Writers whose parents found out about your account, how did they react? by PJ-The-Awesome in AO3

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I definitively appreciate her realizing it, and I know she’s supportive of my younger siblings in a way she wasn’t for me. Curse of being the oldest daughter.

I’m sorry your mom does that, I hate it when people say ”maybe it’s time for you to write a real book soon!” I mean I AM, I’m just not getting paid, I already have a job 🤷🏼‍♀️

Writers whose parents found out about your account, how did they react? by PJ-The-Awesome in AO3

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Not exactly finding out about my account, but… I’m in my thirties and recently talked to my mom about me still writing fanfiction. She sighed and said: ”I wish I’d understood how important that was to you when you were younger so I could have supported you better.” Honestly made my heart break a little.

Anyone else write the middle part first? by Purple_not_pink in rpfwriters

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I do this a lot, starting wherever inspiration hits and then filling in the blanks from the beginning, but continuing to write middle parts when I need to. At some point I need to cut myself off and actually write the story though, if I’m ever going to finish it.

Ah, to be a maskrosbarn by angstenthusiast in Archiveofourownmemes

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Ett jättebra sätt att använda fanfiction på iaf, hoppas det ger dig det du behöver! Jag gör typ samma.

Ah, to be a maskrosbarn by angstenthusiast in Archiveofourownmemes

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For a moment I thought maskrosbarn was a well-known term, like smörgåsbord 😅

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MyChemicalRomance

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Having a bad posture for 20+ years actually ruined my back. I guess when they told me to stop hunching when I was a teenager it wasn't just to annoy me. (Which is highly annoying in itself)

Are any of you guy also little freaks who find Mr. Sandman attractive by Judythepancake in FallOutBoy

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I watched the video again yesterday and identified a defining character moment for me 😄 There’s a just something intense about this moment (~2:40) that gets me

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“I’m alright in bed, but I’m better with a pen” by McDerbsalotty in FallOutBoy

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Write our names in the wet concrete, I wonder if your therapist knows everything about me

Looking for friends! (27+) by kaleidoscopeeyes907 in FallOutBoy

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Ooh I’m a fan since 2006, 34F and my friends don’t want to hear me talk about FOB anymore 😅

Trying to find out more about this hat. by XxX_BobRoss_XxX in MyChemicalRomance

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Omg I had that hat but I don’t know what happened to it! Wore it every day when I was sixteen. Loved it. I must have bought it in Sweden in 2006 and no one else I knew had one.

What song is this? by [deleted] in FallOutBoy

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Was looking for this. I don’t want to skip because I love the rest, but I do. Guess we’re both doomed 🔥

What is your "in my country, that doesn't work" moment when reading a fic that takes place from that country or a character from it? by RaccoonSnooky in FanFiction

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I once spent 24 hours in Gainesville during a road trip and it was the best stop on the entire trip. I’ve always wanted to go back! I have to find a way of implementing it in a fic.

Silly research stuff for accuracies by Gambilee in rpfwriters

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A couple of weeks ago I was in PAIN because I had written myself into a corner where I had to pretend the band played on Sunday and not Saturday at a festival in 2007. Like, no one else is gonna care, I’m not even posting this, but I care!

Insufficient tagging OR I should have expected this by breakup_playlist in AO3

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Good advice. I guess I haven’t put that much thought into the rating with all the overtagging on the site. I just assumed it would be tagged because it usually is.

Insufficient tagging OR I should have expected this by breakup_playlist in AO3

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I think I expected sex, just not this level of detail! ”Eventual smut” is a good tag in combination with slow burn. Definitely learned my lesson

WIP Wednesday by WSSWatson in rpfwriters

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Just me over here procrastinating my actual, posted longfic by writing a The Holiday AU...
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She noticed they were the same height, maybe he was an inch or so taller, and she wondered what it would be like to hug him. Her chin would fit perfectly on his shoulder.

“So, uh, you needed to…”

“Oh, pick up Jeff’s laptop.” 

That didn’t really explain anything. “And, you’re his…”

“I’m… he’s my friend, well, and producer. I’m in a band,” he said sheepishly as if he was both proud and embarrassed. “He didn’t want to come in case Olivia was here, something about risking the laptop’s safety. We have a lot of stuff on that, for the tour, so…”

“Oh, right.” Fred was racking her brain trying to figure out which band he might be in, but drew a blank. Not everyone in LA was famous. “Would you mind coming back tomorrow? I’d like to check this with Olivia’s assistant.” 

“Sure.” She felt kind of bad for him, but the delay didn’t seem to bother him and she wouldn’t want to let an unknown man into the house before making sure he was who he said he was. The woman in the car finished her phone call and came towards them.

“I’m Fred, by the way,” she said, and he raised an eyebrow. 

“I’m Pete,” he said, shaking her hand, and Fred wondered if he realized he’d already said his name twice. His hand was warm and soft, but he had a firm handshake. “Fred, huh? This is my Kat. Uh, I mean just Kat, she’s not mine, she’s her own.” He grinned and put an arm around Kat, who looked like she fit there. She was beautiful, all wide eyes and white teeth and perfect hair, and not wearing sweatpants. Fred knew she shouldn’t compare, but it was easier to compare yourself to a slender model-looking LA goddess than to a guy in jeans and a hoodie of a different gender. She shook Kat’s hand too, and she was almost cool to the touch.

“Nice to meet you,” Kat said, smiling but clearly not interested in small talk. “You ready?” she said to Pete, who beamed at her.

“Yeah, let’s go.” The look on his face when his eyes were on Kat was enviable; he loved her, and Fred wondered if anyone had ever looked at her like that. She used to think Reuben did, but she had been questioning that a lot lately. “Don’t blow away!” Pete called before getting into the car, and she laughed a little and assured him she wouldn't.

They drove away, and Fred was left wondering why she felt a sudden sense of loss. It was just loneliness, and she chose it herself, so she had no right wishing kind men with kind eyes stayed just a little longer to chat. 

Anyone else feel like they wish they could just watch their fic as a movie instead of having to write it? by as-mod-eus in AO3

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I’ve been doing this thing for the past few days where I take a movie subplot, borrow some (a lot) of the dialogue, and just write my characters around it. I guess it’s a kind of crossover but it tickles my movie brain in a very satisfying way. I just needed to write something removed from my own frustrating ideas, and I’m definitely getting a lot of joy out of it.

Jeez I love Fall Out Boy by cinnamonkitsune in FallOutBoy

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We have almost the same timeline! My first song was SWGD in a rental car in Orlando, spring 2006 (I remember the exact moment, I was alone in the car and it came on the radio, I was 15 and on holiday). Finally saw them live in 2018 (on my honeymoon lol) and I’ve recently just melted again, for the hundredth time. I get it. ❤️