#and its on fanfiction.net

[hellonearthtoday]

ive had good taste my entire life. I have literally always been the same. Im rereading a fanfic I read when I was Honest to God 9 years old (thats EIGHT YEARS AGO) and it still holds up and its also completely gen/no romance which i think sets the tone for the rest of my formative years

[pseudophan]

being a phannie is a disease because why am i getting emotional thinking about a world where phil is an astronaut and dan would wave at him from earth and phil would take pics and be like aw i cant see him but he's there :) like WHAT is wrong with me phil has migraines just standing around his ass is not going to space

oh my god the thing is i literally wrote this scenario but in reverse when i was 13/14. but like not cause my version was so much worse. my version was more fucked up cause it was like the world was ending and only people younger than a certain age could continue into space and dan was the right age but phil wasn't. like dan had to get on a shuttle and phil had to stay behind on earth to just. die? i guess?

[sunnylighter]

I got this message before, but just so people know, I saw this-

So I locked my fics on AO3 for now. They're all still there, but only registered AO3 users can still view them. I'll probably take the locks down eventually if I hear the danger has passed or I think it's been long enough.

In the meantime, people who don't have an AO3 account can still read all my works (plus earlier ones I haven't imported) on here.

I know Fanfiction.net isn't ideal, but it's viewable and I always post to both.

[hmmdotjpg]

Hi hi hi my good pal @sandshadow9 wrote a fic about crystal and blaze after queen glacier's death that tore my heart out and I think you should go read it if you haven't already

The fic is called "When Glaciers Melt" and you can find it right here!

[geekgirles]

Seeing content of your NOTP be like:

On the outside: *keeps scrolling because even though you don't like something, that's no reason to be a prick about it and pick a fight with its enjoyers*

On the inside:

[im-the-queen-of-stardust]

We all know the pain of being in small fandoms where you sometimes quite literally read every single fic available with your favourite character. But no one talks about the struggle of the big fandom with loads of fics but you don't like how a huge part of them portray the character and the relationships. Because you sift through pages upon pages trying to find one of the fic writers that have at least a similar opinion about the characters to yours. And it's impossible to filter! Maybe a bit easier if you're looking for something specific but if you're just looking for anything how do you exclude dodgy characterisation?!

[ssaseaprince]

I want to just rewatch this movie over and over again, but the amount of fanfiction between my ship is so minimal that it's putting me off from rewatching it

[unlucky-number-4]

You ever read a fanfic so good you want to make fanfic for the fanfic?

Because that's me with this.

[impishtubist]

Hm feels weird in the year of our lord 2024 to see authors putting "no slash!" in the summaries and tags of their fics.

[mythawolf]

Status update - writing again after a six month long break (my fics are mostly on fanfiction.net but some will be on AO3 soon) and am irrationally worried I've gone off it permanantly.

[marinerainbow]

Mambo and Munk are just fanfic writers who, respectfully, throw canon in the trash, and treat the canon like it's gospel.

[ashthewaterghoul]

Me: *hcs my mc with they/them pronouns and has only used they/them pronouns for all of the (currently) 47k words of my fic* People in comments: I love him. He's great.

[superanimepirate]

I was looking up something in Percy Jackson and-

Uh, why are fanfictions the first two results and why is the wiki the third. And why is Fanfiction.net the first result????

[harley-style]

How do yall feel about your readers commenting a second time on your fics because they read it a again and again and couldnt help themselves?

[babysundoll]

Is it just me or do fanfictions not hit like they used to?

It might just be my main fandom (or maybe just me tbh) but over the past couple of years they've gotten less and less exciting. All the stories are the same with the same plot and the same characters doing the same boring thing. When I first started reading fanfics in the 2010s there were endless amounts of stories with such good plots and character writing. Now it's just... meh.

Even just a couple years ago there were two writers in my main fandom on Ao3 who posted such good stories (and they were honestly the lifeline of the fandom) but they slowly disappeared and now Ao3 feels like a desert. Idk man maybe I'm not looking hard enough but there's just nothing exciting anymore. Everything is so boring. The stories feel so... soft. Like people are afraid to take risks in writing. There's never anything serious or out of pocket with the characters and what they run into. And if there is something serious its "I had a nightmare" and they need someone to comfort them. Like it's honestly a little lame how many stories I find with that premise.

And it's not just Ao3. It's Fanfiction.net, Wattpad, etc. etc. I used to be able to put keywords in the search bar when I was looking for stories and there would be tons and tons of recommendations (most of which were on FFN) but now nothing comes up when I look at stuff. I think FFN went downhill when they started bombarding their site with ads. There's so many ads and it makes the site all glitchy and slow.

This really could just be me, but I have a hard time finding new stories, and when I do find one that's decently good, it's something I've already read before. Like what happened to creative writing?

This is no hate to anyone this is just an observation I had.

[bunnions]

my first blorbo ever was hiei from yu yu hakusho 🥺 you could not pry that angry little gremlin from my cold dead [redacted] and this was at a time when you really had to scour the internet for any decent fan content (art, writing, forget about merch, etc) and i thought i was the o n l y o n e until i found tumblr dot com