Most people tend to agree that Ao3 is the go-to fanfiction site nowadays, but some of you really need to remember that older fandoms (and fandoms up through the early 2010's even) have a LOT of content on places like FF.net, Livejournal, Wordpress, etc. Some people even still post there and elsewhere exclusively. Like, you're truly missing out in those cases if you think Ao3 is the end all and be all of fandom content. I was still actively using LJ communities to find and share fics until around 2020.
I've even been reading for an old fandom of mine on FF.net this past week. Y'all don't even know. There are literally FAR more fics there than can be found on Ao3 simply because of when this fandom began.
Ao3 is easier to use and superior in almost every way, but too many people think that all "quality" fic or all fic in general is on Ao3 without considering what was available beforehand. Too many people think all fanfiction on fanfiction.net is bad just because it's on fanfiction.net. They don't even think about the older blogging sites.
I'm just saying. Y'all are missing out by not being open to navigating the fandom archives and spaces that dominated before Ao3 got here.
oh man this is so true. for all the fanfic sites that died (and there were so many), there are still little niche sites out there quietly chugging along in this the year of my not lord 2025. my main fandom is "Xena: Warrior Princess" and the number of Xena fanfic sites that are still going is actually amazing. here, have some links:
The Athenaeum - mostly Xena fic but does feature other fandoms. almost entirely femslash oriented
Academy of Bards - Xena fanfic, still regularly updated!
Merwolf's Home Page - Melissa Good's Xena fanfic and original/Uber fic
AUSXIP - The Bard's Corner - the fanfic section of AUSXIP (the Australian Xena Information Site). probably entirely Xena fic but I don't actually know
Tom's Xena Fan Fiction Archive - all Xena fic as far as I know
Tom's Xena Page - list of fanfic site links - links to other Xena fanfic sites, including review sites. haven't checked the veracity of any of these links so some of them are probably dead. proceed at your own risk etc
