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Like Nothing Else

Author: prettyshiny

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Description:

Danny misses the old stiles

Characters/Ships: Danny/Stiles

Topic Warnings: none

Suggested Rating: T

Word Count: 1861 (in three parts in the thread)

#teenwolf #teen wolf #stiles/danny #danny mahealani #stiles stilinsky #stanny #i guess i'm reviving this blog again lol

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Save a fanfic writer, leave comments on old fics

There is this a peculiar set of reasons and biases when it comes to NOT commenting on AO3.

They are all false, but here they are:

Do not comment on old fics

Do not comment on each chapter of a multichapter

Do not comment if the author left the fandom

Do not comment if the author doesn’t respond to comments

It can be summoned up as DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU ENJOYED THE WORK AND YOU LIKE THE AUTHOR.

It comes from the idea, that if you leave a comment on my old work, or leave too many comments, I will think you are strange, clingy, and gross.

Readers are imagining it as commenting on an old Facebook photo — only your granny and creepy strangers do that.

That is not the case with AO3.

Writers put their works there for long-term storage, and we expect, wish, and hope that you will like our works and tell us about it.

This all very interesting, not, but why should I care?

This has awful consequences. Fanfic authors feel constant pressure to create more and crippling fear of being forgotten, useless, and being literally kicked away from fandom.

I’m online friends with a few great fandom authors, who wrote storied with thousands of kudos, but ALL of them at some point expressed this fear. Very talented people told me, “I’m not sure if I should have ‘writer’ in my bio. I didn’t post anything new in the last half of a year.”

Some young or entitled readers might say, “Hm, well, they are right. They should create MORE to be relevant. Isn’t that a good thing to push authors to write more?”

For better or worse, life doesn’t work like that. We are talking about real people, who go to real schools, have real jobs, families, and all the other important things outside the fandom. Some of them might push to create more from that fear, but most would only get more frustrated and depressed about the whole fanfic writing.

So, please, if you like the work comment on it.

Even if it’s old, even if it’s a multichapter, even if the author doesn’t have time and energy to interact. Especially in all those cases.

Encourage your authors, and show them your support.

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fanfictionguide · 5 years

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Scientists have discovered how to make glow-in-the-dark cats by inserting the jellyfish genes that create fluorescent proteins into feline eggs.

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purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten.

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it.

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered.

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fanfictionguide · 5 years

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You Make Love Look Easy

Author: afineskyline (claudia_allison_stilinski)

Fandom: Teen Wolf

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“Stiles,” she says, squinting slightly at her former classmate when he turns his attention back to her, expression brightening with her recall. “Um, what are you doing here?”

“I go to Northeastern with the rest of the mildly intelligent,” he answers, smiling wickedly for some reason. “Not all of us got into Harvard.” She’s still processing this turn of events. “Oh.” And, for lack of anything better to say, she adds: “Who are your, um, friends?”

“This is Thea, certified pillow fort architect, cheese stick connoisseur, and dinosaur enthusiast.” He gestures to the sleeping baby strapped to his chest. “And this is Wes. He, ah, enjoys long naps, drinking his milk, and pooping, mostly.”

Or: the boston!stydia college AU absolutely no one asked for in which Stiles is also a nanny.

Characters/Ships: Stydia

Topic Warnings: sexual content

Suggested Rating: M

Word Count: 17593

#teen wolf fanfic #teenwolf #teenwolfau #teenwolfsmut #teenwolfoneshot #teenwolfromance

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Coffee, Black

Fandom: Dragon Age Author: black_ink_tide Description:

What happens in here? Awkward Garrett Hawke is a barista with a crush on the guy with white ink tattoos who comes in to Bianca’s Coffee every morning. His friends Isabela, Merrill and Andy take it upon themselves to help him, in the capacity of Wingmen, to not totally blow it with him.

It’s an uphill battle every step of the way.

