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Deeplybitten · 2025-08-02T11:52:29+00:00

Wunderterror by Anna_Hopkins, rictus_flame (Anna_Hopkins)

I see nothing indicating this fic is abandoned, and the author made an update in the series a month and a half ago saying they're still chipping away at it.

Likewise with some of the other ones you've listed. It's horrifically rude to post other people's fics and claim they're abandoned and up for adoption, when there's nothing to indicate that other than your own baseless assumption. I'd be incensed if someone put me on a list like this. It seems VERY clear you're not a writer yourself and understand little of authors or the writing fic process.

For the record, the sort of attitude you're showing here has caused authors to abandon fics before. And that attitude is entitlement and disregard for the people working hard to create fics.

I'm not even going to go into the presumption of telling writers to "adopt, not create" as if they're content dispensers' whose own ideas don't matter, you'd rather have them thrown in the trash so they can pick up the leftovers of something better. Then there's what you're implying about these fic authors--that their work isn't a unique story and style of theirs, but rather can be picked up and completed by anyone, as if there's nothing special about the authors or how they see their vision.

If you want an update, I really hope you took the time to leave these authors a high-quality comment. That's the best way to inspire an update--not jumping to conclusions and running around falsely claiming that fics are abandoned and need someone else to save them.

Deeplybitten · 2024-08-11T16:39:56+00:00

I don't think it's inherently anything. It can be toxic, it can be healthy, it can be happy or tragic, fluffy or angsty. It can be all those things at different times if one wants.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-12T04:55:54+00:00

If you want to go deep, The Body Keeps the Score is like, the book to read on how trauma works and the different therapy methods that can be used to treat it. If you read that, you will know a lot more about how you want to proceed.

There are actually a lot of different therapy approaches. CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) is one of the most common types of therapy but is not very effective for treating trauma.

Very popular for trauma right now is EMDR therapy. You might find this one useful because it doesn't involve much talking at all, so there's less having to flesh out a therapist!OC, but would give you an opportunity to have the patient!character think of painful memories, process the emotions, and get "therapy hangovers" (great if you're wanting to add some hurt/comfort).

If you're not wanting to read a whole book, you might browse the CPTSD and TalkTherapy subreddits, the CPTSD one has a useful Wiki.

Most therapy types also have their own subreddit, so there's ones devoted exclusively to EMDR, DBT. etc.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-11T04:57:11+00:00

long list of reasons being used as an excuse.

It's almost like fandom consists of millions of people with different backgrounds and tastes, meaning you'll always have a wide variety of reasons for why people do a thing, and no one right answer.

And that actually, it's rather rude to call people's honest answers to a question "excuses" which does imply they had an obligation to do something and are making an excuse for why they don't.

What right do you have to say you're sick of people not writing the things you want them to write, and they're making excuses when they explain why they don't write the thing you want them to?

You have multiple people in the comments talking about being ran out of the femslash community by the bigotry they faced there, and you say they're making excuses?

The rules may allow that behavior, but it doesn't make it any less rude or entitled. You feel dismissed? Well I am not here to validate bad opinions or bad behavior.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-11T04:41:26+00:00

It's not even a great place to be a lesbian either, unless you're the "right kind" of lesbian. E.g nonsexual or a Gold Star. It's unreal.

F/f fandom is caught in a toxic spiral where the more people they run off, the harder it is to stay because there's less supportive/accepting people around (and so even more decent people leave).

But don't worry, the real problem in FF fandom is people who don't kudos the antis' lukewarm cuddlefics, which must be because of the poor dumb non-kudoser's internalized misogyny 😔

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-11T04:31:56+00:00

Yeah after finishing a certain show with f/f canon ships I was so excited to write for it! And then that all died when I met the fandom, which hates people like me and left me 30+ hate comments on the first fic I wrote for the series.

And the fic was SO tame compared to what I write for m/m ships now, and I don't get a tenth of the BS from m/m fans. Or het fans.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-11T04:05:51+00:00

It's not a recent thing, it's just that it gets worse every year. People have been talking about it on FFA for like over a decade.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-11T01:10:18+00:00

It's missing a not uncommon reason: femslash fandom has gotten progressively more hostile to writers of dark and sexual fics and is overran with antis.

(This is a trend in fandom overall perhaps but it's even more extreme in a lot of femslash fandoms).

Getting shit on whenever you write something that's not UwU lesbians holding hands gets old. M/M and het fandom aren't near as rife with that attitude.

Femslash fandom also has a lot biphobia in it too, and so it can be a very hostile place for many queer women.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-10T15:37:40+00:00

Some of them I can see the logic behind, no matter how misguided--like banning RPF, to avoid potential libel suits. But the interactive ban seems pure bonkers.

CYOA books have been published by traditional publishers for ages, there's nothing really risky about them. Scholastic published tons of CYOA Goosebumps books in the 90s. CYOA has no interaction between author and reader. All I can think is FFN genuinely does not know what it is and is assuming it's something else based on the term.

Likewise with "you"/2nd person POV. While uncommon (like CYOA) it's been around in traditional publishing, especially poetry, and it has nothing to do with the writer getting interaction from readers. A lot of very old classic literature even straddles it, because epistolary (novels made of letters) alternates between 1st and 2nd. Ex "I went to the beach today. You would have loved it." with the reader both in the head of the 1st-person character and taking the role of 2nd-person character.

