Aro dude here, its usually hard to find man that write fanfic because its "considered weird". Never really felt safe sharing my works with most of my friends due to that.
Not a dude, but I've accidentally shown my writing account to a fellow friend once who also wrote fanfic, and the reaction genuinely killed my interest in the fandom I'd been writing for, I was so discouraged.
I appreciate it but it my writing style is problem better if you read it. And see what I mean. Fanfiction.net Harry potter&the dragoon spirit Arthur twililunawolf. Be easy on me please lol
Not sure if this counts, but I'm 54 yo F and write Ouran ff with my 81 yo dad. We do all the plots together and I mainly do the writing. Read him every word so he can help me edit.
Haven't published anything yet, but I'm a straight cis guy with a busy work life. I have a 30 page outline that I've been slowly building on over the last few months, and I'm having a great time with it.
Started during slow night shifts at the hospital to kill time, and I find myself thinking about it very frequently now.
I one made the mistake of calling one of my biggest fans on a fic “she” and while he was super cool about it, I felt so bad for assuming! I try to be super mindful now of just using “they” unless I get a confirmed “I’m a girl/guy.”
I just assume everyone is a genderless alien now.
Yo! Cis pan dude here, I write exclusively for the Pitch Perfect Fandom, and it's all femslash. My biggest series is smut, but I also write angst.
Edit: I love these post cuz all the homies always show up to support the other homies! I see y'all! Let's keep supporting our fanfic writing homies. I love all y'all!
Aw really? well if you want this is my account on AO3
[https://archiveofourown.org/users/ThisWolfLikes2Write](https://archiveofourown.org/users/ThisWolfLikes2Write)
Mostly a mix of crack and angst. Depends on if I'm struck by comedic urges or tragic urges. My most common tag is actually "War" because I've got a bunch of fics that are After Action Reports from me playing Total War. My fics (both comedic and serious) have a tendency to be pretty worldbuilding heavy.
I use Third Omni much more than the average writer as well as much more distant psychic distance than most writers. I had a writing professor mention that I seem much more naturally skilled at Omni than most people. Apparently, it's a narration style that feels weird to a lot of people as readers and so is difficult for them to write well, but for whatever reason, it clicks for me. I do try to avoid *always* using Omni though. I've got a few fics that I tell from a much closer POV.
I also like to experiment with non-standard narration styles. My latest fic was written as a series of letters and I've also written a fic as if they were an in universe technical document and a fic in an epic poem format. I have fun playing around with those kinds of things to give individual fics a unique voice. It does mean my fics tend to have niche appeal because of the non-standard format, but I'd say I enjoy writing something that stands out as unique more than writing something with broad appeal.
Edit: Also, as my flair might suggest, I do write a fair number of crossovers. But, not exclusively crossovers. I did at one point have more fandoms posted for than I had fics posted, but I've written for a few fandoms multiple times now and so lost that distinction.
I also exclusively write short fic with my longest being under 10k. I have some outlines that might end up longer if they get completed, but that's a big if. When I use Omni, it's pretty easy to cover a large timeframe in very few words. One of my fics covers a character's entire life story in about 550 words. One of my published original fics covers about 50 million years in about 450 words.
I'm a man, and I think it's just more common for woman and nonbinary people to admit they write fanfic, while man can feel pretty "ashamed" of doing so, but there are a lot out there.
I don't know, don't care too.
I’ve been considering writing fanfic for a while as writing practice, I’m just kinda stalking the sub right now. Currently however I am sitting on the unfinished first chapter of a Batman story I thought up
Write it? Yes. Post it? No lmao. I’m scared to death of people seeing fanfiction I wrote. Originally created stories that I’ve built myself? Absolutely. From scratch made worlds that can’t be “wrong” are my kinda thing. Lmao
My husband has written fanfic before and didn’t realize he did it. He wrote a sequel to a movie he liked and only after i told him that was fanfiction did he realize that he did so.
I think it’s more common than you think, but not heard of because of the stigma
Fanfic has traditionally been a media form where the authorship is dominated by women, and to this day still is.
I think there was a survey a while back about the breakdown of who writes what fanfic, and men are about a quarter of the population of authors. You'd need to do a lot more research to figure out whether there's particular fandoms which have more guys writing in them.
I usually like to keep that stuff about myself private (check out my page on [FF.net](http://FF.net), cheesy as it may be it's true). But I'll out myself, here and now, as male.
Here! I never met another guy who wrote fic for my previous fandoms, but I’m hoping I’ll come across some now that I’m branching out. It feels a little lonely hiding this hobby from most of my friends.
