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Fan fiction is literature too, and this group is for authors who treat their stories seriously. This group gathers quality fan fiction together in one place, including the fanfic Daily Deviations. Our purpose is to be the place deviants come to when they want to find a well-written fanfic, post their own, and give and receive thoughtful comments and critiques.
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Memento Mori (A Twilight One-Shot)
Millicent flinched in her seat when Parson Cullen slammed his Bible on the pulpit. "In the First Book of the Saint John, we find that 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness!' This is the blessing of God, given to man! Do not take this gift in ill-gratitude, sons and daughters of the Lord God..."
Parson Cullen's sermons had grown louder and louder since the death of his son. Millicent Timmins – born-again, faithful churchgoer – became more concerned for him with each passing year.
After the service, the silent congregation shuffled out of the church into the dark winter night. The sky was clear – stars and galaxies twinkled brightly in the evening sky. Millicent shivered as she exited the warm place of worship, pulling her wool cloak closer to her slim body.
She knew her father would be angry that she returned home unescorted once again, but she still wasn't keen on any of the suitors that he par
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Galactus
To whomever finds me
I fear I have held something from you and from the galaxy, for many a year. As you all know I am the last of my kin and as I am approaching the end of my life, I feel it is appropriate to tell you the truth.

Back when I was Galan in the year 27π it was the morn of the seventeenth moon. I was no older than nine, a number which, said to represent satisfaction, brought only sorrow. The sun had set with a smooth sky yet there was a disconcerting air of the cavern. The only woman who ever loved me was resting peacefully, with child, upon the chaise longue, the fire kissing her toes with the sweetest crackling sound. The suns upper corona was casting its final rays, illuminating her tired face.
As her chest gently rose, a hoarse braying came from within the barn, followed by a consenting uproar from the other animals. I rushed out to tame the mounting pandemonium emanating from the farmyard. The barn doors had burst open. Shards lay across the drive. Ebbs soa
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An Apple A Day - A Myria LeJean Discworld Fanfic
The rights to The Discworld and its characters created by Terry Pratchett are owned by Terry Pratchett and his publishers. All copyrights associated with the Discworld belong to them. Only the ideas and original characters in this work of fan fiction are my property. No profit is being derived from this story. Seriously guys, Pratchett is a genius. Go out and buy his books. Pratchett will thank you and so will I.
"Myria are you trying to paint again?"
Myria quickly stepped away from the canvas she had purchased that day. Nearby on the white tabletop sat a single apple, the epitome of appleness. It was red, yes it was. And shiny. There was even a bit of stem with a single green leaf sticking off of it. If one had to look at something and say "hey, now THAT is an apple," this would be it. It practically screamed "Paint me! I am Apple! Hear me… er… make whatever sound an apple would make."
Myria crossed her arms and dipped her head, leaving a red streak on her blouse in t
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The Reindeer Are Pissed!

Journal Entry: Sat Nov 18, 2017, 10:54 AM


Santa's reindeer are PISSED OFF. Santa was busy all year developing all the coolest toys for boys and girls around the world, and he never paid any attention to the reindeer. They were hungry because their food was served late, and their stables were full of soggy hay. No one bothered to scratch their ears or polish their jingle bells. So this was how Santa treated his precious reindeer? Humph! And now, with the holidays coming, he expected them to jump at the opportunity to carry millions of toys to spoiled children all around the world! Well, it wasn't going to happen! And, by the way, when was the last time Santa ever asked THEM what THEY would like for the holidays? Reindeer enjoy gifts, too, y'know!

All nine reindeer, including Rudolph (who used to get preferential treatment but lately has been neglected), are furious and tired of being taken advantage of. They have decided by unanimous vote that there will be no holidays this year. Period. Instead of delivering gifts, the reindeer decided to hide in vacation spots around the world. The nine reindeer are in nine different countries, one per country.

Mrs. Claus tried desperately to keep the peace at the North Pole, but Santa was furious when he found out about the reindeer's defection. To make matters worse, the elves were greatly confused about how all the toys would get delivered; they started their own elven protests and demanded fair wages and more vacation days.

Mrs. Claus was beside herself. The only clue she had about the reindeer's disappearance was a tattered postcard with Dasher's hoof print and a picture of some exotic location. For months, she frantically looked for Dasher herself, but alas, she had no luck. With the holidays approaching, she decided to pose a challenge for the adept reindeer-finders at DeviantArt: find our precious reindeer and convince them to come home, and we will reward you richly!

Will you come have piping hot tea and fresh-baked cookies with Mrs. Claus and take up the challenge? If you're kind to her, she just might let you see that postcard . . . 



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Welcome to LiteraryFanFiction!


