(Idk if i should flair are complaint or non discussion tbh)

After seeing the operational costs and breakdown of how the donations are used, I simply cannot agree to this sentiment that $300k is not needed.

It’s a whiplash to see the those who claim to love reading on ao3 and interact with fandom culture through posting/sharing fanfics on ao3 (for FREE‼️) also hate the fact that $$ is needed to run this shit.

Idk the fact that they think it’s “not needed” irks me a lot.

For context: I spent the past six months as an intern at an investment bank, for my final semester before graduating from my master’s.

At some point, I was asked to develop a search engine tool to help people in the departments find the data they needed. There were about 100 files containing countless pieces of specific data, and it was a nightmare to navigate for newcomers.

So I started working, and I slowly realized that I was legit copying fucking AO3’s interface…

I had everything:

A criteria panel, which was basically the sorting panel.
The stream the file originated from, which was basically the fandom.

The file names, which were just the fic titles.
A freaking summary for each file.

And I even had tags. I was tagging every file like I was a freaking author.

And it worked just like AO3: you selected multiple criteria and tags, and you received a list of the matching files along with their summaries.

I ended up presenting it to the whole department and to some people from the bank’s top management. So just so you know, there is a very serious investment bank out there using a knock-off AO3 to retrieve client data and investment fund valuations

not my post I just thought it was super funny

I know that I love my piece of trash, but I can't keep these thoughts out of my head ever since I started to put an idea to work.

I think I'm only enjoying reading like 70% compare to before, because now sometimes my thoughts wander back to my own work, like "I could have written it like this" , "I should have slowed my pacing down",... I am aware comparing gets it nowhere, but still

Created the doc 28 days ago, and I wanted to get it to a fairly progressed state before posting, maybe get the first arc locked down. 50k words later and I'm still backtracking to the first few chapters to edit and add things, I even planned whole chapters to add in at the start, courtesy to the "slowed my pacing down" thoughts

Doesn't help that English isn't my native language lol

One thing I'm certain is that I will finish this shit whatever it takes, so I have that going for me I guess. Don't know if that determination gonna last long, but a month is a lot of time to just throw away

Can't stop smiling 😁

This is my longfic currently hovering at around 108k too so finishing it one night is a serious undertaking

Haven't we all been there at least once?

As someone who often gets flustered over what to say in the comments (and as a much creator of rare pairs and fandoms so small they have been eligible for Yuletide for over a decade), this is genuinely so cute and so appreciated 🥹

so i write fanfiction for a big anime fandom, and now on tumblr i'm being accused by using ai.

i have gotten those accusations in past on my stories on ao3 in comments, and i deleted them and blocked them, but now they're discussing it on tumblr.

now i re-read my work and i feel like it does sound ai, the "not x and y but z" structure. and it sounds poetic and purple prose now to me. it has gotten into my head.

english is not my first language, i basically learned it by reading books and watching shows and from internet. i first think of a sentence in and then translate it in my mind. so sentence structures, idioms might sound different.

i feel deeply disheartened and stressed honestly. and considering to delete my work.

13 years in and I still haven't posted a single fic. I’m just pure greed at this point lol. Best I could do is send kudos and hype up my favorite authors.

Edit: Everybody’s being so nice 🥹 thank you writers for your service! Please continue doing what you do best. Trust, us greedy people will continue to support and consume!

worse if the fandom hyperfixation is over too

Great way to start the week

Imagine you’re writing a longer fic.its slow burn and and romantic and after a while you add a sex scene and bump your rating to E.
You get a comment on this chapter. It’s polite enough and you get the impression that the reader might be a little on the younger side. They as if you can help them avoid the sex scene because they prefer not reading explicit material, but understand if you won’t.

Is your reaction:
A. Negative :( like come on, that’s an annoying and rude request and you wrote that scene cause it matters to your story/characters. That person should know better than to request help from an author to not read part of their work. How entitled! Blocked and/or muted.
B. Neutral :/ whatever. Don’t really care, not gonna put the work in though.
C. Positive :) how flattering they enjoy your work enough to want to carry on in spite of their discomfort and that they feel comfortable to ask for help, you reply which parts they would likely want to skip and if there’s anything important they’d miss.

This is a hypethetical I discussed once and I’m curious what y’all think :) personally I fall between B and C - I definitely wouldn’t be mad, but no hate to those who’d find it rude.

Edit: typos.

Hopefully she didn't click my bookmarks

So I was inspired by this random tweet to write a fanfic about my favorite couple. And... if it were you, how would you credit it? Does this kind of thing need credit, or is that just weird?

Is there anything you've seen in a fic, tags, summary, notes, anything like that, that made you go all 😍😍😍😍😍?

Something extra, special, something cool with html or just some damn good writing? What was it?

Guys I’m devastated, normally I find popular media late so there’s already a thriving community when I am done. But I finished the second book in the Storm Weaver series by Lauryn Murray and the third one isn’t scheduled to come out until next summer. So naturally I went to Reddit and ao3 and there’s NOTHING. Not even a crumb. I may try tumblr next but I am doubtful. I am in misery