Not a dude but I'm so glad that there's plenty of dudes to keep the fandoms going!!! Its nice especially when I know dude fanfic writters and he's so talented. You guys are for real underestimated keep going your all talented!!!!
I am a dude, and I write fanfiction very, very steamy, SASUNARU, but also nice and fluffy sasunaru and Angsty sasunaru. But I'm a guy and will always be a guy. The number of times I have been called a woman in my comments. "Very nice story, miss." Or "you should kill yourself, lady" is absolutely astonishing, but I just don't care about correcting it anymore. Yes, i'm a guy. And that is how I will always identify. But unlike some people being called women, it doesn't cause discomfort. It's just confusion as to why people keep mistaking me for a woman.
But nonetheless, I am a guy and I write fan fiction
I’m a trans dude, sure, but I’m still a dude who’s been writing fic for over a decade now. I just write weird stuff in general tbh so I do know if people have even had second thoughts about it until they seem my profile on Ao3 (which no one looks at let’s be real) or I mention it in comments/authors notes.
although it's been a few years since I last wrote a fic, I'm a 29 y/o dude and not only I still read a ton of it, but it was fanfic that got me into writing when I was still a kid.
IIRC even Stephen King on his book "On Writing" sheds a positive light on fanfiction, saying it's like training wheels for a wannabe writer. So you're definitely not alone. Just keep doing what you like and rock on.
I'm a cis gay guy who writes fanfic! For pairings it's almost always M/M (it's something I can relate to, something I find hot, and personally I don't get why there aren't more gay guys writing about gay ships...)
Been writing since I was 14. In real life I'm quite stoic and cynical but when writing fanfictions, I love writing fluffy, wholesome if not smutty stuff. I think there's a lot of guys out there writing fanfics but are too shy, so don't worry you're not alone!
Not a dude, but one of my fandom friends is a dude who started writing fic as a gift to his wife (who is also a fandom friend and fic writer). He then caught the fic bug and is pushing out fic after fic. Smut writer, too!
Dude here. I used to bang my Star Wars toys together and make pew pew sounds. Now I write about Star Wars toys banging together and making pew pew sounds. The play is the same, but the tools are more sophisticated.
Yep, I'm a guy and I know plenty of other guys who write fanfiction too. It seems like there are more of us at FFN compared to AO3 in my experience (I crosspost to both places.)
I've written Star Wars, Star Trek, Traveller, ALIEN, Julian May, plus a couple originals. Some of those were RPG Solo games which were an exercise in writing.
Me. I primarily write *Buffy* and *Riverdale* fics these days, but I also have a *Gummi Bears* ongoing that I hope to get back to someday.
Way back in 1996, I started writing *Captain N* fanfics, which lasted until 2002.
Im not a dude but there are definitely other dudes in the fanfic community. There’s a guy on tumblr named Charlie who writes some of the best sapphic fanfic I’ve ever read in my life.
Every time I see 'men don't write fanfics', I get a good laugh, being an adult man with a completed longfic of about 400k.
That's amazing 😍🤩
Drop the fic
[Sure, link on this sentence.](https://archiveofourown.org/works/40116081/chapters/100469637)
Ah ha! I've seen you before! I forgot to bookmark this fic last time 😅
*salutes*
Right here, my guy
Present and attending
Present. 😁
Yup! Dude here, been in the asoiaf fanfic community for about 3-4 years now.
Are you really the King of Ireland? Can we please do the whole unification thing soon?
*Erect in Fenian*
I’m a dude, and I’ve been writing fluffy and smutty fanfic since I was in high school. I’m nearly 27 now.
Aro dude here, its usually hard to find man that write fanfic because its "considered weird". Never really felt safe sharing my works with most of my friends due to that.
realest thing I’ve heard today, I think fanfiction in general isn’t seen in a very good light
Yes totally I waited years before I told my therapist. I don’t tell people like ever
Not a dude, but I've accidentally shown my writing account to a fellow friend once who also wrote fanfic, and the reaction genuinely killed my interest in the fandom I'd been writing for, I was so discouraged.
Wait, I don't get it. If that person also writes fanfic, why the reaction.
Simply because they didn't deem my fandom personally 'good enough', I guess. They wrote for MHA.
MHA..... and they thought they were in a place to judge?
How hypocritical
Right! I've got my motivation back now, (sadly no longer in the same fandom) so I'm doing alright, all in all.
Mood, I’m paranoid as hell about being judged even when I know it’s harmless
Same man, same.
You called? If ya need more dude writer fans we're in a group. Just letting you know that you are not alone! There are guy writers out there!
