#.media: fanficiton

[hiddenreamers]

My eyes only

SUMMARY: One might think that after reaching the pinnacle of motorsport, there's not much to be jealous of. After all, don't you have the world in the palm of your hand? It turns out that even the best drivers can get a little jealous when it comes to the woman they love.

Max Verstappen

Lando Norris

Carlos Sainz

Lewis Hamilton

Oscar Piastri

Charles Leclerc

George Russell

[ladyzirkonia]

Welcome my dear fellows.

I made another bigger update to my main Masterlist now The Bad Batch season 3 ended. Added some OC stuff (we love OCs in this house!) and a lot of GIFs and Edits. Have fun! 🖤

RP-blogs:

Renegade 99 Squad Crosshair - @toothpick-man

Nite Owl RP-blog - @nite-owl-with-attitude

Knife skill challenge - Hunter and Nite Owl

bg3-blog: @lady-of-waterdeep

Z's suicide squad

Jurij ''just Doc'' Vega - Cybernetic specialist, mad scientist and clone activist - Doc's Masterlist

Ekaterina ''Captain Z'' Zhakov - Ex-Imperial, starfighter pilot and Rampart's chaotic pain in the ass - Introduction

Fanfiction

Collecting some data - Tech x Reader (''Fascinating'')

The perfect drift - Tech x Reader

Eye Rolls & Travel-Biscuits - A little Rampart One-Shot

The Bad Batch Modern Tattoo Shop AU - Tech and Crosshair/OC

Commander Ghoul x Doc - OC x OC (Part 1 - Part 2)

The Clone x Reader Bingo Event

Masterlist here.

My Edits (please credit if you use)

The Bad Batch

Tech in ''The Crossing''

My favorite twins - Tech and Crosshair

The First Battle Memorial of Geonosis - Crosshair

Tech in ''Faster'' - Part 1

Tech in ''Faster'' - Part 2

Neon lights Part 2 - Hunter

Neon lights - Crosshair

Angry boy Crosshair

Looking respectfully - Tech and Hunter

Good morning - Crosshair

Grumpy Crosshair, Wrecker and Lula

The clone/Twi'lek couple

Commander Mayday

Tech in ''The Metamorphosis''

The Bad Batch Season 3

Masterlist - PART 1 - PART 2

The Clone Wars

Juicy Jesse looking at me - with Kix

Look at these crazy boys - Bad Batch (Clone Wars)

Sassy Cody and Baby Rex

Phantom Liberty video edit - Commander Fox

It's hard to be the one who survives - Commander Cody

The faces of Commander Wolffe

Code red - Commander Fox

Masterlist Here.

The Bad Batch and Clone stuff

Incorrect Quotes

Commander Wolffe and Commander Fox

Our favorite twins - Tech and Crosshair

Bad Batch incorrect quote

Memes and rumbles

Mr. tits and Mr. I'm standing there like a model - Jesse and Tech

Every day I wake up meme with Tech

Lost my fucking cat - Crosshair

Shoutout to all my clone- and tech-girlies - Tech x Phee

protective clone (The Last Of Us) submission

The Tech-Turn

I belong with Wrecker but I fear for my spine - Bad Batch quiz

The Kinner Brothers and Cidgor

I have to confess this man does something to me - Dr. Hemlock

Hunter - Joel Miller era

Echo and some grief

The Crossing

Just some random Star Wars stuff

Mandalorian armor culture

Mandalorian tenets or the six actions

Patental divorce - Mando'a

Real talk - about shipping and romances

Space Utah appreciation post

Grief - Tech x Phee and Kanan x Hera

Ahsoka Trailor Star Wars Celebration - Screenshots

I'm so excited for my favorite blueberry! - Ezra Bridger

Were is Captain Rex? Is he safe? Is he alive? - Ahsoka Trailer

Jedi Survivor got me like this

Hottest shit on the Mandalorian throne - Darth Maul

Mandalorian women and light saber - Bo-Katan and Sabine

Cyberpunk 2077 (photomode)

Chippin in - Johnny

Who allowed you smiling like that? - Johnny

Just hanging around - Johnny

Hey choom - Johnny

[midnightsnyx]

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[desicat-writer]

There's this concept "I don't want to start watching this new TV show because I'm afraid it's going to get cancelled." Or "I don't read WIPs only complete fics."

