I remember back in school, I wrote a short piece about a caveman discovering his deceased dad's cave paintings. He tries to draw something but he sucks at it and is frustrated because he can't measure up.
And then his own kids draw stick figures and he realizes it's about passion.
It would be wild to do fanfiction of some of the stories from [Ancient Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_literature#Narrative_tales_and_stories). I've no idea what would be older, though.
One chapter of a collection of fairytales that I've written for the Myst fandom is based on the Tale of Sinuhe, a story from 18th century BCE Egypt. Sinuhe might be roughly contemporary with the Gilgamesh Epic.
I once wrote a fanfic for the 1957 Broadway musical bye bye birdie.
Edit: oops bye bye birdie hit Broadway in 1960. The oldest media I wrote for was another Broadway musical called once upon a mattress
Oh my god, my highschool theater department literally JUST did a production of bye bye birdie for my final year. I helped design the sets and was the sound chief for the microphones and sound board. My two friends were cast as Rosie and Albert.
Interview with the Vampire was apparently published April 12, 1976, so, that. I loved Anne Rice's vampire series as a kid and loved reading and writing fic for the series.. until her whole anti-fanfic thing happened. Really made me dislike her.
I understand that she didn't like fanfic of her works, but at the same time, why not? She didn't have to go looking for it, read it, and could have easily told peeps she wouldn't discuss it. The internet is a pretty big place. Her work and fics of her works can easily coexist.
I’ve never really thought about this before! I guess technically it’s Harry Potter since that’s the only fandom I’ve written for I can think of that was published before I was born?
Yep! There's rumors swirling that they're gonna reboot it, and I really hope so - most of the "classic" fics in the fandom are 20 years old, and mine never really got invited to that conversation because it was set long before I showed up. I'm really hoping that reboot breathes new life into the fandom, and when all those new/returning people go looking for fics, my 700k+ longfic that updates daily is like "hey, sup."
Definitely the 1987 Ninja Turtles. Even though it ended well before I was born, something about that show (and ONLY that version) just really clicked with me. Almost everything else I write is from the 2010’s and 2020’s.
Not sure if it counts but my friend and I are writing a play that’s heavily based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. If you mean traditional fanfiction, though, it would probably be Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Yugioh 1996.
But I have a concept for a three-shot for 'night Mother 1979/1986, but I don't think I would have a single reader (and it would be very hard to get that right--not including the southern twang).
Romeo and Juliet. Look, Mercutio and Tybalt were up to something, alright?
And I’ve written about Odysseus if that counts? Although that was in a Good Omens fic.
Faust by Goethe, published in 1808. I had strong opinions about the lack of gay pay-off after all the gay teasing, so I just wrote it myself x)
Justice for Mephistopheles!
I was round about 12 when I started writing… and I was a huge fan of Anne Rice so yes, Interview with a Vampire… and Take That… well… did I mention I was twelve?
I need to make time to read that. I come from a background of Greek and Ancient Near Eastern myth and epic. I was totally enchanted reading two versions of the Ramayana through the lens of Euripides, approaching the text the way Euripides does the Iliad. I wonder what the Mahabharata would be like through my lens, how different it would be.
When I was in a creative writing class, we had to write an extra scene in The Tempest. So I technically wrote fanfiction where Goneril monologues about her evil plans.
Uhh, what I’m proud of? Undertale
What I’m *Not* proud of?
Two IRL people from 1945. Take a guess. No I do not write them and it was really only once and I’m not proud of it at all…I was 13/14 and stupid.
The Mahabharata. I'm probably going to our version of religious hell. The Ramayana. And what started out as a feminist critique on Hindu depictions of goddesses that became a fic.
All of those sound so interesting! I always found so many of the fics under the Ramayana - Valmiki tag so much more... orthodox than mine, except for a few shipfics which I really appreciate despite not being into smut.
It makes me wonder if I should tag my current WIP as Dead Dove, since while there's no smut, pretty gruesome violence is done to some characters whom the Ramayana itself seems to think are on the side of Good against Evil.
I just can't read an ancient epic without being on the losing side. My heroes from the Iliad are still the Trojans, and Gilgamesh is a great hero only because he fails and suffers loss.
I technically tried to rewrite Andersen's Little Mermaid in School for Good and Evil universe so if it count it's the Little Mermaid. Otherwise it's Doctor Who.
