#*OUR stuff

[ablazenqueen]

Prapaisky Actor AU?? Hmm?? Hmmmmmm?????

Yes! Co-written with @fairlylokai (who gave their blessing for me to present a lil snippet)! It’s literally one scene from finished so this one should get posted… soon-ish! I hope! (Maybe not until I’m back from my holiday trip… 😅)

“Pai will be there too!”

That’s so much worse. But he can’t admit it out loud. Not without Rain poking and prodding at him until he’s forced to explain why. And especially not when Rain thinks the only relationship between Sky and Prapai is through their respective connections with Rain and Payu.

Which is true.

It remains true, even now. That is the only relationship between them. That’s all they are. Friends of friends.

The fact that two weeks ago they… Well. Everyone has off days, right? It was a one time thing and it doesn’t change anything. It’s not a mistake Sky will repeat.

So yes, friends of friends who fucked once. That’s all.

Basically, the concept is that Prapai is a really big name actor and Sky is up-and-coming actor Rain’s manager. They’re friends of friends (more acquaintances, really) through Payu (Prapai’s manager) and Rain (the actor Sky babysits) who are dating. Except also they slept together one time and then Prapai and Rain got cast in the same series and now they see each other pretty much every day and Prapai keeps flirting with Sky and maybe one time becomes more than one time, but it’s definitely still strictly physical.

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[minyicho]

starting a collection of my favourite AO3 author’s notes

honourable mentions

[moonchild311]

"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?

[abbielauren2024]

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

[theaftersundown]

fanfiction truly being the savior for everyones sanity

[kriz-smthn]

[a-delicious-victorian-child]

[kairithemang0]

I've got a lot of respect for smut writers. you write something incredibly sexual, it's probably somewhat of a look into your own soul, and then bitches are too scared to leave kudos of comments half the time, so it looks as though everyone hates your work. And yet yall still do it, and I love that

[vinceaddams]

I become consumed with jealousy every time I look at mudlarking instagram pages.

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[egophiliac]

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

[moonchild311]

"you've already left kudos here. :)" ok and I'll leave some more. You got a problem? Because in my opinion, this work is so good and the author totally deserves it

[saggitary]

There is no greater bond than the one between a person and the fictional character they’ve written 50k+ words about