I understand the pain of getting to know characters and invested in a story and it gets cancelled.

By not interacting and enjoying it you are actively contributing to it not being continued.

Networks have always paid attention and canceled things based on viewership which affects how much money they can make. We live in a capitalist society, businesses have to grow at a faster rate than inflation to stay in business.

Authors writing fanfiction get discouraged because here is this labor they do for free and they in this empty room with no idea if it's well received or even poorly received.

Avoiding content you potentially might like sends out the signal that content is not enjoyable and therefore should not be created.

[sickgraymeat]

Some media interpretation fallacies that drive me fucking insane:

Everything that happens onscreen is relevant to the narrative and/or character development (unless you don’t like or understand it)

Nothing important happens offscreen unless explicitly mentioned

Alternatively, it is possible to assume exactly what happens offscreen, whether or not it is explicitly mentioned, using your interpretation of what happens onscreen

Unless it’s a first person POV written narrative, the POV must be omniscient or at least unbiased

Characters always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, unless explicitly revealed otherwise

Characters are always consistent in their motives, words, and actions unless they’re undergoing a specific, definable change (eg character vs dark!character) or are being deliberately manipulative

Regardless of universe, species, (im)mortality, time period, culture, etc., all characters must have the same needs as we (the viewers and/or creators) do, and must understand/follow the same basic guidelines for society and relationships

Characters always express their feelings effectively AND/OR in ways that make their true feelings obvious to viewers and other characters without requiring any additional context or analysis

The only characters worth analyzing are the ones you like, even if analyzing others might improve your understanding of your favorites, and even if you’re using this character analysis to make broad claims about the media as a whole

[redheadlesbianfreak]

If someone wanted to talk about behind the scenes lore from one of my fics, I would probably go insane lmao. I’ll never shut up about my fics if you ask me about them.

They aren’t really the type of fics where people would want to know more about them if I’m being honest...

Do you ever read a fic so interesting you want behind the scenes lore, ten pinterest moodboards and one of those fancy .gif edits but none of that exists bc it's a fanfic?

[kevin-winfield]

💭 AFTG Ask Game 🥍

I wanted to create an ask game because i like seeing people's writing! Also wanted to focus on fan-work/ analysis of the series :3

Favourite Character(s)?

Favourite Fanficiton(s)?

Favourite Ships/Tags?

Favourite non-romantic/non-sexual relationship in AFTG?

Favourite Artwork you've seen?

Favourite Theme/Motif?

Part of the story you want expanded/ have more knowledge of?

What team would you be on? Fox, Raven, Trojan (one of the others👀?) 

What position would you play? (Or would you be a non-player ie. Betsy/Katelyn?)

First impressions of the series versus now?

Who are you most like in the series/ relate to? 

Favourite part of the fandom? 

Favourite fandom moment/ trend/post?

Crossover Idea/thoughts with another media (book/tv show etc)? i.e Characters who remind of AFTG ones etc etc?

Your AFTG OC?

Your take on a new AFTG book (focused on an existing character)

Canon divergence time! What would your fresh take on an aftg character be (i.e Raven Neil, Vixen Allison?)

[drgnflyteabox]

I know the common thing to say is "fanficiton is free so don't complain / demand" but you shouldn't do that to paid, published authors either lol. This demand for immediate gratification & convenience for media / art / writing / etc is partially what is driving AI, and now we are seeing instant just-add-water stories that are frankly... garbage, and either written by computers or written by authors who are copying instead of actually taking their time because fans pressure them and preasure pubmishers the same way they do fanfiction authors.

Go outside 🙌 pick up a book while you wait for your favourite fic to update. You'll be ok.

[sonyshock]

Hey, I was wondering if it’s ok to draw fanart of your characters specifically from your comic papercut? My friend wanted me to ask since they really love their designs but hasn’t seen much fanart and was curious if they were just looking in the wrong places or if there were any boundaries agenst it? (Sorry I’m not really the best at wording stuff) also are there any specific tags for fanart if it is ok with you to make it (mainly for papercut)?

