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we've all seen alignment charts for writers, but I'm more interested in seeing character sheets
(btw, SPaG stands for Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar)
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#archive of our own#ao3 stuff#ao3 quotes#archive of our own quotes#fanfic#fanfic quotes#funny#ao3#ao3 notes#authors be like#‘my baby I love them so much’#and then put them through literal hell#it’s me im authors#if this feels like a personal attack on you#that’s because it is
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Yall need to interact with fanfiction author's more.
So. After the ddos attack on ao3.
I was encouraged to write more comments and make my love known to fanfic writers.
I dont really like commenting. Because im a bit shy and soooo lazy.
Now though. I am writing more comments. And dude. This is so heartwarming. Ya'll need to treat writers better. They are doing the lord's work.
Take for an example, couple of days prior, i was searching for something interesting to read, and found an oneshot quite compelling.
I read it. At the end of it, i was blown away by how good it was. It promised me something and it went beyond my expectations. But then i saw a crime, zero fucking comments!
At that moment, i wasn't feeling up to writing a comment. Because, normally i like to write huge paragraphs. But because im lazy i decided to be brief.
Next day, the author answered that the comment lift their mood for the whole day.
That warmed my heart.
Duuuuuuuude! Write comments! Suport the writers of the fics you like! No need to be something super elaborate. Just give your thoughts. Freak out. Ramble. Ask something. Make theories. Compliment. Make a joke about how you wished to give kudos every chapter but ao3 sucks(not true bby) and won't let you.
Truly. Just. Comment. It can make someone's day. And that is part of the apeal of writing fics. Interacting with people.
Just give love to fanfic writers yall. They deserve this and so much more.
#fanfiction writer#fanfic#ao3#ramble#it was a naruto fanfic#a narusasusaku fic#also had another thing#i commented on my fav fic that hasnt been updated for a while#i didnt pressured the author to write#because you dont fucking do that >:(#but#just freaked out and talked about how much i loved their writing and the fic#two days later they updated the fic#and then told me i inspired them to finish the chapter#and that's what you're supposed to do!#interact with the author#the fic!#no need to pressure them into writing!#sometimes just words of love and support is enough!#be nice to your writers!#or im gonna smash some sense into yall
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That moment when you’ve stayed up until 3 am and just read the most earth shattering, heartbreaking, sob worthy chapter of a fanfic and have to wake up in a few hours and do things and carry on like your entire fucking worldview hasn’t been reshaped by a stranger’s writing about two fictional gay dudes
#this IS targeted#because what the fuck do you mean your first language isn’t english but you just brought me to tears#fanfiction#fanfic#heartbreaking#i’m actually never gonna recover#authors#fanfic authors#zukka#the art of burning#forged in fire#carved in rock#reborn in water#taob#atyd#all the young dudes#wolfstar
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i hope fic authors who put songs that inspired the fic in the notes know that i am immediately adding those songs to that ship's playlist
#and will then spend far too long explaining to people why i have a random song in a playlist that isn't connected at all#for example: currently have a song from barbie in my f1 playlist and it gives me oscar piastri vibes#purely because i read a landoscar fic and the author said they listened to this repeatedly whilst writing it#my fandom playlists are a mess basically#ao3#fanfic
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What a neat new blorbo I have! I should write about them because I love them so much
*drags them face first through mud and broken glass*
#its because i love them#blorbo#writer!#writing memes#fanfic writer#writing characters#writing#ao3 writer#writeblr#writer memes#writerblr#writers on tumblr#ao3 memes#ao3 author#ao3 stuff
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Good Saturday, y’all.
Topic of today’s rant: PEOPLE PRINTING AND SELLING FANFIC & GENERAL FANDOM ETIQUETTE
Profiting from fanfic will ruin it for everyone.
I want all of you who gift us your stories to be safe from lawsuits and beware that your content might be stolen.
Not to be on a soapbox and preaching to the choir but here are.
There are many authors pulling their work off AO3 because people acting on bad faith are printing and binding fics to sell on etsy thus infringing copyright laws. Fanfic has always been a grey area and we are allowed to exist in this grey area because we are not profiting from it. The minute money is exchanged, every party involved is breaking the law.
