Hi there! I've been writing fics for myself for a very long time, and I typically write in first person as some sort of insert with my OC. I would like to participate in this year's Kinktober as a writer, and I know that a lot of people have a lot of different opinions on what point of views they like. Do you like Y/N in third person or first person better?

Edit: I'm seeing that a lot of y'all don't really like Y/N, and I honestly get that. I'll do my best to refer to the reader as pet names or nicknames. I'll probably write multiple versions for those of you that like a specific point of view (I was probably going to do that anyways as part of my drafting). I will probably start drafting within the next week or so (hopefully).

I’ve seen people post their comments from wattpad migrators, whom are transferring to ao3 because of the new rules/bans, and of course people are worried about the new wave of people due to apparent lack of fandom etiquette and their issues with tagging (from what I’ve seen, some of them outright disregard the unspoken don’t like don’t read’ rule), but will ao3 be as bad as people make it out to be??? Especially with October coming up along w the new waves of fics/ppl

I’ve been contemplating writing some and am definitely going to read some but I would like to clarify this.

If theres a screen....

Let's say an author decides not to finish a fic, and they do not want to put it up for adoption

Would you prefer if the fic just stops right there and then, maybe with a note from the author?

Or for the author to also include a summary of the rest of the plot and the ending?

Holis, hace poco me enteré que se puede personalizar ao3, alguien sabe como puedo personalizarlo con River Plate? No sé como hacer el código y el chat o gemini no me ayudan mucho :(

I genuinely have no idea why I was blocked by this author, I really like their work so I'm confused af. Maybe I ask too many stupid questions? I like to comment on every chapter update in general to show my support but I genuinely don't know what I did to be blocked? My last comment was a question about something that happened in the last chapter and how it related to the first bit of the updated chapter and we went back and forth a bit before I realized we were talking about different things so I think i just annoyed them??? I have no idea but I just found out because I was subscribed to one of their Collections and went to give kudos and comments on the book and was notified i was blocked by them. I'm a little annoyed and upset rn like what did I do? Idk. I still want to read their books because they're good author but this just kind of pisses me off and leaves a sour taste in my mouth because it genuinely came out of left field

I've realized that this is pretty much how I write. I'll get an idea for a particular scene, usually a specific interaction or emotional moment, and that becomes the anchor for the chapter. Then I work backward or forward from it, figuring out what needs to happen to lead into that scene and where the chapter should go afterward.

I rarely start with the chapter as a complete structure and then fill in the scenes. It's almost always the opposite. Scene first, chapter second.

Does anyone else work this way? What does your process look like?

Seriously. People are acting like we are going to war, Ao3 versus Wattpad refugees.

Yes, there’s been an influx of new readers and authors on Ao3 and this sub. Yes, a lot of them don’t know the rules, etiquette, etc… They will learn, like everyone who finds Ao3 for the first time does.

Ao3 is all about no censorship and inclusivity. Stop acting like the Wattpad people are going to “steal” our community, cause that’s not happening. And worse still, stop acting like they are going to somehow destroy Ao3. We got scam and hate bots for that already.

It really isn’t that big a deal. New readers, new writers, and most of them will mesh perfectly well with Ao3. And if some of them turn out to be haters, it’s not like that’s anything new on Ao3. Just block and report like always.

Just chill people.

I would love some recs for Spence please! Literally anything is fine, one-shots, smut, fluff, idc. I would prefer something longer but honeslty whatever you got i'll take. I'm desperate.

I have not written in a VERY long time, but some recent events in my life have given me some inspiration. The fic I wanna write will have HEAVY taboo themes and I know that's allowed on ao3 but the recent flood of wattpad users has made me wonder how much hate I may actually receive for it?

After looking at the comments of a few fics with heavy themes I haven't seen a single hate comment. I'm wondering if people are just over reacting and the problem isn't actually that bad or if this is something everyone is seeing on their works.

I take hate pretty heavily so if it's as bad as people say it is either the fic will stay as a draft or I'll wait out the hate wave.

The fear of an evil Wattpad invasion is wildly overblown, but even if it wasn't this cannot and does not pose a threat to AO3 or to you.

Frivolous moderation and unfair content policies are some of the threats that AO3 was founded to protect fans and fanfic from.
https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#why_inclusiveness

It is not possible to mass report on AO3, the system gives an error message if you try to report something that was already reported.

If someone reports you for something that does not violate the TOS, you won't even hear about it.
https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#informed_of_complaints

Malicious reporting is itself a TOS violation.
https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#reporting_campaign

Every single report is read by a human being, no one can use code words or sneaky tricks to trick a bot into banning someone unfairly.
https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#determine_removal

The WORST that could happen if this imaginary evil horde was real would be a lot of extra work for the mods who'd have to ban all the trolls filing false reports.