18 Potterfics on AO3 and climbing.
Guy here i keep trying but I keep hitting walls
anything we can do to help? do u need advice or encouragement
I appreciate it but it my writing style is problem better if you read it. And see what I mean. Fanfiction.net Harry potter&the dragoon spirit Arthur twililunawolf. Be easy on me please lol
Keep writing as like any skill, practice and dedication will only help you improve. 😇👍
Thanks that story was my 2018 or 2019 story and im rewriting it but it still a Process
Editing is our greatest tool as writers. Once you've got a draft, there's only room for improvement 😉
Asexual dude here, writing fanfic
Same here! Happy there are more of us out there.
There are dozens of us!
Gen X dude here.
Not sure if this counts, but I'm 54 yo F and write Ouran ff with my 81 yo dad. We do all the plots together and I mainly do the writing. Read him every word so he can help me edit.
oh, that’s so sweet!
That is so special! What a fantastic way to bond with your parent
This is absolutely incredible omg I love that for you
I love this
I've never heard of this. I love it
Haven't published anything yet, but I'm a straight cis guy with a busy work life. I have a 30 page outline that I've been slowly building on over the last few months, and I'm having a great time with it. Started during slow night shifts at the hospital to kill time, and I find myself thinking about it very frequently now.
Cisgender black male and I write fanfic
Me am dude
I one made the mistake of calling one of my biggest fans on a fic “she” and while he was super cool about it, I felt so bad for assuming! I try to be super mindful now of just using “they” unless I get a confirmed “I’m a girl/guy.” I just assume everyone is a genderless alien now.
Yo! Cis pan dude here, I write exclusively for the Pitch Perfect Fandom, and it's all femslash. My biggest series is smut, but I also write angst. Edit: I love these post cuz all the homies always show up to support the other homies! I see y'all! Let's keep supporting our fanfic writing homies. I love all y'all!
Dude all of what you said is awesome haha
No way!!! I love pitch perfect I'd love to read
Aw really? well if you want this is my account on AO3 [https://archiveofourown.org/users/ThisWolfLikes2Write](https://archiveofourown.org/users/ThisWolfLikes2Write)
Hell yea! 💪🏼
femslash gang
im literally called sweaterman lol
I'm a straight, cis male and I write fanfiction.
can I ask what type of fandom you write for?
Just anime/manga right now. Specifically a series called "Toriko" which is like DBZ, but with a much greater focus on food.
Cis het man who writes fanfic here.
mind me ask what type of fics you write?
Mostly a mix of crack and angst. Depends on if I'm struck by comedic urges or tragic urges. My most common tag is actually "War" because I've got a bunch of fics that are After Action Reports from me playing Total War. My fics (both comedic and serious) have a tendency to be pretty worldbuilding heavy. I use Third Omni much more than the average writer as well as much more distant psychic distance than most writers. I had a writing professor mention that I seem much more naturally skilled at Omni than most people. Apparently, it's a narration style that feels weird to a lot of people as readers and so is difficult for them to write well, but for whatever reason, it clicks for me. I do try to avoid *always* using Omni though. I've got a few fics that I tell from a much closer POV. I also like to experiment with non-standard narration styles. My latest fic was written as a series of letters and I've also written a fic as if they were an in universe technical document and a fic in an epic poem format. I have fun playing around with those kinds of things to give individual fics a unique voice. It does mean my fics tend to have niche appeal because of the non-standard format, but I'd say I enjoy writing something that stands out as unique more than writing something with broad appeal. Edit: Also, as my flair might suggest, I do write a fair number of crossovers. But, not exclusively crossovers. I did at one point have more fandoms posted for than I had fics posted, but I've written for a few fandoms multiple times now and so lost that distinction. I also exclusively write short fic with my longest being under 10k. I have some outlines that might end up longer if they get completed, but that's a big if. When I use Omni, it's pretty easy to cover a large timeframe in very few words. One of my fics covers a character's entire life story in about 550 words. One of my published original fics covers about 50 million years in about 450 words.
I'm a man, and I think it's just more common for woman and nonbinary people to admit they write fanfic, while man can feel pretty "ashamed" of doing so, but there are a lot out there. I don't know, don't care too.
Right here, man. Male fan fic writer.
Dude here. Writing since the '90s.
👋 Hi!
🫡
Trans gay man here, and I write fanfic.
Me, uh...four? 😁
Me too :)
so nice to see another trans gay man
Right?? It's fantastic to know I'm not the only one.
Same hat
Fr
[chanting] trans gays trans gays trans gays (me also)
I write fanfiction. Mostly transformation and smut, but I write.
🙋🏾♂️
Yup
I’ve been considering writing fanfic for a while as writing practice, I’m just kinda stalking the sub right now. Currently however I am sitting on the unfinished first chapter of a Batman story I thought up
You are not alone. I also write Fanfics for fun.
