Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness

Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you've read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?

THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT

I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it's been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible

Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together

**~ PROMPTING ~**

Time to write some prompts for the 2023 fest! Join out Discord server!

Prompts are submitted through a google form; you'll find the link in the #draco-ginny-fic-fest channel in the Exchanges category (link below), which will serve as the hub for fest rules and announcements. Stories will be posted on AO3.

Prompts can be as short as a few words or as long as a paragraph. You can submit as many prompts as you’d like during the prompting period as long as they are submitted one at a time. Submitting a prompt does NOT obligate you to write a story. Anyone can submit prompts whether they plan to participate as a writer or not! Prompts can be submitted using your name, username, or anonymously. If you need ideas or resources, you'll find plenty in the server different channels!

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THE DRACO/GINNY FIC FEST 3.0 - SUMMER 2023

**~ INFORMATION ~**

**WHAT:** The Draco/Ginny Fic Fest 3.0 is the Nth annual writing fest devoted solely to the romantic pairing of Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley! Look, TBH, I don’t even know how many there have been. But it’s a big number. And I really want to keep this exchange alive. Our fandom ship has been sailing for a long time, and I want us to keep it afloat!

**WHO:** Anyone can join! Current, former, or even brand new writers are welcome as long as you have an AO3 account! Don’t have an AO3 account? Contact mod Anise to receive an invitation to join. Don’t want to write but still want to participate? We seriously need prompters and readers/reviewers too!

**WHEN:** The fest dates are as follows:

- Prompt submissions: June 21st-July 5th

- Prompt claiming and writing: July 6th -August 20th

- Submissions due: August 26th

- Posting and reading begins: August 28th (posting schedule TBD)

- Voting begins: September 2nd

- Awards/reveals: TBD, but going by last year, September 28th.

**__THE DRACO/GINNY FIC FEST 3.0 - SUMMER 2023__**

**~ INFORMATION ~**

**WHAT:** The Draco/Ginny Fic Fest 3.0 is the Nth annual writing fest devoted solely to the romantic pairing of Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley! Look, TBH, I don’t even know how many there have been. But it’s a big number. And I really want to keep this exchange alive. Our fandom ship has been sailing for a long time, and I want us to keep it afloat!

**WHO:** Anyone can join! Current, former, or even brand new writers are welcome as long as you have an AO3 account! Don’t have an AO3 account? Contact mod Anise / Realanise to receive an invitation to join. Don’t want to write but still want to participate? We seriously need prompters and readers/reviewers too!

**WHEN:** The fest dates are as follows:

- Prompt submissions: June 21st-July 5th

- Prompt claiming and writing: July 6th -August 20th

- Submissions due: August 26th

- Posting and reading begins: August 28th (posting schedule TBD)

- Voting begins: September 2nd

- Awards/reveals: TBD, but going by last year, September 28th.

**WHERE:**

Join our Discord server:

The #draco-ginny-fic-fest channel on the Draco x Ginny discord will serve as the hub for fest rules and announcements. Stories will be posted on AO3.

FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".

Please share so people stop panicking.

not reading wips feels anti-fanfiction to me. and i don't mean that in a "so you're a bad person if you don't read them" kinda way. do what you want. but i also feel, that you are completely missing the point. with fanfiction you're supposed to come along for the ride. the epic highs and lows of highschool football. the comment sections. the conversations. the theories. the "sorry i didn't update last week i was abducted by aliens and then my cat got stuck in a tree." LIKE. if you just want a story that's fully finished and polished go to a bookstore. fanfic is an EXPERIENCE. and ALSO. participating in the process is part of the way you make fanfic writing worth while. it's part of how you thank authors. like why would anyone write fanfiction if no one was going to interact with them until it was done? it again feels like a way that fanfiction is being eaten by consumer culture. you're waiting for your product. but this is supposed to be a club. you don't turn up to drama club like "where's my play bitch?" NO ma'am. we're supposed to paint these cardboard trees together. ok. i may have lost control of this metaphor. BUT YOU GET IT.

Favorite Moments From StarKid Musicals 

i hope this doesn’t need to be said but just in case

you might have seen people talking about sudowrite and/or their tool storyengine recently

and just like… don’t. don’t do it. don’t try it out just to see what it’s about.

for two main reasons:

1) never feed anything proprietary into a large language model (LLM, eg ChatGPT, google bard, etc.).

this means don’t give it private company information when you’re at work, but also don’t give it your original writing. that’s your work.

because of the way these language models work, anything you feed into it is part of it now. and yeah, the FAQ says they “don’t claim ownership” over anything and yeah, they give you that reassuring bullshit about how unlikely it is that the exact same sentence will be reconstructed—

but that’s not the point.

do you have an unusual way of constructing sentences? a metaphor you like to use? a writing tic that sets you apart from the rest? anything that gives you a unique writing voice?

feed your writing into an LLM, and the model has your voice now. the model can generate text that sounds like it was written by you and someone else can claim it’s theirs because they gave the model a prompt.

don’t feed the model.

2) the other reason is that sudowrite scraped a bunch of omegaverse fic without consent to build their model and that’s a really shitty thing to do, because it means people weren’t given the chance to choose whether or not to feed the model.

don’t feed the model.

also this.

don’t feed the model.

One Drink Too Many

It wasn’t supposed to turn into this. One drink to eliminate the past and toast the future.

Ginny sighed, cringing as her fingers caught the tangles in her unruly hair. 

She glanced at Draco sleeping beside her, their quidditch robes littering the bedroom floor. 

Fuck the ferret and his long fingers.

what is writing, if not old WIPs persevering

Lazy morning

Death By a Thousand Cuts Teaser

I have... so much writing to do, but I do have a good portion of the beginning written.

This is the first fic I have decided to write completely before posting, and based on how things are going so far, I'm actually glad I've chosen to do it this way. There are a number of scenes that are written that are in completely different spots in the story, and I have even gone back to earlier in the story to add scenes - so this is actually benefitting the story overall.

However, I have been leaving you hanging, so I figured it was time to leave you with a teaser:

Dirty Blood Dynasties - Chapter 58 - Drinny & Theomione

LINKS: FF.NET - AO3 - Music Playlist

In french

AU. The British magical community has been profoundly shaped by Lord Voldemort and his obsession with blood purity. Since his death, thirteen families have ruled the country, preserving the traditions and values of a pure and conservative caste-based society.

Young commoner Ginny Weasley’s life is turned upside down when she crosses paths with Draco Malfoy, the heir of a sacred dynasty. Her values are shaken when their respective worlds collide, in a troubled political context.

I kind of suck at tagging, so I made this infographic to help make it easier.

Harry and Ginny - I just recently finished the books for the first time and I can’t believe I didn’t try to read them sooner

Draco used to say, that there were the kind of people who would fight for you until all hope was gone. And then there were the kind of people who would fight for you even beyond that. I know he thought Ginny was one of that kind.