So, I recently decided to visit the fandom I got into like 10 years ago. Since I Ao3 wasn’t that big of a deal back then, in order to read some fics for this fandom, I dusted off my ancient Wattpad account and went searching through my fic history and scouring the app for some new ones.

And man, it’s so strange to see how fans weren’t afraid to be genuinely weird back then. I saw teenage writers casually shipping themselves with adult characters, introducing their OCs in between the one shot chapters, doing challenges, once again, in the middle of the stories, and so on and so forth.

Nowadays, normie fandom posers would 1) ridicule those writers to hell and back on social media and 2) scream and virtue signal about “pedophilia” etc.

While fandom culture as a whole getting bigger did attract more attention to many wonderful and fun stories written by fans, it’s a shame that because of stan twitter rejects, engagement farmers and other kinds of posers hopping on a bandwagon, this sort of genuine, unapologetic and fun cringeness is almost extinct in the modern fandom as a whole.

okay, right now I am writing a fic (as we all do), but even after a lot of time writing this fic, i still can not come up with a name for it. like i genially don't know how to come up with one. Any types?

aka what delusional beliefs have you had about a certain situation, relationship, etc. that felt like a fanfic?

Let’s do one of these today

As always, here are the rules:

1. Leave a song lyric in a top level comment. Let’s keep the lyrics to 1 - 4 lines or one verse if the song has shorter verses. To not bury other prompts, let’s limit it to 1 - 3 consecutive prompts in a row.

2. Reply to prompts if you have an extract that you feel matches the meaning of the lyric, has the same vibe, your extract contains words from the lyric in it or the phrase itself is used in the extract.

3. Upvote the ones you like and try to at least comment on one answer to your prompt

4. Be mindful of the sub’s NSFW rule

5. Have fun :)

Mine are a how to train your dragon Antarctica AU, the riders are Modern day researchers living on a base in Antarctica with their pets. Toothless is a Norwegian forest cat with his own ski goggles.

Ttte riders AU, the engines are now humans with horses. There’s currently an ongoing lawsuit against two canon characters and both decided to represent themselves. It’s so derived that the only thing in common with the source material is story beats, character names, and personality. But at least everyone is in character.

Plus it gives me an excuse to infodump about horses.

The title speaks for itself, but for those of you who don't know what a fanfix is, a fanfix is a type of fanfiction that basically is the writer's version of how they would want an arc to go or a character to be developed. This can be for any fandom, so long as you believe that it could have been done better.

Okay I have been searching ao3 for DAYS and I cannot for the life of me find this fic.

I remember Kirk and Spock are captured on an away mission or something and they’re in celebrate cells with bars between them (I think). Some something stuff happens (torture maybe???) and Kirk is like, dying and Spock like, brings Kirk’s mind into his own to keep him ‘alive’ even though his body is shutting down or something.

Fast forward a bit and they’re both stuck in Spock’s body, Kirk has realised that when Spock’s meditating Kirk can be ‘in charge’ while Spock’s not paying attention. Spock refuses to leave Jim’s body there so Kirk hijacks Spock while he’s meditating and gets them out.

They get back to the ship, they enterprise crew retries Jim’s body and bones fixes it up. BUT, Kirk’s mind can only inhabit his body while in physical contact with Spock so they need to fix this.

At some point I think Spock goes into pon farr and they have weird fun times messing around with Kirk controlling Spock’s body or something ??????

It ends with something but I don’t remember what, I feel like there was something about a bridge btwn Spock and Kirk’s minds but that might be unrelated. Anyways I desperately desire to read it again but I can’t find it anywhere so if u can help I’d MASSIVELY appreciate it (:

And follow up question- if the perspective does change, would you prefer it to change halfway through, or alternate each chapter?

I'm just starting to write a slow burn fic where the romance is the main focus, and it took me so long to decide which character's perspective to write from (FYI I write in third person, but like from an over-the-shoulder POV). Eventually, I've decided to start with one character's perspective, and then change it around halfway through. The change will coincide with a pretty major canon event that drastically alters one of the character's lives, so I think it's quite fitting narratively.

The reason I wanted to change it up is because I was worried about missing out on something if we only got one character's perspective, if that makes sense? Especially because one of the characters has a tendency to hide his feelings a lot. I also really wanted to show how both of the characters feel about each other and I was worried I wouldn't be able to show that well enough if we didn't see both perspectives. However, I know it's totally possible to write an amazing slow burn with only one perspective, because I've read loads of fics for this pairing that do exactly that! Maybe I'm just not confident enough in my skills as a writer, haha.

At this point I'm not planning to change my decision. I also know that this is a personal preference so I'm not asking what people think is the 'best' way to do it- however, I'm just intrigued as to what people's preferences are, as it might influence the way I go about this in the future. Thanks! :))

Hi hi! First time posting here. I've been writing my first long fic for the last several months, and I'm getting to a place where I'm close to being ready to publish the first chapter. I wanted to write the whole thing before posting, so I'm at 50k words right now.

But thinking about posting it, I feel a lot of anxiety and feel that my characters aren't well thought-out, I've taken a lot of creative liberties (Like characters are aged differently than they usually are, example, instead of being a few years apart, they are the same age), and just feel like no one will even care about what I wrote (not that that should matter). I guess I feel like my writing is quite immature and the first chapters I wrote a few months ago feel like the wrong tone/vibe completely. I like some of my later sections, and I'm worried no one would even read far enough to get to those parts.

My ship is very popular on AO3, and I see on twitter a lot of fics getting attention, and I just feel like mine is so unimportant compared to theirs. I understand comparison isn't helpful, but I would feel so embarrassed even posting about my fic on X to promote it, because of course it would be fun to have readers and people appreciate my work, but the idea of my mutuals seeing it and judging it makes me so anxious.

