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There's just something about Floyd being unhinged in fics that just gets me.
Like yes he gets portrayed as a sweet frail uwu boi most of the time, which is also niceee and all, and would also suit his sensitive title. But then there are fics where Floyd is absolutely off the rails at times; where Floyd is nearing losing his voice being the loudest in a shouting match, where Floyd nearly bites someone's head off in anger, where Floyd tries to sneak out of his room multiple times even when his body still very much recovering from greeting his grandma, where Floyd wrestles with his brother on the floor because he's about to do impulsive sht for the people he cares about, fics where Floyd absolutely LOSES HIS SHIT
And the best part is that none of it is out of character for him at all. In fact, it'd cement his title as the sensitive one even more. Being sensitive isn't just about sad and mopey. Sometimes its about being nuts, and paranoid, and being impulsive when your loved ones are in danger and being so so angry that you'd yell and cry from the frustration. Not that he's always feral and wild- because he's def the one to mediate most of the time, but in situations where his loved ones are in danger, I just love when he's unapologetically emotional in every aspect about it, when he's sobbing and yelling without abandon.
There's something about Floyd in fics letting his emotions speak in such a powerful, feral way that gets me.
#Floyd losing his shit in fics just provides an unimaginable catharsis#And You'll Never Ever Wanna Let It Go by Salem_V#it has such an amazing scene of Floyd going apeshit and going nuts with worry i love it so much#boi was prepared to fist fight his way through his brothers and a horde of bergens#Gimme a Hand Would'ja? by tea0W0stache#has Floyd which is shown to be very caring and understanding of his brothers emotional needs. the usual Floyd stuff which makes us love him#but it also has scenes of him being so weak that he has to be dragged to bed#but still needs Bruce to keep an eye on him bc mans will crawl his way out the bunker to escape and do shit-#floyd#floyd trolls#trolls floyd#trolls#trolls dreamworks#trolls band together#brozone#ao3#fanfics#fics#fanfiction#archive of our own#love this feral emotional emo#floyd appreciation#bloopnik rambles
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Do you ever have a story that just seems to come together so effortlessly and flow so easily, just like you imagined it would? Because I haven't in close to a year, until now. And it feels SO good to get back to a place where my writing is exactly what I need it to be and I could quite literally cry😭
#the rookie#chenford#fanfiction#fanfic#fan fiction#ao3#a03 fanfic#ao3 fic#finallyyyy!!#catharsis#breakthrough
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Auggie and Roderick talking about the voyage Pym was on, the fond laughter?? 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
#the fall of the house of usher#fall of the house of usher#roderick usher#c auguste dupin#the fact no one has written fic of them hatefucking is truly astounding#at least on ao3 anyways#dont think there's anything romantic there. but I think at some point they just had such deep pent up emotions that it was the only#catharsis they could come to that wasnt violent#its not *healthy* and its not good but thats my thought
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A Reflection on Quality vs. Quantity in Writing (as per some witnessed Tiktok and other posts)
I’m back again with a long post about quality vs word count quantity.
I think I’ve touched on this before and only recently realized what that may have come across as.
I think I’d like to clarify—just to make sure I was understood and not misinterpreted the first time around.
I’ve had the chance through Tiktok and Tumblr to meet a lot of fanfiction writers or aspiring writers. A version of what I’ve heard of, too many times, is some version of I will never be able to write a story, because I can’t write long ones. This fear of not being able to meet a certain word count often prevents the story from being written at all.
I don’t think word count should be a barrier to starting a story.
I don’t think anyone who’s ever started a long fic has ever thought to themselves, I’m going to write however many thousand words. No one who embarks on a story typically sets out with a specific word count in mind.
It happens, because it’s how the story’s meant to happen, and because that’s what the brain wants, what the characters need for their development.
A compelling story doesn't need to be long. Nor does it have to be short. It simply needs to resonate with its audience, and this can happen regardless of length, because we’re all looking for different things in fandom.
