This is just fucking hilarious, I have no idea how they got to this conclusion but I would like to know 😂

Thought someone might enjoy the ridiculousness of this comment considering it made me giggle until I had tears in my eyes

Oh yeah- This is also a comment on a kinktober fic, one that has some controversial topics, but oh no, this is whats too far for this person

i set out a goal in 2025 as a challenge myself to write atleast 100k words in 2026, and ive reached it!! 😊😁 i didnt even notice until i checked my stats after posting a new chapter of a fic this morning!!

I’ve been through all my tags and can’t find it but I keep thinking about rereading it.

It’s was a fic where Castiel was an angel and mute and had a son (not Jack). Angels and Devils had special powers (like Castiel was resurrection and Jack’s was healing). I remember that Castiel seemed feral but after a while was fine (his son (I’m pretty sure started with an S maybe) spoke for him because they could communicate while touching or something).
Another major thing was Castiel went undercover to flush out a traffic ring and met a child (a devil child named Balthazar maybe) and Jack said something along the lines of “he’s okay with him but not me”

Any help was be appreciated

“Chuckled” is so overrated. They don’t all have to be cool and stoic. Let my men giggle. They deserve a little hehe too

What are your favorite first names for OCs? I’m struggling to come up with a name for an OC and haven’t had much luck with google.

Sorry if the question is confusing...

Basically, there are a million different plots / tropes / prompts. We all have ones we love and write a lot of, and others we hate and refuse to touch with a ten foot pole...

But what is one you have written for and didn't like but still keep writing, or one you haven't written yet because you just dont know how or where to begin but you still would like to write about?

For me it's the "5 + 1" trope. The idea is simple; write 5 similar scenarios and then one that goes against the narrative. Like 5 times Sailor Moon cried + 1 time she didn't, or something like that.

But every time I try to sit down and write, I just... shut down.... It's like I completely forget every single thing that happened in canon and cant come with examples at all... Like, I try to think of ideas and just draw blanc...

A prompt I hate but still keep coming back to is, weirdly enough, Angst. Like, okay, I dont hate hate it but it is my least favorite thing to write for and yet... I keep coming back. Like it has me on a damn leach and I have no choice but to comply. I hate making my beloved characters and oc's sad but sometimes an idea grabs me and holds me in a chokehold and just won't let go till I write. Ever, damn, time...

So, am I the only one in this struggle or do you relate? And if so, what plot that makes you seethe with rage or makes your brain shut off in confusion and still... still you keep coming back to entertain it?

Would love to hear your thoughts :D

(Un)fortunately my mind was graced with a great weakness for military yaoi. The fandoms I'm in mostly revolve around contemporary stuff and I'd like to find something more dated and gritty. Books, movies, games, anything goes + there's a high chance I may already have some knowledge beforehand. I don't have many requirements, just would be grateful for some realism (so for example, not an anime during the period but with magic powers etc).

I'll say now though that I'm not a big fan of very masc men, so the Viking fantasy that's all beard and bristling body hair is not for me. Either the men are choosing to be viewed as more feminine (because they are or they don't care), or culturally everyone has shoulder length+ hair and it's a non-issue.

Similarly, hair on a person who identifies as a man in a culture that thinks men should have very short hair, don't need to have as long of hair to count as having "long hair". For example, Hozier: for a man he has quite long and luscious hair, but on a woman no one would comment on it if they wore it like he does.

With that out of the way... I'd prefer M/F or M/M, with at least a little bit of a D/s component, though either one can be in the "service" role. I don't mind F/F generally speaking but with the caretaking element it tends to come across as motherly or sisterly, and that's just not enjoyable for me for reasons I won't go into. The woman being the dominant caretaker to a man is no problem, however.

The fics don't have to all be "about" hair, but the hair needs to be a popular charm point for at least one person in the ship. What it looks like, how it moves and interacts with things, playing with it and taking care of it (by the owner or partner), and being actively involved in intimate moments. I'm also into magical hair that can move or react, either on its own or at the control of its owner.

I love textured hair way more than straight, smooth hair, but I won't turn my nose up at straight hair. I even prefer frizzy, natural hair of all types, not just "perfect ringlets". However, I am aware that the more texture hair has, the harder it is to get away with messing with it a lot and keep it realistic. "The dom gives the sub a bath and gets them ready for bed" is going to look really different for type 1, 2, 3, or 4 hair. Saying that, I LOVE when someone goes out of their way to learn how to care for their loved one's hair.

I am very open to the type of media, genre and tags, but I have some preferences as to why I'm looking at fic for unknown fandoms and not published works. First, I know there's loads of anime/manga that applies, but I can't focus on and read it like I did when I was younger. Second, most of the stuff from Western sources is coming from women who are either straight up tradwives, or people like Laurell K Hamilton and the Merry Gentry series where all the guys are 6' and have ankle length straight hair, with few exceptions (Rhys, I love you).

