#this is also a crosspost on ffn and Ao3

[11x13kyle]

are you going to share with us your hollycomb discovery

i was curious yesterday and wanted to see how old she was when the scenic route was written and i found out that she was 29 which made my world shift a bit……..like 29 isn’t old by any means that’s not what i’m saying i think i just assumed we were closer in age!

[mobbothetrue]

part of updating the five dragons means that the chapter count of the original fic keeps going down as short-ish chapters get subsumed into larger ones. Originally the chapter count was at 30 something but now it’s at 25.

I have picked up an extremely funny guest reader with an excellent commitment to the bit. As far as I remember, fanfic dot net doesn’t send out emails when chapters are replaced, and also, this is a guest, so it’s not like they’ve got an email tied to their account anyway, meaning it’s very impressive that they manage to be there pretty quick whenever the chapter count goes down again.

The first review they left was on chapter 27, and they said ‘excited for chapter 28’. Then the chapter count went down. So on chapter 26 they said ‘excited for chapter 27’. I updated again last night, taking the chapter count down again, and true to form 3 hours ago they said they were excited for chapter 26.

I think what I’m getting at here is you really don’t have to say much in a comment. This guy hasn’t said anything about the chapters I’ve been posting! But they manage to be there really fast anyways, every time the chapter count goes down, continuing a bit and also expressing excitement for the future. It… kind of means a lot. They have to be checking pretty often to catch my updates.

[angels-heap]

Just noticed that HL has fewer fics on AO3 than DE, now that all the non-HL stuff has finally been removed from the tag. Wow.

[disregardcanon]

this probably seems like a weird question from your end,but why do fanfic writers care so much about comments? aos already tracks hits and likes, sorry ""kudos"", so why are comments such a big deal to the point that people will stop writing?

okay, so i'm going to take this question very seriously and i promise it's not to make you feel bad. this is a comprehensive explanation of reasons that comments are important for me, both as a writer and as a reader

engagement vs numbers game

seeing trends

buy-in

community building

engagement vs numbers game

let's look quickly at two different fics of mine. this is the kudos count for a fic called Of First Kisses and Burnt Lips

it's old. it's been up on ao3 for almost 11 years now. 258 people liked it enough to leave a kudos, 12 people liked it enough for a bookmark, and it's been clicked on 3,859 times.

i have no clue what almost any of these people on ao3 THINK about it. beyond "huh. sure. i'll kudos that". compare this to its crosspost on ffn, where i got 5 reviews

3/5 mention it being cute. 3/5 give appreciation to me for taking the time to write it. 2/5 praise the writing itself from the attention to detail with grammar to the craft. 1/5 is an "um..." which is hard to decipher but appreciate and 1/5 is a silly reaction, but it's a reaction! look, someone felt a felling reading my thing! that made me giggle!

looking at the stats here from a purely numbers perspective, my fic DID better on ao3. it got a lot more kudos than it ever got faves or reviews on ffn. but those ffn comments are still what i think about when i remember this fic.

sure, a shear number like hits or kudos can be comforting and motivating. i'm definitely not telling you to NOT leave kudos! but the fics that i've come back to, recently, are the ones where i don't have a lot of kudos but i do have a few people who are invested in the stories and leaving comments to tell me

2. seeing trends

lets look at a few of the comments on my fic The Maid of Honor Made Them Do It

so just in these two comments, we see both commenters hone in on the same detail: my choice to include a special christian music playlist that this characters' friends made for her. a few other people in this thread mentioned that same detail, so i know this bit really worked well! it's great feedback that lets me know that a good chunk of readers agree with my characterization here.

these readers zoom in on specific details that they really liked! things that made them laugh, the absurdity of the concept, enjoying reading it, and that they could see it staged, which is a HUGE compliment for a work in a fandom for theater.

i've always had trouble with imaging where characters are in a space, how they're occupying it and moving, and how to use that for characterization purposes. however, i got more than one comment on this fic about how people could see it staged! that means that i'm improving in an area that i've always struggled with. that's huge. it makes me want to keep working on this thing! it makes me feel like what i'm doing here matters, because lots of people are picking up on similar things! they're invested enough to give me a comment! and it makes me want to keep writing for the hatchetfield fandom because some people are invested in my work here. that is BIG! seeing trends in the way that readers experience your story helps a lot with writer buy-in for a project and also for writers self-analysis.

as a commenter: this helps me JUST as much. when i really dig into what i enjoyed about a fic to tell the writer about it, that helps me analyze and articulate the strengths and things i might want to take away from the storytelling, and that makes my writing better too!

