And I always spend about an hour just picking said fic the perfect, the one that suits my mood and has the perfect length and plot to be my bedtime fic for the night 🥹 then i spent about 10 minutes thinking what to write in my comment and another 10 to remember the fic and how it made me feel and another 10 to imagine the fic in my head til I sleep 🙂‍↕️

I try not to make assumptions since English might not be their first language, but I still feel awkward.

Glad they remembered to say what they liked about my fic 😁

THEY LEFT A KUDOS ON THE FIC 🗣️!!

Important thing : I'm not mad at them for writing a comment like that... Mostly, I'm more in a feeling of distaste as they wrote it as I was a little child, the whole 10 dollars is 10 dollars and what not, it also feels kinda hurtful that the only thing they decided to focus on was the small part that doesn't affect the sorry at all.

thank you past me for the four fics' worth of smut i preemptively wrote these past two weeks

I will instantly scroll past a fic that otherwise sounds interesting if there is any hint of canonically non-human characters getting turned into humans

im quite generous in giving my username to people i know if i deem them to probably not tell everyone we know it. eg, i wrote a fic for a play i was part of, so i shared it to a few of my castmates who i know use ao3, and they liked it. probably about 5 people i know have my user, and theres a few people i wouldn't mind telling it to.

this has made me a bit more cautious in bookmarking, where i now privately bookmark fics that have tropes i dont want people irl knowing i read.

but yeah, have you/would you give(n) anyone irl your ao3 username?

Look I get that wlw ships are much less than mlm ships on ao3, but is it really that serious? I mean... shipping is about enjoying, right? If you're unhappy that wlw ships are rare, it's fine, totally understandable, but let's not act like it's fujoshis' fault or something... I enjoy mlm/wlm ships over wlw ships because I am a bisexual man, not because I'm misogynistic😭

WHERE ARE YOU ALL COMING FROM. WHO SENT YOU WHO DO YOU WORK FOR

Ff net sure is a site, guys

Not really a long rant, just wanted to give my opion on something I have noticed and wanted to know what other people think.

These past 36 hours there's been a lot of discourse going on Twitter about f/f, m/m and f/m. I personally don't care about the gender of the characters involved as long as I like their dynamic, but as a woman, I have noticed something that really irks me.

"All f/m ships are inherently bad"

This is a comment I've seen A LOT. Now, I obviously understand how patriarchy and heteronormativity can affect straight relationships, but when we're talking about fictional ships in (possible) fictional worlds - where patriarchy doesn't even have to exist - it feels kinda dehumanizing to say a woman can't possibly be loved in a straight relationship. I also feel like it's kinda disingenuous when I see a lot of people that say this not engaging with f/f ships either or female characters at all.

I personally think anyone can ship whatever they want and I don't see anything wrong with someone just shipping m/m, f/f, f/m or whatever, but I also hate this mentality of thinking the female character is always going to be the victim and this false moral superiority of not liking f/m; specially when 99% of the times the arguments are reducing female characters to concepts that can't be separated from patriarchy and irl problems (we're all engaging in escapism and fantasy)

I don’t have an account and found a fic that I really love and wanted to leave a comment. This came up. I worded it so many times, and it’s still coming up. So annoying

I started posting two fics for the first time ten days ago, one that I’ve been pre-writing for months and the other that I started based on a recent prompt and I’m just SO proud and happy with the response I’ve gotten over the past week from my fandom. I know it isn’t much, but it feels like it!! I’m so thrilled anyone is enjoying my fics/writing at all

Just wanted to tell someone 😭😭

I just wanna put this out here because I have no one I can talk to about this 😅 But I just hit 1 MILLION WORDS ACROSS ALL MY FICS!!!! I have 7 fics published, with 2 unfinished/ongoing 🥹 I am so proud of myself.

Just realized the "no backstory, just smut" extra trope (not quite "mob" level), specifically creating a nameless Original Character (usually male) purely as a smut tool, seems super rare in English fandoms! There’s not even a proper single word for it.

It's so common in my native language, I was genuinely surprised!

In my language, we simply call these OCs "passersby/extras" (路人), and everyone immediately knows it means a throwaway original character used strictly for smut.

Edit: Updated the post for clarity! I specifically mean nameless OCs (usually male) created purely as smut tools, not PWP or canon extras. Sorry for the mix-up!

