Category:Fanfiction

The term fanfiction refers to fictional stories written by fans that make use of material provided by a media text.

Fan fiction in the Supernatural fandom falls into two broad categories - those stories largely about the characters in the show and Real Person Fiction wherein the stories focus on the actors.

The major repository for Supernatural fanfiction is on Livejournal Communities and fanfiction.net which between them probably host over 80,000 stories about Supernatural. There a few Fan Fic Archives, but these are very small.

There are a wide variety of fanfic communities on Livejournal, which range from the general to those that focus on specific interests, pairings or kinks.

The spnnewsletter on LJ links to fics across communities. A database of these links, nearly 30,000 stories in December 2009, has been compiled at the Supernatural Fic Link Archive on delicious.

Another major repository of fic links, over 13,000, is in the memories at the community Supernatural_fic.

People wishing to find a particular story, or type of story can post a query at spn_storyfinders.

Rec communities provide recommendations for fan fic.

Supernatural Newsletter is a weekly post covering fanfic posted on Dreamwidth

See also Fanzines

Based on an analysis of over 35,000 stories fanfiction listed in the LJ Supernatural newsletter, the following pie chart gives an overview of the representation of different types of fiction based on genre and pairing in the fandom. For more details see What we write by missyjack.

• Fic Genres a guide to the major types of stories in Supernatural and its associated Real Person Fiction Fandoms

• Pairings - who's doing what with whom! Het and slash it's all here. For fiction focusing on individual characters, check the individual characters pages