#my ao3 is BOOMING

[7official7moose7]

Not sure if anyone's done this yet but I couldn't help myself WJSHAHDJF

(this is NOT h@nk//c0n)

[erraticprocrastinator]

Nothing feels more amazing as a fanfic writer than finding the fandom, the pairing, the trope, that reawakens not only your love of writing, but also the joy that comes with just being hopelessly and unapologetically invested in something.

[erinwantstowrite]

me when i rewrite the entire chapter i had so far cause it wasn't working for me and then i change like one little thing and it all works which is great but i had to rewrite the entire chapter for it to work???????

[thereweredragonshere]

Ref sheet from a fic I’m writing over on ao3! Hiccup has what I would like to call ‘chronic microscopicness in comparison to literally anyone except maybe toddlers’

Hiccup gets the ever living shit beaten out of him and there’s a whole bunch of self doubt, angst and just a general bad time 🤗

[viminoo]

baberoe in bastogne

[nart-is-a-monster]

Well so I decided to use gouache and I have no regrets

(edit: I remove the option of lecture mode or warm light of the phone and notice how the things were looking so pale so if you see a difference between before and now is for that lmao)

Wooooo fireworks 🎇 (they died from the explosion 💥)

Aaand you should read the silent opera if you haven't read it yet

I was up till 5 am reading it and then I woke up early (¿9am?) to complete the chapter 15, 16, 17, and let me tell you, it was a rollercoaster for me AUGH IS JUST SO GOOD.

@littlemisslol-fic mark my words; I will read the rest of your fics, so... Prepare yourself :3c

[soyeonna]

me because school bus graveyard ships

i love aidlyn but i also love tyden and you cant go wrong with benlor but taylyn is so cute too and popstar has my whole heart but at the same time i love tylans dynamic and ashler is so fun to read and ashlerden is SO cute to read about and i cant do this anymore i need fast pass i will explode i cant wait till wednesday i will literally die!!!!,,!

i havent posted here so long damn sorry guys i was busy crying on ao3

PLEASE I NEED MORE FICS I HAVE READ ALL OF THEM!! PLEASE!! I WILL PAY!! I AM BROKE!! BUT I WILL PAY!! I AM GOING INSANE!! SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A SBG FIC!! A LITTLE ONESHOT IS ALL I NEED!!

[trans-queen-administrator]

Sometimes I think about the intrinsically doomed tragedy of Lisa loving Taylor and frantically trying to prevent her self destruction by doing absolutely everything for her while refusing to let down her own walls, and when she is genuine and lets Taylor see through the facade it's not enough to keep her and she still leaves both times. Or I think about the unbreakable bond and trust between Rachel and Taylor where Taylor is the only one who tries to communicate properly with her and does so much to help to the point where Rachel would trust her with literally anything which means she trusts Taylor to have a plan even when Taylor's plan is to throw herself away. Or I think about Brian and Taylor's friendship and later relationship that happened because Brian needed some way to deal with the horror of what Bonesaw did without letting down his walls because if he stops appearing in control he'll crack and they just both tried and failed so hard to be normal, but if things went differently they could have been happy together. Or I think about Taylor and Alec and how Alec saw her as a good normal how Taylor never really understood him even at the end and didn't even like him because she can't acknowledge their similarities and maybe if things were different they could grow to understand each other a bit more. Or I think about Taylor and Aisha and how Aisha went from being a mischievous gremlin constantly to losing her best friend and then her brother and then she had to stand by Taylor and sing to her as she broke and faded as a person while fully knowing she was going to lose another friend and having that confirmed when Taylor seized her body and held a knife to her throat. And every time I think about all the tragedies of loving Taylor Hebert, the ways things could have gone differently and everyone could have been happy if things were tweaked in the slightest way, I remember the glory of fanfiction and bask in the knowledge that other people feel this and will write their own fics where the characters get a better ending, and life is good.

And then I go on AO3 and I remember that 35% of fanfic in this wretched fandom is alternate powers for someone named Taylor who definitely isn't acting like her, 18% is revenge fantasies against the bullies where Taylor is harsher to Sophia specifically hmmm I wonder why, 22% is Taylor in the most unrealistic sanitized relationship ever written where everyone is out of character and reading it feels like eating styrofoam, 13% is attempting to redeem Purity or Rune or someone else in the E88, 11% has Greg as a main character with epic gamer powers, and the remaining 1% is actually readable original fanfic. I'm so tired. Why are so so many people shipping some combination of Taylor, Victoria, and Amy. Who the fuck is writing Polysiders. Why is 80% of this written and read by people who haven't read Worm and smugly believe that the absolute garbage fanfics they've read are better because nothing bad happens. I'm going insane I can't take this.

[delusinaldreamer19]

So your telling me…that I have a lingering cold AND I fucking sprained my ankle…

I can’t tell if this is the Ao3 author curse or if God just fucking hates me 💀

[brocedesforlife]

the biggest heart attack most of us can relate to is when we get the email notification to a fic and the chapter's titled announcement.

why? because in most cases:

1. it's going on hiatus

or

2. it's being discontinued / abandoned

[erraticprocrastinator]

More random writing stuff: As much as I love to pre-plan and plot out what happens in my stories, I also love it when I encounter natural breaks when writing. It sort of helps breathe life back into the hobby for me. Oh, this part should really just end here? Cool. This scene could actually be done from the next POV? Even better than my original plan. Turns out I was struggling to write this because it was dragging on without me realising? The whole thing just flows so much better now. Sometimes it’s just great when my brain throws a little spontaneity into the mix. I’ve come to realise that outlines are best viewed as a guide and not step-by-step instructions.

[ajgrey9647]

When I create my fan fics, THIS is who I see for MY Jason/Red/Jamie: COMICS Jason!

[cowboylikeyouu]

i just lost 5 hours of work bc ao3 crashed, i‘m so emotionally stable rn

[persona-brainrot-real]

the state of the timeline for my akechi fic makes me feel like im going insane. this is perfectly coherent to me. ive been replaying the game and making notes solely about everything akechi does and the implications of everything and what affect it has behind the scenes to make it as canon accurate as possible where it matters [deviations and divergence mostly occurs around how he talks with the PT's, primarily joker]. im having the time of my life. its colour coordinated.

ive only been updating as far as ive gone in this playthrough though [to make sure its as accurate as possible] which is why my annotations stop at the end of october

[arachnidanon]

(I’m so sorry for the bad quality I take these pictures on my phone)

I fucking SPEEDRAN this drawing omg okay so it’s for a fic called Rabbit Season on AO3 and it’s a rain world and fnaf sb crossover. I fucking love it to bits and there’s only 4 chapters out rn

this is a scene from chap 4 where Saint and Greg go to the daycare. chaos ensues

AO3 LINK: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47919700/chapters/120817045

side note: I purposely smudged the shit out of Sun to make him look dirtier lmao

[screwwentloosesomewhere]

magnolia (no not the symbiosis one lmao the insatiable one) and patty fic!! do they even have a ship name