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BUT ALSO CAN WE GIVE EMOTIONAL SCENES TO JOYCE AGAIN WHY ARE WE HOLDING BACK EXACTLY YOU HAVE WINONA IN THE CAST FFS WHAT ARE YOU DOING

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Why do so many people not know you can subscribe on ao3? (I've got seven btw, and I'm pretty sure half of them still come from my dsmp era)

AO3 Subscribers Poll

(please reblog and share for a bigger reach <3)

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send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome.💌

Aww <3

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I saw a comment by someone on reddit who said they no longer comment on any fanfiction because of the risk of it being AI and ... that just seems like such a cop out to me, not to mention incredibly cruel to authors.

Please please please do not stop commenting on all fics or interacting with authors because you are worried about things being AI. The risk is slim, and the damage you do to authors by doing this is awful.

Writers put so much effort into their fics. For people to openly admit they still read and consume these fics, but choose not to comment on anything because of the possibility of someone using AI for their writing is incredibly selfish. You're punishing authors by doing this. You're not being moral or helpful or crusading for any useful cause - you're just hurting authors.

Ironically, by doing this, you're actually more likely to cause authors to stop writing (silence does this), and people who can't write will fill the gaps left by creating AI writing - so you're making the problem worse, not helping anyone.

If you want to support authors and writers, then SUPPORT them! Reblog work and send authors asks, leave comments and kudos, and above all don't punish people with silence.

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people always talk about leaving comments on ao3 like it's a nice thing to do, or the best way to encourage writers to keep writing, or overall like it's how you Do Your Part in fandom

and yeah, all those things are true, but having spent the past few months leaving enthusiastic comments on as many things as i can, i have a different perspective

you should leave comments on fics because it's fun

taking the time to stop and focus on what i like about a story has made me way more aware of what's going on in stories and what i like about them. there's bit more actual comprehension and appreciation and not just beaming content into my eyes to fill time

i like noticing cool little things in fics, or riffing on funny events. i've never been very good at speculating or picking apart characters, but sometimes something clicks and it rocks.

and of course it's pretty nice when you get a response and it's clear you've made another person happy

so yeah, you should leave comments for your own sake, too. it makes reading better!

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Reblog for a larger sample size!

No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

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Okay, but why does no one talk about how literally everyone's name in the Byers/Hopper family starts with a J. EXCEPT for Will. Like: Joyce, Jim, Jonathan, Jane, and Will.

What's up with that?! There has to be an explanation for it, right? Is it something about him feeling left out because he's gay, or am I reading too much into this.

(We're ignoring Lonnie here. He doesn't count.)

#stranger things #joyce byers #jim hopper #jopper #eleven hopper #jonathan byers #will byers #byers family #byler

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re-reading my own fic because the author has exactly my taste in tropes, ships the same ships in the right way, and also shares my sense of humour. what a find, what a revelation. i hope they write more of this sort of thing.

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Guess who wrote yet another Jopper fic? It's me, obviously. Although this time it's only a one-shot, taking place pre-canon. The fic is set after Hopper moves back to Hawkins following Sara's death. Joyce catches wind of that and rethinks their old friendship, partially together with him.

#joyce byers #stranger things #jim hopper #jopper #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #fanfic #stranger things fanfiction

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i encourage you to go to your favourite writer's ao3 page and comment on an older fic, because i can assure you that it will make their day. It can mean so much to see your work doesn't disappear into the void to be never seen again after a day of people interacting with it. Just, if you have the time, go comment on an older work

(pls reblog this to try and get as much writers a bit of appreciation)

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I keep seeing posts about how Joyce wouldn't love her two boys the same and that she prefers Will.

This isn't true.

The Duffer brothers show us more of the Joyce/Will relationship because he literally disappeared for a week…

But she loves Jonathan as much as Will, because she's the best mom in Stranger Things and I will die with that.

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They are not allowed to break up EVER

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I'm sorry, but I'll never be able to take it seriously when Hopper calls Joyce "Joycie" (or something along the lines of that) in a fic. It's kind of an immediate deal breaker for me. It could be such a good story and then he calls her fucking "Joycie" and I'll just burst out laughing.

#joyce byers #stranger things #jim hopper #jopper #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #fanfic

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Something I think about a lot is how Rick Riordan very rarely uses "girlfriend/boyfriend" to refer to Percy and Annabeth within their perspectives. They're so intertwined, even Annabeth says in hoh that the word boyfriend isn't strong enough, because Percy was a part of her. They are a singular soul, too wrapped around each others' fates that regular labels are far too weak for them. But, Rick Riordan uses "boyfriend" a lot in Nico and Wills perspectives, not because they love each other less than percabeth, but to show how much the word means to them. Nico uses it any chance he gets- "his boyfriend," "he actually had a boyfriend," because Nico has never been able to say that before. Their struggle with their queer identities mixed with Nico's catholic guilt and chronic everyone-hates-me disease makes the fact that he has someone to call his actual boyfriend so much more important to his character development.

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There is something so incredibly intoxicating about getting kudos and comments on my ao3 works. I open the website, and I check and I see that number go up and damn, it’s amazing

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How come there are only nine works under the 'Joyce Byers-centric' tag on ao3? AND THREE OF THEM WERE WRITTEN BY ME! Guys, I need content!

#joyce byers #stranger things #ao3 #winona ryder #stranger things fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #fanfic

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THIS!!!

i hope ppl that comment on ao3 fics know how much their comments mean to the writers