ('Spuffy') epics, Giles-centric watcher fic, and Willow/Tara stories that protect what canon destroyed. Season rewrites are a signature form here — entire alternate seasons six and seven exist many times over — alongside post-Chosen futures for the Scooby family.
Shadowhunters
Shadowhunters (TV) / The Mortal Instruments
Half-angel warriors fighting demons in the streets of New York.
Stranger Things
Stranger Things
Netflix's sci-fi horror series set in 1980s Hawkins, Indiana, where supernatural forces threaten a group of friends.
SPN RPF
Supernatural RPF
Real Person Fiction based on the actors and crew from the TV series Supernatural, focusing on their relationships and behind-the-scenes interactions.
OFMD
Our Flag Means Death
The comedic adventures of gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet and the infamous Blackbeard.
NCIS
NCIS
Naval Criminal Investigative Service solving crimes involving the Navy and Marines.
Stargate
Stargate
The military sci-fi franchise about a network of ancient alien gates, spanning SG-1's flagship team adventures and Atlantis's lost-city expedition. Its fanfic legacy is enormous: Jack/Daniel and the slow-burn ache of Sam Carter and Jack O'Neill's regulations-bound feelings define SG-1, while Atlantis's McKay/Sheppard became one of AO3's all-time juggernaut pairings, complete with a legendary AU culture. Team-as-family offworld missions, ancient-tech mishaps, and Earthside domesticity remain the fandom's bread and butter.
OUAT
Once Upon a Time
ABC's fairy-tale mashup strands storybook characters in Storybrooke, Maine, where the Evil Queen is the mayor and the Savior is a bail bondswoman. The fandom's twin engines are Captain Swan — Emma and Hook's canon pirate romance — and Swan Queen, the Emma/Regina pairing whose co-parenting subtext built one of femslash's largest bodies of work. Curse rewrites, Enchanted Forest AUs, and redemption arcs for every villain reflect a show that was always fanfiction-shaped to begin with.
Critical Role
Critical Role
The actual-play juggernaut in which a table of voice actors plays long-form Dungeons & Dragons, generating hundreds of hours of canon per campaign. Each campaign built its own fic culture: Vox Machina's family of misfits, the Mighty Nein's broken people healing each other — with Caleb/Essek's slow-burn wizardry among AO3's most-written D&D ships — and Bells Hells' identity crises. Improvised canon leaves abundant gaps, so missing scenes, alternate character builds, and post-campaign epilogues pour out between episodes.
Sanders Sides
Sanders Sides
Thomas Sanders's YouTube series personifies facets of his own mind — Logic, Morality, Creativity, Anxiety and the 'dark sides' — debating his choices in costume. Fandom transformed a comedy web series into one of AO3's biggest original-flavored ship ecosystems: pairings like Logan/Patton and Virgil/Roman (the fandom names every combination) power human AUs, sympathetic-Janus redemption arcs, and endless explorations of self-acceptance allegory. Virgil's arc from villain to family made acceptance the fandom's defining theme, written with rare earnestness.
Torchwood
Torchwood
The Doctor Who spinoff following Captain Jack Harkness and his team defending Earth from aliens.
Glee
Glee
Ryan Murphy's show-choir melodrama defined early-2010s fandom, and its AO3 legacy is dominated by two megaships: Kurt/Blaine (Klaine) and Rachel/Quinn's enormous femslash following (Faberry), with Brittany/Santana close behind. Glee fic culture invented entire AU economies — Dalton boarding school epics, skank Quinn, badboy Blaine — and its songfic-adjacent traditions still echo through fandom at large. Writers return to fix the show's whiplash writing, giving its couples the consistent characterization canon never could.
Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries
The CW's Mystic Falls saga of the Salvatore brothers, Elena Gilbert, and the Original vampire family that spun off into its own empire. Fanfic here is a shipping battleground with a long memory: Damon/Elena and Stefan/Elena partisans, the enormous Klaus/Caroline contingent writing the redemption romance canon teased, and Bonnie Bennett fic that gives the franchise's most mistreated witch the centrality she deserved. Human AUs, doppelganger lore rewrites, and Originals-era family drama keep the archive churning.
Magnus Archives
The Magnus Archives
Rusty Quill's horror podcast about Jonathan Sims, head archivist of an institute that collects statements of supernatural encounters — and the dread powers those statements feed. One of AO3's biggest podcast fandoms ever, its fic culture orbits Jon and Martin's apocalypse-spanning love story (Jonmartin), statement-format experimental fic, and endless safehouse-in-Scotland domesticity carved out of season five's despair. The Entities' fear taxonomy gives writers a horror toolkit no other fandom has, and they use it on the archive staff relentlessly.
The Witcher
The Witcher
Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter, navigates a world of magic, politics, and destiny.
X-Files
The X-Files
Chris Carter's paranormal procedural paired believer Fox Mulder with skeptic Dana Scully and accidentally invented modern shipping — the word itself comes from this fandom. Decades on, AO3's X-Files corner remains a temple to MSR (Mulder/Scully Romance), filled with casefile fic that recreates the show's monster-of-the-week structure, missing scenes from nine seasons of charged glances, and revival-era fixes for William and the disastrous finale arcs. The fandom's literary standards are famously high, a legacy of its mailing-list era.
Brooklyn 99
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The precinct sitcom about Jake Peralta, Amy Santiago, and the world's most supportive weird workplace under Captain Raymond Holt's magnificent deadpan. Peraltiago fic flourished through every phase — bet dates, Florida exile, married parenthood — but the fandom's signature output is found-family warmth: Holt and Jake's father-son arc, Rosa's guarded softness, the squad rallying around any member in crisis. Halloween-heist fic is practically a recurring fandom holiday.
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul
Vince Gilligan's Albuquerque crime saga of Walter White's corrosion and, in its prequel, Jimmy McGill's long slide into Saul Goodman. The fanfic fandom found its largest engine in Better Call Saul: Kim Wexler fic and the colossal Lalo/Nacho pairing that grew from a handful of charged scenes into one of AO3's notable rarepair-turned-juggernaut stories. Breaking Bad-side fic centers Jesse Pinkman's salvation — El Camino alternates, Jesse-leaves-earlier AUs, and endless reckonings with what Walt did to him.
Leverage
Leverage
A team of thieves and con artists who use their skills to help people wronged by the powerful.
Lucifer
Lucifer
The devil retires to Los Angeles, opens a nightclub, and consults for the LAPD — and falls catastrophically in love with Detective Chloe Decker. Deckerstar drives the fandom, with six seasons of therapy-laced will-they-won't-they providing fic writers endless missing scenes, celestial-reveal aftermaths, and post-finale fixes for that divisive ending. Around the central romance sits a warm ensemble fandom: Lucifer and Trixie's reluctant friendship, Maze's demon-learns-feelings arc, and the celestial family's eternal dysfunction.
Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy
Netflix's adaptation of Gerard Way's comics about seven super-powered adoptees reuniting after their abusive billionaire father's death — and promptly causing several apocalypses. The fanfic fandom is overwhelmingly family-first: sibling-bonding fic, Klaus sobriety arcs, Five's old-man-in-a-teenager tragedy, and fix-its for every timeline the Hargreeves break. Ben's ghosthood and resurrection variants give writers grief material in every direction, and time travel makes any era — the Academy childhood, 1960s Dallas — fair game.
White Collar
White Collar
A con artist helps the FBI solve white collar crimes in exchange for freedom.
