#i write chatfics in my spare time

[rightpastnowhere]

mama mia here we go again (also I didn't realize right away this was an ask game so.. And so I sent you a dm lol) ❤️❤️❤️

oh dear. oh boy oh man. i was wondering if someone was gonna ask about this one.

here's a snippet:

the SHITs 6:17pm

scrooge mcfuck: WHO THE FUCK PUT DOGS IN MYF UCKING ROOM

monstah: yo what

goldfish: there’s WHAT IN OUR ROOM???????

scrooge mcfuck: TWO HUGE FUKING DOGS ARE IN OUR ROOM AND THWYRE TEARING ALLOUR SHIT APART

goldfish: WHAT???????????

monstah: oooo what kind of dogs ??

scrooge mcfuck: NOT IMPORTANT PIKE

yes. yes it's a chatfic.

WIP title ask game!

[lynn-isqueerandhere]

hellooo! Recently i begun writing a trigger happy havoc chatfic on ao3 ans do far I'm pretty proud of it, I need to update some tags but so far uts just something fun to do in my spare time!! I'll add the link here so u can read it if ur interested!! Pls leave kudos or a comment if u like it :)

[soemthingsparkly]

Blog Intro, Ko-fi Link, and Tags <3

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Hey guys! I'm Jaz or Luminous (depending on where you find me).

I'm a 26 year old, self-employed writer who writes fanfic and dabbles in fanart inbetween projects.

Being self-employed means I set my own hours, but if you'd like to help me dedicate more time to my fanwork and community creations, you can drop me a tip over here at my new

Ko-fi page!

My Ao3 username is LuminousMe and you can find me here!

If you any of my creations bring you joy and you have any spare change, please consider grabbing me a coffee!

Tags below the cut:

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#The Hermit Coffee Co. - This tag will take you to everything related to my current Hermitcraft Coffeeshop AU. This fic takes the form of a chatfic with snippets of prose and follows the interactions of the Hermits as they navigate the chaos of working in hospitality, while dealing with love, life, and lattes.

(More Tags added over time)

Thanks for taking the time to check out my pinned! I hope you have a great stay and a lovely rest of your day :)

[blankslaters]

BlankSlate’s Intro Post!

Hi there, for those who have wandered or entered my blog, I am BlankSlate, Slate, or Blank works. I am a small-time artist and local omnisexual down the block.

I draw for multiple fandoms, and there wouldn’t be a guarantee on what I want to post next, so bear with me if I start posting something out of the loop!

Of course, I have a few fandoms I main, like;

Ultrakill

Phighting! (ROBLOX)

Cookie Run

Rain World

Hollow Knight

These are the main topics you might see me post about!

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Tags I used to tag my art!

#blanksart

#myart

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in my spare time, i may write random fics on AO3.

as of right now, i have posted two fanfics thus far;

- A Phrightening Revelation! (Swocket but Sword is a Werewolf)

- Phighters Calling, Pick up Phone! (Chatfic/Video Call)

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Hope you enjoy the trip through my blogs, wanderers!

[shoppingcartshells]

YELLING AT YOU OH SO AFFECTIONATELY i need to scream but I will spare you from the all caps

your fic!!!!! is!!!! beautiful!!!! it reminds me of EVRYRHING GOOD and it reminds me of such happy times in my past and it smells like this bakery but then again to me everything good smells like baked goods but YOUR FIC!!! CRADLES IT. it has become my comfort fic and gaHHkfhsjak. I’m sl normal about it I need to chew your writing. chews it. I’m chewing it.

I KEEP. LIKE. quoting it too!!! like a lot!!! its just too good and is the first fic in a while that has made me smile so many times and audibly giggle. the jokes are very very funny and you capture the turts so wonderfully and I am Going To Go Insane about how you write ninpo.

sorry for yelling jn your ask box I just finished ch30 and I saw the tumblr link and im like Aight. ANYWAY THANK YOU for this fic I am cradling you /pos /pos /pos eueueue

AAAA TY!!

