#Fanfiction things

[andi-is-bored]

OK I HAVE A QUESTION FOR AO3 READERS AND WRITERS CAUSE IM SO CURIOUS!

[inexplicablymine]

I think my favorite thing is when someone tells you that a line you wrote gutted them. Just flayed them open and made them feel everything and nothing all at once. I just think that’s kinda nice.

[my-castles-crumbling]

New game show, but it's putting two fandom people in a crowd and timing how long it takes one of them to bring up The Hyperfixation. Whoever brings it up first loses.

[thetimetraveler24]

I’ve seen all the Will vaccinates Nico fics but has anyone considered… anti-vax Nico? Like Will is just losing his mind trying to get Nico to see he needs to get vaccinated asap so he doesn’t die of chicken pox or something and Nico’s just like “we have ambrosia and nectar for that, William. Don’t try that witchcraft on me.” Meanwhile Will is just crying like “it’s just science and medical advancements you silly child from the 1930s.”

I just think this would be hilarious.

[spaceakiko]

Aged up Q! They’re late teens/early twenties here. One of these outfits is based off one described by @sunnysidesevenup in their fic “hearts in a different place” yeah remember when I said I’d draw more for this fic?

[ofduskanddreams]

saw a similar meme a while ago but I couldn’t find it so I had to make my own.

[frownyalfred]

first day on ao3: oh wow [tag] is a thing?? who even reads that? gross

two months on ao3: [tag] gives me life. I read [tag] every night before bed and I am Not Sorry. [tag] is everything. I embrace the awful. I am gross.

[lilacthebooklover]

planning out the "world's okayest uncle" fic is so fun bc i can like,,, make the simplest notes to expand on later. so then i end up with things like "paul tries to rizz up emma but then ruth happens" or "best uncle is gonna singlehandedly stop bullying fr fr". and then i just have to try to,,, decipher what i meant by that. it's an experience

[snarky-magpie]

I see a lot of Jegulus-critical folks complaining about the ship being only popular because it removes James as an obstacle for Wolfstar when Prongsfoot would be the more obvious ship (and I say this with love because I actually love Pronsgfoot), but I think this criticism misses a crucial point.

Jegulus as a ship has become so popular because it has an appealing dynamic on its own, even when you take other ships out of the equation, simply because it contains several popular tropes:

Enemies-to-lovers. Slytherin/Gryffindor, Death Eater/Order member, no further explanation needed, really.

Sports rivals. A softer version of the above. Both excellent quidditch players, which translates well into a pro career after Hogwarts or to various sports AUs. Still a fun take on the rivalry trope but with less deadly stakes.

Best friend's brother. No matter from which angle you tackle this issue (supportive Sirius, antagonistic Sirius, matchmaking, ultimatums, what have you) - it's always fun, and it provides a wide range of interpretations for the writers to play with.

Second chance romance. Not necessarily and not always, but the option is very valid (Regulus seeing the error of his ways, returning to the 'light side' and rekindling his romance with James).

Doomed romance. Both characters die very young and very heroically in the canon. We love tragedy in this fandom. Humans love tragedy—Romeo and Juliet, anyone? Enough said.

Forbidden romance - pretty much pairs excellently with every point mentioned above.

Needed to get this off my chest. I love Prongsfoot, I do, and I could argue the appeal of that ship as well, but I think that Jegulus is popular because it's interesting in its own right, not because of its support role for other ships.

[lovelythethingsbrainrot]

Sometimes it takes me 3 years to perfect 6,000 words and sometimes I knock it out in two days, and sometimes all I want to do is write and sometimes I look at a half-finished document and want to vomit.

[kingsmakers]

Some of you have just gotten wayyyy too comfortable with bullying other people in fandoms.

For a start: having to drag people's oc or fic if you personally don't like how it goes or who they're paired with. Back in the day we had this thing called "don't like, don't read" and I don't know if you kids still do that but it's basically this thing of knowing we don't like a certain character or pairing and as such, choosing not to read it. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. Shutting the fuck up is free.

Another is this constant obsession with claiming people are "plagiarising". Plagiarism is obviously real and does exist, but I'm talking about when there are common concepts in fics and you're claiming they were "stolen" from you. Like idk I was one of the first people to write and popularise the "Baratheon daughter" concept, but that doesn't mean I own it, it doesn't give me the right to tell others what they should and shouldn't write to do with that. In fact, it gives me no right at all. The other time I cared was when people literally plagiarised my story, or else copied exactly edits that I'd made. Writing fanfic is realising that people sometimes have similar ideas to you. It doesn't mean they copied you, get over yourself. If you can't differentiate between common concepts and plagiarism, I don't know what to tell you.

I don't know. It just sucks where we are in this place where others are deliberately making fandoms shitty for other people. People used to do "twin" edits if they shared a faceclaim, they used to be interested in seeing how others would play off a similar concept. But these days you kids are so fucking hostile and just want to attack everything you come across that you, personally, do not like.

[lunarthecorvus]

Just read a brilliant 27.5k word Kanej regency au fic in an hour... It was amazing

[pearlofamphitrite]

“So…it’s like drugs?”

“It’s better than drugs, Jeremy.”

[my-castles-crumbling]

If you're old enough to understand this horrible meme I made, we can be best friends.

[thetimetraveler24]

I looked at my ao3 page and saw where it says: Works (155). And I just… wow. 155 stories I’ve written. Many of them are short one shots. A handful of them aren’t finished and haven’t been updated in years. Some are in progress right now.

But like. I didn’t get paid for any of that. I wrote all that because I liked it. I wanted to do it. I chose to do it. It made me happy. 155 works totaling just over 2M words. All over the course of five years. All for free. All something I decided to write because I wanted to.

So like, maybe today is someone’s first day posting something. Maybe it’s ten years of posting stuff. Maybe you only have 1 work under your belt, or maybe you have 500. You still did all that for free. Because you wanted to. That’s awesome!

Fanfic writers, we are so cool.

[spaceakiko]

I drew this rough sketch comic in 2 1/2 hours of my favorite scene from “hearts in a different place” by @sunnysidesevenup on ao3. Love this fic, maybe I’ll draw more for it. Maybe I’ll finish this one day