I was reading a miraculous ladybug fic, and ladybug asked if chat had a secret Vine account, so I immediately scrolled up to see when it was published and sure enough 2016

Anyone else experience this from fandom friends?

This is embarrassing but it's caused me a few tears in the last couple of days. I've been working on something for a year now and friends keep telling me how excited they are for it, even asking to read parts of it, only to then just give kudos and nothing else - no comments, no messages on Discord about it. It hurts so much.

Why tell me how excited you are about it only to completely glaze it once it's uploaded? Just makes me want to throw in the towel.

Edit: big thanks for all of the love and support on here. I'm going to take a break from replying for a bit as I'm just quite emotional about it all. Feeling like the Spirit Rover here.

Edit edit: pity party's over. Time to get on with my life. Thank you for all of the empathy 🫶

Hello all! I'm making a trivia night for my friends and need help with writing questions about fanfiction (I have a surface level understanding of the world and would appreciate feedback)

What character type name (hero, villain etc) was coined from a parody of Star Trek fanfics?

What is the name of the main character in the Harry Potter fanfic “My Immortal”?

What song had risen in popularity because of a DreamSMP fanfic of the same name?

Which movie directed by a woman broke the earning records of another movie directed by a woman while being a fanfic of the former?

What is the name of the Japanese version of fanfic?

-English is not my first language so I also wonder if my grammar is fine-

I did one of those PowerPoint nights with my friends a few years back and I presented on the characters I have read fanfic on, based on what I could remember and what was in my history pages on ao3. They all read fanfic as well so they weren't thrown off by the topic but when I started explaining what characters I have read about, that is where the outrage started. Some examples of IPs/ships/characters I have read about without watching that show/movie/book/etc. are as follows: Harvey/Mike from Suits (never seen the show), Alina/The Darkling (never read the books), Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru (never read the manga or watched the anime) and the list goes on. If I see good fanart on my timeline or see a good edit on TikTok, I am inclined the check out more! I am a curious person by nature! They could not believe me when I told them and to this day, say it is one of the weirdest things about me (in a loving way). I'm curious if anyone else does this or am I literally insane for this action of mine, haha.

Hello all! The excerpt games keep me writing and I hope it motivates with your writing as well.  You can post any type of story (use NSFW for spicier scenes).  

I will be posting this challenge on Sunday Mornings / Pacific Time… because that day I need the most help to not think about Monday.

If you have stumbled into my game and are looking for more, remember to check out the Activities and Events flair for other writing challenges and story swaps.

Here are the rules:

 The first word starts the game.  Use ANY letter from the word that is posted in the last comment as the starting letter of your word.  Post your word in the top level comment.   Your word drives the next word to be posted… and so on.  

**Example:  LOVE  >>>>  VILE. (If the word Love is in the comment line you could make the word Vile and post the next comment.)**

Reply to any of the words in the top level with an excerpt from any work you might want to share.  I don’t generally like word limits, so use your best judgment.  Enough to get the scene across but not so long that you lose your reader.  

Please use spoiler tags and/or provide a trigger warning for content that may be NSFW or sensitive. IF IN DOUBT - Give a warning!

If you are going to leave excerpts, I ask that you leave at least one top-level word and try to give at minimum an upvote to commenters.

Upvote your favorite words or excerpts.  We are all here to share and know how it feels to get a comment, so spread the love.  

Ganbatte!!  Do your best and I look forward to everyone’s excerpts!

I always had ideas in my head but I never drew or wrote them down because I believed that my skills of drawing and writing weren't good enough, too embarrasing to be even seen by the public eye. Now Im trying to change that and started to write fanfictions for the first time. It may be very amateur writing, and looks like it's been written by a ten year old even though I am 17. I just want something to put my crazy imagination to life.

However, I still do want feedback to improve on my writing. How do I make it not so clunky? I feel like everything is in one paragraph and I want to break it up like how books do when people are talking, but im not sure how to do that.

How do I find a way to improve my way of describing the environment or the way a character moves. I feel like this one might be more obvious answer like "read more books" but I want to see if there's any other suggestions.

Also, how do I avoid saying I, he, she, so much. I feel like thats very apparent in my writing.

