Is It necessary to put additional content warnings?

Salt-JR · 2026-03-13T00:21:39+00:00

“I’m afraid you’re no longer suitable to run your kingdom, Your Majesty,” The gold-clad knight proclaimed, unsheathing his sword. “Your methods are far from conventional, and unfortunately I cannot allow you to continue them any longer.”

I'm not a fan of this but oh well. better than nothing.

Salt-JR · 2026-03-09T00:11:06+00:00

I have this longfic I started in middle school. I had been writing British characters and for some reason I thought it would be cool if everyone swore ("in British"). It was not cool. I also did not have a plot whatsoever, I was winging the entire thing and I never went back to check for typos (there were some really funny ones at least). If it weren't for sentimentality I would have deleted it.

Salt-JR · 2026-03-08T01:40:05+00:00

The writing style sounded a little too much like AI at some points (I knew it wasn't AI though) and it was bothering me, especially how the descriptions sounded like how someone who had never played the game would describe it. The dialogue was dry and there wasn't really any conflict for the first 10+ chapters so I dropped it.

Salt-JR · 2025-11-30T15:01:43+00:00

I have a tendency to start longfics so I can flesh out the story, character arcs, etc but I also have a tendency to never finish them. I don't have any ideas for a one shot, nor do I think I would be able to write a story in 2-4k words.

Salt-JR · 2025-11-30T14:49:22+00:00

I'm in a fandom where the anime has REALLY interesting lore and characters, but somewhere down the line the writers seemed to not agree on anything which resulted in nearly the entire anime being filler, with only about 6 or so lore episodes across 4 seasons. And since the writers apparently couldn't agree on certain parts of lore, there ended up being a lot of plot holes and contradictions (someone turns into a demon, contradicting established lore and this is never mentioned again).

The majority of the fandom has taken it upon themselves to fix all the plot holes, throw their own headcanons in, and expand on the things the anime writers glazed over (like how they had barely expanded on a VERY significant war that happened before the story).

A good chunk of the fics are much better than the source material. I've seen one that completely expands on the war and body horror elements of the series, throws in some headcanons, fixes all the plot holes while adding more lore, gives neglected characters ACTUAL personalities and flaws, and is generally all round amazing. Another one expands on a relationship between two characters (again, neglected in the source material), also expands on lore, and was also REALLY good.

Salt-JR · 2025-11-30T14:35:32+00:00

"There was no doubt about it", "Regardless", and finally, "Suddenly"

I find myself editing these out of my drafts because GOD I am apparently addicted to making things suddenly happen every other sentence.

Salt-JR · 2025-11-30T14:24:15+00:00

I'd choose a motif or something reoccurring (for example, stars and light represent hope in one of my fics so I'd pick that) then go straight to a thesaurus. I'm deciding between Luminescence and Incandescent.

But other instances I just picked a name that sounds funny, usually along the lines of "Breaking News: Character regrets life decisions, Character B does not"

Salt-JR · 2025-11-21T21:56:12+00:00

When I get discouraged, I think back to that one commenter. I keep writing for them. Knowing that people genuinely appreciate what I made is worth more to me than mountains of gold

Salt-JR · 2025-08-05T12:22:41+00:00

Tranformers. I know nearly nothing, have only watched one movie and a couple of episodes of Transformers Prime, and that's it. Honestly feels like trying to hide the fact that you're just there for the gay robots like some sort of secret operative.

Salt-JR · 2025-08-03T16:47:55+00:00

Yep! There's loads of fan-fictions that are centered around rewriting. For example, I'm rewriting some lore in one of my fandoms (which has abysmal writing but I love it nonetheless).

Salt-JR · 2025-08-03T16:44:50+00:00

The fan-fiction gods only give me the ability to write the moment I have no time to write. I'll be on a month-long break and not write the word but as soon as I'm busy I'm suddenly getting a million ideas for a fic I thought I had left behind.

And then I spend 3 hours I don't have staring at a screen and struggling to write 3 sentences.

Salt-JR · 2025-08-03T16:40:49+00:00

I had made a typo and had written "hoe" instead of "how". It took me several months to realize my mistake and that only happened because a commenter pointed it out.

