#this will be one of those fics that I won't publish to public because the randomness

[eroticomens]

You know what would be lovely? Spideypool but Wade as the bottom (maybe they do the do in an alleyway or on top of a building away from the public eye)

RAIL THAT SIX FOOT MERC, PETER! eh-hem, yes. i love lil spidey being the top when it comes to spideypool, it's my default setting for them lol i feel like most people wedge wade into the role of top because they want the tiny one to get manhandled by the big one, but idk it just doesn't do it for me. no shade to those who prefer it ofc i've got one spideypool fic out right now, and more in the works, so i probably won't do anything for this prompt but here's the link to the one that's published :> this was actually one of my first fics getting back into writing, in which wade goads spidey into a game of footsies, then makes a deal with him to return peter's web shooters in exchange for a one-on-one training session with his hero. there are probably some typos lol hope u enjoy! 🖤 https://archiveofourown.org/works/59106775

[spoonfulofmilo]

Could you do fic for James Vowles with wife reader? Tom Brady was at the Williams garage during the FP1. James wondered what took his wife's attention from him. There, Tom Brady and her chatting up and he feels jealous because she was not spending time with him. Maybe he did something to gain her attention. Just something fluff and PDA. Thanks!!! :))

i'm going to be honest, I finished this a while ago and then just never published it, partially because then James started doing questionable things - like Logan! wtf man! and I feel bad for Franco cause he's doing amazing, outqualifying his teammate and he doesn't have a seat for next year! and zak's run out of funding for f2, like bestie, you have a wholeass f1 team backing you? basically Williams is fucked, and maybe I'm going to become a full time ferrari fan

i suppose they both made q3 tho so??? i won't jinx them for tonight

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james vowles x wife!reader

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James cracked his neck as he stretched taking the headphones off. It hadn’t been the worst FP1 from the entire season and it being Logan’s home race it was important for them to try and get some points on the board for the team.

But for now he was not thinking about that. He was just planning on finding his wife, and maybe curling up on a beanbag with her. He just needed to find her first.

He started asking around the garage, asking if anyone had seen her. Not many had, but a few PR people mentioned that they’d seen her heading towards hospitality.

So James headed towards hospitality. He remembered the PR people mentioning some celebrities coming to the grand prix. But he didn’t really care about any of the so-called ‘celebrities’ that came to Miami and considering he always had the excuse of work to have to do, he barely had to tolerate them.

But all those thoughts exited his head as he entered hospitality and saw Tom Brady sitting at a table, eating lunch. He was attempting not to fanboy at the sight of one of his favourite football players. And it was very easy to stop fanboying when he saw who Tom was eating lunch with.

Y/N was sitting on the table opposite Tom, looking heavily interested in whatever he was saying and nodding along as she ate her lunch. Some of the shy smiles she was showing, James rarely saw, solely because he was unable to surprise his wife a lot. She was unsurprised now when he kissed her or told her how beautiful she was. She appreciated it, of course, but he hadn’t seen this smile since he surprised her with a birthday party.

And then there was Tom Brady, a famous football player, seemingly flirting with his wife.

James was not someone who was very into public displays of affection, or PDA, but he genuinely saw no other option as he watched Y/N laugh again as Tom Brady said something. 

He walked over to the table, throwing his arm behind Y/N’s chair as he leaned in and placed a kiss on her cheek.

“Hello Darling. Did you see the end of FP1?”

“Oh, hello James. Yeah we did, we watched the final few minutes here. Sorry I didn’t wait, but I wanted to beat the mechanic rush and I was a little bit hungry. Oh and by the way, this is Tom Brady, y’know, he won the superbowl a few times.”

He laughed and James had to clench his teeth to not spit at him “Only a few times, closer to 7. Sorry, I’m Tom, and you are?”

“James. I’m the team principal for Williams.”

“Oh, well lovely to meet you. Would you like to join us? I’m sure we could pull up another seat, and you could join us?”

“Yes, well I would love to join my wife for lunch, however I have a meeting. If you don’t mind darling, can I join you for afternoon tea?”

“Oh, of course.”

Y/N sat down in the booth waiting for her husband to slide in opposite her. She was not expecting her husband to lay another kiss on her cheek before sliding into the chair opposite, handing over the food.

“Are you okay James?”

“You mean other than whatever is going on with my team, yeah I am, why do you ask?”

“You seem a little tense.”

“I’m not tense darling.”

“Yes you are, now tell me why.”

“I’m not tense.”

“James, I married you 5 years ago. I know when you are tense.”

“Okay. Fine. I was jealous.”

“Jealous? When would you… oh. James,” she took his hands, leaning to try and look at him “James. Were you jealous of Tom Brady?”

“...no.”

“James, it’s okay if you are. But you have to know that I much prefer the sexy, nerdy British team principals than the hot American football players.”

“You… do.”

“Of course. That’s why I married one. I know I’m attractive James. And I know I could marry whoever I want. And I want to marry my sexy, nerdy British husband.”

“I love you too Darling.”

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taglist: @leosxrealm, @tallrock35, @wolf-knights, @janeholt3, @pear-1206

[ao3scrapesearch]

Thanks for making this tool. I ran my and my sister's usernames through. Both of us have two works up on Ao3: mine are fics, hers are art.

My sister has had her art up since November 2023, but only one was scraped (titled "Sacred Robed Zelda"). Both of her works are locked, but only the one was scraped.

My first published fic ever - "The Captive" - has been up since December 2024, and I'd initially locked it, but later unlocked it in order to broaden my audience. It's been scraped. My second fic (also unlocked) hasn't been scraped, probably only because it was published April 20th, or is incomplete.

I never want to post anything again, and I'm seriously considering posting my fics to a different site at the very least, although I don't know if any of the other fanfiction sites are bothering to protect their users' stories.

I never would've known my and my sister's work was stolen if you hadn't made your tool, and knowing the truth is better than being ignorant, so thank you so much!

You're welcome!

I'm sorry I can't offer better news to you, but for your sister: from what I can see, no images were scraped. Any work that had ONLY an image in the main body just looks like blank text.

As a reminder, I am not providing lookups of the work text and am absolutely not sharing any part of that online, but I do have a copy from when I was first looking up my own fics. I won't check the work text for anyone because it feels super sketch. But in this specific case, I will show you what a work text lookup looks like on this fic because it is completely blank. This work only had the metadata collected, like the author name and tags.

