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starting a collection of my favourite AO3 author’s notes

honourable mentions

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Oooo pretty✨

The Black Sisters

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Everyone’s pov in the last magician series: *scheming*How can I accumulate the most power? How can I save the world? *scheming planning scheming plotting scheming*

Harte Darrigans pov: Esta Esta Esta. Her boobs look good. Omg let’s get married. She’s a literal angel. Esta Esta Esta.

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agatha: you want straight answers? ask a straight lady.

billy trying to emulate her: i’m the QUEER-ent :D

agatha: it’s cringe when you do it.

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“‘The Cruel Prince’ is such an Ironic title because Cardan isn’t cruel at all, really”

Bruh. That boy ripped a boy’s wings off the first time he appeared. Cruel is as cruel does.

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as per usual, I’m a tad late; but with my whole chest, Happy international women’s day! 🫶🫶

EVERY ARTWORK SHOWN ABOVE BELONGS TO frostbite.studios on instagram!

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Jude on Horseback 👑

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I firmly believe that if Cardan from The folk of the air and (book) Howl from Howl's moving castle met they'd be the best of friends. They both like drinking, extravagant clothes and have a tendency for dramatism and avoiding responsibility. And most importantly, they both love their wives very much. I just think they'd have a lots of thing to bond with. They'd be very dangerous together tho, I think everything arround them would turn into chaos really quickly if they ever met. And then Jude and Sophie would have to fix it all. Maybe they'd bond too! They're both exhausted from taking care of their husbands.

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oh yeh!! i need to post here my bad

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I’m reading the last magician series and the way that Lisa Maxwell can put herself in the mindset of her characters is masterful and hilarious.

Harts POV: “OMG she didn’t even bother to cover her ankles :00.”

“Her legs were so distracting in men’s trousers”

Absolutely kills me it’s so funny but then when it gets to Jack and he’s just an absolute righteous asshole it gives me such an ick, I can’t deal with it.

Also it makes me so sad how tiny this fandom is I want more people to rant with.

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Cardan’s Door Appreciation Post

The fact that Cardan’s door is the number one Jude x Cardan shipper is the only thing keeping me going right now.

Plus the fact that it’s known Cardan’s been crushing on Jude even when he was just a prince?? This door is the OG, right here

And, honestly, Cardan’s door calling Jude his “lady” is just absolutely precious your honor

(Taken from The Wicked King by Holly Black)

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i love wendell bambleby with my whole heart. the man has exactly three motives and outside of them he cannot do a single task without bitching copiously about it. they are: (1) my wife is the most wondrous being in existence and she shall want for nothing ever again, (2) this house has NOT been properly kept!! (yes i do count the silva lupi as an unkempt house), and (3) Pure Vibes

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propaganda i'm not falling for:

straight remus lupin

the MCD tag on ao3

kittywater

lily evans hate

the marauders hated peter

dumb sirius black

halloween 1981

the new hbo tv show

james cheating on lily

straight marlene mckinnon

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Never getting over how differently howl's moving castle book and movie treat the scarecrow

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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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The fact that kids nowadays want ao3 to be censored— guys. Guys. Where is your sense of adventure? When I was 12, and homeschooled, and had unlimited internet access on my second hand laptop, all I felt upon discovering ao3 was unmitigated joy. A whole platform where people can be fucking weird and post toe-curling novel-length diatribes about ANYTHING. How beautiful is that?

And then you, the reader, can just jump in and post your own weird shit? And people might comment just to say “nice job!” Or “where the fuck is the next chapter” on your 20k coffee shop FNAF AU? Bro. Them’s the little things that make the internet worth anything.

Ao3 is so beautiful. I love scrolling past indescribably disturbing descriptions. I love knowing they have a place to be posted. I love knowing that, should I feel the urge to indulge, I can do so with no repercussions.

Mi familia. Mis amigos. Por favor. Take a step back and be grateful that not every facet of creativity has been locked behind an algorithm.

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I hasn’t touched the app for a year and came back to it and I still had books with 40+ week holds

i’m sorry i appreciate the library as much as the next person but the fucking libby app is literally so useless like oh yeah i’d love nothing more than to wait 20 weeks for the chance listen to the choice of 17 audiobooks that are actually good and 1000 badly written middle aged softcore porno slogs jesus christ