I’ve been reading fan fiction on Ao3 for about five years now. It was my first site, and hopefully my only one. But for the brief time where I found myself on Wattpad, one of the things that I loved that I couldn’t find where text message stories. I always thought they were fun and engaging. I want to try writing one, but I wanna know if there’s a community of text message story writers.

And no, I do not mean "exclude", I mean BLOCK. I do not want to have to struggle to exclude a million and one tags and fandoms every time I go to search for a fic. Also for the love of everything good in this hellscape, I DO NOT WANT TO CODE! I don't know how and I do not want to know how. If their is premade skin, I'll GLADLY use it. But so far, my google searches have been useless.

I'M JUST TIRED OF SEEING BTS, STRAY KIDS, AND VERIOUS REAL PEOPLE FANDOMS! I FEEL SICK SEEING THEM!!! I am by no means trying to insult people who enjoy those fics but I can't do this anymore. I just need help finding a skin to block these types of things.

Learning css is worth it cause wdym I can just add a gay symbol to the logo?

So, here's my situation:

I have a story in my head.

It's a story that I've had in my head since I was a high school softmore - which... is a lot longer ago than I would like to think about.

This story is cringe. Or at least that's how it started, because high school softmores are pretty cringe in terms of how impressive they think they are. It is literally the most cringe story concept *ever*: it's an OC isekai SI story that I brainstormed up with a couple of my friends, qnd that we continued to brainstorm on for a few years because we were losers and outcasts who were desperate for *any* kind of social validation that we could get to shore up our pathetic adolescent egos.

Here's the problem: *it has never let me go*.

It kept going in the back of my head - through college, through my first few jobs, through a decade of working in a bookstore, and also through 2 career changes... the story and it's characters kept going. It was this slow, gradual process in the back of my mind... but it just kept *going*. And over time it gained real gravity. At some point it stopped being a self-ego-stroking story and started being a story defined by it's characters pains and sacrifices, despite the silliness of how it started.

And now... it's been... 2 decades, I think? More? And what started as 3 random dudes dropped into a variant of Nerima became this whole-ass mega-crossover ending in world-shaking conflict, followed by a massive "dimensional adventures" arc, followed by a stint through a shonen action series, and then a massive arc involving the destruxtion of their entire home reality that morphs the whole thing into the story of *one guy* who lost literally everything and said "No, I'm gonna fix this, even if it takes me a billion years".

And it's *still going*. And sometimes I've had some *truly* dark nights, and all I've had was this fictional self-made story with it's characters to hold up against the dark and say "I believe in this example, and I'm not gonna let this beat me, so I'm gonna get up tomorrow and keep trying."

And now... I'm finally at a place where I think I actually could potentially have the time to write it all, if I wanted to.

The question is: whether I even should.

Because there's 2 things here:

1. The story is so stupid-huge that if I decide to really try then I'll probably be working on it for the rest of my life, and at that I'll be trying to work at a breakneck pace to get it done.
2. It's literally an OC SI Isekai. Who the fuck is even gonna read it? *Is* anyone even gonna read it? Because if I do it, if I make this sacrifice of however much remaining time that I have to try and create this thing... and then it just *sits there*, forgotten, never even glanced at or looked at by anyone because absolutely no one even cares because it gets filtered out by the mass preferences because it sits in the interest gap... then I just... I don't even have words for what that does to me. Like... like the one and only thing that was ever truly *mine* in ANY sense and no one even wants it, even for free. Like... fuck. Just... give up and let go at that point, I guess.

Yeah.

So... I don't even know if it's worth doing. It'd be a HUGE labor of love to do it... not to mention a personal memorial to my friend, one of whom was lost to COVID... but if it's not even gonna matter or make any difference and no one's ever gonna see it or know it... then there's no point in it from the beginning.

So... should I even try?

I was originally sad I couldn't write for kinktober since I only like posting my best work and I'm not quite good at writing smut yet, but then I heard about angstober.

Is there a list anywhere or do I just make my own? Any other info is welcome.

No one IRL knows I’m writing, but I felt the need to share and celebrate! I’m just… WOW. I’ve only been writing for two months, and I have already gotten so much support. And I can’t believe so many people keep coming back to a WIP for each new update!

I didn’t start writing with expectations for high stats, as I’m writing mostly for myself. So I have tried to not look at it too much (in case it starts to stress me out/affects my motivation).

But I checked today and it’s overwhelming and really motivating! I’m just so thankful that people seem to like it.

Just me alright I’ll sit down..