Fan Fic Archives
A Fan Fic Archive is a site specifically set up to house fanfiction.
As of 2011, Livejournal and Fanfiction.net had been the major sites for creative works in the Supernatural fandom, and had acted as defacto archives for the bulk of Supernatural fan fic. As of 2015, many authors are now using Archive Of Our Own, a multifandom archive run by the Organization of Transformative Works. Over the years, numerous Supernatural-specific fan fic archives sites have been set up.
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Fanfiction.net and ArchiveOfOurOwn.org are set up to be searchable by key terms.
On Livejournal, there is no site-wide method to search for a fanfiction, although some LiveJournal communities do maintain an index. For example, Supernatural fic, the largest single fanfiction community, has a comprehensive tagging system, so stories are searchable by author, rating, genre, pairing, and specific episodes.
The Supernatural Fic Link Archive tags all the stories listed in the spnnewsletter producing a searchable archive of links of fan fiction at delicious as of December 2009. Fics are searchable by author, category, rating and pairing. Almost 40,000 stories have been tagged as of January 2011.
Fanfic Archives
- Archive Of Our Own - multifandom archive run by the Organization of Transformative Works. Currently in beta testing, it has over 30,000 Supernatural stories as of January 2013. As of January 2015, it has over 92,000 Supernatural stories.
- FanFiction.net - Multifandom archive. As of January 2015, it has 78,000 Supernatural stories.
- Sam/Dean - an archive which focuses on Sam/Dean and is Wincest friendly. Over 3,400 stories (January 2013). As of January 2015, the archive is mostly inactive, with 3,880 stories.
- Sinful Desire - a fanfic archive (Wincest-centric). Over 4,000 stories (January 2013); 4,451 stories (January 2015).
- Supernaturalville.com, the home page for SPN's Virtual Season project.
- Winchester Journal "Don't Fear the Reaper" - a fic archive and gallery. 32 stories as of Jan. 2015.
- LiveJournal communities
- SPN Nightcrawler livejournal community - more a fic link archive than a rec list, but a good place to go to find fic featuring certain types of creaures eg werewolves, vampires etc
- Spn-LittleBro livejournal community for hurt!Sam and hurt!Jared stories
- Defunct sites and communities
- Hunters Stop Archive - a panfandom archive that includes Supernatural fics - Terms of Service violation; not online.
- Supernaturalville: Unscripted Genius - a general fanfic archive and home of the Supernatural Virtual Season. - no longer exists.