Where that "text" column is, normally the entire work would appear.

I can confirm your second fic wasn't scraped because it was posted too recently. I believe the newest fic we know of in this dataset was posted or updated on March 15th, 2025. Looking at my own fics, some were scraped on March 9th and March 14th for sure.

I understand the feeling. For me, it's worth the risk to be able to keep sharing my writing, so I'll keep sharing. It just sucks, and I think a lot of us need a break or better, need something to make us feel protected from the scraping.

Locking fics did seem to reduce the rate of having fics scraped for most people I've talked to, but it's not a perfect safeguard. For reference, I think the person I've talked to with the MOST locked fics scraped had 75% of their locked fics stolen. I (someone with almost everything set public) had 90% of my fics stolen. Unfortunately, most people can create an AO3 account within minutes, even scrapers. It's not hard to get an invite code in a community where a lot of us are so welcoming.

I do think everywhere you could post is going to have its problems. AO3 is so popular and prolific that it's a huge target for scrapers, and because they're a nonprofit, they rely on us donating to be able to support any anti-scraping measures they could implement. FFN is infested with bots trying to sell you AI art, and depending on your fandom, people just... don't read there except when AO3 is down. Something like the old LiveJournal communities would probably help cut down on scraping, but the way those worked was centered around having one community for one subset of a fandom, meaning you'd have a separate community for every fandom/pairing/genre of fic you write/read, which becomes hard to manage. Plus, because those are locked down, you once again have fewer readers there.

[tessasilverswan]

Latest AO3 scrape into AI database

Please read this if you're an AO3 user with public, not archive-locked works. This is information on the latest known instance of someone taking AO3 works to build datasets on which to train AI and the ongoing process to get them removed. I don't really make posts adressing people, but I am furious about my work being used and I know some of my mutuals don't have their fics archive-locked so I hope I can at least get the information to some people.

Earlier this month (April) a, to my understanding, rp fanworks website named PaperDemon.com got word that a user of an AI dataset website, HuggingFace, had scraped its contents, as well as those of a bunch of other websites among which AO3 is included, where they can be freely downloaded to train generative AI models. For AO3 specifically, the user themselves reports that all public works with IDs ranging from 1 to 63,200,000 have been scraped.

As of April 25 and per the updating Paper Demon publication, 2 of 8 affected sites have gotten their content removed and the rest have achieved temporary disabling (supposedly data is visible but not downloadable) pending a counter-notice from the scraper, who appears to be set on the aim of dismissing the request as unfounded. Furthermore, the AO3 dataset has already been downloaded 2,244 times in the last month. On earlier updates of the PD post they mentioned that the scraper agreed to remove, on an individual basis, the content of those who file a Copyright infringement report. So far there are about 150 reports against the AO3 dataset. The scraper also uploaded them to another website, but appears to have removed at least the PD ones, as well as to his personal website which the PD post doesn't even link for safety reasons. The platform HuggingFace has also been made aware of the situation (that's what got us the temporary disabling)

I have personally filed a Copyright infringement report using the helpful guide put together by the PD team and have emailed the scraper on the address listed there providing the title and URL of my work and requesting for it to be removed from the dataset.

I have one concern regarding the PD guide, though (disclaimer: this is coming from someone with a very limited knowledge on computers & digital information and my understanding of the majority of concepts is from 3h of internet searches + ms help page + messing around in my laptop) They rightly recommend to not publish the work URLs in the report and instead instruct to collect them in a spreadsheet in .cvs filetype. This, however, has a problem of personally-identifying metadata being stored "alongside" the file itself and it can be accessed. The MS Excel Inspector tool allows the removal of this type of data, but apparently only when it's shared through the MS account? For Google sheets there is a different problem, which is that you can't just make your spreadsheet in .csv filetype, you need to download it and the reupload it (if there is a way, it's not easily accessible; i looked at like 4 step-by-step guides and they all said to download) which again adds properties to the file that may contain personal information.

I was very sleep deprived and very close to giving up, because I do not wish to provide a person that's massively stealing content any information linked to my identity, but then I thought I could just send the info on the email body itself. It's not the best solution but I think it's better than the alternative.

I am beyond mad that this happened and will archive-lock my affected work as soon as I receive a response (or after enough days of silence, I guess, but I hope my report won't be ignored). Unfortunately I can't file a DMCA take-down notice, because it requires personal information which might be shared with the infringer if they file a counter-notice, but I have hope that, if everyone whose works were scraped files Copyright infringement reports, AO3's DMCA won't be dismissed.

I encourage anyone who has read this to also file a report to get their work(s) removed asap and, if anyone is more informed or knowledgeable on the topic, to please share any useful info you have. I might also email AO3 to inquire about the DMCA status later because the PD publication is understandably only really tracking theirs.

[vera-king-hrfl]

2024 Writing Reflections

Thank you for the tag, @graysparrowao3

I had to think about this a bit. My personal life has been ridiculously stressful, especially the past 3 months, and writing has helped me through it. So, every word I've written and published has been special and important because it serves that purpose, even if no one reads or enjoys it but me.

But then, some people actually do enjoy my work, which is just amazing. So now, yes I still write for myself, but also because it sometimes brings other people happiness, or at least distraction. Maybe a few might get a deeper meaning from some of it or really enjoy my style.

I also really like reading all the amazing stuff my lovely and talented mutuals write, and looking at all your beautiful artwork. This whole experience has been amazing and I hope I can share another year of it with you all. ❤️

What's been your biggest learning point this past year?

Tumblr and Ao3, honestly. I started writing on reddit, but that was definitely not serving me. People can be so nasty over there, I don't understand it. But it was suggested to me to move over to Tumblr and post on Ao3 and I never looked back. I never realized that there could be a social media site that wasn't a seething mass of hate and vitriol. Everyone here is so nice, and if they don't like my writing, they just ignore me, which is fantastic! 

How has your writing developed this past year?

I started out writing bg3 fanfiction very formal. The structure and language and events were, if not boring, at least kind of stilted and serious. I've learned to inject a lot more levity into my writing and really tried to stop taking it all so seriously. I like writing boring stuff! Lord of the Rings is boring af and it's one of my favorite books. But it does get old and it helps to flex my literary muscles into different styles. 

Bad writing habits?

This has nothing to do with the product itself, but I tend to write everything on my phone. It's really convenient and I can take it anywhere, but my notes and wips are really messy, scattered across about 4 apps, and I've developed tendinitis. 

