#not tagging the fandom fic or author

[aniseandspearmint]

ffs people some if y'all were just raised with no manners at all.

You DO NOT send shitty messages to an author after they post a fic, just because you got excited they were writing in a fandom you like, but it turned out to feature a pairing you don't like/hate/squicks you!

I don't like that pairing EITHER, but you know what I did when I opened the email and saw the listed pairings on the first chapter?

I went, 'Awww DARN that sounded interesting. Oh well.' And then i deleted the email and went on reading things I DID like!

I did NOT act like this was a personal betrayal and immediately hop on social media to bitch at the author!

[moss-the-mage]

Just saw a fic tagged as "free palestine btw" as if that's in any way relevant or appropriate. This is an archive. There's no algorithm, and there are no viral movements or tags.

[bluishfrog]

Inspired by "complete" by norethor

Fic Art Friday - event tag - event description

[sleepy-steve]

hiii do you have any fave steddie fics you love and could recommend? I love anything and Long fics, but also especially h/c. I'm kind of a newbie to reading fics about them but read a really long Chrissy/Eddie one long ago <3 steddie seems like the summer IT ship I need tbh. thank you if u see this, and I love your blog u seem super cool! have a great day

hello!! thanks so much, here's a few off the top of my head:

the lathe by @palmviolet (this is my absolute favourite, i think about it all the time.)

sub-culture by @palmviolet

a coat of paint by @songbvrd (this was the first steddie fic i ever read, so shout out to this one for starting me on the steddie brain rot and turning me into the person i am now.)

show me the place where he inserted the blade by @cheatghost (and the others in that series. this fic made me sob.)

the moon turns gold by @pearynice (also anything by pearynice too.)

and some authors who i love: @wynnyfryd @steddieas-shegoes @sp0o0kylights @steviewashere @frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe @steddielations @loveinhawkins

hope this is what you were looking for and happy reading!!

[official-lucifers-child]

you know when everyone hates your blorbo so going through the fanfics are just “not blorbo friendly” “blorbo bashing” and you aren’t SUPER into your blorbo so you’re not sad or angry necessarily but you are just wondering what you missed that made 3/4 of the fandom abhor your blorbo

[hailsatanacab]

Your Favourite Author's Favourite Fic

in no way is this me sneakily trying to get fic recs out of people, but here's my new tag game!

Rules! When tagged, reblog with the fic you've written that you love the most

Not the fic with the most kudos, or the most comments, or the most hits, but the fic that you're the most proud of. I'm talking about the story that kept you up at night, the one that you still think about, the one that you wish more people would read

So, it's time to show off! I strongly encourage - in fact, I demand - that you give yourself some compliments, a well-deserved pat on the back, and tell us all the reasons why it's your favourite!

Then tag five people and make them go through it, too 🥰🩷

I'll tag @wolfjackle, @tourettesdog, @gilbirda, @die-erlkonigin6083, and @thewritingowl to get us started, please and thank you!!

[tennessoui]

it’s like baby gorl there’s no way I, the author who wrote the fic you’re commenting on and who is the intended audience for this comment, am gonna agree with you 😿🙏 some things can just stay on your chest 🙏

[vicontheinternet]

I like dickory more than i like dickbabs but as soon as you make either a bitch or an obstacle just to get the other together I’m leaving the fanfic immediately no matter how good the fic is. It could have all the tropes and tags and be completed but as soon as I see that I get immediately pissed off cuz I’d rather a 3rd act break up or miscommunication trope then turning an canon love interest into a jealous bitch for romantic drama that is so misogynistic and insulting to me

[redsnowdrop]

I wish I knew how to draw ‘cos sometimes I don’t get enough satisfaction from my fanfic

[feelingthedisaster]

something that annoys me a lot in fanfiction as an aromantic is when people dont tag important platonic/familial relationships but tag random romantic stuff

i remember this fic in which there were platonic relationships that were almost as important as the main romantic ship, yet they werent tagged. but a romantic relationship that didnt even had a full scene was tagged.

there are millions of fics that do this. why only tagging romantic stuff? you have non romantic relationships in your fic that are just as important. tagging them would actually help the fic to get more readers (the ones looking for fics with gen relationships) but no, the romantic couple that had ¼ of chapter (of a multichapter fic) was a more relevant tag. wonder why

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Most devastating thing that could ever happen to anyone

[janjan-the-ninth]

To fanfiction authors: Please learn what Dead Dove means. There has been a trend, especially will all the new people who have joined over the last few years, to tag fics which are no where close to Dead Dove as Dead Dove. Just cause the fic contains topics which aren't allowed on tiktok or which they think are bad, like Major Character Death, Violence and so one. Which exists as seperate warnings on ao3. A fic is not automatically Dead Dove just cause it deals with those topics.

The overuse of the Dead Dove tag will make the tag utterly useless in the long run and will lead to an increase of censoring from the outside as new people and everyone else will think that everything they do not like is Dead Dove and therefore bad.

[thalialunacy]

re-blorg please? :D

[lakshana-ke-lakshan]

Wtf is happening with ishman fandom? When we're not being fed anything, Ishan literally on a hiatus, then istg the fanfics were SO GOOD and now? When we're being spoon fed the content? The quality of the fanfics goes down? no offence.

like y'all, as a writer, who was forced to write because of less, but good content, i can't help but be annoyed with the fandom rn. Cuz I literally wrote my ff because there was no omegaverse ishman fluff!!!?!

So the point is that the stories are very repetitive, grammar is wrong (not like I'm Shakespeare's butt hole but still, there are some limits to galat English?), there is just- Nothing new? To be excited about?

I remember the time when I used to keep refreshing the app in case any new updates came and now, I haven't literally opened the app since forever. There is just one author, who i wait for, and they stopped posting the same time around which I stopped posting. So ya, I'm not alone

And don't call me Hardik- you ain't loyal to one fandom- look, ik I ain't but I just got over it?! And vaise bhi fanfics ka cringe alag hi chall Raha hai

It's always the same now- mafia Shubman, hobo ishan or some royalty au, or some businessman CEO Shubman and poor ishan, omega ishan hiding his gender, and ishan running away with his child blah blah blah

Yes there are many new ideas, but i couldn't possibly know cuz I haven't opened any fabric since ages

So ya, ishman is having its downfall era on Wattpad

WRITERS DO SOMETHING

I BEG OF YOU

and if anyone could recommend the best, mouthwatering, booty hole clenching fanfic where there is a new plot, and shub is not bottom(he's never a bottom), please do recommend them to me. Pretty please

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Some of my favourite out of context sfth ao3 tags because these are so funny (also all of these are from different fics)

Disclaimer that these aren’t mine :)

[rekikiri]

hi, friendly reminder to anyone in fandom. if you’re on ao3 and a fic is properly tagged, do NOT harass the author <3 if there is something you don’t like and it’s tagged? your own fault for not checking tags/filtering. it is not the author’s fault, and you don’t get to push your own icks onto others. DLDR is a great motto in fandoms! don’t like, don’t read.

have I read fanfics that make me extremely uncomfortable because I didn’t notice a tag? yes. guess what though? I closed the fic. at most i have complained to a friend about how uncomfortable it made me. but guess what? it’s so easy to cater your experience on ao3 and as long as it’s there in the tags, it’s on you for reading it.