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[fansplaining]

The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue

For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.

If I post a fic in Isoko, how many people can actually read it? English makes fanfic feel universal, while local languages can make it feel limited. But I do think younger generations might experiment more and start mixing languages. Our local languages carry emotions and textures that readers crave—whether they admit it or not.

In our latest, Soila Kenya interviews Nigerian fic writer si11yw0rm alongside other fans from Kenya and Burundi about the dominance of English in fandom. Colonialism has created a system of linguistic capital, Soila writes, that affects how fans feel fanfic should be written.

Click through to read the piece or listen to an audio version!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

wake up babe new ao3 canonical tags are here

[jessaerys]

ao3 → filters → exclude → alternate universe (modern setting)

[grunklebongrip]

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

[signalfirefly]

#he wouldn't fucking say that but i'm getting kind of attached to the guy you invented who did say that

[geneeste]

@mrv3000 telling truths in the tags:

[evilcyclopsxmen]

“modern au” “highschool au” human/non-powered au"

Why don’t you just watch glee then.

[evilcyclopsxmen]

I use this to torture my victims:

[luciencation-deactivated2026032]

they throw regular rats at eachother

[orcusnox]

Update

Confidence: Flimsy, Flimsy Confidence

Liars

And Are Black And Blue

Um. Hi again. I have not, in fact, died.

[communistkenobi]

it’s been said many times before but where else are you gonna get this kind of gold

[sink-baby]

God help me I was just trying to find the original post

[silentwalrus1]

tags from @cactifindahome

[alternis]

saw a post letting people know that your ao3 bookmarks are viewable on your account unless you make them private, which suggests that the median ao3 user does not use ao3 in what i will call 'the optimum fic-finding treadmill' where you find a fic author you like and look through their bookmarks to find more fics that are good and then look through that author's bookmarks for even more good fics. like a conga line of great but extremely specific tastes. or one of those chessboard rice doubling analogies and oh no that is a LOT of ao3 tabs.

[shorlinesorrows]

the lord (ao3) giveth (comes back online) and the lord (ao3) taketh away (goes back down five minutes later)

[alternis]

saw a post letting people know that your ao3 bookmarks are viewable on your account unless you make them private, which suggests that the median ao3 user does not use ao3 in what i will call 'the optimum fic-finding treadmill' where you find a fic author you like and look through their bookmarks to find more fics that are good and then look through that author's bookmarks for even more good fics. like a conga line of great but extremely specific tastes. or one of those chessboard rice doubling analogies and oh no that is a LOT of ao3 tabs.

[andhumanslovedstories]

anyway shout out to the ao3 tagging systems for all the important ways you can engage with yourself 

[wingdingery]

will die on the hill of “dead dove: do not eat” DOES NOT MEAN “there are various unspecified things in here that might disturb you, so be warned”

it means “i know the contents of this bag (a dead dove) may be upsetting, so i have labeled the outside very clearly with what is inside (a dead dove), and if you look inside, you should not be surprised to find a dead dove, because that’s what the label very explicitly says is inside the bag”

i realize this is a losing battle because enough people have made it mean the other thing as to make the tag totally useless, but seeing people argue over what it should mean gives me a headache because it literally could not be clearer

[setulose]

I think I might be about to send a deranged email

[setulose]

Couldn't find an email address so it was instead a deranged form submission

[setulose]

HUGE NEWS

[det395]

[butterflyblanket15]

Ao3 scheduling a 20 hour maintenance on a Friday is a very subtle way of telling us all to get a life

[yallstar]

ao3 will give fair warning for maintenance and out loud i'm all "okay cool thx" but inside every fandom obsession i've ever had is suddenly clawing at the walls like "brodeo, if you don't read five million k of fanfic in those exact 20hrs of downtime ur gonna explode and die"

[transformativeworks]

We have a little more than 12 hours left to Prepare. Make sure you have Too Many Tabs open, and to hit the Entire Work button, and download some things just in case.

[teddywesworl]

i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art

[teddywesworl]

did you hear about that actor performing a play in front of a crowd? clearly only doing it for attention

[teddywesworl]

im trying to say something and im not gonna say it in an empty room

[lena221bee]

tags by @yuanzhous

[anoramactir]

if i compiled ao3 ship stats every year for over a decade to highlight the lack of fic focused on women, f/f, and poc and every year for over a decade people reblogged the spreadsheet like “omg yay my favorite indistinguishable white m/m ship made the top 100!!!” i would start shooting people