What I am trying to say really is for the writers who aren’t able to, or feel like they will never be able to either finish their stories or write anything bigger than a oneshot, or a small novel-length story: You don’t have to.
What I am trying to say is, people who write long fanfictions are able to take the same characters and explore dozens of emotions, adventures, issues, relationships within one story. Conversely, others can produce multiple shorter works, each focusing on a specific theme.
In the end, we are all doing the same thing, just going about it differently.
The way we think, the way we each explore our own inner turmoil also presents itself differently based on our past, our ability to focus, and what we want from the story we’re writing.
Amélie Nothomb has written 32+ short stories/small novels. Each one is dedicated to a specific genre, a specific topic. That’s where she thrives. And people read her stories. George R. R. Martin, renowned for a single series that interweaves countless topics across the characters' journeys. And people read his stories.
I could go into details about each author but just step into a library or a bookstore and you’ll have every single possible word count for a novel/anthology/series/whatever. They all found their little space on the bookshelves, and they all deserve to be there, and there is not one work that deserves it more than another.
AO3 is a bookshelf.
We are all human, we can’t all work the same way, and long works shouldn’t intimidate you out of writing at all.
This is what I want to say.
If you have something to say, you should write it. Doesn’t matter if it fits in 1K or less. Doesn’t matter if it fits in 900K or more. It’s going to resonate with someone.
No one sets off to resonate with thousands. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, but you can’t work through your turmoil hoping to resonate with people; you must do it because you want to solve it within yourself first. The resonance is a by-product. It cannot be the end goal, only the happy happenstance.
I hope this helps.
If you want to write, write.
If you start something and stop because half-way through, you’ve decided that actually, you’ve worked through it, then isn’t it enough?
You don't owe anyone your writing, just as no one owes you their readership, praise, or positive feedback. These are all wonderful by-products of your work resonating with others, if you're ever so lucky, but it cannot be what you write for.
AO3 is a bookshelf like Mary Poppins’ bag. Ever-extending. There is space for every length, every type, every genre, every fandom, everythingeverythingeverything.
The only thing it doesn’t have space for, is hate.
#fanficwriter#fanfiction#ao3#ao3 writer#ao3 fanfic#I saw a tiktok from someone else and it bothered me#and I realized it was because I think I've said something too similar once#but I really didn't mean it in a negative way#and sometimes conveying ideas are hard#but i did my best#anyway I hope this doesn' t offend anyone#it's just#i think fandom is transforming#and writers are intimated#and I don't think writing should be an intimidating endeavour#it should feel like release#like catharsis#like joy
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No shit.
I mean, more aptly put:
... In 2018, a study by the same team found that written exposure therapy was as effective as cognitive processing therapy, another first-line, or most highly recommended, PTSD treatment.
Writing down traumatic memories may be easier for some people, if they feel shame or embarrassment about what happened to them, said Denise Sloan, a psychologist who helped develop the treatment and is an author of the study. She said patients were asked to write by hand, which takes longer and allows them to engage with the memory.
“It’s a slower process, that allows them to better think through ‘what happened next, and who was there, and what did they say,’ because they’re writing about it,” said Dr. Sloan, associate director of the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD. “It slows everything down, versus just saying it out loud.”
The therapy was inspired by the work of James Pennebaker, a Texas psychologist who, in the 1980s, began experimenting with what he called “expressive writing,” and found that people who regularly wrote about negative life experiences had stronger immune systems and paid fewer visits to the doctor.
The first study of written exposure therapy as a treatment for PTSD appeared in 2012. It works, Dr. Sloan said, much the way other trauma-focused treatments do: by allowing the client to confront the traumatic memory, lessening their fear and avoidance, and allowing them to identify misconceptions like self-blame.