3. buy-in

this is a comment on a series that has less than 100 kudos across three fics, but has thoughtful, appreciative comments on each work. it's called Melting Pot

the commenter deleted their ao3 account. they may be one of the people who commented on the next fic, which i posted recently. they might NOT have been! honestly, it doesn't matter that much to me. this person gave me a gentle and nudge about a fic that matters to me and mattered to them at the time, and they were part of the push i needed to get back to it.

from a commenter perspective, i know that hearing a kind word can help someone keep up their motivation to write, even when i can't write in depth comments the way that i like to!

just recently i only had the time to comment "nice update" on a favorite fic of mine called Teeth That Turn. but they know that i come and i read and they know and talk to me by (user)name. because they know i care about this thing they care about! and it's way more fun to do something like this when i know i can chat with the author about theories and thoughts and ideas. and this isn't a "wow aren't i so cool other writers like me! tehehe" bragging thing, it's just evidence for the case of why comments matter?

if i didn't want this to be a two way buy-in, i'd ONLY read published fiction, you know? we're all playing in the sandbox on the playground and i like what they made. they like that i like what they made :) we're scheduling a play date to fight with sticks after school my mom said it's okay!

4. community building

now i know that i just mentioned above here why i like being a commenter and how it helps authors, as well as why i like HAVING commenters as an author. i'm still arguing those things as a lead up to this section, where i have two other points to make about community building here too.

1. you can comment on OTHER comments! if you go through and read to see what other people are saying, you can agree with them. you can add some commentary! sometimes you can make a joke! and i've only ever had fun responses from something like that. authors tend to love that their fics are getting such a response that people are talking to each other about it! like look!!!!!! my thing got you to talk to someone else about it holy shit?!??!

2. commenting on fics in your fandom builds you a good reputation and makes other authors you comment on more likely to read YOUR fic. i'm not going to post any screenshots on this one because it would be embarrassing for everyone involved, but there have been authors that i really admired who gave my stuff a try after i commented on theirs. and they've told me that's why they tried it! like obviously it's not just networking or whatever, but it's really nice to have someone give your stuff a try because you've been enthusiastic and thoughtful about theirs.

and you make friends this way! fandom friends! who want to talk about your blorbos! you get to go on little play dates in cyberspace with cool people who like what you like. you don't ever HAVE to be a writer, of course. if you don't want to throw your hat into the ring or make art or edits or gif sets or anything, that's cool. no one ever has to participate in fandom outside of their comfort zone! but if you want to, you know that you'll feel more welcomed if you have some people in your corner for it, and making friends in a space, screaming about how much you love the characters you love, and remembering that fic authors especially are just fans too will help you feel like you "deserve" to exist in the space. maybe you don't write, but you go here too. you've got a space in the fandom and your comments don't have to be, like, perfect literary essays for authors to appreciate them and get a motivation boost from them still existing and us being able to go back to them and go!!! look!!! i don't suck!!! this person liked what i did so i'm okay! :)

[impossiblepluto]

Which Macgyver fic can you recommend? With Mac whump and a big one

Lately rally trying to find some new good fics, but I have a sad feelings that there is no good whump fics I haven't read :(

Hello friend,

Oh that's a tough one. The Mac fandom is blessed with an abundance of great fic but it's hard for me to make a recommendation if you think you've already read them all. I'm assuming this is on AO3? The first thing I'd ask is if you've checked out FFN? There are quite a few fics over there that haven't been crossposted on AO3, Ridley C. James and Objessions come to mind.

The next thing I'd ask is if you're looking specifically at the "whump" tag because a lot of authors, including myself, don't necessarily tag things as "whump" and you may be unwittingly excluding fics you would love.

Have you read Haven126? There's probably not a week that goes by that I don't think about the Turkey Day series (specifically the second one has me in a death grip)

I haven't finished it yet but The Chair + The Box + The Board by @rosieblogstuff is delightfully intense

Sat Phones + Heat Stroke + GPS by Project7723 (@improvidus) is based off of one of my favorite Star Trek Enterprise episodes. It's more emotional whump but I would also recommend "In the Wake of Him"

Stakeout + Bridal Carry by tangocharlie

Have you ready from SabbyStarlight? TetrodotoxinB ("Old Fish in the State of Denmark" killed me dead)? I have to assume you've read AppalachianApologies' 144 MacGyver fics already, right? Nativestar's "Living Death" is *chef's kiss*. CommanderBunnBunn's Sandbox + Possum is a favorite.

Have you gone back far enough that you've read Katikat or Tinkerbella?

I guess it's just hard for me to know what you're looking for, especially if you think you've read everything already. I sadly don't have a secret hidden cache of fics. There are thousands of wonderful fics and I barely brushed across the surface with my brief overview

[thenamesblurrito]

assorted Transformers fics to rec (part 1...?)

i really do think fic recs are valuable to fandom so here’s a random collection of Transformers fics i like, with no particular theme. these were compiled by frantically googling half-remembered bits to try and find the only ones i remember reading years ago, and i know i’m missing some i’d like to include

EDIT: part 2 here!