Favorite thing you wrote?

I think that would have to be the most recent one, Heat of the Night. The title is tongue in cheek, meant to mimic those 80s sitcoms and crime dramas, soap operas, all the stuff I grew up with. The story is the same way. I toss my characters into a modern/80s setting, with all the cliches, language, fashion and technology that entails. I did change a bit because it's an AU (they have cellphones, which weren't really a thing in the 80s, and personal vehicles don't exist. Everyone either teleports or takes public transit.) But it's really fun to write and there really aren't any tropes or plotlines or events that won't fit somewhere in it. Mood writing at it's finest. 😁

Biggest win?

@crowwolf my bestie. I can't believe I found someone so great to talk to and help with my writing. It started out as her just giving sweet compliments and enjoying my weirdness, but she's been so supportive and inspiring that it became much more than that. Now we're collaborating, and I don’t think we've gone a day without talking in months. ❤️

Your favorite words of the year, aka the words you check each chapter for, making sure you didn't repeat them 788 times?

Aside from "Cal" and "Ryldinn", my most commonly used word in my most recent fic is "little". I've decided that the tieflings are big, especially the men, and the other main characters are much smaller, but I should thesaurus it a bit more. 😅 There are also, as mentioned by @graysparrowao3 many mentions of breathing, chuckling, huffing, snorting, scoffing, giggling, and descriptions of facial expressions. 

Goals for the new year?

Finish some stuff! I should be able to close out a few wips pretty soon, but the new one is being written so it can be converted into an original, that will actually take place in 1980s Miami, with more original story and characters. It's a series too, so publishing the first installment as an original would be amazing. 

What are you excited for in the new year?

I've recently started going out of my comfort zone a little and writing scenes and plotlines that are more challenging. A large dinner party scene, an operatic ballet, and a mystery where I have to keep 39 tieflings accounted for are among them. So just more of that, I suppose. I've already started converting the characters, figuring out names and origins, and working out relationships and plot points for my original, and that's pretty exciting.

I'm not tagging anyone else specifically because I don't know who's been tagged or who wants to play, but if you follow me and see this on your dash, please consider it an invitation to share, if you want to. 😊

[stupidlittlespirit]

Hello glorious writer! Between your amazing works and my deep need to make young Stanley's timeline a little less tragic, I've been inspired to write a mullet!stan fanfic myself

Admittedly it's indulgent, and the love interest will be an OC, but I still want to make it as quality and coherent as possible. There's a chance that i won't end up posting it at all, but regardless of that, my starting intentions are to write something worthy of public eyes.

That being said, fitting simple timeline details together and figuring out a plot line that flows right is making me want to claw my eyes out before I've even started the first chapter. Do you have any advice on keeping things organized/era accurate and well paced?

Heyyyyy!

First of all dude fuck yeah that's awesome, I wish you the best with it! Second of all: indulge away! Make everything for yourself first and foremost, whether you intend to publish or not. You're your most important reader.

Putting all the stuff below here as per:

Is there a specific 'main event' that happens in the fic? Or are you writing it without the intention of having anything really happen, like as character study or similar? Figure out your main event if you want one: it could just be be sex or a get together, or it might be a trauma, a simple conversation, whatever. Whatever it is, identify it and keep it at the heart of what you're creating. Build outwards from it.

Or, watch a movie that has a vibe you'd like to replicate. To stress: you're not going to copy the events of the movie. You're going to study how it unfolds and apply that pacing to your own, original stuff.

Once you look for the scaffolding of a movie, it's obvious. The more you do it, the more you'll just start ticking things off in your head automatically.

I do it so much that I ruin a lot of movies for myself now because I can guesstimate where each reveal is going to happen by how character's are acting and how it'll be used later on LMAOOOOO it's annoying as fuck and I'm always pleased when a director dupes me. Find directors that trick you and toy with you, but that do it well. Those are the ones you learn from.

Plan your plot and flesh it out in a flow-chart kind of style, and add as much detail as you can. Start with the bare bones and go from start to finish on the most basic of information. Then write it out again and this time, add more information. Keep doing that again and again. I find sometimes that when I'm writing, I'll inspire myself for another scene with the bit that I'm already working on, and it connects plot points as I work. I can try and draw a diagram of what I mean if you think that would help more.

In terms of era accurate, I would assume if you're writing for Stan then you'll be aiming for 70s-80's? Whatever scene you're setting your thing in google '[insert thing] in 1975' or whatever relevant year. 'Dive bars in 1979' or 'what kind of music did people dance to in 1981?'. I know it sounds super obvious but having a reference for writing is the same as it is for drawing: Super useful. Look up photos from the era on Pinterest or whatever, like outfits or interior design. All your answers are out there.

Does that make sense? Hope so!

[dragonagitator]

Like House MD, time travel, radical canon divergence, and author-self-insert isekai fanfics? Beta readers wanted!

Welp it seems the brainrot I contracted from @acrownforaking is compelling me to write my own House MD isekai fanfic featuring an author-self-insert who unexpectedly reality shifts / time travels from January 2024 in our universe to January 2004 in the Houseverse, then immediately decides to seize this opportunity to unfuck the shitshow that is Greg House's life while simultaneously rewriting 20 years of history with nothing but her shitty memory and her hubris to guide her.

Unfortunately, while I've spent the past 30+ years reading 100+ million words of fanfic in various fandoms, my only previous experience in writing fanfic has consisted of starting and then abandoning a few Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate 3 fics. I wrote thousands of words, but I wrote the scenes out of order as the ideas came to me. I never published even a single chapter of those fics on AO3 because my writing process failed to produce a coherent Chapter 1 before getting hopelessly bogged down in obsessively researching the lore of the games' settings.

I've learned from my mistakes and this time I'm going to force myself to write my story in chronological order so I can begin publishing chapters while it's still a WIP. I've heard that those sweet sweet dopamine hits from AO3's email notifications can be a great incentive to keep writing. Plus the Houseverse being nearly identical to our own universe means there's very little setting-specific lore for me to research.

I'm seeking beta readers both for the usual reasons (motivation, accountability, and general writing feedback) and to help me untangle the messes I'll be making every time my OC uses her foreknowledge to force a radical deviation from show canon and/or IRL recent history. So, if you're the sort of person who enjoys pointing out a plan's fatal flaws or rooting out logical inconsistencies, then oh boy would I love for you to rip my drafts apart. Make both my OC and me cry. Please.

