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Maria tries to win affection flags…and hits a wall.

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Took some time off fanfiction writing to try and complete an original piece for the J-Novel Club competition, but didn't manage to get it done in time. On the plus side, I guess I was in an otome mood cause was able to get this done in two weeks. For something that's so long, it's really mostly window dressing to get to the really fun part of this story...

#My next life as a villainess fanfiction #My Next Life as a Heroine #fanfiction #fanfic

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Hazbin Hotel Episode 5 - Alastor Theory

Throwing out a random Hazbin Hotel theory for the most recent episodes. Spoilers obviously if you haven't seen episode 5.

So, in episode 5, we learn from Husk that Alastor is apparently 'also on a leash.' And given the context, that probably means Alastor sold his soul - it seems unlikely that anything less would cause such an extreme reaction.

Most people are theorising that he's sold his soul to Lilith (given that they both have the 7 year disappearance connection), and the reason he's at the hotel is on her orders to protect Charlie.

However, I suspect it's slightly more sinister. Yes, Alastor has sold his soul to Lilith for power, but the first thing he did in the pilot was try to get Charlie to agree to a deal. The Vees also made it clear that Alastor making a deal with Charlie would be a terrible thing in a later episode - so I doubt Lilith would approve of that.

So I offer you this - Lilith is MIA for reasons unknown, and when Alastor learns of the hotel, he realises he has a small window of freedom before she calls him back for whatever's in the works.

If he can convince Charlie to make a deal with him for her soul, he can trade it to Lilith in exchange for his. Keep all of the power Lilith has given him, and get his soul back debt free.

All he needs to do is to convince Charlie to trust him, and get desperate enough for her hotel to work to make a deal...

#spoilers #Hazbin hotel spoilers #hazbin hotel theory #Alastor #Charlie Morningstar

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looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

#not fanfiction #oh do I know this feeling

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You know when you develop a bad habit, and don't realise it's a bad habit till it's pointed out to you?

For the first time in over a decade, I'm trying to write something original, and asked a friend to read the first few chapters. Her first question? "Why are you writing it in present tense?"

...I never realised that I write almost entirely in present tense! I have no clue when I started, but it's pretty much instinctive now. I even checked a few old fics, and I did start writing in past tense only to slide into present at some point along the way! I have almost completely forgotten how to write in past tense. Which nearly every published novel uses...

It's too late for this work, I'm 12k in and I'm not rewriting it. But it looks like I'm going to have to unlearn a billion writing ticks in the near future if I want to start writing original works again.

#not fanfiction

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today's fic writer energy is

#not fanfiction

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Maria begins an improv performance, learns something very important about Katarina, and gains an ally she didn't expect.

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She lives!

Most of this has been written for ages - so polished up the edges and decided to post the first functional chunk as an update since you've all waited long enough.

#fanfiction #My next life as a villainess fanfiction #My Next Life as a Heroine #fanfic

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The screenwriters are my comrades and I fully understand how they feel🫡

#not fanfiction #iron widow #if you haven't read it yet #please do

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You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number–deleted the fandom specific elements–, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don’t steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people’s fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it’s too late–before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

(i can’t believe I have to say this)

#not fanfiction

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I cut my teeth on the old Geocities/Yahoo/Angelfire sites, that you had to find via terrible search engines because Google wasn't a thing yet.

#made even more fun when you were in a tiny fandom #it would take DAYS to find a new Pet Shop of Horrors site #and I took in those fics like ambrosia from the gods #and now most of them have disappeared forever... #not fanfiction

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Reposting this because fanfiction.net is going screwy and it could be the beginning of the end so if there's a fic you've been meaning to save, now is the time.

Lots of Reddit threads on FFN recently having trouble.

Last May there were posts about FFN being abandoned. Anyone have links to those?

#fanfiction.net #not fanfiction #may 2022

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

...Oh my god...

I have mixed feelings about this 😅

#10 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #not fanfiction

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Oh I need to vent about modern technology for a bit...

So, I managed to get away for a week, and I took my laptop in the hopes that I might be able to write a bit. And while it wasn't the most successful trip, I did get a decent amount of the next Generation Cross chapter and a new Batman fic idea written up, along with some edits to WIPs.

Today, I went to transfer what I had from my laptop to my computer, since my laptop isn't connect to the internet (specifically to keep my from getting distracted from the Internet), to find that every. single. thing I wrote that week is just gone.

I have spent hours trying to find a solution, trying to restore it. General consensus seems to be a Windows update resulted in files getting saved to a temp folder, and when I turned the laptop off for the flight at the end of the trip, they all got erased. And thanks to an incident involving some missing photos, I may have unintentionally erased the temp files myself, not realising they were doc files.

So...yeah, a weeks worth of work. Most of it GC, (which I gotta tell you is not the easiest thing to write these days due to how long it's been since I touched it) gone up in smoke.

Suddenly reminded why I prefer notepad and pen. Yeah, I have to write it twice, but at least a piece of paper won't erase the ink when I'm not looking -_-

#I had a lot of fun on that trip #and this has just soured it all #not fanfiction #Getting to the point where abandoning GC is starting to feel like the more rational decision

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In our ongoing efforts to give you more tools for curating your Archive experience, we’re rolling out a new interface to let you hide content by specific users.

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#ao3 #archive of our own #oh now there's a gamechanger... #not fanfiction l

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@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

#not fanfiction #that's literally the bar

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Xanxus finally puts two and two together…

...And DONE!

Off, I can't believe this one shot turned three parter turned into this behemoth! Thank you everyone who has stuck by me all this time. I hope the ending was satisfactory for all of you who've been here since chapter one.

A thousand thank you's to BeyondMyReach for really helping me make this last chapter as good as it could be.