We are the gathering place for quality fan fiction. Our goal is to raise awareness of quality fan fiction and to improve the community's overall opinion of it. Fan fiction suffers from a stigma that it is poorly written, plotted, full of poorly developed characters, and basically that it is "bad writing." We wish to show the community that we are serious writers and we take our fiction seriously. This is not to say "bad fan fiction" doesn't exist - it does - but there are numerous well written fanfics out there as well. We want the community to see how wonderful our chosen medium can be. We wish to share with the community the all great fanfics available.

Please feel free to look around and enjoy! :D

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Rules & Guidelines


Since we are striving for quality fan fictions, we have strict guidelines for submissions.

:bulletgreen: Fan Fiction - This is a fan fiction group. Your submission must be fan fiction (or tutorial/community information - like contests - applicable to fan fiction and submitted to the 'Tutorials, Informative, Contest Info' folder) in the English language, as we are not qualified to judge literary standards in other languages.

:bulletgreen: Format - Please submit only pieces that are narrative prose (stories), poetry, or non-narrative prose about writing or fanfiction. Prose should not contain in-line citations, excessive footnotes, or "fill in the blank" passages.

:bulletgreen: Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation - Please make sure your fic is well-edited before submitting. A typo can be overlooked, but a fanfic that's full of errors is just sloppy. This includes punctuation of dialog.

:bulletgreen: Gallery Folders - Submit to the proper folder. Each folder has 'Fandoms' and then letters listed after it. Those letters are for the first letter of your fan fiction's series title. Do not use articles (a, an, the) when alphabetizing your series. (Ex. - The Dresden Files would go under D, for Dresden, not T.)

:bulletgreen: Crossovers - Crossovers are allowed, if the story premise is possible (please nothing wild, like humanized My Little Ponies traipsing around with sparkling vampires). Please submit crossovers under the fandom name the main POV character belongs to. Example: in a Superman/X-Men crossover, if the fanfic is told from Wolverine's POV, submit the story into the "Fandoms V, W, X, Y, Z" gallery because Wolverine is from the X-Men franchise.

:bulletgreen: Featured Folder - The Featured folder is reserved for the Fan Fiction Daily Deviations, and other DDs related to fan fiction.

:bulletgreen: Canon - To avoid reader confusion, stories should remain canon or, at least, canonically possible (something that is conceivable in that fandom). Stories that contradict canon are at risk of being declined. Be prepared to defend anything that isn't, or may not be, canon.

:bulletgreen: Romantic Relationships - Please keep all relations in your fanfic canon, canonically possible (i.e. the 'other' person in a romantic triangle), or :new: clearly labeled as non-canon. We accept all orientations, as long as it's canon or labeled as not being such.

:bulletgreen: Original Characters - OCs are allowed, but canon characters must also be present or be set in an immediately recognizable setting (i.e. having your OC wizard students attending Hogwarts is fine, however, an OC wizard with a wand and no recognizable locales or spells being used is not enough).

:bulletgreen: Continuity - please submit chapters in order. We reserve the right to decline chapters of a work if all previous chapters have not been accepted into our gallery.

:bulletgreen: Submission Limit - At the moment, submissions are limited to two a week. This may change as the group grows.

:bulletgreen: When posting a new story, please submit only the first chapter. After that one is approved, you may post new chapters at your leisure within the submission limits.

:bulletgreen: Mature Content - While you are allowed to submit mature content and works with ideologically sensitive material, admins are not required to read or act on things that make them uncomfortable. We thank you for your patience.

:bulletgreen: Flash Fan Fiction Friday - If your Flash Fan Fiction Friday entry would put you over the week's limit, please tell us this in your comment on the entry when you link us the story, and hold off on submitting it to the group gallery.

Reasons Why a Submission Might Be Declined


:bulletred: Mary Sues - Mary Sues/Gary Stus are overly perfect characters with little to no flaws, and they outshine the main cast.

:bulletred: Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation - Please, please, please edit your stories. An occasional typo happens to everyone, but basic grammar rules need to be understood and followed. Fics with multiple errors will be declined, as will fics with "fill in the blank" sections.

:bulletred: dA Rules and Guidelines - No submission that breaks dA submission policies will be accepted. Please don't argue with me about the rules. It's dA's site, it's their rules. If it's mature, tag it. FAQ #554: Is my deviation Mature Content? FAQ #251: You prohibit the submission of 'pornographic literature'; what do you consider this to be? Repeated attempts to submit works that flagrantly violate dA's rules on pornographic content will result in being banned from the group. :(

:bulletred: Quality - 'Quality' is a very subjective term, but your fic should be well organized, interesting and easy to understand.

:bulletred: OC x Canon - All relationships should be canon, conceivable in that fandom, or clearly marked as non-canon. For this reason, we don't accept OC x Canon fics if that Canon character is in an established relationship. Any OC x Canon relationship must be conceivable (i.e. it is believable, even expected, for Captain James T. Kirk to have numerous "flings" with pretty much any female around).

:bulletred: Wrong Gallery - Deviations submitted to the wrong gallery, or not labeled so we can tell what fandom they belong to, will be declined. We want our galleries easy to navigate.