This fic means so much to me and I'm worried my perception of it would change if I post it and people comment something negative or if it got no response whatsoever.

I was wondering, did any authors feel this way when posting your first fic? Any advice for how to feel more confident about posting?

Any perspectives and advice would be very much appreciated!

For whatever reason, the moment in your fic that got the biggest upset reaction from your readers (not just in a hated way, but also from like heavy angst and things like that).

I got this plot bunny last year, and I started working on it in ernest some time this year. I've learned my strength is one-shots, but this was a chaptered story. You know how it is with plot bunnies that won't leave you alone. Therefore, I was reading writing craft and resource books to learn more. I was still struggling mightily with the story.

Today, I had a major breakthrough. I was spitballing ideas for a title, saying different things outloud, and I came up with the best title. It's just so perfect that I can't believe it, and it ties everything in the story together. I was gushing over how much I love the title when I said, "The core of the story is about love." Bam! Breakthrough. I actually teared up since I had been struggling and the breakthough was so perfect and wonderful and now everything is falling into place. There are three loves (MC and the lack of love from his parents, the love between the MC and his husband, and the love the MC has for his yet-to-born daughter). What makes that more special is that those three loves fall into the usual three act arc of storytelling.

I can see a whole aerial view of the story now! Wow. The theme of love is perfect for me as a writer too. I can hardly believe this is where I am now with this WIP. I am just so proud, happy, and excited! I can't wait to write the whole story.

Hi, I’m seriously considering starting a fanfic where, after being captured and brainwashed, Wonder Woman ends up becoming a villain. Her first objective is to kidnap other heroines and transform them into beautiful supervillains just like her—what do you think of this idea?

If this idea interests you, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it—for instance, the name of the person who turned Wonder Woman into a villain, other heroines she might "recruit" as allies, and names and visual designs for these transformed heroines.

I’d like to thank those who took the time to read this; if you like the idea, feel free to use it. If you’d like me to share more about it, just leave a comment and I’ll respond.

AO3- heated rivalry and RWRB

Looking for PDFS of deleted fics by the author “azraelriego” titled “Meant to be” and “Guilty as sin”.

I reallyyy loved these and was heartbroken to find out that these were taken down!! If you have these pdfs and their sequels and any other works by the author pls help!!! Thanks

(Since platonic I've heard has different meanings...)

Spider-Man and supernatural brothers fic inspo I saw this and I can’t get it out of my head but does anyone one know of a fic that reminds you of the image?

This is a long shot in the dark, but I have vivid memories of an author on fanfiction.net with multiple great Victorious stories that were deleted several years ago, probably around 2020, or thereabouts. I don’t remember the author’s name, but one fic was Cat Valentine centric, titled Be My Saving Grace or something very similar, in which she’s kidnapped from a parking lot and held in a basement with two other girls. There was another series in which Jade has a little sister named Ruby, their father is abusive, and Jade and Beck have a daughter named Sophie as teenagers. I remember one story where Cat and Robbie had a child, but Robbie didn’t know so Cat raised her as a single mother for a few years before Robbie reappeared in her life. I’m sure there were more stories, but those were the main ones I remember.

If anyone can think of anything, has any way of finding these works or has them downloaded, please please help me out.

i think the idea on sqq having DID would be very interesting to read does any one have any reccs?

Tldr reverse dynamics of a popular pairing.

The nsfw tag really only here to talk about top and bottom.

Because people talk all the time about the struggles of finding a good rare pair. But I think what is actually harder is finding a fic of a super common pair that has the top and bottom the opposite of how the Fandom for some reason chose that Jason Todd is a bottom.

Where I want a fan fiction of him toping Roy. Which should be my god given write to read.

Because these are 2 close angsty men who are friends and teammates. There should be 10000s of fics of them fucking eachother as per the rules of the internet. And there are. Its just that most people only tag the ship. Its rare to tag who is top and who is bottom. Which makes it impossible to find the fic where jason is a top.

This is something I've been wondering about for a while! I tag wrangle on a non-ao3 archive and people tag stuff like "bad humor" or "attempt at XYZ" or "this sucks don't read it" all the time and I don't really understand the point? It's just telling people not to bother reading your work. Like, these are all subjective, and it's shooting yourself in the foot. If someone thinks you suck, lampshading whatever criticism you might get won't actually help. Idk it just confuses me, and I always get really sad seeing those tags :(

edit for clarity: i dont think it's an indicator of fic quality, nor am i particularly annoyed by it. i mean, i feel bad, but mostly in a tag wrangling context because you don't see the fic, just the part where they're being self-deprecating. i dont think its a very smart thing to do but im not like, judging people who do it or anything. sorry, i didnt realize anything i said came across like i had these opinions

I am someone who reads anime fandoms, and a lot try to add Japanese titles. This is great, but as someone who speaks Japanese (not native but many years speaking), I notice when it is direct google translation. Normally I don't say anything but sometimes the translation is so direct that it doesn't make sense or does not have the same meaning in English.

Do you think it's appropriate to comment on it? Not to comment? Maybe indirect comment of "Hey I noticed a translation error, could I message you my ideas to fix it?"

Can anyone recommend me some fics of The Walking Dead starting and going through the beginning of the world ending? Preferably Tumblr, AO3 and fanfic.net please? I don’t care from what year and if they involve Shane thank you Jesus son of god. Thank you if you reply !!!!

Well, Bleach ended today and I’m so sad. So in honor of Bleach give me your favorite fanfics. I prefer m/m ships when it comes to my fanfics, the angstier the better.