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Are thre any fics on hiatus or otherwise dead that you miss, or feel a little sad seeing them abandoned?

I can't really say.

Like, I go through my bookmarks on AO3 and I see that there's fics in there that have subsequently been deleted, but I don't remember enough to be sure what they are. So I know that there were fics, and I know that I probably really enjoyed them, and that they were probably really good, but I don't know anything about the details. It's very uncertain.

I highly doubt anyone will know what I'm talking about because these fics are old, but I always wished Arabella (of Sugar Quill fame/infamy) had finished her Hermione diaries. I can see why she didn't - she got a lot of wank which turned her off of fandom, but the diaries were also pre-OoTP, and didn't really fit with the new canon. Still, it would've been really interesting.

It might've been interesting, but I don't know if it would have worked. The problem isn't just that they don't fit with the new canon - they also just kind of don't make nearly as much sense with the way that the tone and direction of the series changed after that point. The stories would have had to really make a massive change. It's tough.

AYRT - Exactly. Hermione wasn't even really the same person as she was in HQoW. Hermione got an edge to her that I don't think would have worked.

I think Arabella's best best, if she had pursued any sort of closure, would've simply been to do the rest of the books from Hermione's POV, but outside of the HQoW series. And even that would have been tricky. I don't know. I think it's a shame they couldn't continue, but beyond Arabella's issues with fandom, I can see how they didn't work past GoF.

YES! Hermione, Queen of Witches! I should go reread those~ I loved them and I was so disappointed when they just... stopped.

I miss the CATverse.

The huge DeanCas AU fic Unexpected Destinies was never completed. :(

Not sure this counts, but I had a friend who was writing a fic she never finished, because she lost interest Harry Potter. (Also, new canon kept debunking her stuff, as she started writing it some time after the fourth book, and I believe gave up sometime between the sixth and seventh books.) Apparently the ending had a HUGE TWIST, which she wouldn't tell me in case she ended up finishing the fic after all. I still want to know how it was going to end. :P

We're Facebook friends, so I technically could ask her, but... we're pretty much JUST Facebook friends at this point - not for any dramatic reasons, we're just not teenage/early twenty-something Harry Potter fangirls anymore, and that's pretty much what we had in common. Honestly, she was pretty over Harry Potter last time we were talking regularly, so it's possible she's completely forgotten the twist. Either way, I don't think I can just PM her and be like "hey, about that fic you were writing back in 2003..." I think she'd either ignore me, or would have no idea what I was talking about.

Five years ago a little group of friends started a shared humanized AU for a cartoon and that was great for a few months... then the one who had started it all in the first place suddenly threw a hissy fit because someone had posted a bit she didn't liked and flounced out.
Annnd just when I thought I had finally let it all go, she came back, starting a shared Original universe with a different group of friends and letting them do what she called a mistake back in the days when we did it. Go figure!

There have been a couple of fics that were complete, but intended to be part of a series that the author I guess lost interest in finishing. As someone who avoids WIP fics, this is a big gripe of mine. Unsatisfying non-endings after reading a novel-length fic? Waaah.

Lots from old fandoms, like, things I read ten years ago maybe. But can I also say my own? I feel so guilty for this FMA epic I never finished, and a couple of fics for even older fandoms that never went past chapter #1.

I don't remember the title, but it was a Destiel fic with Dean as the angel and Cas as the human and Anna kinda playing the Sam role. I remember everybody was really in character and they were looking for Sam (who was an angel turned demon), but the author stopped updating after nine chapters and now I can't find it anywhere.

Yeah, about once a year or so I check back to Midnight Blue's Mirror of Maybe. Because, you know .... maybe.

I do this too. Just, you know, perhaps...

Haha, me too.

Ozma's Filch focused Harry Potter fics. That is one of my favorite all time fic series, and I go back and reread it all the time.

Rallalon's Doctor Who stories.

OMG, Vejiitasei Ascendant. It's this amazing epic that will forever be unfinished.

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