Thanks for your time! Me and my friend have just been really enjoyed (re)reading your comic and think your art style and way of coloring your works are gorgeous! /gen it all looks really lovely. I’m really glad we found your work, it has definitely been a positive experience seeing all the cool art you make and just how pretty and dynamic it is (sorry for the ramble, I just really like your work!)

Man, I'm sorry for the very awkward timing in which you sent this ask... But absolutely. Be free to treat Papercut like any other series/media you'd find online. Fanart, fanficiton, wild headcanons, all that fun, really. I've been thinking of continuing it, and do have the outline laid down for years now, but.. I admit I have to go over a lot of my notes because I forgot, and reading is always such a chore! (I'd call it ADHD but I was never diagnosed. But I do have difficulty focusing, that's for sure). I've been thinking on doing comics overall, though. Nonstop. As for fanart, I received some here and there but I never really got much! I guess #PapercutFanart would serve? It's not like people do fanart of, like, actual papercuts.. usually, right? I am in A mental state right now... But I will come here later with ref sheets if I can find them! <3

[themirokai]

I read you post about webnovel and how they make money off of fanficiton? Isnt that very fucking illegial due to copyright from the creators of the characters used in fanficitons?? Idk im nust more highly concerned that companies or what not could potentially find out leading to another fanfic legal battle or some shit that’ll bite back the fanfic creators yet leaving webnovel itself unharmed…

Hey there Anon. Thanks for the ask.

I think if you were to ask Webnovel, they would say that they are absolutely not trying to get people to monetize fan fiction on their site. They want original fiction only. Because yes, while there are a lot of nuances, making money from fan fiction is one thing that points to a work being a violation of copyright law. And certainly, if you were to ask Webnovel, they would tell you that they absolutely don't mean to do that.

BUT that stance is completely undermined when they try to recruit people *on AO3, the non-profit fan fiction website.* And not only are they recruiting writers from AO3 (and ffn and wattpad, according to the notes on that post) but they're strongly fucking implying that they want fan fiction! Some folks have left replies and reblogs on my post saying that they've seen fan fiction on Webnovel.

I am incredibly fortunate that @lymmea put this thorough and correct breakdown in the replies of that post.

Some people in the notes of the post are focusing on the fact that the first part of the TOS that I highlighted is pretty standard for platforms that host user content. I appreciate that clarification. As I said (probably not explicitly enough) this isn't my area of practice (I mostly do small business contracts, real estate stuff, and environmental stuff) and I didn't take the time to compare this TOS to others. But I think it's important for people to understand that when they put their content on a site they are granting that site a license to the content. To me, there's a really big difference between granting that license to a non-profit site like AO3, or a social media site like tumblr, and a site that is created with the intention of selling people the right to read your writing.

The reason I wrote the post was that I *regularly* see people on tumblr upset about AO3's no monetization policy. These people are ripe targets for Webnovel to exploit, either for free or for ridiculously low pay with horrendous contract terms (there's more information in the notes of that post about how some people can get paid by them, but it's still a scam).

As to the part of your question about a fan fic legal battle, it's not impossible. If someone puts fan fiction on Webnovel and Disney sues, like lymmea says, Webnovel would try to blame the writer and could easily be successful. Probably it would get resolved with the work being taken down, but the party hit the hardest would be writer, who likely had no idea they did anything wrong. And that's also why I wrote the post.

Thanks for the ask, Anon. I hope this sheds some additional light.

[jasico-challenges]

FAQ

Please make sure you read this before sending an ask.

Do I have to blackout the card?

Although that is the main target since this is a bingo, there's no pressure to fill the entire card, do as many prompts as you'd like!

Can I combine Jasico Bingo Challenge 2024 with other events?

Sure, as long as the other event also allows it. We don't want anybody to be in trouble.

Is there a min/max limit on word count for fanficiton?

No, write as little or as much as you want.

Where do I sign-up?

This link will direct you to the sign-up post.

What about other media, like fanarts, gifs and edits? Any requirements?

Not for fanarts, no. Just make sure you give credit on your post to any music and/or images you'll be using when making gifs and edits.

What if there's a prompt that I don't like on my card?

Upon signing up you will choose between a long list all the possible prompts so you won't have to create for anything you wouldn't like.

Is there an AO3 Collection?

Yup, check it out on this link.

