#i hate ao3

[weezeryuri]

[grabbing you by the throat] wallace wouldn’t hate women you stupid son of a bitch you’re just projecting

[potterofanlol]

Five reasons why I will never visit the AO3 again.

First reason:

(THAT I FUCKING READ HELP.)

[sunbleachedyves]

the lack of bill dickey fan fiction is making me wanna tweak out. i’ve seen tony the tiger x the grinch more than bill dickey🙁

[meowmeowmrowmrowm]

under no circumstances was i about to ask any of those questions bc i don't really think i want to know what happened to cause any of them but esp the last one

[apricusapollo]

I read a fic where alex died and didn't shed a single tear for whatever fucking reason and then I found a oneshot where david the beagle died and when I tell you there's this lump in my throat and I cannot breathe–

[mmollymercury]

Literally commented something then it crashed😭

Brb I'm going to SOB

[bardofavon]

not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

[nolonger-ams]

WHAT THE FUCK

[geminainvasion]

Tbh MyMexicansSayTheNwrd headcanon about luke disliking Hailey and Jake and wanting to leave the club got me sobbing sm like NO. NOT. NOT IN THIS LIFE. NOT ON MY WATCH.

[soleilsplanet]

do you ever just … picture a whole scene, a whole fanfiction in your head, you know how to place every single word of the english dictionary that you need (or your language dictionary), you know how to structure your sentences, you know just what your characters are going to say to each other and then… and then you just open microsoft word.

[iamfabiloz]

what happens in the honda odyssey stays in the honda odyssey

[loseiso]

I tried reading a Shinsou adopted by Erasermic with angst and self harm only to be met by Miscommunication, 1st person, out of character Shinsou (??? How do you fuck that up), and slight ooc Aizawa god fucking save me

[boyfailurecharliekelly]

I hate when people get on your back about a ship because it's 'toxic' like bro i said they are in love not that they should be.

[frownyalfred]

I'm seeing a lot of "ugh, so we can't even criticize fic authors anymore?" posts popping up on here and the ao3 subreddit and I just want to say, for the record: No one's saying you can't criticize (fanfic) authors publicly. They're saying it's rude and antithetical to positive fandom experience. And, yes there's a difference.

If this website was a conference and I had just spent a whole afternoon listening to a presentation on [unpopular fic trope] and after that was done, I got up on stage and very publicly told the audience that [unpopular fic trope] was illogical and anyone who writes it is woefully misinformed and should be banned from writing [relevant character], that would in fact be a dick move.

"But the canon character would never--" it doesn't matter. You're shouting down the hall at the person who just happily did a whole seminar on their OOC version of that character. "But I don't like that the author chose to make them--" good, you're well-acquainted with your likes and dislikes, time to find another fic.

We all run into fics and interpretations we don't like. But there's a huge difference between loudly talking about it on Tumblr where the author can see it, and just venting in a private discord or other group. Also, gentle reminder that this is a hobby for most writers and something they do purely because they enjoy it. Stop being massive dicks just because you feel entitled to a certain flavor of fanfiction you will probably be chasing until the Reformation of Krypton.

[abhainnwhump]

YES YES YES!

AND YOU FIND A FIC WITH THIS TROPE AND YOU GET EXCITED BECAUSE THERE ARE SO FEW,

. . . then there's a tag like "anal sex" and it's ruined because you realize it's a kink thing and not torture.

Every. Single. Time.

Obsessed with Whumper changing Whumpee's appearance against their will, taking away what little sense of identity they may have had left.

Cutting their hair or forcing them to grow it out, maybe even shaving it completely

Dying their hair a completely different color

Dressing them in a style that Whumpee would never wear normally

Additionally, putting them in painful clothing (super tall heels, tight corsets, too small chokers)

Forcing them to work out until their body tone is just how Whumper wants it

Giving them piercings, from simple ear studs to a full set of facial piercings

Tattooing Whumpee with whatever they want (maybe something subtle, or maybe just straight up Whumper's name)

Whumper doing Whumpee's makeup every day. Bonus points if Whumpee's allergic to some of the makeup

Training them to walk with a different gait or posture than they used to

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books: to go up the chain. that goes against everything we've seen him do. he bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer. there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"