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Fandom, ship: Our Flag Means Death, blackbonnet

Rating: Explicit

Words: 15,313

Summary: Ed is the owner and operator of Blackbeard’s Bar & Grill, a neighborhood gay bar near the shore. His life is starting to feel stagnant when he notices a new regular at his bar, a meticulously groomed man around his age. When Ed finds out he’s newly divorced and nervous about entering the dating scene, he offers to be his “practice boyfriend.”

Review: This fic had ALL the tropes I love! Fake dating, pining, “unrequited” love, friends to lovers... it all added up to a sweet fic, with a dash of angst.

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Fandom, ship: Merlin, merthur

Rating: General

Words: 320

Summary: “Okay, but suppose,” Merlin said, apropos of nothing, “someone you knew was a sorcerer.”

Review: This was short, angsty, and sweet.

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Fandom, ship: Teen Wolf, jacksterek (Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski/Jackson Whittemore)

Rating: Teen

Words: 2,632

Summary: Jackson should be glad to be back in Beacon Hills. Yeah, he's still dealing with the aftermath of his breakup, but the pack is back together (even some he didn't think would be possible to be there). He's surrounded by pack (are they really his) and has a place to stay (with Derek & Stiles, who are Together). But he's also touch-starved and feeling like he's just one extra person that's not really needed. Listening to Derek and Stiles, and dealing with Stiles's innuendo, isn't helping anything. Because they don't mean it, right?

Review: This was the first jacksterek fic I ever read, even if I posted it later for New Years. But this was so perfect, showed a healthy love and want between the three of them, and how Jackson is loved and wanted.

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Fandom, ship: Teen Wolf, sterek and jacksterek

Rating: Teen

Words: 775

Summary: “Your eyes are the prettiest things I’ve ever seen,” Stiles slurred in awe, intensely staring at Jackson’s face. “So blue and sparkly.”

Jackson raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked over his shoulder at Derek, who was watching them with clear amusement written all over his face.

“He’s still loopy after exhausting his magic,” Derek supplied.

“Yeah, I can see that.”

Review: I loved how unsure Jackson was, and how soft Derek and Stiles are towards them, how loving they are.

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Fandom, ship: Our Flag Means Death, blackbonnet

Rating: Teen

Words: 2,185

Summary: "The man looked slightly flustered, something that clearly didn’t sit well with him but Stede found it immensely charming.

“Just noticed that you were having a bit of trouble with your balance. Wanted to offer, if you wanted, a, er, hand hold?”

And then he pointed to his bicep."

Or the train is surprisingly crowded on a Thursday afternoon and a handsome stranger offers to help Stede not fall over.

Review: I was grinning while reading this, it was so sweet and funny! 

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Fandom, ship: Teen Wolf, sterek and jacksterek 

Rating: Teen

Words: 202

Summary: Derek has a plan so he and Stiles can keep Jackson.

Review: I loved the simplicity and sweetness of this fic.

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Gods bless the fanfic writers. I get immediately obsessed with a character or a movie/series/book? They’ve got me covered. It’s like they just know “oh yeah the mentally unstable ones are gonna be fallin’ for this one *starts writing fics*” and I admire and appreciate that sm. Bc I do fall for “that one.”

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I've been writing fics for a long time and I remember a time when even the smallest of fics and stories used to get a lot of engagement from their readers, even back in the days of fanfiction net and ye old forum fics. These days, one's lucky if someone leaves a kudos, let alone a simple comment. Did something about fandoms change? Did it become more consumer like?

Personal opinion? It’s not just a fandom thing. It’s a “web 3.0” (or whatever we’re calling the modern internet) thing.

Today’s internet is set up for maximum scrolling and minimal effort. Tiktok is an incredibly popular platform, in large part because there is zero thought that needs to go into watching on it. Youtube requires viewers to read the video title, look at the thumbnail, and make a decision. Tiktok just serves it right up for you.

Other social media sites are attempting to follow suit, easing the path of consumption to keep those eyeballs in place so the ads (and therefore the money) can flow. Everything from news sites with click bait links at the bottom of a story to online stores with “people who viewed this item also looked at this” - the entire internet is set up to keep people moving from one thing to the next without stopping.

AO3 isn’t social media. It isn’t news. It isn’t shopping. There’s no algorithm pushing content. There’s no “you liked this story? here’s another one just like it!” message when you reach the end of the fic.

But people get into certain habits. Just like people who are used to Wattpad use the word “books” instead of “fics” when they start reading on AO3, people who are used to watching a thing and then scrolling on are in the habit of seeing a thing and then moving on.