Schitt's Creek
Schitt's Creek
Dan Levy's comedy about the bankrupted Rose family rebuilding their lives in the small town they once bought as a joke. Its fanfic scene revolves almost entirely around David Rose and Patrick Brewer, whose anxiety-free queer love story made the fandom a haven for gentle fic: first-kiss retellings, Rose Apothecary domesticity, wedding and baby futures, and AUs that find David and Patrick in every possible timeline. The tone is overwhelmingly warm — this is a fandom that writes comfort with very little hurt.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso
Apple TV's earnest comedy about an American football coach managing an English Premier League club armed with nothing but biscuits and belief. The fandom's heart is Roy Kent and the people who soften him — Roy/Keeley and a substantial Roy/Jamie contingent built on the rivals' grudging mutual coaching — alongside Ted and Rebecca's will-they tension and Trent Crimm's delighted observation of it all. Richmond-as-family fic, panic-attack hurt/comfort, and locker-room banter pieces define the archive's mix of softness and profanity.
WWDITS
What We Do in the Shadows
The mockumentary about four vampire roommates on Staten Island and Guillermo, the familiar who has spent over a decade waiting to be turned. The fandom's center of gravity is Nandor/Guillermo, a slow burn so glacial and canon-teased that 'Nandermo' fic outpaced the show itself, exploring the master-familiar power imbalance with everything from crack comedy to genuine tenderness. Around it swirls the household's chaos: Laszlo and Nadja's centuries-strong marriage, Colin Robinson's energy-vampire absurdism, and heist-of-the-week ensemble pieces.
Interview with the Vampire
Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
AMC's acclaimed reimagining of Anne Rice's novel, in which Louis de Pointe du Lac retells his ruinous marriage to the vampire Lestat across a century of memory and unreliable narration. The fandom writes Loustat with the show's own operatic intensity — toxic devotion, the Paris trial's betrayals, and reconciliations earned in blood — alongside Claudia-centered fic that honors the daughter both fathers failed. Armand's manipulations and the Devil's Minion arc with Daniel Molloy give the archive its second obsession.
Night Vale
Welcome to Night Vale
The pioneering fiction podcast styled as community radio from a desert town where every conspiracy is true and the dog park is forbidden. Its fandom helped define podcast fic culture, centered on radio host Cecil Palmer's on-air adoration of Carlos the scientist — one of fandom's most beloved canon queer couples — and the gentle surrealism of writing daily life where helicopters have feelings and the Glow Cloud chairs the school board. Domestic fic that treats cosmic horror as a mundane backdrop is the signature genre.
Adventure Zone
The Adventure Zone
The McElroy family's actual-play podcast whose first campaign, Balance, accidentally became one of the decade's beloved genre stories — three goofs, a moon base, and a finale about love remembered. Fic lives overwhelmingly in Balance's world: Taako and Kravitz's death-and-the-chef romance, Lup and Barry's lich devotion, the Starblaster crew's century of found family, and post-Story-and-Song domesticity across the planar system. The fandom's art-and-fic culture famously built visual and narrative canon the audio never specified.
The Office
The Office (US)
The mockumentary sitcom about Dunder Mifflin Scranton, where Michael Scott's chaos frames one of television's most beloved slow burns: Jim and Pam. Fanfic lives in the documentary's gaps — what the cameras missed during the casino night confession, the Stamford months, the booze cruise — and in AUs that run the teapot-and-yogurt-lid romance through different timelines. A smaller but lively corner ships Michael/Holly's perfect weirdo love and explores Dwight's beet-farm gothic.
Peaky Blinders
Peaky Blinders
The BBC's interwar Birmingham gangster epic follows Tommy Shelby and his razor-capped family from backstreet bookmakers to political players. Fanfic skews heavily toward Tommy/reader and OC romances — the fandom has one of AO3's strongest reader-insert cultures — alongside Alfie Solomons/Tommy's negotiation-table chemistry and Shelby family ensemble pieces. Period texture matters here: writers lean into the war trauma under Tommy's stillness, Polly's matriarchal authority, and weddings that end in gunfire.
Wednesday
Wednesday
Netflix's Addams Family spinoff sends Wednesday Addams to Nevermore Academy, where psychic visions and a monster mystery interrupt her commitment to misanthropy. The fandom's defining pairing is Wednesday/Enid (Wenclair), the goth-and-rainbow roommates whose opposites-attract dynamic became one of recent femslash's biggest stories, with Wednesday/Xavier and Tyler darkfic as counterweights. Fic leans into Nevermore boarding-school texture, Enid's werewolf arc, and the comedy of Wednesday experiencing affection as a hostile phenomenon.
The Boys
The Boys
Amazon's superhero satire pits Billy Butcher's vigilante crew against Vought's monstrous celebrity supes, led by the unravelling Homelander. Fanfic splits between the human side — Butcher and Hughie's toxic mentorship sliding into the fandom's flagship Butcher/Hughie ship — and supe-side darkfic dissecting Homelander's milk-soaked pathology and Soldier Boy's era-displaced brutality. The show's cynicism gives fix-it writers plenty to soften: Annie and Hughie's sincerity, Kimiko and Frenchie's wordless bond, and rare glimpses of decency surviving Vought.
Sandman
The Sandman
Neil Gaiman's mythology of the Endless reached new audiences through Netflix's adaptation, following Dream of the Endless as he rebuilds his realm after a century imprisoned. The show's fandom explosion centered on Dream and Hob Gadling, the immortal everyman who keeps their centennial pub dates — Dreamling became one of AO3's fastest-growing ships, all immortal pining across six hundred years. Beyond it, fic explores the Endless siblings' family dynamics, the Corinthian's elegant menace, and Death's gentle appointments.
Succession
Succession
HBO's corporate tragedy about the Roy siblings clawing at their father's media empire and each other. Its fanfic fandom is small, literary, and gleefully damaged: Tom and Greg's transactional intimacy (Tomgreg) is the dominant ship, written with the show's own register of humiliation-as-flirtation, while Kendall-centric fic plumbs addiction, the boat, and the impossibility of Logan Roy's love. Character study is the house genre — these are fics about people who cannot say a sincere sentence, by writers who can.
The Bear
The Bear
FX's kitchen pressure-cooker about Carmy Berzatto, the fine-dining prodigy who inherits his dead brother's Chicago sandwich shop. Fandom attention concentrates ferociously on Carmy and Sydney's creative partnership — Sydcarmy fic ranges from strictly-professional yearning to full romance — alongside Richie's Forks-episode renaissance and grief fic for Mikey that hits as hard as the show does. Writers love the show's textures: family-meal domesticity, panic attacks in walk-ins, and love expressed exclusively through food.
Bridgerton
Bridgerton
Netflix's Regency romance phenomenon, adapted from Julia Quinn's novels, follows the eight Bridgerton siblings through London seasons of scandal and matchmaking. Each season hands fandom a new ship to elaborate: Daphne and Simon's ruse, Anthony and Kate's magnificent enemies-to-lovers, and the Polin wave around Penelope's Lady Whistledown double life. Fic fills the genre's natural gaps — extended courtships, married domesticity, and modern AUs that test whether these dynamics survive without the corsetry.
Outlander
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon's time-slip saga, and its Starz adaptation, follows WWII nurse Claire Randall through the standing stones to 1740s Scotland and Jamie Fraser. The fandom writes the marriage at the story's center with devotion — missing moments at Lallybroch, the twenty-year separation's ache, and alternate timelines where Culloden goes differently. Time-travel mechanics invite endless what-ifs, and fic about Brianna, Roger and the next generation extends the family saga past any single season.