A Prime Performance

TFP AU, incomplete, AO3. Megatron is an actor in a children’s show. this is just as hilarious as you think it is. some slowburn MegOp. i love all the easter eggs and references and the way this in-universe show is created and run?? it’s fascinating

All Roads Lead to Rome

no set continuity/vaguely Bayverse, oneshot, AO3. a huge robot warrior like Sunstreaker is odd enough in modern times, just imagine him in ancient Rome. extremely interesting premise to me i love this bit and would love more. warning for typical crass patriarchal expectations for women in marriage but nothing actually explicit

Another Gate

Bayverse, complete multichap, FFN. whatever Sam is now, it isn’t human. some REAL good body horror, friendship, and alien strangeness ooooo

Bodies (break)

IDW, oneshot, AO3. Ultra Magnus goes to therapy and Rung is something wrong. oooooooghhghghhf i LOVE when people lean into the oddness and creepiness of the local god

Brave New World

fan canon, ongoing webcomic, TFW05. a spin on BW among other things, following Rodimus Prime’s crew of beastformers as they face down an assortment of bad guys and mysteries. LOVE this canon guys i LOVE it, very very good beast mode choices, very heartfelt and very funny, i also love seeing the art progression over the years. lovely webcomic here

Burn a hole in the old grip of the familiar

TFP, complete multichap, AO3, NSFW near the end. it’s focused on Ultra Magnus/reader but the first half of this fic is probably my favorite. the overwhelm and incredulity the reader character grapples with for awhile, i feel like it’s pretty realistic for someone who’s been shoved into a weird new world. DEFINITELY did Breakdown dirty though. has sequels that i haven’t read

dares for the first time

G1, oneshot, AO3. lovely little take on a G1 Guiding Hand that makes me feel things

Dog of Law

IDW, complete multichap, AO3. the Lost Light crew don’t find Minimus in Tyrest’s cells, they find a small green turbofox. lovely character driven piece here and honestly i just really like when his canonical turbofox alt is used i think it’s a shame we never got it in the story proper

First Contact

IDW, incomplete, AO3. listen it’s only a little bit written but i am OBLIGATED to post isekai/modern girl in Middle Earth/falling into fiction type of stories and i really liked the setup for this one okay! i love isekai and this was the only one i could remember to track down

Grey Is The Night

Batman/vaguely IDW crossover, complete multichap, AO3. there’s a new police car in Gotham, and it’s up to no good. listen i don’t even do DC stuff but Batman meeting Prowl here is done MARVELOUSLY ohhh i love this very much, the plot is GOOD, and i bet folks who actually like DC will love it even more

Hazard Light

IDW, oneshot, AO3. a hanahaki take on Brainstorm/Perceptor that i actually like, despite not usually enjoying hanahaki at all, with some nice Cybertronian biology too

How to Save the World in 8 Minutes and 3 Seconds

vaguely G1/continuity soup, oneshot, AO3. how does Prowl save a species, with blocked communications, no visuals, and a short time limit? why, he just keeps an eye on social media of course! a lil dark and fun and clever

In Media Bellum

TFP, incomplete, AO3. human reader is caught up with Team Prime in a delightful exploration of culture and introspection and found family. no shipping but masterful platonic relationship work! it feels... idk relaxed? caring? i love the tone of this writing

Juxtaposition

vaguely G1, complete multichap, FFN (also on AO3 but never finished crossposting). a human OC gets in a car accident and starts hearing voices in her head, unknowingly saving a Cybertronian’s life, even if it’s in a very atypical manner. love this OC, love the whole premise here and the exploration of an alien reality from a human POV. no shipping, if that’s not ur thing

Lost Light/Rodimus

IDW, oneshot, Tumblr. the ship comes to life and has something important to ask Rodimus. i love this concept it’s very good, very intriguing

Magnus Carey

IDW, oneshot, AO3. Verity teaches Minimus about Christmas. short and sweet, i love their friendship

My Totally Real Mary Sue Husband Who Lives Back On Cybertron

TFA, oneshot, AO3, Dratchet. “Ratchet offhandedly mentions he's conjunxed. Bumblebee refuses to believe him. Hijinks ensue.” funny and in character and sweet

Mythbusters Season Nine Interlude: The Autobot Special

G1/Mythbusters crossover, oneshot, AO3. busting some myths AND some Decepticons! it just keeps getting better and better the further you read. i laughed out loud so many times, and cheered at recognizing so many classic Mythbusters bits, and i will get on my hands and knees to beg for a Dirty Jobs sequel these shows were my CHILDHOOD

Patronus

TFP, twoshot, AO3. Megatron has teatime with Rung, who... is not a normal bot. more good good Rung being something wrong

Property Of

Bayverse, incomplete, FFN. when Sam and Mikaela meet Bumblebee, it isn’t as an Autobot scout, but rather as a new owner of these recently discovered organic animals called “humans”. a very well done human pet fic that doesn’t veer into psychological torture or boundary crossing or anything (sorry if that’s your jam) and while it’s incomplete i still love what’s there, especially as the kids learn how to communicate their personhood to an ignorant Bee

