Tag: fan fiction

greenekangaroo:

sauwuron:

other people writing ao3 comments: love this! can’t wait to see more ❤

me writing ao3 comments: gyjfsdghjkldsfhj fukc dude i………..id eat this if i could….

Reblog if you want someone to love your fic so hard they’d eat it

Best comment second to none I’ve ever gotten on a story, hidden in the bookmarks, no less:

This is the worst story I’ve ever read I hate it so much I wanna burn it to the ground then bake the ashes into cookies and eat them and cry like a big baby loser thinking about how much I hate this wonderful perfect too good for this world story

Fanfic authors can see your AO3 bookmarks!

mordantata:

barbex:

knightjeran:

apentomyheadandimdead:

Yes, it’s true. And it seems that many people do not know this.

When you bookmark something on AO3, you can choose to add tags or comments, but these are not private! The author can see these!

So don’t be rude! Don’t be an ass and leave something in your bookmarks that you wouldn’t tell the author.

to add a few more

but then there’s this???

If you, as a reader wants to put some critical remarks on your bookmark, please make the bookmark private. 
Seeing those comments really hurts writers.

Fanfiction is not the same as professional writing and shouldn’t be treated as such. A lot of writers are just writing to relieve stress or for fun, and if they don’t specifically ask for criticism assume that your critiques and negative ‘reviews’ are unwanted. The content you are seeing is free, remember that.

Imo this is the same as if someone loaned you their notebook with their writing in it, even if you didn’t like it would you leave a review because ‘they let you see it so’? It’s very easy to not leave negative comments or critiques when they aren’t asked for, or at least make them private.

I will say, I love reading the bookmarks on my fic because you get some AMAZING gems that give me great feedback as to what works in a story. Also, you get things like THE BEST COMMENT I HAVE EVER GOT ON A THING. I would never have seen this if I hadn’t been someone who read my bookmarks. Bask in its glory:

This is the worst story I’ve ever read I hate it so much I wanna burn it to the ground then bake the ashes into cookies and eat them and cry like a big baby loser thinking about how much I hate this wonderful perfect too good for this world story

I legitimately fistpumped when I read it the first time, and it brightens my day EVERY SINGLE TIME I read it.

(the story in question, for the curious)

Me: I don’t care what people say in the comments of my fic I just need them. GIVE ME ALL THE COMMENTS
Also me: Except ‘write more now’
Also me: And ‘this isn’t the specific thing I like I want you to change my story to be the specific thing I like’
Also me: ‘you wrote a briticism here you need to get a beta this is unacceptable’ well you can just fuck the fuck off
Also me: you – person who just wrote ‘aoinsdognfdfboineodfinsoidnreoewinr’ though… you can stay

bettsfic:

please stop asking for sequels. i’m begging you, fanfic readers. please. you’re already putting in the effort to leave a comment. just. just fucking type what you liked about the fic. you spent a fraction of the time reading as i did writing and now – you want more. and you will not tell me why. please. i am so broken.

reioka:

tonystarktogo:

reioka:

tonystarktogo:

Am I alone thinking Tony would totally be the kind of robo-parent who creates Twitter or Instagram accounts for his bots?

I’m just imagining Dum-E the great shit poster that gets tons of followers:

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
Oil? In smoothie? Yes.

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Oil in smoothie was wrong.

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Fire extinguisher! Fire extinguisher!

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Fire extinguisher was wrong. 😦

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
Fire extinguisher was actually right!!!!! :)))))

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
DON’T HAVE A BIG ENOUGH FIRE EXTINGUISHER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

JARVIS (@intelligentsystem)
@dumdedumdum Fire contained. Thank you, Dum-E

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
JARVIS how I tag

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
@intelligentsystem nm :))))

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
Metal arm guy!!!! Like me!!!! I am also metal arm guy. :)))))

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

METAL ARM GUY NOT LIKE ME IS NOT NICE >:C

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Metal arm guy has come to understanding NOT TO BE MEAN TO ME!!!!!

Dume (@dumdedumdum) 
METAL ARM GUY LIAR! FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!!

JARVIS (@intelligentsystem)
@dumdedumdum Please stop chasing the sergeant around, he was just trying to be nice.

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
@intelligentsytem No??? I’M DENTED.

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Metal arm guy wearing Cone of Shame. All is well.

Ahahahahahahaha tbh I picture this happening literally every day for the first few weeks before DUM-E gets used to Metal arm guy

But also consider DUM-E’s live tweets outing various well-kept secrets among the Avengers (that even the occasional team member wasn’t aware of) without DUM-E even realising it

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
Vibranium is worst metal because I AM NOT MADE OF ANY

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Tony’s sad. :(((( I will bring coffee!!!!

Dume (@dumdedumdum) 
It didn’t work. :(((

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

I’ll do something stupid to make him angry instead!!! :)))) Get wheel stuck on table!

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Oh no am actual stuck @intelligentsystem HELP

JARVIS (@intelligentsystem)
@dumdedumdum Dum-E…. why….