:bulletred: Plot - Have one.

:bulletred: Implausible Crossovers - As mentioned in the crossover rule above, any crossovers have to make sense and be conceivable. No human!Ponies with sparkling vampires (I haven't seen that, but I'm sure it's out there).

:bulletred: Moderator Discretion - This is similar to the 'Quality' issue listed above. Sometimes - for varying reasons - a story may not quite fit inside our guidelines. For that reason, we rely on Moderator discretion. Our Moderators have to right to refuse any story as necessary.

:bulletred: "Submit and Run" Members - Please do not join our group long enough to submit, and then leave the group.



:bulletpurple: Special Note - There are so many fandoms out there, it's impossible to be familiar with each one. We will do our best to insure all the fanfics here are canon (or canonically possible), but if you find one that is not, please note the group so we can investigate it.

As we are still new, these rules are subject to change. Any major changes will be announced in a blog. If you have any questions, please send us a note.

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SingingFlames Featured By Owner Nov 11, 2016  Hobbyist Writer
Certainly! :D
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SideQuestPubs Featured By Owner Edited Oct 17, 2016  Hobbyist Writer
Hmmm... crossover question..... Wonder if anyone's asked this particular one before.... :?

Please submit crossovers under the fandom name the main POV character belongs to
Rare, I suspect, is the situation where this would come up, but what if the character is legitimately from multiple titles?
I mean, I have several Captain Cold-centric projects at the moment based on the CW shows. The ones that are strictly "Flash" fics would of course go under "F" for Flash, "Legends" fics go under L, and (whenever he shows up in there) fics focusing in and around Arrow episodes would go under A.
But what about when I have a fic that spans two or more of these shows?

The only "crossovers" I currently have up from those shows have framing stories set on the Waverider via Legends of Tomorrow with the main plot set during Flash episodes, but... just in case.


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I should also mention, while one of my deviations may depend on how long certain chapters will be when I'm done, my Captain Cold crossover fics are split up into multiple deviations based, among other things, on where the scene actually exists.
For instance, the scenes taking place on the Waverider are not in the same deviation as the scenes taking place during Flash episodes (yet; as mentioned, I may have one that crosses locations depending on chapter length), so I suppose I could try submitting each deviation to a separate folder according to where that particular chapter takes place.
Would that be acceptable?
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SingingFlames Featured By Owner Oct 19, 2016  Hobbyist Writer
Hi! Thanks for your interest!

In answer to your question, is there a particular show that it focuses more on more than others? You can choose to put it into that fandom, if you wish. You also have the choice of putting it in the 'C' folder, for CW. Whichever folder you choose, I would continue using that folder. In the end, it's your choice as to which folder would be the best fit for your story. 

Whatever you choose, I look forward to seeing your story. It sounds very interesting! :)
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SideQuestPubs Featured By Owner Oct 19, 2016  Hobbyist Writer
Well, like I said, the two (thus far) crossovers use the Waverider from Legends as a framing story while the main plot takes place within The Flash, so if I don't go with the "CW" suggestion I'd still consider those Flash stories. Or go with the "CW" suggestion.
Any others I come up with.... :shrug: well, depends on what else I come up with, now doesn't it? ;)
Actually, I wonder if it might be easier to just stick with CW for all of them...? That way the issue is less likely to come up should characters from the other shows pay a visit now and again... particularly when one of my Flash/Legends crossovers has Barry recruiting Team Arrow for help :roll:

Thank ya! :D
Now which fic to submit first...... Decisions, decisions.... :plotting:
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TheSoylentOrange Featured By Owner Jun 14, 2016  Professional Writer
Hey there, I'm a longtime writer who made the jump into professional editing- what would the etiquette be for offering my services to the group?
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SingingFlames Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2016  Hobbyist Writer
Hi! We have a "Tutorials, Informative and Contests" gallery folder. Feel free to submit a deviation with that information to that folder. :)

Thanks for your interest!
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TheSoylentOrange Featured By Owner Jun 19, 2016  Professional Writer
Submitted! Thanks again! :D
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SingingFlames Featured By Owner Jun 19, 2016  Hobbyist Writer
You're welcome!
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RavenshellRorschach Featured By Owner May 25, 2016  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Bumped into this site from a friend's page, but just wondering a couple things before joining/posting...

a) What're your feelings about mature fics with explicit bits linked elsewhere? (i.e., Everything's within dA guidelines, but the really porny scenes are available via a link to Ao3, etc)?

and b) Do fics need to be fully completed before posting (all chapters complete)?
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SingingFlames Featured By Owner Jun 1, 2016  Hobbyist Writer
Hi! Thank you for your interest! :D

As for your questions -

a) I'm fine with them, as long as they fit DA rules.

b) Nope. You can post chapters or what have you, as long as the deviation itself is finished. :)
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