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When she was 13, she'd listened to stories of superheroes in her spare time, they'd seemed like fantastical stories to her. Things that would never happen, things to daydream about. And daydream about it she had. School had been boring, so she'd doodled stars and capes on the margins of her paper.
Then her mother had given her a tenner for her fourteenth birthday, and she'd gone to the local antique shop to buy the necklace she'd noticed in the window so many times before. It was on the edge of the area where her parents allowed her to roam free, as domino city seemed to be getting more dangerous and crime-ridden with the day. So as she walked to the shop, she looked around carefully. Ensuring she wouldn't get stuck near a violent situation.
She greeted the shop's owner as she walked through the door, beelined to the necklace, and walked up to the counter. The store owner just looked confused. "Where did you get that from?"
The girl blinked in confusion. "It's on display in the window."
The man eyed the jewelry once more, but shrugged. "That will be 7,50."
She handed over the money and then practically bounced out of the shop, eyes barely leaving the necklace. Now that she had it in her hands, she noticed how much more detailed it was than she'd previously thought. On the back was an inscription. As she read it aloud, a glittery cloud engulfed her, and she felt faint.
She blinked in confusion. What the hell? It was pretty though.
She inspected the necklace a little more, and then put it on.
Immediately, her vision swam again. When it cleared up, the world looked different.
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That's how it started.
She'd discovered that her necklace allowed her to see into the magical world, but her potential for magic that had been unlocked by reading the inscription had already been there, hence why the necklace had been only visible to her. Even after putting it on, no one else had been able to see it. And saying the inscription again while the necklace was on literally transformed her into a beautiful princess version of herself.
It had been so cool at first. But then she realized just how much of the crime in Domino city had been caused by magical threats that nobody but her could even see. And worse, she'd discovered that some government officials were actively helping covering it all up. So she'd set to work.
At 14, she'd started out mostly naive. Introducing herself as "Wonder-Sparkle Princess" to anyone who asked.
At 15, she'd set out almost every day fighting with all vigor, and people knew her name. She started researching everything about magic she could find.
At 20, she was fully convinced that this was her responsibility and her cross to bear. She had come to know the magical world like the back of her hand.
At 25, she'd started to get tired. She'd barely finished college, constantly being pulled away from her assignments and lectures to stop whatever magical being decided they wanted more power at the expense of others now. She was holding down a job now, but her sanity was holding onto a string that cut thinner and thinner every time she was reprimanded for being late.
At 35, she was mostly just pissed off. She'd been at this for longer than she'd been alive when she first assumed this responsibility, she had started mostly freelance, advertising her business both in the normal world as well as the magical one. Every time she was called awake at the ass-crack of dawn because some idiot necromancer decided that 4 AM was the best time to resurrect a former masterthief for a bank heist she came closer to just beating in someone's brain.
So was it really that surprising, when, less than a year later, she finally cracked? She would personally argue that, no, it definitely wasn't. The former corrupt mayor of domino city had been asking to be taken down a long time, and him allowing a cursed nursery to be built that siphoned the life force out of children was not a line she would allow him to cross.
From then on, her opponents tended to be a bit more careful. A bit less likely to cross her lines. Good, she'd thought, it was about time they realized they were dealing with an adult.
Middle-aged magical girl.
She's been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she's very tired.
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very pink ao3 theme
I was going for vibe-y and monochromatic and I went super hard on the latter. If this looks like a thing you'd want (or want to edit), you can find the code here.
Credit to @ao3skin for the code that I modified to change the menu colours and adjust the tags. I literally could not do that without copy/pasting your stuff first 💗
Editing to add: I included the hex codes for the colours in an end note, so if you like the idea but want a different colour, there ya go
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In one of my fics, I consistently spelled a nickname wrong for a fic based on a movie for 40 chapters until it was pointed out to me.
The first time someone pointed it out to me, it was in a fairly positive structure "I love this fic, but I couldn't help but notice you spelled X wrong, it should actually be Y"
I didn't mind, and I soon fixed it wherever I found it.
But I already had 40 chapters up, so I didn't manage to fix it everywhere.
In the years after, I kept getting corrections by people. Most were polite about it, but skme absolutely were not. And the less polite they were, the less inclined I was to fix the issue, even for the people after who did ask politely.