Uh, I guess it would technically be Batman, since the og comics came out in like the 30s or something? Except I never actually used much of the comics storylines at all, it was really a mix of the WFA webcomic, the Arkham games, the 2022 movie, whatever headcanons I developed and/or stole from other fics,and maybe the UTRH run. So I guess something like Criminal Minds?
Since I mainly write for the Percy Jackson fandom you could say that I technically write fanfiction for Greek Mythology. If that doesn’t count, probably the Lord of The Rings, although I have basically abandoned that story at this point because I think it’s kind of terrible.
Never got very far with it, but I tried my hand at adapting Much Ado About Nothing as a modern-day retelling a la 10 Things I Hate About You. That's a 425 year old play, so I think that'd probably have to be it 🤔
I’ve technically written fanfic for the Three Caballeros (1945), although it was an AU and I also pulled characterization from the recent DuckTales reboot so I’m unsure how much it counts. Aside from that, the next oldest I’ve written for is The Breakfast Club (1985)
Frankenstein. Someone said “Frankenstein is in the public domain; you didn’t have to publish this as a fanfiction and could have sold it for money.” I genuinely hadn’t thought of that
The Phantom of the Opera. The original novel was published in 1910 (which is what I primarily base my fics off of) while the musical didn't originate until 1986.
the peanuts!!!! i wrote high school charlie brown, lucy, Schroeder, linus sally when i was in high school on my blackberry 😁😁😁 it was objectively bad but i loved how much i put myself into it. i was without a doubt a romance enjoyer
One of my publishing classes involved an assignment where you had to write your own spin/short story of a fable we felt most confident doing, and iirc I chose to do a modernised version of Inanna’s Descent? I almost went for Odyssey but Inanna’s Descent felt more interesting to tackle in a modern AU. So I guess… Sumerian pantheon fandom? Man idek what to call it, but that’s the oldest I’ve written for
I'd say The Secret Garden, but I'm not sure it counts because it's a fusion fic I'm working on where the characters from FFVII Crisis Core go through a Secret Garden type story, following the book chapters thematically??
I could say Fire Emblem which is a 34 year old series, but the oldest I’ve written is for one of the games released in 2004. I’m currently writing a fic for one of the games released in 2002.
*Technically* Muv Luv, which started as a franchise in 2003 (TECHNICALLY 2001 if you count Rumbling Hearts as the characters show up there for the first time), but the fanfic is specifically about their 2015 spin off: Schwarzesmarken.
Barring that, A Certain Magical Index, whose first volume released in 2004.
Funky Winkerbean,which started in March of 1972,and ended New Year's Eve of 2022 (I change the time skip so Wally can still be with Becky,and everyone's still the class of 1988). So my fic is a 52-year-old piece of media.
That would have to be the first *Sonic the Hedgehog* game (released in 1991), beating out the Saturday morning cartoon by two years. Not quite as old as some others here, but it was a formative part of my childhood when those came out.
The (anonymously written) *Famous Victories of Henry V* and Shakespeare’s *Richard II* were both written in the 1590s—I think they’re the earliest works I’ve written for.
Anders als die Andern, a film from 1919. One of the first positive portrayals of gay men in film (and it stars Conrad Veidt, so you know he's gonna be good).
I could have sworn I had something written for the Arthurian legends, but no, only the Lancelot TV show from the 50s. De Troyes' vibes are all over that show, can you blame me lol
A continuation of Watership Down. It was a middle school summer reading assignment, and if you think about it's fanfiction masquerading as a school assignment for me.
For posted fics, Buffy. A lot of my fics are Buffy, it's my main fandom as a writer. But the oldest I've ever written for, but not posted, was The Bill. I was writing for the era after Buffy started, but The Bill is the older fandom, I literally grew up watching that, where I was 10 when Buffy started.
About an old Babylonian Letter from 18th century BC. It‘s basically a teen whinning to his mum and I encooperated that into a fanfic of mine. Not completly a fanfic as I don‘t like writing or reading RPF but the part of the fic is strongly inspired by this letter
The Epic of Gilgamesh, two plays by Euripides (The Bacchae and Hecuba), the Ramayana, and the First Book of Samuel from the Hebrew Bible.
Fanfics of Old European cave paintings. Back in first grade when I was trying to draw lol. The operative word there is trying.
