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I once read a fic where character A found character B extremely dehydrated, so they cut their wrists to feed them their blood.

First off, they weren't vampires. It wasn't a vampire AU. The og fandom had nothing to do with vampires.

Secondly, it stated he had a full bottle of water before finding B.

hey!

i write for a homophobic fandom. i made a comment on my own twitter about how it’s an issue. i didn’t tag the fandom or anything, but a popular user reposted it so it got in the attention span of many despite me being a small account.

i mentioned in the comments to my friend i really liked these two pairings (m/m and f/f) and the amount of horrid slurs ive been called as a result has been insane. i’ve been called a misogynist for preferring a f/f pair over the series canonical m/f (no idea how that works ..) and all matters of things.

it’s fine, it can be whatever. im a lesbian personally though, so i even had a few people call me targeted slurs which was annoying.

my fics, linked on my profile, got swarmed with a bunch of horrid comments of the same variety. i’ve turned off comments (pretty sure it’s the same people). im usually good at not reacting to this stuff, but it’s admittedly taken a huge blow to my confidence in writing queer ships.

i just kind of wanted to vent a bit. i dunno! it just sucks. i should definitely write more out of spite though.

A lot of writers online talk about the characters being people that make their own decisions. But I never really felt that way.

It still felt like my characters were doing what they would do. But even then, I could always feel my hand guiding them to where they needed to be.

That is until I was working on my first draft of chapter 10. I'm gonna be honest when I was first. Sitting down to write this, I thought that it would be filler, fluff but filler nontheless. (I had them watch a movie that I really liked).

But then things started happening that departed from the sort of fluffy mood I was going for. The main characters looked at what was in the movie and started reflecting on what happend to them in the past. And had al lot of discussions in the movie. And it just felt like my characters were watching the movie without me directing them to do anything.

Not gonna lie. It's making me fall in love with my characters, and my story. I remember thinking, "Wow, these characters are amazing! And the story is amazing! And I'm the one who gets to write it!!"

So yeah, that was a fun experience.

My creative writing lecturer got to know about the existence of fanfic from us students. Any fanfic that should be good enough to introduce to a 40 ish South East asia woman (maybe conservative? but she the type who doesn't mind to know what us students like, she was shocked people ship MegatronxOptimus Prime but she was not angry just genuine shock) She like tv drama like gossip girl. Just something that will make her "Wow!" (her words not mine)

also no explicit since I need to link the story to her through my student email

Specifically looking for f/f pairings and longfics. Bonus if it shows the outbreak happening. Happy October everybody

Welcome back to the Emoji Excerpt Game! As a reminder, this will be posted on the first and third Tuesdays of every month, Australia time.

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2.Reply to an emoji with an excerpt from your fic that you think matches. It could include a vibe, a word, or even the emoji itself. It's totally up to you how literally or loosely you want to interpret the prompt, so go nuts! For the best chance of your excerpt being read by other players, try to stick to under around 400 words. Please remember to spoiler mark mature content where appropriate and warn for triggers. Make sure you check rules 7 and 12 in the sub rules for content restrictions.

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All of the characters I want to write about come from different backgrounds, have quirks in their speech, and such an exponentially different worldview that I cannot begin to put myself in their shoes. I can't write a mischievious character who pulls pranks on everyone because I think too literally, I can't write a detective because I am far from perceptive, and I can't write differing dialogues between characters because I end up turning them into my mouthpiece. I need a little help on this please :((

First time joining and posting after quietly looking around the subreddit for a while! Sorry if the flair or posts isnt right, lmk what needs to be fixed and ill do so :D

Okay, so..basically, just what the title says. When i was a younger teen, i got REALLY into reading and writing, especially when it had to do with my special interests (specifically Loz!)
I remember spending like 2 months writing a multichapter, 3 volume Loz fanfic on my hand-me-down windows 97 computer when i was like 13.

I felt so much inspiration and excitement to write that story whenever i could. During breakfast? Writing. During lunch? Writing. After school? Writing. When i should have been sleeping?
You guessed it, writing. That computer didnt have internet on it, so i never actually got to read other fanfics for inspiration. It just. Appeared. And after i finished, it was gone. I could never find that spark again, despite the STRONG desire to write and create in a way other than drawing.

What are ways you guys find the spark to write after long periods of time without doing it? What inspires you? Hell, where do i even start writing as a newbie writer? Thank you in advance for any and all help!

I’m in a very particular mood, so I’m hoping people will offer up their favorite modern characters thrown into their favorite stories type thing. Preferably romance heavy. I pretty much just devoured everything in the modern girl in Thedas tag and found a few random ones for the hobbit and one Naruto that was pretty good. Oh and an untamed one. Prefer the OC to be female and I’m not a huge fan of first person but I’ll read it if it’s really well done. I don’t care about fandom really, just want like modern girl gets send to other world and helps fix things. Thank you!

or js any iidabaku fic on AO3 im starved </3

preferrably not smut focused and mostly in character. Not picky beyond that and i already know this is gonna narrow me down to like 3 fics </3

What is the ironstrange fanfic on ao3 where tony and stephen visit vormir and stephen wants tony to oush him off the cliff so he could sacrifice his life for the soul stone. Im pretty sure it was also a time travel fix it. They talk to Xavier and Beast too about teaming up to fight Thanos.

Or the last one you read.