Severance
Severance
Apple TV's eerie thriller about Lumon employees whose work and home memories are surgically split, creating innies who exist only on the severed floor. The fandom's fic wrestles with the show's central wound — what innies are owed, whether Mark's two selves can both love, what Helly R. is to Helena Eagan — and ships Mark/Helly alongside the gentle Irving/Burt romance of melon bars and Kier paintings. Reintegration scenarios and innie-liberation AUs are the archive's favorite thought experiments.
Music & Bands
BTS
BTS (Band)
The global K-pop phenomenon BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan), featuring seven members who have taken the world by storm.
One Direction
One Direction
The boy band that defined a fandom generation, and whose fanfiction culture reshaped publishing itself — After began as 1D fic. On AO3 the colossus is Larry Stylinson, Harry and Louis written through stadium tours, secret-relationship epics and every AU imaginable, with Ziam and OT5 friendship fic alongside. A decade past the hiatus, the fandom still produces canon-era nostalgia, solo-career crossover timelines, and some of RPF's most elaborate alternate universes: bakeries, universities, royalty, hybrids and beyond.
EXO
EXO
SM Entertainment's superpowered concept group became one of K-pop fandom's largest archives, with a fic culture that long rivaled BTS's. ChanBaek, KaiSoo and SeBaek lead a dense ship ecosystem, written through dorm-life domesticity, idol-verse pining behind cameras, and a signature genre of MAMA-era power AUs that take the lightning-and-teleportation lore seriously. Long-running canon — debut, the Chinese members' departures, military enlistments — gives writers a decade of eras to set stories in.
Stray Kids
Stray Kids (Band)
South Korean boy group formed by JYP Entertainment, known for their self-producing abilities and energetic performances.
NCT
NCT
SM's limitless rotational group — NCT 127, Dream, WayV and beyond — gives fandom more than twenty members and effectively infinite pairing combinations, which AO3 has accepted as a personal challenge. Markhyuck and Dream's chaotic sibling energy power the youth side, while Yutae, Johnjae and WayV's multilingual household fuel 127-era fic. The sheer roster size makes NCT a hub for unit-crossing ensemble fic, dorm comedy, and an unusually productive omegaverse and supernatural-AU scene.
Seventeen
Seventeen (Band)
South Korean boy group known for their self-producing abilities and synchronized performances, managed by Pledis Entertainment.
ATEEZ
ATEEZ (Band)
South Korean boy group known for their pirate-themed concept and powerful performances, formed by KQ Entertainment.
Football RPF
Football RPF
Global football's century of rivalries, transfers and teammate intimacy sustains one of AO3's largest sports archives. Eras layer atop each other: the classic Kakà/Cristiano and Messi/Ronaldo mythologies, Barcelona and Real Madrid golden-generation fic, the German national team's 2014 boom, and current waves around Bellingham-era Madrid and Arsenal's young core. Transfer-window angst is the fandom's signature engine — nothing generates fic like a beloved partnership sold to rival clubs — alongside international-tournament reunion stories every two summers.
MCR
My Chemical Romance
The theatrical emo legends whose 2000s fandom built bandom — the interconnected RPF scene spanning MCR, Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco. Frank/Gerard (Frerard) is the archive's titanic pairing, written through Warped Tour van eras, Black Parade theatrics, and the Danger Days desert. The 2019 reunion and subsequent tours revived a fandom that never fully left, and its fic retains bandom's signature flavors: unreliable timelines, stage-gay mythology, killjoy AUs, and vampires whenever the costumes justify it.
Hockey RPF
Hockey RPF
One of AO3's foundational RPF communities, built on the NHL's road-trip intimacy, billet families, and franchise-defining duos. Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin remains the fandom's monument — fifteen years of Pittsburgh devotion in fic form — alongside Tkachuk brothers chaos, Matthews/Marner in Toronto, and each season's breakout pairing. The genre conventions are distinct and beloved: trade angst, no-homo-but-actually locker rooms, retirement domesticity on lakes, and an omegaverse tradition so established it has its own classics.
Hamilton
Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop founding-fathers musical detonated across fandom in 2015 and built one of AO3's biggest theater archives. Fic writes the characters as the musical conceives them, not the historical men: Lams (Hamilton/Laurens) wartime letters and tragedy, Jefferson/Hamilton cabinet-battle antagonism, and an enormous modern-AU scene relocating the ensemble to law firms, universities and group chats. The Schuyler sisters, Burr's interiority, and Philip's death give the angst side its material; nonstop comedy covers the rest.
F1 RPF
Formula 1 RPF
Drive to Survive turned Formula 1's paddock into one of AO3's fastest-growing RPF fandoms, where twenty drivers and decades of archive footage feed an insatiable ship ecosystem. Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull years, Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly's karting childhood, and Lando Norris's streaming-era friendships anchor the modern grid, while Sebastian Vettel inspires reverent mentor fic. The sport supplies drama no writer could invent — title fights, team swaps, radio messages — and grid-as-found-family fic absorbs it all within the week.
ENHYPEN
ENHYPEN
The I-LAND survival show's seven survivors debuted with a vampire concept their record label has never let go of, and neither has their fanfic. ENGENEs write the lore seriously: Dark Moon-inspired vampire AUs, the members as immortals bound across timelines, and border-crossing fantasy that mirrors the group's concept albums. Ship-wise Heeseung/Jay and Sunoo-centric softness lead a flexible ecosystem, with survival-show-era fic about seventh-place anxiety and chosen brotherhood giving the archive its emotional grounding.
Heathers
Heathers: The Musical
The cult musical adaptation of the 1989 film, where Veronica Sawyer's escape from Westerburg High's clique runs through the murderous charm of J.D. Fanfic wrestles with the show's black heart: J.D. redemption-or-damnation fic, everyone-lives AUs where the bomb never ticks, and a thriving Chansaw contingent shipping Veronica with Heather Chandler, alive or as a haunting. The fandom blends musical and movie canon freely, and croquet-pastel aesthetics with body-count darkness give it a tone all its own.
Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber's gothic megamusical — and Gaston Leroux's source novel — about the disfigured genius haunting the Paris Opera and the soprano he tutors from the shadows. The fandom's eternal engine is Erik/Christine, debated and rewritten for decades: fics where she stays, where the mob never comes, where Raoul is dignified rather than discarded, and full novel-length retellings that blend Leroux, Kay and stage canon. Phellow phans bring a literary seriousness rare in musical fandoms, with period research worn proudly.
SIX
SIX: The Musical
The pop-concert musical that gives Henry VIII's six wives microphones and lets them compete over who suffered most before choosing solidarity. Fandom treats the queens as a found family sharing a house in the present day, generating an entire domestic-AU ecosystem: Aragon's matriarchal steadiness, Boleyn and Howard's cousin bond, Cleves's gloating wealth, and Parr writing everyone's feelings down. Howard-centric trauma-recovery fic is the archive's serious core, handled with notable care by a young fandom.
EPIC
EPIC: The Musical
Jorge Rivera-Herrans's TikTok-born concept-album musical retells the Odyssey across nine sagas, from Troy's ruthlessness lesson to the bloody homecoming. The animatic-driven fandom writes in the album's emotional peaks: Odysseus and Penelope's twenty-year fidelity, Athena and Odysseus's ruptured mentorship grieved through 'My Goodbye' and mended in 'We'll Be Fine,' and crew fic mourning the six hundred men the monster ate. Ruthlessness-versus-open-arms morality debates fuel the meta, while wholesome Telemachus-meets-his-father fic softens the body count.