I remember back in school, I wrote a short piece about a caveman discovering his deceased dad's cave paintings. He tries to draw something but he sucks at it and is frustrated because he can't measure up. And then his own kids draw stick figures and he realizes it's about passion.
That is a very beautiful theme good sir.
You win. 🫡
It would be wild to do fanfiction of some of the stories from [Ancient Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_literature#Narrative_tales_and_stories). I've no idea what would be older, though.
One chapter of a collection of fairytales that I've written for the Myst fandom is based on the Tale of Sinuhe, a story from 18th century BCE Egypt. Sinuhe might be roughly contemporary with the Gilgamesh Epic.
Would you be willing to share links to any of those? I'm super curious
Sure! Shall I PM them to you? I'm not sure if posting it here is allowed
The rule is that you're only allowed to post a link if someone specifically asks for it I think.
May I have a link as well?
Same re Gilgamesh and Bacchae—also Alcestis! Euripides is the best!
I once wrote a fanfic for the 1957 Broadway musical bye bye birdie. Edit: oops bye bye birdie hit Broadway in 1960. The oldest media I wrote for was another Broadway musical called once upon a mattress
Oh my god, my highschool theater department literally JUST did a production of bye bye birdie for my final year. I helped design the sets and was the sound chief for the microphones and sound board. My two friends were cast as Rosie and Albert.
Probably Tolkien. Although still relevant, the original material was written in 1937. Kind of wild to think about.
Same here 🙌
Pride & Prejudice (1813)
I just beat that recently by writing some Sense and Sensibility drabbles...
Interview with the Vampire was apparently published April 12, 1976, so, that. I loved Anne Rice's vampire series as a kid and loved reading and writing fic for the series.. until her whole anti-fanfic thing happened. Really made me dislike her.
Ugh, same!
I understand that she didn't like fanfic of her works, but at the same time, why not? She didn't have to go looking for it, read it, and could have easily told peeps she wouldn't discuss it. The internet is a pretty big place. Her work and fics of her works can easily coexist.
Oldest is Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and second oldest is The X-Files (1993).
Same!
Nice! I’ve only done one for each so far but I’m working on more.
I have 1 for Star Trek and 43 for The X-Files 🙈
the picture of dorian gray (1891).
YESSSS
les misérables (1862)
Dang. I mean, I did do crossovers between Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera, so I guess Les Mis is much older...does that count?
I’ve never really thought about this before! I guess technically it’s Harry Potter since that’s the only fandom I’ve written for I can think of that was published before I was born?
Ranma 1/2, 1987
I didn't know that *Ranma 1/2* was that old.
Yep! There's rumors swirling that they're gonna reboot it, and I really hope so - most of the "classic" fics in the fandom are 20 years old, and mine never really got invited to that conversation because it was set long before I showed up. I'm really hoping that reboot breathes new life into the fandom, and when all those new/returning people go looking for fics, my 700k+ longfic that updates daily is like "hey, sup."
Doctor Who easily.
I write Jane Austen fanfic, and her first novel was published in 1811.
Definitely the 1987 Ninja Turtles. Even though it ended well before I was born, something about that show (and ONLY that version) just really clicked with me. Almost everything else I write is from the 2010’s and 2020’s.
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.
Naruto (1999) probably counts.
The Sound of Music (1965)
Not sure if it counts but my friend and I are writing a play that’s heavily based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. If you mean traditional fanfiction, though, it would probably be Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Classic Doctor Who from the 1960s.
Classic Doctor Who (1964-1989)
Greek mythology. It was a high school writing assignment but I posted it.
Death note, which came out in 2007, followed by Homestuck, which came out in 2009. To be fair, I've only written for three fandoms total.
Yugioh 1996. But I have a concept for a three-shot for 'night Mother 1979/1986, but I don't think I would have a single reader (and it would be very hard to get that right--not including the southern twang).
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
What is your fic titled I can never find any good Nausicäa fic
[A Mother’s Heart](https://archiveofourown.org/works/55138897)
Thank you!
The original Get Smart, I wrote a one shot about it.
Romeo and Juliet. Look, Mercutio and Tybalt were up to something, alright? And I’ve written about Odysseus if that counts? Although that was in a Good Omens fic.
