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In one of the upcoming chapters of my fic, I have this scene where most of the bat kids get drunk, and they start competing over who has the most fucked up stories. It goes something like “killer croc threw me through a building once” “ yeah? well penguin had me thrown out of a speeding car” “that’s weak stuff. Joker once beat me to death with a crowbar”. You get the gist, just escalating more and more each time they try to one up each other.

But I kinda want to get some canon accurate stuff in there instead of just generic “X villain did Y thing to me”. Except I’ve never really watched/read Batman stuff (and I’m writing a Batfamily fic, I see the irony). So, if you know moments that could fit in what I (very poorly) described, I would appreciate sharing!

Ah, it’s a little fluff, mostly crack fic if it makes a difference.

Sorry if I offend anyone, but it’s just such a dumb thing for me that I always just automatically assumed it was fanon that became widespread, like all the nobility stuff in HP.

It’s just… a really stupid concept. Percy, twice savior of olympus, former praetor, and all the other things he did, and he has to get recommendation letters to go to college just because his dad is one of the big three? Like that wouldn’t actually make it even easier for him to get in?

Now, I dropped ToA after the first book, and never read the offshoot series where this whole letters thingy is from, so maybe there’s an actual believable explanation for it, but I can’t say I feel like finding out.

I like self-inserts and OC-centric fics in general, and I’ve recently fallen down a rabbit hole of Naruto fics.

But I swear to god, like 9 out of 10 fics have the MC either be an Uchiha, or they are even more obsessed with sharingan than Orochimaru. It got both repetitive and boring very fast.

So I’m looking for recommendations of SI and OC-centric fics where the MC isn’t an Uchiha, nor do they get a sharingan at any point in the fic. I don’t mind if they get other bloodlines, because at least then it might be somewhat novel, but absolutely no sharingan.

Thanks.

Seriously. People are acting like we are going to war, Ao3 versus Wattpad refugees.

Yes, there’s been an influx of new readers and authors on Ao3 and this sub. Yes, a lot of them don’t know the rules, etiquette, etc… They will learn, like everyone who finds Ao3 for the first time does.

Ao3 is all about no censorship and inclusivity. Stop acting like the Wattpad people are going to “steal” our community, cause that’s not happening. And worse still, stop acting like they are going to somehow destroy Ao3. We got scam and hate bots for that already.

It really isn’t that big a deal. New readers, new writers, and most of them will mesh perfectly well with Ao3. And if some of them turn out to be haters, it’s not like that’s anything new on Ao3. Just block and report like always.

Just chill people.

Despite having vast personal experience (kidding, kinda, not really), I’m really struggling with putting it to paper.

I want it to be an internal monologue of sorts as the character slowly descends into self-pity and denial, but everything I write is coming out either garbage, or cringe af. So, I would appreciate any tips you have!

What the title says. I’m looking for time travel fics set during the Clone Wars. Can be Jedis, clones, someone else, doesn’t really matter. Romance is a bonus, but not necessary.

Don’t even know how to title this properly, I’m just annoyed af at the moment.

Recently I published a new chapter of one of my fics. The chapter contained some non-con scenes (nothing descriptive, because I can’t bring myself to write rape, but it was pretty damn heavily implied). The fic was properly tagged, and I put an author’s note at the beginning of the chapter letting readers know that there would be such scenes in this chapter. It was important for the story because it contained some dialogue and implications during the scenes. In other words, I wasn’t writing it for shits and giggles.

Thing is, the character forcing themselves on another is canonically considered one of the “good guys”. And even in my story they are also on the good side, even tho they aren’t a good person themselves. It’s just how it is in this fandom. The original source is dark, my fic is dark, and it has a medieval setting where lots of unsavory things are considered just the “right of the victor”. Obviously I don’t agree with them, but the story contains those elements.

And I got completely flamed by readers in the comments about how I “support sexual assault” and that “only derogatory term who like that stuff would write it” (I’m quoting a commenter here).

I fucking don’t. And the lack of awareness of some readers who think that an author, especially a fiction author, automatically supports and does everything they write just pisses me of. Were it that way, we couldn’t have any sort of conflict in any story ever.

Somehow, what pisses me off even more is that if the character had been one of the canon bad guys, no one would have bat an eye. But because I was putting one of the fandom darlings in a slightly less stellar light than usual, I got accused of all kinds of shit.

