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Does this happen to anyone else?

I've spent almost a month planning what I'm going to write, the plot twists, the characters, everything. I had it all perfectly planned out in my head, and then, right when I started writing, everything sounded so cringe. It was horrible.

u/Victoria_Character — 5 days ago
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Had a feeling this malfoid trend would just roll to a misogynistic bash fest about women writing fanfiction

put nsfw just in case due the things said in the screenshots.

granted the “-foid” in her name gave away who her main base was but still it’s so baffling to see these incel individuals for the past few days act like they invented shipping and genderbending (in the “moral non woke way”🙄) then STILL find a way to blame it on women for somehow failing to write good romance and “ruin” the integrity of fanfiction by writing smut.

By the time this trend is over i know most of these people probably won’t even write anything, hell they’re probably secretly enjoy some of these same fics they’re bashing on. But it’s just so fascinating to me that these incels really think they’re doing something with her like she won’t be gone by the time Halloween rolls around. I’m just not sure how or what about fem!malfoy being made into ‘malfoid‘ suddenly “changed“ the opinion of these people about fanfiction.

u/No_Jackfruit1034 — 5 days ago
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New rule apparently

This is just fucking hilarious, I have no idea how they got to this conclusion but I would like to know 😂

Thought someone might enjoy the ridiculousness of this comment considering it made me giggle until I had tears in my eyes

Oh yeah- This is also a comment on a kinktober fic, one that has some controversial topics, but oh no, this is whats too far for this person

u/PiratedOwl — 6 days ago
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What tag do you enjoy that you didn't realize was unpopular?

I wasn't aware so many people hated hanahaki fics 🥲 I specifically search for them for all my ships, it's just so good! It's angst, hurt/comfort, sickfic, and not actually unrequited love all on one! (At least in the ones I read, I'm to sensitive for actually unrequited stories haha)

u/average-lizard — 6 days ago
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What's the point of these?

I was about to search something up, and then saw like 20 of this exact fic with various different fandoms. Why? Ao3 is known for its lack of censorship, and from what I know, fics rarely get taken down, especially without warning. Is this just a scam?

u/LOESERS — 5 days ago
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Something you haven't said to someone who was wrong?

You ever seen someone say something that was wrong, or do something that was wrong, either in a fic, comment, social media post, etc, but didn't say anything at the time?

Now is your chance🎉

Feel free to yell it out here. What were they wrong about?

u/Fast_Stage_6296 — 6 days ago
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Me fr

Just waiting to compete hades so I can read the docs for it

u/DOCTOR_DOOM-_ — 6 days ago
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i dont read rpf myself, but a friend mentioned reading it and this idea beamed itself into my mind

u/ScottishWildcatFurry — 5 days ago
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Let men giggle

“Chuckled” is so overrated. They don’t all have to be cool and stoic. Let my men giggle. They deserve a little hehe too

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u/Odd-Interaction-8 — 5 days ago
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If it's trying to get you off site, it's a bot

"Wow, this comment was so nice, but I don't understand the weird bit at the end, what do—"

It's a bot.

"This comment is kinda weird, is it a—"

Yep, bot.

"This commenter is so nice and gave me their Discord username so they could draw me fan ar—"

Bot.

Seriously, the examples of bot comments are endless in this sub, is it karma farming or just refusal to even search the sub before posting? I feel like half the posts this sub shoves onto my feed is obvious bot comments. By the powers of transformative works, can we at least contain comment stuff to a megathread or something?

I'm tired of this, grandpa.

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u/DewdropTeacup — 5 days ago
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When I see my fics rec’d/linked by other people in the wild

I appreciate every kudos/comment truly. But I think I never realized that posting on the internet means it’s getting read by people from allover and I think that’s neat.

u/growinggrassroots — 5 days ago
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Falling in Love / Friends to Lovers

Hello!

I’m looking for fics that focus on / depict the process of falling in love.

I’m comfortably aro, but I wanted to dabble in a bit of romance lately. Only to learn that I have no clue what ppl see as love that goes beyond normal friendship. So if you have some recs that really focus on that, I’d be super happy.
I’d also like the relationship to be rather “vanilla”, so no enemies to lovers or ppl falling in love while imprisoned or something. Give them all the options in the world and still have them fall for each other.

Fandoms: Open to all if they don’t require too much reading up. Am familiar with the big ones (HP, LoTR, Supernatural). I’m not too big into superheroes though.

Tropes: Friends to lovers, falling in love, slow burn (pls not too long, my readings speed is terrible)

Ideal length: around 50k

Thank you!

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u/bluesidra — 5 days ago
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What's the max word counts per chapter would be most enjoyable?

I was talking to someone today and they said they prefer shorter length chapters because their attention span is cooked af (their words not mine). And for me, I don't mind but I'd prefer longer ones bc as much as I'm not into reading, I like to imagine things with lengthy describing and/or reaching to the end of the point.

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u/MoonWannaDropout — 8 days ago
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Killing your favourite character?

People of all fandoms,

how do ya'll feel about the MCD warning.

I'm almost conviced this is a highly subjective topic but I'm intrigued by the comments I read on fics that are tagged with it.

I love a good death scene of my favourite charakters.

I don't even care about it too much if it's a fic for a fandom I'm not part of but I like it so much for the ones I'm in. I love them but I want to read how they suffer. For me it gives the source material new perspecitves if it's post-canon and I love myself a darker toned AU.

I know I'm not alone but I'd love some discourse about it.

So how do you feel about it?

(Edit: Forgive me fandom, for i have sinned: I love killing them myself too.)

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u/ElDarcy13 — 9 days ago