Soooooo, (k, pretty crap start) Hi! If you have been reading these type of fan stories for years then you wouldn't know me or know my work.
That is because I am pretty new to a community like this. Sure, this fan base is dying and I came into this type of fan base a little too late. But! There are some people who still stick around because they just crave the characters and the story line. Tbh, I wanted to write a story like this back in 2013 when I was a shrimp 5th grader. But I knew I didn't know how to spell some long words and knew that it involved my parents (and god they are nosey). Plus, I was kinda scared of how the internet would portray my story I had in mind. So I did what any average 5th grader would do, just drop it and continue on with life. Even though I made the dessicion of not writing it, I felt very lost inside because I wanted to write this story soooo bad. Of course this wasn't a major issue cause this was just for fun, but I needed this necessity in my life to prove to people that I can write. Though, I'm not gonna try to pursue this as a career. But in life, essays were given to me like to write stories for fun and I of course wrote stories based on some stories I had in mind. Sure enough, I got a pretty decent grade on some but others excelled and kinda lifted my spirits and confidence, but that assignment was like 3 years ago, and I didn't write a story I had in mind ever since. So I assumed that I might have retrogressed my progress and I just repeated what I did back in 2013 (as I was even closer to writing a story then). But then high school came and my newly found friends LOVE fan-made stories. As I told a friend of mine about my idea, she was thrilled and exhauled all exciting ideas I told her (this is coming from a web-toon artist). She told me that if I want to do want I want to do, then go for it. Sure enough, I started to write but, I didn't find a community like this when she told me this. So I was searching for any kind of AO community but I was not lucky at all. I felt very gaped when I thought there wasn't any people left who liked AO (this was like in 2016, so you know the whole "all great things must come to an end").
Being the mindless freshman I was, I repeated the process yet AGAIN (giving up on writing).
Then I found FanFiction, and I was like,
"What's this."
So I entered the website and was soooo happy when I found out that there are some authors out there still writing fan-made stories on AO.
One of the best ones I read (and still am reading) was Humphrey the sawtooth wolf (shout out to LoneWolves246) and so I finally found my place in the fanfiction world, and here is where I will be at peace for a looong time! So if you think the AO community is dying, just you wait, I promise that I will keep on writing to make sure that a community like this never dies! (Just in the future I might need some story ideas when I run out of options.)
If you are thinking about writing, do it, cause this community needs all the help we can get to keep this fan-base alive!
-Noahtypeofguy
(Ps, I'm sure you all know my name by now)