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one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just “the gang goes to 7-11” type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don’t see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(

They became Tumblr posts.

seriously every scenario that this could apply to, I’ve seen in a Tumblr post

Usually of Marvel or DC characters but sometimes other fandoms? Just a Tumblr post that starts out with a line like “ok but imagine the Batfam shopping at Dollar General” and then like, a dozen or so lines of dialogue

years ago that probably would have been a whole ao3 fic.

Like how 90% of the dialogues and random little insights that pop into my head these days, which years ago I would have put in a webcomic? Now they are all just shitposts. Times have changed.