People Are Sharing Their Most Cringeworthy Fanfiction Memories

Fanfiction is exactly what it sounds like. Fans of shows, books, and movies write their own version of events. They put themselves into the franchises and sagas they love. They write their favorite character as they see them. You can make anything happen in fanfiction. You are the master of your own destiny.

Recently, a Reddit user posed the question, “people who wrote fanfiction between the ages of 12 and 16, what’s the funniest thing you wrote completely seriously?” The people of Reddit delivered. Keep reading for some of the funniest, cringiest, fanfiction to ever grace the internet— including the funniest way to boost your word count.

The Next Arthur Conan Doyle

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“During my Superwholock phase (I know, I regret it, too), I wrote a high school AU Sherlock fanfic on fanfiction.net (where else) that ended up with thousands of views and a few hundred followers. This was in 2012.

In 2014, my freshman year of college, I was visiting my sister at her school and while talking about cringey fanfiction memories, her friend mentioned having read a well-known Sherlock high school AU. She told us the title. It was the fanfiction I wrote in 2012. It was 30 chapters long and probably rivals the length of my undergraduate thesis.” —/u/coffeeandsoymilk