Character A Character B

Calling all fandom enthusiasts! Step into a world of possibilities as we bring you the ultimate writing challenges!

[character-a-character-b]

Welcome to "Character A Character B"!

Calling all fandom enthusiasts! Step into a world of possibilities as we bring you the ultimate writing and art challenges!

Are you a fanfiction enthusiast looking for a welcoming community to share your passion? Look no further! We're thrilled to announce the launch of "Character A Character B", a vibrant and inclusive space open to all fandoms and all ages.

What we offer:

Exchanges: Dive into creative collaborations with fellow fans. (Currently on hold)

Word Count Competitions: Challenge yourself and showcase your writing skills. (Currently on hold)

Prompts: Get inspired and explore new story ideas.

Flash Fests: Engage in quick and fun writing challenges.

Celebrations: Write about stories based on a holiday, occasion, or specific event. (Currently on hold)

Bingos: participants complete a 3x3 grid of prompts based on a specific theme.

Join us and be part of a supportive community where creativity thrives! Whether you're into fanfiction, original stories, or simply love discussing your favorite characters, there's a place for you here.

Spread the word and invite your fellow fandom friends! Let's create unforgettable stories together.

Please note that we will reblog NSFW posts; they will be tagged with NSFW.

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

Updates:

4/21/2025: Formatting, grammar, and editing events.

[character-a-character-b]

Falling into Love: Claiming Is Open

Prompt claiming for The Flash Fest, "Falling into Love" hosted by @rynrising44 is open!

It is officially Autumn! To celebrate the changing season, this flash fest will be focused on fall-related prompts/scenarios and both romantic and platonic love (aka "Falling into Love"). Big thanks to the Falling in Love exchange for giving me this idea and helping with some of the prompts! Feel free to interpret the prompts however you wish and let's enjoy this time of year!

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[character-a-character-b]

Adoxography: Claiming Closes

Prompt claiming for The Flash Fest, "Adoxography" hosted by @rynrising44 is ending tonight!

Adoxography- (noun) Fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects “Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things” “adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers” type of: authorship, composition, penning, writing, the act of creating written works.

This flash fest is focused on beautiful and trivial words from a multitude of languages.

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

[character-a-character-b]

Story Within a Story: Flash Fest

The Flash Fest, "Story Within a Story" hosted by @nicky-gabriel has has started!

The theme for this flash fest is a Story Within a Story, embedded narrative and/or nested stories.

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

[character-a-character-b]

"Beach Episode" Flash Fest Awards!

We're thrilled to announce that the awards for "Beach Episode" Flash Fest hosted by tinynocturnalzoo have been given out!

Congratulations to all the writers who won an award, and thank you to everyone who took the time to write and vote for the Flash Fest!

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

[ao3org]

We are aware that AO3 is down and investigating the cause. We will update with more information shortly! Please refer to our status page for more information. Posted: 15:39 UTC July 28, 2025

[ao3org]

We've found the issue and a possible fix. We're currently working on it, but it may take a little time to complete. Thanks for your patience!

Posted: 16:36 UTC July 28, 2025

[ao3org]

AO3 is back online and the issue has been resolved. If you are still experiencing issues, please let us know. Thank you for your patience!

Posted: 17:37 UTC July 28, 2025

[ao3org]

We are aware that AO3 is down and investigating the cause. We will update with more information shortly! Please refer to our status page for more information. Posted: 15:39 UTC July 28, 2025

[ao3org]

We've found the issue and a possible fix. We're currently working on it, but it may take a little time to complete. Thanks for your patience!

Posted: 16:36 UTC July 28, 2025

[ao3org]

We are aware that AO3 is down and investigating the cause. We will update with more information shortly! Please refer to our status page for more information. Posted: 15:39 UTC July 28, 2025

[nicky-gabriel]

ATLA/Andromeda TV fusion fic

Title One Small Step for a Girl Fandoms Avatar: The Last Airbender, Andromeda (TV) Fusion AU @character-a-character-b Word Count 2000 Category gen Tags Father-Daughter Relationship, Platonic Relationships, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Adoption, Arranged Marriage, Friendship, Family Summary Yue's lifechanging conversation with Suki. And there is Bato. Link https://archiveofourown.org/works/66802087

[aleheartilly]

[FFVIII] Staring at the sun (2/8)

At a loss for words, she simply nodded. He kept watching her, moving his fingers on her picture. “There’s nothing true in here. The light is made to flatter you. Colors are studied. There’s styling. Make-up is used to mask. This is crafted.” He followed the line of her face on her picture, lingering just above her eyes. A shudder crept along her back. “These are not.” [In which Squall, renowned black-and-white photographer, sees something raw and true he can't ignore in Rinoa's eyes.]

