Abandoned Internet Fiction -

[Kosher Dill]

That sounds like a beautiful mess, I saw the page and its Nine Seasons. I'm almost tempted to go through what appears to be Anime-Fan Hell.

I take no responsibility if you do
I only discovered this when it was already dead or nearly so, but it seems like it actually started out as something people did for fun. And I don't know how much of the drama spilled over into the finished product.

At one point some of the people doing fanart for this apparently went over to the "Japanese Linguistics" newsgroup on Usenet asking for translations of their "wacky" humor, and the linguists sent them back Japanese phrases that said "I like getting fisted in the ass" or things like that. And they did indeed dutifully copy these phrases into their art.
Years later someone noticed and scrubbed it all.

 

[DungeonMaster]

Warning: Lots of song downloads

 

[DungeonMaster]

ElderStar, a well drawn comic by Slayers fan Teresa Dietzinger, who used to be a very prolific artist back in the day. She made Hamlet, except starring the cast of Slayers, as well as a crossover with Mr. T. Now, she's become a costume prop designer, and she was last sighted working on the Atop the Fourth Wall movie, which gives her at least one degree of separation from Linkara.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Plasma's Folly. The author decided to delete it. Since I don't feel like putting in the effort to dig it up somehow, I'll just post a preview from their Tumblr that gives a good enough idea of how edgy this darkfic about teenagers becoming legendary Pokemon was.
Archive of a preview of a one shot set in the story's universe

 

[DungeonMaster]

Outcasts. Created by a pair of Texan teens named Derek and Ansel.

It was never written, but if there were any left, I reckon would have been a fuckload of fun to read.

The time, circa 2016 AD. The place, the risen continent of the Pacific, better known to its inhabitants as Pacifica. Around the end of 1999, a tremendous upheaval of the continental plate of the Pacific ocean caused the entire ocean floor to be lifted to the surface. This event and the events that happened shortly afterwards was known as the "Time of Balance". The rising of Pacifica took its destructive toll on land, as 80% of the Earth was flooded almost instantly, without any warning. Some survived, but some survived because they were warned, and they marched upon Pacifica before the waves had even died down. They were the Dark Clan.

They closed off the boarders to prevent anyone from getting in, and those that did were hunted down and killed. Taleon, secret leader of the Dark Clan, had a cathedral built near the center as a capitol, and soon dicovered he could grow stronger from the deaths of helpless millions and rule on high. SO, he opened the boarders and let the people flow into Pacifica, and what they farmed, the Dark Clan took, and what they built, the Dark Clan smashed. But soon, the familar stir of revolution began, and one victory lead to a weakening in the Dark Clan. Finally, an old Warrior of the White Dragon Clan, named Dragon Sensei, challenged Taleon to a duel. This duel would be fought throughout the land, ending up on the caldera of an active volcano. Taleon was defeated by Dragon Sensei, and as he fell, he went through the molten lava and through a portal that had been underwater and inside lava for eons. The country finally rested from 8 years of tyranny. Now, 8 years later, a whole new group of warriors must face a new enemy.......The Evil Incarnate!

If only this had happened last American election. Would have been a lot more fun than the shit we have today.

 

[Forever Sunrise]

I used to be pretty active in the forum and chat roleplaying community when I was an adorable baby-faced teenager. Saw a ton of incredibly good concepts that were just absolutely wasted or just never caught on due to another 'open world multiverse rp' of the week opening up and everyone fighting over who got to play Goku.

It's a weird world where everything is simultaneously the kind of cringe that makes you want to cave your own skull in with a jackhammer, but also sometimes so viscerally real and expressive it sticks with you for years afterwards as a strange warm feeling at the back of your mind that you never quite recapture after becoming old and jaded (aka hit your early 20's).

That, or it just gave you a Ph.D in psychology purely from passive exposure to schizophrenics and BPD sufferers.

 

[Parallel Moon]

I remember some old geocities fanfiction site for Final Fantasy 7 that had some very interesting and surprisingly well-written stories.

One of them was a story about Rufus Shinra, who unbeknownst to him had been experimented on by Hojo and was actually a Weapon. This was set after the end of the game and was written before Advent Children or any of that. I think it was the late 90's that I read this? The author claimed to be a fifteen year old girl but she was actually really talented. I was of a similar age and read the hell out of that. I've tried to find it several times but I've never been able to do so. I don't think she ever finished it.

 

[DungeonMaster]

Granted, this isn't abandoned, but this used to be absolutely massive, with a roleplaying community that hasn't existed. This setting is really quite interesting in how balls to the wall and unapologetic it is.

Edit: This Lethe person is really prolific, like holy shit does she do a lot of worldbuilding.

 

[I Love Beef]

I remember some old geocities fanfiction site for Final Fantasy 7 that had some very interesting and surprisingly well-written stories.

One of them was a story about Rufus Shinra, who unbeknownst to him had been experimented on by Hojo and was actually a Weapon. This was set after the end of the game and was written before Advent Children or any of that. I think it was the late 90's that I read this? The author claimed to be a fifteen year old girl but she was actually really talented. I was of a similar age and read the hell out of that. I've tried to find it several times but I've never been able to do so. I don't think she ever finished it.