Can I still use my card and post works even after the event ends?

Yes, but we won't reblog any works after February.

How will we receive our bingo cards?

You will receive them via the email you provided us when signing up.

Can I make NSFW content?

Yes, as long as it is clearly warned that it`s NSFW at the top of the post.

Still have questions? Drop them on our ask box!

[agentmarcuspike]

god i usually stay quiet on things like this, but here’s a warning i guess, if you choose to read anything i write:

“reader insert” to me simply means writing in the second person, with “you” instead of a first or third person pronoun. it does not mean it’ll always be possible for everyone to see themselves in it, it does not mean it’ll be completely neutral, it does not mean the main character won’t be described in any way. it’s simply a literary tool used so that the reader gets to experience the story from the main character’s pov. whether they see themselves in that character or not will always vary, just liked the stories do, and that’s why we use content tags: so that you don’t have to spend your time reading things you know you’re not going to enjoy

but! i, and most of the writers i interact with, always aim to make the stories diverse. not every fic will be for everyone, that’s just how literature works. fanficiton is written with love and shared for free, and i think the energy a lot of people are currently using on making (mostly young) writers feel like whatever they do will never be enough, causing many to give up on writing entirely (which again leads to us losing voices) could be a lot more powerful if pointed towards people with more power and a bigger audience, instead of fans sharing porn with a couple hundred people on a blogging platform. for example we could fight for more diversity and representation in mainstream media! which is what most of what we write and create is based on!

so again, if you come here to read fanficiton, and specifically “reader insert”, expecting every story to be a blank and neutral slate for you to insert yourself into, or project yourself into; just know that while i strive to be diverse in everything i make, it’s not gonna tick every box every time. i want everyone to be able to see themselves in stories, but we simply cannot make that happen in every single piece of fanfiction posted. let’s aim for some sort of representation in every piece of mainstream media instead. shoot for the moon!

byeeeee

[sweetorangepoptart]

🍓 and 🔪 :)

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

I have literally been writing fanfiction since I was a child. I think I was writing fanfiction when I was like 10 or so. Back then it was just silly stuff in notebooks. I honestly can't remember if I had even read fanficiton before I started writing it! I just remember loving the media I was consuming so much that I wanted MORE. It was anime more than anything else (DBZ, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Digimon) and I think it was a lot of girl power stuff at first. I didn't get into romance or shipping til I was older, probably 13 or so.

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

good god there's too much to even chose. Also 'weird' is relative lol. Like. The US government might find it sketchy for me to search "History of surveillance technology" and some people would think it's weird for me to search for 1920s laundry techniques for removing ahem 'stains' from various types of fabric... But to me the weirdest is probably when I browsed Wikipedia for an obscene amount of time looking at the sports seasons page. Literally all I was trying to do was establish a timeline for Secret, and I decided to use Pro-bending seasons to establish it... But there's no canon to draw on so I read about like every sport in existence and how and why they decide the seasons for each one. This is weird to me because I hate sports and literally never watch any sports.

[midnightsnyx]

allie's writing guide

requests are currently open.

what i write

reader x character

one shots/drabbles

imagines

alternative universes

social media au’s

headcanons

who i write

RPF: hockey players x reader

I don’t write for the following players but this is also subject to change! I may add players or take players off this list for various reasons.

auston matthews

patrick kane

jamie benn

carter hart

vince dunn

dillon dubé

michael mcleod

cal foote

alex formenton

max domi

nearly anyone over 21 unless it’s platonic is fair game, but again, this list is subject to change.

criminal minds

aaron hotchner

spencer reid

the last of us

joel miller

sentence starters here & here & here I don’t write smut/NSFW.

[enneamage]

I was reading your post about RPF and was hoping that you could explain to me why so many people like to write it. I would go so far as to say I am repelled by it and don't understand the appeal whatsoever. tbh I don't even like fan fiction for what I think is the same reason: it isn't canon. It seems presumptive of any individual that has nothing to do with a creative project to contribute to it as if it is part of the original. It is even worse if we are talking about something that is irl. Why is it not enough to create a fictional work with all of the same traits that the writer believes the fiction or irl subjects have, and then just change the names? If the content is good enough, it doesn't have to be propped up on irl people in order to get readers.

Oh nelly here we go.

Whenever people ask about RPF fic I’m used to trying to use what footholds they do have in fan culture to direct them to why people write these kinds of taboo extremes, but you seem to be pretty squarely affirmational in a sea of transformational people, so this is going to start right from zero.  

I wouldn’t choose an RPF fandom to be babies first fandom justifying experience because of how deep in the pocket it is compared to some other transformational fandoms, so starting there is hard. If you’ve never had the experience of being exposed to something and wanting more of something, or different from something, or had your imagination wander off with what you’ve just seen, a lot of what transformational fandom does in general will seem baffling, let alone rpf spaces.

Basic Transformational Fandom

Transformational fandoms tend to kick off in media that provides a fun sandbox or (even when it’s good) leaves a little bit more to be desired. From there, the people left wanting start to group up and create markets for the creation of fanwork, and eventually someone puts hand to keyboard to make something. People sometimes think that transformational fandom is recent but the truth is that Fanficiton Fanzines stretch back well beyond the creation of the internet, people have been craving transformational content and art for a long time, and are very stubborn when it comes to finding each other to do it.  

Speaking from personal experience, even though fandoms often reliably form around media, I haven’t participated in the fandom for every piece of media I’ve consumed, so I know what it’s like to be interested and disinterested in the fandoms around what I watch/read/ect. There’s been times where I was very into a fandom in a traditional “I want as much of this as possible and also X and Y to smooch” way, times when I was kind of put off by what a given fandom was doing so I took the pass, and times when I was more interested in what the fandom was putting out than the actual content itself. It can take some shopping around to find a spot where what a market has lines up with what appeals to you.

So there’s… a bit of a leap between the usual premise of transformational fandom and rpf spaces. My understanding of the people who pipeline from regular fiction to RPF is they develop the instincts in one context and then they just retain and use that capacity when they switch to another. That sounds a bit slippery-slope but I mean that they just don’t have to start from scratch if they came through more traditional and less taboo fandoms. People still tend to draw the line because RPF is still mostly taboo (the fact that this fandom has such a large, open presence of it is wild to me, I’m really not used to it but such is the fine line of Minecraft roleplay) but some people find it easier to cross because of their background.

The Fantasy Market

There’s something of a midway between fic and conversation that doesn’t get covered as much even though it feels like the missing link between regular idle fantasising and RPF. People tend to want peer-to-peer contact with other people who share the same interests as them, and exchanging ideas or scenarios surrounding those interests is a go-to for that.

The line between trying to find the truth vs feeling out an appealing scenario brings be back around again to my imago post, so if people wanted to collect their “parasocial relationships are the devil” ticket here’s an easy one. You may have seen these kinds of posts around—“[name] would like a teddy bear. He would pretend he didn’t at first but eventually he would become the type of guy to get all the way out of bed if it fell on the floor in the middle of the night to go get it.” It’s not fic, but it’s a longform hypothetical that someone would post to their peers, maybe to get a full on conversation going about how much milage [name] would get out of a stuffed animal. From there they get to feel closer to their fellow fans, and also feel like they understand a bit more about the person they’re all interested in, since pattern finding is a big part of human cognition in general and it's fun to do it together.

On the hormonal end of the spectrum, thirstposting is a deceptively complicated art, somewhere between personal venting and posting for the people around them to resonate with. I know people mostly like to act like thirst tweets are always embarrassing and unwelcome, but honestly having a brother in arms in Times Of Great Thirst usually bonds a community pretty tightly.  

Self-inserts and X readers have never been my thing, but they’re an important link in the evolutionary chain of how we get from one person daydreaming to a whole community of readers and writers. There’s a market for good ideas about a certain person or situation even if they aren’t fleshed out, but a few steps in you start looking at content that looks more like fiction. A good offshoot of this step that people don’t often talk about or understand in these terms were the original POV tiktoks and concept/Imagine blogs. The people love a good scenario, and environments where some of the best imaginations are grinding out content to fuel your daydream can be great for that.  

I think that the people who didn’t enter through ‘regular’ transformational fandom probably found their way through this door instead. Fantasy tweet becomes thirst tweet becomes thread fic becomes wattpad, graduates to ao3 maybe, whoops we’re reading novels now.

