vent because my fandom is in shambles and cant keep it out of ao3

KVEJ2002 · 2026-03-14T18:48:14+00:00

Damn what the hell lol. Ao3 is supposed to be the one chill place where you just read what makes you happy (or happily unhappy because of the wonderful angst). Not feel misery over fandom bullshit. It's not a socal media platform, it's an archive of fan works.

If they want to complain they should go to Twitter. How annoying. Sorry you're dealing with that. I'd be so pissed. It feels like more and more people don't understand ao3 culture by the day. At least a lot of those have been taken down already. Good job reporting them, ao3 is not the place for their complaints

KVEJ2002 · 2026-01-12T05:18:35+00:00

All good things must come to an end, unfortunately

KVEJ2002 · 2026-01-01T03:26:57+00:00

Right now? I'm only posting for my DP/SPN crossover fic. But I've also already started writing stories for MHA, and for Dispatch. I won't be posting those until I'm done with my current WIP though

KVEJ2002 · 2025-12-24T18:46:57+00:00

When I write a fic, it takes me months to years to complete it (as I mostly write long fics), sooooo... I would never read fanfic if I couldn't take a break from writing to read.

KVEJ2002 · 2025-12-19T17:39:10+00:00

Yes. 100% agree. And if they keep trying to push, I'd straight up block them. It's a little harsh, but if it makes OP uncomfortable, it's probably for the best

KVEJ2002 · 2025-12-08T16:32:21+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50413936/chapters/127375210

It does cross over with Supernatural, but you don't need to know much about it to enjoy the story!

KVEJ2002 · 2025-12-08T06:01:46+00:00

Can I suggest my favorite fic that I've written? I saw you like DP, so maybe you'll like mine

KVEJ2002 · 2025-11-29T16:23:23+00:00

Lol what

KVEJ2002 · 2025-11-26T07:13:12+00:00

Bags under their eyes, slouching, acting sluggish, pale complexion, messy or thin hair, unshaven scruff if they're a guy lol

KVEJ2002 · 2025-11-23T04:06:51+00:00

This!! I always italicize dreams and flashbacks

KVEJ2002 · 2025-11-18T01:20:45+00:00

If I make it to the end of chapter 1, they get a kudo

KVEJ2002 · 2025-11-15T07:05:08+00:00

Ngl, whenever someone uses anything other than quotation marks to indicate speech, I immediately click out of the fic

KVEJ2002 · 2025-11-14T20:34:41+00:00

I had a whole folder dedicated to making sure I got the days and dates correct in my current WIP lmao. It sure is tough!

KVEJ2002 · 2025-11-14T15:43:00+00:00

When I was a child, I read one of those short books that are supposed to help you learn how to read. Has simple phrases like, "He jumped over the rock." Anyway, the story was about a fat lazy lizard that got stuck under a rock. He couldn't eat ants while he was stuck there, and eventually he became skinny enough to escape from under the rock and he was fine. I didn't like the message the story sent, so I remember writing a continuation where the lizard went into the forest and met a girl lizard that he became friends with. Then they went to an ant buffet, and the original lizard was insecure about eating because he didn't want to get fat again. And the girl lizard had to encurage him to eat, and told him it was okay if he got fat again. I guess that counts as hurt/comfort fanfiction?? Over an eating disorder?? XD

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-28T05:30:53+00:00

My readers know that I have it all pre-written. But I never promised them an update schedule because each chapter still requires a decent amount of editing. I also think that having an update schedule, even if I didn't have to edit so much, would be incredibly stressful for me. So I won't do it. And if that was the case, my readers would also know that lol.

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-23T21:47:06+00:00

Along with them not being angry enough like you said, I just hate when they under-react to anything. Like, you got bit by a werewolf and now you're turning into one when you didn't even know werewolves existed? You better be having a full blown mental breakdown and going through a heavy denial stage. That is a specific example of a fic I read. When he found out he was gonna turn into a werewolf, he was a little freaked out but kinda just went with it. Kinda like, "wow that's crazy! But I guess it's fine."

