Like, I know the reputation and stereotype, but I personally don't think it's as heinous a crime as people make it out to be.

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5. Upvote other excerpts you enjoy, and leave a friendly comment. Again, everyone likes nice comments!
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Y’all PLEASE help put my friend and I out of our misery bc we’re starting to think it doesn’t exist 😩 We were doing a rewatch of TWD and came across the alpha/omega group, which sparked this discussion for the millionth time now.

Plot:
A while back there was this fanfic with omega Rick grimes and both Merle and Daryl were alphas. My best friend says it started with them driving to the hospital for supplies only to find Rick there, who happens to be an omega. I remember Merle actually being a decent guy there and they were quite physically affectionate with Rick. I think they took Rick back to camp where he realized Lori and Shane are having an affair, and we’te pretty sure there was Lori bashing. She swears there was a scene with Rick and Daryl in a tent where he’s in heat, and Merle was guarding them from the rest of the group? Or something like that? Pretty sure Glenn was a beta but had an omega family member and so understood Rick better than the rest.

I believe it was a decently short fanfic but she’s been going out of her mind trying to find it! I could’ve sworn it was on AO3 originally.

Any help is appreciated! Feel free to drop some recs of anything similar as well!

I'm currently working on a fic and having a hard time deciding whether to post it (to ao3) as a multi-chap, a series, or some combination of the two.

Some considerations:

• The fic follows two characters over a span of about 35 years
• Each chapter is more like a vignette in the sense that in most cases you could read a chapter without reading the one before it and not be too lost or confused
• The ratings for each chapter will vary widely, from G up to E
• The main community hub (a discord server) for the fandom is all-ages, there is no linking to explicit content allowed

This sounds like an obvious candidate for a series, right? Especially in terms of sharing my work with the community. But in my head, this is one complete work/story, not a series of smaller stories connected together. The fandom is tiny (fewer than 100 fics on ao3, and most aren't in English), so there aren't exactly community norms I can use as a guide here.

One thought I had was to do a series of multi-chap works, where each work is consecutive chapters with approximately the same rating. This isn't perfect, because I expect the rating sequence to go something like, for example, G, G, T, M, G, M, E, E, G, G, T, T, T, M, G but it would allow me to advertise share the all-ages chapters in the community while still maintaining some sense of cohesion of the work. It would also make it easy for people who are just here for the smut and don't care about character development (or vice versa) to find the parts they're interested in.

What would you do in this situation?

If you have any general thoughts on deciding between making something a multi-chap or series that aren't relevant to my specific situation, feel free to share those too! I'm interested in how others approach these decisions.

HI everyone! I'm trying to find a completed, deeply tragic Ambessa Medarda x Female Reader fanfiction I read around late 2024 (originally on Wattpad, though it may have been crossposted to AO3/Tumblr). Possible titles/phrases: Might include words like Iron, Blood, Duty, Steel, Cold, or Till Death Do Us Part. Here's some details-Pairing:Ambessa Medarda x female reader (y/n), Role: Read ir a low-ranking Noxian soldier in war camps(No Piltover, no royalty/princess tropes), Reader Characterization: Stoic, cold, emotionally detached due to past trauma, Key scenes: Late-night war tent scenes(drinking, strategy, or tending wounds) where Ambessa tries to break through the reader's guarded demeanor, Ending: Heartbraking battelfield death where either the reader dies in Ambessa's arms, or Ambessa dies on the field in readers arms.

Has no one on earth written a fanfic or epilogue for this book ? Please, I am dead trying to find anything at all. I've searched on ao3, Wattpad and even googled it now. 😭

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i trying to find but it's so hard, to find a gay isekai or any isekai with a gay protagonist.

Recs please :3 smut a must

I saw a fanfic that was being searched for and it really appeals to me. The posts have been deleted and the user never wrote anything else, so I hope someone will know what they were talking about or that the user ao3 will see this message. I'm putting their message and the links to their two posts here. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75397921

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75398026

Listen, I need help finding a Polytrix fanfic that mentions Rumi's weird smile is because she's a demon (or halfling), because demons don't know how to act like normal people or something like that, I remember. Also, I need to read the fanfic where Mira and Zoey fight each other because when one of them is behind Rumi while she's sleeping, she reaches for her chest and purrs or something. Could someone help me? Thank you so much guys😭💕🫶🏻🫶🏻

I forgot what the tilted was call but I do remember I read it in Wattpad. It was a Forsaken x Male Reader fanfic. Where the male reader was in the military position of a captian I think. There will be flashbacks of the reader and his soldiers haning out. All of them having fun before the reader got into the forsaken realm.

I do remember some parts of the fic a bit though. I remember The reader and Guest 1337 chatting about the military. Guest ask the reader what rank he is then the reader said his rank then Guest started calling him sir and his rank. But the reader told him not to just to call him by his name.

If I recall I think it was a yandere forsaken fic I'm not fully sure. Also unsure if the author removed it since the author updated the fic slowly in Wattpad. I do have it in my library but its buried in other fandoms I read. Can't seem to find it no matter what I look up.

Looking for this story somewhere. It was deleted off AO3.

I didn’t have one for the majority of writing my fic, but accidentally copied and pasted my fic in a super weird way from my drafts to the website, so I got a beta reader. After like four or five chapters they ghosted me tho. I was slowing down writing anyways, burnout, but wanna get back into it. Should I try and get a beta reader again? Would I need to pay for a good one? What’s y'all's experience with them?

I liked having a beta reader, it was nice having to only read my chapter three times instead of five while looking for typos, and I think rereading the same chapter over and over again contributed to my burnout.

Haven't read for them before, thinking about jumping aboard the ship if anyone has any recommendations. I've read gen fics stemming from the 2009 Alternate series/timeline so mostly I'm looking for stuff based off that, but I'll read stuff from anywhere else as long as I don't need a deeper understanding of the universe or characters than what those movies gave us.

(Doesn't have to be canon complaint or anything, I'm down for AU's, I just haven't seen more than those movies and a handful of episodes from voyager/next gen)

Please no MCD, unhappy/ambiguous endings or anything more than passing mentions of recreational drug use.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Sorry, if I'm posting in the wrong place. But I'm truly stumped.
I'm looking for a Draco/hermione fanfic where Draco is in the mafia and has rescued women who refer to him as "uncle Draco".
It starts as him having a "mafia" family dinner where Hermione is the waitress, and she is cornered by one of his men in an alley way.

If anyone could give me the name and/or author that would be great, as at the moment this all feels like a weird fever dream I've made up 🤣🤣

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 😭

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!

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