Watch out for falling boxes of pornography.

Characters/Ships: Male Hawke/Fenris, Isabela/Anders, Hawke/Sebastian Vael, Anders/Nathaniel Howe, Merrill, Varric, Leandra Hawke, Carver Hawke, Bethany Hawke Topic Warning: Masturbation, Recreational drug use, sex, anal sex, oral sex, rimming, deep throating, abuse (past), dom/sub relationship Rating: M Word count: 133486 (50 chapters)

#submission #dragonage #dragonageromance #dragonageangst #dragonageau #dragonagehumour #dragonagesmut #dragonagefluff

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One Dollar Yoda

Author: exclamation

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Description:

Stiles is an unbonded spark, so he's been dealing with courting alphas since he was ten. It's gotten a lot worse since he turned sixteen. Some are assholes, some are nice, but Stiles hasn't wanted to spend the rest of his life bound to any of them.

When Derek Hale shows up at his school, Stiles expects him to be just another asshole alpha attempting to buy him with expensive gifts. But Derek Hale puts no effort whatsoever into his courtship gifts. Stiles ought to be offended but instead he finds it refreshing.

Characters/Ships: Sterek

Topic Warnings: non-explicit dubcon (not Sterek)

Suggested Rating: M

Word Count: 10758 (6 Chapters)

#sterek #fanfic #teenwolf #teen wolf fanfic #sterek fic #teenwolfau #teenwolfromance #teenwolffluff

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fanfictionguide · 5 years

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HELLO, FRIENDS!

As if I don’t have enough going on in my life, I’ve decided to start this blog back up again. Winter months are coming, and my body doesn’t like to move when it’s cold. But fanfiction keeps us all warm, and I’ve been reading a lot of it lately!

You can check my bookmarks to see what I’ve been reading lately, because I’m only reccing the best ones here. And, of course, if you’ve got any recs of your own, you can submit them right here.

Speaking of which, I apparently have a ton of inbox requests for lost fics and recs that I was never notified about, so I’m sorry if you were asking questions and I never answered. I’ll try to get to them now, as well as posting some of the recs people have submitted during my time away.

I’m also getting a little more active over on @everycoffeeshopau, so be sure to go there for your caffeine boosts. And I’m always active on my main blog, @firewordsparkler (which I apparently can’t link to?).

I’m not planning on keeping any sort of schedule, but I’ll definitely be around more. I think those are all the housekeeping notes, but thanks for still following me, if you do.

Thanks!!

Nirali

#housekeeping

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A brief history of fandom, for those on here who somehow think tumblr invented fandom:

1960s: with the advent of Star Trek, fandom moves into the public sphere for the first time with a television in almost every home, creating a large group of people all excited about one thing. Beforehand, fans mostly had relationships with the author, not with each other. Obviously there were groups and conventions prior to Star Trek, but many pop culture scholars agree that Star Trek was the beginning of an independent, interactive, saturated fandom culture centered on one show, and set many precedents for how many modern fandoms act.

This means in the coming years: conventions, mailing groups (both public and private), fan magazines, and fanfiction presses.

Yeah this pretty much remains the deal until the internet gets put into every home in the 90s.

EXAMPLES OF BIG FUCKING DEAL FANDOMS, 90s EDITION: X-Files, Xena, Star Trek, Star Wars, ASoIaF, The West Wing, Buffy

So with the internet, this really cool thing happened: Geocities. And then Yahoo groups. Early fanfiction archives. Back in the day, fandoms had to create their own private spaces. This made fandoms on the internet smaller and less accessible than fanzine operated ones. However, since fans on the internet didn’t have to pass through an editorial board to publish their fic, it was the beginning of the democratization of fandom.

USENET. Which will probably be confusing to anyone who wasn’t actually on Usenet during it’s height, but feel free to Google.