i did my best to make the fic as funny and in character as possible! in make, the only reason i made it aside from wanitng that good ole crossover "hey wtf" was that the rise characters were always boiled down to things that they werent (and i could go onto a whole rant about how fandom characterization is so far removed from their actual characters that it is the sole reason i dont really interact much with the fandom and make my own content but thats not what this is about) so i am VERY glad that you enjoy how i write them!! i really wanted a chatfic that was in character as well as funny and im so glad i pulled it off!

and YES the ninpommmmm i could go Onnn but i already made a post about it so i shall refrain lmfaoo

dont be sorry about yelling in my ask box i loved to see it! thank YOU for sending it! cradles you back

[cyclogenesis]

For the writing ask (you don’t have to answer all of them since I probably picked too many, sorry!): 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 19, 20, 26, 30, 31, 32, 36, 38, 39, 40. (Thanks 💜)

I did it, I answered all of them!! (Yes, it took me a couple of days aha.) Thanks for asking anon! 😘

1. Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?

Generally speaking I would rather die than rewrite anything ever, and most of the stuff I’ve written I can look back on and be like “nice”. I did recently reread a few bandom fics I wrote and felt mildly horrified by the fact that some of the writing was so spare that the dialogue sections were like reading a screenplay, so I’d have to say those would come the closest. Like I wouldn’t actually ever rewrite them, but were I to write them today they would read very, very differently.

2. Anything that you’d like to write but feel like you’re unable to?

Honestly I read soooo much Hydra Trash Party stuff and would love to vibe with Bucky’s sexual trauma in fic more but I feel like I’d really struggle to write that kind of background given my usual writing style. That’s the kind of super iddy thing I usually do in chatfic, but unfortunately I don’t have anyone to do that with in this fandom, so I’ll just keep whining internally about the lack of HTP Sam/Bucky while doing absolutely nothing to address that glaring lack.

Rest of the answers behind the cut!

7. Your favourite ao3 tag.

I cruise the Bottom Bucky Barnes tag like a 50s kid dragging Main.

8. How slow is a slow burn?

HERE’S THE THING. So if I ship something super hard, like hard enough to write or read fic about it, then I have already interpreted the canon itself as a slow burn because presumably they haven’t kissed yet, and I’m writing or reading fic because I’m ready for the kissing to be happening. I also don’t tend to read a whole lot of long fic. So basically I’m gonna need kissing by at least the 15k mark unless it’s like, masterfully written.

10. Top three favourite fic tropes.

You know, I’m honestly not usually drawn to stuff that’s very traditionally tropey! I don’t write it too often either, usually with fic I’m just a simple gal who wants to look at canon and then figure out a way to get them to acknowledge they want to kiss each other. I do love fake relationships though!

19. Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it.

“There’s more than one Loki,” Sam is disturbed to tell him. “A bunch more. One of them is a good guy now.” Actually, Strange had described him as ‘moderately helpful and uncomfortably sincere’. “Another one, uh, broke time, and now there are multiple timelines that have created different universes.”

“Got it,” Bucky says, in the tone of someone who in no way has it.

20. Do you work on a single project or many at the same time? How does that work for you?

I usually have a couple of things going at once that I bounce between until I decide that I’m Going To Finish Something, Dammit and force myself to focus on just one. It’s generally fine because I’d rather have too many ideas than none at all, though I’ll sometimes inadvertently cannibalize myself and have to edit out things I’ve used in two different WIPs.

26. What would you describe as OOC?

I’m honestly pretty forgiving about that, having been trained to suspend my disbelief by liking really dark fic hahaha. One weird thing that tends to throw me in not-dark fic is a lack of humor in the dialogue. I tend to like fandoms with pretty funny characters or people, so I like to see their sense of humor reflected in fic. Sam and Bucky in particular are really funny characters in their own ways - gimme the banter, please!!

30. Describe a fic that almost happened, but then it didn’t.

In so many fandoms I’ve had visions of an OTP epic spanning years and years, and in zero of those fandoms have I ever completed one of those stories.

31. What was the most difficult fic for you to write (but in the end you made it)?

There is a point where every fic feels like the most difficult thing I’ve ever written. Something particularly cute that I do, which I love, is writing very intensely up to the sex scene, and then getting shy about it and wandering away and not working on it again for a little while, despite the fact that usually the whole point of the fic is that I want to get to the sex scene!!!

