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Okay, I didn't know how to tag this, but here it goes... There's a reader that always comments my fics, I think they're lovely and I would like to make a gift for them, but I don't know how to do it, as in, is there something I have to know before writing a gift for them? Should I ask or something?

I have never done this, I've been posting for a while on ao3, but I barely interact with others aside from answering comments or commenting some fics and uh... If you have written gifts for regular readers, what do you do? If it's not clear already, I'm an over-thinker, and I don't want to do something that might make them feel uncomfortable, I just want to express how much I appreciate their support 🥺

Do anyone know the name of the bts fanfic where yoongi has multiple personalities?

Hello! So I’m writing my first chapter of a lil thing I’ve been wanting to work on. I’m stuck on something that’s probably awfully stupid…but how do I introduce my character without saying her name in the first sentence? Or her back story etc etc. It starts off with my character dreaming, it’s very vague what it’s about but it will be mentioned soon. Then she’s woken up by a flight attendant. I feel awkward writing out her appearance without saying her name first, is that normal?

I've worked on a successful fic for the past year. It's been my pride and joy, no matter how cliche that sounds, but as it turns out, I have evidently made the worst possible mistake. I messed up the timeline. Horrid, right?

There was two possible routes I can take with this, but I have no idea if the latter will start to surf on the borderline of ridiculous. It's like one of those "chose your own adventure" books with two choices exactly, and either one, I feel, will drastically change the course of the fic length.

I'm resting at about 129k right now - and have lovely, lovely people who comment on every single chapter. Besides my passion for this thing, they really keep me going. But if I make this choice and drag the story out (I'm at 29 chapters right now), I'd probably end somewhere with an additional 7 chapters to the say, ~20ish (and I can't even say that with certainty), needed to finish. The story is currently on what I had originally has the 2/3 leg, but besides a plot and an ending, I had no idea when I was going to stop. Don't get me wrong, this idea fits perfectly, damn near like a puzzle, but I don't want to make it seem like I'm dragging this out just for the sake of it. And I don't want my commenters to get tired of it too, which I don't see happening, but my anxiety is kicking in. If I continue with my original plan, not only will that internally hurt me to let the idea go to waste, but I will have to ditch a, let's say a "sidepiece", of a plot that is so crucial - all because I wasn't paying attention to the in-fic calendar. If I go with the original idea - with the messed up calendar - then I have to switch everything around. It's not what I'd prefer to do, but it might just be a small sacrifice, I don't know.

So I ask, is it worth an additional 7 chapters when I'm already at 100k+ and climbing? Do fics over that turn people away, and do I need to even be a little anxious that my commenters will leave? They are always there for me, right at every chapter. Does that make me sound selfish? I always hear people pressing on how 200k and up is a bit ridiculous. But from my personal experiences, I would love it if my favorite fic reached that far. Are those always just jokes? I know we, as fic writers, should follow the "do what makes you happy" notion (the epitome of fic writing, basically), but I don't want to be doing too much if it's seen as unnecessary.

I could really use some help here!

Looking for a fic (it’s got to be on AO3 given my reading habits…) that is Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, very likely rated mature or above. It’s a vampire AU where Tony is a vampire and Steve is a regular human in a medieval/fantasy setting and Tony essentially gives Steve racy dreams to try and lure him to his lair. Eventually I think Steve grows old toward the end. I’ve done a few different tag searches and I just can’t find it. Any assistance would be appreciated!

I remember making a WALL-E fic back some like 6 months ago, and I needed some emergency power source that would use the solar charge feature and be at the ready in no time.

I ended up creating the solar package, a standard size 14" cube with a transparent bottom and a button on the top half of one of the sides. You would click the button and a mechanism would drop a 2" cube of lithium into some water in the bottom of the solar package. The resulting reaction would generate light that would be used to charge your battery. There is a ball valve at the top to allow the hydrogen to escape the solar package resulting from an alkaline metal + water reaction but not let any water escape the solar package if turned upside down.

What sorta creations do you have of your own?

I looked through some bookmarks today and saw that someone had bookmarked and tagged one of my short stories as a comfort fic.

Considering I write a bunch of fluff, that's high praise!

I mainly wrote the piece for myself. But I cannot help but be disheartened all the same that my writing didn't receive much attention. I think of many reasons why this was so.

The first is that I released about 50k words at once. It may have been overwhelming to frequenters of the site that's hosting it at the mo'.

The second is that my writing style isn't... exactly orthodox. I might have written purple a lot; I may have talked about the bleeding sky a bit much.

