I know why they bailed here; it's where the dove dies. That being said the fic is heavily tagged and there's plenty of warning so. Just a rude ass person

I SWEAR 2027 will be my year, this can't go wrong in any way!

I will admit my guilt, indeed the characters are nothing like canon. In my defense I can only say… IT’S FUCKING FANFIC!

I’m probably just getting rage baited by some asshole kid with too much time in their hands, but this is the fifth comment along those lines I’ve gotten from guest accounts in the last 2 weeks since I started posting this fic. It’s just annoying the hell out of me.

Also, can I just say that, in the unlikely case this isn’t ragebait but actually serious, clicking on a fic that contains the tags ‘eventual smut’ and ‘shame kink’ and then complaining about “Motherfucker!” and “Fuck off, asshole.” (the literal only two instances of cursing in this particular chapter) is probably not the smartest decision? It’s gonna get a whole lot worse if you are this guy.

I guess it is annoying when it is like random slander irelevant for the "main story" (like random slander of the canon partner), but it's fanfic, the summary and tags usually tells you in what way will the characters be different. What I care about is if they sound like themselves on the 1% chance they are doing this.

Idk if they are in Reddit, and I love all the comments I get even the little “love this chapter” or sometimes just a “<3” they are special to me, but got this before going to bed and I felt that little sting of happy tears. Nothing better for a writer than when your reader feels your writing to the degree where they start theorizing and “breaking down” the plot.

Love to ALL the commenters out there on any story, no matter how big or small. And love to the lurkers in the shadows

(I still love the fic. The author is just so good at writing build up to smut then cutting to black that's it's making me go AHEHFHAHFBRUSJ. Still love the fic. Still gonna read it. God author, you're making me EXPLODE. GOD THE BUILD UP IS SO GOOD I RAH RAH RAH RAH)

Edit: I knew the scenes were gonna fade to black, I was fully aware going in. I just think the build up is sooooo good and I keep forgetting hence this meme.

I write multi-chaptered fics, one-shots, and drabbles. I was told that drabble collections aren't good because it makes it harder to filter and to make them as separate fics. However, I've seen people say that drabbles clog up the feed and makes an author's account look bigger than it actually is.

For people that are mainly reader's which one would you prefer?

It's listed as 1/? chapters. The blurred sections are the username of the author and their friend. Does this technically count as fannish enough to stay up? I'm on the fence.

The entire work as it is right now is pictured in image 1, totalling 80 words, so I think this is rather under the same blanket as prompt requests with no real chapters yet, yes?

So sorry if this has a really obvious answer either way, I've been intermittently lurking on Ao3 for years but only recently started engaging with it a lot.

I went to my fandoms page and didn't get a chance to filter things yet before my eye caught this. I mean... What? Ngl tho, I had to read it just to see wtf and not disappointed lol!

What tags have you found that made you double take or laugh?

hiii! not sure if this is the right subreddit to look for a skin butttt i was wondering if anyone had the css to either of these skins? i just saw them on twitter and both OPs didn’t post the css or links :,) thank uuu to anyone who can help!! <3

Heya!

So I've restarted writing recently after a long long time, (more than 15 years now). It feels like I'm doing something wrong, or my writing isn't upto the mark, story doesn't flow or maybe the dialogues aren't natural. Basically, a lot of anxiety over anything I write.

Now, I work in a profession that has a 180 to creative writing and I think its because I'm so used to my professional environment that I have lost confidence or flair in my literary skills. Any time I imagine a scenario and start writing, I feel like its bungled up and all over the place. Basically, not a good writing. Not helping my pursuit to be better.

My question is, How to get a feedback on your story/write-up/skills so you could polish it, know your mistakes ans work on them? Do you ask many of your friends to read through your work and give constructive criticism, or take help from an tools available on the internet, or is there a specific mindset to follow?

Please share your wisdom, everyone! (As you can already tell, I'm an introvert with performance anxiety 😄)

Es mi primera vez escribiendo fanfics y publicando en plataformas, pero mi primer lenguaje es el español y no hablo muy bien inglés. Primero pensé en escribir normal y después usar un traductor, pero muchas veces tienen errores, y leí por ahí que alguien usaba IA para traducir sus historias pero no me gustaría usar mi fic para entrenar una IA

Ustedes que harían: traducir con Google o publicar en español y que los lectores lo resuelvan jaja

I have a fic idea that I'm very much considering having an "it was all a dream" ending. I know that's a very controversial route but I feel like it's correct here, and the fic is set in Wonderland, so it's not totally off-theme.

But, since many people don't like it, I'm unsure wether or not I should tag it. On one hand I don't want people to read a fic I know they may hate the ending of, but on the other I feel like knowing it's a dream will change the entire way people read the fic and ruin it for people who would actually enjoy the twist or fic itself.

I recently was going through my usual ship pages, and there's one author that's very prevalent in this ship. I don't read all of their work because it's not personally my style, but it's a small ship so I'll occasionally dabble because they post probably most of anyone else.

I get into the comments of another work from like...two years ago where this author is just being weirdly rude and semantic with a person about not tagging right and how a scene should be tagged as non con (to be clear, this scene was from the OG source and DOES have predatory undertones but only in what it's a metaphor for, not in the act itself. There is no SA at all in this scene or this person's depiction of it, arguably tagging it non con would be misleading) I don't think I'd usually notice but it's just that this author has a fairly distinctive username and posts so frequently that I realised.

And I don't know, it just really put me off of all their work. Lack of content aside, I don't think I could read them now that I've seen that. It's not a massive deal but it's harassing other authors incorrectly and unfairly is just...ick.

Would something like that change how you view an author or your likelihood of reading their fics? Not the exact situation necessarily, but just author interactions and behaviour outside of their work

I wanted to hop on here and ask the AO3 community what you guys think about rpf or real person fiction.I wanted to ask more specifically the people who read rpf what the appeal is? I’ve had friends who’ve wrote rpf of band members/shipping band members and stuff i’ve read it to be supportive, but I just find it a tad bit odd treating members of a band or anyone real like fictional characters that have a love story and all that stuff. Also this is NOT hate nor slander to anyone who reads rpf just wanted to ask!!

I don’t know anyone in person who would do it, and I’m not really in many fandom spaces online. This will be my first published fic, so I’m trying to run it through at least one beta before I post.

What is the proper etiquette before dropping a 6k bdsm au gay smut in a fandom with less that <500 works and only 12 tags for said old man x old man ship???

asking for a friend!!??!

600 hits too?? OMGGGG

I am trying to filter a fic and the site keeps going completely white. Ive reloaded the url, restarted my phone and reopened new tabs but nothing is working. Anyone else experiencing this.

completely forgot I posted a fic on my account and came back to this amazing suprise 😭😭

I have this fic that I'm planning, and there's some major characters that only appear in the middle or near finale of the story. So I don't know if I should keep them hidden until they make their appearance and then add their tags, or if I should include them right from the start. I'm worried it might spoil things or make readers get tired of waiting too long for them to appear