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@castrumwritings
Blind Go Confession Hour
Do you have a WIP that sits abandoned on a flash drive that you first started 3 or 4 computers ago?
Does it call to you every May 5th, whispering softly into the night, "Do you hear my voice?"
What year was the unfinished work that haunts you the most started?
hi sorry if this is weird but i just wanted to say i absolutely love your bsd fics. i know you haven’t posted any in years but i keep rereading them and the little bits you’ve posted on here and i think your characterization of dazai and kunikida is my favourite of all time ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for your service o77
i am kissing you on the mouth and spinning you around in a rainfall of spring flowers, do your legal guardians require a dowry for our autumnal wedding? are you okay with elopement??
(i love you and you deserve hot soup on every cold day of winter)
I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.
You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them
i just wanna say i found your dazai/ranpo fic(s) on ao3 and i love your portrayal and writing of them sm!! thank you!
yoooooooo thank you more!! i appreciate you taking the time to not only find me but type out your kind message to a corner of the internet not a lot of people visit anymore, and i hope you get nothing but the sloppiest of toppy in the future
Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.
Obi-wan: I think I drank to much Vodka. Ahsoka: Straight? Obi-wan: No. Bisexual. Ahsoka: I didn’t need to know that. Cody: I did.
Prompt?! Dazai asks Ranpo if he believes in aliens. ( ^ - ^ )
i’m high so here u go. i’ll fix it tomorrow but autocorrect is Saving My Ass right now
-*-*-
“hey! ranpo. do you believe in aliens?”
“what the fuck-”
“hey, hey, i know it’s late-“
“-you’re climbing through my window at three in the morning-“
“-but i needed to ask you this.”
“i was sleeping!”
“playing color switch is sleeping?”
ranpo tosses his hands up in defense. he’s wearing pajama pants and, quite frankly, not much else; dazai is Very Not Straight.
“can you answer my question now?” dazai asks, climbing through the window completely. he’d kicked his shoes off before he attempted the not-so-great-b&e (he’s done better, honestly), and sets them down on the window sill now. ranpo still looks like he’s stuttering for an answer, which is probably the cutest thing dazai’s ever seen from the older man, probably.
“i - yes. i do believe in aliens. is that all you came here to ask?” ranpo huffs. he crosses his arms over his chest insecurely, shuffling from foot to foot when the chill from outside reaches his bare skin. he doesn’t actually sound that mean; dazai can see him relaxing around his tense shoulders.
“nope. i also wanted to know if you could watch the stars with me tonight,” dazai proposes. he crosses his arms behind his back and puts on his 1000 watt smile. he feels a strike of anxiety slide through his chest at the thought of ranpo kicking him out, but really, he’s ranpo. he shouldn’t have to worry about this.
“right now?”
“when else?”
there’s a pause, where ranpo takes a deep enough breath that dazai watches his chest move with the motion.
“alright.”
When violent characters are gentle and tender & when gentle characters are violent and unhinged
I will literally joke about how I'm a hater then remember people literally have whole blogs dedicated to hating people and media and actually maybe I'm a lover who happens to occasionally dabble on criticising the things i don't like.
i think we are SEVERELY underestimating eomer's "since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs i have loved you, and that love shall not fail." to aragorn
like???? imagine that??? imagine being told to your face (you, the new king) that the person who you started out having a weird relationship with has loved and revered you since he saw your face??? that you are nothing but yourself and you are STILL loved because of it???
to have verbal confirmation that your own love was not alone????
I never had people draw fanart for one of my fics or write something based on it, but I just know that that is such a high honor and show of love. I once had someone ask me if they could translate my fic in Chinese and I was like, wow, they love it enough to want to put time and effort into it to show it to more people.
To all writers, you can use this post to let people know that you would be delighted to receive fanart and would love if they get creative with what you created.
yeah uh... don't do this :)
as a fanfic writer! who has a few semi-abandoned fics! if you do this i will personally bite you with my teeth. you are disrespecting art and the love people put into their work by pretending that an AI can even compare to it
I am vibrating with rage at this. Not just for the childish grasping whine of “I want it NOW”, unsatisfied with the millions of other free works of love offered up for entertainment, and not just for the complete ignorance of what makes a story; the arrogance to presume that the ending the author will make is irrelevant and that a substitute that goes completely in a different direction is just as good.
