bibibuck: people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sineala: Oh! Oh! I know all about this! As a Canadian, you are presumably familiar with the 1990s buddy-cop TV show Due South, about a RCMP constable named Benton Fraser, who has come to Chicago on the trail of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
TBH I love rarepairs and crackships that you’d never expect and are the result of a pair of rp partners having accidentally let the characters vibe in a scene next to one another too long and sexual tension developed.
vivi-mire: “wow i love this character i should look at their tag-” X READER ATTACK 10000 YEARS HOW CHARACTER WOULD REACT TO YOU BEING INFERTILE UNTAGGED SMUT💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥🎃⚔📊💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥😳😲🤬🥵🥶😈💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥🏓🔨💥💥💥💥💥 I’ve been seeing this with a lot of tags now that tumblr actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
jezebelgoldstone: azrielgreen: somethingveryodd: frownyalfred: me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who hasn’t updated anything in four[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
lifblogs: Why is it even regular posts have a ridiculous likes to reblogs ratio? I made a post about a somewhat popular ship, and it has only 20 reblogs, but over 220 likes. Seriously? How is fandom going to continue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Your very best bet is to pay for your own hosting (buy a website and storage space of your own) and upload your art to that. We pay under $100 a year for a domain and personal hosting. However, your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
imdamagecontrol: one of the important cornerstones of fandom is understanding that your headcanon is not everyone else’s headcanon, and i’m not sure when people stopped understanding this
emmedoesntdomath: one thing people never understand is that i can and will ship characters with multiple other characters. like, we’re not discriminating here. not in this household, my good sir. equal opportunity. if they want to make out, they can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
glados-is-a-lesbian: glados-is-a-lesbian: glados-is-a-lesbian: glados-is-a-lesbian: god can you imagine glados equipped with tiktok therapyspeak. she’d be unbearable are you in the headspace to receive negative information about your weight my love language is testing and by not testing you’re really disrespecting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cloverstellar: I think the beauty of being a multifandom blogger just means you have the power to try and drag others into fandoms with you that they didn’t originally follow you for
Seeing people in *fandom* of all places now– in the nerdy weirdo hobby for rejects and freaks-– seeing people in fandom reject “being weird” and embrace and glorify “being normal” causes me actual physical literal pain. In my day in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
shsl-fujoshi: “is it weird to–” I’m going to stop you right there. Of course it’s weird. It’s good to be weird! Get weirder or I’ll die of boredom.
yffresbeard: i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal
aibidil: You wrote a trope that isn’t popular in fandom right now and isn’t high on search lists—you’re expanding fresh content You wrote an out-of-the-box characterization You’re learning to be proud of your work without external validation, which is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
frogdrops: if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bizarrelittlemew: i can’t wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can’t wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can’t wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can’t wait to be 60+[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I treasure all authors and all ways of writing– but I sometimes feel like I’m the only writer in fandom who actually starts longfic with the plot. Like if I just have miscellaneous character vibes and feelings I write a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ships can always be improved by adding another character to them. 💖
reavenedges-lies: supreme-leader-stoat: supreme-leader-stoat: Me when my mutual blasts my dash with 50 posts in a row about something I’ve never heard of before: Step-blorbo from my friend’s shows. Who doesn’t love a good ole Blorbo-In-Law
gayleviticus: sometimes you have mutuals who are talking about shows you’ve never heard of anywhere in your life. but sometimes it’s bc you’re normal and they’re into untranslated eroge from 1987, and sometimes it’s bc you’re too much of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More kudos and especially more comments will always spur me on to write faster. “In Justice We Trust” has been getting 7 comments per chapter, so I’ve been putting out a chapter per day. But no amount of lack of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
lucytara: anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other’s fics and admiring each other’s art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
chipadequeso: fucked up when you like something that is so bad. like yeag i love it. no dont watch it
black-quadrant: sometimes all you need is one passionate person who goes berserk for your work to keep you creating
fanby-fckry: themythicalcodfish: sonneillonv: scrungass: Y E A H Man, lemme tell you, this transition was a TRIP to watch in realtime. I would like to go back to glomping please Take me back to the ‘07 city Where the fanfolk[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
penandinkprincess: I just saw a fanfic author on tiktok advertising their fic like booktok does and peace and love but friend. your real life actual face??? associated with your fic??? listen, as far as y’all are concerned, I am a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
emmacornell: “hehehe i like seeing when the blorbo gets sent to the pain vortex” -sees an artist/ship i don’t like putting the blorbo in the pain vortex- “hEY YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO HURT BLORBO LIKE THAT—“
olderthannetfic: olderthannetfic: – Oh boy. AO3, brace yourself! Here’s the r/Wattpad master thread. And a thread on r/FanFiction. I haven’t had time to dig into them yet. Oh. Hmm. Tragic. What a shame. Who could possibly have predicted this.