Rules to Follow When Making First Contact

continuity soup/fan canon, ongoing series, AO3. listen i know many folks aren’t here for the human characters but i LOVE all the humans here they are each characterized so well and i love seeing how its been blended together across canons. this is a very clever, very engaging setup with a very grounded presence for alien robots that hits in ALL the right places for me. AUTOBOTS LEARNING ENGLISH YALL!!! YES!!! very good very good

Scrimscrim

TFP....... sort of, incomplete, AO3. what do you do when you end up with a Starscream toy brought to life? this is a hilarious premise with good characterization, a lovely human OC, a ridiculous situation handled very realistically, and generally good fun to read. reverse isekai is perhaps more of a favorite of mine than isekai!

SG Prime

TFP SG au, ongoing webcomic, own website and DA. REALLY REALLY COOL YALL. fantastic designs and inclusions and expanding on TFP lore and making very interesting SG dynamics and just. excellent.

TFP Wheeljack in TFA

TFP/TFA crossover, ongoing series of posts, Tumblr. i LOVE crossovers, i will kill and die for crossovers, and this is one of the few i’ve been able to find! there’s enough posts under that tag that i haven’t been able to read them all but what i did see is GOOD

The Echo Garden

IDW/TFP crossover, incomplete, AO3. Soundwave gets picked up by the Lost Light. okay i am a SUCKER for crossovers as previously stated and this one is Good. leans fully into being a crossover and expounding on the differences between universes. Soundwave needs to figure out what to do with himself! also features some delightful slowburn SoundRod and a lovely ensemble cast. Toaster is the best

The One Where The Decepticons Are The Good Guys

TFP SG au, incomplete, AO3. i’m not typically a fan of Shattered Glass stuff but this doesn’t feel terribly OOC or completely upended or alien to the original plot, i think this is done very well and i can’t wait for more

Transformers Recovery: Primal Launch

fan canon, complete multichap, AO3. it’s like the Lost Light but weirder, i don’t even know how to convey its awesomeness. VERY funny, VERY cool, Sky Lynx is there, Swerve is important, Riptide is such a good bot, Megatron exists, just all good things here. treat yourself and read this it’s such a delight

Twenty-Five to Life

vaguely IDW, oneshot, AO3. Starscream/Minimus soulmate au that makes me wheeze when i read it because it it so painfully in character and hilarious oh my god i am CRYING laughing by the time i finish it. petty criminal Starscream, noble Minimus, oil and water. gets raunchy but nothing explicit with an NSFW sequel

Under Control Till You’re In Front Of Me

G1, oneshot, AO3. i need more people to join the Shockwave/Moonracer ship please please it’s good

Xenoethnography

canon soup/based in TFP, ongoing series, AO3. a more hard scifi take on Transformers from the POV of an anthropologist hired to study them. y’all, THIS IS GOOD. seriously if there’s one fic out of all of these i could keep, it’d be this one, it’s just so so good ugh. ugh i love it i need to catch up with it again

[spilledmilkfkdies]

You’ve mentioned knowing every Wizards of the Black Circle fanfiction, and I was wondering: do you know any fics that ship Gantlos and Duman?

At like a certain point in time those were basically all the English fics we had, you got to choose between wizards/winx or Gantlos/Duman, had to be real lucky to find anything else?? Some of them were deleted though, I think. There goes a bit of HISTORY 😔😔

I know there's still a few in the AO3 wizard tag and Gantlos x Duman tag though, specifically at the end. The same ones were also crossposted on ffn, but I don't go there often because I struggle with the tagging over there sjjsdjj but I'm aware of the fresh batch dropped on there! I'll give you 3 links for it because, again, I struggle with the tagging there;

[Black Circle tag]

[Gantlos tag]

[Duman tag]

A somewhat personal recommendation would be Warm A Wizard’s Heart, which was also crossposted. Like I'm not fully invested in the ship, but I can appreciate that lil fic. Maybe that wrecks all my credibility but sjsksghsj I felt bad just throwing you into tags to look for yourself so there.

I'm not sure how many fics there are outside of English, but I'll be keeping an eye out! This is just what I know currently.