Why am I complaining about this yet again? Because we might be deprived from enjoying fanfic with the freedom we currently have because the fanfic authors will fear getting sued. If third parties are stealing our work and selling it, publishers and studios won’t care to know who sold it. It is your handle (thus IP address) on the sold fanfic. Because, get this, they are doing downloads straight from ao3 with your usernames.
Manacled is being pulled from ao3 because the author will publish it as a book. People are putting the book at risk by selling printed versions of it on Etsy.
I believe many of us who fall on the 20 years of reading fanfic side rather than on the 20 year olds reading fanfic will remember the Anne Rice days. These are not fully over because her son is carrying on the legacy of suing everyone who writes fanfic of her work. And if I may say, she didn’t invent vampires and should’ve taken many seats. I digress.
I am not sure of the levels of awareness within this community and to what extent it can affect all of us. TikTok is a massive contributor to this problem (as it is to many other problems. Again, I digress) since booktok and the binding folks discovered ao3.
You might think, I only post on tumblr so my content is safe. Well, they are finding their way here too. They cringe because tumblr is for old people but they still make their way here with their bad manners and pillaging behaviour.
I want all of you who gift your stories to be safe, lawsuit free, not lose your content and not be afraid of sharing.
I wish I had a definitive solution to this problem but I can only think of small actions:
report the etsy accounts selling fanfic/fanfic commissions,
report the TikTok accounts selling binding for fanfic work,
go back to the days of putting disclaimers on your notes that you don’t own the characters and you are not profiting from the story.
Tagging some authors* here for visibility so you can cascade to more people. Absolutely no pressure tag.
@theywhowriteandknowthings @tightjeansjavi @diversemediums @goodwithcheese @nerdieforpedro @fhatbhabie @undercoverpena @thelightsandtheroses @ezrasbirdie @notjustjavierpena @javierpena-inatacvest @freshlyrage @5oh5 @wardenparker @endlessthxxghts @creedslove @sp00kymulderr @secretelephanttattoo @gnpwdrnwhiskey @whatsnewalycat @pedrostylez @thetriumphantpanda @toointojoelmiller @dancingtotuyo @agentjackdaniels @ladamedusoif @lotrefcp @wildemaven @musings-of-a-rose @justagalwhowrites @morallyinept @pedropascalsx @criticallyacclaimedstranger @pennyserenade @kteague @astoryisaloveaffair @moralesispunk @linzels-blog @metalnecklace
*I can remove the tag if you are not comfortable with being associated with this post.
#fanfic authors#fanfic writers deserve everything in the world#support fanfic writers#fanfic writers#dont steal fanfic#tiktok ruins everything#this is for you new fandom babies btw#fandom#fandom etiquette#stolen work#stolen fanfic#stop profiting from fanfic because it will ruin it for everyone
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A message from an AO3 author to fanfiction readers:
If you leave a comment on my work, then I love you.
If you go through my account leaving comments on all my works and every chapter that I update, then I love you.
You will never be annoying. You will never be the exception. I will never not love someone appreciating my work.
If you leave kudos, then I love you.
If you just read my fic, and don't interact, then I love you.
If you scroll past my works and never read them, then I STILL love you.
We are a community, we love each other.
Let's stop forgetting that.
#And if you bookmark something I write#then I love love love adore you#And please don't be worried about a silly note you add to your bookmark#I will laugh#I will not go “oh damn this person is crazy ewww”#or whatever else reaction you may worry about#there is no wrong way to appreciate art and creation#there is no wrong way to love#from the bottom of my heart and to quell your reader fears (because we all have them):#Thank you and I love you#ao3#fanfic#fanfiction#open letter#fandom#author#writing
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Fanfic is supposed to be fun first and foremost.
The amount of disrespect I have seen lately regarding creators is both shocking and disgusting, especially when coming from other creators, and I honestly can't stay quiet about it any longer.
Maybe I'm looking at a lot of this very closely considering I've recently taken an indefinite break from one part of creating I once really enjoyed due to such disregard for my time and effort (rip gif making), but to see such careless comments and treatment for fic authors too??? BY OTHER FIC AUTHORS???
