#Fandom

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[bebx]

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Worst pain

[shyjusticewarrior]

At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

[lgbtlunaverse]

To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of escalating series of actions and circumstances which, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

[knebellindemann]

[prokopetz]

Writing a one-off badminton AU fic specifically because I have strong opinions about which characters would be weird about the word "shuttlecock".

[my-castles-crumbling]

Me at age 13, exhausted at school after staying up all night to read fanfic: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and I can stay up reading without any consequences!

Me, an adult, exhausted at work after staying up all night reading fanfic: Fuck.

[missanna001]

doodle

[crushedsweets]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOBY MOTHERFUCKIN ROOOGGEEERRRRSSSS [no text under the cut]

[yearning4yaoi]

One thing that pisses me off more than it should is people in fandom spaces (sometimes IRL too) not understanding unlabeled queer people.

They don't need to have a label, some people hate labels since it makes them feel constricted. Some just don't fit into any label. Some people have complex feelings that can't be explained! And some people just choose to identify solely as queer or genderqueer because they can!

I see this happen so much with characters like crona and ryuji ayukawa (examples). Why do you have to put a label on a character that clearly doesn't have one???

"They don't have a specific set of pronouns so they're trans/genderfluid!" "Wait I thought they were just a crossdresser?"

"Are they gay/lesbian, didn't they say they liked a character of the same gender" "Is this character bi/pan? I'm sure they've liked characters of different genders"

NONE NONE!! neither. They're just queer, just queer. No other label, there's no gay, lesbian, bi, pan, trans, nonbinary, or any specific labels attached to them!!!

You can headcanon anything you want even if it doesn't make sense, I won't stop you. As long as they stay in headcanons

But to try to figure out a label to a character that is heavily implied in canon to have no label or just be queer/genderqueer is just showing you have no understanding of the community

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

[bebx]

[hotpinkrathian]

AO3 Was scraped for generative AI

Perhaps this is already common knowledge on this app, but I have yet to see anything about it in my feed. If you are unaware, an AI tech company called HuggingFace recently had a user by the name of nyuuzyou scrape our beloved AO3.

This scrape included over 63 MILLION fanfics written by the hard working, passionate, and incredible people of every fandom. The scrape was conducted with the intent of using the data to generate AI fanfiction and fiction. If you have a fanfic on AO3 that has an ID between 1-63 200 000, and is publicly accessible (not restricted to registered users), then your work was scraped and used in the process.

AO3 admins are currently searching for solutions and some kind of retributions. Until then, make sure to limit your works to registered users and show the real writers that you value their time and contribution to fandom.

More about it here

[godstiel-collins]

You’re laughing?

7M+ people now know about Straddlegate and you’re laughing?!??