For discussion and appreciation of our favorite tropes in fanfiction.
Ghosts and Other Spooooooooky Spirits!
Boo! Scared you, didn't I?
Halloween may technically be over, but this comm is still haunted. Whether our creepy spirit guests are benevolent or malevolent, well... I cannot say. What do you think, /fanfic_tropes?
- Do you like fic with ghosts and/or other kinds of spooooooky spirits?
- What kind do you like: Creepy, friendly, deadly, or all of the above?
- Tell us a nice fanfictional ghost story.
- How would your faves react if they encountered a ghost/spirit?
- Favorite fics with ghosts/spirits?
- What fandoms need more ghosts and other haunting entities?



I love everything with ghosts or with paranormal investigations.
Me too! Friendly ghosts, spooky ghosts, and all kind of situations the investigators can go into: humourus, scary, dangerous, melodramatic... I love them all, and this is one of the reasons I love Omyouji.
I love anything paranormal investigativey :)
By Onmyouji, do you mean the actual ones or the movie? I love both!
The movie. I don't know enough about the real onmyoji and it's time to remedy that. 😂Any recommendation?
I don't know a ton. I wish I did. Not a lot was available in English last I looked and my Japanese is meh. Abe no Seimei was a real person and I've been to his shrine in Kyoto. He pops up a lot in Japanese anime, tv shows, games, etc, but his name isn't always translated because they think we wont get the reference. For example, in Tokyo Babylon Subaru is a big deal because he's Abe no Seimei's descendant but you wouldn't know it from the official English translations.
I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to movies and books, but bring me alllllll the fanfictional ghost stories, the creepy ones, the sad ones, the funny ones, ALL. I can't remember what it's called, but there was a Batman au that I really enjoyed, where all of Bruce Wayne's kids are ghosts, and he brings them one by one to live in the manor.
I really enjoy ghosts, especially the friendly/ambiguous kind that are basically just people, but dead or otherwise disembodied.
In fact, this is a good reminder that I haven't written it much at all, despite really enjoying it in fic/books/etc, so I should write something like that!
My sister and I have been tossing around the idea of one or both of us writing a stucky AU based on the country song Riding With Private Malone. It's such a happy bouncy song, but then the bridge just gives me chills. Of course, that ghost is very friendly and helpful, and I guess that's my favourite kind of ghost tbh.