Warning: This fic will be dark. The source material is already pretty fucking dark -- House MD canon includes all four of the major archive warnings -- and my story will likely include even more potential triggers than in canon because one of the major themes will be how quickly things can spiral horribly out of control when you think you can predict the future.

So, if you have any triggers that you avoid reading about for the sake of your mental health, you probably shouldn't volunteer to beta read my fic because I won't be working on the trigger warnings until the final polishing for publication. It would be safer to wait until I've posted on AO3 to read it because I plan to break the chapters up so that triggering content is quarantined in its own separate chapters that can be briefly summarized and skipped.

Please let me know if you're interested in beta reading chapters before they're published on AO3. Any level of involvement welcome -- I am fully aware that most people don't have the time or interest to volunteer as a copyeditor or developmental editor! Quick feedback like "he would not fucking say that" or "yo there's a giant plot hole over here" would be super helpful to me too. Thanks in advance!

[annas-hair-donut]

I'm locking some of my fics...

I just found out that AO3 was scraped for AI learning, including all of my fics! I have put off locking my stories so only registered users can see them because I know a lot of shy guest users read my stories. But since they are also scraping artwork, out of respect for the artists, I decided to lock all of my stories that include art by other people, as well as a few stories I might rewrite as novels. Unfortunately, one of the stories that was scraped is one I'm currently rewriting as a novel. I know some other sites were scraped as well, and I'm so glad that none of these stories or artwork were posted anywhere other than AO3 and Tumblr (including the one I'm working on now).

I may lock the rest of my stories at some point, but I'll leave them open for now.

I will be taking down the story I'm rewriting as I get closer to my publication date (🤞🏻by fall, at the latest). Writing this novel (and 3 others that won't be published) has sort of been a grueling process and challenging me to improve as a writer and a person every step of the way, but it's exciting to be able to take a story I love and give it new life, new dimensions, and new characters. Those who have read the fanfic will recognize the story instantly, though it is also very different in a lot of (hopefully good) ways, and trippled in length. I'm not ready to share any more details right now because I don't want to jinx it, but I'll post something about it when I'm closer to being done for anyone who is interested.

Life update: I'm alive and my mental health has greatly improved since stepping away from fanfic and fandom stuff, and while I miss it, it was the right call for many reasons. I've been doing a lot of original fiction writing and studying writing and storytelling, though I do have a couple guilty pleasure fanfics I work on whenever I need a break.

Stay tuned for more details about my book in the coming months!

I hope everyone is doing well!

[cyren-myadd]

But recently I realized that your stories are no longer visible to anyone in AO3 and it makes me sad because I can't read them... so I wanted to ask you if ¿you could make them visible again to everyone in AO3?… ¿And not only for those who have accounts there are? Please

I locked my fics a little while ago because I saw a post on tumblr warning AO3 authors that bots were copypasting public works to feed into AI algorithms for churning out artificial fanfic. The idea of my work getting fed into a soulless AI really pissed me off so I locked my fics. I hated to make my fics inaccessible to readers who don't have AO3 accounts, but I felt like I had to.

However, I've been thinking about it more lately and I've realized that there's so many millions of public works out there for bots to access that my work is only just another drop in the bucket. Whether or not they get fed into the AI algorithms won't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. The AI will still learn how to write a story with or without my writing.

But you know what the AI will never have? Human creativity. The programmers can teach the AI to be perfect at story structure and grammar and word choice and all that jazz, but you can't teach an AI originality because all it can do is regurgitate stuff it's been fed. Sure, an AI might have a better writing quality than me, but an AI wouldn't be able to come up with all the unique ideas I've enjoyed writing about and my readers have enjoyed reading.

So long story short, I've decided to unlock my fics so everyone can read them. I don't care if a bot steals them to feed to an AI. They can steal my writing style, but not my humanity.

Also, I didn't know people still read my fics! I don't care how old a fic is, if you're rereading it and enjoying it, don't be shy, leave a comment to let me know 💙💙💙

and on another note, I really hope that one day legislators will make laws concerning copyright and AI. At the end of the day, if somebody uses AI to create a shitty X-reader fic or whatever for themselves, I don't care. But if somebody actually published an AI generated work and was making money off of something they didn't actually write? That would bother me. Same thing for art and animation. I don't want people to get paid for work they told a machine to make for them, especially since it will ruin the job market for writers, artists, and animators. Hopefully one day we'll have laws saying AI-generated material cannot be copyrighted, so creative jobs will be protected from getting replaced by machines that regurgitate stolen work.

[alexanderwales]

The Current WIP List

Inspired by this post by @a-memory-a-distant-echo, this is a list of ongoing works-in-progress, where "in progress" I will define as "I have added at least one sentence in the last year as an indicator of actual mental load being used". This does not include worldbuilding or planning documents, which spring up like weeds. I am also including the ones that I get paid for via Patreon or publication deals or whatever.

Thresholder is my currently ongoing web serial, publishing two chapters a week (in theory ...). It's about a guy who travels between worlds and fights other people who travel between worlds, with each world being a relatively contained book. Currently about 750K words.

Doomsday Pivot! is, in theory, the follow-up to Thresholder, about a start-up that has to make a sudden change in plans when the end of the world gives everyone a character class. First book is rough draft complete but needs some responses to developmental editing, sitting at 104K words. (You can read a noncanonical first chapter here, which I had previously made public on my discord.)

Millennial Scarlet is a webcomic I write about a gig-economy demon hunter. Writing comics is awesome, mostly because I get to see my words come to life. In word count ... I'm not sure right now, but probably not all that much. In the middle of writing the fourth issue right now.

Glimwarden was a web serial that I abandoned, a black mark on my record. I intend to go back to it at some point, because it was my wife's favorite. You can read it up to the point where it was abandoned here. There are currently ~3 unreleased chapters, but most of the effort put into it has been rewriting it and bringing it up to snuff, as well as fixing some problems with it. Will get a relaunch at some point, probably, when I'm ready to commit to that. No idea on the word count.

Untitled Dance Magic story is probably a short story, currently ~5K words. It's based around a magic system where people do ballroom dance to create architecture, and is a somewhat traditional romance and/or coming of age story. I started writing it on a whim after a conversation with @etirabys at LessOnline, and hopefully they haven't started their own story, and hopefully if they have, hopefully their story doesn't overlap mine. I'll check before posting, hoping to get this one finished and out there.