Characters: Rinoa Heartilly, Squall Leonheart Pairings: Rinoa Heartilly/Squall Leonhart - barely mentioned Seifer Almasy/Quistis Trepe, and hinted Irvine Kinneas/Selphie Tilmitt Additional tags: Slow Burn, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt, Artist/Muse Relationship, Mutual Pining, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Intimacy, Non-Explicit Sex, Alternate Universe, Photography, Music, Forbidden Attraction, Creative Process as Intimacy, unspoken feelings, Yearning Chapter: II. Exposure: Dissonance Written for:

@ffviiiotpfestival - prompt Music makes sense now, by @angelosearch;

@julybreakbingoevent and @julybreakbingo, prompt free space (AU muse/artist) and word: disagreement

@monthlywritingchallenges, Golden Hour event, prompt window glow, silence shared and fingertips brushing

@character-a-character-b November Bingo card, emotion edition, prompt free space (AU muse/artist)

Read on AO3 | FF.net (links are to Chapter 1)

[character-a-character-b]

"Love Without Limits" Flash Fest Awards!

We're thrilled to announce that the awards for "Love Without Limits" Flash Fest hosted by @stars-forever have been given out!

Congratulations to all the writers who won an award, and thank you to everyone who took the time to write and vote for the Flash Fest!

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

[ao3org]

The Archive is currently experiencing issues; it is not currently possible to use tags when making a new AO3 bookmark. We are working on a fix. Refer to our status page for more information and updates.

Posted: 06:11 UTC July 4, 2025

[ao3org]

To resolve ongoing issues with bookmark tags, we’ll temporarily block traffic from bots and some VPNs. This should last about 2 hours.

Posted: 15:10 UTC July 4, 2025

[ao3org]

The temporary block on bots and VPNs has now been lifted. Thanks for your patience!

Posted: 16: 41 UTC July 4, 2025

[ao3org]

We've applied the fix and checked to make sure the previous errors have stopped. You should now be able to create bookmarks (with tags too!) and add bookmarks to collections🎉Thank you for your patience!

Posted: 17:44 UTC July 4, 2025

[character-a-character-b]

Voting and awards for "Love Without Limits" Flash Fest, will continue on schedule.

[ao3org]

Bookmark creation errors

We are investigating an issue with 500 errors when creating bookmarks. Refer to our status page for more information and updates.

Posted: 05:50 UTC July 3, 2025

[ao3org]

We've found the cause and are working on a fix. We expect to have it ready in a few days.

Posted: 06:52 UTC July 3, 2025

[ao3org]

To apply the bookmark fix, we need to block traffic Cloudflare flags as bot-like, which may also impact some VPNs. If you see the AO3 maintenance mode message, please try again with your VPN off. If needed, we might need to put the site in maintenance mode for everyone.

Posted: 14:35 UTC July 3, 2025

[ao3org]

To fully fix bookmark creation, we will need to put AO3 in maintenance mode for a few hours. We'll be back once the fix has been fully applied.

Posted: 17:05 UTC July 3, 2025

[character-a-character-b]

Depending on when AO3 comes back online, we may need to extend the voting period and push back the award announcements for the "Love Without Limits" Flash Fest. We'll share more information as AO3 provides updates.

[character-a-character-b]

Hello, I saw your love without limits fest and it sounds amazing. But I'm curious about what exactly counts as poly relationships? It's probably perfectly obvious to most people, but anxiety brain and everything. Could you maybe offer some examples?

Sorry to bother and thank you.

Hi Anonymous,

First, thank you so much for the kind words about the fest, which really means a lot to us. And second, no worries at all about your question, it is totally valid!

For this flash fest, a poly relationship means any relationship that includes more than two people who are all emotionally connected in some way. That connection can be romantic, platonic, queerplatonic, or some mix of those. There just has to be some kind of relationship between everyone involved.

I know that popular examples would be ships like Bucky/Steve/Tony or Castiel/Dean/Sam. It could be a full triad where everyone’s involved with everyone else, or more of a “V” shape where one person is connected to two others who aren’t necessarily involved with each other. 

[character-a-character-b]

Love Without Limits: Flash Fest

The Flash Fest, "Love Without Limits" hosted by @stars-forever has has started!

A flash festival meant to celebrate canon and non-canon polyamorous relationships. The prompts for this event will all focus on everyday dynamics between the individuals in the relationships!

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

just a heads up to my fellow writers out there that AO3 is currently fighting off bots commenting on people’s works to tell them that AO3 will delete their fics “due to the works being deprecated”, and the deletion will affect their accounts unless the authors delete the fics themselves first. IT IS A SCAM. AO3 will NOT delete your works. please do NOT fall for these bots!

I’ve been told the reason why these bots are doing this is due to copyright infringement issue where they’re trying to steal your works (possibly to train AI but this is just a guess) ‼️‼️‼️and once you deleted your fics, it will be either very difficult or impossible for you to claim ownership of your own fics when they were already deleted.‼️‼️‼️

a reminder that AO3 will never contact you through your comments section (in case they claim to be one of the moderators). AO3 will only contact you through your email address which you use to register your account, and it will be from AO3’s official handle. not some sketchy ass @

so if you get a comment telling you you should “delete your works to protect your account because AO3 is doing blah blah blah” report that comment. don’t delete your works.

PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THESE SCAM.

AO3 IS NOT DELETING WORKS.

DO NOT DELETE YOUR WORKS JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE CLAIMS THEY KNOW SOMETHING.

[imminentchaos]

Reblogging so more people see this