User:FlashFlyingFish

Name/s:	FlashFlyingFish
Fandom/s:	Hetalia: Axis Powers, Undertale, Portal, Harry Potter, Stargate: SG1, X-Files, Indiana Jones
You can find me at:	Tumblr[1], AO3[2], FFN[3], Wattpad[4]
On Fanlore:	My contributions / email me

My name's FlashFlyingFish. I'm a freelance fanfiction writer from Canada. For most of my fandom career, I have lurked without an account on most of the websites you can find me at. My fanfiction writing days date back to January 2020 and I am still actively producing fan content.

Fanfiction Career

The Lurking Days

From the years 2016 to 2019, I was a full-fledged lurker within the fandoms of Undertale, Portal, and Hetalia. I didn't have an account on any of the popular fanfiction sites (FFN, AO3, Wattpad) or even a Tumblr. I was perfectly content to only anonymously consume what others put out, without leaving a single trace of my presence.

However, that doesn't mean I was just mindlessly consuming content; I was creating headcanons and storylines for my own enjoyment. It had just honestly never occurred to me during that time that what I had been thinking up could possibly be enjoyed by others. As far as I was concerned, I didn't have what it took to be a fanfiction/fanart creator.

I believed my writing and ideas to be unworthy of the praise writers like Waffles and others got. I held fanfiction writers and fan art creators in such high regard that I excluded myself from communities more than willing to listen/read my ideas and works. I had so thoroughly convinced myself of this that I couldn't even imagine myself writing for an online community. After all, in ten years I would probably look back and cringe at my trash writing, so why bother? But if you never try and never practice, you'll never get better.

The Start of Something New

At the start of 2020, I had a sort of epiphany. "Nobody will write a story the same way you would.". Nobody would write the story I wanted or imagined for me, that was something I would have to do myself if I actually wanted to read it. Unless it's a request or gift, people aren't going to write your daydreams and even then it won't be quite how you imagined it. Fanfiction/fan art is something that if you want, you need to make it yourself.

I also realized that people who have the same mindset I had is how fandoms die. If everyone that ever thought about creating fan works chose not to because their's might not be as good as other people's didn't make anything, then we would never get new content. As a fandom grows older, it inevitably acquires a good amount of outstanding works that are held as God sends by the community, such as Blue Sky by Waffles in the Portal fandom.

Realizing this I chose to give back to my fandoms in the only way I knew how. By creating the type of content I was craving, whether that be by writing for the most popular characters or for the rarest of ships. I knew that I had to give back in some capacity.

Fanfiction Produced

Number of Complete Works

As of April 26, 2020, I don't have any completed works posted

Works In Progress

As of April 26, 2020, I have five WIPs:

• “We’ll Cross That Bridge When We Get To It”-Chapters ¼ up (Standalone) (AO3[5], FFN[6], Wattpad[7])
• “Stained Glass Windows”-Concept of a one-shot (Vaguely connects with QWCA and NWM)
• “Questions We Can’t Answer”-Concept of a one-shot (Vaguely connects with SGW and NWM)
• “New World Memories”-Concept of a one-shot (Vaguely connects with SGW and QWCA)
• “We’ll Meet Again Alfie” -Concept of a one-shot songfic (Standalone)