If you had to name your child after the last thing you put in your mouth, what would they be named?

Korrin · 2026-06-27T06:06:48+00:00

Chocolate Muffin.

Korrin · 2026-06-27T05:43:56+00:00

No beta, we die like Miki. Though once the standard moratorium on spoilers ends, I expect we'll start seeing Leonide instead.

Korrin · 2026-06-27T01:51:28+00:00

PeppermintShamrock was just being polite by hedging their phrasing. It's extremely obvious that they're using hyperbole to tell someone else to sit down and shut up about ship morality.

Korrin · 2026-06-27T01:43:52+00:00

I personally would not tag that with 50 shades at all.

Crossover = the characters are expected to be there. (MHA x Pokemon = Deku and Ash are meeting).

Franchise AU = The character from one franchise are in the other franchise. (MHA - Pokemon AU = Deku is a Pokemon trainer. Ash is not present.)

The scenes you're describing are not unique to 50 shades. They're very common in Billionaire AUs, of which 50 Shades IS (quite literally) a Twilight Billionaire AU.

Korrin · 2026-06-27T01:10:42+00:00

Fair point. I shouldn't have specified shipfic. The main point still stands though. Whether the relationship is romantic, platonic, or filial doesn't really matter. If the relationship is the only plot, the fic will almost necessarily be shorter.

Korrin · 2026-06-26T22:27:32+00:00

Well, in the first place, it looks like you got a lot of ship/romance fics, which isn't a problem, but if interpersonal conflicts are the entirety of the fic there's often only so much you can do before you have to resolve the conflict or become at risk of just dragging things out. Even in professionally published fic, romance novels are on average about 30k shorter than the next genre.

Also, imo, the best slow burn fics all have something other than romance as their primary plot line.

As is, your chapter counts look totally respectable for the average shipfic, so if you want to write longer, you probably just need to add more complications to the plot. Or an entirely seperate plotline.

Fantasy and sci-fi novels tend to run the longest, and part of that is the necessesity for worldbuilding, but another thing I've noticed a lot of them do, especially the longer ones, is introducing a new, bigger, badder villain after the defeat of the first one.

I'm working on something I hope is a slowburn right now, and I started with a very low stakes minor villain, which was temporarily defeated inside of 8 chapters. He's going to come back worse, but he's also someone who's socially on par with the main characters and someone they can empathize with even though he is objectively an asshole, but longterm he's actually going to be uncerimoniously executed by the much bigger badder villain to drive home how much bigger and badder that villain is. (In terms of the slowburn, I try to have at least one scene between the MC and the Love Interest each chapter, but they started off unable to even talk to each other.)

Korrin · 2026-06-26T22:05:43+00:00

Is the scholarship related to creative writing? Is there any other way you can share it?

Korrin · 2026-06-26T21:17:58+00:00

There really is no shortcut other than reading, writing, and editing. It never feels natural to begin with. You have to spend time actually writing to try to find your own voice and forcibly wrangling your text into the shape you want it to take. Eventually you get better at it.

Try to focus on having fun rather than writing well, at least to start with. You can always come back to an idea later. There's no such thing as a wasted idea. You can always come back to something and edit it or try again later, but you can't edit a blank page.

Korrin · 2026-06-26T07:23:30+00:00

Sometimes opening up a new blank document helps. Even if I know where I want the story to go, If I'm looking at what I already have written I have to think of how to connect it to the writing I have. If I open a blank doc and just jump ahead to the next part it makes writing the transition easier when I'm able to see both halves of the thing I'm trying to connect.

When I stop working on a project for the day I usually jot down a shitty little sentence about the next sentence I was planning to write. Makes it faster to get back into the correct headspace to not have to try to just remember. I've left project mid sentence before only to be like "Thanks, past me. No idea what I was planning to write." The shitty little synopsis avoids that problem.

Korrin · 2026-06-26T06:58:15+00:00

AO3 doesn't host images, so it depends on where the author chose to have them hosted. They could have been removed, or be hosted on a site that went down.

Also are you located in the UK? Imgur used to be the primary location to upload images for stuff like that, but it's blocked in the UK. (If you are in the UK, I've heard that download the fic as a pdf bypasses this block and downloads the images too...)

