Something I found on Twitter that really puts things in perspective as a creator.
Nice sentiment but why did it start by telling us that our readers can die
to remind you to be niceys to them
They regularly threaten to hunt me for sport
hunt them back. they can die.
Patreon tier where the reward is that I stop hunting you for sport
The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.
Basic rundown:
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
this is for those who despair over seeing ships or tropes that make them uncomfortable while they do their little scrolly-scroll on ao3, acting like they aren’t responsible for their own internet experience
(alternatively, the back button also works)
you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,
2 genres of fanfiction:
1) put that guy into situations
2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST
earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding
Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.
And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'
Both are beautiful forms of writing.
I love ao3 author notes because yes please update me on your pregnancy before crushing my soul with your beautiful writing. Please tell me about how you got hit by a bus but all is well and you're writing this from a hospital bed. Please tell me about your morning mishap involving your cat and several plants. I love the context and richness it gives to the fic, I love knowing snippets about the person behind the story
me whenever I see posts about how canon is shit and can be discarded
If you want a great spelling check website, all you have to do is hit the "post/publish" button and all your mistakes will become abundantly obvious to you through the magic of absolute mortification
In fanfiction there is a difference between being a good writer and a popular writer.
Just because you can write a well-structured story with dynamic and consistent writing and characters doesn’t mean you will be popular. And sometimes stories that have disorganized plots, mediocre writing, and/or OOC characters will be held up as the greatest things to ever exist.
Just because your writing isn’t popular doesn’t mean you are a bad writer. Don’t ever compromise who you are, who your characters are, your plot, your writing style, anything for the sake of readership.
There are popular writers everywhere. But there are only so many good writers.
MMHM YUP.
Legend has it my cousin is still trying to find this profile…
Until further notice I will be locking down my fics on AO3 so that they can only be viewed by registered viewers, aka people who have AO3 accounts. Apparently some dipshits are trying to use AO3 to teach AI how to write by stealing/analyzing stories there, and I don't want my work, mediocre as it might be, to be taken advantage of that way. Sorry for any inconvenience 😔
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 years: I think about you often and I hope you’re alright
me: what about kudos??
ao3: you’ve already left kudos
me: i’ve left one, yes. but what about Second Kudos
"i can probably get this fun new fic idea written out as a coherent oneshot in a few days, and then afterwards i can get back to writing my other project(s)" <- this is the devil speaking through you
Alexander Pennington here with the facts that hurt