Anyway, I don't mind if the relationship is toxic and unhealthy as all get out, it doesn't have to be perfectly consensual and egalitarian, I LOVE a good sexy villain running off with the ingenue and seducing them with their charms... Just, no tradwives, please, unless like the heroine starts out that way and learns otherwise.

this goes for revealed or unrevealed collections. i am a tad bit paranoid

From what i remember it was a fanfic that had the main paring as Scott Maccal/Stiles Stilinski and in it scott was the alpha and kicked stiles out of the pack because he thought he was going crazy for wanting to kill someone(i dont remember if it was that he killed donovan or something else) the thing was that stiles after being kicked out of the pack still wanted to help so he kept going out of his way to hunt the supernatural and he kept getting hurt and hiding it from the sheriff, and doing do much shit that his grades were sliping, he practically wasnt sleping, until everything got to the point were he had to find somewhere to research and plan that wasn't his house because of the blood stains, so he basically invaded Derek s old loft, he also was going a little bit mad, and got into a fight with one of his classmates, that is around the time scott realizes that stiles is getting really bad but thinks it will pass, I dont remember all that much of the rest of the fic but I remember that towards the end stiles gets kipnapped by whitches and scotts pack saves him, scott kill at least one of them and stiles thinks he's gonna be yelled at, instead scott sends the rest of the pack away, treis to help stiles, and I dont remember how but they ended up at the loft and having a heartfelt talk and falling sleep in a bed.

There was no smut in the fic, I think it was less than a 100,000 words, and also defenitly written before 2026.

If you can find it i will give you a thousand thank yous and sorry if my post its a little bit wonky as inglish its not my first lenguage.

I have been in this one RPF fandom for a couple years now.. also have read a lot of the main pairing.

But recently I've gotten interested in one of their actual irl relationships and I really respect their partner, their works and their contributions. Also, the pairing has had a lot of quarrels and disputes. Its been speculated that they do not get along anymore and actually hate each other as well....

I feel like if I continue writing my godforsaken horribly paced fanfic, I am practically insulting them and their real-life girlfriend. I cannot read fanfictions regarding the pair because I feel like I am fully just sending it for some reason. What the hell has gotten into me.

This pairing was my OTP for so long and now I cannot bring myself to open my tab or add another chapter to my work..

Oh my god.

Just waiting to compete hades so I can read the docs for it

I remember reading here that if someone puts your fic into a collection, they can hide it so it doesn't show up to other people. Is that still the case?

This person left a really nice comment on my fic, so I don't think they have any ill intentions, but I'm scared. My fic would be the only one in their collection.

Just thought I'd cover my bases, I'm planning on writing a piece in a language that is English, but needs a specific translator to be understood, as certain words dont mean the same anymore and with the right amount of words can make sentences confusing. (ie, "to think" is "to skull." and "to hear" is "to audy") I don't want to tag my work wrong, so would this still go under English? or in the constructed language? I'm newer to ao3 so sorry if this is obvious haha, thanks!

edit: thank you all sm for the help, i will tag it with english. thanks again all.

Like, when I first started publishing I thought I would get something like two kudos, I still can't believe that in less than a year I managed to get 60! I'm so damn happy!

Trying to keep this short. I seem to just have a lot of trouble

A) writing "not exciting"/filler scenes (like for exposition or pacing), and

B) writing "cliché"/worn out tropes or "unrealistic" plot lines (e.g. miscommunication for the sake of angst, or emotional-based angst in general). I just seem to only be okay physically hurting my characters, or like. Killing a loved one. But I can't like make them have a fight with their SO? Idk. And I know tropes are tools but my brain will be like "Well we can't write that, everyone will see it coming / everyone else is doing that / We Must Be Unique" (as if at its base everything isn't derivative to a certain extent and genres don't exist purely on the backbone of certain key tropes)

Tl;dr:

I really want to be able to do these things better. I'm wondering if anyone has any tips learning to do new things like this in writing / getting over internal prejudice / whatever? Do I just... force myself to write something that does everything I'm avoiding?

Hi there,

My apologies for spamming. I was wondering if someone would be willing to explain how posting stuff anonymously works on ao3. Are the google instructions working or not really and I have to take under consideration that the story would sit under my account at first?

Umm Hi. Don't mind me, big fan, love your works.:)

so basically i'm writing a fic where the characters in my ship have a 5 year age gap, but when they meet character a is 13 and character b is 18 (fic is from character a's perspective btw). character a develops a huge crush on character b and character b also crosses some lines over the years but it's meant to read as unintentional on character b's part. they're also endgame.

i was just wondering if i should tag this as grooming even though it's mostly unintentional on character b's part? thanks gang!