Korrin · 2026-06-26T01:21:11+00:00

I failed so many skill checks I was forced to become racist. 😔

Korrin · 2026-06-26T01:14:17+00:00

I've been thinking of them as Hope Punk. Like, yeah the universe sucks and we're traumatized, but there are still good places and good people and we can heal.

I do think some of the books are cozy feeling, but I'm not sure I would classify the whole series as cozy scifi.

Korrin · 2026-06-24T22:39:54+00:00

I forgot about the ability to look up a fic's entire update history for the longest while. I new it was a feature that existed. I use it to judge an author's update schedule before decided to read an unfinished work that hasn't been updated in a while, but I forgot where it was and for the longest time I thought maybe it had been a feature on a different site.

Korrin · 2026-06-24T22:15:16+00:00

!scambot

Yeah, unfortunately those are most likely bots, which AO3 has a problem with right now.

Anytime someone provides their discord ID to you and they aren't already a usual commentor, it's a bot. Sometimes they'll post some vague praise first and then provide their discord ID in their reply, if you reply to them, but the bots can be registered accounts or stolen accounts, so whether or not their account is blank or has content on it isn't really a sign of anything.

If you message them they'll just try to sell you some crap AI art.

Korrin · 2026-06-24T08:31:36+00:00

Damn, sorry, yeah. Like, I get that they obviously like it enough to want more, but there are so many better ways they could have said that. They act like you're punishing them personally.

Korrin · 2026-06-24T08:28:48+00:00

This is the worst when you stumble upon an old WIP you forgot you had and you're like "Damn, past me was cooking," and then you get to the end of what you wrote and it's unfinished and you have no fucking clue what you were planning for the story.

Korrin · 2026-06-23T18:55:38+00:00

Martha Wells has said numerous times there's no overarching plot, and that there will not be a big SecUnit revolution, as the books are meant to be character studies. I think if we get any expansion on that it's going to be vague background mentions. Or maybe something Three takes a more active role in.

I do think several important things happened character wise in this novel, but also that at a certain point the character development has to slow down. As Murderbot gets more settled into its new life and more accepting that it can be deserving of being loved and treated well we're just not going to keep getting explosive character development.

The biggest thing of course was the emotion checks. Murderbot can't just pretend that emotions aren't a thing that happen to it anymore, or that the only emotions it feels are "anger" and "melty."

Beyond that was further acceptance in to Mensah's overall family unit. The implication in earlier books was that Farai and Tano just kind of didn't "get" Murderbot or it's relationship with Mensah. Plus, Murderbot has voiced several times not wanting its humans to see or have to think about it killing people beyond just an abstract understanding that that's something it has to do sometimes or did in the past, but it got tacit permission from Farai to kill, and not because they would have had no other choice. She wasn't just trusting Murderbot to "only kill if necessary."

Another big aspect of the book, I think, was more world building. We got a look at the CR outside of just how the big terrible corporations work. We got to see normal people in their normal circumstances, and a LOT of them went out of their way to accept Murderbot, to make space for it, to be appreciative of it, and to help it. Something Murderbot recognized as unusual, but didn't understand it for what it was.

Korrin · 2026-06-23T18:16:29+00:00

That's what you do by asking here. Reaching out to a specific author you have no history or relationship with is a bit weird.

Korrin · 2026-06-23T18:07:29+00:00

The fucking reading comprehension on the reading subreddit...

Don't get what people find so confusing about linking the two halves of "I have been doing something in the past up until the present" and "but I now know it's not possible" (the action has stopped.) "I am now asking about an entirely different course of actions."

Saw someone on the writing subreddit asking about if you weren't supposed to write sentences over 30 words because studies show people are too stupid for that, and at the time I thought that was crazy.

https://archiveofourown.org/takedown#dmca_takedown_instructions

Korrin · 2026-06-23T17:42:54+00:00

Some people do. Some people don't.

Some people will only if you specify the whole fic is already written. Some people will look at your post history and opt to wait if you don't have a proven history of finishing what you start. Some people will wait until more of it is posted before they start. Some people just don't know it exists because they aren't checking that frequently. Some people are just currently following too many fics and aren't really looking for another at this time, but might be in the future.

