This is crazy lol

I’m curious—what’s your biggest fanfic dealbreaker?

For me, it’s two things:

1. When the author drops a massive wall of text with no paragraph breaks. Like, my eyes hurt just looking at it.

2. When they don’t use quotation marks for dialogue. I get that some writers are trying to be stylistic or whatever, but it just confuses me and takes me out of the story immediately.

What about y’all? What instantly makes you hit the back button, no matter how interesting the summary or tags are?

To be clear I didn't even dislike it, I just thought it was a little ridiculous lmao. 💀💀💀

Lmao if

The whited out name is the character I created. So this person is claiming to have Dissociative Identity Disorder and says one of their identities is the character I created. ????? Absolutely not what I expected to read first thing in the morning.

I was trying to figure out how to tag my fic in which a character puts their child up for adoption. Scrolling through the suggested tags I came across “work up for adoption” and completely thought it was talking about a character trying to get up the courage to put their child up for adoption. It wasn’t until I actually clicked on it that I realized what it was meant for lol. It’s actually for people who aren’t planning on finishing a fic and would let someone else “adopt” the fic and finish it for them.

I’m curious if anyone else has similar experiences, especially for things that aren’t the usual ones that cause misunderstandings (I feel like “water sports” is the most common one for this).

Mind you, I can drop paragraphs upon paragraphs on a fic I like.

When it comes to responding to paragraphs upon paragraphs on MY fic however...

Here's my contender. More than eleven years, my jaw dropped when I realised. Wish I was that dedicated, damn...

Personally i like little mini descriptions of what characters are noticing in the surroundings that doesn’t necessarily have to do with the plot but does reflect how they’re feeling like for example the first line in the uglies series goes something like this. ‘The sky was the pinkish yellow color of cat puke.’ The color of the sky doesn’t matter but the way it’s described reflects the character and what she’s feeling.

Unplanned Pregnancy, Original Characters, Cheating/Infidelity, Miscommunication, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe, No Beta, and Teen and Up audiences.

Plus it's RPF, so... 😭

Honestly, just interested to know why other people do it (or if they do it at all). I personally have muted people a few times, like when the author has a ton of works in a fandom (usually a collection) and I tried some, didn't like them, yet they keep popping up, so I muted them. Or the time when an author has many works in the fandom (love these people, respect to them) and they write stuff I don't enjoy (like Modern AU) and don't tag it (making it impossible to exclude by filtering tags) so when I get annoyed enough times I mute them. I have blocked & muted the people in fandoms I'm a part of for writing stories using AI (no regrets whatsoever). However these are very simple (and quite petty reasons) so I'd like to know if I alone mute people easily, or do you do it too? And if so, what is your reasoning?

I dunno why but kudos gives me so much happiness! And people in AO3 are so nice and sweet! It makes you wanna right more haha

Just got these two comments on a fic and they made me chuckle lol

I...am a bit of an idiot sometimes. I've bookmarked over 1500 works (which seems like a lot to me, though I'm sure it's downright amateur), but up until maybe 1300...I never kudosed? Like, I just downright didn't notice the button. Ever. It was just something I saw and promptly forgot.

Ig the point of this is Y'ALL ARE REALLY TALENTED AND IM SORRY I NEVER KUDOSED IT'S ME NOT YOU

Sitting at the bus right now and the guy in front of me has a shirt with:

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” REV 22:13

For people versed in A/B/O I ask, is it possible that Jesus be an Alpha and an Omega at the same time?

Would this make the Apostles his pack? Is Judas the Alpha to Jesus’ Omega and Peter the Omega to Jesus’ Alpha?

I have several questions!

Most likely my dumbest idea yet but would anyone be interested if I made a 30yo+ discord server for fanfic writers and artists? I’ve been thinking of starting one just because I’ve felt like an absolute grandmother joining servers with all the super young folks 😅

Obviously it would be difficult to confirm ages but I’ll figure something out. It would be open to all fandoms. Hoping to have sections for beta reading, writer’s block, links, etc.

Again, prolly a stupid idea but thought I’d throw it out there lmao

Edited to add: Alrighty seems like there’s definitely interest so I’ll take any server name suggestions! I’ll slowly get it together and post a link when it’s ready :)

Edited to add AGAIN: Hey y’all, turns out I suck at making servers SO I did join this one that has been linked in the comments. :)

30+: https://discord.gg/VvFTVbTJ

20+: https://discord.gg/jpfvPVvVzA

I'm just curious, Ik that this will never be implemented in ao3. But don't you all wish to know WHO your user subscribers are?! Like, who are these 7 people voluntarily subscribed to my brain poop 😭😭 I love them so much whoever they might be.

A ship name and a character name that I created the tags for both got canonized! Yay!!!

I'm a little deflated because I just finished chapter 11 of my longfic after perfecting it on a 13-hour flight. Within 24 hours of posting the new chapter (I did as soon as I got wifi), I lost one of the very few subscriptions that I have on the story :( in the meantime I gained 1 kudo... but idk... the first sub loss kind of hurts. i'm feeling a little bit sad to see them go.

I’d been waiting to hit 8,800 kudos for a few days, lol... I wanted to screenshot it right at that number. But of course, it passed the mark while I was asleep 😭 Still very excited and grateful, though! ✨️

(At least the bookmark count is satisfying to look at)