#I would write it

[cherie-luvv]

What if Newt dies but he actually returns as an angel and the only one that can see him is Thomas because Newt is like his angel? Yeah this is a good fanfic idea

[sleepyking]

I need more fics focusing on Vi and everything she went through in Stillwater

Like

B R O

THE POTENTIAL IS RIGHT THERE

[thefirstlioveyou]

i need some sort of ficlet of these two

[azrantimes]

Why isn't there an & Juliet boarding school au? It fits with canon too; Juliet doesn't get sent to a nunnery, but to a boarding school. Romeo's there too but they're in like rival groups (think like legacy clubs). Frankie is there because his entire family, including his brothers, has gone there and he's pressured to live up to the legacy of his name. Angelique works there and basically is the dorm mother (I'm too tired to try to figure out the actual term) and May has grown up at the school since taken in by Angelique. William and Anne are both English/literature teachers and they basically use their students to salvage their wedding by setting them up against eachother

[sadiecoocoo]

https://www.tumblr.com/sadiecoocoo/753502827275550720/laios-needs-more-whump-fics-its-not-even-a-tag-on

I’m fighting for my life out here, I can find them literally for every character EXCEPT Laios. No laios-centric whump, angst or hurt/comfort I could find.

I am beginning to wonder if I am insane bc surely they exist????? Are there alternative tags I’m missing????

Have you found any fics you might be willing to recommend?

I have found one fic, but I forgot to bookmark it… and I don’t know how to find it again. All I know is that it was a chilaios fic where they were in a maze in the dungeon and they accidentally set off a trap and Laios got hurt from it

But Istg it’s so annoying that there literally isn’t a single laios whump fic that’s easy to find, like Ik so many people love him there’s gotta be someone that wants to write whump for him 😭

And there aren’t many alternative tags for these either. I mean maybe Blood and Injury for whump but idk about the others :/

The struggle is real

[goosehuman]

Is there a good omens fic with the basis just the song take me to church? surely there is.

[mondscheinprinzessin]

do you want to hear a stupid idea I just had while trying to listen to my teacher whose class I actually like a lot?

new crack ship discovered specially for you: Din Bua/Jules + Aleksi. That's it, no plot or anything, that's all I've got. Maybe they bond over *checks notes* tattooes and their hair? Eye make-up? Being Laura's type? (oh god if this was a fanfiction.net/wattpad fic circa 2010 they'd look at the reader now and ask who the hell is laura). idk, maybe your bua has a pet too? I want to say Joonas + bmth shirt guy (and olli + live love laugh and drummer boy + tommi?) are bonding and watching them with popcorn and sunglasses on on a park bench, either as annoying friends being annoying or with a clipboard like scientists studying two emo metal pop dudes on a first date or non-date. Robin too. also Rilla's there of course.

oh hmmmm🤔 This is sparking something in the most funniest way. Like I'm not interested in cross overs, or randomly shipping two people, but somehow this would be funny. I can see something there.

A tour together with Lonely Spring as the support...Aleksi and Julian spend some time together and discover they're fairly similar..."oh you wanted to get a tattoo on tour as well? well let's do it together"..."omg is it a date?"...kiss kiss bang bang

To put it in the most eloquent way. Throw in some friends betting on when they will get together, both friend griups gossiping about their bandmember to the other band, parents Joel and Niko watching it all unfold while trying to hold the tour together, Rilla is confused why she has to share Aleksi's attention now.

[incandescent-creativity]

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[arosnowflake]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[fromcainwithlove]

author’s notes today: hey guys so just a warning there isn’t 100% explicit verbal consent even though they’re both really into it so remember this is FICTION, also they don’t use a condom :((( but in real life safe sex is important!!! please be safe out there everyone

a/n back in the day: kept thinking about ____ stabbing knives through both of _____’s hands to pin him in place while they fucked so here you go lol =P

[artemisdesari-blog]

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.

[avaantares]

Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!

Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.

There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.

I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:

Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.

The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.

The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.

If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.

Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.

[lo-fag]

idk man. i just think itd be really cool if sign language classes were mandatory throughout primary school. yeah because it would make communication with deaf kids and autistic/nonverbal kids much easier. and those kids would be accessible to the others so they could make friends and have healthy relationships. yeah. and kids would eat that shit up man. like their own little secret language? they love that.

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.