In 1998, fanfiction.net was launched to compete with the hundreds of independent, fandom-oriented fanfiction archives. More democratization, although fanfiction was marketed on how many reviews one had. You had to, like today, “break into the market.“

In 1999, Livejournal was launched. Fans created communities and their own private journals which was like woah, we have our own places to store our own fic? And can cross-post them places? However, with Livejournal came a new incarnation of the internet-based BNF: big name fan. Since communities had moderators and posts could be friend or community locked, people could easily gain social capital.

See also: Cassie Claire and misscribe.

On the other hand, authors like George RR Martin get Livejournals.

Around this time was also the rise of forums. Again, moderators had a lot of power, as did certain users who would rise to the position of moderator. People rapidly gained and lost power, causing quick turnover in these parts of fandom.

In 2002, due to legal concerns, fanfiction.net bans NC-17 fanfiction.

Adultfanfiction.net is created to fill the void. For years, 13 year olds would pretend to be 18 to enter. Including myself.

In 2005, fanfiction.net, again due to legal concerns, bans “choose your own adventure” and songfics.

In 2007, Archive of Our Own is launched to further democratize fandom in response to fanfiction.net’s and LJ’s new stringent rules, offering writers a cleaner format, kudos, hit counters, and bookmarks. However, many older fandoms have not made the move.

In 2007, tumblr is launched. It would take until 2010 for it to reach saturation on the internet, meaning that most fandoms which lived and died pre-2010 exist(ed) on Geocities, Yahoo Groups, independent archives, ff.net, etc.

In 2009, Geocities is taken offline. Thousands mourn because they never backed up really old fic that they liked.

In 2012, most major broadcasting companies have caught on to the fact that tumblr has democratized fandom to a degree of anarchy and mob mentality, and utilize it, since tumblr is unmoderated.

And that’s what you missed on FANDOM BEFORE TUMBLR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

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Femslash Review Fest is back for 2018! For two weeks in December, leave reviews on femslash fanworks and recommend them to others.

For a list of this year’s optional themes, see here. Reblog to spread the word!

{ FAQ here }

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In case you didn’t know, this is my main blog, which was deemed inappropriate. I haven’t been on the guide in a while, but I just wanted a moment to say thank you for all the loveliness through the years and give you a place where you can find me.

My AO3 bookmarks have all of my fanfic recs and then some, so definitely stop by.

Well, here’s where to find me.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.*

twitter.com/firewordsparklr

youtube.com/firewordsparkler

[email protected]

https://archiveofourown.org/users/firewordsparkler (fics are only seen with an AO3 acct)

and I’m trying to make a pillowfort acct, which will be at firewordsparkler as well.

*I’m not leaving, but depending on the outcome of tomorrow and tumblr’s future, will probably be on here a lot less.

And god, I miss the LJ days when you could pin something to your profile so everyone could see it.

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fanfictionguide · 6 years

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You, posting your work to AO3: These tags are excellent, they are super-clear about exactly what I mean, and no one will ever be confused about my intent.

Me, a Tag Wrangler receiving your tags through the wrangulator: ACTUally-

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“but AO3 *wants* writers on their platform, writers are providing a service for them, that’s how they get content.”

no, they are PROVIDING you a platform. for your content. as a service to you.

please, please, please learn how the internet works.

the companies that WANT you on the platform are the companies that are SELLING YOU TO ADVERTISERS.

*Facebook* wants you on their platform. *Tumblr* wants you on their platform. *FF.net* wants you on their platform. You are Facebook’s product. Facebook is not a service to you. It is an incentive for you to give them eyes and data to sell. And the second your eyes and data stop being profitable they will toss you under the bus.

That’s why fans made AO3. So we had a space that was ours, that wasn’t profiting off of us, so we wouldn’t get sold out.

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fanfictionguide · 6 years

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I don’t understand how anyone can take AO3 for granted

But then I remember what it was like trying to find fic back in the day.