Kensuke Fucks the World is an existentialist horror erotic novel, which I describe as being "like the Erogamer, but sad". Currently 75K words, and might never see the light of day. I think I can wrap it up in another 25K words, but I think it needs a lot of work.

Long Stairs will probably be novella length in its finished form, and will probably not be finished. It's an old story, which predates Worth the Candle by a few months, and is about a military fireteam making a routine delve into an endless shifting dungeon that the US military has already pulled a lot of magic out of. Medics with clerical healing, wands and firearms, high fantasy and military. There's unfortunately some stuff in there that I cannibalized for WtC that needs to be changed so it's not a repeat, but nothing structural, and there are a lot of plot beats that I enjoy in both the 15K words that are already written and what's in the notes. I did not put a bunch of work into this one, but it was one of those cases where I was reading through old stuff and got enough of a head of steam that it latched onto me again. (I also don't know enough about the military or how to write that kind of stuff, which is one of the reasons that this fic never got my full attention.)

The Lot is a story that's basically just "the backrooms, but with cars". It think it was inspired by a tumblr post, but probably won't be finished, since it's probably novella length. Currently 9K words, more a character study than it is about people stuck in an infinite parking lot and scrounging off what they can find in glove compartments.

Kitchen Sink is a bureauporn/bureaupunk novel about the agency created to deal with the rise of mutants circa 1977. Currently a mere 9K words, but the plan was for each successive part of the book to focus on another genre being discovered by the department, so you'd get a book with wizards, with vampires, with aliens, etc., mostly with a focus on how these are handled on an administrative level. No way I would ever be able to sell it, unfortunately.

Robot Team Isekai (not its real title) is about a van full of kids on their way to a robotics team meet that get transported to another world where their individual specialties grant them awesome abilities in a "your hyperfixation makes you perfectly adapted to the fantasy world" kind of way, but for five people with different hyperfixations. 2K words, probably will never see the light of day.

Full Meta vol. 2 is a novel about a group of high school students who get metafiction powers, so like ... one girl gets the ability to read the text of the novel they're in whenever someone is engaging in exposition, one guy can read the flashbacks, someone can read all the romance scenes or whatever, and they have a dysfunctional time dealing with each other through college and into adulthood. I fully recognize that calling it "Full Meta vol. 2" when no first volume exists is a gimmick title and would be confusing enough to immediately turn people away.

Dark Wizard of Donkerk was an old NaNo novel, but got halfway dev edited before my dev editor on that one flaked. I think it's a good story, just a matter of getting into the guts of it and making it great, but that takes time. 173K words, but this is old old. If you like rough, unpolished creative output, you can read it on my website.

Untitled Hermione/Draco fanfic is, uh ... I guess according to the logs was something that I put effort into in late 2023. I have read vanishingly little HP fanfic, and I'm sure there's a ton of this stuff, and that some of it is even good. This one doesn't adhere too much to canon or fanon, and is mostly about trying to write a realistic racist who falls in love with someone he's racist against. 14K words, I cannot believe I added anything to this recently, but apparently I have.

Technically by the criteria set out, I should count all seven of the NaNo test chapters I wrote. Of those, the only ones that have retained any brain space are "The Inevitable Return of Nathaniel Greene" and "Dungeon Core".

There are a few more that are technically outside the arbitrary time limit of one year, but I'm going to include them because I have thought about them in the last year (and will not include the ones that I have not thought about).

Of Witches and Wizards is what I thought was a romance but was told does not fit the apparently pretty exacting mold of a "romance novel". It's about a widowed witch whose two sons have left for college and a wizard who travels the world writing about places for a travel guide. They fall in love. Tons of worldbuilding stuff as they visit different cities and see the breadth and beauty of magic in the world. 15K words right now, was going to be a nice and slender novel.

Eager Readers in Your Area was a short story I wrote a year and a half ago. The WIP is a novel-length version of that about ... art, artists, AI art, dealing with people online, and a bunch of other stuff. I wrote an outline I thought was quite good, but if the short story is the first chapter, then I want an equally good and tight second chapter, and that's hard to do.

Slaver Slayer (not final title) was about a slave who assassinates a high-ranking member of the kingdom and through an oversight gets a magical artifact that might possibly let her kill her way through the monarchy in an attempt to end the institution of slavery. The other protagonist is a detective who's grappling with his complicity in the system and is trying to stop her. Made it to 13K words. Another one of those that was outlined to be a nice tight novel.

[atropinenightshade]

For context about the ATOTE and the fic I temporarily quit

For those who were wondering about the fic (doubt it made any difference tbh) that I just deleted content about here, it was Masquerade of Life and Death.

Honestly, it was causing so much negativity for me I just started getting frustrated with posting and publishing. It only ever got traction on Ao3.

It was something I really enjoyed planning out but just noticed it would not get the same reception as ATOTE. Like I would test post and ATOTE would get more notes. Sometimes it didn't even take an hour.

I also had other ideas and such but now I don't feel like posting them anymore and I may push back the publication and writing of my ones hots and perhaps Family Means Fate.

I was starting to get really resentful of ATOTE which is ridiculous because it's my own fanfiction that I wrote myself. That's when it started going too far, and if necessary I will take down other writing and just shut up about it. My original stories, whatever.

I suppose it wasn't fair to other readers that I was pushing other stories and not the one they wanted, the one they are waiting and waiting for. And before you say "you write for yourself" I'll just say: fuck that! I'm sorry for the language, but I'm being honest. I would not publish anything if this was completely for myself. I am sharing this with others. And I have to respect what they want, otherwise I would probably lose followers by my own fault.

And if there was anything wrong in my other stories and you still want them, then just let me know what was so bad about them. If I have to keep deleting shit and restarting over and over again just to have it as good as ATOTE, then I will!

But yeah for now I'm just sick of it and I'm almost of the point of quitting. After ATOTE, I'm so tempted just to not upload anymore. Probably I won't do that though.

So this affects other things: Family Means Fate is on hold, and those one shots are indefinitely not going to be finished, written, or published. Sorry to the few people who wanted this. There's ALWAYS ATOTE waiting. 🙄

[princesscolumbia]

So a small sidebar to all the everything I'm doing, I'm kinda using "Code of Ethics" to function as a bit of a warm-up for producing original fiction that will sell under the 'self-publishing' model. I'd eventually like to be able to get a full publishing deal for something, but that won't happen until I can show off my writing chops in a non-fanfic level of writing.