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Tony fixed. :)))) I made A-okay sign with claw and he smiled!!!

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

I am not A-okay I am still stuck.

Dume (@dumdedumdum) 
CAPTAIN AMERICA!!!! HE WILL HELP!!!!

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Oh nm he’s just kissing Tony. 😒

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Metal Arm Seargent!!!! HE WILL HELP!!!!

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Oh nm he’s also kissing Tony. 😒

Nat-Nat (@therealblackwidow)
@dumdedumdum Honey I think that might have been a secret! 😳

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
@therealblackwidow Idc??? I’m stuck on this table.

Nat-Nat (@therealblackwidow)
@dumdedumdum Hang on omw

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
@therealblackwidow saved me!!!! Tony is upset tho idk why

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Oh it WAS a secret!!!! My bad.

Dume (@dumdedumdum)

Farewell @intelligentsystem I will miss you

JARVIS (@intelligentsystem)
@dumdedumdum Where are you going?

Dume (@dumdedumdum)
@intelligentsystem I am fleeing for my life IT WAS A BIG SECRET CRAP

THIS IS DELIGHTFUL. @copperbadge

brightbluedot:

iwtv2007:

shockblanketnightmares:

geiszlerandgaila:

I still can’t believe that fanfiction is free

I sometimes have to pay for water, but with a phone and some wifi, I get to read whole novels about my favorite characters for exactly zero additional dollars

How goddamn rad is that

all the love to the fanfic authors who make this possible, y’all are the best

#yes we do this for free#you know how you pay us?#comment#review#tell us that somebody’s enjoying what we do#it takes two seconds and it’s also free (via @flintsredhair)

Whenever I check my phone and see I’ve got a notification from AO3, subject line “Comment on…” my whole day brightens up. I’ll hide my face in my hands and smile and smile – and that’s before I’ve read it. Even a simple ‘I loved this!“ or similar makes me giddy, but if it’s DETAILED. oh my god. I have definitely teared up before. Knowing WHAT somebody liked is the best feeling in the world. A line, a moment, a way you felt while reading, seriously, anything specific is pure ambrosia.

tl;dr: If you ever feel like making somebody blissfully happy, drop a comment ❤

paperflower86:

The events of The Winter Soldier trial told in a series of tweets. Inspired by two amazing mixed-media fics that play with the possibility of what might happen if Bucky was put on trial after the events of CATWS:

– United States v. Barnes by fallingvoices and radialarch

– cross this river to the other side by defcontwo

This is more of a re-mix than actual fic illustration, though all credit for the idea and the tweets goes to the respective authors. Stylewise I was going for a mix between actual pictures and courtroom sketches. References used courtesy of Getty Images. And thanks to johanirae for being my art-beta.

Brave New World of Toil and Trouble

I am posting this as a wholehearted rec because I ADORE this story and I have no one in my life I can talk about it with because no one I talk to regularly about fannish things is into Austen/has read this fic. It’s a what if? AU which those who know me KNOW is my one true love of fan fiction. It’s detailed, it’s long, it’s plotty, it’s complete, and it has gorgeous character development for all involved, both canon and original players. It’s talking about rape culture and feminism and fighting for the people you love, but also about taking a terrible thing and making something amazing from it.

Heed the warnings. If non-con of any kind is a problem for you, this is not the story for you. But if, like me, you gain a great catharsis from reading characters you love endure, and more, evolve from something devastating and triumph, you will love this fic.

Beth AM crafted something amazing that I wish I could have a physical copy of on my shelf right next to Austen’s originals. I don’t say that about many fan fictions, though I’ve read a lot. Katie Forsythe/wordstrings’s Sherlock Holmes fic. copperbadge’s Cartographer’s Craft. shuofthewind’s The Making of Monsters. domarzione’s Freezer Burn. Not Easily Conquered by WhatAreFears and dropdeaddream. I’m sure there are a few more I’m forgetting, but all told, it’s not a long list out of the thousands of fics I’ve read over decades in fandoms. This is one of them.

Read it. Love it. Thank the imagination and the dedication of the author that it exists. And then sigh that because it’s on a web page archive, not Ao3, you can’t leave kudos to let the author know how wonderful it is, and resort to telling Tumblr instead. That’s what I did, anyway.

Brave New World of Toil and Trouble

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

do you ever see someone say something negative about a ship or character or fandom and just….

desperately want to write fic/draw art/etc of it out of spite?

(and then you don’t bc you don’t care *that* much, but it just NAGS AT YOU.)

And that’s the wonderful story of why we have a small subset of AMAZING Clint Barton/Carol Danvers fic.

Life of Crime by neveralarch is a FANTASTIC AU where Clint is on the villain side of things. It’s disability positive, sex positive, kink positive, and funny as hell. But Carol Corps haters LOATHE it, because Clint is not good enough for their girl. Never mind that it’s awesome.

And then there’s Captain Marvelous, which copperbadge wrote a sequel to because people whined that the original was NOT ON.