#Fic stuff

[serendipnpipity]

inspired by this post from emma @dnpbeats:

(also also. if you have favorite lil stories to share in tags… 🥺👉👈)

[shyve3]

guys should i write a fic on this (yes answers only)

I've seen a couple of posts comparing Buddy to Pinocchio (He wants to be a real boyyy), but I think y'all are sleeping on the real thing...

Buddy as the Nutcracker.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[stinglesswasp]

Happy anniversary to my fic, Seasons 🧡

Can't believe it's been a year already. Still very fond of this fic and grateful to all who took the time to read it. Really glad I got to share it with the world, here's to many more years of GhostSoap <3

[bonesbuckleup]

"How many fics are in your ao3 history" this and "what's your most read fic" that. Listen. Listen to me. I don't go into my ao3 history. Whatever is there is between the archive and god and it is quite frankly none of my business what past me decided to open.

[reineydraws12]

Everyone is drawing Leo’s mental breakdown so I wanted to draw him lovin’ on Banana.

Poor guy is traumatized but it’s okay cause puppies heal everything, right? Right?

For @remedyturtles firefight au

[missmisnomer]

time keeps moving on

whether you want it to or not

@remedyturtles absolutely killing it with the latest chapters of their firefight fic. The last third of ch.37 was so fuckin eerie and tense and visually rich that I couldn't NOT make some art inspired by it. I've been hankering to draw something more experimental and dark lately, and this really scratched that itch!

Thanks for The Horrors™, Rem!

[luckylolabug]

I've been trying to figure out good final designs for the Hooked Up fic since they're all losers working at a museum so heres the first half???? (Krav gets two because yknow. Reaper shit)

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

Part of my Alastor hc is that he's partially mechanical. He's actually arguably more of a robot then Vox is, because Vox is mostly a hard shell but with almost completely organic insides, excluding a few specific parts or bits he amputated and modded himself.

Alastor on the other hand has a fleshy, deer exterior but his insides are mostly made of copper. In place of false vocal cords and an Adam's apple, he has a tiny voicebox in his throat that makes the staticy noises, and subsequently can break if you squeeze it too hard. He has organs, but they're either covered in a thin layer of copper coating, completely rotten, or just straight up radio parts. Most of his meat and musculature is rotten and black with sepsis, his blood is almost always coagulated and super gross. Excluding his heart which is the only normal and humanly functional part of him. The parts of his veins that aren't trying to pump 100+ year old dead blood, are just straight up copper wiring. His antlers are actually his radio antenna and are directly tied into his ears and how he processes sound. If he rips out his antlers, or it they fall out he's basically half deaf.

Anyway,

Point is, no one tell Angel that Alastor's made of copper. He'll try to strip him for meth money

[pastelpiggielol]

If you look at your writing and think “wow! This is some of the worst shit I’ve ever produced!” That probably means it’s actually going to be the best thing you ever write you just haven’t finished it yet

[thebroccolination]

[FANWORK EVENT FOR THAI QL FANDOM] COMMENT CARNIVAL

DATES: February 20th-March 31st

EVENT DETAILS: Writers of all kinds thrive off feedback, and it's especially so for fic writers, since one of the main reasons we write fic in the first place is to share stories with our community. Without hearing back from the people in those communities, fic writers can get discouraged from writing and sometimes even stop entirely. On the other hand, some of the brightest, happiest moments a writer can experience come from readers. It's incomparable to know that a story you wrote made someone smile, cry, or laugh out loud, and sometimes the only way you'll know it is if a reader tells you.

With this in mind, I decided to organize a festival for the Thai QL fandom community to show our fic writers a ton of appreciation in a carnival of comments. :D

Welcome to the Comment Carnival!

NOTE: Even though this event is exclusively for the Thai QL fandom, if you'd like to use the same concept or adapt it for your own fandom, please take the idea! I'd be absolutely thrilled to see this spread and for more writers to get love for the creative work they've contributed to their spaces.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: There are two ways to participate in the Comment Carnival. The first is simply to complete as many of the commenting tasks below as you like. That's it! You'll be boosting writers' spirits with your feedback, and you may make someone's whole day with a kind word or thought about the stories they're creating.

The second way to participate involves a chance at a prize! (Hence the carnival theme.)

Below, you'll find a list of twenty Commenting Tasks to Complete. Once you complete at least ten of those commenting tasks, you can enter into a lottery to receive your very own drabble (traditionally a 100-word morsel of fic) written by one of the carnival's participating writers! If you do all twenty, your name will go into the lottery twice!

The event begins today, and on March 31st, I'll put the qualifying participants into the Picker Wheel and choose ten winners. Those winners may then select a series from the list below along with a pairing and trope (ex: "The Heart Killers, Fadel & Bison, brotherly affection") and our participating writers will post drabbles dedicated to the winners.