Hadestown
Hadestown
Anaïs Mitchell's folk-opera retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice, where the underworld is a company town and the song might, this time, change the ending. Fanfic does exactly what the musical's narrator promises: sings it again, with turn-around-fix-its where Orpheus keeps walking the single largest genre. Hades and Persephone's weathered marriage repairing itself gives writers the show's other love story, and Fates-narrated experimental fic borrows the production's structure outright. Small fandom, high craft, recurring devastation.
Anime & Manga
Naruto
Naruto
The story of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja seeking recognition and dreaming of becoming the Hokage.
Haikyuu
Haikyuu!!
A high school volleyball team's journey to nationals, featuring intense matches and character growth.
My Hero Academia
Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
A world where most people have superpowers (Quirks), following Izuku Midoriya's journey to become a hero.
Hetalia
Hetalia: Axis Powers
Hidekaz Himaruya's webcomic-turned-anime that personifies the world's nations as bickering, affectionate characters living through centuries of history together. One of AO3's largest anime fandoms ever, Hetalia fic spans gag-comic fluff, sweeping historical epics where USUK or GerIta play out across world wars, and human AUs that drop the nations into coffee shops and universities. The fandom's signature is its sheer range: the same pairing can carry a 500-word joke or a hundred-thousand-word meditation on immortality and grief.
Attack on Titan
Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
The dark fantasy anime/manga where humanity fights for survival against giant humanoid creatures called Titans.
Yuri on Ice
Yuri!!! on Ice
Japanese figure skater Yuuri Katsuki's journey with his idol Victor Nikiforov as coach.
One Piece
One Piece
The adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew as they search for the legendary One Piece treasure.
Bleach
Bleach
Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a Soul Reaper and protects the living and dead from evil spirits.
Death Note
Death Note
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's psychological thriller about Light Yagami, a brilliant student who finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it, and L, the eccentric detective hunting him. The AO3 scene is dominated by Light/L (Lawlight), a cat-and-mouse dynamic that fic writers have stretched into everything from chained-together slow burns to full canon rewrites where L survives. Expect dense mind games, moral ambiguity, and a fandom that has been litigating who really won since 2006. Yotsuba-arc handcuff fics are practically their own genre.
JJK
Jujutsu Kaisen
Yuji Itadori becomes a vessel for a powerful curse and joins sorcerers fighting curses.
FMA
Fullmetal Alchemist
Two brothers use alchemy to search for the Philosopher's Stone after a failed transmutation.
HxH
Hunter x Hunter
Yoshihiro Togashi's manga following young Gon Freecss as he becomes a Hunter to find his father, alongside friends Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio.
Blue Lock
Blue Lock
Muneyuki Kaneshiro's soccer manga following Yoichi Isagi in an intense training program designed to create Japan's ultimate striker.
Black Butler
Black Butler
Yana Toboso's gothic Victorian manga about Ciel Phantomhive, a young earl who contracts the demon Sebastian Michaelis to serve as his butler until his revenge is complete. The fandom has run continuously since the mid-2000s, producing lush period pieces, dark contract-deal explorations, and a great deal of aged-up Sebastian/Ciel content alongside gen casefic about the Phantomhive household. Writers gravitate to the manor's servants, the Undertaker's mysteries, and the question of what happens when the contract finally comes due.
BSD
Bungou Stray Dogs
Detectives with supernatural abilities based on famous authors solve crimes in Yokohama.
Tokyo Revengers
Tokyo Revengers
Ken Wakui's manga about Takemichi Hanagaki who travels back in time to save his ex-girlfriend by changing the fate of a Tokyo gang.
Demon Slayer
Kimetsu no Yaiba | Demon Slayer
Tanjiro's quest to turn his demon sister back to human while fighting powerful demons.
Yu-Gi-Oh
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yugi and his friends battle using magical cards in the Shadow Games.
Spy x Family
Spy x Family
Tatsuya Endo's manga about a spy who creates a fake family for a mission, unknowingly adopting a telepath and marrying an assassin.
Free!
Free!
Kyoto Animation's swimming anime about Haruka Nanase, a boy who only swims free, and the childhood friends and rivals pulled along in his wake. One of the defining sports anime fandoms of the 2010s, its AO3 presence is overwhelmingly ship-driven: Haru/Makoto's wordless lifelong intimacy, Haru/Rin's chlorine-soaked rivalry, and Rei/Nagisa's comic devotion. Expect poolside pining, relay-team-as-family feelings, and futurefic following the boys to Tokyo and international competition.
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball
Goku and friends defend Earth from powerful enemies while seeking the Dragon Balls.
One-Punch Man
One-Punch Man
ONE and Yusuke Murata's superhero satire about Saitama, a hero so strong he ends every fight with a single punch and has gotten bored of it. On AO3 the fandom orbits Saitama/Genos (SaiGenos), the devoted cyborg disciple whose canon admiration writers happily push into romance, alongside a thriving Garou-centric corner after the Monster Association arc. The fanfic flavor mixes domestic comedy in that bare little Z-City apartment with surprisingly heavy meditations on what it means when nothing can challenge you.
Fairy Tail
Fairy Tail
Hiro Mashima's long-running shounen about a rowdy wizard guild where Natsu Dragneel, Lucy Heartfilia, Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet treat each other as family first and coworkers second. AO3's Fairy Tail corner is unapologetically ship-driven, with NaLu, Gruvia, Gajevy and Jerza fueling an endless supply of romance, fluff, and post-canon futurefic. The guild-as-family premise makes it a natural home for found-family writers, while the dragon slayer lore inspires omegaverse-adjacent mating-instinct fics that are practically a fandom institution.
Tokyo Ghoul
Tokyo Ghoul
Ken Kaneki becomes a half-ghoul and must navigate the dangerous world of ghouls and humans.
Dungeon Meshi
Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
Ryoko Kui's fantasy manga following Laios and his party as they venture into a dungeon to rescue his sister while cooking and eating the monsters they encounter.
SAO
Sword Art Online
Reki Kawahara's death-game pioneer about Kirito and Asuna, trapped in a VRMMO where dying in the game kills you in real life. The fanfic scene splits between devoted Kirito/Asuna domesticity, often expanding their married Aincrad idyll with Yui, and a famously productive alternate-universe culture that rewrites Aincrad's two years with different players, different rules, or a Kirito who never goes solo. Progression-style fic chronicling the floor-by-floor climb has become its own recognizable subgenre.
Soul Eater
Soul Eater
Atsushi Okubo's stylish shounen set at a school for weapon meisters and the humans who transform into their living weapons, all under a grinning cartoon moon. The meister-weapon partnership is fanfic gold, and Maka/Soul dominates the archive with resonance-as-intimacy stories that turn soul wavelengths into the most romantic metaphor in shounen. Manga-ending continuations, Crona rescue fic, and the perpetually chaotic DWMA ensemble keep the fandom lively long after the anime diverged.
Banana Fish
Banana Fish
Gang leader Ash Lynx investigates a drug connected to his brother's fate with help from Eiji.
Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon
Naoko Takeuchi's magical girl classic about Usagi Tsukino, the reincarnated Moon Princess who defends Earth alongside her Sailor Guardians. One of the founding fandoms of online fanfiction, it still draws writers to Usagi/Mamoru's destined romance, the Silver Millennium backstory, and Haruka/Michiru as one of anime's landmark canon f/f couples. AO3 fics range from senshi-of-the-week nostalgia to serious explorations of reincarnation, destiny, and what Crystal Tokyo actually costs.