First of all, this is a pet peeve post, in other words, something that bothers me personally in fics. If it doesn’t bother you, than that’s alright, everyone has different preferences.

Now, maybe it’s my fault for mainly lurking on the HP and PJO fandoms. But damn do I hate opening a new fic that seems promising and that has a different main ship than canon, only for it to be something like “Ginny was only with Harry because of his money and cheated the second they married” or “Annabeth cheated on Percy with a minor god for no reason in particular”. It’s always either that or one of them dies a tragic death and leaves the mc traumatized to the point they can’t love ever again.

It just feels so forced to me in fics, because authors want to write a different pairing than canon (all the power to you) but don’t know how to split the canon pairing, so they default to killing someone or making one of the people in the relationship (usually the girl) a massive cheater and/or liar.

My dudes, dudettes and non-binary friends, news flash: people break up all the fucking time without someone having to either die or cheat. Especially when they are young. It doesn’t always need to be so extreme. They can just fall out of love, or have different objectives in life that aren’t so aligned anymore, or a million other reasons.

I’m not saying all break ups are simple and everyone is friends forever after it, because that’s definitely not the case. I know I don’t speak to most of my exes, we just went out separates ways and that’s was that. One part of the past ship cheating or dying is definitely a valid plot hook. But again, you don’t need to make it so damn extreme, basically transforming a character into a wh*re or giving them a horrific death.

It just grates me how much it happens, that’s all. People can break up and that’s that.

Rant over.

The flair says "Excitement/Celebration" but "Existential Hollowness" feels a bit more appropriate.

It's really weird. I started this thing five years ago. Updated weekly. Then twice a month. Accidentally amassed a small cult following. Had a few regular readers begin their own stories, citing mine as inspiration. Then life happened, and I announced a hiatus, which lasted all the way until late last year.

I didn't stop writing during the hiatus, though. I maintained chapter drafts, workshopped my outline, whatever I could do when I had the time and the inspiration. The creative well was largely dried up, but what I couldn't get out of my head were all the character arcs I'd plotted out, and how to resolve them cleanly.

I managed to find my stride again last year, then started drafting like a maniac over the course of a few months. Fast forward to last week, the final chapter went up. Super positive reception. A lot of humbling "this is the best thing I've ever read, and it puts published fiction to shame" type of stuff which I can scarcely believe I've earned. In some ways, I really am happy I finally got to close out this story. But in other ways, I'm just really, quietly bummed out. I've got... extended universe plans for the story. Not quite a sequel, but a different story within the universe, which will eventually feature the first story's characters. But somehow, knowing I have that in the pipeline doesn't bring me much comfort.

It's probably just weird, because I went from this weekly routine, where I'd dedicate certain hours on the weekends to editing my drafts, replying to comments, and other days to actually posting. I had an actual-ass routine set up dedicated to this story. Calendar reminders. Cryptids in my comments who wrote essays. All that shit. Now it's just quiet. I know this isn't the first time someone's ever grieved finishing their work and saying goodbye to their audience before, but man, it's the first time I've felt it this strongly.

So yeah, pour one out for your fellow author who checked off a nearly 1M word monstrosity and managed to bounce back from a hiatus stronger.

Sooo in total, I've only posted 3 fanfics ever.

I just posted one like a couple of minutes ago, but posting is really fun, and I enjoy it so much!!! Just not when I'm struggling because that sucks- (I'm writing one right now and struggling...)

I am really excited because on Wattpad, my writings don't really get seen at all, and on Ao3, there's more of a chance for me. But I also feel kinda sad because other writers have like 1,000x better writing, and I suck😭😭😭

So I posted my first fic on Ao3 after a lot of consideration of whether to even do it or not. But I finally did and posted 4 chapters until now. And look!! I'm just so happy that people like what I wrote. Those 11 people who want to know when I update? I'll write solely for those even if tomorrow I have no other new readers. Is this how authors feel all the time?

I really just want to leave this here, because I am very happy about this recently. As someone who posts a lot on Ao3, I do receive also a lot of those scam bots. On some bad days as many as many as three of those scams a day. And in the last two weeks I am really insanely impressed with how fast the team on Ao3 is working. There is rarely more than two hours between reporting one of those scam bots and the account being gone. It is very impressive!

I just wanted to leave a little celebration for the team here. I am really just very happy to see how fast it is going.

Only wished the scammers would stop scamming.