You can either be yourself, or you can physically become the character. Also, you have to actually live out the fic, so no major changes are allowed.

Hi, first time poster so I hope this is the correct place for this. I'm looking fics where the main character rises through the ranks either of society or an organization throughout the story.

Maybe a bit like the Sharpe books, where the MC constantly runs into situations where she/he/they can show her/his/their skill/mind/talent to just the right person and gets promoted. Maybe she/he/they run a company, or own a piece of land where their economic endeavors slowly develop? Maybe they rise through the ranks of some kind of nobility?

I'm looking for the kind of feeling you get when playing games like Anno, the Total War series or maybe Knights of the Old Republic, where you rise from some nobody to the famous hero...

I'm fine with historical fics, AUs, crossovers, etc. I'm not hugely into M/M, but frankly I read anything if I like the story. Similarly I don't have restrictions on fandoms apart from fate/stay night, fire emblem, supernatural or genshin impact, which I don't like.

Whatever you come up with I would love to know. Maybe there is such a collection out there already? (I have not found one...)

Thank you all.

Im looking for a fanfic that was about Midoriya interviewing Bakugo who is a well-known taiko drummer. It's in the aged-up smut genre and Bakugo is the one to start flirting with Midoriya first. Midoriya is eyeing Bakugo first, but Bakugo is the first to physically make a move. From what I remember, Midoriya is the top. I think I read it back in college but haven't been able to find it since. I think it was deleted but I'm looking for the title or author so I can see if someone has it saved in archives.

I just finished this one book that's literary fiction written using the "choose your own adventure" format and it kind of got me interested in it. I know that "choose your own adventure" is a canonical tag and there are collection aggregating fics like this, but I would also like to see what fics out there you folks would vouch for!

I'm interested in fics about canon characters, so without a self-insert protagonist. I'm perfectly fine reading fandom-blind, I've had some very good times this way, but some fandoms I read in include: Bungou Stray Dogs (just please don't send soukoku my way), Persona 5 (I've actually been making some designs on "welcome to the shujin detective club!") Metaphor Refantasio, Pathologic, Disco Elysium, Hades games, Baldur's Gate 3, Expedition 33 and The Magnus Archives (not The Magnus Protocol tho)

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

Repost for a future fan fic that’s more of a spinoff than anything else. ”A discontinued game that has its own narrative finally has an origin story”

I've recently started writing fanfiction about the Magnus Archives with a friend of mine, and we have an idea for the next one but I'm not sure how to actually write it. To summarise the usual format of the Magnus Archives it is the main characters reading statements of paranormal occurances (go listen it is absolutely excellent). The statement givers are all unique characters that feel special and like actual people, especially when read out loud in the podcast (again go listen). Me and my friend enjoy writing statements of our own about OCs and in universe characters, but we've ran into a problem. How do we write a bland character?

I'm not talking about a boring or uncompelling side character, how do I write someone who, despite telling a story, is so incredibly unimportant and uninteresting that unsalted butter has more of a personality than him? I'm talking absolutely nothing interesting, no hobbies, no goals other than trying to "be cool and successful," no friends, no meaningful relationships beyond work colleagues, absolutely nothing. How would you write an empty tube of toothpaste of a human being, who is so uninteresting that not even the paranormal entity in his story notices him, he's basically the ATLA cabbage merchant but not even that interesting.

For more context the OC he is encountering is an entity me and my friend thought of that effectively is whoever looks at it ideal self, and with that comes the terrifying knowledge that you (the person looking at it) will never be good enough or like them. The goal is to start with this milk toast of a human on a date and accidentally encountering the entity, and then span over a year or 2 of truly random encounters, and eventually end with him actually gaining a personality by the end. I have a plan, I have story notes, I have about 2000 words ready to be written, but no idea how to write from such a boring characters perspective. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you!

For the life of me I cannot find this fic.

I remember the premise being reader is brought onto the team to help, but John essentially tells her she is expendable and he will not risk the lives of the boys for her. She accepts that.

I believe the first chapter (or maybe 2nd) is reader being held hostage and then the chapters following that are from when reader is brought onto the team and the missions after etc.

It would have been in the last year or two it was started.

I do believe it is female reader but it may also be original female character, but I believe reader.

Any help would be amazing. I thought I added it to my bookmarks but cannot find it, and I have not seen any "deleted" bookmarks either.

So I have a fic that is 98 000 words in a kinda dead fandom but, pretty popular for how dead the fandom is. I feel like the length is turning off new readers and maybe not completely new readers as it’s fandom blind friend but, people in the fandom prefer shorter sweet spot fics. I write for the dead fandom but, I want to tell my story and cutting it will just make the story worse. It’s 98 000 words with 27 chapters with my average chapter being around 2 000 words with 3 chapters of 10 000 words to explain what happened in between arcs and were paragraphs heavy, but it’s when my fic started picking up. This chapter is 7 000 words long while the chapter before was 4 000 I can’t separate it as it would completely ruin the pacing and flow, but it’s not like it’s the first kiss or anything big like that or a fight it’s friendly fun and development between all characters. There are 13 characters in this chapter and another oc introduced not formally. If you were a reader would you hate this. I haven’t updated in 2 weeks I usually update in a little over a week. It’s not even a quarter done and there will be a part 2 I’m afraid people will get bored. Idk. I need advice.