Ouran Host Club
Ouran High School Host Club
Bisco Hatori's shoujo comedy about Haruhi Fujioka, a pragmatic scholarship student who accidentally joins her elite school's host club of beautiful rich boys. The fandom has spent years writing every possible permutation of Haruhi and her hosts, from canon-flavored Tamaki romance to wildly popular Kyoya and twin-centric pairings, plus a steady stream of reader-insert and OC commoner fics. The tone runs lighter than most anime fandoms, full of host club antics, fake dating schemes, and rich-people-discover-normal-life comedy.
SK8
SK8 the Infinity
High schoolers compete in underground skateboarding races at 'S'.
Code Geass
Code Geass
The mecha-political epic about Lelouch vi Britannia, an exiled prince who gains the power of absolute command and leads a masked rebellion against his father's empire. AO3 writers are forever wrestling with the Zero Requiem, producing fix-its, time loops where Lelouch redoes the war with foreknowledge, and Suzaku/Lelouch fics that mine the betrayal between the two childhood friends turned enemies. It is a fandom of chessboard scheming, tragic inevitability, and an enduring refusal to accept that ending at face value.
Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Hideaki Anno's landmark mecha deconstruction about traumatized teenagers piloting biomechanical giants against incomprehensible Angels while the adults around them fail spectacularly. Eva fanfic has a decades-deep tradition of sprawling canon rewrites and Third Impact aftermath stories, with Shinji/Kaworu's fifteen minutes of canon kindness sustaining an enormous body of tender, grief-soaked fic. Writers come here to give Shinji, Asuka and Rei the therapy, parenting, and gentler endings the show withheld.
AssClass
Assassination Classroom
Yusei Matsui's bittersweet comedy about Class 3-E, a group of misfit students tasked with assassinating their teacher — a smiley-faced super-creature who is also the best educator they have ever had. The fandom writes Koro-sensei-lives fix-its by the hundreds, Karma/Nagisa as its flagship ship, and a wealth of class-as-family pieces about the year that changed every student in E class. Nagisa's bluntly underestimated lethality and Karma's sharp edges give writers endless material.
Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Man
Denji merges with his devil dog Pochita and becomes the Chainsaw Man.
Given
Given
A love story between band members dealing with grief, music, and finding love again.
Fruits Basket
Fruits Basket
Natsuki Takaya's shoujo classic about orphaned Tohru Honda, who moves in with the Sohma family and discovers their curse of transforming into the animals of the zodiac. The 2019 remake brought a wave of new writers to a fandom built on healing: fics dig into the Sohmas' generational abuse, Tohru and Kyo's slow gentle romance, and Yuki finding self-worth beyond the rivalry. Post-canon futurefic about the cursed family learning to live free is the beating heart of the archive.
Mob Psycho
Mob Psycho 100
Shigeo Kageyama, an esper trying to live normally while controlling his immense psychic powers.
Cardcaptor Sakura
Cardcaptor Sakura
CLAMP's beloved magical girl series about Sakura Kinomoto, a cheerful grade-schooler who must recapture the magical Clow Cards she accidentally scattered. The fandom's gentle tone carries straight into its fanfic, which leans heavily on Sakura/Syaoran's blushing first love, Tomoyo's devoted filming, and Touya/Yukito as an early and formative m/m pairing for many readers. Futurefic that ages the cast into teens and adults is a staple, as are crossovers within the wider CLAMP multiverse.
Promised Neverland
The Promised Neverland
Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's thriller about Emma, Norman and Ray, genius orphans who discover their idyllic orphanage is a farm raising children as demon food. Fic writers thrive on the escape-plan tension of the early arcs, the trio's unbreakable bond, and a deep well of manga-ending fix-its and Norman-never-shipped-out AUs. Found family and survival are the fandom's core currencies, with most stories keeping the Grace Field children together against all odds.
Solo Leveling
Solo Leveling
Chugong's Korean web novel turned megahit manhwa and anime about Sung Jinwoo, the world's weakest hunter, who gains a system that lets him level up without limit. The fandom loves a power fantasy with feelings: fics explore Jinwoo's softness with his family against his terrifying shadow army, hunter-society politics, and crossover invasions of other universes' dungeons. Jinwoo/Cha Hae-In leads the shipping side, while shadow soldiers like Igris and Beru get an affectionate found-family treatment canon only hints at.
Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop
Shinichiro Watanabe's jazz-scored space western following bounty hunters Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed and Ein scraping by aboard the Bebop. The fandom's fic output mirrors the show's mood: melancholy session-style vignettes, bounty-of-the-week casefic, and endless variations on whether Spike survives his fall and what he and Faye never managed to say to each other. It is a small but devoted archive presence where atmosphere and ambiguity matter more than tidy resolutions.
Berserk
Berserk
Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy masterwork following Guts, the Black Swordsman, through betrayal, demonic horror, and the slow rediscovery of human connection. Fanfic gravitates to the Golden Age — the Band of the Hawk before the Eclipse — with countless Eclipse-averted AUs that let Guts, Casca and even Griffith take different paths. Modern fics lean into Guts's found family of travelers and Casca's restoration, and after Miura's passing the fandom's writing took on an added elegiac devotion to finishing the journey.
Frieren
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's quiet fantasy about an elf mage who outlives her hero party and retraces their journey to understand the humans she loved too slowly. The fandom writes in the series' own contemplative register: grief-soaked vignettes about Himmel, gentle mentor-student pieces with Fern and Stark, and decades-spanning meditations on time and memory. Himmel-lives AUs and Fern/Stark's awkward young romance provide the warmth, while Frieren/Himmel's love-realized-too-late remains the archive's emotional center.
Video Games
DSMP
Dream SMP
The roleplay server featuring content creators in an evolving narrative of conflict and alliances.
Minecraft
Minecraft
Mojang's blocky sandbox has no plot of its own, which is exactly why its fanfic scene is so vast: writers build their own mythologies out of Herobrine legends, hardcore-world survival arcs, and the personas of the streamers who play it. On AO3 the Minecraft tag overlaps heavily with server-based storytelling, from original SMP-style narratives to fics about the game's villagers, endermen, and the strange theology of the End. It is less a single fandom than a shared engine for worldbuilding, and the archive treats it that way.
Genshin Impact
Genshin Impact
An action RPG set in the fantasy world of Teyvat, where travelers search for their lost sibling.
Pokémon
Pokémon
Nintendo's monster-catching colossus spans games, anime, and decades of childhoods, and its AO3 presence is correspondingly enormous and fragmented. Journey fic remains the foundational genre — original trainers crossing Kanto or rewritten protagonists taking the league seriously — alongside anime-era ships, Team Rocket loyalists, and game-verse fandoms-within-the-fandom like Submas's Ingo and Emmet or Legends: Arceus time travel. Nuzlocke-style memorial fic and trainer-and-partner bond stories give the archive its emotional spine.
Undertale
Undertale
A child falls into the Underground, a world of monsters, and must find their way back to the surface.
Overwatch
Overwatch
Blizzard's team-based shooter featuring a diverse cast of heroes fighting to maintain peace in a near-future Earth.
BG3
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios' RPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, following a group of adventurers infected with mind flayer parasites.
P5
Persona 5
ATLUS's JRPG following high school student Joker and the Phantom Thieves as they steal corrupt hearts in modern-day Tokyo.