#trauma recovery#writing therapy#my therapist approves this message#theraputic writing#writing for catharsis#catharsis#dark fic#fanfiction thoughts#fanfic history#ao3 writer#ptsd mention#cptsd coping#complex ptsd#ptsd recovery
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fandom enjoyed by day, incest shipper assassin by night
#i am nor ally quite chill for different levels of fuckery people get into#mostly because i believe that you shouldn't stick your head where you don't want to#this is easy on ao3 where you just tag gen and boom you're safe#art however???? fanart is instantly poisoned by having even a fraction of incest shippers in the fandom#immediately you beed to question doubt and check everything you can if the artist ships incest or not#worse yet image agrigator sites will get immediately roped into showing you incest art because it contains “hugs”#i want my blorbo families to hold hands hug smooch on the cheek or head and have literally every sweet or nice form of physical comfort#possible#i need all of it ALL OF IT#but fuckin incest shippers are a Desease that you just...have to sigh very very heavily and take it as it is and i hate this#might be the result of using image agregators and not the source though as with source sites you can just block the incest shipper artist#and problem solved#dmc#i have no idea why there are so many of the bastards in here and I don't want the answer to that question either#i can understand using fiction as a method to reflect difficult/problematic topics it may prove catharsis for some#incest shipping is still not allowed not in my book
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Me 🤝 Dove tag on my fics
#ao3 writer#writer problems#writer#writer probz#angst#dead dove do not eat#like i need to express my angst and shit but also dont wanna trigger anyone else#i publish shit so hopefully someone else can find catharsis and peace#but sorry y'all never gonna see my poetry that shit is another level
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New Chapter Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket
I was going to upload three chapters but Friday the 13th did me dirty.
#squirrel and hedgehog#so you wanted to see bamsaegi snap and get some catharsis I hear#not sure if I'm being weird with the bird cult stuff#but I have had 'canon typical speciesism' tagged from the beginning so...#bamsaegi#AO3#Also now just making up temporary characters to help the plot#unless people want more of a specific character
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it’s weird because i normally eat tragic shit with a spoon but the ending of cyrano made me incandescently furious. what the fuck. what the fuck! they should have gotten married and lived a long happy life together making jokes and knowing each other inside out and writing sappy love notes to each other!!!! what the fuck!!!
#cyrano#i really liked this movie but the ending made me scream lol#also furious bc there's 16 fics on ao3 so i cant even get the catharsis of a fix-it fic lol#god!!!!!!!!!!! they should've been happy!!!!!!!!!!!
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You read fanfics for the characters and plot, I read fanfics for the chapters of second-hand free therapy. We are not the same.
#crying screaming throwing in the ao3 dark mode layout#supernatural people have been through it they deliver the best personal experience insert in the fanfics#and you know what i can be a dean kinnie if that gets me catharsis and free therapy#It a win win for girls like me (poor and weirdos)
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the way some people frame algorithms as a good thing and the recent idea or push that ao3 should have an algorithm... stop for the love of everything you hold dear please stop
#i dont WANT some fucking bot spying on everything i look up and see#bad enough the youtube algorithm whenever i venture there#and that stuff is pretty easy to ignore unless im purposefully looking to while away some hours#why on EARTH would you want something spying on what you read on ao3#even ignoring whatever embarrassment for kinky shit#some stuff i read as comfort#or find catharsis from personal issues and traumas that my favourite characters go through#do not need some fucking bot knowing that#and could see to a company for money#fuck man even just knowing what fandoms you're in would suck ass#it's practically a death trap at that point they know your hyperfixations#and i probably sound old as fuck but being spoonfed content they think i would like or are trying to purposefully push#i#HATE#that#how fucking mindlessly passive#so mind numbing#so fucking insidious in what they can push#do NOT like it
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Did the thing where I was honest about my feelings and it didn't make me feel better but at least I feel differently bad, so....yay?
#i need catharsis. gonna read a book and cry over fictional characters again.#it can't be a sad book though. just one of the ones that if it was one of my ao3 bookmarks I'd tag it 'so many feelings'
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i love reading good omens fanfic because every once in a while you'll come across one thats so sad but really biblically detailed and you realize the author definitely has religious trauma
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