BlackHeart Biohazards

First of all, congrats on getting started with fanfic! That’s awesome and we’re excited to see what you create!

Now, so, a lot to parse here, please bear with me.

🔹users on AO3 sometimes put multiple unrelated stories into the same work as chapters.

There are many problems with this.

🔹if a reader wants to leave kudos on multiple stories within your work, they can’t do that.

🔹readers interested in specific stories within your work will have a hard time leafing through the work to find the story they’re looking for.

🔹you cannot provide a summary for each individual story within your work, so fewer people will find them.

🔹if your work has stories that include different characters and tropes in each of them, rather than each story being about the same characters and tropes you will run up against the tag limit and be unable to accurately tag your work.

Here’s what you should do instead

🔹make each story a separate work.

🔹it’s okay if they’re short. many people, ourselves included, put flash fiction and drabbles that are only 100-500 words long as separate works.

🔹this is very common and accepted. It makes it easier to tag, summarize, search and kudos each work.

Here’s how you can connect your related but separate works into a ‘book of short stories’.

🔹use AO3’s collection feature.

🔹use AO3’s series feature.

🔧 robots that get warm when they’re embarrassed and you can hear their fans whirring.

🔧 robots that don’t sleep, but they like to lay with you at night and you can feel the hum of their body as you lay against them.

🔧 robots that can’t process food but like to put things in their mouth and taste them.

🔧 letting a robot sit in your lap even though they are really heavy.

🔧 being so gentle with a damaged robot as you take them apart to fix them.

🔧 robots doing minor maintenance on each other as a social grooming activity.

🔧 robots with shiny exteriors that you can polish, and run your fingers over their smooth surface.

🔧 reassuring robots with humanoid exteriors that are too cold or too rubbery that they are beautiful.

🔧 touching the interior parts of a robot as an act of trust and intimacy.

If anyone is curious, the media that most heavily traumatized us was the novel “Child of Fortune” by Norman Spinrad.

It’s an excellent science fiction novel. There’s nothing wrong with it.

Except we were forced by our abusive father to read it when we were 14.

And there’s lots of hardcore, graphically described sex in it.

Including hypnosis rape on a mass scale by plants that rob you of your free will. And an underage sex cult.

And we were 14.

And our abusive father forced us to read it and give him little reports on it.

So yeah.