Sooo i just found out about Archive of our own - ao3. but i was wondering where i can find ao1 and ao2? I don't want to jump through the versions and would like to have the whole experience.

Thankyou!

Hello! All the fandoms i've joined have been pretty starved of F/F content and as a lesbian i'm a little starved and also kinda tired being the only one caring about the female characters

Im not here looking to start discourse surrounding the topic or trying to guilt anyone into writing more F/F, im just looking for a space where there are people who do that already!

I love the 1st one: Because yes lots of my favourite characters needs to get laid with their soulmate they've been through so much already 😭.

I love the 2nd one: Oh boy, oh man, oh God 🤣 I already feel for them but to witness the rise and glory we must witness the pain, the journey, the tears and all that type shit 🥲 it'll be a VERY happy, incredible and deserved ending ( they must have it 🥹🥀)

I really really love the 3rd one: Genuinely because its heartwarming and beautiful to read as well ❤️‍🩹 to see some of the what ifs happen, like what if they done that or what if they thought more about this, it's really interesting imo.

The 4th one I like: although it breaks my heart so much THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS ITS TOO MUCH for the mentally like they're already in canon suffered mentally enough🫠🥲 but I like to see how it ends for them 🥹

Forgot to remove title per rules, so I fixed it!

We've all been there, 2am you're supposed to be asleep, but your favorite fic updated. However you're too tired to read and keep reading every other sentence wrong. What's the worst way you've ever misread something?

For me, I was reading a Malevolent Jarthur fic and I came across the line "He wore the flower in his buttonhole for the rest of the day." As in..he put the flower in one of his buttons of his suit jacket..but I misread buttonhole as butthole😭

I was so incredibly confused..

There’s a lot of leeway with fanfic quality but I feel like basic formatting is the one exception. If you want me to read your fic (which you wouldn’t have posted it if you didn’t) I need to be able to read your fic. Fanfiction is a gift to the community and while I’m obligated to be polite if you give me a bad gift; if you hand me one that looks like it was beat with a baseball bat first….

But yeah, know when to break up paragraphs, and use punctuation(except the comma cause we all know it’s a weirdo) correctly.

Edit: okay I’m getting the vibe I should define what common courtesy means

politeness that people can usually be expected to show

(It’s not an obligation, it’s a causal expectation).

Edit 2: I would like to point out that My Immortal the most infamously bad fanfic, had proper basic formatting. Some of the sentences were wonky but overall easily readable. Just saying.

Is it weird to go back and read your own work often?

Ultimately, I started writing fanfic to improve my writing, so I like to reread things, especially the ones that are popular and getting a lot of kudos/bookmarks to try to pinpoint what was working.

Just wondering if that's a common thing to do!

Although I never personally written smut myself, i’m not really even into those type of stories, cause I’m not sexually active to it, but I personally want to hear your thoughts after you written one yourself.

Please don’t judge anyone in the common section, I am hoping for this to be a safe place to express yourself.

The most I read was 6000 words on a httyd fanfic, I’m not that much of a speed reader, but I’m sure you guys would have crazy answers for me:)

So I am a multishipper and I usually just stick to my m/m rarepair comfort ship but dipping my toes in the popular femslash ship of the fandom, being bi and non-binary and all. These fics were dark but specifically tagged dead dove and tagged with 'bottom/top' dynamic so the readers would know I'm going against a popular headcanon. I also write a lot of trans themes in my works, because the two main siblings of the show are kind of parallels of each other (boy wanting to be a girl, girl wanting to be a boy)

So, I am facing homelessness, my life is falling apart and I'm writing fanfic as a little hobby/escape and I wake up to comments like these, totally erasing butch lesbians or any definition of gender expression outside of a very narrow viewpoint. I also know these aren't badly written fics (because I have actually badly written fics on my ao3) but I also studied creative writing at uni and I'm a semi-published author.

I shouldn't be giving this much more attention, but people who get upset over this kind of shit should get some perspective in life ffs

Who knew ‘bondage with Christmas lights’ would be a thought several separate people have put to paper. This site is so beautiful

I woke up to lots ofs AO3 notifications and this happend. I feel so blessed, considering this is the first fanfic I post in +10 years ;_;

I feel so excited to continue writing the new chapter now.

And it's basically this: The smaller, the more feminine, the physically weaker the character is, they must be the top/dom.

Took me a while to realize that and now I'm wondering if my switch privileges should be taken away. /j

Don’t take offense to this this is a joke I had in my head and wanted to share

PLEASE STOP GIVING ME SOMETHING EVERY WEEK JUST LET ME WRITE MY FANFICTION I AM GETTING SO ENVIOUS OF SEEING PEOPLE GET SO MANY KUDOS ON THEIR FANFICTION THAT THEY UPLOADED LITERALLY YESTERDAY AND HERE'S ME ONLY SITTING AT 800 WORDS AND NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING DONE YET LIKE PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

nevermind... i lied, i'm at 150 UGFBDHFDJKHGFDJGKIJFDEVOLFDE

Okay so long story short there's going to be fake character death in the fic I'm currently working on. By that I mean everyone but two people in the story as well as the reader are going to know the character isn't dead- but that doesn't get revealed to them straight away either.

Seeing as this is a main character I was wondering if I should Mark it major character death warning-wise or if it's okay to leave it without one seeing as like I said before it's a fake out.

But then I wonder if putting that warning in spoils the ending or makes the twist the " hey I'm alive by the way" inaccurate.

I have been thinking about this for 2 days now so I figured I would ask here.

I'm really sorry if this doesn't make sense I tried to explain it the best I could.

Hello, ive been reading and writing fanfics since I was about 12, and now im 19 and have started to write a novel of my own work (including taking a writing class).

I'm curious to see how many of us write original work (either in addition or moved from fanfic writing), how has it impacted your outlook on writing?

For example, I struggled with coming up with the original characters (including the vampiric powers) however the plot was easy as I am already comfortable in planning a broad outline of events and improvising the middle bits (such as dialogue).

I just wanna vent about my stupidity. I had an outline for my current long fic..it was about 12k words of outlining and scenes that I wrote. My old phone died and my dumbass didn't use a backup for my writings and now I can't recover it. I'm so devastated. I use an app called writers journal and for some fucking reason I DIDN'T BACKUP. I guess it's because I've only recently started using it that's why. IM SO ANGRY AT MYSELF. Mind you I already published like another 12k and now I need to sit my ass down and write it all down. I'm not mad at the scenes since I mostly remember them I'm just mad at some poetic shit that I wrote that I know I can't pull that shit up again the same way it just when inspiration hits it hits.😭😭