Honestly, I’m this close to say fuck this and abandoning that fic, but I also feel those readers might take that as confirmation of what they are saying. The whole thing pisses me off.

Edit: okay since apparently it bothers people so much I went and spelled rape correctly. I censored it initially cause there are some subs who take down posts with the word rape in it and I didn’t know if it would happen here. You can stop pointing it out now.

For me it was to cut down on OCs because it made my dialogues forced. Damn it hurt my pride to receive those comments, because it said in no uncertain terms that they liked my story, but felt like I was ruining it by trying too hard to always include my OCs.

Worse (or better depending on how you see it) of all, they were right. Once I focused more on just a couple of my characters instead of always trying to include everyone, and made sure to keep the canon characters relevant, it did make my fic a lot better. Now it’s something I keep in mind for everything I write.

Just to be clear, that particular critique helped me in the long term, even if it pissed me off to hear it at the time. But that doesn’t mean that what worked for me works for everyone, or even in every situation. And just because that one comment was helpful, doesn’t mean I changed my whole writing style, or that I religiously follow every critique I get. But it did help.

So, if you feel comfortable, share what comment/critique/suggestion/etc that hurt to hear at the time, but helped improve your writing!

I love PJO, and I love crossovers. But it really bugs me when demigods are super nerfed to fit into whatever other universe is in the crossover, and also when they are treated like little kids and just go along with it.

Yes, I know they are traumatized and have PTSD. But I’ve read enough hurt and comfort fics. Now I’m looking for ones where they are badass all the way. Veterans who went through hell and came out the other end. They don’t need to absurdly overpower the other half of the crossover, but I want them to be at least equal.

Thanks!

Not trying to diss or complain or anything. Honestly I’m just curious.

I like following WIP fics, and I always try to leave comments, even if it’s just a simple thank you. So I also end up reading lots of other comments, and something I often see it’s people that comment what are just a summary of the chapter. Like, there’s no thank you, no question, no complaint, no nothing. It’s literally just a narration of what happened in the chapter. Even happened to me with one specific reader in one of my stories, and I never know how to respond, or even if I should, because there’s like nothing to address.

Anyway, I was just wondering why someone might like to comment this way.

I just finished rewatching some of my favorite Supernatural episodes, and it left me wondering if anyone ever wrote a fic about hunters and other people in the know reacting to the news of Dean’s death after the final episode of the series.

Not changing the end or anything. I know there’s some discussions online over the ending, but I personally always liked it. Dean was a hunter, died as a hunter, the end. But it also leaves me wondering about other hunters hearing about it and being like “Dean? The guy that died like 2 dozen times and always came back, killed all kinds of overpowered beings and defeated god, and he died because of a piece of rebar?”

If there was a fic about some sort of hunters wake for him it would be even better, but I’m aware that my original request is probably already a bit of a long shot.

So basically not Annabeth, Thalia, Zoe, Reyna, Artemis, Nico, Jason, or Apollo. I have nothing against any of them being paired with Percy, but I’ve read a ton of those fics, and now I’m looking for less common pairings. Actually I was looking for a Percy/Katie fic at first that I saw a long time ago that had like 4 chapters and was cute fluff, but I couldn’t find it again.

So, please give me recs of rare pairings for Percy! Katie, Piper (not exactly uncommon but she’s usually part of a throuple with Annabeth), Silena, Rachel Clarisse, Gwen, Hazel, OCs, nature spirits, mortals, whatever. I know some of them can look like they are common considering they are pretty significant canon characters, but I can’t really find many fics where they are shipped with Percy, so that’s that.

So, I’m looking for two different things this time, but since I don’t think I’ll find them in a singular fic, I just sorta split them into two requests, and a fit that fits any of them is welcome, thanks.

1- Good long fics, like 100k words or more. Preferably little to no romance. Yes, I know I can just sort them like that in Ao3, but just because a fic is long doesn’t mean it’s good. So I’m leaving it to the people to give me recs.

2- Any fic where the hunters are more organized instead of a scattered bunch like in the series. I want them to have some sort of central control, could even be an AU where the Men’s of Letters continued to exist instead of getting wiped out by Abbasid for example. Or maybe they are part of a government branch specifically to deal with monsters, or whatever. I just want them to be a proper organization. Any fics that fit that requirement are welcome.

Like I said, I don’t think there will be many, if any, fics that contain those two requests of mine, so as long as it fits one of them, I thank you for the recs.