Overall, I'm just having a bit of anxiety about my work's performance, even though that wasn't what I had originally cared about when I first set out to write it.

female mc

mc uses the store as a front to sell tempest jewelery with jewels of discord on them as a method of capture

e88 thugs break in and steal them, all according to plan and take them to empire capes

mc uses jewelry to mind control and gender bend e88 capes

mc plans to use this to somehow control broktons underworld

I can’t edit the title, by high- brow I just mean literary or artsy references, totally not in an elitist way. So sorry!!

I just love when the authors just put a metric ton of their research and metaphors and imagery in their works. I love a well-turned phrase, a devastating sentence, a poetry in prose types of works. Any recommendations?? No issues with any ratings or canon/non-canon stuff. I’ll read anything! My only request is that’s it’s a happy ending ❤️ Thank you!!

Recently a commenter informed me that two of my fics got posted on another site without my knowledge and I'm a little at a loss as for what to do.

Both fics aren't ones I care all that much about since one was a oneshot and the other a WIP that's been on Hiatus for years, so I'm more or less indifferent? But it irks me a bit still, mostly out of principle since I wasn't asked and if it was one of the fics I would've cared about I'd be rather put out.

I'm wondering if I should just leave it be since idk what to do otherwise safe for maybe asking whether to take it down.

Some added info:

Usually I post on ao3 and I don't lock my fics so they are available for everyone to read.

Fanfic site in question where it was crossposted to was fanfiction.net.

Just asking for input regarding this I guess

I suspect i am neurodivergent but i dont have any official diagnosis so please, forgive my current langyage as to not appropiate other's language.

I know that, to finish a story i just should write. I ve done so. 35k words in 2 years.

However everytime energy kicks me and some sort of speedy feeling in my chest, i end up putting all that good eneegy high on doing alot and at the same time NOTHING.

I ve built my manuscript over 10 times, I ve started character profiles 3 times, I ve tried to outline 6 times in different ways, mediums and programs. (Obsidian, Notion, upnote, scrivener, sticky notes, 2 notebooks, onenote).

Everytime this energy high comes there is a task i am doing to ensure "the proper set up" to keep writing.

I notice it, I try to move on. Is hard. I am currently in one of these phases. Thankfully i push it through last sunday and wrote 1.3k words, albeit, boring scenes.

I know i need some help on having track of the objects of each character, the locations and so on but i need some encouragement or experiences to get through this. I need to finish this fanfic, i need to finish my first project ever (been writing for this fandom 14 years and i never finished a project)

I'm writing a story about forbidden love and, at some point, the ML has a one night stand to try and forget and move on from the FL. There's also a sidestory where the ML has an intimate encounter with a rando years prior to meeting FL. Mind you, these are side characters whose names are only mentioned once for description and they never reappear or are mentioned ever again.

A few readers felt uncomfortable reading scenes of the ML intimate with other characters outside the main pairing so I suspect it's a squick of theirs. They asked me to add the tag "X Character/others" next to the main pairing tag in the relationships section on AO3.

The thing is the fic will be about 1.5 million words total (likely more). Meanwhile the scenes of ML intimate with random side characters who never appear again totals at maybe 1,000 words at most. While the sex scenes with the other characters can have mature content, it's not necessarily explicitly detailed. The scenes also happen around 30 - 50k words into the story and the fic is currently at 800k words so far.

So I'm wondering if such a minor scene or two in such a big longfic warrants the "X Character/others" tag? I worry that tag would actually be misleading instead. If a new reader were to see that tag, I worry they'd perceive that as the ML experiencing multiple romances throughout the story and decide to scroll past. I also worry current readers would be confused and afraid of what that new tag might mean for the fic.

TLDR; Does a 1000 word total scene of the main dude hooking up with random chicks early on in a 1.5 million word fic warrant the "Character/others" relationship tag or would that tag be overall more misleading instead?

I don’t know any African American people, I don’t even live in the United States, so in a story I’m working on I decided to make the main Character’s oc love interest an African American woman. I was considering having her family not like the main character at first, but is that a stereotype I should avoid, and could doing that make me seem racist by writing them that way? I don’t want to seem racist when I’m not and I want to write the oc well and avoid stereotypes. I usually don’t mention my characters skin colour so my readers can imagine my ocs as whatever race they want. The original canon includes a lot of representation, it’s just that most of those characters end up as side characters in my stories and I have never added any new poc characters before.

Has anyone written a fanfiction where Victor adopts Powder and Violet when they're kids, for whatever reason? I really love the idea but I haven't really found anything with that premise.

I finally finished the third and final part of my Far Cry 3 fic. This fic has been on my mind, on and off, for EIGHT. YEARS.

What's the longest you've gone before posting a final chapter or the longest it's taken you to finish a fic? Or do you just write it all out first and then post on a schedule? Post it all at once?

Anyway. Don't give up on your dreams, kids! Keep writing.

If you published is, please leave a link!