Isn't the world already cruel enough? We should be inviting in positivity and appreciation for the works of others. To celebrate the victories and accomplishments around something that is already nerve wrecking enough as it is. We should not be cultivating a circle where tearing authors apart is acceptable, regardless of if you liked a story or not.
Would you want it done to your works???
Fandom spaces should be fun. Fanfic is a free thing, typically done in what little free time we writers have, and shared with other people for the sake of having FUN. We are not professionals. This is not our full time job. We are not paid for it. Yet to treat fanfic like a professional literary circle is just...wrong. Criticism (constructive only, and when asked for it) is fine, and if you want to shit talk in your DMs to someone else, go for it, but to outright tear someone apart for their FREE fanfic that they wrote to HAVE FUN and ENJOY the fandom with other people in a public space for all eyes (including the author themselves) to see?
Gross.
We are all from different walks of life, and have different experiences that impact why we may or may not go about fic a certain way. Some of us don't speak English as our first language, and some don't go about having a beta reader, or are on a time crunch for an event, etc. You don't know someone's life, and have zero right to talk down another creator because they don't meet your small narrow-minded criteria of what is “good”. What's “bad” and “tear apart” worthy to you, may be a gem of a story to someone else.
There is no room for “if you hated xyz's work, come talk about it with us!”, and if this is something you feel is welcome in any community, fandom, social setting....DO BETTER.
And do not interact with me.
#writer positivity#fanfiction#fanfic#fandom#spread positive vibes#i'm so annoyed at all of this it's insane#bagginshield#only because i'm seeing this happen in that particular corner of my fandom...#and people wonder why fic authors are disappearing or abandoning their works...#razzy rants
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Zakkura
"So he never initiates, never asks, and waits."
- inspired by a fanfiction we're friends, right? (very adult) by totosheadset
#zakkura#zoom in for deets and kanji on the hoodie o7#wip but i deemed it alright for tumblr ♥ my wips are posted regularly on twitter#clack#Zack Fair#Cloud Strife#also shitposts i shitpost alot#casual intimacy#ok so hear me out because valk (the author of the fic) had to hear me out and im hilariously socially shy and dumb ok so im sorry valk if y#you are reading this here too- ly#Zack grabbing at Cloud's sweats in casual affection meanwhile Cloud itching to show affection but resorting to worry at/show love to his ow#n sweatshirt (he wants to he wants to#SCREAM AT ME IN TAGS I BEG YOU#the fanfic has amazing smut but valk >understands< the characters like HOLY SHIT please if you're an adult and enjoy smut#zack is a swimmer at midagar uni- its a fusion of canon and modern au#otherwise i bring you casual friends to smth more 'walking the line' experience of a demiromantic#ffvii#♥#ffvii rebirth#ffvii remake#my art
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please leave comments on fanfics today and forever you never know how much you can improve an author's shitty day/week/time
#it's me I'm the author#and i rushed to publish stuff this week because i needed joy#min#ao3#fanfics#writing#me obsessively refreshing my inbox to feel joy?#more likely than you think (extremely likely)
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Does anyone else get rlly annoyed with PJO fanfics when they refer to characters as "the [size they are] [race they are]" like when they refer to Leo as "the tiny Latino" or Nico as "the scrawny Italian" or Frank as "the big Asian" like we know their size and race why the fuck does that matter to tell the story. It's an instant turnoff for me when they describe characters this way because I just. Do not care. If you're going to describe their size or their race, because as a writer I recognise that is often necessary for immersing your readers in the story, do so respectfully or don't do so at all because quite frankly I am sick of reading a fic only to be jump scared by "the tiny Latino elf"
#sorry if anyone likes when fanfic authors do this#because for me it is an instant turnoff#pjo#hoo#toa#percy jackson#heroes of olympus#trials of apollo#rambles#rant#fanfic#fanfiction#pjato#leo valdez#Nico di angelo#frank zhang
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Ngl I love that you haven’t gone in and explicitly explained how magic works in this world because it’s like the readers are figuring it out alongside MC is and it’s very fun. Also with the addition of Koenig and his magic, I love the idea that different magic users have different…textures? So that MC has gotten so used to the way that Ghosts magic feels that having Koenig or anyone else tap her makes it feel like she’s wearing a super uncomfortable sweater or an I’ll fitting pair of jeans and she hates it. Just another way for Ghost to keep her coming back home to him.
