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I'm so glad I live in a world where there's Archive of Our Own

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writing fanfiction is the most fun awesome thing on earth. also terrible horrible awful one thousand agonies

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This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes

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do u ever get a comment on a fic thats just so sweet that ur like Maybe slaving over 24k of fanfiction was worth it for user SprinkleTrashcan2012 to leave a three paragraph comment

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so when doctor octopus wants to go by doc ock it's fine but when i, doctor cockroach,

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I made this to call myself out but please feel free to hold up a mirror if you need one also.

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there’s wip (active development) and wip (stuck in development hell) and wip (oh you’re not even getting funding for this one)

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one day you too could be a fanfic author who updates a decade later

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'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

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it’s so true that the greatest weapon against nihilism and existential despair is to find joy in the mundane and never stop chasing after love

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"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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I see a man (fictional), I am generally like "okay". I see the same man (fictional) being put in a situation, covered in dirt and blood, perhaps soaking wet, actively sobbing and shaking like a chihuahua, and I am saying "yay" and "yippee" and things of this nature

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bucky has a disability??

he doesn’t have an arm.

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writing is so fun

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you really can write whatever you want