Something I really don't understand is that while I expressly write self indulgent fics for myself, at the same time, basically every fic of mine consists of things that I typically avoid while reading others' fics ??? I don't understand how my fics are simultaneously my exact taste while also being not my taste at all. I am the change I want to see in the fandom. Yet also not.

Ex. My personal standards for my own fics is that there HAS to be some illustration or it will feel incomplete. Yet I usually don't like art in fics at all. Another is that I basically only write really niche AUs, yet I almost always prefer to read canon based fics > AUs, and honestly often avoid AUs. (It reminds me of how a friend assumed I must LOVE historical AUs, cause I had a long running one myself, but I told them, no I actually avoid those completely LOL.)

Does anyone else deal with this or am I just weird????? I'm honestly just very grateful though that there are still people who do like my fics regardless of my own odd preferences 😭

So, I recently decided to visit the fandom I got into like 10 years ago. Since I Ao3 wasn’t that big of a deal back then, in order to read some fics for this fandom, I dusted off my ancient Wattpad account and went searching through my fic history and scouring the app for some new ones.

And man, it’s so strange to see how fans weren’t afraid to be genuinely weird back then. I saw teenage writers casually shipping themselves with adult characters, introducing their OCs in between the one shot chapters, doing challenges, once again, in the middle of the stories, and so on and so forth.

Nowadays, normie fandom posers would 1) ridicule those writers to hell and back on social media and 2) scream and virtue signal about “pedophilia” etc.

While fandom culture as a whole getting bigger did attract more attention to many wonderful and fun stories written by fans, it’s a shame that because of stan twitter rejects, engagement farmers and other kinds of posers hopping on a bandwagon, this sort of genuine, unapologetic and fun cringeness is almost extinct in the modern fandom as a whole.

okay, right now I am writing a fic (as we all do), but even after a lot of time writing this fic, i still can not come up with a name for it. like i genially don't know how to come up with one. Any types?

aka what delusional beliefs have you had about a certain situation, relationship, etc. that felt like a fanfic?

I remember the fic having adam smasher, three V's and a bunch of others killing a lot of raffen shiv for a gig and then immediately getting ambushed by Kang Tao corpo soldiers. I think the shiv were protecting faraday or something.

Let’s do one of these today

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Because I know y’all have this whole war going on and whatnot but dragons were thought to be extinct for the last few hundred years up until about 5 minutes ago, and now the biggest, meanest of them all is attacking US. ALL OF US. RIGHT NOW. Can you guys please LOCK IN.

Whether the initial cooperation during Alduin’s attack on Helgen carries forward at all or stops immediately after the crisis is cleared isn’t really relevant. I just really wanna read something where these knuckleheads are forced to use their common sense.

Mine are a how to train your dragon Antarctica AU, the riders are Modern day researchers living on a base in Antarctica with their pets. Toothless is a Norwegian forest cat with his own ski goggles.

Ttte riders AU, the engines are now humans with horses. There’s currently an ongoing lawsuit against two canon characters and both decided to represent themselves. It’s so derived that the only thing in common with the source material is story beats, character names, and personality. But at least everyone is in character.

Plus it gives me an excuse to infodump about horses.

I recently learned about whump, and I'm not sure I entirely understand it yet. But it sounds like maybe I could add it as a tag to a certain fic of mine (I'm always on the lookout for new tags to add to my fics). From what I found, it's when a character is put through a lot of suffering. Related tags being Angst and Hurt/Comfort or even Hurt/No Comfort. But at what point does it turn into Whump?

Here are the things the character will go through...

The mental trauma of being ripped away from her home and everything she knew.

Being poisoned and almost dying.

Being kidnapped and beaten, receiving broken bones in the process.

The mental anguish of believing she is the reason someone close to her died.

Watching an innocent man die.

An attempted kidnapping that leads to her having suicidal thoughts.

Another kidnapping that is successful, and results in SA.

She gets away from her captors and throws herself off of a cliff to do so, choosing death rather than what they would do to her.

Injuries resulting from falling into a river from so high up.

So, does this fit the Whump tag? Or is it too much, too little, or not the right type of thing altogether? There are other things, but these I would say are the biggest. Curious about your thoughts, thank you!

(yeah, there are several kidnapping ploys... it's something I enjoy writing and I swear it makes sense with the right context for it to happen 3 times)

I have seen people say on the subreddit that you can get new documents to upload to FFN via the mobile app, and you can; it's just really annoying.

I logged into the mobile app and made a new document with the title of my fic and the chapter number. I then added it to the mobile app, but instead of writing anything in it, I just wrote "Test" so there would be a word in it. I was able to save a new document, and it did show up when I went to look at it in the web browser. So yes, it does work, but I wouldn't recommend writing inside the mobile app. Just put "Test" and then paste your writing on FFN under the new document works. I hope they fix it so the web browser will let you upload text. While the workaround still works on mobile, I wish they would fix the site, but it's still broken when you look at the stats page.

Hi hi! First time posting here. I've been writing my first long fic for the last several months, and I'm getting to a place where I'm close to being ready to publish the first chapter. I wanted to write the whole thing before posting, so I'm at 50k words right now.

But thinking about posting it, I feel a lot of anxiety and feel that my characters aren't well thought-out, I've taken a lot of creative liberties (Like characters are aged differently than they usually are, example, instead of being a few years apart, they are the same age), and just feel like no one will even care about what I wrote (not that that should matter). I guess I feel like my writing is quite immature and the first chapters I wrote a few months ago feel like the wrong tone/vibe completely. I like some of my later sections, and I'm worried no one would even read far enough to get to those parts.

