#on FANFICTION.NET.

[beholdthemem]

On one hand I don't have the patience for the kind of people who declare themselves the judge of what does or does not qualify as 'problematic' in a ship, because I've noticed that it inevitably seems to boil down to 'You don't ship the thing that I do, and I don't think that ships besides mine should exist' using progressive sounding buzzwords that kind of fall apart the minute you investigate them closer. ('That's pedophilia!' Two year age gap between an 18 and 20 year old. 'You're homophobic!' Shipping a bisexual dude with a female character.)

On the other hand, I also do not have the patience for the type of people who unironically use the word 'antis' when talking about people who don't like their ship, because every one that I have ever talked to has the BIGGEST fucking victim complex about shipping something unpopular and seems to consider themselves genuinely oppressed because of it to the point where I want to be like

[innerenigma]

•Normalize Fanart for Fanfics Again You Fools•

It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.

Spread the Word :)

[puraiuddo]

FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

Correction:

The new "fake" site that people are seeing still belongs to FanFiction.net—they just misconfigured their servers and are not redirecting traffic from the bare fanfiction.net to the main site at www.fanfiction.net. There is likely no malicious agent. Didn't mean to scare anyone! Just wanted to let people know the site wasn't deleted!

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".

Please share so people stop panicking.

[vioyume]

I am a bored and curious human being who wants to know what the majority grew up with for their pleasure reading time.

[molt3ngold]

[comehellorhighwatertheywillwrite]

[roonil-wazlib-in-the-tardis]

Fanfiction.net watching me use it for longer than I have in multiple years because AO3 is down

[dduane]

Fanfiction.net going/gone down?

Friends -- this is what fanfiction.net's front page looks like right now.

@beautifulfic advises (and I can confirm, I just checked it) that the mobile version of the site, m.fanfiction.net, appears still to be up. STRONGLY suggest that if you have material there that's not preserved elsewhere, you go in via the mobile gateway and archive it NOW.

Please reblog so others can take action.

ETA: @mylittleredgirl advises that if you attach “www.” to the front of the URL, the site displays correctly. But this is still concerning, and suggests somebody’s either monkeying around with their .htaccess file—a fairly important piece of under-the-hood "equipment" for a website—or has possibly misconfigured the site in some other way.

At the moment there's no telling what's going on. Meanwhile, if I had anything over there, I’d back it up anyway.

[the-poppy-outie-effect]

I have polls now ahaaahahhhahahaaaa

[serenity-black]

STOP SELLING BOUND FANFICTION

I cannot blame them for pulling their works, in fact I'm proud of them for doing so. Fanfiction is a community of gifting. As authors we write fics and share our works for free. Fanfiction is a weird, fragile, liminal space that can crumble at any time. This fragility needs to be respected.

If you want fanfiction to be around for you to enjoy, then the rules need to be respected!

You can bind fics. You can gift bound fics. DO NOT SELL BOUND FICS!!

Or soon we won't have fanfiction anymore and the world will be much darker for it.

[prokopetz]

I understand the reassurances that have been going around mean well, but no, the situation with fanfiction.net is not just a case of ordinary domain spoofing.

You cannot purchase a subdomain separately from its parent domain. If fanfiction.net and www.fanfiction.net are currently resolving to different sites, it's because whoever has control of the parent domain, fanfiction.net, fucked up.

This doesn't necessarily mean anything untoward is going on. For example, the site could be in the process of changing hosting providers, and whoever was responsible for updating the domain's configuration accidentally pointed the bare domain and the www subdomain to different places. That happens all the time.

Given that the preponderance of evidence is that fanfiction.net's hosting has not been actively maintained for some time, however, this could also be a sign that things are falling apart even further. It'd still be a good idea to back up your stuff, just in case!

[eternallytired17]

My dudes, let your fave Fanfiction writers know you love and miss them.

I literally got my shit together and wrote a new chapter for my 50+ chapter long incomplete fanfiction after not updating in two years, just because I got a new review from a reader who said they missed me and hoped I was okay.

Your reviews matter, we cherish them, and they can bring your fave Fanfiction writers back from the dead.

[limepopsicles11]

Was it just me or when you first started reading fanfiction you thought orphan_account was the most prolific writer ever?

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Dear God, I visited fanfiction.net after god knows how long because the author of a fic I was interested in told me that they are updating it faster on ff.net

First of all, I had to wait here for like five minutes

But then it gets worse...

That's a small, tiny paragraph broken with TWO huge-ass ads!

Noooooooo!!!

This is a fucking nightmare!

[ohitsmsn]

I don’t know what I would do without fanfiction😭

That’s it.

That’s the post.

[sapphic-agent]

The toughest choice