starchaserdreams: I cannot possibly express how amazing it feels to get repeat commenters on a fanfic. When I was writing my first long form fanfic last spring I could have dedicated it to my first reader, that’s how inspired I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
anexperimentallife: Life changing: writer figures out that a single scene can stand on it’s own as a story. (especially in fanfiction)
themandylion: themandylion: themandylion: If you ever feel like you don’t contribute to fandom because you “only” comment— A regular serial commenter just joined a fandom Discord server I’m on and people are coming out of the woodwork to thank her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
avidbeader: marypsue: I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3’s TOS before confidently making ‘user guides’ to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong. Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that’s illegal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dear-massacre: adeceasedtulip: dear-massacre: That post about only reading fics with high kudos to hits ratio is suuuch a fucking bummer I’m so surprised that people actually do this?? Do they not look at the description to see if it’s for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
likegoldintheair: when i say i wish people started using the reblog button more i don’t mean it in a ‘i want more notes’ kind of way i mean it in a ‘i want to read about your thoughts on this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thank you OTW and AO3 for ruthlessly continuing to protect freedom of fiction in fandom.
transformativeworks: April 2024 Membership Drive: Keeping Fanworks Safe ALT OTW’s April Membership drive has begun! Find out what we do to keep fanworks safe by reading more at: https://otw.news/dps Bahasa Indonesia • Bahasa Melayu • Български • বাংলা • català[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catgirl-catboy: lierdumoa: One problem with AO3 tag searches is they make it basically impossible to find fic that centers common background ships. For example, if I look for Teen Wolf Scott/Allison fic I’ll just get a bunch of results for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Name and icon redacted in case they don’t want the attention, but I had to share this. this is one of the most flattering and touching comments we’ve ever received and I honestly teared up/happy cried reading it. When someone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
geeoharee: team–edward: Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
skeleship: WOAH-TPs, pairings you never considered but now ship.
me, pointing to the man who is the most doomed by the narrative ever: “That one, I want that one, I love him!”
It’s really, really annoying when non-gangster focused but crime adjacent media, or media invoking organized crime tropes, decides to put in a second string mook who’s a big, kinda of slow, cheerful thug with a wide chest and a nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nailgunstigmata: i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma
How to explain your bizarre, off the wall headcanon to people and make them believe in it— write 150k of fic that leads up to it making sense 🤣
Hi there! Have we met before? You may know us as blackheartbiohazards or as the sinister system! We’ve recently been forced to change blogs, so unfortunately we’ve lost all our followers and mutuals. What we post: writing advice and discussion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
heedra: enough coffee shop aus. time for ‘the thing’ aus. they are trapped together at a research station in antarctica. everyone stands around tensely while getting a blood test. somebody’s head turns into a spider.
therandomfandomme: i encourage you to go to your favourite writer’s ao3 page and comment on an older fic, because i can assure you that it will make their day. It can mean so much to see your work doesn’t disappear[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
olderthannetfic: osterby: olderthannetfic: – Is this something people in general say, or is it something that one True Art anon with serious emotional issues says? There’s nothing parasocial about commenting on people’s fanfic. The only way that would be true[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kkankuro: kkankuro: what is the opposite of a blorbo. like a character you hate so fucking much for no reason really you just cannot stand them and seeing them triggers rage. you want them dead. what’s the silly goofy word[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
officialmisha: no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rslashrats: rslashrats: christian rock bands are a backbone genre in the amv scene christian rock band making a song: i dedicate this one to you jesus unwell 12 year old girl who is a couple years away from having a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
allenvooreef: Finding songs for your OCs playlist like
dadrockenjoyerdeactivating-deac: I literally cannot stop thinking about this stupid fucking show I wish I never started watching it
spnyuri: spnyuri: someone apologized for commenting late… 2 months after the fic was posted 😭😭 girl that’s EARLY thats fresh times it’s appropriate to comment on a fic: – if it was written sometime between 10000 years ago and 3[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not a stupid question! Whump: (noun) a fanfiction genre based around exploring the (usually physical) suffering of characters. Whump: (verb) the act of causing someone suffering in fiction. Whumpee: the character in a whump story who experiences suffering. Whumper: the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nostalgia-tblr: re-reading my own fic because the author has exactly my taste in tropes, ships the same ships in the right way, and also shares my sense of humour. what a find, what a revelation. i hope they write more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
2009-2021: our fandom/fanfiction hiatus years… 23 to 34. So much changed in that time.