[darthnell]

PSA: I have changed the settings on my AO3 account so my stories can only be viewed by registered users. If anyone who is not a registered user wants to read my works, feel free to reach out to me on here and I can send them to you! I also crosspost to FFN under the username darthnell. Sorry for the inconvenience 😭 hoping I wont have to keep this setting forever 🤞

[everythingsinred]

lil tentative psa

shared a bit abt this in the ga discord server a bit ago but i lost track of it because i got very busy in the interim but i see the problem has not gone away (and in fact gotten a bit worse) so i am going to share some info here.

i see that "capsize" by Ducky-san on ffn has been crossposted onto ao3 under a different username (DarkFaerie0) and im suspicious bc the original notes on the chapters are gone and there is no mention of the original work or crossposting. i'm concerned that someone is stealing someone else's work and claiming credit for it. i have reached out to Ducky-san directly on ffn but since they haven't been active in a few years, i don't know if i will get a response.

the crossposted fic has a decent amount of interaction and comments for a ga fic, and if it isn't Ducky-san, then it makes me sick to see someone else get praise for hard work that isn't theirs.

if this is this is them crossposting their own work, then i'm happy they're still kicking! but if this is a fic thief, then i suggest ppl proceed with caution

i'm posting to spread caution but also if you know anything about who is posting that fic, please let me know. if it is Ducky-san under a new user, then i will happily delete this post! but if it isn't, then some interference will need to take place.

[dragoncxv360]

NOTICE: Hey, I would appreciate it if only 16+ people followed me because the stuff I post can be very suggestive, and just in general, my stories aren't meant for kids. I'm not gonna like rigorously go through my followers and check for ages, but like, if I spot a 13 year old following me, I'm gonna soft block 'cause it's just not comfortable

Making a new pinned post here ‘cause my old one is very lengthy and I decided to write a new one for cohost

I’m Ellery, I mostly make art for Sun and Moon from fnaf, with occasional art of my ocs as well (and maybe some Invader Zim art if I feel like it). I ship Sun x Moon so if that’s not your thing, you probably won’t enjoy following me. I occasionally post art of pregnant characters but it’s tagged so you can avoid it

I do make some tsams art now but not all my art is tsams related so if it doesn't mention tsams in the post it's not for that. Especially if it's my sun x moon art it is definitely *not* tsams art. I ship some of the characters with each other for my versions of them so if tsams ships aren't your thing, you likely won't enjoy following me.

Nsfw stuff is on a side blog (with the exception being my ao3 which has both sfw and nsfw fics), suggestive stuff is on here but it’s tagged

Commissions are closed

Drawing requests are closed unless otherwise specified

You can find my art on here under the tags my art or ellery's art, you can find my writing under my writing or ellery’s writing

Asks are welcome, please keep some things in mind though. No nsfw, no gore, no venting or triggering topics such as self harm, suicide, or abuse. Also please no flashing images/gifs as they can give me migraines

Asks are currently off because of the spam bots, same with dms, these rules will apply if/when I turn them back on though

Asks have been turned back on, they'll go back off again if the spam continues though

7/24/24-asks are off again due to spam

Currently looking for different options for making/selling stickers

You can support me on kofi

My fics are on ao3. Sunflowers and Stardust is crossposted to ffn but it is the only fic I have crossposted

Info post on my Security Sun Au

Info post on You’re Everything I’m Not (my oc story)

Things you can and can't do with my art and writing and stuff under the cut

Things you can do with my art, aus, and ocs:

- use my art as a phone/tablet/computer wallpaper (you don’t need to ask first)

- ASK to use my art as a profile picture or header/banner (the only exception to having to ask first is if I made the art for you)

- make fanart of my ocs and aus/fics, it makes me very happy to see people enjoying my stuff :D (please no gore, light blood is fine though. Please do not draw anything related to self harm or suicide, even for my fics that include such topics. Drawing Eclipse from my organic/recovery au with his canon self harm scars is fine, drawing said scars as actual wounds is not)

Things you can not do with my art, aus, ocs, or writing:

- you can’t repost, trace, copy, or edit my art (regardless of whether or not credit is given)

- you can’t repost my writing

- you can’t dub/voiceover/narrate my art or writing

- you can’t use my art or writing in AI generators or use my characters or writing in AI chatbots

- you can’t claim my art, writing, aus, ocs, or anything else I create as yours

- you can’t sell any of my stuff or otherwise use it to make a profit

- you can’t use my art for your ocs or dnd characters

- you can’t roleplay my aus or ocs

Unsure on/Ask first beforehand:

- I’m unsure if I’m ok with nsfw fanart atm, if I do allow it though it’d be something where you’d have to ask first before making it (and obviously I would not want minors making any)

- I’m unsure on gift fics as well. If you would like to write a gift fic, I would prefer you ask first and tell me what you plan on writing. If I allow this, it will only be for my fnaf aus, it will not be for my ocs (since I plan to write and hopefully publish their stories some day)

If you are heavily inspired by my aus/ocs/fics for one of your own stuff (by heavily inspired I don't mean stuff like wanting to write a genderfluid Sun too or even wanting to write a fic with a similar plot to my fic Blood and Oil, such as a fic with Sun dying and Moon dealing with the grief of that loss, I mean stuff that copies multiple and very specific aspects of my stories) please send an ask or a dm to me, I'd be happy to discuss what is and isn't comfortable so that we can work something out. Please note though that I may say something is too heavily inspired to be comfortable for me. I'd most likely be happy to help give you pointers on changes you can make so it's comfortable for me though.