(Just to reassure my fans of my Ranmafics and Horsefics, no, I have not abandoned writing any of those)

With that in mind, I've had a few projects that aren't fanfic based sitting in my "to write" pile that I haven't gotten to because I was operating under the notion that nobody would read my stuff if I wasn't writing fanfics. Well, CoE is damn near the closest to fully original fanfic I've ever written. Sure, I use QuietVallerie's framework and foundation for it, but I've got completely original characters (I've MENTIONED some names in the other Troubleverse books, but if I were to swap those out this would be a fully 'ties-cut' original fic from the character standpoint), a VRMMO setting that I'm stitching together from whole cloth and a lot of inspiration from a game QuietVallerie doesn't even play, and the ending isn't dependent on anything QuietValerie's doing whatsoever. She's even acknowledged that most of her work is blatantly 'inspired' by other sci-fi works, so even if all I did was change a few names it'd be a wholly original fic that simply drew from the same inspirational sources for Troubleverse.

That said, I want to keep CoE a firmly Troubleverse fic. Not only would I like to someday (hopefully, wishful thinking, please-please-please-please-please!!!) be granted 'canon' status by QV, I dislike the notion that I should divorce MY stuff from its origin just to make a little cash. The people that are reading CoE are doing so because I set it up as a Troubleverse fic, attempting to divorce my work from that franchise after I've gained a following would be disingenuous at best.

So all that brings me to my first (public) foray into original fiction. I've decided I'll be posting to the following with a 1-week gap when I publish a chapter, and I'll be aiming for 1 chapter per week:

Patreon

Scribblehub

Archive of Our Own

And what, you may ask, will be my first project? I put the choice to my most important audience in all the multiverse; my daughter. From the available options I gave her, she picked...

Goldrush, CO

Over a century after its establishment as a 'company town' for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the town of Goldrush, Colorado was finally sold off "at cost" to the town citizens, fully separating them from the agency that jumped the shark during the union busting of the 1900s. The town has secrets, starting with the biggest one of all; Goldrush was founded as a 'dumping grounds' for the weird and unwelcome. From dumb artifacts that can control the weather (and corrupt the user) to steampunk androids to a pod of selkies, if the Pinkertons were hired to investigate and dispose of it and it was in some way 'supernatural,' then it went to Goldrush. Now that the town's independent, they still have an entire warehouse district of artifacts and paraphernalia that doesn't officially exist that needs to be stored and managed, so the town hires a logistics specialist. Lois is a woman who's just looking to start over after a nasty divorce that was followed by the tragic death of her ex-wife. So she packed her bags and moved to Goldrush from San Diego in hopes of immersing herself in the history of the unusual town to forget her own tragic history. If only she could do her job without bumping heads with the (unreasonably attractive, built like a Valkyrie from myth and legend, frustratingly stubborn) town sheriff the new job would be perfect.

If you're picking up shades of "Warehouse 13" and (more subtly) "Mystic Bayou," I've done my job in selling this right.

June will be all about finishing CoE as quickly as possible (while still maintaining the quality I demand of myself) so I can clear the decks and focus on doing as much with Goldrush, CO during July as I can before I start releasing on Patreon in August.

I'm excited about this, I hope you are, too!

[nontoxic-writes]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

thanks so much @cha-melodius and @stereopticons for the tags! i am very late on this but also i mostly use tumblr on mobile and they make it impossible to copy & paste these things lol

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

18! it feels like it should be less though, i swear ive only written like five

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

288,090. Let's not talk about the word count of my wip folder.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now, Red, White and Royal Blue. I have a couple Top Gun wips I still hope to publish and I used to write for Schitt's Creek.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I'd Swing With You for the Fences (Schitt's Creek, E, 87k; celeb/baseball AU)

Even If it's Just Pretend (RWRB, E, ongoing; exes-to-fake-dating-to-lovers canon divergence)

You and My Hometown (Schitt's Creek, E, 38k, holiday exes/fwb AU)

I'll Keep Your Brittle Heart Warm (Schitt's Creek, E, 13k, sequel oneshot to ISWYFTF)

A Simple Complication (Schitt's Creek, E, 8k, fwb singles week AU)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yep! I am behind from a couple fics but I've been responding on my current multichap and i WILL one day catch up, even if it'll be two years late.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I haven't written a single angsty ending lol

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Currently, I'd say You and My Hometown just because it's the angstiest complete fic I have and the end goes a few years ahead in their happily ever after.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Yeah sometimes. A couple backhanded compliments, too. Sometimes I wish people would just stop reading it, and if they feel like they have to finish, at least stop commenting if they're not liking it.

Also like... authors can see your public bookmarks. If you're gonna be even vaguely disparaging in there... maybe click the "private bookmark" checkbox.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I don't consider myself a smut writer, because I tend to think of smut as a separate genre, if that makes sense? I definitely write some smutty scenes, but I don't write pwp or smut for smut's sake (thank you to those of you who do, truly doing the lord's work).

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I don't, but there is a Descendants AU in my Schitt's WIP folder lmfao.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No, thank god.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but that would be so lovely!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I have written as part of a group project where we each wrote a chapter: The Blouse Barn Divorce Ranch.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

It honestly is probably firstprince. I've been so in love with them for four years, the book truly changed my life.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

The Schitt's Creek superhero AU. When I tell you that the plot twist I had planned for that was gonna be so good... RIP.

Also my Schitt's Creek apocalypse AU that I had written the beginning and ending for and could never get the middle right ugh.

Also also my Top Gun wrong number sexting WIP.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Working in canon elements. Which, maybe I should focus on plot and characters instead if I ever want to publish original work whoops.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptions. I don't visualize when I read, so I never really bother with mundane descriptions when I write. I need to remember some readers do need those details when reading, even if I don't.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I won't do it unless it's something I can run by a native speaker.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I honestly don't even know. Maybe Buffy?

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Even If it's Just Pretend. It's been such a labor of love and some of my absolute favorite lines are in it.

But also the Schitt's Creek Penelope AU, The Rumors Are Terrible and Cruel. I love Penelope so much and weaving that in with some of my favorite characters was such a blast. I wish more people had read it lol.

Okay like I said, I'm super late to this, so no idea who has done this yet. Tagging @lilythesilly, @maxbegone, @roseapothecary and @kiwiana-writes just in case any of yall haven't done it!

