Thank you! I have no idea how to get recs anymore, so I am just opening and trying to read everything. I also love OFMD, and I listen to a lot of podfic to fall asleep to. I often wake up confused about whether I am listening to Stede/Ed or Steve/Eddie.

Dana, I'm about to reread Contractual Obligations (I do that with fic I really love -- I read it and it sticks in my brain so much that a few weeks later I have to reread it). I should comment on AO3 this time (unsurprisingly, I'm Teppy there).

Stuff I love lives on my Kindle forever.

Sophia-my way of finding new (to me) fic to read is by looking at bookmarks on A03.

If I find an author I really like I'll go through their bookmarks and read that. But then I will also go check out the bookmarks of my favorite stories and look at those accounts. A lot of people just read and haven't written anything...this can be more time consuming and kind of annoying but it works for me to find stories.

And it's not really recs but I'll browse tags and then go through and exclude fandoms I don't read or popular fandoms I do read (or popular pairings) to look for more unusual stuff. I can hit the limit on number of items you can filter in/out without trying with some tags.

I'm trying to remember to download stuff. I went through my history a few months ago and there was tons of notices that stuff had been deleted.

Thank you askye. I think I still miss Livejournal, where I knew that if VonnieK liked something, I would too. Or if Dana and Shrift put it on their recs site, it didn't matter the fandom.

That rec site is still there, IJS.

Yeah I miss LJ. I haven't checked Dreamwidth in a while

If you are looking for someone to start with Dira Sudis has over 6000 bookmarks and I've been working my way through them.

Thank you guys! I did not know there was still the recs site! That is exciting. And I remember following Dira Sudis for recs as well.

If someone writes fic for a non-existent media property, is it really fic? Or is it shared-universe original fiction writing?

Tumblr went all in on Goncharov (1973), a Scorsese mafia flick that, to be clear, does not exist. It never existed. But tumblr is treating it as an actual media property, with analysis, shipping wars, and gif sets (mostly cribbed from Al Pachino's earlier career). Even the OG Wonderwoman, Lynda Carter, got into it, posting a 1970s picture of her allegedly at the movie premiere. (She's adapted to tumblr splendidly. If it really is her. I'm inclined to think so.)

Anyway, this morning I got an alert that Dira Sudis had posted a new fic on AO3 in the Goncharov fandom. I have not read it yet, as I want to revisit the movie first so I can appreciate it.

OK, I haven't read it because I had to go to work.

But anyway, that's what prompted my original question. Fanfiction is supposedly writing engaging with a media property of which one is a fan. Is it possible for something to be fanfiction if the media property it's engaging doesn't really exist?

To be clear, I'm not mad about it. I think the whole thing is delightful! But I did find myself wondering about my initial question, so I'm posting it here for the hivemind to consider.

I'd say yes, because it emerges from the fanfic tradition and uses fic tropes and stuff. Not that I've read any of it.