My ship is very popular on AO3, and I see on twitter a lot of fics getting attention, and I just feel like mine is so unimportant compared to theirs. I understand comparison isn't helpful, but I would feel so embarrassed even posting about my fic on X to promote it, because of course it would be fun to have readers and people appreciate my work, but the idea of my mutuals seeing it and judging it makes me so anxious.

This fic means so much to me and I'm worried my perception of it would change if I post it and people comment something negative or if it got no response whatsoever.

I was wondering, did any authors feel this way when posting your first fic? Any advice for how to feel more confident about posting?

Any perspectives and advice would be very much appreciated!

The title speaks for itself, but for those of you who don't know what a fanfix is, a fanfix is a type of fanfiction that basically is the writer's version of how they would want an arc to go or a character to be developed. This can be for any fandom, so long as you believe that it could have been done better.

And follow up question- if the perspective does change, would you prefer it to change halfway through, or alternate each chapter?

I'm just starting to write a slow burn fic where the romance is the main focus, and it took me so long to decide which character's perspective to write from (FYI I write in third person, but like from an over-the-shoulder POV). Eventually, I've decided to start with one character's perspective, and then change it around halfway through. The change will coincide with a pretty major canon event that drastically alters one of the character's lives, so I think it's quite fitting narratively.

The reason I wanted to change it up is because I was worried about missing out on something if we only got one character's perspective, if that makes sense? Especially because one of the characters has a tendency to hide his feelings a lot. I also really wanted to show how both of the characters feel about each other and I was worried I wouldn't be able to show that well enough if we didn't see both perspectives. However, I know it's totally possible to write an amazing slow burn with only one perspective, because I've read loads of fics for this pairing that do exactly that! Maybe I'm just not confident enough in my skills as a writer, haha.

At this point I'm not planning to change my decision. I also know that this is a personal preference so I'm not asking what people think is the 'best' way to do it- however, I'm just intrigued as to what people's preferences are, as it might influence the way I go about this in the future. Thanks! :))

Okay I have been searching ao3 for DAYS and I cannot for the life of me find this fic.

I remember Kirk and Spock are captured on an away mission or something and they’re in celebrate cells with bars between them (I think). Some something stuff happens (torture maybe???) and Kirk is like, dying and Spock like, brings Kirk’s mind into his own to keep him ‘alive’ even though his body is shutting down or something.

Fast forward a bit and they’re both stuck in Spock’s body, Kirk has realised that when Spock’s meditating Kirk can be ‘in charge’ while Spock’s not paying attention. Spock refuses to leave Jim’s body there so Kirk hijacks Spock while he’s meditating and gets them out.

They get back to the ship, they enterprise crew retries Jim’s body and bones fixes it up. BUT, Kirk’s mind can only inhabit his body while in physical contact with Spock so they need to fix this.

At some point I think Spock goes into pon farr and they have weird fun times messing around with Kirk controlling Spock’s body or something ??????

It ends with something but I don’t remember what, I feel like there was something about a bridge btwn Spock and Kirk’s minds but that might be unrelated. Anyways I desperately desire to read it again but I can’t find it anywhere so if u can help I’d MASSIVELY appreciate it (:

For whatever reason, the moment in your fic that got the biggest upset reaction from your readers (not just in a hated way, but also from like heavy angst and things like that).

I got this plot bunny last year, and I started working on it in ernest some time this year. I've learned my strength is one-shots, but this was a chaptered story. You know how it is with plot bunnies that won't leave you alone. Therefore, I was reading writing craft and resource books to learn more. I was still struggling mightily with the story.

Today, I had a major breakthrough. I was spitballing ideas for a title, saying different things outloud, and I came up with the best title. It's just so perfect that I can't believe it, and it ties everything in the story together. I was gushing over how much I love the title when I said, "The core of the story is about love." Bam! Breakthrough. I actually teared up since I had been struggling and the breakthough was so perfect and wonderful and now everything is falling into place. There are three loves (MC and the lack of love from his parents, the love between the MC and his husband, and the love the MC has for his yet-to-born daughter). What makes that more special is that those three loves fall into the usual three act arc of storytelling.

I can see a whole aerial view of the story now! Wow. The theme of love is perfect for me as a writer too. I can hardly believe this is where I am now with this WIP. I am just so proud, happy, and excited! I can't wait to write the whole story.

AO3- heated rivalry and RWRB

Looking for PDFS of deleted fics by the author “azraelriego” titled “Meant to be” and “Guilty as sin”.

I reallyyy loved these and was heartbroken to find out that these were taken down!! If you have these pdfs and their sequels and any other works by the author pls help!!! Thanks

Hii! I’m looking for well-written Bachira x Isagi fics, preferably longer slow burns that focus on their relationship! I’m open to AUs and canon-compliant fics, and I don’t mind angst. I just want an interesting story with good character development!🫶🏼

Does anyone else struggle with keeping fanfic versions of characters you like separate from the actual canon character?

As in, part of the reason why, despite loving writing and reading fanfic s, sometimes I steer clear of them it's that when I like my or someone else's fic a lot, I end up thinking about it very often (especially if it's my own since I have to come up with scenes), and I've noticed that sometimes it bleeds through the actual character to the point that when I hear someone talk about that character my mind goes to the fic version first and then the canon one.

This actually and honestly irritates me, because I don't like the canon character being overshadowed in my mind, plus sometimes when I'm watching/playing/reading the source material I have a hard time remembering this is the actual character I'm seeing and not the fic version.

(Since platonic I've heard has different meanings...)

Spider-Man and supernatural brothers fic inspo I saw this and I can’t get it out of my head but does anyone one know of a fic that reminds you of the image?