#fanfic culture

[live-from-flaturn]

"But you already wrote that trope."

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanfics #fanfic culture #tropes #fanfic tropes #its my blorbo and he'll suffer how I want him to #blorbo disc horse #fanfic meme #fanfic author shitpost #writing meme

[bobaheadshark]

the feminine urge to post a wip even though it’s not edited it’s not complete it’s nothing like you envisioned, and yet — u want your three mutual blorbos to pls pat u on the head, to pls validate u, to tell u ur words are something and that you aren’t alone and that the words on the screen are worth the endeavour. and sometimes it’s about the one to one understanding of the words on the page. sometimes it’s about the story making it from head to paper. sometimes it’s just about being deranged in your DMs and making the idea happen just for your own sake, or the two of you. the snake eats itself but it sustains and sustains, and i just think that’s beautiful.

#fanfiction #ao3 memes #fanfic #writing community #writers on tumblr #writing #ao3 stuff #ao3 #writeblr #ao3 struggles #fanfiction struggles #fanfic struggles #writer stuff #writing stuff #on writing #creative writing #writer encouragement #fanfic culture #writing is hard #writblr #ao3 writer #ao3feed #writerscommunity

[volunteerfelinedetectives]

After months of staying silent on literary discourse here on Tumblr, I finally have something to contribute.

Fanfiction is not the problem. Fanfic is a free, communal and valid form of writing which, although not always high quality, has yielded some genuinely great stories. The real problem, the reason for ‘booktok books’ and the flaws in modern literature, is fanfic being hijacked by corporations. The minute people try to make money off of it, the minute fanfic and fanfic-style stories lose their meaning. Fanfiction is written on the notes app at 3am for you and 5 friends who share your taste. It is self-indulgent, chaotic, often told through a queer and/or neurodivergent lens, and free from any pressure to be commercially palatable. The minute a few stereotypical fanfiction tropes and ideas are stolen by commercial publishers and twisted into patriarchal, heteronormative versions of themselves with no character depth beyond the romance (a problem that for obvious reasons doesn’t apply to fanfic), that is where the real problem begins.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

#booktok #text post #essay #fanfic culture #anti intellectualism #book discussion #book discourse #literature discourse #literature #anti booktok

[fixing-bad-posts]

[Image description: A reddit comment, edited blackout-poetry style in AO3-red. Resulting text is below.]

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Im a fanfic writer. fanfic writers are great. You work under a pen name and write fanfics

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #blackout poetry #fanfiction #fanfic writing #fanfic culture #fandom culture #fanfictions #fanfics #fanfic #fanfic writers #fanfic writer #fanfiction writer #fanfiction writers #fanfic authors

[chaoticquill]

Why Are We STILL Doing This?

I'm just going to straight up say the worst thing you can do as a reader is praise a writer in one breath, then backhandedly bash their ships in the next.

Let me explain.

I'm not talking about the "I don't normally ship x, but I gave this a chance since you wrote it" comments. Because that's fine. It's totally within your right to ship and not ship whatever.

I'm talking about, "Wow, this person's x ship work is so good! But ew, they ship y. Gross."

Y'all, I write fanfic because I want to. No one's paying me to do this. I love the community I've found in doing it, but then, I see people behaving badly, and I get a lot of feelings (hint: none of them are good ones. Mostly angry, a little sad).

I've been targeted and harassed for my ships on AO3. And because I am who I am, I have embraced the petty urge to write that ship I've been told not to EVEN HARDER.

Not everyone is like that. Talking shit about a person because of the ships they like can be really bad for that person's mental health. I know people who have stopped writing popular ships because of the hate they get for their less popular ones despite clear tagging, and it's even more infuriating when I see the same people talking shit get all sad because the writer quit writing the ship they (the reader) likes.

Sometimes, I ask myself, "Why can't we all just try to make this weird wonky fandom space we share in such a way that people's mental health doesn't crumble and they get all the joy out of their fan works they seek?" Then I remember people are people.

Hard ask, but if you don't like a ship, maybe instead of speaking in ways that damage other people, you can just say, "I don't personally like that ship" and not read the thing. Hell, there are ships I don't like, and I can just avoid them because tags. (Yes, I know it's not that easy, but hell, I'm trying anyway).

TL;DR: I saw people being assholes, I have feelings, and I want those people to stop being assholes.

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic writing #bungou stray dogs #writing #bsd #fandom #rant post #archive of our own #fandom etiquette #fanfic culture #fanfic life #common courtesy #stop being an asshole

[angelltheninth]

I saw this circling on Twitter but regardless if this is a bot or not I have the urge to slap you if I see you do this shit

If you do this shit you don't deserve to ever read a single word of anyone's writing ever again

#anti ai #anti ai writing #anti ai fic #fuck ai #fuck ai writing #ao3 bots #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfic culture #fandom #fandom community #fandom culture

[thefabledpheasant]

(Ex: coffee shop, no powers, coworkers, college, etc)

#id love to hear more thoughts in tags or comments! #personally not a fan of them #I feel like if they’re not in the canon universe then it’s not really the same characters #like dean and Castiel in a college AU for example #in my brain it’s like #they’re not really Castiel and dean then #I think because I believe in both nature and nurture #and so if Dean has a different upbringing then he’s not really the Dean I know #but I also can understand the appeal of it #reading them fall in love in any every universe definitely has a draw #I’m just curious how others feel #tumblr polls #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #ao3fic #ao3 poll #polls #writing opinions #fanfic #fanfic discussion #destiel #merthur #hannigram #fanfic aus #canon fanfic #fanfic culture #mine