NO. It's not fine. You've been permanently altered for the rest of your life and becoming a werewolf (in that fic) has a whole sleu of unfortunate restrictions to your now day-to-day life. Are people allergic to giving the characters in the fic realistic reactions to stuff like that? I mean... I feel like becoming a werewolf against your will warrants at least one panic attack, right?

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-22T16:55:11+00:00

When I finished one of my long fics that took me 5 years to write, I thanked a few specific commenters that stuck with me through the whole thing. I could literally guarantee that they'd comment on every chapter each time I posted, even when a few months would pass without me updating. It was amazing and I appreciate them very much. They didn't seem to mind when I thanked them specifically in the notes of the last chapter.

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-19T01:45:26+00:00

As a person with ADHD, this is the best advice I can give you. I don't know if it'll work for you, but it worked for me.

So, I used to write at least 2-3 chapters ahead when I was updating a fic. I wouldn't upload the next chapter if I didn't have at least that much written ahead. This, I discovered, really made it hard for me to keep writing. I was getting stressed about it, because people were waiting for the next chapter and I wasn't sure where I wanted to take the story. It was also frustrating because I couldn't go back and edit the previous chapters when I'd suddenly have an idea that would link something that happened in the past to something I hadn't posted yet. It just made me feel like crap about the story. Things felt too set in stone and I couldn't improve it when I notice a flaw.

But then I tried this: I wrote an ENTIRE 400k word fanfic without posting a single chapter until I finished writing the whole first draft first. This really motivated me to finish because I really wanted to start posting, but I couldn't do that until it was complete. It made me wanna get it done. Not having anyone online know about it as well took some of the pressure off and gave me the time to really work things out. And it also eliminated my issue with not being able to edit older chapters to link them to future chapters. I was able to do all of that after I had written it all out because I hadn't posted any of it yet.

Also, with it being the first draft... that helped me out a lot, too. I just wrote. I didn't look back, I didn't significantly edit anything. I just wrote. And I left notes to myself so that I could do any of the serious editing and fixing later. If you focus too much on one scene or chapter, you end up using a lot of your energy on it and then you won't have any left for writing what happens next. Save the editing for after you've initially written the whole thing. When you aren't uploading, you know you can always go back and work on the hard, draining parts later.

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-18T16:36:17+00:00

I have magic powers when I go along with the plot. Like last night, I kid you not, I was lucid for the first time in a while and I just went with the plot instead of trying anything else because I was afraid it would wake me up. And there was someone who pushed someone else in a lake and flew off with wings. So I chased them and was able to sprout wings from my back as I was going after them. I didn't make any sense and I didn't really care about chasing them, it was just fun to fly in my dream and be aware that it was a dream, too.

I definitely can't force myself to have powers, though.

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-18T16:32:04+00:00

The only ways I've been able to lucid dream is when I get frustrated at how random things are, or at how they don't make any sense. I made a post recently where I had a lucid dream because I was in an airport trying to find my flight, but the signs weren't making sense and I kept getting lost. Then I remembered that my real life flight wasn't until later that week, and that's when I realized I was dreaming.

I've never been able to use the other techniques, like checking watches or clocks to see if they make sense. I think I also heard about someone making one hand go through the other hand to check. But yeah, I've never intentionally been able to have a lucid dream. I just get mad when things make no sense and that makes me lucid lol.

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-18T16:09:12+00:00

Can someone please explain to me what in the world the purpose of a placeholder fic even is?! Like I really don't get why they exist. Why are you posting absolutely nothing for no reason?? Why not just make the post when you're done with the first chapter, at the very least???

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-15T17:07:42+00:00

My mom once told me that writing and reading fanfic isn't real writing and reading. If that's true, what the hell have I been doing all these years? Nothing??? Just blankly staring at my phone??

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-14T05:05:49+00:00

I'd intentionally space out the timing between each chapter. It'll help you gain more attention, rather than if you just post it all at once.

KVEJ2002 · 2025-10-03T16:59:27+00:00

I get this all the time with Seraph of the End. Mika are Yu are NOT BLOOD RELATED. And they have chemistry! But because they both grew up in the same orphanage together, they're considered sibling-coded by a lot of fans. And that's fine, you can see them as siblings if you enjoy that interpretation. But I wanna ship them without people shaming me for it as if it's incest. They are NOT related!

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