#fanfic for a fanfic

[ifievertoldyou]

forgive me, i'm not naïve (i've been here before) (7111 words) by ifievertoldyou Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: c!Quackity & Alexis | Quackity, Alexis | Quackity & Phil Watson | Philza, Alexis | Quackity & Wilbur Soot, Alexis | Quackity & Noah Brown | Foolish Gamers, Alexis | Quackity & Borja Luzuriaga Vazquez | Luzugames, Alexis | Quackity & TommyInnit Characters: Alexis | Quackity, Phil Watson | Philza, Wilbur Soot, Noah Brown| Foolish Gamers, Borja Luzuriaga Vazquez | Luzugames, TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Time Loop, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Morally Ambiguous Alexis | Quackity, Alexis | Quackity is Not Okay, Alexis | Quackity Needs a Hug, (both of them), Insanity, mentions of cannibalism, mentions of vomiting, Murder, Stabbing, Gore, Blood and Gore, Major Character Injury, Temporary Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Protective Alexis | Quackity, Realistic Minecraft, Oneshot, no beta we die like q in this story (didn’t let my friends beta just so i could make that joke) Summary: Quackity and the others followed behind Q, Quackity still pushing back the gnawing feeling of worry in his stomach. It would all go well, He reassured himself.   It had to. Q would get his revenge, he’d make sure of it.   If Quackity had been paying more attention, if he had strained his ears to hear past the incessant cawing of the thousands of crows flying above them, he would have heard the laughter of the Sky Gods in the wind at that thought.   OR: The one where tHAW!Quackity gets stuck in a time loop

[rudamaruda520]

me as a writer

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[jandjsalmon]

Fun Story to Share.

I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

[honeybee2807]

Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

[knebellindemann]

[trekscribbles]

This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

[theaftersundown]

the holy grail types of fanfic

[fanonical]

spin this wheel of fanfic tags. this will be the theme of your day tomorrow.

[mmelete]

i wish ao3 allowed people to give kudos per each chapter. These 100k word NOVELS need more love than 200 tiny digital hearts ☹️

[frownyalfred]

the fact that I’ve actually had this happen multiple times when I’ve entered a new fandom is hilarious like what do you MEAN

[mi1kw33d-2]

ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.

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