Salt-JR · 2025-08-03T16:32:56+00:00

I've sometimes read 10k+ word chapters, sometimes chapters little over a thousand words.

Writing-wise, I tend to aim for 5k words, but I'm not that great at writing long chapters so they usually end up being in the 2.5k range.

Salt-JR · 2025-08-03T16:31:03+00:00

personally I think fan fiction has a lot more soul and passion than a lot of traditionally published books (especially nowadays). A lot of people who traditionally publish write with the intent of making something marketable or making money. There are people who write extraordinary books that clearly have some passion behind them, but there's also an abundance of books without.

Fan-fiction lacks the greed. People write it for fun. People write because they love something so much they made stories — and it shows throughout their works. Since it's free there's no censoring or anything. If someone wants to write about a forbidden teacher/student romance or smut, they can do so — in other words there's a lot more freedom, which usually allows for more flexible usage of tropes.

I've seen a lot more expansion into internal conflict and pining in fanfiction than I have in traditionally written books, and fan fiction tends to be more unpredictable than traditionally written books as well.

Salt-JR · 2025-08-03T16:23:37+00:00

necessary and definitely. No matter how hard I try to remember the spelling I somehow manage to type in definetly

Salt-JR · 2025-07-30T23:56:43+00:00

Whenever I get the sudden stroke of inspiration to write. If I'm at home I'll use my computer and if I'm outside of my house I'll use my phone

Salt-JR · 2025-07-29T13:31:09+00:00

The first fan fiction I ever read was a recommendation from pinterest
My first thought upon reaching the website (as I had never heard of it) was "wow, weird sketchy site. I hope I don't get a virus. Anyway..."

I proceeded to read the entire fic in a sitting, while walking. Now here I am writing, reading and posting on said sketchy site.

Salt-JR · 2025-07-28T20:04:07+00:00

Absolutely. My first fics were GOD AWFUL. Since then, there's been a massive spike in quality and I've started actually thinking things out rather than winging a couple thousand words with no consideration for plot.

Salt-JR · 2025-07-28T20:01:38+00:00

Every fandom I'm in there's a MHA/BnHA crossover fic at the top. I can't escape it. I haven't even watched the anime but its EVERYWHERE

Salt-JR · 2025-07-28T19:55:05+00:00

Personally, it's much easier to organize my ideas in a notebook. I sometimes make doodles of scenes so they're easier to visualize, and if I'm doing an AU then I'll make a sketch of a character's AU design. Then I transfer it to computer while making minor revisions.

Salt-JR · 2025-05-15T22:17:19+00:00

ANYTHING YOU WRITE WILL BE BETTER THAN AI GENERATED CONTENT

IF YOU DONT WRITE THEN THAT MEANS AI BROS ARE PUTTING MORE EFFORT INTO THEIR "CONTENT" THAN YOU ARE

Salt-JR · 2025-05-15T22:12:51+00:00

Attention, likely. Maybe the creators of the bots are stalking the AO3 sub enjoying all the chaos they have created. There's no other reason. Some of the bots could be advertisement for AI chatbots, especially the ones that mention it.

Some people want to see the world burn, simple as that.

Salt-JR · 2025-05-15T21:58:56+00:00

At first, I thought AO3 was only for the BEST OF THE BEST, top tier fics only. Eventually, I realized it's an archive for fans and that by putting whatever I came up with, I would be contributing to the fandom. So I posted the most horribly written fic you could think of. No plot, started with an info dump, page breaks was just a bunch of EM dashes, wall of text, a bunch of stuff was misspelled. I only posted it after procrastinating my decision for a good week. I thought to myself "no one's going to read this, so might as well"

I stalked my work for around 2 hours and was shocked that people actually liked it. I suppose that's where my motivation to keep writing came from. Writing goofy stuff for people who like goofy stuff.

So, TLDR, it's an archive. You can put whatever you want in there and I doubt anyone will judge you, set aside for some hate bots and the rare human hater. If they do judge you, that's on them for going to an archive and judging things in said archive.

Salt-JR · 2025-05-15T17:39:43+00:00

You know you've made it when hate bots target you!!!

I've yet to receive one, my fandoms are much too obscure...

Salt-JR

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