[fitzrove]

Writer Asks

Tagged by @yallemagne (thank you<3) ages and ages ago... Inspired to answer because I just published a fic and feel good about it hjejejfjj

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Undisclosed amount xD I've put a bunch on anon, especially from fandoms I'm not active in anymore (lbr, mostly Endeavour). Publically, it's 26 rn.

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

212040!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Elisabeth, hopefully in the future Tanz der Vampire (I've been thinking about it for like five years), in the past Endeavour (TV).

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

They're all Endeavour because those are older and in a (slightly) bigger fandom... Unfortunately I think they're not the best ones I've written, a lot of them were when I was 18 (no offense to 18 year olds) and had just started writing fanfic ajajjjd. Which is why the top 5 are on anon except for one LOL. I really do think kudos doesn't tend to accumulate "correctly" xD People like familiar tropes and time of posting also affects it, there are many fics of mine I consider "underrated"

My top five kudosed Elisabeth fics are: black as the earth (shortened title), Flights of Angels (todolf longfic), Dominion, Midnight Man & Starwalk. tbh deserved...

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, I try to respond to every single one of them so people will hopefully comment in the future too, especially if they're kind, funny or thought-provoking!!! However, I delete them if I don't like them or they're weird, boundary-crossing or TMI ahdjfjjf (has happened a handful of times - the joys of writing explicit stuff lol. PSA: do not tell fic authors about your sexual activities in the comments, i do not consent...)

6. What's the fic you wrote that has the angstiest ending?

I often do bittersweet, or "sweet but also has Implications" >:] Oh and I guess there's a lot of them where Rudolf dies at the end... I think the actual angstiest might be No Forevers (Endeavour fic) even though nobody dies in that one. Though I ruined it by writing a sequel to it, after the showrunner wrote one of the characters back into the show after like 10 years xD In my defense, this wasn't my idea!!!

7. What's the fic you wrote that has the happiest ending?

Beams of Morning (Endeavour). I retconned one of my own DIY bittersweet endings whoops... 🤣🤣😭 It's sappy, even, but maybe that's allowed. For elisabeth it's Flights of Angels because the happiest happy endings are ones that feel deserved.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

No - I've gotten hate for my headcanons/meta and my video essays though (never to my face ;D) which can be fic adjacent. I guess it's because there's a better tagging system with fic, like, people won't be exposed to stuff they don't want to see as readily as with tumblr and youtube etc. And people also know how to leave other ppl alone!! Ajdjjfjf

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes. The unpleasantly sexy kind 👀

10. Do you write crossovers?

Noooo, I don't really read them either. The kinds of crossovers I like are the ones that are crossovers "in name only"; ie. setting or tropes lifted from one work, characters/cast from another. Wildly incongruent characters showing up in each other's universes and interacting etc doesn't fit into my suspension of disbelief most of the time 😭

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Luckily no!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but I once helped someone translate theirs into English, which was cool. Oh, and recently I've been asked for permission to translate at least one of my fics - I hope it happens because it's always an honor!! >:]

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I've collaborated on series, but I haven't co-written stuff on a deeper level. I think I'm too much of a control freak to get into it ajsdjjf, I can do stuff inspired by other people and am happy if my stuff inspires other people, but if I need to agree on plot/characterisation with someone consistently I don't think it'd work out, since no two people have identical takes and preferences with stories and characters.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

For around 2.5 years it's been todolf, it captures a lot of stuff I've liked in fiction for a longer time already >:D I can't really say whether it will be the Ship of a Lifetime for me... I mean it did make me move countries (as one reason of a few) but if someone asked me in the summer of 2016 I would've probably said [checks ao3 reading history] um. h*milton x j*fferson... so like. IT CHANGES A LOT OK ajajsjdj

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but don't think you ever will?

I don't want to doom any of my current wips to the graveyard!!!!!! I am having worries about the fate of my todolf swan lake modern ballet au fic though. The original draft outline is complete but it doesn't really fit my character interpretations for tod or rudolf anymore, it's from january 2022... Idk maybe I can one day rework it somehow with different characterisations ajsjdjf but yeah mostly it's interesting concepts haphazardly tied together but no coherent plot

16. What are your writing strengths?

Imagination/coming up with ideas, metaphors, descriptions (usually), grammar and syntax, writing crown prince rudolf really well (XDD), rhythm/pacing (usually), the way it Sounds (my brain sometimes fixates on phonetics randomly because after all, English is not my first language, and sometimes there'll be like, a really pleasing/satisfying combination of sounds in smth I think to write and I think I'm good at picking up on that, like how it flows and sounds. Idk if those preferences are universal though or if it's just me writing what I think sounds pleasing)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Writing varied characters, writing varied speech patterns/"character voice" also in narration, vocabulary.... I am but a humble English as a second technically third language speaker,,,, (i'm doing an english language grad school degree rn lol so i think i'm no worse than natives, not humble abt this actually, but i'm on the level of like. a not so well-read native speaker. Because most actual fiction literature I've read in my life has been in Finnish, in English I've just read academic literature, fanfic and like 10 books max! I need to read more and become a better writer ahhdhhdhf)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

No... Dialogue is a big no from me, it often feels cringe ngl ajsjdjdj. My personal philosophy is "if you need a translator's note for people to understand what's going on, don't put it in" 😅 A lot of the time different languages are also used in fic in nonsensical ways where it will look ok to a lot of people but bother the hell out of native speakers/ppl who speak the language. This is smth that can technically be done well but it's usually not aksldlldd. I think pet names and individual words can be fine but it needs to be done in moderation... I also obsess a lot over research, like, the nuances of the word need to actually mean what the author thinks it means :'D

19. First fandom you wrote for?

First published for Endeavour, first wrote for H*rry P*tter... (never-to-be-published fan comics and little stories as a young kid, like 8 years old).

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Right now it's vers l'onde souterraine... ;) I think I'm constantly improving as a writer and hopefully every fic will be better than the last!!

[rockinlibrarian]

This is already a very long post but I am fired up.

It's funny (ie not funny at all) how much of this resonates on a broader political level, especially now, when I just saw the List of Words Federal Officials Are No Longer Allowed to Use In Federal Documents According to the Executive Branch (as published in the New York Times, not Fake News) on Bluesky.

Okay, look at those words. Seriously. Someone doesn't like those words, and is trying to make it Everyone's problem.

You can try to say "Oh, but MY list of Problematic Words is ACTUALLY bad," but it doesn't work! Because Someone says the same thing about THAT list of words! You can't draw the line!