The issue with comments is that you'll likely never be the only one to notice an issue. Even when you're the first one, there'll still be tons of others.
Anyway, when it comes to anything bigger than that that bothers you in a fic, the best solution is usually to ignore it or stop reading. The author has the right to write whatever they want, even if it's technically wrong.
Hello!
How do you leave a good comment on a work when you notice a large error? Or a small error,m I get so nervous to leave a comment nowadays because not many people have clear statements regarding criticism. So, I'm hesitant to point out anything out/ leave a comment that's anything but positive.
I remember a few months ago, on a BNHA work, I corrected the timeline of canon events that author got wrong (because the WIP seemed to be going down that route of "canon adjacent" work that spawn from a canonical event). The author had a message beneath the chapters that "all comments were welcomed," so I thought it was okay to leave the type of comment I did. But I dealt with several aggressive messages from the author and the author's friends about needless critique and how rude I came off as afterwards (I apologized,but I still got messages for a while).
The whole thing freaked me out a bit because I hate any semblance of confrontation ,so now I'm nervous about commenting any work- even those with explicit statements on criticism (welcome ,not welcomed,etc). I leave kudos and such ,but sometimes I debate over whether or not the author needs my comment about their typos. I try to sandwich a critique between two compliments like everyone says,but then I end up with a paragraph-length comment, and I worry about coming off too strongly.
I'm rambling,sorry.
Is there a guide to good comments for criticism in fanworks? Besides not giving criticism when criticism would not be welcomed??
Thank you for your time.
First of all, I'm sorry that you had such a bad experience. I'm sure that was awful for you, and I totally understand why it would freak you out.
When it comes to correcting things in fanfic, there are a lot of things to take into account.
Why does correcting the error matter to you?
How well do you know the author?
How long would it take to make the correction?
There are others, but these are the bigger "buckets" I see most of them fitting into.
If the error matters to you because you get annoyed when you see typos, for example, then that's more of a "you" problem. You can download the fic and edit out the typos and then when you reread it, you won't have to worry about them.
If the error matters to you because you'd be embarrassed if you had posted a fic and there were typos in it, that's also kind of a "you" problem. If the author feels the same way, they'll likely have an author's note indicating that they want to be notified. Otherwise, they're likely resigned to the idea that typos will happen, and if they reread their work themselves, they'll edit them out if and when they catch them.
If the error matters to you because it's non-canonical, this one is more of a wait and see. Maybe the author made the error by accident, but it very well could be on purpose. Perhaps that small change is relevant to the overall plot they're developing. Maybe it's just a thing that they personally hate in canon and have decided that they don't want to include for that reason. Maybe it's a genuine error that they'd be horrified to notice later. There's no way to know.
And that last one is where we come to the second item above. If you know the author well, you can message them and have a chat and bring it up there. I'd recommend just starting out by talking about the story as a whole and what their plan is for it. As I said, maybe what you see as an error is actually a conscious choice that they've made for the story that they want to tell. During that conversation, you'll be able to figure out whether it's actually an error and whether they'd want it pointed out or not.
If you don't know the author well, you could point an error like that out in a comment but then you need to think about the third factor.
Typos take seconds to change. Plot points take hours, days, weeks, or longer. Asking someone to put in a lot of time to make a change to something they've already been working hard on can be really demotivating - even crushing.
For a lot of authors (possibly even most?) they put a lot of work into their fics before they ever get to the point of posting them. They've read, revised, planned, and plotted. They might even have additional chapters already written that are in the revision process and just haven't been posted yet.
Especially in long works, authors look to the comments as a cheering section to urge them on towards completion, so posting corrections or pointing out errors can feel like someone standing up and booing. I think that's what happened in that BNHA situation you referenced in your ask.
That's why the general suggestion when it comes to commenting with corrections is just to not do so. If you want, you can comment about all of the things you like in the fic and then ask if the author wants a beta. That would allow you to have those conversations about their vision for the fic, and it would also allow you to offer feedback before the work is posted and while it's still being edited and worked on.
Otherwise, if it really does bother you, I'm afraid you might just need to dip out and find a different fic.
