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By the way, fanfiction isn't the place for reviews or criticism.

When you're a published author, it's like you're preparing a meal in a food competition. You expect a rating and to be told what worked and what didn't to improve your craft and embark on your career.

When you're a fanfiction author, it's like taking some of your free time to enjoy the process of baking cookies and then offering them to someone to be kind.

If you take a cookie from the plate, you don't spit it out and tell them it sucked.

Unless the writer asks for your opinion, you can keep it to yourself.

Adding this to clarify, and you don't have to agree with this by any means, I cannot force you to, but the reason Ao3 and Fanfiction isn't the space for criticism and ratings...is that it is a fan space created by fans for fans.

It isn't school.

It is a space where people with the same interests can congregate and enjoy the same fandom.

When you think about commenting on an fanfic authors fics, don't think if it as fishing around in your pocket to give them a compliment.

Compliments are nice. Most everyone likes compliments.

"I like your character development."

"You paint wonderful imagry."

Those are comments that are compliments. Speaking for myself as a fanfic writer they're nice, but they're not what my fan heart craves.

I want engagement with my readers.

The best comments I get aren't talking about my skill as a writer, but what just happened in the story because you and I (the reader) are already fans of the world created.

Comments like:

"NOOOOOOOO!"

"Did she actually just do that?"

"EXCUSE me?!?!"

None of these comments are compliments and none are critical. They are emotionally aligned with the story. They are engaged and with this engagement we create a little community in this tiny little space we get to call ours.

I cannot stop people from saying cruel things, but I can inform those people of the "dangers" so to speak when people treat fandom spaces like Ao3 as if it's Goodreads.

Writers, who write for themselves and offer it to you out of kindness, can decide that if people are just going to spit out their cookies they don't need to post about them anymore and that is how fandom spaces die.

If you don't like the flavor of cookie they made, or you're allergic to one of its ingredients...don't eat the cookie. Put it back for someone else to enjoy and then go find the flavor you do like.

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Me looking through AO3: ughhh I need to find a fic to read

My 62 open AO3 tabs: 👁️👄👁️

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Can we take a moment to appreciate how hilarious Maria Hill is in her two episodes of agents of shield?? Because like, “I swear I need a cocktail and a lobotomy”?? “If you were my agents, it wouldn’t be for long”??? “And I hoped you weren’t the duplicitous lowlife you turned out to be”???? I’m sorry every single thing she says cracks me up. And we don’t talk nearly enough about her doing things like drawing a porcupine in order to rate Ward’s people skills, or saying “sure Colonel, knock yourself out…” and then proceeding to, quite literally, knock him out. Nah I’m sorry she may have had incredibly little screen time but she’s still one of my favourite aos characters and I will forever quote her daily

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*at zoo*

Daisy: What are they in for?

Coulson: It's a zoo Daisy, not a jail.

Daisy, pointing at a lemur: I bet that one killed someone.

Coulson:

May: She might be on to something, Phil.

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Headcannon that sometime after May becomes Daisy’s S.O., Daisy randomly asks if they could make pancakes together for breakfast on the following Sunday. After agreeing, May lets Coulson know of their plans, and Coulson thinks for a moment before telling May that the next Sunday is Mother’s Day. May and Daisy then spend Mother’s Day together, and neither of them ever mention the occasion, so Daisy doesn’t realise May knows what was happening until the following year, when May asks Daisy a week before Mother’s Day if they could make pancakes and spend the day together again. And even though neither of them would specifically mention it being Mother’s Day until the year after that, it’s the second year when they both know for sure that they’ll always be family to each other

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“this ship isn’t canon” to YOU. I, however, am delusional

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Cant believe that Coulson pulled May out of a desk job by telling her he only wanted her to drive the bus, and then a year later she’s a mum of three, where two of her children almost exclusively talk about things she can’t understand and her third child literally has earthquake powers

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You don’t choose the ship… the ship crashes through your wall, body slams you into the ground and five finger death punches your heart.

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Yelena Belova being Yelena Belova 💁🏼‍♀️

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova THUNDERBOLTS* (2025) dir. Jake Schreier

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I fully believe May has a photo of her, Coulson, and Daisy on her desk at Coulson academy that looks like a typical family photo and everyone thinks it's her husband and daughter

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Just had a sandwich with proscuito and buffalo mozeralla and pesto and I think fitz was really onto something I think it may be my favorite new sandwich too

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it's m... it's mon.. it's mond... I can't even say it

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the funniest bit in any marvel content is still and forever will be six minutes into the pilot of agents of shield when agent coulson hides in a dark corner waiting for ward to say he knows he's dead because he's level six just to step out in the light with "welcome to level seven". king of dramatic entrances

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Literally sitting here like “you just wait” 😫

My favorite thing of all time has to be new AoS viewers. Like,

"Oh I really like this Ward guy! He seems like a softie underneath"

"FitzSimmons are adorable! I hope nothing bad happens to them!"

"Skye's the spy, right?"

"May is so sketchy... why is she here?"

"I think Black Widow's gonna show up in the next episode"

"Lincoln and Skye are so cute together"

I'm just sitting here with a smile. You're doing great, sweetie!

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Dame Maggie Smith

1934-2024