[oddmawd]

do fanfic comments matter?

i hadn't touched this story in 6 months, but then this person left another comment on it out of the blue, so i dropped everything and wrote the next chapter

comment on the stories you love, i promise it matters

#fanfic writing #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 #ao3fic #fanfic culture #fanfic comments #fanfic community #comments #commenting

[saulenewell]

Someday i'mma be 60 and I'll still read about these two 17 year old boys fucking each other in a Hogwarts dormitory

#you never forget what being young feels like i think #drarry #draco/harry #harry potter #hp #draco malfoy #slash #fanfiction #fanfic culture

[vendettasfanfictioning]

never gonna beat the abo-enjoyer allegations so i may as well just come out: yes i like the extremely flawed trope of the alpha/beta/omega dynamic, but specifically in fics where it criticizes its own society's prejudices and questions the oversexualization of its own system, biological or otherwise—in a sort of meta reflection of reality; sexual assault, abuse, the clash of purity culture and virgin-ridicule, the erasure of asexuality, etc.

ik we're in it for the porn but god does it hit different when it tries, yknow?

#this has been a draft since aug 28 wtf did i read that day that compelled me to write this #i think this was even BEFORE i knew that virtually the first abo fic to ever exist was about j2 #time flies fast huh #fanfic #fanfic culture #fandom #fandom culture #fanfic author #fanfiction #fanfic readers #abo #alpha/beta/omega dynamics #alpha/beta/omega verse #omegaverse #meta #sort of

[the-silent-hashira]

little reminder for all the fanfic writers out there

you are not responsible for teaching people about safe sex practices. it is not your job to tell people 'dont fuck like these characters in my fanfic, its unrealistic'. it should be obvious that fanfic is often unrealistic, and if people look at your fics and take unsafe sex practices from it, then they need to actually consider whether its a good idea to even look at fanfic to teach them how to do anything, especially sex.

people who read fanfic, do not take your life lessons from fanfic, ever. if you see something in a fanfic and think 'wow, i'd like to do that irl!' maybe don't and actually look things up and do research.

did we not learn from 50 Shades of Grey that you should not take sex advice from fictional content???

#🧤 through the void || ooc #media literacy #fandom #fanfic culture #fandom wank #idk other tags to add #but it makes me mad when people feel entitled to a disclaimer on fics #telling them not to fuck like anime characters?? #if you dont know something dont fucking take it from a fanfic #like this is basic goddamn knowledge

[skieystar]

I just hope AO3 authors know that when I've already left kudos I still tap the button over and over again <3

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfiction #writebrl #fandom #fanfic culture #writing #ao3 kudos

[batman-obsession-by-secret]

Honest question: what is the weirdest thing you've read in a fanfic?

For me it is one of the following three:

1) a full grown man hiding inside of the uterus of another full grown man (this fanfic taught me the difference between horror and terror)

2) a VERY GRAPHIC castration

3) a super cute fanfic that randomly and without any warning had a graphic murder and cannibalism scene

#ao3 #ao3 tags #ao3 funny #wtf #wtf is going on #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic culture #fanfic tropes #i don't know how to tag #batman and robin #batman #robin #red robin #nightwing #red hood #Bruce Wayne #dick grayson #tim drake #jason todd #voltron #keith kogane #takashi shirogane #guess which fanfic was from which fandom lol #fandom #cannibalism #tw cannibalism #tw gore #gore #tw birth

[fandomsoda]

Y’know I’ve noticed a lot in recent years that there’s a lot of weird stuff with creators taking pride in upsetting, hurting, being cruel to, traumatizing, or just straight up being spiteful/mean to their audience or characters and hot take: that’s shitty.

Relishing in the emotional pain of your readers/fans is not cool, it is not normal, and you shouldn’t brag about it online.

“Yay I made my readers cry! I love making my favorite characters suffer!” Congrats, now I feel very unsafe around you. Stop it.

#text post #soda rambles #fanfic culture #fandom culture #tumblr culture #Writing angst is totally fine and normal #acting like this is just too much

[thestarlightforge]

Appreciation post for @nurcechapel. The GIFs. The recaps.

It’s been such a chaotic summer for me—sister’s getting ready for college in 2 weeks, I’m in summer class for grad school, have several jobs and theatre work, plus the usual hustle of fighting ableism and access issues in my day-to-day—and Spapel came in as the unexpected hero to distract me/hold my sanity together. 😂 But I don’t always have time to binge right as it’s coming out. And when I don’t, they come to the rescue.

You’re my superhero, friend. And that’s a Spapel fact 🥰

#bisexual pride #fanfic culture #fan appreciation #Spapel #spock x chapel #spock x christine #christine x spock #nurse chapel #Christine chapel #spock snw #snw spock #Spock #star trek snw #star trek: snw #star trek strange new worlds #star trek: strange new worlds

[heathersaddict]

I'm a weird kind of fanfic enjoyer who only ever reads/writes for one fandom. Most fanfic readers read for multiple different fandoms at once, but I'm happy just reading for my one extremely specific ship in my extremely specific fandom.

#fanfiction #fandom culture #fanfic culture #fanfic readers #fanfic writer #fanfiction problems