You have no idea how much I love writing magic systems, especially from an outsiders perspective. Even the language around the magic is from the MC's limited terminology: tap/tapping. It's all very tactile because that's the only way to experience it as an outsider to it.
Anyway I've rewritten this answer a million times and I've explained too much every time so instead of explaining anything I'm going to give you some magic we haven't experienced yet. Fae names >:)
"Do you have a last name?" You ask, feeling warm and floaty, still coming down off of whatever Simon dosed you with. Your thoughts are still sticky with him, you blame that for your suchor sweet ideas of where this relationship might be going. He pauses with his lips against your shoulder, his fingers tracing senseless circles over your stomach.
"Not anymore," he tells you quietly, resuming his affections. Dragging his lips up your neck, and moving your hair aside to kiss the top of your spine. You're held tight against his chest, and your brain is still a little slow to catch on to whatever that might mean.
"That's fine," you sigh, cuddling back against him, and sinking into the haze of Simon's aftercare, "you can take mine."
Something in your chest lights up gold and pulls taught. The ever present buzz of shadow under your skin stops, at the same time Simon does. It's jarring to lose after feeling it so long, jarring enough to snap you back into yourself fully before the buzz returns.
"That's-" he cuts himself off with a hum, buying time for himself. You wiggle a little, loosening his grip enough to turn over so you can face him. "That's not something you can offer lightly."
You still feel that shine in your chest as you say his name, subbing in your last name for him. He shivers, his pupils blowing wide, eating away at even the whites of his eyes. Theres that pulled taut feeling again, like something latching into place between you. You start to say it again, enjoying the way it feels in your mouth, but he stops you.
You say it again with a smile and shriek with delight when Simon rolls on top of you with his own grin.
"That'll do," his voice is strained. He's quiet for a long moment, the gold in your chest holding you quiet as well. "Only when you need me," he tells you finally, seriously, "and I promise I'll come running."
#just as a fun author's note in my mind the offered last name is Darling#because i have a nasty habit of calling MCs Darlings#this is subtitled the MC accidentally fae marries Ghost#cod mw2#cod x reader#cod x y/n#cod ghost#ghost mw2#ghost mwii#simon ghost riley#simon ghost riley x reader#simon ghost x reader#call of duty modern warfare#simon riley#reader x ghost#ghost x reader#mw2 fanfic#simon riley x you#fae!ghost
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Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:
I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.
IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.
I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.
Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).
Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.
At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).
Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.
So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.
Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.
Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).
Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.
The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.
#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms#like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form#and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space#you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc#and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law#and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright#none of those things have fuck all to do with form!#anghraine rants#fanfiction#general fanwank#long post#thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash#and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it#both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his#and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild#ivory tower blogging#anghraine's meta
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Shout-out to Trigun fanfic writers for being some of the best creators in any fandom I’ve ever stumbled into; y’all are doing fantastic work and I send much love, gratitude, kudos, and comments your way
#Trigun#I can't sleep because my neighborhood sounds like a warzone#And fanfic is keeping me from getting me all upset#THANK YOU AUTHORS YOU'RE THE REAL MVPS#I'm so behind in my reading#But every time I hop into my tbr I'm BLOWN AWAY#I do my best to leave all the comments as I go#IT'S THE LEAST I CAN DO#THANK YOU
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slowly getting sick of the horror.... speaks.. like this.... dialogue im shoving that onto dust now
#fanfic authors ily but i will now put ur hc onto a different character teehee#sid rambles#i just i think a lot ok#as a HUGE believer of the dust is korean hc#it just fits#it just fits....#<- like he would struggle to remember words so he needs to pause a little#or. if u are not a korean dust hc believer (i WILL convert u somehow)#<- because he generally does not care for anything other than. his ultimate goal of killing the player he doesnt talk much with others#+ so it results in this sort of. derailed (insane/jumbled u can choose) speech because he has to REMEMBER how to speak (he has been alone#+ for so long)
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