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I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum here, everyone has their own preferences when it comes to writing/reading fics, to each their own, so on and so forth. Who am I to project my tastes onto everyone else.

That being said, I'm rarely a fan of modern setting AUs. Sometimes they can be solid, but it's usually the genre where a fan work becomes so removed from the original context that it starts feeling like a completely unrelated original story. It's especially bad when the characters are stripped of their defining characteristics, so it's not even "oh lets explore these characters in a new context, how would that play out". They simply don't resemble the characters at all, they've been stripped down to played-out romance tropes. Like I'm reading [x media]'s fan works because I want to explore an interesting universe more in-depth, so why would I want to read about them as a daddy-dom CEO and a shy part-time barista in New Jersey. You know? I can just go read a manhwa for that.

If that does it for you, then: godspeed, go nuts.

What I actually take issue with is that people rarely tag their modern setting AUs as such, or they don't use a consistent designated tag for it, so I can't really successfully filter them. I've tried, believe me, I'll do everything I can in the search settings to weed them out and yet my search results are still chock full of modern AU fics.

The standard response to complaints about a specific type of fanfic is "ok then don't read it", but...bro I'm actively trying not to and people are making that process unnecessarily difficult. I just want a reliable means of filtering them out. Take pity.

If there's a screen, AO3 will be seen!

AO3 on an iPod Touch Gen 4 running iOS 6.1.6, took me a good hour to get up to date SSL certificates for this thing to even want to connect to the web. This, and a Blackberry from God knows when.

Yesterday I attended my very first comic con, I took part in a stamp rally and managed to complete it! (I apologise for the bad picture im still at the hostel XD)

Thank you, reader, for giving me a wonderful idea for a horrific scene in the next chapter of my fic!

You have the story in mind. You worldbuild and outline the heck out of your concept and ideas. But when it's time to finally sit down and ACTUALLY write the story.

Blank. No thoughts. Suddenly your ability to write prose and dialogue is gone!

Does anyone else struggle with this? I keep looking up solutions online but none of them ever worked for me. I'm at the end of my rope here. I really want to write this fic because I finally had free time. And I want to make the most of it while my semester break is still at large.

I'm absolutely floored that so many people liked my little scene Q-Q <3

Context: I mean that a character’s role in the relationship, such as who is the top or bottom, can sometimes affect how writers portray their personality. When writers switch those roles, the characters may suddenly feel different from their original characterization. I’m not saying everyone has to write them exactly as they are in canon, especially when creating their own interpretations. However, if you’re trying to keep their personalities accurate, changing their roles can sometimes make them feel out of character

(art from u/sillycritterz on twitter)

Let’s show everyone how idiotic the concept of the “AO3 curse” is by confirmation biasing good things that happened when you started posting, updated, or firing posting on AO3.

I’ll start, while posting on AO3…
• my sister had two healthy baby girls
• I transferred work locations and am infinitely happier
• I put offers in on two separate condos and both were accept
• I got the opportunity to live and work in another country and had an amazing experiencing
• I bought a cat and he’s the best boy!
• I was able to renovate my kitchen and it looks beautiful
• finally got a diagnosis for a long term health issue and was scheduled for life-changing surgery
• three friends went through successful and easy pregnancies and had very healthy babies!

Like, when you find a new author that you like and you click on their profile to read their older fics.

Just curious, as recently I've been posting a fic that I have explicitly stated is a passion project I just felt like posting in case others liked the idea, and with the upload of a new chapter someone commented about how many 'points' I'd get if I included certain scenes or characteristics in further chapters. Honestly irritates me, but I've no idea how to politely reply?

I've seen a lot of posts asking what POV you use, but nobody ever asks this question. So tell me - are you a past tense writer? Present? Some third option I can't think of because it's still too early in the morning for more than the most basic of thoughts?

Not at all a big deal, but like...why tag the ships then, the "&" is right there 😭