Yeah, I hear ya on that. I remember one FFVII fanfic was one that combined Mega Man X and had portrayed FFVII's world as one that was in the past, while X and Zero and a made up crew joined the cast and radically altered the game's plot/history upon time traveling.

I can't find that one nowadays either.

 

[Xolanite]

A webcomic called the fox sister. It’s been on hiatus since 2014.

 

[L50LasPak]

Here's one that ended not due to disinterest, but to tragedy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150429012858/http://lovecraftismissing.com/

The webcomic Lovecraft Is Missing, which ran from late 2008 up until mid 2014. The plot concerned a mixture of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and a mystery plot about Lovecraft himself having disappeared and being involved somehow.

As you can see by this random page I picked out of the hat, the artstyle was great. The story was kind of a slow burn and I admit I never read it all the way (I had stopped reading it some time around 2011), but still pretty good.

The author, Larry Latham, unfortunately died at the age of 61 in 2014. Cause of death was cancer related.

https://obits.oklahoman.com//obituaries/oklahoman/obituary.aspx?pid=173180520

Needless to say interest in the comic dried up like right away. I haven't really interacted with anyone who's even heard of it.

 

[DungeonMaster]

A website filled with fanmade manga, courtesy of Melissa Prosser. She really seems to have tried to imitate the CLAMP look.

 

[DungeonMaster]

She did fiction, and Chikako Ishikawa was a very prolific individual, but barely any of her art remains...

 

[Autistic AT-ST]

There seems to be a lot of abandoned fiction.

 

[supremeautismo]

Hanna is Not a Boy’s Name was an excellent webcomic that the creator stopped writing years ago. Cool quirky vampire mystery comic. Haven’t checked this link but it looks like it links to downloads of the whole series. It used to be online but can’t find it anymore, the deviantart is long gone. Really had potential, could have easily become a Netflix series, but the author moved on. Bummer to get invested in.

 

[Boston Brand]

There was a webcomic, Super Effective, that was a pretty solid send up of the early Pokemon games. From the VG Cats crew.

Hasn't updated in nearly a decade at this point.

 

[M3xus]

There was a webcomic, Super Effective, that was a pretty solid send up of the early Pokemon games. From the VG Cats crew.

Hasn't updated in nearly a decade at this point.

The main comic only updates once a year at most. People should have seen it coming when it got abandoned.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

TribeTwelve is kind of an interesting case. One of the original big Slenderman ARGs along with Marble Hornets and EverymanHYBRID, which both got proper endings. Although Marble Hornets was far more popular, I actually found TribeTwelve to be the most interesting one. It was the only one of the Slenderman trio that was actually more or less ABOUT Slenderman, as well as being generally more clearly explained, rather than intentionally vague and "open to interpretation". (As an example, neither Marble Hornets or EverymanHYBRID ever even attempted to explain what Slenderman actually IS, while TribeTwleve had a decent concept for it.)

Started around 2011-2012, and it was still running as recently as last year... until the project founder was outed as a kiddie groomer. As far as I can tell the accusations were reasonably credible and included logs of interactions. Even several onlookers (such as the Slenderman wiki admins) who took a "wait and see" approach were eventually convinced. His staff left him and leaked what info they had about the project such as a possible ending, the Slenderman community unpersoned him, and he completely vanished from the internet. The Youtube channel is still up, but that's about it. Damn shame, because TribeTwleve itself was honestly pretty good.

 

[I Love Beef]

She did fiction, and Chikako Ishikawa was a very prolific individual, but barely any of her art remains...

Wow. I can see why she earned her derogatory moniker of "bitch", but I wouldn't call her that. If anything, I'm just upset at her being myopic and ignorant about the States side of animation and how the world works outside of Japan, like how the US regularly censored shit on the daily back in the 1990s and how it didn't want sequential art going beyond children's and "family friendly entertainment". I do like that she clarifies that back then, otaku was not a title to parade around lightly and why it shouldn't.

And she had her art published on the old Capcom website, as well as Koei and Temco's. Fuck, she was a darling. I do have a gut feeling though that she up and quit anime and manga forever and let her site be taken down by the course of time. I certainly can't blame why; otaku in Japan had the gall to try and lolcow her out on 2ch, but as someone who aspires to do his own anime shit and isn't even Japanese, the kind of hecklers and haters that you get comes with the territory, and you need a drive that dares to go beyond the everyday to leave those fuckers in the dust.

To Chikako, you firecracker of a dragon lady. May you have found your paradise, somewhere in this crazy world.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

The Salvation War - a work written by a boomer that obviously frequents /k/, exploring what would happen if the forces of Hell decided to invade more-or-less modern humanity. Spoilers: humans kick ass.
Unfortunately, said boomer either got fucked over by some Ukrainian religious fanatic or simply went full schizo, so only the first two parts were written.