So, looking at AO3: I am someone who does not like smut. I won't write it, and I'll only read it if I can tell from the summary there's actual plot and the characters are in character and it's also my OTP whom I can't get enough of (and who also incidentally happens to be "problematic"). AO3 has so many built in ways to avoid it! I can filter out "E" works! I can read the tags and summaries! I never have to read a fic I don't want to read! I'm not going to stop anybody else from posting those fics (especially if they tag them properly)! Because ironically, loads of people whose bread-and-butter is E-rated smut think MY G-or-T-rated OTP fics are Messed Up (and Should Be Banned) because they're between adoptive siblings. But you know what? I tag for that, too! So THEY don't have to read MINE! (Much as it breaks my heart :P)

So take that a step out of AO3 then. Look at a public library. Recently a colleague of mine asked if a picture book about a kid going to a Pride parade with their moms should be in J (Juvenile, chapter books and such) instead of E (Easy, picture books) because the "Content was a little above E." The Content was NOT above E (ironically, "E" means the exact opposite in public libraries than it does on AO3). It was written smack dab FOR young children, and I said so. It's only NOT for young children if YOU PERSONALLY don't want to admit to young children that things such as Pride parades exist, or that some kids even have two moms. But there's a kid out there who DOES have two moms and may want to see their own experiences in a book. If YOU don't agree, that's a You problem, and you can't tailor a public library the way you can tailor your own personal book collection, because it's not just about You. It's for EVERYBODY. Just tell your kid who pulls it off the shelf, "Nah, I don't really like this, let's find something else," which I may personally think is dumb, but you have the right to do, and I DO hear parents say things like this all the time! What you DON'T have the right to do is demand that NO ONE have access to a book (or even that it be put in a section where it doesn't belong-- imagine if AO3 demanded I had to put my non-smutty ship fics in "E"--in this case "Explicit"-- just because of the "problematic" nature of the ship itself, when there's absolutely nothing Explicit in any of my fics) because YOU don't want to read it!

So now we're reaching yet another step in the evolution of censorship, where the Government demands its employees stop using the word "diversity" -- DIVERSITY!-- just because to the people in charge it evokes Something They Don't Like.

It's all a logical progression. So stop it. Freedom of Information means Freedom for ALL.

god keep ur fucking kink meme shit out of ao3 tag y'all make this fandom even more insufferable than it already is and thats saying something!!! The kind of shit y'all post require a fucking trigger warning it doesnt belong in a safe space

[sisterclement]

I will beta read your fan fiction (for free)!

DM me a little pretend query letter about your fic, and if I'm picking up what you're putting down, I'll beta read for you (more details below the cut)!

WILL READ:

up to 5k words of your fic a month (might remove that cap if I really enjoy it)

English only

any fandom (don't expect me to lore check for a world I know nothing about tho)

smut (TERMS APPLY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, honestly if it squicks me out I'll just drop the fic)

most platforms that you might put fan fiction on, i.e. AO3, ff.net, wattpad, DeviantArt, Tumblr, even fuckin,, quotev, why the hell not?

WILL NOT READ:

rpf, sorry =/

works with ~certain~ archive warnings, or works that would have those ~certain~ warnings if they were on AO3 (guess which ones lol) (actually don't, just ask me) (and honestly I can be flexible about it depending on the actual content)

particularly hateful or bigoted content

CONDITIONS

I reserve the right to reject your fic ANY reason. I may reject it during the query phase. I may reject it after the query phase, especially if I find your description was lacking important details that violate my terms, nebulous though they are. I may drop your fic from the roster if personal circumstances necessitate it (though, I will try not to do that without good reason). I'm doing this in my free time because it's fun, and I am not required to finish reading something if I don't want to.

If I do accept and beta read your fic, I reserve the right to deny a request for publicity (see third bullet point of next section).

Also, I was joking when I said I would be your friend. Please don't message this account for any reason that is not querying or discussing your fic. Obviously that's not the most hard and fast rule, but like don't be telling me about your dog or whatever, even if they're really, really, really cute.

I will only beta read a total of 25k words a month, OR take 5 submissions a month, whichever limit gets hit first. to better your chances, try to submit less than 5k words (this does not mean your entire fic needs to be under 5k for me to accept it; it just means that the portion of your work that I'm willing to read each month will likely be under 5k words). I am happy to have regulars, but I will also try to allow for at least one or two new people to get beta'd each month. However, the final monthly roster will ultimately be decided by whatever I feel like reading the most.

I will not share your work in anyway without your permission. I may ask for permission to put a record of the suggestions I make (pdf copy of your submission with track changes or suggest mode edits visible) into my freelance editing and proofreading portfolio. You absolutely have the right to say no.

Lastly, you are under ABSOLUTELY no obligation to implement any of my suggestions! I'm just one person with one perspective and one one set of opinions. You're free to ignore whatever I say.

SERVICES

I can:

review your work for grammar and spelling errors. suggestions can be made through google doc comments, google doc suggest mode, or microsoft word track changes. if you would prefer some other method, let me know and we'll see about it.

review your work for continuity issues (within the fic, not necessarily within canon)

promote your fic by posting an excerpt or reblogging whatever kind of announcement you post (COMPLETELY optional; if either us don't want that, it doesn't have to happen)

I won't:

directly edit the text of your fic (unless you want me to)

tell you what to write, or what direction to take your fic in (unless you want me to)

comment on the "quality" of your writing (unless you want me to)

otherwise give feedback that was not explicitly asked for

HOW TO QUERY (I'm calling it that because I want to work in publishing so I'm larping about it)

DM me. Your first message should be in this EXACT format (unless you have a burning question that simply must be answered before the query proper):

Title Fandom(s) Author name (if different from tumblr handle) Length of submission (this number should be the one under 5k) Genre/vibe, i.e. humor, angst, fluff (you can treat this bit like tags but you get THREE MAX) Expected length type, i.e. one shot, long fic, multi-chapter, etc. OPTIONAL: Estimated final word count (if you're not sure, you can also tell me how many chapter you expect to write and we can work with that) BRIEF summary (less than 100 words)

after that first message, you can either send a second message with <500 word excerpt from the fic pasted in, or a link to your draft (of which i will probably read about 500 words before coming to a decision)

I will message you back, hopefully within a week, with my decision

If you want query anonymously, that's totally okay

You may also fill out this google form instead of DMing

Example: