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"Popular" is of course a debatable term, but I just picked a few I see very often and/or seem to have a lot of works on AO3. Please RB if possible, I've got a reach of about zero people lol in fact please don't, the hate comments in the tags are too much for poor old me...didn't think people felt that strongly
#fanfiction#fanfic#archive of our own#ao3#fanfiction writing#fanfic writing#fanworks#writing#ao3 fanfic#ao3 writer#ao3fic
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me: i’ll just write a short story also me: *accidentally creates a 7-book saga with complex lore*
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May the Dread Wolf take you
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"Would anyone want to read --" Listen, imma stop you right there. Yes. YES, someone would want to read that. You write that weird little fucked up story. Or that domestic little slice of life story. That drabble or that 300k monster.
I promise someone wants to read it.
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I FUCKING LOVE YOU GUYS
crazy how fanfic authors drop the most beautiful and gorgeous pieces of work ever, leaving you speechless and sobbing at three in the morning as you quietly contemplate the masterpiece you just read
and they don’t get paid for it they just do it because they’re having fun and they want to share their joy with you
like I would literally die for all of you fanfic authors out there reblog to swear your allegiance to fanfic authors
#fanfic#fanfics#fandom#fandoms#fanfic authors#fanfiction#fanfiction authors#reading fanfiction#ao3#ao3 writer
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thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird
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Please remember that every writer starts somewhere, and that these people are writing FOR FUN.
So what if they forgot a comma or two? So what if there’s a typo that’s throwing you off? So what if it used too many adverbs or there needs to be more introspection or the characters physical/emotional pain wasn’t described accurately?
It’s just a fic, and if it bothers you that much, keep scrolling.
At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.
#fandom#fandoms#fandom critical#fandom criticism#fandom critique#toxic fandom#comic fandom#batfandom#fanfiction#fanfic#ao3#ao3feed#ao3 fanfic#ao3 writer#writers on tumblr#writing community#writeblr#creative writing#just yappin
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“you’re a writer, right?”
me, staring at the one sentence i’ve managed to add in the last hour and the 12 open tabs on the specifics of shoes in 1845 Ireland: In theory.
#aesthetic#dark academia#poets on tumblr#writer things#poetry#prompts#ao3 writer#writblr#female writers#writeblr#writers on tumblr#writing inspiration#writing prompt#my writing#writing#writers and poets#writerscommunity#writer stuff#wip
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I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.
#Funny#lol#joke#humor#humour#dark humor#dark humour#archive of our own#ao3#ao3 writer#creative writing#writing#writing jokes#fanfic#fanfiction#ao3 jokes#fanfiction jokes#fanfic jokes#Paige: Speaking Like a Normal Person Vol. 1
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even slow progress is progress.
#writing#writeblr#writer problems#writing humor#writers on tumblr#writing memes#writing community#writing struggles#writer life#creative writing#writer things#writing motivation#ao3 writer#writer memes#writing is hard#on writing#writerblr#writers block#writing funny#writer thoughts#fiction writing#writer struggles#writing tips#writing advice#writer woes#writing woes#writer quotes#writing inspiration#plot problems#writer chaos
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I know the feeling. I left all of my accounts for a very long time and written only for myself for a while, and I have tons to publish but I get so depressed when I see no engagement on my works. I know it sounds dramatic, but I cried a lot before. Especially after people rather saying "good job with latest chapter! your Din Djarin is my favourite!" in comments on Facebook, but I had literally just two comments on fic for 37 chapters. So please, send me the link to your friend's fic, I'll read all they have to offer and comment on it!
A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.
My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.
My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.
This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.
Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.
I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.
So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.
#fanfiction#fanfic#ao3 writer#ao3 fanfic#writing is hard#fanfic writing#writer stuff#archive of our own#ao3
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Bruce Wayne wakes up in the past, five months after Jason Todd died, and spends most days sat beside the grave because he never found out exactly when Jason had come back and he wanted to be there to save him when he did.
From an outside perspective, everyone is extremely concerned.
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I needed to see this as I sit here trying to write what initially seems like a really silly scene... and I don't care! It's my scene... but I do hope others love it as much as I do.
#fanfic#writer#fanfiction#writing#ao3#it’s the same energy#ao3 author#write#author#ao3 writer#writblr
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