[darke-faerie]

As AO3 is down, I went to ffn to fill the fic void (I'd used fic reading as incentive to finish some uni reading and wanted my reward lol) so I went to Bungou Stray Dogs (cos I can't find tgcf on there) filtered it to M Rated/Complete/English and yeah...vast majority of the fics are mine... (& bearing in mind, I stopped crossposting in 2021 so it's missing a good 100+ of my fics) Also I feel so sorry for any solely ffn readers who a. don't like my writing style or b. don't like omegaverse... you really don't have much fic choice do you?!

[ikatako38]

Happy 2-Year Anniversary to TPWCH!

The last few weeks and months have been a bit rough for me, so I don’t have anything else ready to show you today, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have plenty to look forward to!

OC Memes - Technically not for the anniversary, but rather to celebrate 300 kudos. I’m almost done with these! Here’s a WIP!

Anniversary Art ’24 - I’m working on a group photo for all the important characters in the TPWCH universe—including the sequel—so we’ll finally have exact visual representations for every important character beyond Picrews! I’ll be sharing a WIP soon.

Tako’s Getting Treated for ADHD - I’m taking the test tomorrow and have my follow-up next week. My ADHD has held me back since the very beginning of the fic and even before, so if everything goes well I might be able to be somewhat more productive on the fic going forward!

Ship Wars Ahead - A Tumblr poll tournament coming in April!

And now for the big one…

TPWCH is getting crossposted!

Okay, hold on, put the pitchforks down for just a second…

I know FFN is dead and Wattpad is cringe. But each site has its strengths that AO3 doesn’t quite cover. Particularly, I’ve always liked the format of Wattpad making it feel easier to comment and encouraging discussion among readers! FFN also holds a lot of sentimental value to me, and I’ve been wanting to return there for a while. Since I’ll be reposting chapter by chapter, it also allows new readers to ease into the story like many of you did when the fic was first coming out on AO3, instead of having to commit to such an intimidating 150,000-word chunk of fic all at once. And if the fic takes off on one or both of those other platforms, it’ll be a good thing for everyone! Not only will the TPWCH community continue to grow, but also—try as I might—I’m only human and more comments/interaction will automatically motivate me more to write and get chapters out for all of you! Skimming, dividing up, and posting old parts of the fic is also a minimally stressful way to get myself to engage with the fic and increase motivation.

Somehow I already had accounts on both of these platforms. Here they are! I’ll be getting my FFN profile pic and Wattpad bio fixed in the next few hours, and I’ll have a teaser for the TPWCH launch up in the next day or two.

FanFiction.Net Account

Wattpad Account

Both crosspostings are starting on 3/8

3 & 8 day!

From then on…

- FFN will update with one chapter every Friday, with any half chapters posted on the intervening Wednesday.

- Wattpad chapters will be broken up into ~3,000-word chunks and will update three times a week—Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday

Let me know what you think!

[razerathane]

20 questions for fic writers

Oh shit tagged by the holy @orangeflavoryawp <3

1. How many works do you have on Ao3/fanfiction.net? All of my AO3 stuff is crossposted from FFN, so based on FFN: 121 total posted

2. What's your total Ao3/fanfiction.net word count? On AO3: 83,212 Actual Total From FFN: 1,159,440

3. What fandoms do you write for? I've dabbled in a lot. But the ones that I've written MORE than 5 fics for are: Tekken, Soul Calibur, Final Fantasy VII, Kingdom Hearts. The most recent fandom I wrote for is Mass Effect.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? For AO3 (who has kudos):

Anchor (Mass Effect)

Molten (Mass Effect)

Breath (Mass Effect)

Postcards From Palaven (Mass Effect)

Exodus (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

For FFN, instead by review count total (as there's no kudos and all my works are here):

With Me (Tekken)

Take Me Back (Tekken)

Just Like Me (Tekken)

Better Than Me (Tekken)

No Tomorrow (Tekken)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes, I always try to engage with those that chose to engage with my fics.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? uhhh prrrobably Anchor (Mass Effect), but like, so much of my writing is angst LOL.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending uh I'm not really a big happy ending writer, so probably All That Matters (Tekken).

8. Do you get hate on fics? Excluding the stalking hater of 11-12 years, no, not really.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes I do / have, no y'all will never see it, no y'all will never know what kind. Nice try, QUIZ.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I don't write crossovers, not my thing tbh.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Yep, around early 2012.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes, there was a Russian fan who asked to translate some of my HwoaJulia fics to Russian.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes, once, with Danko Kaji.

14. What's your all time favorite ship? Honestly I don't really have a favourite non-OC ship anymore.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? tbh? Probably No Tomorrow. There's 5 chapters left, I haven't touched it in about 10 years, but also the fandom is dead, and what is energy.

16. What are your writing strengths? I don't know tbh. Others years ago said fight scenes. I think dialogue.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I don't really know. I think pacing, I feel like I get too stuck in a scene.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I mean if its just for fanfic which is where a lotta people are learning about writing etc? Sure. In a real published thing? Handle with much much more care.