Guys pls rec me some fics with villain/antihero oc/si mcs as in the oc/si is the villain/anitihero and stays as such (and not the forced into it not wanting to be one kind)

My prefered fandoms are: Pokemon, DC, Marvel, Harry potter, Katekyo hitman reborn, BNHA, Death note, One piece, Miraculous, Danny Phantom, Detective conan/magic kaito, Jujutsu kaisen aaand thats all that came to mind (no naruto i read enough of those)

I take other fandom too if theyre readable without fandom knowledge (no song of ice and fire tho), I pref supernatural/fantasy ones tho

40k+ ones, no harem nor romance focuse nor bottom mc

My prefered site is ao3

so i just finished reading an 880k+ word fic and am currently experiencing the dreaded Reading Hangover. nothing will ever live up to this story... there's no point in even trying...

ofc there is a point but i'm still very sad it's over skhdjsj anyways, it got me thinking about how even though the fic was so long and some parts were hard to get through, i was driven to finish it because of how invested i was in the characters and their relationships and the ✨love✨ – romantic, platonic, and familial.

so i was wondering, what drove you to finish the last long fic you read? what was it about? what did the fic have that kept you coming back for more?

I am currently writing a fanfic in the tomarry fandom and i want to write about them going on a vacation to China and America where they would visit real life places like the great wall of China and other must see tourist attractions in China that i found courtesy of google, while in America they would go to mount rainier, central park, niagara waterfalls, some parts of New Orleans, the Pfeiffer beach and other places i thought were beautiful. Now my question is: can i mention those places? Is it legal? Should i scrap the idea all together? Please help me.

So I have been playing this game called Homicipher which has light otome properties. Almost all of the characters are visually horrific monsters but their personalities can be kind, silly, grumpy, etc... I just got the Blissful Love Life ending and I am so firkin' happy! >!Basically you take Mr. Crawling home to the real world and he becomes your stay at home boyfriend, it's super cute.!<I legitimately got the same bubbly, giggly feeling I get with other romance stories from this scene. This is a testament to how, no matter how a character looks, if there personality is good people can fall for them. I have had nightmares of monsters looking my Mr. Crawling but he is so sweet, gentle, and caring that I can fall for him regardless.

So I ask you guys: is there any fictional character that physically do not appeal to you, whether that be something simple like having too many muscles then you like or something very different like another species, but the character's personality has you falling for them despite it?

Got an itch and my only way to scratch it is by reading stories about Gus being a legitimate business owner at Los Pollos Hermanos and not being directly involved in the cartel.

My only ask is that the fic isn't primarily smut. Other than that, i take any genre, story lenght or ship.

I’m looking for some good wiki warrior fics that aren’t worm based!

I usually see my comments almost immediately especially if I’ve just recently published. I almost always want to reply immediately but make myself wait like 30 mins at least so I don’t come off like the SpongeBob in the mailbox meme. But as a reader are you actually put off by a fast reply?

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Hi all!

I'm not sure if anyone here can help me, and I know it's sort of obscure:

This is a supremely long shot, and I wouldn't be surprised if no one had an answer. A while back, say two or three years ago, I was really into the CSI fandom's Catherine/Sara fics and read basically every C/S fic I could find on fanfiction.net.

There was a "series" of longer fics that I absolutely fell in love with and read voraciously. I had it bookmarked, or at least I thought I did. One of them, I believe the second in the series had to do with an engaged C/S and towards the beginning, Catherine was caught in an explosion at a mall. That one started out with one of them thinking about or having a nightmare about a wedding dress.

I don't know the titles.

My point being... I cannot find this series of fics. Any. Where. I have looked on fanfiction.net (the filters suck once you're used to AO3), with "pairing" checked, with it un-checked. I cannot find it. I am incredibly upset at the notion that it could be gone forever.

I feel like it was on fanfiction, but maybe it was on an older fansite? My memory tells me it was on fanfiction.net though.

Does anyone have any leads, clues, or any memory of these fics?

Please help, it's driving me up a wall.

(First post here, let me know if I need to adjust anything-- I double-checked the rules!)

Hi! I normally just write one shots, but the fanfic I’m currently planning out won’t really work in that format. I’m struggling big time on where to end the chapter because I don’t want it to be too long or too short, or end in an awkward spot

For warning I've never written anything before I just wanted to get to know all of you comic fans a bit more.

Like characters like Goku, Naruto, Ichigo, Vegeta, reincarnated in Romance Novel or Otome Game, The character doesn't need to be from a manga, it can from a Manhwa or from a Novel

A person asked me to summarize the entire story of a character from a series that she had never seen and did not know (GoT and HoTD), but I said to myself, "why write about a universe and a story that you don't know, and on top of that, asking someone else to give you ideas for your story and your character?

With all the fandom wikis that exist and which detail the journey of each series character, I don't really understand the project...