majorpepperidge: maskysgirlfriend: maskysgirlfriend: maskysgirlfriend: yall gotta be nicer about m/f bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Moderation is only relevant in a setting where rules of moderation are imposed. For example, no one in the publishing industry is forced to publish a book that doesn’t conform with their rules. That’s moderation. However if the government attempted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stop using the word “criticism” as a shield to excuse yourself when you attack and harass writers on a personal level. Saying “you, the author are a monster, and your fiction is destroying society” is an attack, not a literary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As much as people like to parrot “ACAB” and consider their job done, most people– especially people raised with evangelical values– have not done the work of unlearning legalism and understanding morality through the lens of actual harm. To these[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
damnfandomproblems: Fandom Problem #4690: kids come on here talking about “be gay do crimes!!” “ACAB!!” and then say people should go to jail over uh “"illegal ships”“ uh sure, good luck with that one kiddo lol
Speaking as fictionkin and a fictive system member, I am so tired of seeing kin and fictives trying to police and restrict how other people interact with and discuss fandom, and the fanfiction and art they create and share. Your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of” and “some things should be banned from ever being written or read about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
blackivory-27: drrockbell: Fandom: God there’s like NO content anymore. I wish we could get more art and fanfics :((( Someone: Hey, I can’t draw anything digitally, because I can’t afford a tablet, but here’s a pen on paper drawing that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uhoh! Popular fandom headcanon makers have fallen for the front the character puts up! Hundred dead, thousands injured.
brutaliakhoa: “why are you tagging this post as this character/ship, it literally makes no sense” well first of all i know and perceive the truth and am able to make flawless leaps in logic that are nevertheless grounded in fact
frogdrops: if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New ship?? more like fresh knife wound.
wordsysayswords: Friend: Wow, you have so many ideas and fanfics started! How do you do it? Me:
runawaymarbles: zz9pzza: runawaymarbles: The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their “ai” features that would track donor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
insecateur: hey just so you know discord hotlinking finally officially ended so if you had pictures hosted on discord somewhere (like in a fanfic or whatever) you should switch to another host asap all discord image links in the older[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Actually you do not need to respect the creator or their intentions for the characters when writing fanfiction or shipping. That’s kind of the whole point of fanfiction and shipping– doing what you want with the material without regard to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
futureboy: the thing about variety describing warner bros discovery making “unsuccessful attempts to sell the unprofitable fandom” is that this shifts all the blame on the audience. how are you gonna try that with a fandom that crowdfunded films on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gay-jewish-bucky: Nothing is better than fandom taking characters that canonically have enhanced stamina and writing about them using those abilities to have marathon fuck sessions
Our own high school english class did Romeo & Juliet one semester, and our immediate friend group ended up taking characters and role-playing as them in between classes and at lunch/after school for months the same way we did with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the thing. Fandom has always, always, always had big pockets of haters and negativity in it. There used to be whole blog communities dedicated to “sporking” and “wank”. But what social media has done is made those haters and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
killerboner: being in a small fandom is like being given a bone, chewing on it until you’re done with it, burying it in your backyard, and then digging that same chewed up bone months later to continue chewing on it,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
friends, family, and mutuals– is there any like, mafia based or 1920-70s crime based media that actually has an ongoing not-dead fandom to participate in? or anything like that? Those vibes?
What’s killing comments in fandom? The decline of comment culture is something I talk about a lot, however, I didn’t expect a personal rant about the subject to blow up into a 20k+ note post. However, that same post blowing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Three things before we begin. We’re not in the MHA fandom specifically we actually write more fanfic than we read these days we’re going to make some sweeping generalizations people won’t like here, and we want to be be really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dark Kingdom Renegades by Mark Latus (1996)– Sailor Moon fanfiction The Slayers Trilogy (Reflect, Chaos, Rebirth) by Stefan “Twoflower” Gagne (1998) Both of these fics were extremely influential to us when we first read them in the early 2000s. What[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pal we literally spam our followers with whatever our current hyperfixation/shift is every morning.. and afternoon… And evening. Its YOUR blog and it’s for collecting and interacting the way that you want. Also Yugioh is the best. I want to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the secret– authors love getting plain emoji, keymashes, and quotes from their fic as comments. You don’t have to say something meaningful. Just some reaction to tell us that you read it and liked it is appreciated. When we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hate how fandom purity culture has made character age discourse so overwhelming and loud that that those people will tell you it’s inappropriate to speculate on who characters who are canonically children might date in a fanfiction set it the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…