19. First fandom you wrote for? And published? Tekken. For myself? Soul Calibur and Star Fox.

20. Favorite fic you've written? This was really hard. I couldn't chose an individual favourite but my favourite five were:

Libra (Final Fantasy 7)

Anchor (Mass Effect)

Firestorm (Legend of Korra)

Ashes (Soul Calibur)

Oubliette (Dragon Age)

Tagging those that might be interested (no pressure): @steves-strapcollection @suncesus @dankokaji @briewoodfiction @vinjaryou @lemony-snickers @inchofsalt @bluedangernoodle

[hergan416]

AO3 (& FFN) Stats: My Writing Over Time

Some really really interesting statistics that I just ran for reasons and like.

Holy shit

TLDR: I have written almost as much for the Yuumori fandom in just over a year than in 7 years of writing for the Yugioh fandom and while I knew I had written a lot for yuumori, actually running the numbers was honestly mindblowing. Plus some discussion about why I feel that may be

Ok, so some context re: my fandom history:

I joined the Yugioh fandom in 2015 or so. My first posted fic is from them. While I took breaks and didn't post things every year from then on... I did write pretty regularly from then on out. I didn't post much in 2018, but I updated at least one thing for the last time that year. Even when I joined (up with the ... I had been watching OP since 2015 or so also, but only caught up enough to look at Fanfic or other shit at this point) the One Piece fandom in January of 2020 just before the pandemic, i didn't stop writing Yugioh. I even had a crossover fic. I sort of boomed and busted on One Piece and was still pretty regularly writing Yugioh fanfic (I was at least doing YGOME yearly, except the year of my concussoin) when the Yuumori hyperfixation hit after I watched it in February or so of 2023.

Between FFN and AO3 (YGO brought me to AO3), I have written a grand total of 129,364 words of Yugioh fanfic since 2015. 20,756 of those words are from a One Piece-Yugioh crossover fic that I never finished. Those words span a total of 29 fics (23 only on AO3, 5 only on FFN, and 1 crossposted to both).

In contrast, I have written a total of 27 fics for the yuumori fandom amounting to a total of 111,948 words. Since February or March of 2023. Just over a year ago.

I have nearly written the same amount in 1 fucking year for the yuumori fandom as I did for the entirety of the time I was actively writing Yugioh fanfic, which, if you count 2018 & 2023 and beyond as essentially off years for yugioh, is still 7 years.

Just gonna... sit on that for a second.

Wow.

I know that part of it is just the sheer amount and import of comments/friendship/feedback in the yuumori fandom; its not that I didn't have super important friendships and get amazing comments and feel super motivated by them when I was writing for Yugioh also, but...

I cannot fathom having earned 126 comment threads on a yugioh fanfic without being like. someone. Poison Paradise is essentially one of my first fics for yuumori, i didn't have a following already or anything I just wrote it. Quickly, espeically at first -- I was updating daily for a while, so that certainly didn't hurt. But god. people are so talkative in a good way in the yuumori fandom, and it's honestly a bit intoxicating.

But also I think that part of it is that the characters are just. So. Blorbo shaped? I have SO MANY blorbos in contrast to cast size compared to either Yugioh or One Piece. I relate to many of the characters and want to project on them and make their lives miserable and happy and put them in All The Situations. It's not just a handful of favorite characters. It's a full on cast of blorbos somehow.

And I have so many ideas for them all and then I spitball with you all because we're talkative and friendly and <3 and then there are even more ideas and I go home and I just want to write and I know what I'm writing -- or if I don't it's because I can't decide amongst them all, not because there is no idea motivating me. My brain just collided full force with this media and it got fully absorbed.

It just feels... idk .. special. I would never have believed you if you told me I would write around 100,000 words in a year. That's a massive number. And yet-- I have. I did. It's done.

Wow.

[writingbyricochet]

20 questions for fic writers

Thank you for the tag, @johnbly! And not to worry, I have a 10+ history of writing fanfic so this will be a good time!

1. how many total works do you have on ao3? 14 (+18 on FFN that I didn't crosspost)

2. what’s your total ao3 word count? 44,447

3. what fandoms do you write for? My current fics are for the HBO war fandom, POTC, but I've published a fair amount for Inuyasha and Wednesday as well (they're just not currently on my writing radar). To a lesser extent, LOTR/The Hobbit, Les Mis, and The Hunger Games.

4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Wreck My Plans, That's My Man (411)

Grapevine Lovers (318)

Danse Macabre (301)

Such Great Heights (235)

Water Colors | 温泉 (53)

5. do you respond to comments? Almost always

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? It's a toss up between The Rubicon and The Girl Before France

7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Probably Such Great Heights...It's definitely the fluffiest so I think that counts.

8. do you get hate on fics? No, my readers have all been very nice.

