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andi. 31. latine, they/them. 18+ followers only please! wwdits side-blog.

[andiforyou]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It's been 84 years... Or at least, it feels like it. I'm back! In chapter 20, it's a rainy night in Staten Island, and what else is there to do but fall in love?

Start at the beginning / Start at Chapter 20

Nandor writes a priest-vampire erotica book. Father Guillermo finally snaps after reading a priest-vampire erotica book. This is a love story. 

[thychesters]

sometimes love is stored in a kind ao3 comment

[irissweatersbearthoughts]

🦇 🩸💘Your touch💘 🩸🦇

[frownyalfred]

me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

[newskyillusion]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who hasn’t updated anything in four years: I think about you often and I hope you’re alright

[azrielgreen]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who wrote one life altering banger and nothing else: I hope your pillow is cool and your skin is clear and you find money in a forgotten jeans pocket

[jezebelgoldstone]

me, whispering to every single person on this post: please leave one singular comment saying literally any of that

[harleyquillao3]

Credit: tinawithana on TikTok.

Basically this is the same message as the previous video I shared by this creator. But it’s just an older TikTok. Like they have mentioned, it seems like this argument keeps cycling around every few months. It’s not hard to understand. If you don’t support and encourage writers, then they’re going to give up and quit writing. Simple as that. The community side of fanfic and AO3 has died off. Writers are leaving. AI writing, puritans and the “fandom police” are taking over. Please, just support those of us that are left.

[angstosaur]

Having been writing fanfiction and posting it online for almost 30 years (since 1998) this is becoming more and more of an issue.

One shots get more attention - longer, plotted fics that often require a great deal more research, editing and planning don't seem to get as much attention until they're completed.

There's also much less interaction with the readership - and wider fandom - which feeds the muses of those writing for fun. Hits and kudos falling for longer, multichapter fics is demotivating.

I've kept records for the last 5 multichapter fics I've posted - noting hits and kudos each time a new chapter is posted. What is clear is the uptick when a fic is completed - yet hardly any of those leaving kudos leave a single comment. Fair enough, I get it, some people prefer to wait until a fic is finished so they can read it in its entirety - but would it hurt to take a few seconds to leave a comment to the writer?

The graph shows kudos totals when each new chapter of these fics was posted (month and year refer to when the first chapter was posted).

Now, it could be that I've inadvertently offended half the IWTV fandom and not realised it - such that people who used to read and comment on my fics no longer do so (although I've seen them still commenting on others, so it's not like they left the fandom). If I have upset readers I would love to know why. However, I'm not the only writer suffering from lack of reader engagement.

Please - encourage writers whose fics you enjoy - for all the tens and hundreds of thousands of words, just a few words, a sentence of two, can make a writer's day and give them the boost needed to keep writing.

[lowpawly]

the authors open fetish that complements the themes of their work

[apathy-tied-in-knots]

important plot device thats also just authors fetish. call that a jackoffs gun

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[willgrahamscock]

don’t focus on your responsibilities you need to make gay shit for a dying fandom

[anney-baker]

The sacred bond between the accidentally sworn enemies

[runavik]

Reading a bang-ass fic that perfectly combines smut with devastatingly targeted character study and all you can say at the end is

[sherrickmads]

yk... bodyguard duties

[anney-baker]

also known as: gay flirting

[itsfirecat]

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Based on some rumblings I heard, I ended up quickly throwing together a fun little WIP bingo sheet! I'll admit I largely wrote the prompts for writing, but I think a good number of them should also apply to art!

Ultimately, the goal is to have fun, and finish whatever WIPs you can (without burning yourself out or having a bad time). If you needed a sign to pick up that project you've been putting off, the time is now!

3x4 Bingo square titled "Finish your fucking fics february"

the top three across left to right read "Update your oldest WIP", "Finish a WIP that's been buried deep in your drafts", and "Finish a WIP that you haven't posted yet"

the second row reads "Finish a recent WIP", "Finish a WIP you're scared of" and "Finish a WIP that's been haunting you"

the third row reads "Update a partially posted WIP", "Finish any WIP/Free Space", and "Finish the next WIP in a series you've been avoiding"

the last row reads "Update your newest WIP", "Finish a WIP that's been ignored for at least 6 months", and "Finish the next chapter for a fic you've been meaning to for months"

[001x456]

fanfic writers and fan artists are carrying fandoms. they are the backbone of fandoms.

thank you fanfic writers and fan artists

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[nandorfucks]

[beansprean]

Another commission from @g0sts! A cowboy Guillermo to go with horseboy Nandor ;)

Support me on Patreon!

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ID: Full body of Guillermo on a blue background with a tilted white rectangular frame, back to the viewer with feet wide apart and his torso twisted to smirk over his shoulder. His left hand is twirling a lasso while his right holds the excess rope at his side. He is wearing brown leather assless chaps with white rose embroidery, dark blue tassels down the sides and bottom, and pearls inlaid on every seam over a brown leather thong. It's strapped at the waist and thighs with dark blue leather belts with silver buckles and delicate arched embroidery. There is a matching blue leather harness over his chest, along with the glint of a silver nipple ring. His vest has the same brown leather, rose embroidery, pearls, and tassels as the chaps and lays open over his bare chest, an intricate blue rose pattern stamped on the back. His brown leather gloves match as well, with dark blue tassels, pearls lining the hem, and a blue rose pattern. A cowboy hat sits proudly on his head in the same brown leather, the underside showing black and white cowskin and the front stamped with a blue rose lined in pearls. His cowboy boots are dark blue and teal, with snakeskin at the top and toe, cowskin at the heel, blue roses decorating the sides, and shining silver spurs. /end ID