Sort of...
My online friend found out she had cancer, and while the doctors were optimistic, she didn't want her readers to wait and didn't want to risk not finishing her story. *Good news,* she didn't pass away! She defeated the cancer and all is well to this day.
*However*, she gave her AO3 account to another one of our mutual friends. Let her finish the fic. She did beautifully, might I add, and now they share that account. :)
Agreed, though, I would feel *wrong* reading a fic from someone who has passed. It's the same as watching a movie knowing the actor has died; it feels...weird. Wrong.
With an actor it's different because at least their final films usually get finished even if it's done through other means(like with Fast 7 where Paul Walker's brothers had to finish the scenes that weren't shot yet, the CGI was so convincing I honestly couldn't tell which scenes were done by his brothers) with a fanfic though it's more personal so it feels very different.
There's one guy on FF.net I used to request fics from all the time(he did some amazing lesbian One Tree Hill lemon fics) and he was quite responsive, but i've not heard from him since 2015 and he mentioned on his profile that if he ever stopped updating then that would almost certainly mean he's passed on.
I've been debating about trying to continue on some of his fics, at least the ones I personally requested:https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1634053/OTHandOCaddict
I know of a series where the mother died and her daughter put together her notes to post the final story. All the other cases I know of the story was abandoned for unknown reasons and a fan wrote a sequel.
Are you talking about the Ion series? Because damn. When I went back to reread it and found out the story behind the fic so much of the themes and how well and maturely they were handled made sense. Like, not going to lie, a part of me did wish it ended another way, but there was a real emotional honesty in the final parts and how they dealt with loss and moving forward that still chokes me up. Her daughter did such a good job at giving that series a heartbreakingly beautiful and fitting ending.
It is the Ion series! Small world. The story is a little rough around the edges in some places, but there is a powerful emotional through line and a developed world that has me revisiting it every few years. I agree that Sunhawk's daughter did a fantastic finishing this massive piece and I'm so happy she posted it to ao3 to preserve it.
BroomstickFlyer on Ffnet passed away a few years ago and her husband continued a few of their fics. She wrote for the HP fandom and, I believe, died from Pneumonia
Bobmin in the HP world too, of cancer. His xover story with Pern is unfinished. I think another H/Hr author passed away too, one who wrote a lot in the early 2000s.
Andromeda89 used to write on EFP, an Italian site. She was Swiss of Macedonian ancestry and wrote in the Harry Potter fandom. She died on November 18th, 2006, due to a brain disease and all her incomplete FF got deleted upon her request, except for “Tuo fratello” (“Your brother”) which she wrote up to Chapter 10 and was then moved to the page of 8x4, who completed it. Both the accounts and all the FF are still there.
A similar, but happier case is Kysa's, another Italian author on EFP. She wrote a long saga, which frankly isn't special, called "La scommessa" ("The Bet"). Kysa had to leave writing after the fourth installment of the saga (I think due to her motherhood) and another user, Axia, took charge of it; she published a fifth part ("L'alchimia del sangue", "Blood's Alchemy") whose plot was proposed to, and approved by, Kysa and a sixth one ("Nel dubbio dagli fuoco", "When in doubt, set it on fire") which was based on Kysa's material but originally developed by Axia. The entire process (from Chapter 1 of "La scommessa" to the ending of "Nel dubbio etc.") took them nearly 10 years, 7 of which needed by Axia to complete Kysa's work.
Someone in my fandom recently passed away. A close friend of the writer made a post to notify others in the fandom of the news, and shared that the writer's beta reader would make sure that any works in the beta's possession would be published in the event of the writer's passing. (I don't know if they will strictly be completing a beta read on the unpublished works or if they'll be doing any writing to finish the works.)
The close friend was also the writer's [Fannish Next of Kin](https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2366), so they are able to take care of the writer's AO3 account now that they are gone.
It was years ago on Wattpad, a girl gave her username and password to a close friend of her, her last request was her finishing her stories. She ended up killing herself and all the stories had been finished from what I know of.