Danganronpa
Danganronpa
Spike Chunsoft's killing-game visual novel series in which classes of Ultimate students are forced by the sadistic bear Monokuma to murder each other to escape. The fandom is enormous and intensely creative, famous for non-despair AUs that let the doomed casts simply attend school together, talent-swap experiments, and fix-its for every executed favorite. Ships like Hinata/Komaeda and Saihara/Ouma dominate, powered by the games' love of obsession, suspicion, and unreliable hearts.
Zelda
The Legend of Zelda
Nintendo's flagship fantasy about Link, Zelda, and Ganon reborn across eras, from Ocarina of Time's child hero to Breath of the Wild's amnesiac knight. AO3 writers treat the timeline as a sandbox: Linked Universe fics gather every incarnation of Link into one found-family party, post-Calamity Hyrule rebuilds slowly around Link and Zelda's wartime bond, and Twilight Princess's Midna still inspires bittersweet mirror-shattering fic decades on. The mute hero tradition makes Link characterization itself a beloved fandom craft.
FE3H
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Nintendo's tactical RPG set in the Garreg Mach Monastery, where professor Byleth teaches students from three different houses.
Dragon Age
Dragon Age
Heroes rise to save Thedas from Blights, demons, and political intrigue.
Fallout
Fallout
Bethesda and Obsidian's post-nuclear RPG series, where vault dwellers and couriers wander a retro-futurist wasteland of raiders, synths and two-headed cattle. AO3's Fallout fandom is companion-fic heaven: Nick Valentine's noir decency, Hancock's ghoul charm, and New Vegas's endlessly shipped courier-and-Boone or courier-and-Vulpes dynamics. The TV series brought a fresh wave of Lucy/The Ghoul writers into an archive already rich with slow apocalyptic road trips and settlements rebuilt one chapter at a time.
Enstars
Ensemble Stars!
Happy Elements' idol-raising game set at Yumenosaki Academy, where dozens of male idol units compete, scheme, and occasionally stage outright revolutions against the school system. The fandom is one of AO3's most prolific idol-game communities, fueled by the game's shockingly heavy lore — the war, Eichi's machinations, Rei's decline — and unit dynamics that read like family dramas. Ships span every unit, with fine and UNDEAD politics, Knights loyalty, and Trickstar's revolution providing endless material for angst and tenderness alike.
FNAF
Five Nights at Freddy's
Scott Cawthon's horror series about haunted animatronics, dead children, and the serial killer William Afton whose crimes echo through every pizzeria. The fandom's decade of lore-hunting carries straight into its fic, which untangles the Afton family tragedy, gives the Missing Children their stories, and explores Michael Afton's rotting road to atonement. Security Breach added Gregory, Vanessa and Glamrock Freddy as an unlikely found family, now one of the archive's most-written corners.
Sonic
Sonic the Hedgehog
SEGA's blue blur and his sprawling cast — two-tailed genius Tails, rival hedgehog Shadow, treasure-guarding Knuckles — have sustained one of gaming's longest-running fanfic traditions. The archive blends game canon, the Archie and IDW comics, and the movies into stories about Sonic and Shadow's rivalry-edged bond, Tails as Sonic's little brother, and Eggman schemes played for comedy or genuine menace. Sonadow is the fandom's powerhouse ship, and the movies' family framing pushed brotherly found-family fic to new heights.
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts
Square Enix's Disney-Final Fantasy crossover saga about Sora, his keyblade, and a mythology of hearts, Nobodies and time travel that grows more baroque with every entry. The fanfic community has spent twenty years writing Sora/Riku's light-and-darkness devotion, Axel and Roxas's ice cream sunsets, and the Wayfinder trio's broken decade, often fixing what the convoluted canon breaks. Organization XIII slice-of-life, Days-era grief fic, and AUs that untangle the Xehanort knot keep the archive perpetually busy.
FFXIV
Final Fantasy XIV
Square Enix's MMO epic casts the player as the Warrior of Light, savior of Eorzea across a decade of expansions that fans rank among the genre's best storytelling. Its fanfic culture is unique on AO3 for its sheer volume of original characters — every writer's own Warrior of Light — paired with Scions like the twins, Thancred, and above all Emet-Selch, whose Shadowbringers tragedy spawned a vast literature of Amaurot grief and shipping. Venat, Zenos, and Hydaelyn lore-fic keep the philosophical end heavy.
Mass Effect
Mass Effect
Commander Shepard's mission to save the galaxy from the Reapers.
Detroit: Become Human
Detroit: Become Human
Quantic Dream's android-uprising drama follows three androids — investigator Connor, caretaker Kara, and revolutionary Markus — as they break their programming in a near-future Detroit. On AO3 the game became a phenomenon for one pairing above all: Hank/Connor, the grieving detective and the deviant android who saves him, written in everything from canon-compliant slow burns to human AUs. Machine-route darkfic, RK900 original dynamics, and revolution-aftermath worldbuilding round out a fandom that vastly outgrew its source.
FF7
Final Fantasy VII
Cloud Strife and AVALANCHE fight against the Shinra corporation and Sephiroth.
League of Legends
League of Legends
Riot's MOBA juggernaut comes with a deep bench of champions and the ever-expanding lore of Runeterra, from Demacia's mage-hunting knights to Ionia's spirit blossoms. Long before Arcane, AO3 writers were shipping Katarina/Garen across battle lines, exploring Kayn and his sentient scythe, and writing the K/DA pop-group AU into near-canon status. The fandom thrives on Riot's habit of releasing gorgeous lore and leaving the connective tissue to fans.
Star Rail
Honkai: Star Rail
HoYoverse's space-fantasy RPG aboard the Astral Express, where the Trailblazer hops between worlds shaped by capricious gods called Aeons. Its AO3 fandom inherited Genshin's energy and its own distinct ships, led by Dan Heng/Blade's lifetimes-deep grudge romance and the Aventurine/Ratio gambler-and-scholar dynamic that exploded out of the Penacony arc. Fic favors reincarnation angst, high-stakes casino intrigue, and the Express crew as a bickering, tea-drinking found family.
TF2
Team Fortress 2
Valve's cartoon class shooter about nine mercenaries locked in eternal gravel-war, given improbable depth by years of supplemental comics and shorts. The fanfic community long ago turned RED and BLU's killers into a dysfunctional family, with base-life domesticity, respawn-machine existentialism, and ships like Sniper/Spy and Heavy/Medic that are practically fandom institutions. The comics' canon — Miss Pauling, the Administrator's scheme, Medic selling his soul repeatedly — feeds a fandom that treats absurdity and sincerity as the same register.
Twisted-Wonderland
Twisted-Wonderland
Disney's Japanese mobile game enrolls the player at Night Raven College, a magic academy whose dorms are built on the legacies of Disney villains. Its AO3 fandom is propelled by Yuu, the magicless player-insert, generating an enormous body of reader fic alongside ships among the overblot-prone student body like Leona/Vil and Idia/Azul. Writers adore the overblot arcs as ready-made angst, the dorm rivalries, and the question of what it means to attend a school that venerates the wicked.
Ace Attorney
Ace Attorney
Capcom's courtroom adventure series stars defense attorney Phoenix Wright, who bluffs and objections his way to the truth against brilliant prosecutors and absurd witnesses. Its AO3 fandom is anchored by Phoenix/Edgeworth (Narumitsu), a childhood-friends-to-rivals-to-lovers arc so well-suited to fic that the pairing remains one of gaming's most written decades later. Casefic with original mysteries, the Dark Age of the Law's angst, and The Great Ace Attorney's Ryunosuke/Kazuma wave keep the wider archive thriving.