9. do you write smut? No. I have some steamy scenes but I'd rate them M but not E, if that helps.

10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written? No. Maybe I will for the HBO war shows.

11. have you had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.

12. have you had a fic translated? No

13. have you ever co-written a fic? No

14. what's your all-time favorite ship? No how do I choose??? I'm split between Anakin x Padme or Sesshomaru x adult!Rin

15. what's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Between Heaven and Earth 😭

16. what are your writing strengths? Based on what my friend has indicated, imagery, fluffy/romantic scenes, and dialogue. I'd agree, I really like describing emotions, internally or externally, so I guess that lines up.

17. what are your writing weaknesses? Oof action scenes, big time. It's so hard for them not to sound clunky to me.

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I'm not fluent enough in any language to even try.

19. first fandom you wrote for? The Infernal Devices when I was in eighth grade, and I will not be linking that fic lol

20. favorite fic you've written? It's not complete, but I really do love Where Paradise Died and Lived so much. It's an entirely self-indulgent fix-it fic, but I'm also legitimately really proud of a lot of my writing in it. Edphie my loves!!

Gently tagging @mercurygray @hesbuckcompton-baby <3

[nehswritesstuffs]

Intro Post, GO!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph--I last did one of these in 2018... fucking...

Info under the cut, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Hi! My name is Nehs and I write stuffs. I’m a trained screenwriter and hope to one day break into that, but I also know that since it’s a lot of work and luck I might as well enjoy myself along the way. I’ve been writing fan fiction since about 1998 and sharing online since 2004, so when I say I’ve been writing fic for most of my life, I mean it. More recently I’ve been very active in the Doctor Who/Whouffaldi fandom and back in One Piece. These things are more alike than one would think. My life force feeds off of weird, rare, and otherwise less-popular ships as well as alternate universe settings.

Aside from being here I’m also on fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Own. In the past nine years I’ve put out about 1.78mil words on AO3. My totals on FFN (which begin in high school (beware weird/lower quality work earlier on) and are skewed due to author’s notes and review replies bc i’ve been on the site for so long) are at ~2.38mil. Not everything from here is on my FFN or AO3 and not everything on FFN is on AO3 and vice versa. I do tend to crosspost a lot of my work, however, so when one site is down, there’s usually a good place to find my stuff otherwise if you were in the middle of something!

(No, seriously, my FFN hits took off during the latest mass-AO3 outage and it was mainly for stuff that was crossposted, so don’t be afraid to come on over!)

Uhh... big things I’m known for...

The Time That We Love Best: slice of life Whouffaldi AU set from WWII-1960; a hundred chapters of a relationship and lots of period-related plot; there are prompt fills to add to the story

The Thick of UNIT: crossover involving Doctor Who and The Thick of It, prominently showcasing the crackship of Kate Stewart/Malcolm Tucker; contains many OCs, canon cameos from both shows, weird shit, and current events; lots of offshoots and even has spawned fic of the fic

The March of Kasterborous and Gallifrey: pseudo-fantasy/nobility Whouffaldi AU that starts with an arranged marriage and morphs into a loving relationship and the building of a dynasty; consists of In Want of An Heir, Stars in A Sky of Blood and Blue, a prompt fill fic, and an AU of the AU that’s a remix of the first fic

Getting the Hang of Things: my attempt at a close-as-possible-to-canon Whouffaldi AU where they raise kids

a bunch of different fantasy-related Whouffaldi AUs, incorporating things such as selkies, werewolves, vampires, a How to Train Your Dragon setting, and more

Father Like Son, Mother Like Daughter, Parent Like Child: a One Piece Bellazón AU where Cora-san and Bell-mère raise their six kids in the East Blue, they’re all better adjusted, and proceed to make it everyone’s problem

little seagull, little seagull, where shall you go?: a One Piece AU where the Heart Pirates find a kid during the timeskip and Law completes the circle and becomes her Cora-san; is pretty much becoming a pick-your-own adventure story as I write varying branches to the plot

Love, Loss, and Finding One’s Self on the High Seas; I wanted to write Sanji/Pudding that gave her agency and made things less creepy; there’s lots of other ships too and it’s just weird af trust me

Other than that I am generally friendly and willing to interact with people. Drop me a line anytime, about fic or fandom or anything else, even if you think it’s negative. My personal blog is escapaldi. I enjoy hearing from readers (I’m one of those people that stalk reblogs for fun tags) and anything is better than nothing. There’s always room for improvement in a writer’s craft, so if you catch something then please let me know. Anon is on and if you prefer to confer in private just say so. Another thing to note is that I tend to reblog fanart for things I’ve written,things I find neat/important, and any other projects I may be in at the moment. If you got a problem with that, then I’m not really sure what to tell you. *shrugs* Oh, and yeah, don’t feed my fics to an AI for any reason whatsoever or I’ll astral-project myself to your computer and no one will enjoy themselves. :D