Sites that are not DW/LJ for reading fiction?

[aldersprig]

Are there sites on which you read fiction, fan or otherwise?

I know of AO3, and I've at least heard of Fanfiction.net although I haven't heard anything specific about it.

I know some people post fiction on Deviantart, but I dunno how much feedback/audience that garners one.

And I used to read Potter fic on Fiction Alley, but that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Are there any other fandom-specific sites?

I can and do plan to use the Google machine, but anything where someone already knows the community would be super helpful.

Comments

[anke]

Fiction is not very popular on deviantart (I mean, look at the collection of all your submissions being called "gallery", that's a hint of the focus). There may be communities that'd help, but, eh. I wouldn't really recommend it unless you wanted to try every damn where. :)

[aldersprig]

Well.... I do sort of want to try manywhere.

[anke]

OK, if you do, you can try finding fiction groups and/or groups for themes/genres you want to post that also accept fiction from the Groups page, http://groups.deviantart.com/

(just quick on what a group is good for: If someone watches a group, anything submitted to that group will show up in their inbox, same as any submission by a person they watch. If you submit something from your account to a group, and it is accepted, it will show up in group watchers' inboxes, and be displayed in the group gallery.)

[kay_brooke]

I agree Deviantart is not great for fiction. Most of what I've seen is porn (nothing wrong with that, but it depends on what kind of fiction you're looking for) and terribly written at that.

I'm in Doctor Who fandom, and their fandom-specific archive is whofic.com, where you can pick up some things that haven't been crossposted to AO3. That's the only fanfic archive I'm familiar with, though, because I haven't really read fanfic in years.

Is Fictionpress still around? I used to be on that like twelve years ago. It was basically the original fic version of Fanfiction.net.

I've occasionally read some stuff on Wattpadd. It's mostly terrible fanfic, but there's a decent amount of original fiction there, too, most of it also terrible. There are several similar sites to Wattpad, too, but I'm not familiar with them.

I see you're already familiar with the Web Fiction Guide. That's another place I'll sometimes find stuff to read.

A lot of people on Tumblr post fic, but that's pretty much impossible to find because that site's search sucks and no one uses consistent tags. I tend to stumble upon it while browsing fandom tags, and if I like it I'll go to the writer's Tumblr and see if they have any more or if they rec other people's stuff.

Um, I think that's about it.

[aldersprig]

Awesome, there's a few new places. Thank you!

[kuro_neko00]

mediaminer.org is one. Less popular then fanfiction.net but not nearly as strict on their content, for good or for bad. More focused on anime works, but you can find non-anime fanfiction there as well as some original works.

forums.spacebattles.com and it's younger brother forums.sufficientvelocity.com both have extensive creative writing sections for both fanfiction and original works. If you read Worm when I linked it awhile back then there is a large amount of Worm fanfiction on these forums.

www.tthfanfic.org is the best place to go for Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfics, crossovers mainly but some pure fics as well.

Actually, it would probably just be easier to post this TV Tropes link, which is a list of most of the notable multi-fandom archives:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MultiFandomArchives

And this one is for archives dedicated to single fandoms:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SingleFandomArchives

[aldersprig]

Awesome, thank you!

[clare_dragonfly]

I read stuff from online magazines--Expanded Horizons, GigaNotosaurus. I don't know if that's really the sort of thing you're looking for...

[butterflydreaming]

Fictionontheweb.co.uk is a good site for original fiction from flash to novella. All the stories are chosen by Charlie Fish, and his voracious tastes match mine rather well. It's a high traffic site, free for readers & authors (& unpaid). I have "The One that Got Away" archived there.

I love AO3. It's like DW for fanfic.