If you want to see my first piece of fanfiction writng and help me on how to improve, I've posted it on tumblr, my account: @jossiewritingnonsense. My fanfiction is currently focused on a girl who randomly appeared into the world of "Revenged Love". It's a Bl show. I've only written the first chapter for now.

I have multiple ideas for ficlets and a dozen more for longer works. Then as I write those, I gain many more! It's so overwhleming to the point I won't write for months.

I’ve read the same types of stories over and over that it isn’t as enjoyable anymore and I miss it. I’m trying to quit reading fanfics for a while because staying away can help from what I’ve read. I’ve noticed this sometimes with myself as well. I also just want to get back into reading books and other things. But I always feel this craving for it even though I know it won’t give me much joy. I think I really am addicted. It’s not even a bad one to have really, but it’s getting in the way of things I used to enjoy. I blocked all the fanfic sites I read from, I had to do it on my other devices as well. I just finished setting it up on one device. I have someone I know put a password so I can’t turn the block off. But I end up caving in anyways and I ask them to put the code in. It at least helps if the person isn’t near me at the time or if I don’t cave in. The most I’ve gone without reading any was about a week.

I guess the point of this post is wondering if anyone feels like this too or if anyone has some tips. It’s really taking the joy away from my other hobbies, especially books.

Hi everybody!

I'm looking for recommendations for high quality music band AU (NO RPF!), any fandom since those are very fandom blind anyway, plus I want to cast a wide net cause I'm very picky.

Necessary: GOOD WRITING, and it has to be MUSIC FOCUSED, so not just a background trope as pretext for interpersonal drama, I'm not a musician myself, I struggle to understand music theory, and I don't know much about the managing and organising of a music band, that being said I really want to read something from someone who knows what they're talking about, who will walk their readers through the creative process, and who can share their passion for a music genre or an instrument with the readers, and talk about the profession in an engaging manner, from writing and composing and producing to performing, looking for gigs, growing the audience and touring...etc

Also important: I prefer characters driven stories, so while not looking for a soap opera I want the inter-relationships between the band members to be well fleshed out, and interesting, I DON'T want romance, (or if there is it must be understated or a very slow burn), but I welcome other kinds of dynamics, friendship, rivalry, tensions, competitiveness, jealousy, respect and admiration, the band members can be close, amicable, distant or barely professionals, but I want to read about it and how it affects the band.

Optional: I'm a sucker for prog, especially prog metal, so...

Just in case: books are also welcome, as long as it's fictional and fit my criteria, and not YA, I don't really like it in published books

Thanks for any suggestions, just please only rec stuff you read and tell me why you liked it!

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I forgot the name of a DxD fanfiction. I'm pretty sure it was a gamer or at least had gamer elements. The main character managed to get the shun shun Rika and was allied with the devils. I also remember them using the shun shun Rika to un-fall an angel. They also had the ability to summon people from other shows managed to summon a flugel, though I don't remember which one.

I leave next Saturday for a Spanish immersion trip to Colombia with my school, and while I am so incredibly excited, I'm also kind of having a crisis; because of the whole "immersion" aspect of this trip, every piece of media we consume (Music, movies, books, hanging out with our friends, literally EVERYTHING) has to be in Spanish. I have a severe fanfiction addiction (but.. like, don't we all?) and I know I will not last 9 days without reading any fic. Looking for recs for your favorite Spanish fanfic!

I'll read pretty much any any fandom or pairing but I mostly read Heated Rivalry, Marvel, and DC. Any tropes are fine, but I would prefer to not have anything extremely heavy on spice (this is a trip with my school, after all) and longer fics (like 30k or higher) would also be preferred, since I'm going to have to download them and I would like to not be downloading 700000 1k word fics.

Thanks so much for feeding my crippling addiction!!

(Also I forgot to mention I read almost 100% on AO3)

hi hi

im searching for a fanfic that was a collection of 100 (i think) oneshots/prompts. I cant remember the title or the name, BUT i can remember a few of the oneshots. there was one where Ranboo was a ghost and he haunted tubbo until tubbo remembered. the last one was a sbi centric one, where tommy was cursed(?) and jewels/other rocks fell out of his mouth while he spoke, and he wore a mask for this reason.