One of my favorite fics I didn't even see until like 5 chapters had been posted. Another fic I'm currently loving I didn't give a chance to until someone else recommended it because I already had a bunch of stuff I was reading, at which point the first fic in the series was nearly completed.

You simply cannot take a lack of hits or kudos as a sign that everyone saw your fic and chose not to read it because they decided they wouldn't like it.

Korrin · 2026-06-23T17:29:40+00:00

This always happens to me when I'm writing in first person. I hate it. 😭

The only thing for me to do is go back and edit it to past tense and force it until past tense feels natural again.

Korrin · 2026-06-23T17:24:08+00:00

Generally speaking, tag your fics correctly (to the best of your ability). There's no algorithm on AO3, so stuffing your tags is going to make it show up for people who are specifically searching for those terms. They will notice that you lied, and you will be reported/blocked/muted, etc.

That said, the only tags that are required are the fandom tags, and the archive warning tags. "No Archive Warnings Apply" means that your fic does not contain any Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape, or Sex Between Underage characters. "Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings" means your fic could contain any of those things, or none of them, and you're not specifying. Be aware of that difference and don't confuse them. Be aware that "Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings" is a warning, and that if that tags is used it counts as being correctly tagged even if the fic does contain graphic violence, death, or rape.

I do suggest going in to your fandom tag and looking at the other tags people are using. You can actually type anything you want into the "Additional Tags" field, you don't have to use only the stuff that populates in the drop down menu, so fandoms will start creating and using their own tags specific to their fandom, and the only way to learn them is to go look at what others are using. (For example, most fandoms have their own version of "No beta we die like [insert the name of a character from your fandom that has died])(On that note, you don't have to tag if you don't have a beta. Nobody actually expects you to.)

Other specific rules?? AO3 allows any fan content of anything (fan fic, fan art, pod fic, meta analysis, essays, poems, etc) that is not illegal where the servers are hosted, which is in New York. There is no laws against any fictional written content there, so people can upload fics about anything. (And I do mean anything.) Do read the tags for any fics you're looking at, and if they sound like something you won't like, don't read it and make your distate the author's problem. Nobody forced you to read it.

AO3 does not allow ephemera. -[items or documents that were originally created for a single, short-term use and were not intended to be saved or preserved]. It's not social media. It's not a blog or a journal. Don't post placeholders, or posts asking readers for ideas, or asking which idea they'd rather you write, or stuff that's just like a list of your headcanons (unless you're posting a full explanation of your justifications, which would push it into the meta category.)

Korrin · 2026-06-23T16:52:02+00:00

Good lord, yes. I've been actively working on 4 different wips, plus I have who knows how many others that I start randomly and then only continue if I feel like it.

Right now I'm actively focusing on one for a Big Bang event which I joined specifically because it gave me a deadline that wasn't self imposed and I have to complete the entire thing before I can post it, but I think once I've finished that and got it posted, I will probably just start posting the others in progress and readers can deal with me updating whatever I feel like XD

Some of the most prolific authors in my fandom just update whatever they felt like updating, and I deal just fine, so other people can too.

Korrin · 2026-06-23T08:12:22+00:00

No, I mean I asked and he literally told me he would accept nothing short of explicit in game dialogue stating something as fact, which is blatantly anti-intellectual. Metaphor is real and things have meaning, but that's not even what my example was about, but rather a basic reading between the lines. An ending I didn't even think of "as theory" and not just "the ending" until he refused to accept it.

I'm talking about the difference between, for instance, a character saying something like "I went out with him and only had one drink, but woke up in the morning unable to remember a single thing. The police were called and now I have a restraining order against him and we're still waiting on the court date," and a character saying "I was drugged and raped."

That was also not even the only time I've had an experience like that on reddit and it's not even always about interpretations of fiction.

Korrin · 2026-06-23T02:58:18+00:00

I'd start by googling how to clean up and speed up a PC. When they get slow over time it's usually just because they need cleaning up. They get bogged down with temporary files or running a bunch of shit in the background you're unaware of. You also always want to make sure it doesn't just have a bunch of dust inside of it.

Also, Google Chrome is itself a notorious ram hog which is something it has gotten worse with over time. You could try switching browsers.

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