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Fandom Etiquette 101

If you don't like a fic, don't read it. Don't hate read it, don't bookmark it to write hateful comment in the bookmark description, don't leave hateful comments, don't post hateful reviews online (tiktok, goodread*, tumblr...), don't bully the author, don't go ruin someone else's experience, don't hate people that like that fic...

Just leave the fic, and if you don't like the author's work in general, you can mute the author so as to not have them anymore in your research result on AO3, you can also use the filter on Ao3 to set what you want and do not want to read. If you hate a fic because it has Jegulus and PandaLily instead of Jily, BakuDeku instead of IzuOcha, Wenclair instead of Wyler, or whatever are the ships you hate for your OTP, then filter out the ship!

Because you are not entitled to anything from the author. They write because they like it, they write because it's a hobby, because it's bring them joy, because it's cathartic. They don't gain anything by writing. They don't gain money, authors that are "famous" are a very small minority. And just because they are well known, doesn't make you entitled to anything. They are still human. Think Zar, Crimson Rivers author. They were gone for so long atp because of the pressure.

We write because we want to. Not because we HAVE to. fanfictions are not professional books, most of them are not even edited by the author, less are beta-ed by someone else. By being hateful and having high expectancy, by demanding high quality texts, you are driving away people that find true joy by sharing writings that can be really personal. Writings that they are sharing because they want to.

A fic that you hate is someone else's favourite fic that they read every night before going to sleep. And the contrary exist.

*DO NOT put a fic on Goodread either!!

Thank you for reading

yujateaandpi

Shoutout to all the educators who inspire us to love the world even more.

jiiin22

the bravest human

castformi-deactivated20241025

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

peppylilspitfuck

Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth. The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.

slightlykylie

Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment.

darkersolstice

One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.

yothobro-deactivated20200505

This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way

rooksandravens

#BECAUSE IT IS

fuckyeahfeminist

And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.

rodserlingofficial

bisexual-engineer-girl

This is like one of those YA dystopian novels where you’re born as one of the bads or one of the goods

digitalmyyth

What is forcefem question

digitalmyyth

so real

sharkfiinn

loser duo

pineappical

thinking about statues of Grace being built all around Erid years after his passing so he can continue to watch over Eridians as they sleep

cabinette

cheeseanonioncrisps

Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.

decemberwinter

cw: self harm mention

this is why ao3 is superior 😭 I hope op has a copy of their work because, from what I’ve been told, wattpad won’t even warn or give you time to backup your work beforehand. they will just deadass delete your work. my friend once had their entire work—with multiple chapters—deleted by wattpad with no heads up. just a notification that says “your work has been deleted”.

seriously people, ao3 is your safe haven. there’s no censorship. no capitalism bullshit. you can post the most taboo, most shockingly messed up thing there and the site will protect you and your works. they even have their own team of lawyers to protect writers, writers’ works and writers’ rights to create whatever they want. no matter how controversial or taboo or explicit or dark or messed up your works are, they are protected and welcomed on ao3. stop wasting time with wattpad 😭

thefloatingstone

When your cat falls asleep on you.

gillyporter

Sophie is such a nerd, and I mean that in the best of ways. It doesn't matter how smart you are, some of these things don't just happen accidentally.

She made the decision to read the dictionary when she was little, not to impress people, but purely because she loved learning and found it fascinating. she memorized all the stars, which had to be more than just her photophographic memory. perhaps she did it for an astronomy class or something, but still.

not to mention, Sophie has canonically read fantasy books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, which yeah, are more popular books, so that doesn't mean she's a nerd, but that's because Shannon Messenger wanted to reference books people would know.

I'd have liked to see more of nerd Sophie. She should have every right to on a rampage about her favorite element on the period table (perhaps I'm projecting, my favorite is radium) and why it's the best and who created it and all the little details. Surely, Sophie loved learning and reading, and also before she learned that people didn't want to hear these things (wrongly, there are definitely people who would love to hear her rambles, rip Sophie foster, she would have loved Tumblr).

i would love to see dex and Sophie nerding out together over science and exchanging words in quick rushes. also dex is a movie nerd, there's no denying that, and I fully believe Sophie is a fandom nerd, more leaning toward books, but she definitely would be able to discuss movies for ages.

(also, Sophie was greatly isolated as a child, she would have definitely spent her time in a book or watching her favorite movie/tv show for the fifty billionth time)

Oh, and Sophie is a music nerd. I think it'd also be neat to see Sophie obsess over the different styles of music with the different cultures with Dex, but them still being obsessed with human music.

and I 100% canon Sophie blurting out to Keefe all about a book or something, and he thinks it's adorable, but also he's obsessed with fandom and she gets him hooked on her favorite books and she writes fanfic and he draws fanart.

bathroomcube

how your 20s feel when you dont know what ur doing

cryptidsydario

You understand

keeperstyx

you cannot go hate on sophie, call her a pick me, just slander her in general etc etc and then immediately go and glorify sokeefe. thats not how this works. you may just be misogynistic.