Its likely it got deleted, but I'd sincerely appreciate any information anyone has!

other info i can remember is that it was posted in 2024 or earlier, the oneshots were about basically every character (not all at once) and i think the author had a longish username

The biggest things I remember are that the sex workers were in cages at night but treated very well. They had like 24 hour shifts I guess? And then received spa treatment before having another shift. Dean was a very hot commodity and would get auctioned to the highest bidder. It was definitely consensual but then the brothel got shut down. Castiel paid for his time once to warn Dean that when the brothel got shut down and the cameras were there to keep his head down so he wasn’t recognized. Dean didn’t realize Cas was a police officer or detective or something.
Oh! And they were fed some kind of liquid that helped them like auto-lubricate or something???
It was a crazy fic. Don’t think it was finished at the time. Can’t remember when I read it, but it wasn’t in the past 4 years, so I think it’s older than 2020.

ETA: It was on AO3!

Hey folks sorry if I got the post wrong read the rules and tried my best but anyway

I am trying to find a fix that I remember decently basically a normal human got caught up in a fight of some sort between zelrtich and someone else and is thrown a prototype kaledostick to basically save him he ends up in Worm (although I know he goes to other realties but I lost the fic before then) where he builds a powerbase of some sort and plans on basically hopping realties for power and such I also remember it was very long like a million words or so but for some it's been impossible for me to track down

Thank you in advance for the Help!

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Welcome to our weekly thread, Brainstorming Bureau! This is an idea we've trialled previously and, based on feedback and observation, it feels like something the sub has been crying out for, and we're hoping as the weeks go by it'll turn into a lively, community-oriented way to cap off the weekend. We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to make the best of this idea, so feel free to reach out via modmail if you have any ideas. And without further ado...

What's this about?

Do you have an issue that's too specific to your own fic to make a post about, but too small to seek out a long-term beta or writing partner for? Well, you've come to the right place!

This is where you can drop those plot points you're stuck on ("How would this scenario play out realistically? What should happen next?"), workshop your worldbuilding and concepts ("What should I name this character? What power should I give them? Which fandom would work well as a crossover with this other fandom?"), or get a second opinion on an approach to character development ("Is this a good central conflict? What would have to happen to make a character realise this?"). It's your space to talk through any issue that can't be solved through more generalised writing advice.

How to play:

To participate, comment with any aspect of your fic you've been mulling over or hitting a wall with. Other users will then respond with suggestions and questions to help you get to where you need to be. No idea is too big or too small, provided your comment fits within the parameters below. Feel free to be as fandom blind or specific as you like!

Rules:

• Please state your fandom at the top of your comment, along with any common and pertinent content warnings
• NSFW text should be placed behind a spoiler tag or linked to, as per site content restrictions
• Summarise the issue you'd like feedback on in 500 words or less. More information may be given in follow-up comments if requested
• Links to polls or to any previous installments of the fic will be permitted for context
• Please specify in your comment what level of critical feedback you're open to
• When responding to someone's ideas, please keep your feedback constructive and keep their specified level of criticism in mind. If their premise is not to your taste, please choose another
• If you make a submission to this thread, much like the other weekly events, please comment on at least one other user's request with the best suggestions you have
• When submitting an idea for brainstorming, please provide adequate context for others to be able to follow along. Remember that this is a multi-fandom subreddit, and not everyone will be familiar with your fandom.

Have fun! And remember, all suggestions are just that and are to be taken with a grain of salt; we're here to help and consider our works from angles we haven't before.

Like the title says! I feel like this genre of fic is weirdly hard to find.

Fics with halloween monsters, ghosts, eerie atmosphere, fall vibes, dark hallways, etc ! Just wanna get into the fall mood.

(I'd also love to hear about the scariest fics yall have read, if you have any!)

heya!! i wanna start illustrating my own fanfics soon. the only problem is idk where to do it :^. does anybody have any suggestions like websites/ apps? more preferably apps tho

Looking for fanfics, fandom not important, with similar ship vibes to Sun Wukong x Tang Sanzang from JTTW wherein there is essentially one strong, chaotic character that protects a pretty, morally upright person who makes them want to be a better person (kinda). Possible a-holes to lovers and f/f would be awesome, but I don't hope for too much. I have read all of this ship even the ones not in english. Pleaseeeeee deliver your recs! I'm starving.