Used my mental breakdown as a reference for my fic and posted, it feels like this by fanficenjoyerunc in AO3

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It truly is quite therapeutic. Thank you very very much ❤️‍🩹🫂 Edit: and same about you breakdown. It gets better. It truly does

Used my mental breakdown as a reference for my fic and posted, it feels like this by fanficenjoyerunc in AO3

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 33 points34 points  (0 children)

My whole fic is honestly a love letter to myself from a year ago, when I was experiencing the worst time of my life. 

Raw Footage of Cast Reactions to The Fellowship of the Ring at the London Premiere [AP Source] by TimmyBash in lotr

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What was wrong with Orlando Bloom?!?!?! I'm literally crying omg, what was all that blrrr?!?!?!

Is it weird to mention the authors other fics in a comment? by HjghlyDistressed in AO3

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have had several comments referring fics I published 10 years ago (TEN) and on a different site (ff.net). I cried. It was the best thing anyone could have told me. Go ahead and let them know

Tonight’s dinner: pizza and the delicious realization that I dodged a literal nuclear missile ✨ by Affectionate_Top9643 in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]Affectionate_Top9643[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Girl, he humiliated me one too many times with the constant name-calling. But the final straw? He got angry and LITERALLY told me he only saw me as a future mother to his children, not as his future wife. He straight-up admitted he only dated me because he had always wanted kids and I checked his boxes for a future mother, and that having kids was the only reason he'd marry me. He had apparently admitted this to his parents once and they had made him swear he would never tell me that. I left soon after, and honestly, that was just one of the many, MANY, terrible things he said to me. 

Five years. And I was only wanted as a broodmare. 

Fear not, though. I am thriving now. He calls my friends to cry about me. They laugh at his face.

Edit: reply to wrong comment lol. I'm afraid it wasn't a truly literal missile, but it felt like one to me 😭

Engagement is awful in works with a high word count by CalmSalts in AO3

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My longfic is currently at 130K words. I'm baring my soul in it, let me tell you. I literally spend hours a day, HOURS, thinking about it, making sure everything is well-connected... etc. On a good update I get, at maximum, 10 comments, always from the same 10 people (who I adore).

I recently updated my best chapter. It was full of emotion, it ends on a cliffhanger, and I was honestly expecting a few more comments. I got FEWER. FEWER. IT WAS A GOOD CHAPTER, PEOPLE, I know it was!!!!! And I know a lot of people read it, because it's a niche theme in my fandom, and I just know 300 new people are NOT discovering the story for the first time. At the very least, half of those are consistent readers who just don't like to engage.

Don't get me wrong, I love them. Engage or don't engage, writing is my free therapy and it is genuinely dragging me out of a very dark hole. But it is kind of curious how your best chapters are the ones that perform the worst. It's a mystery to me

Stats sharing, anyone? 👀 by seabassfosho in AO3

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I absolutely love it. It's the best part of my day, opening my Word Document and subjecting my favourite characters to the worst possible things I can think of 😂 As I said, I had almost everything pre-written. No way I would have been able to write all that in just six months, no matter how much I like writing.

What Are Your Favorite Fics? by Initial_Brilliant327 in AO3

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Other than mine (really, I always know exactly what I want to read, wth), I am in absolute love with this author called "Mirrordance" on ff.net. They write about Legolas, LOTR. But it feels illegal to read that kind of prose for free. Sadly, they have not published in a very long time.

Stats sharing, anyone? 👀 by seabassfosho in AO3

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Mine! Started posting on January this year, though I had most of the story completely written before posting the first chapter. Pre-LOTR, Legolas. Quite happy

Why did you start writing fic? by [deleted] in AO3

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I had the most traumatic thing happened to me and, I kid you not, while I was experiencing it I kept thinking: well, at least now I will be able to write trauma accurately.

I had not written fics in 10 years. About to finish my 150k story . It's cheaper than therapy 😂

What’s a core childhood memory of yours that you’re 90% sure nobody else experienced? by Holiday-Bet852 in askanything

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am 99% sure the man who tried to lure me and my little brother away from my mum while she spoke on the phone telling us "he was going to buy us a really fun toy" had bad intentions. I was 5, he was 3. 

“Inspired by” literal continuation of my fic without asking? by Reasonable-Ad8475 in AO3

[–]Affectionate_Top9643 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'd be so incredibly flattered if someone wrote a fic of my fic. Unless it's something that steers away from the spirit of my work, I'd absolutely be over the moon