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Being knocked out for more than 5 minutes means very serious brain damage but humans not having a turn-off button would do immense damage to our collective storytelling. So many films and books and videogames just wouldn't happen if writers stopped bonking their characters on the head. Insane.
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saw a post this morning that got me thinking about bookbinding and the inherently transformative and collaborative nature of fandom, so:
edit: i guess i should have clarified: hand-bound books for PERSONAL use, not for profit or resale! i think that's something obvious to me as a bookbinder but not to writers/artists so i thought i'd clarify
#I'd love to know just because I'd be honored to have someone do that#but it's never any oboligation
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by ariadne_odair
Merlin swears he doesn’t go looking for trouble, but it always finds him anyway. After being ambushed by a group of bandits, it’s up to Arthur and Merlin to rescue the rest of the knights. Of course this involves journeying through a forest full of magical creatures- because nothing in Merlin’s life is ever easy.
That would be more than enough for Merlin to deal with, but nights alone in the wilderness and escaping death every five minutes, have a funny way of bringing two people together. Merlin doesn’t want to reveal his true feelings to Arthur, but then he never wanted to reveal his magic to anyone, either.
And look how that turned out.
Words: 8234, Chapters: 1/8, Language: English
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Additional Tags: Pining, so much pining, Slow Burn, you know the drill, Magic Reveal, you get a magical reveal, you get a magic reveaal, everyone gets a magic reveal, Idiots in Love, Lots of magical creatures, Protective Arthur, Protective Merlin, THE KNIGHT SQUAD - Freeform, arthur is not an idiot and merlin deserves the world, they’ll get there in the end
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A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!
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You may be focussing on the wrong part of the sentence. The "don't download and print" convo recently resurfaced on TikTok, because people were going to professional book printer locations to print many different copies, resulting in printing companies earning money of printing work that wasn't theirs or the property of the person that submitted the request.
This got a lot of people afraid of copyright, resulting in the request to not print.
When I started reading fics, readers would save fics a lot just in case they got deleted, but now I'm noticing this trend of "don't download and print fics without the author's permission." Is that the new norm or am I just following fandom newbies?
You're just following fandom newbies.
This is a discourse that goes around every once in a while, and I'm not really sure of the root cause of it. My guess is authors who are insecure in some way and need to feel a measure of control over their works. Or authors who are planning to pull their work off AO3 in order to file off the fandom serial numbers and publish it as original fiction.
If you don't want people downloading your work, don't put it online. It's that simple. As soon as it's on the internet, it's downloadable - whether there's a conveniently placed button or whether it's via screenshots or whether it's using an extension that pulls text into a notepad file.
Sorry authors, but if you really don't want people saving your fics, you kinda need to not share them. And readers? Just because a Big Name Fan says something, doesn't make it true (myself included).
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I'm out right now, but I'm just imagining a DSMP (SBI + Benchtrio centric) Batfam AU.
This would have Tubbo (I'd write him as protagonist,but obviously, you wouldn't have to) as Tim Drake.
Phil is Bruce, obviously
Wilbur is Dick Grayson
Techno is Jason Todd (voices/lazarus pit) (He'd be dead at the beginning in mine, but he'd obviously be back)
Ranboo as Cassandra Cain (traumatised, has to learn go speak)
Tommy as Stephanie (Loud, underestimated by everyone, but eventually helped by Tubbo and Ranboo to become a vigilante) (No shipping, obv. )
Niki as Barbara Gordon
Bonus:
Sam as Lucius
Puffy as dr. Thompson
Fundy as Luke Fox
Feel free to add on, I probably will later too. Maybe in a separate post though. Idk.
(I'm using the tag DSMP batfam AU either way)
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I can't think of a moment right now, but I'm still scared
Okay! Tubbo has explosion scars once again and has more trauma than before and Tommy is going through hell... again, but hey at least nobody is permanently dead yet right! *sweats profusely*
Don't worry too much.
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I don't trust this. At all.
Okay! Tubbo has explosion scars once again and has more trauma than before and Tommy is going through hell... again, but hey at least nobody is permanently dead yet right! *sweats profusely*
Don't worry too much.
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Ao3 tags: [side character]-centric
fic: Literally has only one of the main characters in the description, and tagged 3 other characters the same way.