The Reader / Writer Market

I use the word ‘market’ a little differently than some others might when talking about this stuff. A while ago I started poking around Economic Anthropology in a very amateurish way, because that was the first place I came across an idea that managed to line up with the majority of my fandom experience, the idea that ‘economics’ are the dynamics of human exchange based on wants and needs, not just the study of money and assets. Money only covers a fraction of the number of exchanges that happen in life, non-monetary economy is what I find really interesting, and what I relate to parts of fandom as. Think of the strangely elaborate systems that seem to reliably pop up when people want something, I have seen amazingly complex fandom coordination from young teenagers as long as the desire and the drives were there. Economics gets a lot more saucy once you start to relate to it as a study of human desire and how those desires get met.

The people want what the people want, and in fandom they often want more of the thing they’ve invested in. It’s often not enough, or even very appealing at all, to write something “original” or removed from the scene when the party is in the scene itself. Some people probably give it a go, but truth be told they often don’t get seen as often as work with the built-in audience that a fandom has/is. The goal probably isn’t even to be seen by a lot of people, but to show stuff to the people who would be most interested in that stuff, even if there’s only five people who are invested. People get content, author gets validation and engagement, it’s a little loop that’s a lot harder to get to in the cold world of original publishing. Most people don’t really want to become career writers anyway, they want to see their favorite boys smooch in the form of the kind of stories they read, which are likely already fic.

Footnote about old lit on transformational vs affirmative: A lot of the old conversation is gendered in ways that I understand, because they absolutely mattered / do matter, but modern fandoms like the MLP fandom are shaking up that binary. Men do take part in transformational fandom, just not as often as women on the whole.

[gerardpilled]

I'm not even particularly invested in this bc I don't read MCR fanfic, but you shouldn't go around saying people who enjoy fanfic need to be psychological evaluated, this only makes you sound like a bully who gets off on guilty tripping people. Just leave them be. Also, I'm guessing you're lacking a little context, but the bulk of MCR fans were actually 13-15 when the band peaked and they just believed in the stage gay the band members performed at their live concerts. It's important taking this in the context that in the mid 2000s any kind of queer representation in media was nonexistent or completely stereotyping and offensive (I recommend watching @verilybitchie video on emo subculture and bisexuality). Sometimes, believing in something, even as absurd as it may sound, is important to people and how they understood their own identities. T.a.T.u was fake af and yet I don't think I'd have come to terms with my own identity, sexuality and so on so early on if I hadn't had watched two girls singing about their undying love for each other on MTV. I know it's easier shitting on people when you dehumanize them as some kind of horny weirdo nasty queer girls that are somehow abusing these middle aged white celebrities for fantasizing about them, but to most people, these famous rock stars live in another world quite literally. Maybe you're a upper middle class person who lives in LA and meets celebrities grocery shopping on a regular basis, but remember that these artists are actually famous world wide and most fans won't ever be able to see them playing live. And then, there's the fact that in most cases, it's journalists that bring up fanfic during interviews for shock value, and not the fans. Also, you guys seriously need to stop overreacting about shit celebrities said 15 years ago on twitter.

Hi, okay so you’re referring to this post I made but the thing is I wasn’t talking about fanficiton, I was talking about genuinely believing Frank and Gerard had a secret romance. Perhaps you’re right that my wording was a bit harsh and rude, but the over reaction was meant to be at least a little funny.

I read and have always read mcr fic if I’m being honest! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it because like you said we are never going to have contact with them and I personally can separate fiction from reality. I actually watched the video you’re referring to months ago and it has actually shaped a lot of my current opinions on the cultural impact of mcr. The thing is it’s not 2007 anymore and I was more referring to the people on tumblr who have more context than a stage kiss. There are people out there that when presented with all the facts in the world believe that Gerard and Frank are going to leave their wives and be together. I have gone through periods where I thought there was something more that went down between them but these days I just don’t really care if it actually happened or not. The way I read fic or think about their relationship is through hypotheticals where I think stuff like “wow if this actually happened it would have been so interesting!” but I know it didn’t. I would definitely be considered a “weirdo nasty queer girl” I just think putting genuine weight into the belief that they are in love does more harm than good to younger, impressionable people at this point in their careers. That’s just me though