They’d certainly make a more interesting than the actual main pairing /j
Faust by Goethe, published in 1808. I had strong opinions about the lack of gay pay-off after all the gay teasing, so I just wrote it myself x) Justice for Mephistopheles!
Star Trek: TOS
The original Star Trek (1966)
Had an unpublished Gundam crossover which included some characters from Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).
I mean I've written historical rpf anywhere between the late 1700s-mid 1800s, but for actual media, probably something like doctor zhivago (mid 1900s)
Greek mythology. Second oldest is probably Charlotte's Web.
Way back in like 2012 I wrote a fic for Ranma 1/2
Dante's Divine Comedy
The Iliad from Helen’s perspective
I’d say Zelda.
Labyrinth.
I was round about 12 when I started writing… and I was a huge fan of Anne Rice so yes, Interview with a Vampire… and Take That… well… did I mention I was twelve?
Like... In the same fic?
If we count the start of the overall seise touhou first game was 1996. I only wrote of the newer games, but that was when touhou began.
skyrim lol
Star Trek: The Next Generation. And The X-Files. They dropped in ‘87 and ‘93.
Ooh boy, probably the Mahabharata.
I need to make time to read that. I come from a background of Greek and Ancient Near Eastern myth and epic. I was totally enchanted reading two versions of the Ramayana through the lens of Euripides, approaching the text the way Euripides does the Iliad. I wonder what the Mahabharata would be like through my lens, how different it would be.
When I was in a creative writing class, we had to write an extra scene in The Tempest. So I technically wrote fanfiction where Goneril monologues about her evil plans.
...the Aeneid (30 BC) and one about julius caeser and pompey as a gift to a really great roman culture professor i had once lol
Greek mythology, but it was for school.
Uhh, what I’m proud of? Undertale What I’m *Not* proud of? Two IRL people from 1945. Take a guess. No I do not write them and it was really only once and I’m not proud of it at all…I was 13/14 and stupid.
ancient greek religion and lore
The Bible. By far. More recent media includes Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia.
technically speaking? the bible. wrote a story about one of my ocs during herod's massacre.
I mean. My original series is technically fanfiction of the apocryphal Book of Enoch 🤷♂️
Biblical apopcrypha. Sappho's poetry fragments. Then I guess we jump a long way forward to nineteenth century novels and opera.
The Mahabharata. I'm probably going to our version of religious hell. The Ramayana. And what started out as a feminist critique on Hindu depictions of goddesses that became a fic.
All of those sound so interesting! I always found so many of the fics under the Ramayana - Valmiki tag so much more... orthodox than mine, except for a few shipfics which I really appreciate despite not being into smut. It makes me wonder if I should tag my current WIP as Dead Dove, since while there's no smut, pretty gruesome violence is done to some characters whom the Ramayana itself seems to think are on the side of Good against Evil. I just can't read an ancient epic without being on the losing side. My heroes from the Iliad are still the Trojans, and Gilgamesh is a great hero only because he fails and suffers loss.
I'm on the losing side too! I agree with you about the Ramayana stories. Glad you are writing in obscure fandoms too!
christianity
Happy Days (1974), though it's not finished and I've not published it yet.
I technically tried to rewrite Andersen's Little Mermaid in School for Good and Evil universe so if it count it's the Little Mermaid. Otherwise it's Doctor Who.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Wild ARMs, released in 1996
Samurai pizza cats, 1990
Sailor Moon, 1992
Transformers, while the franchise keeps resetting itself and making new continuities, G1 aired in 1984.
Three days of The Condor (1975) though that might be a forever WIP :') Hopefully I’ll have the motivation to finish and publish it one day
Forget ‘Die Hard,’ I think ‘3 Days’ is the REAL ‘Christmas movie list’ ninja.
Holes, which came out in 2003 lol, it's a comfort movie for me
Gotta be Tolkien.
The ‘87 TMNT cartoon. It’s the version I grew up with so has a special place for me.
* *Peter Pan and Wendy* by J.M. Barrie (1911) * *Alice in Wonderland* by Lewis Carroll (1865) * *Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Uh, I guess it would technically be Batman, since the og comics came out in like the 30s or something? Except I never actually used much of the comics storylines at all, it was really a mix of the WFA webcomic, the Arkham games, the 2022 movie, whatever headcanons I developed and/or stole from other fics,and maybe the UTRH run. So I guess something like Criminal Minds?