I FURIOUS BECAUSE THIS PERSON FED THE ALGORITHM WORDS THE AUTHOR NEVER WANTED A CORPORATION TO OWN. THOSE WORDS WERE FOR FELLOW FANS, FOR THE JOY AND LOVE OF THE ART AND SHE SPIT ON THAT. SHE FED THE CORPORATION THOSE WORDS. THEY WON’T LET THEM GO NOW. THE AI REMEMBERS AND LEARNS AND STEALS FROM THAT WORK FREELY AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY OFFERED IN FRIENDSHIP
She just fed the beast the screaming heart of a person who only offered friendship.
I want to split my thoughts between those of a reader and those of a writer.
As a reader, I don't read AI fics. Period. Seeing the time and effort from someone with a passion for a piece of media means more to me than reading a fast, completed fic. I get the temptation to write that way, but it's literally worthless to me.
Now, as a writer with several unfinished WIPs:
Do not do this with my fics.
It's hurtful for all of the reasons creativitycache detailed so eloquently above. The idea that people would care so little about creators that they prioritize their own wants above those of the creator sucks. Fan creators are not just content farms, and attitudes like this only prove how far we've fallen from being a community.
If you have questions about how an unfinished work would have ended, contact the author! 99% of the time on a truly abandoned WIP, they'll tell you what they originally had planned.
I love posting fic chapters as I write them. I love the feedback and live reactions of readers. But posts (and people) like this make me want to only post fics when they're finished. And, without that reader feedback, I honestly doubt I would finish many fics at all.
Don't do this.
If I find out any of you have done this with my fics, I'm blocking, reporting, AND telling all of my writer friends. If you do this, you do not get to read any of my fics ever again. And I have a feeling you'll never get to read any fics at all because word will spread
Just recently published my 75th (!!!) work on AO3, and it got me wondering…
How many fanworks do you have published on AO3?
0
1-2
3-5
6-10
11-20
21-40
41-70
71-100
101-150
151+
man time!
references this tweet
anyway I think shigeo likes to lie down in the middle of the floor like a cat. It makes him feel normal
To the authors who are unhappy about their hits-to-kudos ratio on AO3: as a kindness to yourselves, please stop. That hit counter doesn’t mean what you think it means.
First, not all those hits are people. A substantial chunk of those hits, as I understand it, are machines, looking to see what the page is. The hits-to-kudos is whack from the hour a story is posted, because a bunch of those hits are machines.
Second, multiple hits can be the same person on their first read of the story. If I open a story in a browser tab to read later, my browser sometimes/often unloads that tab in the interim, resulting in it reloading that tab and creating a new hit when I finally go to read it. If reading it requires multiple sessions, that’s multiple new hits. If I then leave it open for a while to remind myself to leave a comment, my browser will reload it again, generating another new hit, before it lets me write a comment. Altogether, my first read of a story, plus leaving a comment, can easily turn into five or more hits, depending on how hard I’m finding it to find reading and commenting time.
Third, if your story has been up for a while, the people who adore your story are driving up your hit counter with their re-reads. They go away, they come back, they re-read, and they do it again, and they do it again. It’s probably only a small subset of your total readers, but if one of your stories becomes someone’s go-to comfort read for times when they are stressed out (or, if it’s an explicit story, if it becomes their favorite jack-off material), that one person’s devoted re-reading might easily hit your story dozens of times. But most readers feel hella shy about admitting that they treat your story like a fuzzy blanket (or a vibrator); either way, it’s pretty rare for them to tell you about it. (Which I’m sympathetic to! Fuzzy blankets are a very personal thing, and no one wants to feel stared at by the author while they’re having a vulnerable moment.)
Fourth, stories get read by people outside of fandom, people who don’t think of themselves as your friends/neighbors/community-members, and who just… never think to hit kudos, at all, because their social context is so far removed from ours. I’ve got a couple of stories that were linked on TVTropes once upon a time, and their hit-to-kudos ratios are fucking absurd. If your story got linked outside of fandom somewhere, odds are that most of the people coming in from that link will never think to hit kudos, no matter how much they liked it, because they never quite connect that there’s a real live author, breathlessly hoping to be liked and appreciated, standing just behind the screen, and that maybe readers should be polite and say ‘thank you’ to them when they finish the story and leave.
tl;dr Do not assume every hit is new human reader who didn’t like your story and clicked out. Your hit counts will often be ten times greater than your kudos, just for stupid ordinary internet-traffic reasons, and the older a story becomes (and the more times bots and re-readers hit it), the wider the hits-to-kudos gulf will become. Do yourself a kindness and stop calculating that ratio – and if you can’t stop making yourself crazy about it, go into settings and turn off your hit counter displays. Please be tender to yourselves; being an author is hard enough as it is.
