#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

[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.

[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.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway]

I wish there was a website where you could input a character's description (height, weight, sex, medical conditions, etc.) And a situation (car crash, falls, stabbing, etc.) And it would calculate for you from most to least likely the injuries that character would receive, potential complications, and how long it would take recover. This would make writing injuries SO MICH EASIER if I wasn't guessing at everything

[saixria]

Somewhere in Apollo’s hospital on Olympus