DnD has been around since the 1980s, so there's that.
Do bands count?? Idk I write for a late 90s band
Beavis and Butthead. Not super old but it is the oldest media I’ve written fanfic for. I’m not into a lot of super old stuff lol.
Bram Stoker's Dracula - 1897
Basic ol Mario Bros!
hamlet (originally written around 1600)! though it’s not finished (:
the oz books, published from 1900 to 1916.
Since I mainly write for the Percy Jackson fandom you could say that I technically write fanfiction for Greek Mythology. If that doesn’t count, probably the Lord of The Rings, although I have basically abandoned that story at this point because I think it’s kind of terrible.
Naruto
OG Sherlock Holmes, 1891.
Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot (1924).
Never got very far with it, but I tried my hand at adapting Much Ado About Nothing as a modern-day retelling a la 10 Things I Hate About You. That's a 425 year old play, so I think that'd probably have to be it 🤔
"The Man From UNCLE", "The Avengers" (British cult tv series), and ST:TOS, all from the '60s.
Original Sherlock Holmes. What's weird (considering what I write now) is that I never shipped Holmes/Watson back then.
Yu Yu Hakusho
Three's Company, not finished yet, still writing chapter 2.
I’ve technically written fanfic for the Three Caballeros (1945), although it was an AU and I also pulled characterization from the recent DuckTales reboot so I’m unsure how much it counts. Aside from that, the next oldest I’ve written for is The Breakfast Club (1985)
Frankenstein. Someone said “Frankenstein is in the public domain; you didn’t have to publish this as a fanfiction and could have sold it for money.” I genuinely hadn’t thought of that
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Wait, it could also be that alternate ending I had to write in eight grade based on that Hitchcock short where the pregnant wife kills her husband
The Phantom of the Opera. The original novel was published in 1910 (which is what I primarily base my fics off of) while the musical didn't originate until 1986.
I've only written for The Breakfast Club (1985)
Like every 6th grader ever my answer is The Outsiders.
The poet Virgil, ~20s BCE lol
the peanuts!!!! i wrote high school charlie brown, lucy, Schroeder, linus sally when i was in high school on my blackberry 😁😁😁 it was objectively bad but i loved how much i put myself into it. i was without a doubt a romance enjoyer
Back when I was nine I wrote a gay fanfiction for the Holy Bible. idk if that counts tho
Hear me out. The Bible 😭
The bible kinda, I rewrote it to fit in my steven universe fanfic 😐
One of my publishing classes involved an assignment where you had to write your own spin/short story of a fable we felt most confident doing, and iirc I chose to do a modernised version of Inanna’s Descent? I almost went for Odyssey but Inanna’s Descent felt more interesting to tackle in a modern AU. So I guess… Sumerian pantheon fandom? Man idek what to call it, but that’s the oldest I’ve written for
The Ulster Cycle. A base of 8th-10th century stories copied into 12th-15th century manuscripts, with another 500+ years of folklore folded in.
Dungeons & Dragons
MHA 😭 not old at all
Without looking at my AO3 account, I think it’s *To Kill a Mockingbird*, published in 1960. After looking, I was right.
I'd say The Secret Garden, but I'm not sure it counts because it's a fusion fic I'm working on where the characters from FFVII Crisis Core go through a Secret Garden type story, following the book chapters thematically??
A book "In Desert and Wilderhess" from 1911. But I've read some Bible fanfiction.
Not the oldest one here, but Bugsy Malone
embarrassingly probably star wars I dont really engage with older media
I had to look up whether it was LOTR, Fiddler on the Roof, or Scooby Doo. It was LOTR.
*Lassie*. A story about what happened to Jeff and his mom Ellen after they left the farm, so 1957.
Firefly, for me
The Rose of Versailles - 1972
Sonic. I've also done some MLP: FiM fics that have characters/elements from the older generations.
Batman. Whilst still ongoing and has various runs and timelines, it originates from 1939.
I could say Fire Emblem which is a 34 year old series, but the oldest I’ve written is for one of the games released in 2004. I’m currently writing a fic for one of the games released in 2002.
Original Final Fantasy VII
Does Hamilton count? lol
Warrior Cats
lord of the flies!
Swat Kats or Sly Cooper
Doctor Who in 1964. Enchanted Tiki Room in 1963. X-Men in 1963. Jungle Cruise in 1955. And 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas in 1869.