Skyrim
Elder Scrolls
The world of Tamriel across games like Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil
Capcom's survival-horror dynasty of zombie outbreaks, bioweapon conspiracies, and improbably durable special agents. The fanfic fandom runs on its veterans: Leon and Chris's decades of trauma, Ada's eternal will-they-won't-they spycraft, and the Village era's breakout obsession with Karl Heisenberg and the Dimitrescu household. Post-mission hurt/comfort is the house style — these characters get patched up, debriefed, and emotionally compromised in fic far more often than in canon — alongside Wesker resurrections and Raccoon City survivors' reunions.
Hermitcraft
Hermitcraft
The long-running invite-only Minecraft server whose Hermits — Grian, Mumbo Jumbo, Scar, and friends — generate seasons of emergent storylines that fandom weaves into full mythology. Hermitcraft fic typically writes the personas rather than the people, giving the fandom license for watcher-Grian lore, Scar and Grian's Desert Duo dynamics carried over from the Life series, and redstone-and-mischief slice of life. The tone is notably gentler than Dream SMP fandom: cozy server-as-neighborhood fic, shenanigans escalating into sincerity, and death-game AUs imported from Third Life when angst is required.
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley
Farming simulator where you build relationships in Pelican Town.
Mystic Messenger
Mystic Messenger
Cheritz's real-time otome game pulls the player into a mysterious chatroom with the RFA, a charity group with a cult-shaped secret at its heart. The fandom's fanfic centers the routes' emotional fallout: Seven's self-loathing and his twin Saeran's deprogramming, Jumin's control issues unwinding, and after-ending fic that gives the MC and her chosen partner an actual life beyond the party. Saeran-focused healing fic became its own pillar after the Another Story routes.
Project SEKAI
Project SEKAI
SEGA and Colorful Palette's rhythm game pairs Hatsune Miku's virtual singers with five original units of Tokyo teens, each with a secret world born from their true feelings. Fanfic writers gravitate to the game's heavier event stories — Mafuyu's controlling mother, Ena's artistic envy, Rui's isolation — making Niigo (25-ji) angst the archive's gravitational center, balanced by Wonderlands x Showtime chaos and More More Jump idol comebacks. The fandom skews young, productive, and deeply sincere about mental-health narratives.
Deltarune
Deltarune
Toby Fox's episodic follow-up to Undertale sends Kris, Susie and Ralsei into Dark Worlds while something unsettling steers Kris's body between chapters. The fandom theorizes as hard as it writes: fics dig into Kris's resentment of the player, Susie's softening, Noelle's Snowgrave trauma, and Spamton's garbage-noise tragedy. Chapter gaps give writers room to run, so the archive brims with predicted Dark Worlds, Dess Holiday backstory, and quiet Hometown slice-of-life between adventures.
TLOU
The Last of Us
In a post-apocalyptic world, Joel and Ellie journey across America in search of a cure.
RDR
Red Dead Redemption
Outlaws in the dying days of the Wild West trying to survive.
Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight
Team Cherry's melancholy metroidvania set in Hallownest, a fallen bug kingdom haunted by an ancient infection and the silent vessels created to contain it. The fandom's fic output is striking for a game with no spoken protagonist: writers give voices to Ghost, Hollow, and Hornet, and an entire subgenre is devoted to post-Embrace-the-Void healing fic where the broken sibling vessels are finally allowed to be children. The Pale King's failures and Grimm's theatrical menace fuel the darker half of the archive.
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077
CD Projekt Red's neon dystopia drops mercenary V into Night City with a dead rockerboy terrorist, Johnny Silverhand, slowly overwriting their brain. The fandom's fanfic is dominated by V/Johnny in all its impossible intimacy — two people sharing one skull — alongside the canon romances with Judy, Panam, Kerry and River, and a flood of Phantom Liberty fics dissecting Songbird and Reed. Nearly everything orbits the relic countdown: writers either find V a cure or sit with them through the dying.
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry
Capcom's stylish-action series about demon hunter Dante, his estranged twin Vergil, and the half-devil family business of slaying everything hell sends over. DMC5 transformed the fandom by canonizing Nero as Vergil's son, unleashing a tide of awkward-demon-family fic where Dante becomes a disaster uncle and Vergil attempts fatherhood with a katana's emotional range. The Sparda family's cycles of abandonment and reunion power the angst, while shop-life comedy with Lady, Trish and Nico keeps things light.
Hades
Hades
Supergiant's roguelike about Zagreus, prince of the Underworld, dying his way out of his father's house one escape attempt at a time. The game hands fanfic writers two canon romances — Zagreus with the brooding Thanatos, the radiant Megaera, or both — and a sprawling dysfunctional divine family in mid-reconciliation. Fic leans into polyamory negotiated with surprising sweetness, Patroclus and Achilles reunited in Elysium, and the slow thaw between Zagreus and Hades that the game's epilogue made canon.
Portal
Portal
Valve's puzzle classic pits silent test subject Chell against GLaDOS, the passive-aggressive AI running the abandoned Aperture Science facility. For a two-game series with three characters, its fanfic legacy is remarkable: human-GLaDOS AUs, post-Portal-2 Chell-on-the-surface stories, and the long-running fandom tradition of redeeming or re-villaining Wheatley. Writers love the toxic intimacy of tester and AI, Caroline's buried humanity, and Aperture's pitch-black corporate comedy.
OMORI
OMORI
OMOCAT's psychological RPG about Sunny, a shut-in who retreats into the dream world of Headspace to avoid the truth about his sister's death. The fandom writes with the game's own devastating sincerity: everyone-lives AUs where Mari survives, post-good-ending fics about Sunny confessing and his friends choosing forgiveness, and Headspace adventures that turn bittersweet once you know what they are protecting him from. Sunny and Basil's shared guilt makes their relationship — romantic or not — the archive's aching center.
Elden Ring
Elden Ring
FromSoftware's open-world epic strands the Tarnished in the Lands Between, piecing together the Shattering from item descriptions and the ruined demigods left behind. Its fanfic fandom does what Soulsborne fandoms do best: excavating tragedy, with Ranni's doll romance, Malenia and Miquella's devotion, and Radahn's gravity-defying dignity as recurring centers. Tarnished-and-Melina journey fic and Age-of-Stars endings dominate, while writers reconstruct Marika's fall with near-academic rigor.
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing
Nintendo's village life-sim about moving to a town of animal neighbors, paying off Tom Nook, and watching the seasons turn. Its fanfic scene is small and cozy by design: slice-of-life vignettes about villagers' friendships, island domesticity between the player and favorites like Marshal or Raymond, and gentle comedy about the Nook family's real-estate empire. A darker minority tradition pokes at the game's odd edges — the eternal debt, the villagers who vanish — but mostly this is the archive's softest corner.
Comics & Graphic Novels
DC
DC Comics
Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the entire DC Universe multiverse.
Homestuck
Homestuck
Andrew Hussie's labyrinthine webcomic about four kids who trigger the apocalypse by installing a video game shaped an entire generation of internet fandom. Its AO3 footprint is enormous and structurally unique: troll romance's four quadrants gave fic a native vocabulary (kismesis, moirail) no other fandom has, and pairings like Dave/Karkat and Rose/Kanaya carry tens of thousands of works. Humanstuck AUs, sadstuck, classpect deep-lore, and post-canon Earth C domesticity remain in production long after the comic's end — Homestuck fandom never dies, it just reaches God Tier.