COMMENT QUALIFICATIONS: For your comment to qualify for the lottery, it must include the following:

At least three sentences about the fic or how the fic made you feel. ex: "I loved the way you portrayed [character name]! I can so easily imagine them saying all of that in canon. I'm definitely going to read the rest of your fic now!"

Copy & paste one line from the fic that you enjoyed. ex: "[quoted line] I'M SCREAMING!!!"

What led you to the fic (previous familiarity with the author, a rec from someone, randomly found it on a tag, etc.) ex: "My friend sent me this and told me to read it, and I'm so happy they did!"

Essentially, the purpose of the event is to give writers some specific positive feedback. In normal circumstances, it's totally fine to leave a simple, "I loved this!" or, "Thank you for writing this!" but for this event, we're gonna go above and beyond for our beloved writers.

WHERE TO COMMENT: You can comment on any fanfiction site (Wattpad, FFN, etc.) as long as you can provide links to your comments. I've just structured the event around AO3 since that's where I'm based and have the most familiarity.

And now the fun bit!

THE COMMENTING TASKS TO COMPLETE: Comment on a…

• work-in-progress (any kind) • work-in-progress that hasn't been updated in 3 months • work-in-progress that hasn't been updated in 6 months • work-in-progress that hasn't been updated in 9 months • work-in-progress that hasn't been updated in 1 year or more • one-shot with a word count under 5k • one-shot with a word count between 5-10k • one-shot with a word count between 10k-20k • one-shot with a word count between 20k-30k • one-shot with a word count over 30k+ • completed multi-chapter fic • fic with fewer than 10 comments • fic with fewer than 5 comments • fic with no comments • fic from before 2020 • fic from 2020 • fic from 2021 • fic from 2022 • fic from 2023 • fic from 2024 • fic from 2025

To qualify for the lottery, you must provide proof of your comments in the linked form below. Provide a list of at least ten links to your posted comments, and you'll be enrolled in a lottery to win a drabble based on the series of your choice from the list below provided by our participating writers.

SUBMISSIONS: Please submit your links through the form here:

As for where to get links: on AO3, when you post your comment, you'll see a button at the bottom that says "Thread." Clicking on that will create a page that starts from your comment. You can use that link for your form.

[This is my extremely subtle way to hype @faillen's Peaceful Property fic pinkies linked, palms pressed. It's so, so, so, so good.]

COMMENTING ETIQUETTE: When commenting on fic, please abide by these three points:

Offering unsolicited criticism is widely considered to be rude, so please don't critique a fic in your comments.

If it's a work-in-progress, please don't pressure the author for more updates. That's generally not received well by writers. (If you'd like to be encouraging, err on the side of the suggestions below.)

Keep the overall tone positive!

If any comments break etiquette, they'll be disqualified.

COMMENTING SUGGESTIONS: Writers are people, and people react differently to feedback, but we do share general similarities in what we love to receive from readers. Liiike…

Copy and paste parts you particularly enjoyed: The reason I made this a requirement is because I know it's commonly adored among writers. I've had readers apologize to me for copying and pasting half the fic in my comment section. I promise and guarantee you, if you ever did this, I love you. Platonically and all-consumingly. When we're writing, we're mostly on our own in our heads, in our rooms, maybe showing a friend or two snippets as we write. But when we put fic out there, we have no idea what people are going to respond to. Sometimes your favorite line is ours, too! Or sometimes the line you loved most is a line the writer almost erased! Or a line they're second-guessing. Maybe they hate it! Having someone say, "I'll think about this line for weeks," is wonderful beyond words.

CAPSLOCK: Again, be kind, but some of my favorite comments over the years have been someone so emotional about something in the fic the whole comment is just capslock screaming.

Rambling: Listen, there is no greater feeling in the world than getting multiple comments on a fic because a reader wrote so much about the fic they went past the comment box's character limit. If a fic made you feel so much you want to ramble, then please go for it! A writer spent hours working on the thing you love! Odds are good they'll be delighted!

Characterization: For many fic writers, we're trying to emulate the characterization of a character we didn't create, so when someone says, "The way you wrote this made it feel exactly like something [character name] would say/do. You really know this character!" a lot of us are especially giddy about it.

Kindness: Above all, we're just hoping for some kind thoughts. I know how daunting it can be to share your emotional responses with writers, so you can always just say, "This meant a lot to me," or, "This made me smile," and it will mean the world to a writer.

