#and maybe a rating on ao3?

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

Is it bad that I want to see more of that Were-Doc Au?

the people love mad scientist turned big wet dog

[squarebracketsmileyface]

Chapter 1 of My Girl, My Girl, My Girl is doneeeeeeee, so I just need to check it over and edit it and then I can finally start uploading this fic :DDD

I can't fucking wait, it's gonna be so fun. Tons of fluff and smut, and a little bit of angst but i got most of my angst needs out of my system with If It Ain't Broken, so the angst in this should be pretty gentle honestly. Anyway, have one last snippet before I upload chapter one sometime in the next couple of days

[boleynqueenes]

nowe thus in chronological order (so far)...IF anyone cares <3

December 1518

December 1521

December 1525

1526 (short excerpt), 2

January 1526 (short excerpt)

February 1526 (short excerpt)

March 1526

March 1526 (short excerpt)

December 1526

1527 (short excerpt)

March 1528 + March 1528

October 1528

December 1528

Late 1530 (short excerpt)

Late 1530 (short excerpt, 2)

February 1531

February 1533

October 1533 (short excerpt)

February 1534 (short excerpt, before 'read more')

Summer 1534 + short excerpt (reblog, 2nd one)

September 1534 + September 1534 + September 1534

December 1534 (excerpt, to be added to its own chapter)

July 1535 (short excerpt)

And then the 1535 scenes (thus far) are the only ones which are traditionally linear, so I'll leave those be for now...

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

out of curiosity what's everyone's metric for deciding between a T and M rating on ao3? mine is that i ask myself "would i have been okay reading this as a teenager" but i also read a song of ice and fire for the first time when i was 14 and idk if that's like. the normal standard for what's appropriate for teens or not

[random-fandoms-stuff]

I have 3,901 open ao3 tabs

3,901 AO3 TABS

[cigaretteliker]

i can draw a direct link between shipping both jonsa (incest) and sansan (grooming) from 2014-2019 and my current personal predicaments

[elsmaster]

Anders would do anything to keep this, to have this, to be this, but it’s not his to have, to be, to keep. or Hawke agrees to look for a missing Warden, and Anders gets back what he once lost.

[rubberbandballqueen]

About your tags: is there more that you can share about the OW fandom and fics? This was a phenomenon I wonder about too. It was one of the most popular fandoms around 2017-2018, but the way the fandom stopped on its tracks around 2019 was hard not to notice. Especially from people who didn't play the game but were aware of it's fandom.

oh! overwatch is one of about 50-ish fandoms i track for this one spreadsheet project i do as a hobby (which i Technically blog about @fandom-data-scientist, but i've been too lazy to do a proper writeup to explain what the hell it is i do), wherein i try to answer the age-old question: when did the weebs move to ao3?

(the answer is late 2015/early 2016. most likely this was in large part a result of undertale and sports anime, but that's currently just my own conjecture)

According To My Research(tm), the overwatch fandom peaked in late 2016/early 2017 when it comes to the number of new fics posted per month. after this, it declined quite rapidly, as it didn't even get to enjoy a plateau period.

(there's a reason why the plots are really wonky towards the end of this graph-- it's bc i found the past dates for number of fics archived to a particular site via the wayback machine. since those snapshots are typically bot crawls, the number of fics shown on the fandoms listings will not include fics that have been archive-locked. although i technically started this project in august 2022, i did not add overwatch to my tracking list until this june/july or so. my current guess for the small uptick in the rate of ow fics published to ao3 in october 2022 is that the sequel came out? and then the rate plunged for january 2023 bc of the ai scraping scare that happened at around that time-- nearly every single fandom i track had a significant drop right then bc everyone was archive-locking their fics. the rate shooting up in like july 2023 on this chart is bc like i said, that's when i added ow to my list of tracked fandoms; because i'm logged into my own ao3 acct when checking these numbers live, i get access to the archive-locked fics and so the display number goes up.)

in my experience, fandoms will generally kind of plateau in their fic production after their peak, which will ofc normally gradually taper off. games that receive regular lore or story updates probably have fairly long or stable plateaus, although i haven't made scatterplots or made any comparing analyses to prove this rigorously. this plateau period generally represents a time of fandom stability as the fair-weather, casual, or migratory slash fans run off to the next big thing.

