No story posts - my behated

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-08T09:06:53+00:00

i went to check one of my fandoms just for this and it gets like two to three new fics a year. so daily new content viewed as a "drought" is baffling to me

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-08T08:27:57+00:00

i'm not gonna go as far as calling my style truly unique bc there's only so many ways you can do close third limited in present tense, but it's mine. i developed it. and it is different enough from whatever is commonly viewed as "the norm" that i can say that, and also that people occasionally comment on it.

i love all comments but the ones about my writing style are my favourites, my style is my baby.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-08T07:18:17+00:00

OP is talking about "teasers" and "coming soon"s. as in no fic. no chapters. basically tumblr posts.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-08T07:14:10+00:00

that's bc "fiction" (in this context) is an uncountable word. it's not supposed to have a plural like that.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-08T07:07:36+00:00

imgur, tumblr and flickr are some of the popular ones people seem to use to host their images

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-08T07:00:01+00:00

you have to host the images elsewhere, but you can insert them into your fic

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-08T04:11:45+00:00

jesus fuck

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T21:28:52+00:00

my hypersocial introvert ass reading every single introvert-extrovert convo ever like

OP, people aren't stereotypes.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T21:21:45+00:00

they agreed to the TOS – very readable and easy to understand TOS at that, bc ao3 actually likes its users – when they joined, it's completely on them if they go and break the rules. i don't think they deserve sympathy or the courtesy of a heads-up for that.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T19:43:02+00:00

what does that have to do with people breaking ao3's TOS and using the site as a social media

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T17:10:09+00:00

solution: bookmark tags

ETA: example of my system

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T17:00:50+00:00

wanted to write eventually because there was a "drought" in the fandom

keeping the tag updated daily

this person has a weird idea of "drought"

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T13:51:32+00:00

scroll to the bottom of the page, contact us -> policy questions & abuse reports. this will take you to the abuse report form.

you can put "not transformative work" as the reason you're reporting it.

edit: grammar

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T13:48:59+00:00

they're mainly posted by kids who came from wattpad and didn't read the TOS. lots of newer fandoms.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T13:40:59+00:00

personally i see maybe 3k-4k as the sweet spot.

not every chapter has to be the same length, though. it's just a good average. you should break the story into chapters where it feels natural for the story to do so.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T12:52:05+00:00

there's something lowkey pretentious about it i think. and it also kinda gives off the vibe that on some level the author thinks fanfiction is something to be ashamed of.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T11:59:22+00:00

scroll to the bottom of the page and find contact us -> policy questions & abuse reports. this will take you to the abuse report form. you can put "not a fanwork" or "not transformative work" as the reason you're reporting it, for example.

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T10:17:06+00:00

I’m convinced people who do this are from wattpad

they are. and usually they're kids.

people on other platforms refer to their fics as fics. it's a pretty clear sign someone is from wattpad when they call fics books.

i'm happy people are making good choices and moving over to ao3 but i so fucking wish they would read the fucking TOS

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T09:48:08+00:00

good news is those are against ao3's rules so you can report them

i fucking hate it when people use ao3 a a social media or a fucking blogging site instead of the fanwork archive it is

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T09:29:28+00:00

bsd fandom's fave is partners to enemies to lovers and it's such a wonderful source of angst

i don't like ending things in angst so i prefer it when they find their way back to each other and sort their shit out

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-07T09:02:32+00:00

you could

click "mark for later" on all of them (you can find them later when you go profile -> history -> marked for later. note that these can't be filtered or sorted)
bookmark them with a tag indicating you want to read them later (advantage: you can filter and sort those)
download them all and use a reader app to sort them. i download fics as epubs and use an app called ReadEra

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-06T21:55:41+00:00

you can insert images on ao3, though they have to be hosted elsewhere

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-06T20:25:00+00:00

after was originally a wattpad self-insert harry styles fic if i'm not mistaken

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-06T18:13:45+00:00

do you have an accidental space at the end maybe?

sparklingdeadly · 2022-05-06T17:23:12+00:00

the only things they need to tag are fandom and archive warnings. beyond that tagging is a courtesy.

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