PRIZES: As mentioned, once you submit a form with at least ten qualifying comments, you'll be entered into a lottery to win one of ten drabbles from one of our participating writers! Right now, we have writers who will write for the following series:

23.5

Bad Buddy

Between Us

Dark Blue Kiss

The Eclipse

The Heart Killers

Jack & Joker

KinnPorsche

The Loyal Pin

Manner of Death

My School President

Not Me

Only Friends

Peaceful Property

Pit Babe

SOTUS

Tale of a Thousand Stars

ThamePo Heart that Skips a Beat

This Love Doesn’t Have Long Beans

Until We Meet Again

Wandee Goodday

If you're a writer interested in volunteering to write a drabble for a series we haven't provided, please DM me. :)

Even if you don't intend on participating, please please please reblog this and get the word out that it's happening.

Thank you!

Special thanks to my writing server on Discord for their brainstorming, their advice, and their suggestions to put this event together. <3

[remedyturtles]

i described the plot of firefight to my best friend and they sent me this. thanks buddy.

[lavenderstobins]

writing a modern au fic where nancy and robin are cast as gwen and mj in a sapphic spiderman trilogy and now i can’t shake the idea from my head like…

they have to fake-date for press when the trilogy gets greenlit. people online love them and call them the spidersapphics and then they fall in love for real but both think the other is still faking it and—

[duchesschameleon]

surprise

pairing: oscar piastri/gn!reader

summary: You’re exhausted from exams and papers, the stress of your assignments weighing down on you and making you crave the presence of your boyfriend more than usual. You just wish you could hug him.

rating: general

a/n: for Lee, @scuderiahoney I tried to send this as an ask but tumblr at it and now here we are, rewritten this three times and it grew. I hope you like it and your days are looking up!

You get why Oscar moved to Monaco and have definitely benefited from it already. But weeks like this, where he isn’t needed at the MTC and is staying in Monaco for the better weather and to help meet his residency requirement, are hard.

You’re exhausted from exams and papers, the stress of your assignments weighing down on you and making you crave the presence of your boyfriend more than usual. You just wish you could hug him.

A sigh escapes your lips as you drop your head to your desk, eyes flitting up to the calendar hanging on your wall. You focus in on the date circled for next week, “osc❤️” written on it. There’s too many days separating you from it right now, but you hold onto the hope that you will see him soon and things will get better.

You shut your eyes as another sigh escapes you. Five minutes, you think to yourself, five minutes and then back to work.

Not even two minutes into your quasi-meditation, a knock on your door startles you into an upright position. Frowning, you grab your phone and tap the screen, seeing if anyone texted you they were coming over. It’s blank. Your brow furrows further, thinking back to if you ordered any takeaway even though you know you haven’t.

Whoever’s outside knocks again and you stand up, cautiously moving towards the door. Logically, you know anyone interested in robbing you wouldn’t knock but you run through self-defense maneuvers anyway as you open the door.

All thoughts fly out of your head as you try to process what you’re seeing. Oscar. Here. At your flat. Not in Monaco. Holding…flowers?

You turn your head to side, mouth opening and closing as you try to speak. Oscar is here. Not in Monaco. Here.

“Wh-what are you doing here?”

“Saw your schedule on the shared calendar. Knew you weren’t texting much. Figured it was a lot all at once and you might be stressed so. Figured I’d surprise you.”

Your face crumples, tears filling your eyes as you launch yourself at him.

“Hey, hey, it’s alright,” he says as he winds his arms around you. “I’ve got you, I’m here.”

“Thank you for being here,” you whisper, tucking your face into his neck. “I really needed this.”

You feel his smile from where he’s pressed his lips against your temple. He squeezes you before pulling back, ducking his head to meet your eyes. “Glad I could deliver on the surprise then. Why don’t we go inside and cuddle, and then tackle your assignments, yeah?” he says and you nod. “I am at your service as a study buddy and stress reliever.”

You let out a laugh and smile up at him, leaning in to give him a kiss. “Best surprise ever.”

[stinglesswasp]

Opening scene of my fic, Seasons ❄

Action, banter, and tactical cuddling… a GhostSoap trifecta if you ask me 💥

[stupidlittlespirit]

My commission came in from the wonderful, amazing Linuxvaloare on instagram! I cannot even begin to express how gorgeous this is!!!!!! I’m a big fan of their work. They’ve done many pieces for Gravity Falls and every single one is just beautiful.

This is a physical piece, done with ink, and I’ll be framing it above my desk once it finally reaches me. I’ll post a pic once I have it up!

I asked for something that had elements of Spores in it because I wanted to commemorate the fic and goddddddd it does exactly that. I’m over the moon with it ❤️ The leftmost character is my self insert/Reader (genderfluid, they/she/he), along with my lil Dragon Fly and Ford.

You can find Linuxvaloare here. Please show them love and consider getting a commission from them or supporting them on ko-fi! They also have an exceptionally cool art book available on pre-order right now and I've ordered a copy of that too haha. They’re wonderful and a pleasure to work with, I can't thank them enough ❤️