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if you don't know go to your statistics and it'll be right under user subscriptions smile. rebog and all that jazz

#wow i thought i had more 😂😂😂

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#i've done everything but the fic manifesto bit i haven't published the podfic or the meta #and would not be interested in writing a ship manifesto #so that's why i chose podfic #i'd like to publish the one i recorded some day

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Y’all need to stop commenting on fics like the author is dead or something. The author sees those comments bro it’s like saying to someone’s face “sorry to hear about your passing. The only reason I’m sad about it is bc you won’t be making me any more sandwiches for free” like can you see how that might be insensitive? So what if they haven’t made a sandwhich in a month or a year or five. It’s not your place to announce their death lmao

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I'm kinda in a weird spot with ships at the moment because I don't think I can *or even want to* feel the level of investment I had in previous ships where it's like.. to the point of being distressing, so with most of them I'm like yeah sure if it seems fun I can draw it once in a while 💀 or every few days depending from how much I like it lmao miss that level of emotional investment sometimes but like this it's more stress-free as well

#such a mood #i mean i'm not drawing but i'm feeling the same just about blogging #or even specifically writing

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Out of curiosity

And put the fandom its from in tags if you like reblog for sample size yadda yadda

#774 which there is no option for XD

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after several discussions that left me baffled, let me throw this out to the masses: do you look at ao3's icons when you're looking for a fic to read?

#i don't really #i figure out the dynamics from the relationship tags #and same with the rating haha

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Wanted to get a feel for how people do it because I feel like most people won't just learn basic HTML commands so they can use italics

(please reblog if you have writer friends so this reaches a large audience)

#i used to put it in html and then format the iralics and all manually #but i got so sick of that that i found ways to paste it into rich text while keeping my formatting

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Every time AO3 makes an update, there’s a chorus of ‘and can we please please please be able to leave kudos on each chapter pleeeeease?!?!’

In theory, this is a nice idea. We’ve all smashed the kudos button on our favourite fics, bemoaning the fact we can’t give them all the love.

But ya’ll, kudos per chapter would absolutely fucking suck.

For readers, it would suck because it would compound the existing problem of making it hard to find fics that are good and not just long - not that a fic can’t be both! But there are plenty of Pulitzer-worthy one-shots out there that are buried way way down the list when ranked by number of kudos, because they’re beneath a bunch of 50/? fics where the author lost sight of where the hell the story was going 30 chapters ago, but their fic has had 50x the chances to be viewed so has more kudos. It would encourage authors to release their fics in lots of little chapters instead of a few longer ones/one-shots as they might otherwise have done (and as might otherwise suit the story).

And for authors it would especially suck, as it would compound the existing problem of people not commenting. Kudos are very much appreciated, but comments make an author’s day; but so few people bother, and frankly, it’s disheartening. Let people just click a button to show their appreciation for each new chapter? The hits:kudos:comments ratio would get even worse than it already is.

You can already ‘give kudos’ for each chapter of a fic on AO3 - by commenting. Hell you can literally write ‘kudos!’ It will make the author smile, I promise.

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Poll for writers and artists

Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:

Please reblog for sample size!

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#i recorded one and i made an account so it wouldn't be linked to my main fic writing one #but i never edited it #and therefore didn't upload it either

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

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I think it's mean how some people talk about fics on AO3.

'Oh you gotta wade through literal trash to find the good stuff'.

Were you not a beginner once? Did you not write crack fic or self indulgent things for your own entertainment?

Maybe don't speak that way about your fellow fic writers? Just because some fics aren't as polished as others, or involve fetishes and tropes you don't enjoy, or are not the style you want your fics to be doesn't mean they're trash.

It's a horrible thing to say and beginners are going to be discouraged from writing knowing that their fics might be considered trash because they're just starting out.

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yeah sex feels good but have you ever had people go through your fics one by one and leave a trail of kudos and/or comments 😫💗✨

#love y'all

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I hope the fic you are working on right now finds a reader who will think about it constantly for years

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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When you're posting a work on AO3, one of the options you have is to add relationship tags to your work. Sometimes you'll see tags that look almost exactly the same and you might wonder what the difference is.

A/B indicates that person A and person B have a romantic or sexual relationship in this fic.

A&B indicates that person A and person B have a non-romantic and non-sexual relationship in this fic - they are friends, colleagues, family members etc. who have a platonic relationship.

If you want to add more specific information about what kind of relationship the characters have in your story, you can use the additional tags or the summary to let readers know more about what they're in for.

Editing to add: Oh yes! And it doesn't matter which character you list first in your tag. They both filter the same way in the site's database.