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I love that final one. I have written (but not published) so many... technically canon complient fics that followed the letter of canon but not the spirit, and it's so satisfying
Pre-canon fic.
Post-canon fic.
That-little-bit-in-the-middle-that-canon-skipped-over fic.
Needs-to-keep-its-voice-down-because-canon-is-sleeping-in-the-next-room fic.
Peering-over-canon’s-shoulder-and-making-weird-faces-when-canon-isn’t-looking fic.
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Was side character not an option or smth?
take this quiz and see what teen movie archetype you are!!
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I saw a post about c!Tubbo originally coming from 2b2t and I cannot stop thinking about it.
I kinda want to write a fic about it, but I haven't figured out the details yet.
Tubbo grew up only knowing anarchy. He might be on an infinite respawn server but dying meant losing everything, and as a kid, he died a lot.
Tubbo might have grown up only knowong anarchy, but what he did know, he hated.
If there's one thing Tubbo learned it was to survive in chaos, so that's what he did, he survived and he collected weapons, anything from tnt and lava to nether crystals and withers, anything to keep himself safe, and eventually, rich.
He became rich enough to buy himself a place on the permanent whitelist, so that he could leave the server freely and explore other servers without losing his home.
He visited a lot of servers, but it was hypixel he spent the most time on, and it was on hypixel when he met two brothers who would change his life, Wilbur and Tommy.
Wilbur was an admin of his own server, SMP Earth, where Tubbo resided with them for a while, but during a longer stretch where Tubbo spent keeping his stuff safe on 2b2t, Tommy had been invited to the Dream SMP and Tubbo's invite followed shortly.
It was all fine for a while, Tommy had invited Tubbo to help with his fight against Dream, but nothing serious was happening yet, at least... until it was.
All of a sudden there were nations and factions forming, and the fact that there only were three respawns made things dangerous, for if he were to die, he would respawn back on 2b2t, but he'd lose the access to the server he'd died on, and anyone who lived on there, he'd only be able to watch.
And then the elections went wrong, Tubbo became a spy and he lost the second one of his lives to Technoblade of all people. Techno, a guy that everyone knew had been trying to get whitelisted on 2b2t for years. He was everything Tubbo did not want to be, and he took away the second of Tubbo's 3 lives.
And then Wilbur died, and Tubbo was made president, and Tubbo realised with a shock that no one here knew what server Tubbo had come. No one knew Tubbo_ had only ever known places without a government, and so no one realized that Tubbo's only example of what he was supposed to do had come from Schlatt.
But Tubbo did know one thing. He had to keep L'Manburg and its citizens safe from both Dream and Techno, because if he didn't, this server might become exactly like the server he had fled from. So when push came to shove, he had to exile his best friend, because he had no idea what else he even was supposed to do.
And yet, the tnt fell down, and withers were spawned, and none of the others had ever seen such chaos before but Tubbo wasn't surprised, this was what anarchy brought with it, after all.
And as the dust settled in L'Manburg, and Tubbo moved away to found Snowchester, he did something he had hoped to never have to do again. For days on end he worked inside his little town and he invited everyone he could to live with him, and he primised to keep them safe the only way he knew how to.
It had been years since Tubbo had truly caused chaos somewhere, and as he went to the nuclear test side, he could help but grin; he still could do it.
Silently he smirked, and when Technoblade inevitably came by snowchester, Tubbo couldn't help but brag about his weapons, hoping to send one message:
"You want anarchy, Techno? Be prepared for what comes with it."
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good night to people who write extremely rare-pair fanfiction, enthusiasts of the college au, people who hate canon with a passion, people old enough to have been squicked, gen z wattpad users, forgotten OCs from 13 years ago, the kudos button on ao3, people who write one-shots exclusively, the first kisses that happen on chapter 42 at the Earliest, enemies to friends to enemies again to lovers, and lastly… people who comment on fanfiction regardless of when it was posted
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i want a story about a cleaner who comes from a long line of cleaning ladies & washer women & it’s the family business going back generations. except for the last 150 years or so they’ve also been illegally cleaning up crime scenes & disposing of bodies…..constantly gathering & passing down knowledge mother-to-daughter on how to beat the latest development in forensic technology
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