It will depend on your fandom, of course. And how popular a particular ship or trope is. My last fandom was full of people who’d started out in the LJ or FFN eras of fic, or the early days of AO3 and maybe that’s why commenting was so common. Or maybe it was because the early fans in that fandom created a culture where commenting and kudosing was seen as just… what you do.

I don’t really think of it as being connected to age at all. I see it more as being connected to comforts and habits. But it’s also connected to expectations, community, culture of that particular corner of fandom in particular. These days, I hear a lot of the discussion and recs and squee happens in discord servers instead of on the fics themselves. And that might be because that’s where the community is.

I also wonder (with no basis beyond my own gut) whether that period of several years where there was rant after rant here on tumblr about how to comment “correctly” might have made people comment less. I know that if I hadn’t been in the habit already, seeing the anger addressed at commenters in some of those posts would have made me decide that I wasn’t brave enough to risk it in case I did something wrong.

It’s a simple question with no simple answers, but here’s half a dozen thoughts I have in my head at any given time. I hope it gives you some insight? Or at least some things to consider.

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Fandom, ship: Our Flag Means Death, blackbonnet

Rating: General

Words: 803

Summary: Stede Bonnet is ten the first time he meets a mermaid.

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Write the bonkers, unhinged, weird idea that you think no actual person will like. Because guess what? You're an actual person, and you liking it still counts.

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Any Spideypool hannaki disease fanfictions sorry I dident spell it right

Hey! I love hanahaki fics, and unfortunately Spideypool doesn't have very many.

These are the ones that I've read and enjoyed:

And these are ones I haven't read but are on my never ending to-read list:

There are others, if you would like to check them out here and here. I personally wouldn't recommend all of these, but you might really enjoy them!

Happy reading! :)

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Fandom, ship: Marvel, spideypool

Rating: Teen

Words: 3,001

Summary: Deciding to be a sailor when he easily gets sea sick is not the stupidest thing Wade has ever done, but getting tossed overboard when he can't even swim certainly is. Lucky for him there is a merman that's willing to save him.

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Spideypool fic rec

drunk words, sober thoughts by jilliancares

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36130837/chapters/90065941

Fandom, ship: Marvel, spideypool

Rating: Teen

Words: 3,535

Summary: Peter wakes up in an unfamiliar bed. Naked. Whoever he hooked up with doesn't seem to be around, so he decides to sneak out before they return.

He fails.

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Spideypool fic rec

Let me explain by jilliancares

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36366793

Fandom, ship: Marvel, spideypool

Rating: General

Words: 8,505

Summary: Wade scoffs, shaking his head and elbowing Peter in the side. “Sure,” he says, sarcastic. “That’s why your spidey-sense doesn’t see me.”

Peter’s on the verge of laughing, wanting to join Wade in his amusement, but he freezes. His entire body goes still. He finds himself staring at a roof three buildings over, not even looking at anything. Two blocks away, a car alarm finally shuts off.

“I never told you that,” Peter says, the realization startling him.

Or: Peter's starting to realize just how much Wade knows about him.

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scatterbrained and lost in love

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36487108/

Author: jilliancares

Fandom, ship: Marvel, spideypool

Rating: Teen

Words: 8,874

Summary: “Who flirts with someone when they’re in a committed relationship?”

Wade gapes. Spidey’s in a relationship?

“I’m sorry,” Wade blurts. “I didn’t realize—”

“Whatever,” Spidey interrupts. He takes a step back, standing right on the edge of the roof. “You should’ve told me. It’s not fair to make someone think—” he cuts himself off. Shakes his head. “Whatever,” he repeats.

Or: Spidey overhears one side of a phone call between Wade and his daughter, Ellie. Wade's starting to realize that he probably should've mentioned he had a kid sometime in the last five years.

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wait, this is my apartment

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39058761/chapters/97706136

Author: jilliancares

Fandom, ship: Marvel, spideypool

Rating: General

Words: 6,401

Summary: Wade kicks a door open – Peter must’ve fallen asleep, because it doesn’t seem like they went very far – and then Peter’s being laid on a couch. The spring that’s always stuck out digs into Peter’s back, making him whine in the back of his throat, but Peter’s too tired to shift to the side.And then, very abruptly, Peter’s eyes fly open. Because Wade doesn’t have springs sticking out of his couch. Peter has springs sticking out of his couch.

Or: Peter realizes that Wade knows where he lives, and Wade doesn't seem inclined to tell Peter how he knows.