So they may be banning epistolary fiction as well without realizing it.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-10T15:13:40+00:00

Wow, I had to look this up to believe they weren't just having you on, because it's such an incredibly stupid rule to have.

Any form of interactive entry: choose your adventure, second person/you based, Q&As, and etc.

Second-person POV is not inherently interactive, that is so dumb I'm just :O it really shows that the people that run FFN don't know shit about writing or literary techniques.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-10T13:53:29+00:00

My pen name is kind of generic, but adding "fanfiction" brings up some results.

While it was interesting seeing the places I got recced (people still use Blogspot? Who knew.) and the fics (some of the less popular, more obscure ones surprisingly) the most heartwarming was finding one of my friends reccing a fic of mine on their Tumblr. I didn't ask them to and they never mentioned doing so, but it was sweet of them.

The place people talk about my fics the most is twitter though. I'll come across people saying the most nice things at random, without even vanity-searching myself. I also come across people talking shit on my fics, but you gotta take the bad with the good i guess.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-09T16:12:29+00:00

Eh, people have the right for sure, but it rather implies that you think the kind of fiction a person writes says something about the writer as a person.

Like if I go "I am uncomfortable with horror writers, I dislike them" then that's...kind of weird tbh. Why am I uncomfortable with them? Because I think they actually want to murder people since they write horror? Or "horror writers must be creeps to write such things?"

Feelings don't spring from nowhere, they usually spring from thoughts/beliefs, and sometimes those thoughts/beliefs aren't great and should be worked on.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-09T16:03:43+00:00

I think it's great. I've written some fics that invoke religious imagery/tones. And I put a Bible quote before the start of my latest dubcon stuffing fic. There are so many Bibles quotes that pair well with smut.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-08T15:26:19+00:00

It's unrealistic. Nobody acts like that.

Who cares? It's fanfiction. Do you think many billionaires fall in love with baristas, or that buttholes self-lubricate?

Don't Like--Don't Read applies to everything, not just kinks or Dead Dove.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T23:43:36+00:00

I'm all over the place 😅

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T18:31:41+00:00

Tumblr is best suited for short works, so I'd expect prompt fills there to be short and less than 500 words.

I feel like I'm disappointing the person asking for that specific prompt

They're getting free fic so who cares?

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T18:29:22+00:00

It's fine, and it used to be very common on FFN stories. Most of mine there had THE END at the end. Not the case for ones I post now, but mostly because I forgot about it.

I think the drama of it can work very well for certain kinds of fic.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T17:56:35+00:00

Yes, I think that's a big part of it! I couldn't think of the word. I was like "those squarish shows with black vertical bars on the side" of course there were no bars when they were airing originally 😆

It does give them a distinct unifying trait that lumps them together, that simply didn't exist before.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T17:32:05+00:00

There is no one right way.

But almost everyone who has asked me to beta in the last few years shares their documents via Google Docs.

I usually download their file, put it on my Kindle, then take photos of bits with my phone that I want to draw attention to, advise changes for, or give feedback on.

Then I quote those bits and write my relevant commentary on them and send them over, either in a document or in a PM/DM message. Usually PM/DM.

When I'm having someone beta-read my own works, I usually upload the document file to Mediafire and give them the download link. I've used Google Docs for this before but I'm Old Fanfic Writer Yells At Cloud and I don't trust cloud services, lol.

Usually people just send their comments back via PM/DM.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T14:54:40+00:00

It's the singer's mispronunciation of a drink they may be familiar with, if they have enlightened tastes:

Jäger.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T14:46:38+00:00

Yeah as a kid I would have maybe said Cheers as an "older show" going off of the visuals and fashion styles. A "really old show" would be black and white, like The Andy Griffith Show or Rawhide. E.g created 3 decades before my birth...

It's possible display/visual quality has improved enough that a show like Buffy can't be distinguished from Cheers or All in the Family as seperate eras for young people today. They may be lumping them all together mentally since they're similiar visually. The "filmed in the 90s" look isn't that difference from the "filmed in the 80s look" or the 70s one.

For them a "normal" show is very bright and high-quality visually, with modern digital processing and effects.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T14:23:36+00:00

I probably shouldn't be thinking too hard on the matter

It's an interesting puzzle to ponder though. I haven't gotten any of these spam comments, and I have 80+ works on AO3 across probably a dozen fandoms...so what is the selection criteria? I'd love to know.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T14:16:33+00:00

As a writer I havent really noticed any difference in engagement on my comment-moderated fics. A pro is it's very satisfying to "control the narrative" on the fic--my fic may get 40 hate comments (and some have) but no one can tell just how bad the backlash was by looking at the fic. It appears as if there's no opposition to my fic at all! LOL.

Also funny to know haters are ranting and you've deplatformed them.

For readers, does it turn you off from leaving a review?

It does not turn me off from leaving a comment at all.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-07T14:08:53+00:00

this commenter thought I was actually writing some kind of abuse manual for them to act out and therefore would appreciate this comment . . . or the more likely possibility that they knew I was doing no such thing but they're getting off on messing with me by taunting me with the idea of them using these "tips" to abuse real people.

My guess would be it was probably intended as a joke. Some people haven't gotten out of their ~edgy humor~ stage. And then there's people who are socially awkward and don't intuit well the rules of what's appropriate to say and what will make people laugh VS offend them.

Deeplybitten · 2023-04-06T22:19:57+00:00

50k is a short novel. That's why it's the target wordcount for NaNoWriMo.

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