#The Tempest Temptation #Katekyo Hitman Reborn #KHR #Katekyo Hitman Reborn fanfiction #KHR Fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic

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Tsuna returns with a prospective Guardian, and Xanxus goes to war.

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One more chapter to go. I cannot believe it's almost over…

#The Tempest Temptation #Katekyo Hitman Reborn fanfiction #KHR fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic #katekyo hitman reborn #khr

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the tiktokification of ao3

or: some of you fundamentally misunderstand ao3 and it really, really shows

i was talking about this with a friend a few days ago and since then i've seen multiple posts of various sorts that have just made me think about it more, so. here is me breaking down a disconnect i see particularly with younger members of the marauders fandom (i say marauders specifically just bc that's the only one i'm plugged into):

okay, so i've seen many (usually younger) marauders fans either talking online about how they wish ao3 was more like social media (specifically regarding algorithms) OR talking about ao3/fanfiction/fanfic writers as if they are operating under the same etiquette/guidelines/assumptions they would bring into social media platforms. this ranges from being mildly irritating to genuinely harmful, and i want to talk abt why.

first - you have to understand that social media, in this day and age, exists in a profit economy. and when i say social media here, i'm referring to platforms like tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc. all of these platforms exist in a profit economy where content is a product that can be monetized. this leads to a few important distinctions:

people posting on these social media platforms are generally posting with the intent to get their content seen by as many people as possible, as quickly as possible

they post with this intent because once their content is consumed by enough people, it becomes a product that they can monetize

therefore, if that content gets popular enough, these people can become influencers, where content creation is an actual job and their audience are, in a sort of vague and obscured way, similar to consumers purchasing a product

because of the profit economy surrounding social media, there are certain assumptions + forms of interaction that bleed across almost all social media platforms. the ones relevant to this little essay include:

operating under the assumption that anyone posting anything on the internet wants to go viral, ie. be seen by as many people as possible as quickly as possible in order to grow an "audience"

these influencers are creating content for us, their audience, so they should want to please us. they should also be trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience. therefore, if we dislike their content, we have a right to make that very, very clear.

in that same vein, we have a general right to critique content creators, as they are making a profit and we are the consumers purchasing their product--much like you might feel entitled to a certain standard of service in a restaurant where you are paying for the food.

when you carry these assumptions over to a platform like ao3, it creates problems. why? in a nutshell: because ao3 exists outside the profit economy

ao3 is a non-profit. it does not have an algorithm because it is not trying to sell you anything. this means that the writers posting their work on ao3 are not making a profit. we are not influencers. we are not creating monetized content to sell to a consumer-audience. where consuming content on other social media platforms might be comparable to eating at a restaurant, reading fanfiction on ao3 is more like coming over to someone's house and eating cookies that they made for free. you are in their house. the cookies are free, given as a gift. so what happens when those assumptions outlined above start to bleed over from other social media?

assuming that anyone posting fanfiction online wants their work to go viral -- i've seen this with popular fic writers getting questions like, "are you worried x isn't going to be as popular as y?" those questions are usually not ill-intended, but they demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding about why writers post work on ao3. it's not to go viral. it's not to build any sort of online following. most of us who post on ao3 have jobs or schoolwork or other commitments, and writing fanfiction is something done for fun, out of a love for writing. those sharing their work online might be seeking community, but that is fundamentally different from seeking an audience, and in no way involves internet virality. if someone is posting fanfic on ao3 with the hope that it'll "go viral," then they likely either won't continue writing fanfic for long or will reach a point where they have to re-evalute their motivations, because seeking joy and validation by turning your art into a product for consumption just isn't very sustainable.

influencers are creating content for us, so we have a right to let them know if we don't like it -- nope!! fic writers are not influencers. yes, even the popular ones. no matter how much other people might blow their work up on social media, fic writers are still outside the profit economy. they are not creating content for an audience. they are not creating content for you. they are writing because they love it, and they are generously sharing it. if you don't like it, don't interact with it. you are never entitled to loudly and publicly proclaim how much you dislike a fic. i talk about this more here

we have a general right to critique fic writers, the same way we do with content creators/influencers -- again, no. you should not be treating fic writers the way you would treat an influencer on another social media platform, no matter how popular they may be. this is not to say fic writers are beyond all reproach; rather, it is a call-in to check your entitlement. fic writers are not little jesters entertaining in your court. they are not subject to your whims. they do not have to do things for you. they do not have to write things you like. in that post i linked on point 2, i talk about what etiquette might look like if you're really concerned that a fic writer is doing something harmful, but that is not what i'm talking about here. i am talking about the proliferation of negativity i have seen, especially on twitter and tiktok, where people essentially just talk shit about fics or fic writers as though they are entitled to have those fic writers working to please them. this is gross, and it needs to stop. you wouldn't go over to someone's house, eat the cookies they baked to share, and then spit those cookies back in their face and start shouting about what a shitty baker they are. or maybe you would--in which case, congratulations! you are Not A Good Person.

anyway, at the end of the day, a lot of this can be boiled down to: Because ao3 exists outside the profit economy, fic writers are not influencers, and you should never be treating them as though they are. i think i see this disconnect largely with younger people just because they've maybe only ever really understood social media within this sort of influencer-consumer-culture economy, and genuinely don't understand how to interact differently with the internet. so, consider this post a call-in to reevaluate the way you interact with fic writers and the etiquette you use when it comes to engaging with fanfic on ao3! i promise that ao3 being different from social media is a very, very good thing, and also a very, very rare thing, so let's treasure it and focus on fostering community rather than trying to morph it to fit the mould of influencer-audience dynamics that we see almost everywhere else <3