#fanfic reading woes

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

you ever get that feeling where you want to read fanfic but you also want to write fanfic? like both at the same time??

[bylightofdawn]

My shithead cat woke my ass up at 7:30 and I was dragged out of this weird 'was it a dream or am I awake and just thinking sleepy thoughts' about this Star Wars fanfic series that I am CONVINCED I must have downloaded. But I cannot recall any concrete details about it. I think Its Mandalorian but I went skimming through my kindle and couldn't find anything saved even though my brain is telling me it was a multi-fic work. And it must have been a dream but it felt so damned vivid.

But the problem is, my kindle is kinda on it's last legs and has a nasty habit of deleting collections from the program I use to read epub. Like I know I had a collection set up for blackkat's work titled something like blackkat and now I can't find the collection on my kindle.

So I just copied all my ebooks I've downloaded in the past two years since the LAST TIME I organized all my ebooks. And I've downloaded 246 fics since then.

According to my file manager, I had 1,246 from the last time I sorted and categorized all of my saved fanfics.

Ya girl might have a bit of a problem.

Also I think I would die if I ever lost this repository of fanfic because I have precious fics which have long since been deleted from the face of the internet.

But ooof 250 fics to sort through is still no small feat.

And maybe I'll figure out if I was dreaming about this fanfic series or if it was real. But right now I really just want my brain to shut off so I can go back to sleep which is prolly a lost cause since it's flitting around like a ferret on crack at the moment.

Predictably, I started to organize fanfic and oh my god I just ugly laughed because I had Mass Effect saved under my misc. category because I literally had 2 mshenko fanfics saved.

I HAVE SO MANY MORE FANFICS AND RANDOM-ASS PAIRINGS NOW. I'm dying because watching how my fanfiction tastes have changed in just 2-ish years is WILD

[proselles]

people saying that Glinda isn't gay are so insane to me it's like in the original books she lived out her years with 100 of Oz's most beautiful women for nothing

[trashartgalleries]

Why do people not like bottom male reader content bro!!!!!

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE WANT TO TOP ALL THE TIME?!?!?!?!?!?

WHY WON'T YOU ALLOW ME TO HAVE A PENIS; I ALREADY HAVE A VAGINA?!!?!??

I TIRE OF FILLING THE VOID!!!! 😭

[strigital]

just... him... 🥺

[sarsaparillia]

the very specific niche fanfiction that i want to read doesn't exist. this is the real tragedy

[indigovigilance]

How do I write a character that's an expert in astrophysical instrumentation?

Oh.

I guess I have to become an expert in astrophysical instrumentation.

Update: a mutual reached out and was like "here let me explain cosmic microwave background to you" and guys, we have the best fandom. Just, the best. I am crying.

[astrae03]

I really need to start hyper fixating on canon ships more, I feel like it would be healthier for my mental and emotional wellbeing. Like canon ships are like the childhood best friend that I grew up with, their loyal sweet comforting, usually has almost endless content, and usually safe and loving but they’re predictable. Where as non canon ships and rare pairs are like the mysterious bad boy that just came into town that all my friends and family are telling me to stay away from; but I can’t help but be drawn to them because they’re all new and exciting, and unpredictable. I don’t know what it is but they always draw me in like a moth to flame, I’m always like “ So what if there are only like 4 pages about them on ao3 , it’s not like I’ll get obsessed or anything” 🫠

[elleldoe]

If I had a nickel for every time that I butchered the spelling of 'inconvenient' so much that autocorrect changed the word to 'incontinent', then missed the mistake during multiple rounds of editing and proofreading, then uploaded the chapter with the wrong word in it, and then scrambled to edit the chapter WEEKS after uploading it when I FINALLY realised my mistake, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice 😭😭😭

[includedisco]

I read my own ongoing fanfic and....

It was an all round lovely read😌

On the other hand, I noticed that my writing style abruptly changed around chapter 14😅 at least it was for the better. I improved mid-story and this gave the story a bit of a different feel.

I also noticed typos that somehow escaped my "meticulous editing👀😅 guys I reread 3 times at least before posting😐

Oh well, it's still my story and I loved it because joy for me is successfully writing exactly the kind of story I want I read for my fave ship😊✌️

I'm pro love your fanfic story more than your readers do😁

[bipolaritysucksbutslaps]

my biggest fear right now is that my current fic in progress won't get the recognition i wish for it to get.

and now i'm not talking about thousands of hits and hundreds of kudos, more about people actually commenting on the things i spent oh so much time working on, or the little details that mean the world to me. i've spent a year writing it so far, and though it's not that long (a little bit over 30k), it means so much to me that it's almost getting embarrassing.

i'm scared i poured my heart into it, my struggles, my fears, pieces of my past, but nobody except for my two friends will recognise it and be able to relate.

it's about coming of age, realising things aren't what we've always believed them to be like, and, most importantly, grieving all the lost time

i'm scared that i'll be grieving the time i've spent writing it because the message i'm trying to send won't come across and it will all go in vain

[weakly-skoodge]

Week Ninety Four

[sizzy-ling]

hello, hello good people of the internet! I have a new chapter for you because I gravely missed this story and writing in this universe

I hope you'll like it!!

[thatdyingacewhoneedstheirspace]

when you find a fic that sounds interesting and it's incomplete since 2013...

[khepiari]

Me: No one asks me to write fics in my strawpage.

Me: No one asks me for a collab.

Me: I am a failure.

Also me:

Twitter is private, like I am a high-security diplomat.

Tumblr's About Me Post: Hostile as Fuck.

My Ao3 Author Notes: Deranged with threats.

[l0s3r335]

i wanted to write a fic with a character i really like, but i don't really ship him with anyone. 😅 so i was wondering what people's preferences are for self insert fics? do you prefer an oc that has their own specific personality, appearance, etc or a reader insert paired with a cannon character that's gender neutral and no specific appearance and stuff?– if there's a third option you prefer, id love to hear too. 😵‍💫 i plan to write in 2nd person if i do the reader insert since that works better for me. >.>