if we ignore the fact the plague and quarantine happened, we can see a nice, steady, and very consistent plateau period for the danganronpa fandom from about 2018-2020!

let's look at an older fandom, like my archnemesis final fantasy:

granted, the ao3 numbers are kind of all over the place these days, but you kind of get my point by now, right? that healthy fandoms tend to plateau as the wind carries away the faintly-interested and leaves the long-haulers behind to form their communities.

overwatch struck me as unusual when i was on one of my long wayback machine trips because of the way there was a net increase of only two fics published from 1 july 2021 to 1 october 2021, when before then it had usually been in the hundreds or so. i then went on a work tangent n googled around n more or less concluded it had Something to do with some kind of scandal with the development company, but otherwise i don't really have any more comments on it hahaha.

[baejax-the-great]

I'm not sure what it is about this fic that has people leaving comments like this:

But I really don't care for it.

This fic was updated 11 days ago and I have received all of these comments within that time. They are not encouraging. They are demanding. And they are straight up rude.

Can you imagine eating a delicious meal someone prepared for you and walking up to them at the end and yelling "I NEED MORE RIGHT NOW." No? Then don't do this to writers. It's not polite in literally any sphere.

[aphel1on]

i know it's completely within an author's rights to revoke access to any of their works for any reason, and especially as a fellow author i'd never want to actually deprive someone of that right... but it's genuinely hard to describe how truly gutting it feels when i try to revisit one of my favorite fics and find it gone :(

[squarebracketsmileyface]

God I can't wait to start writing the gender exploration fic for Sorry, It's Locked now that If It Ain't Broken is done, like, it's gonna be ridiculously fluffy by comparison lmao. Like, i mean, it's me so there's probably still gonna be angst, but it's just gonna be like "Oh no, I can't be trans, must deny everything!" kinda angst rather than... everything that IIAB turned into 💀

Anyway I can't wait and it'll give me so many excuses to draw Lark, and hopefully Jay in a skirt or something idk. I have like, vague nebulous ideas that I wanna draw but none of them are like, full concepts or anything yet

[lexa-griffins]

Never opt out of gp for potential readers. Write fics for yourself and yourself alone. There will be people who read and love it anyway without conforming :)

Im starting to realize this more and more. With pretty much all i write for clexa (g!p clarke, pregnant lexa, etc) it was something that I was TERRIFIED of posting about before. Getting people to talk to me about it more and seeing that there are people who want to hear about it and who !!! have ideas!! and plots!! and send them to me really made me feel like i wasnt one solo little pea in the fandom 😅

But theres still that part of me who wants feedback and who like to see the number go up and because I sometimes dont get a lot of feedback from the smaller group i have around here i feel like i need to "cut back on the niche stuff".

So yeah, thats my explanation on why /sometimes/ i end up sometimes deciding to not go with g!p clarke, just so i wont feel.... left out, i guess?

[theramblingvoid]

So who was going to tell me that commenting from a pseud on Ao3 does in fact still put your Whole Entire Main Username on blast in brackets right beside the pseud name still

[randum-famdoms]

Can confirm being part of several problematic fandoms Changed Me for the better

i recommend being a fan of 1 problematic piece of media at least once in your life

[jeremyknox]

[bashes head against wall]

did no one teach the internet youth about how the fic rating system is supposed to work??

if you say 'fuck' multiple times in a fic, it's not General Audiences!! if you wouldn't see it in a 'G' rated movie, you wouldn't see it in a 'G' rated fic.

Teen and Up = PG-13 with leeway

Teen and Up = PG-13 if you could say fuck multiple times

General Audiences = you cannot say fuck

You up it to mature when there's sexual content/violence that would be beyond what you'd see in a PG-13 movie. M is for like... R-rated but mild.

Explicit is R rated and beyond.

Please for the love of everything start tagging your fics correctly again.

[aparticularbandit]

-looks at current tsumugi birthday fic chapter-

-sighs-

i guess this is going to have an m rating because somebody has decided to make some decisions that are not appropriate for a lower rating