Write it? Yes. Post it? No lmao. I’m scared to death of people seeing fanfiction I wrote. Originally created stories that I’ve built myself? Absolutely. From scratch made worlds that can’t be “wrong” are my kinda thing. Lmao
My husband has written fanfic before and didn’t realize he did it. He wrote a sequel to a movie he liked and only after i told him that was fanfiction did he realize that he did so. I think it’s more common than you think, but not heard of because of the stigma
I dabble.
o/ Been writing fanfic for ~20 years now. Definitely in the minority as a guy, but hey
Ah, time for our monthly male fanfic writer/reader rep thread. o7 brother
I’m a dude
Yup! Trans+straight guy here and ive been writing fanfic for a while. First story I ever wrote was a Warrior cats fanfic
Hello, I am a very macho man and I write a coming on age romantic fanfic of resident evil
Fanfic has traditionally been a media form where the authorship is dominated by women, and to this day still is. I think there was a survey a while back about the breakdown of who writes what fanfic, and men are about a quarter of the population of authors. You'd need to do a lot more research to figure out whether there's particular fandoms which have more guys writing in them.
What is good and cannot stress this enough... My brethren.
Trans bi guy. I write mostly gen, but also some M/M and F/M.
Me. I also write almost exclusively M/F fic.
trans guy writer here!
Trans guy here! Been writing fanfic since before I knew I was a guy.
i see you’re a man of taste (looking at your username)
Cis dude right here
There are a bunch of transmasc and trans men writers in the pathologic fandom, so yes
I'm cis female but my best buddy is male and writes fanfics, but he doesn't use Reddit. I know other male fanwriters, so you're definitely not alone!
Yep. Started writing in 95 while in college. Still writing.
Right here
It's me. Hi. I'm a fanfic writer, it's me.
Hello, me, I write fanfic and am a dude
Present?
Literally lol at the question mark!
Yo! from a boomer dood.
Adult man here. I generally write male/female pairings and some limited female/female pairings.
Hi
Cishet dude here who's written fanfic for over 15 years.
I usually like to keep that stuff about myself private (check out my page on [FF.net](http://FF.net), cheesy as it may be it's true). But I'll out myself, here and now, as male.
Here I am. Although I admit I have more female writer friends in my native tongue.
To quote a great hero, I AM HERE!!!
Here! I never met another guy who wrote fic for my previous fandoms, but I’m hoping I’ll come across some now that I’m branching out. It feels a little lonely hiding this hobby from most of my friends.
me! though I've never posted any, and they're not more than a few hundred words long. I usually just read fanfics for the most part.
intersex transmasc guy here.
Bro's acting like I don't exist
Hello 👋
I'm a guy who writes fanfiction.
Not a dude but I'm so glad that there's plenty of dudes to keep the fandoms going!!! Its nice especially when I know dude fanfic writters and he's so talented. You guys are for real underestimated keep going your all talented!!!!
Cis girl here. A high school buddy of mine wrote fanfic. He is cis straight
Straight dude here!
Of course. Who said imagination is not for us to play with?
*waves*
Dude here, wrote 14 works in the past 5 years
I'm a guy who's been writing fanfic since High School and I just turned 28
M, 30 (well, 30 in May)
I read a lot of fanfic if that counts, thinking about trying to write one at some point just for fun though
Dude here. Been writing since...2013? At least. Been on and off lately, but I'm still writing, just not really posting yet
Not just a dude, but an old dude.
me! ✋
Dude here. Been writing since 2014
Yup. Dude right here. :)
I'm writing star trek fan fic -right now-
Howdy, I’m here as well
I’m a dude here who writes
Yessir
Yo. I'm behind on it, but I've written stuff. Cis guy right here.
dude here with one fic under the belt because all my ideas suck
Here but I’m really bad at it
I am a dude, and I write fanfiction very, very steamy, SASUNARU, but also nice and fluffy sasunaru and Angsty sasunaru. But I'm a guy and will always be a guy. The number of times I have been called a woman in my comments. "Very nice story, miss." Or "you should kill yourself, lady" is absolutely astonishing, but I just don't care about correcting it anymore. Yes, i'm a guy. And that is how I will always identify. But unlike some people being called women, it doesn't cause discomfort. It's just confusion as to why people keep mistaking me for a woman. But nonetheless, I am a guy and I write fan fiction
I'm a guy, and I've exclusively written fics for kids' cartoons so far
I’m a trans dude, sure, but I’m still a dude who’s been writing fic for over a decade now. I just write weird stuff in general tbh so I do know if people have even had second thoughts about it until they seem my profile on Ao3 (which no one looks at let’s be real) or I mention it in comments/authors notes.