32. Do you have a word/expression that you always use in your writing?

I’m sure I have plenty of things like that!! I try to edit repetitive things like that out because when I’m reading a lot of a writer’s stuff little phrasing quirks always stand out to my copyeditor brain. That said, I know when I’m doing it and still tend to huffily be like “well that’s the best way to phrase that action!!” so, whatever.

36. How do you come up with fic titles? What’s the one you’re most proud of?

I either have a title from the jump or I’m combing my music library for a lyric snippet I can use like ten minutes before I post the fic. I’m pretty fond of This Is A Song About Fucking in that I committed SO deeply to jacking myself off there; it’s a phrase that Brendon Urie used to say to introduce Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off during the Nothing Rhymes With Circus tour (I had to look that tour name up. Thank GOD I had to look that tour name up) and I used it for a 5SOS group sex fic posted a cool eight years after that tour (which I went to multiple dates of, oh god) ended.

38. “This never happened” fix-it fics or “this happened but” fix-it fics?

Definitely the latter, when a canon makes a lousy choice I’m usually like well here we are, let’s talk about where we go from here. But I don’t really look for anything with the fix-it tag in general, once the canon breaks something I loved I’m usually so moody that I just abandon ship and stop reading fic haha.

39. Wildest AU scenario you have written?

I verrrry rarely write AUs for posting, but have chatficced some truly bonkers nonsense in my time. My old writing partner in bandom and I used to get weird with Brendon/Ryan - the satyr/fairy and fisherman/selkie days were really something.

40. Write a 9-word fic.

I’m too invested in the thing I’ve written 5k words of these week to think of anything new, so here’s a snippet from that instead.

“Come here,” he chokes out, and the helpless hope on Bucky’s face in response nearly undoes him completely. He sits up to meet Bucky halfway, grabs at his shirt the moment he’s within reach and drags him close, Bucky climbing onto the bed all long limbs and graceless need. The kiss is a surprise only in how rough it is, a hard press of lips like Bucky’s greedy to touch Sam any way he can, like this is just another way for them to collide.

[autumn-foxfire]

Chat fics are fun but I hate what makes up the majority of them: the excessive use of pairings, nicknames that aren't understandable and "le random" things happening.

I think chat fics can be absolutely hilarious if done correctly but most of the times they're brought down by the fact the authors feel the need to shove in a random pairing between two characters most people won't care about. And it. just. keeps. happening.

These two hook up! Those two hook up! Everyone hooks up!

And yet there usually isn't any sense or reason why, in fact most of the time it's because it's the popular pairing for said character or they need to get them out of the way for another pairing. You can tell that the author doesn't care for the pairing, not as much as they do for the others in the fic, it's just there because god forbid A and B be single!

Nicknames is also another issue I have with them: dumb nicknames can be fun but most of the time I have no clue who is talking. Sometimes the nicknames are directly related to the character so you can tell but a lot of the times they're something the author found funny and gave to the character even if it doesn't really make much sense.

I think in chatfics you should stick with normal names or names that you can clearly tell are about that character.

And my final (or at least in this post) issue with chat fics is the "le random" events. I know this ones a bit dumb to complain about because the nature of chatfics are about random events and the reaction of characters towards them however I think most chatfics get a bit too random and stupid.

I think that for a good chat fic there needs to be a least the outline of a plot, for example: this is going to happen in this chapter and the characters will react to it. And most of the time what happened will still and should have an impact in future chapters too (especially if it's something pretty bizarre as it's bound to leave an impact).

I think some of the best chat fics I've read are the ones that had a purpose in mind, an endgoal, where it was still mostly characters living their day-to-day lives and reacting to it but they had a goal in sight.

(I was going to address OOCness in these fics too but honestly I think that ties in with "pair every spare" and "le random" events that most chat fics include. Most of the time you'll have characters made to react differently then they usually would behave in order to get either pairings to happen or for a random thing to happen. Hmmm.)