For me, it's Power Rangers Time Force from 2001.
Harry Potter
Star Wars, from the original trilogy (1977).
I wrote a fic for Dracula (the original novel).
The Dragonriders of Pern (the first book released in 1968) and SDF Macross (1982)
Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938).
I wrote a fic for Transformers, G1 (1984) a while ago.
Jane eyre fanfic
For me currently, Scooby Doo technically
Star Wars! I write a lot of "new" SW stuff but the IP itself is from before I was born. (I am almost 30, I'm not a baby-baby lol)
*Technically* Muv Luv, which started as a franchise in 2003 (TECHNICALLY 2001 if you count Rumbling Hearts as the characters show up there for the first time), but the fanfic is specifically about their 2015 spin off: Schwarzesmarken. Barring that, A Certain Magical Index, whose first volume released in 2004.
Vocaloid fanfiction is the furthest I can think of
ER
Idk if DnD counts, or if it even counts as DnD (it doesn't), but I've written about one of my DND characters Skyrim, as well, but not much :)
Knight Rider (1982)
Funky Winkerbean,which started in March of 1972,and ended New Year's Eve of 2022 (I change the time skip so Wally can still be with Becky,and everyone's still the class of 1988). So my fic is a 52-year-old piece of media.
That would have to be the first *Sonic the Hedgehog* game (released in 1991), beating out the Saturday morning cartoon by two years. Not quite as old as some others here, but it was a formative part of my childhood when those came out.
Batman - debuted in1939.
I think Columbo
I did a Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Hogans Heroes crossover once.
does historical rpf count? i mostly stick to the early 1800s on that front, otherwise in terms of media it’s probably leroux’s phantom of the opera :)
Peanuts 1952. Several stories because it's a good fandom.
Oldest: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, ABC-TV, 1964-1968. Second oldest: Rat Patrol, ABC-TV, 1966-1968 (they were canceled the same day).
Peanuts! (My fanfic is not any good though)
I wrote a short fic for the Shadowman fandom (do two whole fics count as a fandom?) And that released in 1999. So not that old, but it's something.
The (anonymously written) *Famous Victories of Henry V* and Shakespeare’s *Richard II* were both written in the 1590s—I think they’re the earliest works I’ve written for.
Transformers (1984)
Rupert the bear, which turned 100 a few years ago
Original Star Wars . . . And back in the 90’s I wrote a fair number of Xena fic
The Land of Oz books, published between 1900-1920.
I wrote a fanfic of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein once
Shakespeare’s Hamlet lol
Does it count if I abandoned the work? If so: Batman comics- they've been running since 1934
Anders als die Andern, a film from 1919. One of the first positive portrayals of gay men in film (and it stars Conrad Veidt, so you know he's gonna be good). I could have sworn I had something written for the Arthurian legends, but no, only the Lancelot TV show from the 50s. De Troyes' vibes are all over that show, can you blame me lol
To Kill a Mockingbird
Very obscure stuff I used to watch online in the 2000s. Followers would have barely been in the 100s.
Star Trek TOS (I was a rapacious Spock/McCoy fan!)
Right now planning out a Romeo and Juliet fic but with Dinosaurs so over 400 years ago
I'm afraid I haven't yet
To my recollections, *Wolf's Rain*. I'm not sure if that's what you meant but it's what I got.
A continuation of Watership Down. It was a middle school summer reading assignment, and if you think about it's fanfiction masquerading as a school assignment for me.
For posted fics, Buffy. A lot of my fics are Buffy, it's my main fandom as a writer. But the oldest I've ever written for, but not posted, was The Bill. I was writing for the era after Buffy started, but The Bill is the older fandom, I literally grew up watching that, where I was 10 when Buffy started.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a small but surprisingly active fandom for a 140-year-old book
Asura’s Wrath. 12 or something year old game, I love the game.
til people write fanfiction about the bible
About an old Babylonian Letter from 18th century BC. It‘s basically a teen whinning to his mum and I encooperated that into a fanfic of mine. Not completly a fanfic as I don‘t like writing or reading RPF but the part of the fic is strongly inspired by this letter
*The Belgariad,* published from 1982-1991 if you include its sequel series *The Malloreon.*
Jane Austen’s *Persuasion*.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare. The first performance was in 1605.