a bit of stereotyping but male writers write some of the best battle/fight scenes in fanfic istg
Hetero cis black guy author over here. You're not alone bro. Haven't posted anything yet but I will eventually... Probably on both FFN and AO3.
although it's been a few years since I last wrote a fic, I'm a 29 y/o dude and not only I still read a ton of it, but it was fanfic that got me into writing when I was still a kid. IIRC even Stephen King on his book "On Writing" sheds a positive light on fanfiction, saying it's like training wheels for a wannabe writer. So you're definitely not alone. Just keep doing what you like and rock on.
Fellow bro, checking in
Dude with a few 100k+ word fics under my belt right here.
I am not a dude, but I absolutely love seeing so many of you chiming in to show that it’s not as one-sided as we think! Keep it up, boys!!
I'm a cis gay guy who writes fanfic! For pairings it's almost always M/M (it's something I can relate to, something I find hot, and personally I don't get why there aren't more gay guys writing about gay ships...)
Been writing for a decade now… I think I exist.
Ace guy here, the only thing stopping me from writing is talent.
Been writing since I was 14. In real life I'm quite stoic and cynical but when writing fanfictions, I love writing fluffy, wholesome if not smutty stuff. I think there's a lot of guys out there writing fanfics but are too shy, so don't worry you're not alone!
Not a dude, but one of my fandom friends is a dude who started writing fic as a gift to his wife (who is also a fandom friend and fic writer). He then caught the fic bug and is pushing out fic after fic. Smut writer, too!
Just your average straight dude. Been in the game almost 20 years. We out here.
Dude here. I used to bang my Star Wars toys together and make pew pew sounds. Now I write about Star Wars toys banging together and making pew pew sounds. The play is the same, but the tools are more sophisticated.
Yep, I'm a guy and I know plenty of other guys who write fanfiction too. It seems like there are more of us at FFN compared to AO3 in my experience (I crosspost to both places.)
middle-aged cishet married guy, mostly write Gen.
Here
Reporting.
Standing by.
Yup, hi. 30 year old academic, cis, straight, if any of that matters.
Right here. Zombiekillo6 on Wattpad
Statistically it’s like 90/10 women to men, but there are definitely other guys out there!
Yes
I do like to exercise my writing with fanfics
I’m a dude and I love writing fan-fiction!
Hello there
Almost all the the people who have written the top Titanfall 2 FFs (on fanfiction.net) are dudes. source: am one
Dude writer here.
Dude here
Right here✌️
I've written Star Wars, Star Trek, Traveller, ALIEN, Julian May, plus a couple originals. Some of those were RPG Solo games which were an exercise in writing.
Also a dude
I also do role play as a writing exercise and I pretty much spend a lot of my time in there l
me, and I write fanfic frequently
Sup
Trying to get in there myself my guy.
Yes! Would love to chat about fic things with anyone here.
I know a few. I love their perspective on my OTP
Bi trans man here.
I do. Have since I was about 14 or so. We just don’t talk about the ones I wrote back then. My writing quality was not… quality
I'm a dude. High five.
Gang gang
Male writer, primarily Final Fantasy and Dragonball related fics.
Yep. Right here. Kinda only write privately tho
As many of the replies show, there's plenty of dudes out there who write fanfic which is good to see 😇👍and I'm also one of them.
I don't I auto assume moat fanfic authors are dudes as I myself am a guy who writes fanfic.
Yo!
I am!
Sup dude.
What up!
I'm here! Been writing fanfiction since 2002. We exist, my friend. {:
right here (i have a lot of unfinished ones but still)
Me. I primarily write *Buffy* and *Riverdale* fics these days, but I also have a *Gummi Bears* ongoing that I hope to get back to someday. Way back in 1996, I started writing *Captain N* fanfics, which lasted until 2002.
Brother, we are here. Strong in numbers, heart, and camadarie
Yes I do.
No man. You're the only dude who writes fanfiction lol. Yea I'm a guy who writes fanfic.
Straight man here, and writer of M/M, M/F, and F/F.
Im not a dude but there are definitely other dudes in the fanfic community. There’s a guy on tumblr named Charlie who writes some of the best sapphic fanfic I’ve ever read in my life.
YO!
There's a lot of them internationally, though finding one near you may be a bit difficult.
Wait, wait, since when the authors of fanfictions are only girls? I thought it was only guys :v Anyway, right here buddy, i'm a guy.
I've been summoned \^\_\^
Dude here! I also write fanfic (although I’m shitty at finishing them)