I really enjoy chat fics but sometimes I wish I could enjoy them more, I guess I need to get off my butt and write one the way I would like it, huh XD

[sorrylatenew]

chatfic is all i can do anymore lol

So, this is not 1) any of the fics i have started after asking for prompts, or 2) what i am supposed to be writing for halloween, but it is a tiny fic thing i half chatficced at @allthebros and finished just now. this brought to you by my viewing of jonathan toews being the stupidly rambunctious idiot he is at practice and by the fact that he leaves kaner alone...even though he does not Leave him. like ever.

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I keep picturing this scene in my head—Jonny and Patrick going home from practice or something, Patrick driving, and even though it’s not new that they’re sleeping together, it’s a little bit of a new relationship, still lots of uncertainties and awkwardness, and he casually asks Jonny why he never tries to hold his hand or anything like that

And Jonny ofc looks over like 😐

But Patrick has said it so now he’s committed and he shrugs, nods, gestures at Jonny like well?

And Jonny’s like “What? You wanna stroll out of the rink with our fingers laced?”

And Patrick makes a sound like that’s a completely ridiculous assumption to make of his meaning, says, “Not—like that.” He’s a picture of collected calm with the inside of his wrist propped on top of the steering wheel, his left arm hanging half outside the open window, but his voice is a little flustered. “Like—even here. Somewhere like right now. Or not even that, doesn’t have to be that. Like, just touching.”

“Touching?”

“Yeah—like. Touching.”

“Do we not...touch?”

Patrick opens his mouth to answer, then doesn’t right away. Stares ahead at the road and feels, intensely, the way Jonny’s looking at him. “Yeah, we do. Just—“ His left turn is a little sharper than he wants it to be. “I don’t know. You touch everyone else a lot. I just thought, like—it’s surprising is all. That you don’t really with me. Even now.”

And Jonny finally looks away, stares out of the windshield too, lips curling in over his teeth until he gives a careful, “I touch you.”

Patrick is very quick with the, “I know,” and makes another left. “I know you touch me. I know we touch. I’m not saying—that.”

“Okay...”

“I’m saying it’s not as much as I imagined it would be.”

It is the *barest* confession, considering the nightly orgasms and going home together, but it still makes them both quiet a long moment, just listening to the cars outside Patrick’s window, until Jonny says, “You imagined it?” like Patrick knew he would.

He makes another sound, not quite a scoff but something along those lines, then briefly meets Jonny’s eyes, kind of soft, says, “I just know you, Jon,” like Jonny is stupid. "I thought in a relationship you’d be, like...come on.”

“Like what?”

"Like fucking—all over me, or—I don't know. You were hanging off Seabsie today, you know what I mean."

Jonny's face goes very flat, completely turned in Patrick's direction. "Are you telling me you're jealous of Seabs, Patrick?"

Patrick actually laughs out loud, gives the car in front of them a look of amazed hilarity. "No, Jonny, I am not jealous of anyone. Believe me."

He takes the silence he gets after that as his cue to continue.

"What i'm saying is that you just—you hang off the guys and shit. You're always plowing into people, or even just—you're always close. I thought if we ever got together you'd be like that. I'm surprised that you're not, that's all I'm saying."

They fall into a moment of quiet again, Jonny reaching to mess with one of the air vents even though the A/C isn't on. "You think I don't know you, too?" he says eventually with this weird half smile.

Patrick only spares him another brief glance, eyes ahead. "And that's supposed to mean...?"

"You hate that shit, Pat!" Jonny turns in his seat to fully face Patrick, seemingly for the long haul now. "You turn into the pissiest little baby if you're nudged too hard."

"Okay!" Patrick agrees when Jonny won't even blink. "Yes. But that is not the same as—holding my hand or whatever the fuck you'd want to do."

“It’s green,” Jonny says, and when Patrick accelerates, annoyed about it, he waits all the way until the next light before he goes on, quiet, “I didn’t...think you’d like that either.”

Patrick doesn’t know why that makes him feel any kind of way, but his stomach goes tight and weird and god, he hates this motherfucker. “Getting jumped on from behind by a guy with twenty pounds on me is not the same as like—sitting in my lap or something.”

“Patrick, you don’t even like hugs sometimes.”

Patrick sighs, sniffs, rubs thoroughly at his nose, and says, “One—I’m not that bad, and two...it’s different if it’s you.”