Cartoons & Animated
Voltron
Voltron: Legendary Defender
Five paladins pilot robot lions to form Voltron and defend the universe.
Miraculous
Miraculous Ladybug
Marinette and Adrien transform into superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir to protect Paris.
ATLA
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Aang must master all four elements to save the world from the Fire Nation.
Transformers
Transformers
The robots in disguise span G1 cartoons, the IDW comics' acclaimed political epics, Transformers: Prime, and the Bayverse films — and AO3 hosts thriving fic continuities for all of them. IDW's More Than Meets the Eye crew made Megatron's redemption and Cyclonus/Tailgate canon-adjacent fixtures, while Optimus/Megatron's four-million-year war-divorce remains the franchise's gravitational pairing. The fandom famously built its own intimacy vocabulary — spark merging, plug-and-play — making it one of fandom's great worldbuilding communities.
RWBY
RWBY
Rooster Teeth's anime-inspired web series about huntress teams battling Grimm in the kingdom of Remnant, carried for a decade by one of web animation's most prolific fandoms. Bumbleby — Blake and Yang's canonized slow burn — is the flagship, with Whiterose, Renora and the Beacon-days ensemble close behind. The fandom's fic culture is famously transformative: massive canon-rewrite projects, Ironwood and Adam discourse relitigated in fiction, and volume-gap fic sustaining the story through hiatuses and the studio's collapse.
TMNT
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Four turtle brothers, a rat sensei, and four decades of reboots — 1987, 2003, 2012, Rise, Mutant Mayhem — each with its own devoted fic scene. The fandom's constant is brotherhood: Leo and Raph's clashing leadership, Donnie's softshell vulnerability in Rise canon, Mikey holding everyone together, and Splinter's parenting graded harshly across iterations. Rise of the TMNT's cancellation-defying fandom currently drives the archive, with separated-AU epics, hidden-city worldbuilding, and post-movie Leo trauma fic leading the way.
South Park
South Park
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's profane Colorado satire has, improbably, one of AO3's most enduring shipping fandoms — almost always with the boys aged up to high school or beyond. Creek (Craig/Tweek), made semi-canon by the show itself, and Style (Stan/Kyle) lead an ecosystem where Kyman's antagonism and K2's chaos also thrive. The Stick of Truth and Phone Destroyer eras feed superhero and fantasy AUs, while the fandom's house style sands the show's edges into surprisingly sincere small-town coming-of-age romance.
She-Ra
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Adora discovers she's She-Ra and must lead a rebellion against the Horde she once served.
The Owl House
The Owl House
Luz stumbles into the Demon Realm and trains to become a witch.
Steven Universe
Steven Universe
Half-human, half-Gem Steven learns about his powers while protecting Earth.
MLP
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
The 2010 reboot that launched an unprecedented adult fandom, whose fic culture grew so large it sustains its own dedicated archive alongside AO3. Equestria's worldbuilding does the heavy lifting: princess politics between Celestia and Luna, Twilight's ascension and immortality angst, and the Elements of Harmony as a friendship-first ensemble. Shipping favors Twilight with Rainbow Dash or Rarity and the fan-canonized Lyra/Bon Bon, while changeling lore, Discord's chaos, and post-series generational fic keep the archive busy a decade past the show's peak.
Danny Phantom
Danny Phantom
Butch Hartman's mid-2000s cartoon about a teen with ghost powers became one of fandom's great long-tail success stories — its AO3 output grew years after cancellation. The engine is the secret-identity reveal: 'revelation fic,' where Maddie and Jack discover Phantom is their son, is practically the fandom's national genre, alongside Dead on Main crossover shipping with DC's Jason Todd that became a phenomenon in its own right. Ectoberhaunt fandom events, ghost-king Danny lore, and Vlad's lonely villainy keep the dead boy walking.
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls
Twins Dipper and Mabel spend summer in Gravity Falls uncovering supernatural mysteries.
Arcane
Arcane: League of Legends
Sisters Vi and Powder navigate the divided cities of Piltover and Zaun.
Young Justice
Young Justice
The acclaimed DC animated series about the Team — sidekicks proving themselves under the Justice League's shadow — whose cancellations and revivals forged an unusually loyal fic community. Birdflash (Dick Grayson/Wally West) is the archive's historic heart, intensified by Wally's season-two fate into a decade of fix-its, while Spitfire, SuperMartian and Roy Harper's clone unraveling fill out the ensemble. The five-year timeskip remains fandom's favorite sandbox: writers fill the gap with team growth, Dick becoming Nightwing, and everything the show jumped past.
Monkie Kid
LEGO Monkie Kid
LEGO's Journey to the West continuation follows MK, a noodle-delivery boy who inherits Sun Wukong's staff and a destiny far heavier than it looks. The show's startling mythological depth built a fervent fic scene: Wukong and Macaque's ruined ancient partnership (Shadowpeach) dominates the shipping side, while MK's identity crises and mentor wounds fuel the angst. The fandom blends Xiyouji scholarship with cartoon comedy, producing celestial-realm political fic, found-family noodle-shop fluff, and Lady Bone Demon aftermath by the shelf.
Hazbin Hotel
Hazbin Hotel
Charlie Morningstar tries to rehabilitate demons in her Hazbin Hotel in Hell.
Adventure Time
Adventure Time
Pendleton Ward's post-apocalyptic fantasy about Finn the human and Jake the dog matured alongside its audience into one of animation's richest universes. The fandom's crown jewel is Bubbline — Princess Bubblegum and Marceline's thousand-year on-again romance, canonized in the finale and given a whole miniseries in Obsidian — which dominates the archive's romance. Around it: Simon and Marcy's heartbreaking Ice King tragedy, Fionna and Cake universe fic, and mathematical post-finale futures for the Land of Ooo.
Helluva Boss
Helluva Boss
I.M.P, a company in Hell that offers assassination services in the living world.
Digital Circus
The Amazing Digital Circus
Glitch Productions' indie sensation traps humans in a candy-colored virtual circus run by the unhinged AI Caine, where losing your mind means literal abstraction. The pilot's record-breaking virality built an instant fic scene around Pomni's panic-stricken adjustment, Ragatha's strained kindness, and Jax's mean-streak mystery, with Pomni/Ragatha leading the shipping side. Abstraction horror, who-they-were-before-the-circus backstory fic, and found-family-in-purgatory comfort define an archive that mines real dread from a children's-show palette.
Castlevania
Castlevania
Netflix's blood-soaked adaptation of Konami's games follows Trevor Belmont, the speaker-mage Sypha, and Dracula's grieving son Alucard against a vampire war on humanity. The central trio's canon-adjacent intimacy made polyamorous Trevor/Sypha/Alucard fic the fandom's default configuration, while Dracula and Lisa's tragedy anchors the grief writing. Post-season-four fic flourishes — castle restoration domesticity, Greta of Danesti additions, Nocturne's revolutionary-era continuations — in a fandom that likes its tenderness earned through monster viscera.
Murder Drones
Murder Drones
Glitch Productions' other cult hit: on a frozen exoplanet, worker drones outlived humanity only to be hunted by sleek Disassembly Drones — one of whom, N, would really rather make friends. The fandom runs on N and Uzi's apocalyptic puppy-love (Nuzi), canon by series' end and written through every register from awkward teen romance to eldritch body horror. Fic explores the Absolute Solver's cosmic rot, V's deflection-as-armor, and post-finale futures for Copper-9, with the show's blend of memes and existential dread fully intact.
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