Yeah, rofl true. 
Usually, I complain about Wattpad books but some of them are actually better than the tripe they publish now. Sometimes, some of them. Key words here 
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In some cases, fanfiction makes sense because the fan isnât entirely happy or prefer a what-if outcome to their favorite media.
Yet at the same time, it like the fans are NEVER truly satisfied with what the creator does with their own work, that the fans want something else or something more.
It mind boggles me sometimes because it another case of âyou canât please everyone/fans always want more out of your workâ all the time.
I get that writing fanfiction is fun for people, but other times I often wonder if a creator would ever create something where fans didnât need to make a fanfic or something.
What? No! THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
Fans will ALWAYS want more and will ALWAYS want a what-if scenario than something that is stated as canon.
Fans are either weird or something close to it.
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I think itâs just fun to see different outcomes. It doesnât necessarily have to be a fix-it. I do enjoy those, but sometimes I just want to see different character stories or interactions, so fanfic is there for the rescue. 
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I like the most absurd fanfics too⌠like Shrek ones.
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True. Probably why I no longer write fanfiction anymore.
I canât place my favorite characters in situations the way I would my original characters.
Itâs not even the whole âwouldnât feel rightâ because itâs more like I rather do my own thing.
I had ideas for fanfiction some time last year, but never went anywhere with it.
I love writing my own fiction even if I am not showing it to anybody like I did a few times.
So, itâs great that you can love a show/film/book so much that you want to create your own world for your favorite characters.
I just prefer to do that with my own OCs.
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I do love my own writing and OCs, but I will still go back to reading fanfic when I just need my brain to ave fun, haha.
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Thatâs not all there is, though. For me, it was always a case ofâŚI love this fictional world and I wanna create in it. And my rule of thumb was to never interfere with canon lol. So itâd just be likeâŚidk, a side-quest that would happen in some corner of that world without affecting the canon storyline.
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I think we may be giving Wattpad too much credit here lol. I know After was/is on Wattpad, but I think Master of the Universe was originally on FF or ao3 
Didnât know about 365 days tho lol
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it gets harder and harder to keep up lol
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I used to dislike it as a writer and thought it was lazy. As a reader, thought it ruined the original characters.
Now, I think fanfiction is a good way for newbies uncomfortable with writing to get into it and learn how to structure a story.
As a reader, now I sometimes look at it. I do like to see little comic strips of some of my favorite characters in different settings sometimes. I wouldnât read an entire story though. Also, donât find self-insert to be my cup of tea or cup of coffee.
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Haha, glass of water? XD I honestly donât gravitate toward Y/N stories. I think they just give me the ick, like too close to home, haha. But I do love a good fanfic to throw characters into uncharted waters.
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Shrekâs Harem? Farquhad and his Quads?
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Great! Now explain how Return in Blood Red and Twilight were released in the same year in two different continents!
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the part that makes it weird is that not that she was married, itâs that she was writing about real people. Real-person fanfic is creepy and gross. Imagine finding out that someone youâd never even met was coming up with graphic scenes between you and them (or some cardboard cut-out stand-in) and posting them for the world to see 
although there is something to be said about the fact that anna todd married a military man while fresh out of high school and her idea of romance is apparently coddling someone after theyâve smashed all the dishes in the kitchen⌠but iâm not here to speculate much u-u
hmm, ur right it was on ff.net. i just always hear it referenced as a wattpad fanfic
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two different things can be published in different places at the same time. 
voila publishing industry!
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I really love fanfictions. Especially if theyâre written really good and I can read them and imagine different scenarios!
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Unfortunately itâs common. Even those that insist they wonât go there still name names.
https://www.quora.com/Who-is-that-one-celebrity-you-would-cheat-on-your-spouse-with
And military be like that. They want to live off base they will marry anything.
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I donât think that âpublishingâ is the correct term in music.
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Itâs not my forte.
Truthfully, I got started with writing and reading as a young teen because I wrote a fan fiction, though at the time, I thought of it as original fiction (didnât know fan-fics were real). But Iâve read some fan fiction and it just isnât my thing. I respect it because I know people use it as a safe crutch, and I know some write amazing ones, but I also like the idea of a writer having a story they can call their own⌠you know?
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It is a nice feeling!
âŚnow to actually finish one lol (the outlines are there, but I get distracted with squirrel brain XD)
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