Jonny immediately goes back to playing with the air vent, squints like he’s trying to figure out what’s (not) wrong with it, and also suddenly looks like he’s trying real hard not to seem pleased. “You’ve gotten pissy with me before.”

“Yeah.” Patrick gives a low laugh. “This is not permission to fucking kamikaze me into the boards.”

Jonny turns his head like he’s about to argue that he’s not that bad either, but decides against it and instead says, “You could’ve done it if you wanted to too.”

“What?”

“You could’ve held my hand.”

Patrick does not know why hand holding was the example he started this with, he feels fourteen. Also, Jonny doesn’t need to know how long he’s been wondering at the lack of Jonny-like contact. “Wouldn’t want to steal your thing from you.”

And Jonny’s still really failing at not looking pleased. “Waiting on me to get it done,” he says. “Typical.”

Patrick snorts, makes their last turn before his building. “We don’t have time to list all the ways in which that’s wrong.”

“Why, you got somewhere to be?”

“Yeah, skate tomorrow.”

Jonny laughs and it’s so indulgent and happy Patrick’s stomach goes weird again, and he can’t look at him until they’re pulling in to park, until they’ve climbed out of the car and slung bags over their shoulders to go inside.

Jonny lets his arm swing close to Patrick’s while they walk, and Patrick knows what he’s doing before he does it, rolls his eyes and hides his grin when he feels Jonny’s pinky finger brush up against the side of his hand.

He only does it the once, then speeds his stride to cut in front of Patrick and turn around so he’s walking backwards. “Gotta make sure we take it slow and steady, Peeks,” he says. “I don’t wanna overwhelm your senses.”

Patrick speeds his stride in turn, happy somewhere down low, happy as Jonny looks. “After this morning? he says, close to Jonny’s ear. “I don’t know if you wanna talk to me about overwhelming senses.” And passes him for the door, lets his right arm hang free, just in case.

[wordcubed-writes]

I hate chatfics. Anyways here’s mine

Fandom: My Hero Academia

Fanfic: untitled comedy fic series

Context: This is like all the other chatfics out there, except good.

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Kaminari: Real names only?!

Iida: The school permanently stores everything you say in this chat app. If any of you ever becomes a villain, I absolutely do not want to be the one explaining why a criminal went by the handle "fart sound (with reverb)".

Asui: That's a very specific example and I wanna know the story behind it

Iida: I was volunteer moderator for one of Ingenium's fan chatrooms. Some unpleasant things happened.

Midoriya: *thats* why you're so good at moderating!

Iida: Thank you, @Midoriya.

Midoriya: why would you join Ingenium's fanchat though? he's your own brother??

Iida: It's important for heroes to know what their fans really think of them! And heroes, like it or not, are seen as responsible for their fans' behavior! I was trustworthy and, unlike my brother, had the spare time to keep an eye on things.

Kirishima: wait wait, go back. @Iida's more worried about our chat names than us going villain?

Iida: If you turn villain, I won’t worry about it.

Iida: Because I will have already killed you with my own hands.

Asui: *legs

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Notes: It’s no mystery why chatfics are so popular with the fandom. The characters are the right age, their world has more or less the same level of tech as us, and in real-life, Discord is incredibly popular with both writers and readers right now.

Unfortunately, most chatfics also kind of suck. Sure, many of them start promising, but they run out of steam fast, because nothing happens. It’s just teens chatting amongst each other—now continue for 10,000+ words. They also lean into the most flanderized one-note character interpretations produced by fandom.

In short, the drama is absent, the comedy is weak, and the characters are flat.

My approach to this genre is much, much different. The main character(s) of each chapter will be written as more than fandom’s stereotype of themselves. And each chapter will be short (what you see here is about 90% of a complete chapter), building up to one decent joke and then promptly ending.

(Also, this will be an extremely pro-Iida fic, and I’m writing him as very genre-savvy here.)

[kxlinthesky]

I tend to spend a decent chunk of my spare time writing chatfic-style things because they’re simple and fun distractions but I usually get bored of them pretty quickly (which is why I have several separate documents of “unfinished” chatfics), but somehow or another the one I currently have pulled up has made it to 144 pages / 21.6K words in the span of a week and if it weren’t chock-full of OCs I might consider posting it.