Back in the early 00s, I used to maintain a site called Farscape Fan Fiction Links. It was an offshoot of something I’d started on the Farscape Bulletin Board called “The Church of Fanfiction Appreciation” where I’d begun trying to collect links to Farscape fanfic sites for other people to use.

As I did this, I developed the following process:

1. Click on a link provided by someone on the Board. This would take me to their site which I would then classify by pairings and whether or not it was Gen, Adult (Het pairings only), Slash, or a mixture of any of these.

2. Check to see if the site had its own links page. Follow these links to see if there were any sites on there that I hadn’t previously discovered.

3. Check to see if the site was a member of a Web Ring I hadn’t come across before. Click on those links to see if there were any new sites in there.

4. Check out the site’s Guest Book to see if anyone had left a site link in their sig. See if the site contained any fic.

And so on. If I hit a dry period where nothing new appeared on the Board, I’d use a search engine. This was before Google had conquered the Internet, so I used a search engine called Dogpile. It would search the other search engines like Alta Vista and Yahoo and give a much larger grouping of results.

This went on for a few years until two things happened at once:

1. Farscape was canceled.

2. I got accepted to grad school.

So, I stopped maintaining the site, and I have to admit that I felt a little guilty about it. Fortunately, this was about the time LiveJournal’s role in fandom was kicking into high gear, and with the advent of LJ Farscape Fic communities, I no longer felt like my services were going to be missed.

Oddly though, I found myself actually missing the process. There was a certain amount of satisfaction involved in finding new sites, especially ones that weren’t linked anywhere else. It felt like I was planting my flag all over the Farscape fandom, and it didn’t matter how small your site was. I would find you in the end.

Still, I’d be lying if I said I wanted to return to those days. Because Farscape wasn’t my only fandom, and I’ve always been a multi-fandom shipper. So, even without working on the site, I spent years doing the following:

1. Fall into a new fandom.

2. Find all of the major fic archives in a fandom.

3. Read them dry.

4. Hunt for individual author sites.

5. Read them dry too.

LJ made this process easier, as more and more people brought their work over there. But you still had to do a certain amount of searching, for like-minded accounts and communities. And if the fic you wanted to read was “friendlocked,” well, then you were just SOL, if you know what I mean.

Fanfiction.net was always an alternative, of course, and I’m not saying there aren’t good fics over there. But the ones you found in individual fandom archives were often better, mostly because this was where the hardcore fans went to bleed all over their words.

AO3, thankfully, was built by those hardcore fans, so it’s been full of quality writing pretty much from the start. It paired that quality with Fanfiction.net’s “one stop shopping,” and slowly but surely, has been developing filters that make it easier and easier to find what you want.

Which for someone who used to have to click on a site and then read stories that didn’t even have their pairings marked is amazing. Stories that didn’t come with warnings, or tags, or author’s notes, or any of the things we take for granted these days.

I remember having to blindly click and pray.

And as much as I miss the thrill of discovery, I don’t miss the trauma of screaming “EW! Back Button! Back Button! Back Button!” at the top of my lungs.

I was willing to suffer so my fellow fans didn’t have to. But there’s no longer any need for that.

Now, we have AO3. A place where we have quality fic that’s clearly marked, and maintained by our fellow fans who have been with us through all the wars, through things like Cease and Desist letters and Takedown notices, through Strikethrough and the Purge.

It’s amazing to me that anyone could take this for granted.

Because speaking as someone who has traversed the jungle, I know how bad it can be, and more importantly, how bad it could someday be again.

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fanfictionguide · 6 years

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anyone please ask your crush out like this

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fanfictionguide · 6 years

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andromeda: everybody has a gay cousin

narcissa: bitch i don't have a gay cousin

sirius: excuse u

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draco: *walks by*

harry: what an ass

ron: i know right, what a bastard-

harry: no i mean

harry: what an ass, dude. i mean look at it, ron, it’s so pert and round-

ron: *chokes*

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