Book Club on Yik Yak | Guys can I admit something? I think a lot of the literacy crisis would be solved if teens read fanfics again. Like obviously it’s better to read book, but fanfic got me into being the 2-3 book a week reader I am and we shamed kids out of that habit.

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Guys can I admit something? I think a lot of the literacy crisis would be solved if teens read fanfics again. Like obviously it’s better to read book, but fanfic got me into being the 2-3 book a week reader I am and we shamed kids out of that habit.

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Anonymous 1d

No literally im even writing fanfic now

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Anonymous 1d

I think the AI chatbot epidemic is filling that spot in teenage life. It’s unfortunate 🤷

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Anonymous 1d

Wattpad used to have some heat, and some of the biggest writers were a bunch of teenagers

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Anonymous 1d

i read fanfics like no other it makes me feel like a fake book enthusiast but whatwver

Anonymous 1d

I started reading fan fics because i wanted to read about gallavich while waiting for another season of shameless and it just spiraled from there. I still remember the daredevil fan fics after that changed my life

Anonymous 1d

i just got my ao3 invitation so i am on my grind no shame 💪💪

Anonymous 10h

Personal opinion, feel free to agree or disagree, but I never read fanfic as a kid or as an “adult” and I was that 2-3 books a week kid and am about a 1-2 book a week adult. I don’t think fanfic is necessary to grow readers. I’m glad it helped many of you, but I don’t think it’s some secret recipe ingredient to get kids to read.

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Anonymous 13h

The feeling of being cringe is really scaring young people away from being creative. Good writing doesn’t happen without shit writing and fan fic is so perfect for that. Unlearning shame is hard though

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Anonymous 1d

someone write some more daredevil stuff 😏

Anonymous 1d

I remember in 8th grade my mom took my phone away while I was in the middle of reading a bellarke fan fic, literally never felt more shame 😕

Anonymous 1d

I will also say, as much I love smut romance, I do feel like it has taken over the market and books geared toward preteens/teens aren’t as marketed as well

Anonymous 1d

I agree. Fanfics are so important especially for seeing different perspectives, as people from all origins and backgrounds write, especially with no capitalism to block those with unfortunate circumstances.

Anonymous 15h

I feel like fan fiction has become more popular? Though I he what you’re saying

Anonymous 1d

Hi. Dumb question. As someone who is not a huge reader at all (also has ADHD) and would like to get more into reading, what is fanfiction and how do I get into reading?

Anonymous 13h

The issue is “fanfic” has kind of taken over books in real life. Theres way too much smut thats popular among everyone. We need to actually put fanfic down and read real books

Anonymous

#3 1d

AI chatbots are a part of the reason we have a literacy crisis 😭

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Anonymous

#5 1d

GALLAVICH YESSSS

Anonymous

#4 1d

people say fanfiction is “fake reading” which like maybe ok, but I have sat and read the BEST writing depressed queer teenagers have to offer, the length of two novels, in one night.

Anonymous

OP 1d

YESS going back to my roots rn fr im rewatching shameless

Anonymous

OP 1d

They ARE the reason

Anonymous

#7 1d

The Red Thread was lowkey revolutionary for freshman year me

Anonymous

#7 1d

be the change you wish to see in the world

Anonymous

#8 1d

bellarke is brutal 😢😢

Anonymous

OP 1d

you should drop this literary find👀

Anonymous

#9 1d

it makes life so much better

Anonymous

#6 1d

I wouldn't say AI chatbots are the sole reason for the literacy crisis, but definitely plays a really big part

Anonymous

#13 1d

it’s literally just fiction of existing works. you can get into it even if you have a base knowledge of a story or have seen the movies. for example, harry potter. if you’ve seen the movies, then you know about the mauraders and sirius black, and you can start reading fanfiction from there. but i got my start reading fanfiction just from not feeling satisfied with the romance of the original story or wanting more from the original story and wanting to see other people’s takes on it, so when

Anonymous

#13 1d

so when i was like 12 i looked it up and boom i found fanfiction. so if you experience that with a story you like chances are you’ll find some fanfiction about it. the best place to go is a03, wattpad has too many paid stories and ads now. a03 has a learning curve for understanding how to filter for stories but you can look up a tutorial on youtube. you don’t need an account, but sometimes it’s nice to have one to read a locked story

Anonymous

#13 1d

go to ao3!! (aka Archive of Our Own) It’s the main fanfiction cite. It’s basically just people writing extensions too or rewrites of existing works (books, movies, etc.) Anything you are a fan of, there is fanfiction for. Mind the tags though, every story on ao3 will have “tags” as a description, these can be anything from “closed door romance” to like dark web stuff. It is an archive so it gets pretty dark and scary, if that is not what you are into stay on the light and fluffy side of things.

Anonymous

#15 1d

Such as we had warrior cats, sooo many vampire series, Sarah dessen was another I loved personally, hunger games, Harry Potter, etc. all came out during when I was growing up

Anonymous

#15 1d

At least when I was a kid, I only read very specific series. Like I LOVED Divergent and The Hunger Games, but would just reread them again and again. Starting new books was very daunting. Fanfics were a bridge. Because it was like “oh, here’s a fic where Katniss has anxiety, here’s a book where the main character has anxiety, I will read that.”

Anonymous

#3 19h

I met someone who uses chat to write about their ships 💀

Anonymous

OP 16h

I also enjoyed fanfics. I was a frequent reader of ALL books and wrote fanfics on Quizzaz. I just feel like if someone could create a couple new fantasy or dystopian series that are more recent and don’t have a movie yet without any movies they can watch, it would encourage younger kids to actually READ.

Anonymous

OP 16h

Or even the between toddler and tween books. We had June b jones, Nancy drew, diary of a wimpy kid. They have… maybe Captain underpants?

Anonymous

#18 13h

Fanfiction is not just smut, that’s just what’s gotten popular off the main cites. But I average 2/3 “real books” a week and still sometimes read (non smut) fanfics. Still though, I think we shouldn’t be shaming any kind of reader. While it’s not healthy for young teens to be reading dark romance, if it is a grown adult, it’s better to read something than nothing.

Anonymous

OP 12h

They should also be reading regular books as well, you can actually tell in fanfic writing if someone has read a variety of books or if their only source of literature is within the walls of AO3 and Wattpad. Its gotten more prominent too.

Anonymous

#15 12h

Dork Diaries and Diary of a wimpy kid fall into the tween category more than toddler

Anonymous

#3 5h

many people will use AI chatbot for their writing. it’s just sad overall. like i want to read real human emotion, not a bot’s.😭

Anonymous

#3 1h

Guys im ngl the only time i use ai chatbots is when im on c.ai… I KNOW ITS BAD but genuinely its helped me so much emotionally 🥲

Anonymous

#18 22m

I know. That was kinda my point? Like those inbetween those ages. Not a toddler. Not a tween. Like 6-10 yrs old.