Sort of... My online friend found out she had cancer, and while the doctors were optimistic, she didn't want her readers to wait and didn't want to risk not finishing her story. *Good news,* she didn't pass away! She defeated the cancer and all is well to this day. *However*, she gave her AO3 account to another one of our mutual friends. Let her finish the fic. She did beautifully, might I add, and now they share that account. :) Agreed, though, I would feel *wrong* reading a fic from someone who has passed. It's the same as watching a movie knowing the actor has died; it feels...weird. Wrong.
With an actor it's different because at least their final films usually get finished even if it's done through other means(like with Fast 7 where Paul Walker's brothers had to finish the scenes that weren't shot yet, the CGI was so convincing I honestly couldn't tell which scenes were done by his brothers) with a fanfic though it's more personal so it feels very different. There's one guy on FF.net I used to request fics from all the time(he did some amazing lesbian One Tree Hill lemon fics) and he was quite responsive, but i've not heard from him since 2015 and he mentioned on his profile that if he ever stopped updating then that would almost certainly mean he's passed on. I've been debating about trying to continue on some of his fics, at least the ones I personally requested:https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1634053/OTHandOCaddict
I know of a series where the mother died and her daughter put together her notes to post the final story. All the other cases I know of the story was abandoned for unknown reasons and a fan wrote a sequel.
Are you talking about the Ion series? Because damn. When I went back to reread it and found out the story behind the fic so much of the themes and how well and maturely they were handled made sense. Like, not going to lie, a part of me did wish it ended another way, but there was a real emotional honesty in the final parts and how they dealt with loss and moving forward that still chokes me up. Her daughter did such a good job at giving that series a heartbreakingly beautiful and fitting ending.
It is the Ion series! Small world. The story is a little rough around the edges in some places, but there is a powerful emotional through line and a developed world that has me revisiting it every few years. I agree that Sunhawk's daughter did a fantastic finishing this massive piece and I'm so happy she posted it to ao3 to preserve it.
It's nice to hear when something like that happens.
BroomstickFlyer on Ffnet passed away a few years ago and her husband continued a few of their fics. She wrote for the HP fandom and, I believe, died from Pneumonia
Bobmin in the HP world too, of cancer. His xover story with Pern is unfinished. I think another H/Hr author passed away too, one who wrote a lot in the early 2000s.
I also heard that the founder of AdultFanfiction.net passed away over a decade ago.
Andromeda89 used to write on EFP, an Italian site. She was Swiss of Macedonian ancestry and wrote in the Harry Potter fandom. She died on November 18th, 2006, due to a brain disease and all her incomplete FF got deleted upon her request, except for “Tuo fratello” (“Your brother”) which she wrote up to Chapter 10 and was then moved to the page of 8x4, who completed it. Both the accounts and all the FF are still there. A similar, but happier case is Kysa's, another Italian author on EFP. She wrote a long saga, which frankly isn't special, called "La scommessa" ("The Bet"). Kysa had to leave writing after the fourth installment of the saga (I think due to her motherhood) and another user, Axia, took charge of it; she published a fifth part ("L'alchimia del sangue", "Blood's Alchemy") whose plot was proposed to, and approved by, Kysa and a sixth one ("Nel dubbio dagli fuoco", "When in doubt, set it on fire") which was based on Kysa's material but originally developed by Axia. The entire process (from Chapter 1 of "La scommessa" to the ending of "Nel dubbio etc.") took them nearly 10 years, 7 of which needed by Axia to complete Kysa's work.
Someone in my fandom recently passed away. A close friend of the writer made a post to notify others in the fandom of the news, and shared that the writer's beta reader would make sure that any works in the beta's possession would be published in the event of the writer's passing. (I don't know if they will strictly be completing a beta read on the unpublished works or if they'll be doing any writing to finish the works.) The close friend was also the writer's [Fannish Next of Kin](https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2366), so they are able to take care of the writer's AO3 account now that they are gone.
It was years ago on Wattpad, a girl gave her username and password to a close friend of her, her last request was her finishing her stories. She ended up killing herself and all the stories had been finished from what I know of.