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@jaydawnsin
About Me
Name: Jay Pronouns: They/Them Social Media: AO3 Age: I’ve been paying taxes for many years. FAQs:
Can I make fan art for your aus, fan fics, headcanons, etc? Yes! Please tag me! No guarantee I’ll like or reblog it for various reasons, but I do want to know when art, text posts, or anything like that is made for my fics! How often do you update? My updates are not consistent and I will never promise that they will be. Even during NaNoWriMo. I write when I feel like it.
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if u dont acknowledge the fanfics u read, the writer won’t think anyone is actually taking the time to read their stuff, which makes our effort feel wasted and our passions feel worthless
Tell. The. Fanfic. Writers. How. You. Feel.
I will always reblog this. It’s important.
We are hungry for validation. Pls feed us!
It’s so true and I will reblog this everytime I come across it
Every single time I see Inbox (1), I immediately get a shot of seratonin
Lowkey squeal when I see (1) in my Inbox.
I absolutely squeal when I see (1). It fills me with glee.
Absolutely. This goes for any hobby as well, resin arts, painting, writing, etc. Help make creative people feel valid by just saying something nice.
It’s so difficult to keep writing about something you love only for it to get such little engagements. Sometimes we wanna give up.
So please, whatever kind of feedback you have on an author’s work—even if it’s constructive (“this could’ve been executed better”), or even if it’s “oh, will we get to see more of ____?”, even if it’s random keyboard smashes under a guest/anonymous account.
Let them know.
Honestly feels so good to get response on work, writing fanfics can be a bit lonely at times weirdly, (characters can’t talk back of their own volition unfortunately 😭), love to absolutely nerd out over my fics with anyone to just be ENTHUSIASTIC together and feel like all the work is having a positive impact on people. Love to share my passions, it’s what makes it all worth it! ❤️
Thanks everyone who has ever given me kudos or comments, you’ve honestly boosted my mood so much when I really needed it sometimes and have renewed my love for the show and writing!
Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy
Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE
Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted
Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative
Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying
ENDORSED
Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…
What is your AO3 user ID?
I’m an OG user 5 digits or less
Six figures baby!
I’m in the millions…
I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!
These posts are sisters
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there's a common belief that artists know how to make art. this is untrue. i've yet to meet a single artist who has any idea what they're doing
some people will be like “I wonder why fanfic writers don’t share their works anymore😔” and then this is them when a writer is kind enough to share something they write — as a hobby, for their own enjoyment — with them for free.
some people really don’t realize how privileged they are that they get fanfics for free. imagine having access to something for free because someone is kind enough to share it with you… and then being rude, entitled and an ungrateful pos to that person who was kind enough to share their creation with you for free
“almost 1 year is a lil too much for me” fuck off. fanfic writers don’t owe you anything. one of my favorite fics was updated after 13 years, and what I did is that I thanked the author for choosing to continue the work, I didn’t act like a spoiled toddler by asking why they didn’t update sooner. and even if a writer chooses to abandon their fic permanently with no explanation, that is their choice, their hobby, their decision. they don’t owe your entitled ass anything.
you people let tiktok rot your brains to the point you see everything as content farm and engagement. not a piece of art created by the artist’s love and passion. it’s dystopian.
“We can’t force people to like each other. We can’t force people to be nice to each other. But we could take away fandom bullies’ favorite tools. So we did.”
— On The Creation of Archive of Our Own
there’s very few things that drive me up the wall in fandom as much as this weird new assumption that fandom is primarily a space for younger people that older folks are only accepted into in a trial basis if they promise to centralize and accommodate younger fans, and further, anything else is creepy and predatory. IT’S OKAY FOR ADULTS TO PRODUCE CONTENT FOR OTHER ADULTS.
if I have to read “women in their 30s” used as an insult one more time I swear I’ll - step away from that user and just hang out with the other grownups who consistently create good content because I’m also an adult and too busy comparing car insurance to fight with teenagers on the internet, but goddAMMIT I’ll be annoyed
I’ve been in this hole since yall lil shits were three apples tall and I’ll die in this hole too
Me, writing the plot and sexual tension scenes:
Me, writing the smut:
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Has this been done already or
I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.
You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.
Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.
It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!
(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)
this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.
Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)
Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.
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HEADS UP!
The scammers on AO3 seem to be upping their game - now their comments may actually relate specifically to the story. Otherwise the comment follows the usual formula.
On top of this, this is a registered user, which means I can't simply mark the comment as spam. I'll have to manually file a report.
What really galls me is that they must've fed my story through genAI to get relevant commentary.
OP, I know these are two different realms, but this is exactly like the spam I've been getting to my author email. Just swap out a specific fic for a specific book and the wording and tone is exactly the same. (Only the spammer signs off asking for you to talk to them about marketing, not commissioning art).
I don't even have anything useful or insightful to add, just that its so freaky seeing this pop up on my dash. I hate this kind of bot so much, because its so fucking disheartening and you end up feeling gross that they've fed your work into AI to generate this trash.
one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(
a reminder that ao3 was created as an archive. not a social media.
ao3 is run on fans’ donations. it’s a nonprofit organization, run by fans, for fans. it has no ads. no capitalism or algorithm bullshit.
ao3 allows works that depict all kind of taboo, morally questionable, disgusting, socially unacceptable subjects, no matter how graphic, how explicit it is being portrayed (that’s what tags, warnings and ratings are for!).
ao3 does not have censorship, nor does ao3 allow censorship.
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I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.
and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.
everybody say thank you ao3
Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote
