Feed the Fandom

very simple goals: ✅ encourage readers to comment on fics ✅ encourage fandom writers to KEEP WRITING Wanna Play? FAQ run by @robthegoodfellow

[feedthefandomfest]

Welcome

The response to the Comment Bingo has been amazing so far! Let's keep that momentum going. If you want to join, you can play with the Original Card or choose one of the other available cards:

one designed for Beginners (new or nervous commenters)

a Fluff Edition, Smut Edition and Angst Edition to find/comment on fics with themed tags

an Old Fic Edition to encourage digging up fics you might otherwise miss

a Character/Ship/Fandom Edition (some assembly required) -> Billy Hargrove, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Dean Winchester, DC Comics, Batfamily, All for the Game, Jily (more to come??)

This blog is intended to promote anything and everything related to fic writing and commenting. In the fandom ecosystem, both creators and enjoyers are essential, but especially active creators and enjoyers—by which I also mean interactive.

For now, this is what I can guarantee from this blog:

more bingo cards for readers, featuring a mix of old and and new commenting tasks

resources on commenting: etiquette and how-tos, etc.

resources on writing: editing and drafting tips, worldbuilding, character building, etc.

celebrations of commenters who earn bingo (✨victory badges✨)

fic recs from bingo players who post the works used to fill their cards

Original Edition Bingo Winners Board: Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple, Quintuple, Sextuple, Octuple, Decuple, ✨FULL CARD✨

Fluff Edition Winners Board: Double, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Septuple, ✨FULL CARD✨

Smut Edition Winners Board: Single, ✨FULL CARD✨

Angst Edition Winners Board: ✨FULL CARD✨

Old Fic Edition Winners Board: Single, Double, ✨FULL CARD✨

Depending on level of interest, this could also be a space to host more ambitious events (ship- or fandom-specific comment drives, comment drives for categories of fic with typically less traffic, etc).

Always open to feedback and suggestions! Here's the running FAQ post for the bingo trial.

The goal is to foster as much positive fandom engagement as possible 💛 Keep fandom well fed!

no pressure, just tagging anyone who expressed interest in the bingo trial run:

@sanguine-tenshi, @mrprettywhenhecries, @tciddaemina, @tapedsleeves, @unquantifiablefucks, @1jet2unknown, @doctor-of-war-and-heartache, @sterekbros, @evanesdust, @g-arya, @suometar, @camaro-and-smokes, @dragonflylady77, @redfeathered, @iravenish, @nibupei, @larkandcarry, @im-psycho-btw, @luimagines, @kallisto-k, @yallwildinrn, @adhd-merlin, @ah0yh0y, @neewtmas, @six-demon-bag, @silent-silver-slip, @magniloquent-raven, @garden-variety-jumo, @autistic-katara, @ghuleh-recs, @kissingghouls, @thissortofsorcery, @the-ravening, @toburnup, @gunshou, @daddiesdrarryy, @starryeyedjanai, @cattailhighway, @hexiewrites, @to-spread-the-ministry, @skystamp, @goddamnedamericanjedi, @likeapaperplane, @forgottenkanji, @minnichan, @asoftspotforangels, @lungache, @the-marron

[itsmoonpeaches]

one day you too could be a fanfic author who updates a decade later

[itsfirecat]

(text description in ALT and below the cut)

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"

[softgayheart]

I for one think the symbiotic relationship between Tumblr and AO3 is beautiful

[weepynymph]

Do not write fanfiction. One second you're normal and the next you're downloading a calendar from 2004 and tearing your hair out over what specific date every event in your fic happens

[nebraskashouse-deactivated20251]

no matter how fucking sad I am, any AO3 email never fails to makes my day a little brighter

[gabrielislovegabrielislife]

Me checking on one of my beloved ao3 fics that hasn't been updated since 2017

[feedthefandomfest]

@glove23 YES!!

[feedthefandomfest]

question. for fandoms with few enough fics (there are literally 8 total as of me sending this in), can one fic but different comments count for multiple slots on a bingo card?

Definitely! So long as each square has generated a different comment, you're golden. And authors in tiny fandoms need all the love we can give, so your solution works out nicely 💛

[febuwhump]

the ao3 collection is now open!

post your ao3 works to the febuwhump collection and join the official numbers for people taking part on ao3!!

there are two ways to post:

go to the febuwhump 2025 collection and click "post to collection"

then post your fic as you normally would

2. when posting your fic, type febuwhump_2025 to the collection bar

this event will not appear in the dropdown - it literally never has. just leave it typed it when you go to post, and it will end up in the correct collection! (do not click on the febuwhump_2025_lego collection - that is not this event)

[insanitysilver]

Multifandom Fanfic Event Calendar

An attempt at aggregating the events I’ve seen. Not affiliated with any event organizers. Key: ☼ Writing - ♥ Reading. (Updated: 2/4/25)

JANUARY

All Month :

♥ - FaFiCoWriMo / Fanfic Comment Writing Month ( @faficowrimo ) Challenge: Comment on every fic you read during the month of January ☼ - Whumpuary ( @whumpuary ) Daily whump-themed writing prompts

Last Two Weeks of January :

☼ / ♥ - Genuary ( @genuary-fic-event ) Authors / readers share favored Gen fics on social media & add them to the annual Genuary AO3 collection

FEBRUARY

All Month :

☼ - February Ficlet Challenge ( @februaryficletchallenge) Write a 200+ word ficlet based of the daily surprise prompt. Comes with a yearly ao3 collection. ☼ / ♥ -  Femslash February Event celebrating femslash pairings. Participate by writing, reading, commenting on, and recommending femslash fics. Applicable works can be added to the open ao3 collection and tagged with #femslash february ☼ / ♥ -  Femslash February Celebrates Black Women Under the Femslash February umbrella, this event celebrates Black History Month and uses the additional '#femslash february celebrates black women' & '#ffcbw' tags. ☼ -  FebuWhump ( @febuwhump ) A month of creating whump works guided by a daily prompt list. ☼ - Feveruary ( @feveruary ) A month of sickfic-based writing prompts. ☼ - Kinkuary ( @kinkuary ) A month of kink-based creative writing prompts.

February 10th - 14th :

☼ - FicWIP's "Hey, Sweetheart" Challenge - ( @ficwip ) Challenge: Use the pet name "sweetheart" in fic or art.

February 15th :

☼ / ♥ -  International Fanworks Day / IFD Celebrates fanwork and has a new general theme every year. Hosted by the OTW, they usually run a week of events to celebrate which (can) include: essay calls, surveys, drabble challenges, games & trivia, along with the annual feedback fest post which solicits 10 fic recs based of the prompt of the year. Applicable works can use the ao3 tag.

MARCH

All Month :

☼ - FicWIP's Level Up Challenge - ( @ficwip ) Running through all of February & March, this challenge asks you to pick an aspect of your chosen creative craft you'd like to improve on and see that goal through. ☼ - Multiamory March ( @polyamships ) Create daily polyam-themed work with an optional prompt list and submit to the ao3 collection.

APRIL

All Month :

☼ - Angstpril ( @chaos-company ) Daily angst-themed writing prompts.

MAY

All Month :

☼ - Do-May-Stic ( @domaystic ) Daily domestic-themed writing prompts. Includes a yearly ao3 collection. ☼ - MerMay A month of mermaid-themed creative prompts. While perhaps more widely used by visual artists, AO3 has thriving yearly tags for the event. ☼ - Whumpay ( @whumpay ) Daily whump-themed writing prompts

JUNE

All Month :

☼ / ♥ - Gen Work June ( @genworkjune ) Authors / readers share favored Gen fics on social media & add them to the AO3 collection. Writing prompts also available. ♥ - Fanfic Summer Reading Program (Northern Hemisphere) ( @ao3commentoftheday ) A summer-long challenge to encourage people to read and interact with a variety of fics. Mostly self-guided, but comes with a number of attractive achievement badges.

JULY

All Month :

☼ - Fluffuly ( @fluffuly2024) Daily fluff-themed writing prompts

AUGUST

All Month :

☼ -AU-gust / Alternate Universe August ( @augustwritingchallenge ) Daily AU-themed writing prompts. Comes with yearly ao3 collection. ☼ - Fic WIP 5k - ( @ficwip5k ) Challenge: Write a complete AU for any fandom in 5,000 words or less. ☼ - Writer's Month ( @writersmonth ) Daily fiction writing prompts. Offers personalized badges at the end and has a yearly ao3 collection.

August 21st :

♥ - Fanfiction Author Appreciation Day A day to celebrate your favorite fic authors, customarily by commenting on their work, sending a nice message to their ask box, and/or mentioning them in a rec post with the '#Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day' & '#FFWAD' tags.

SEPTEMBER

All Month :

☼ - Sapphic September ( @sapphic-september ) Daily sapphic prompts with a yearly ao3 collection. ☼ - Sicktember ( @sicktember ) Daily sickfic prompts with a yearly ao3 collection. ☼ - Tropetember ( @tropetember ) Daily prompts based off popular fanfic tropes (5+1, one bed, etc.) with a yearly ao3 collection.

1st Week :

☼ - Trick or Treat Exchange (Begins) Annual fic/fanart exchange for hosted on ao3. Prep/sign-ups begin in September, and fics are revealed on Oct. 31st to the annual ao3 collection.

2nd Week:

☼ - Yuletide Secret Santa (Begins)( @yuletidetreasure ) Annual fic exchange for rare/obscure fandoms hosted on ao3. Prep/sign-ups begin in fall, and fics are revealed on Dec. 25th.

September 15th :

♥ - Comment Day ( @comment-day ) Pick 1+ fics and leave a detailed, personalized comment.

OCTOBER

All Month :

☼ [BLANK]-ober Daily Writing Challenges In the spirit of inktober, a drawing challenge that encourages artists to draw start and finish a small drawing daily, often guided by prompts, many creative-writing-centric events have sprung up. Some are more self-directed than others. ☼ - Fictober ( @fictober-event ) - general fiction writing prompts ☼ - Flufftober ( @flufftober ) - fluff-based prompts ☼ - Kinktober - kink-based prompts ☼ - OC-tober - Make art about your OCs daily ☼ - OTP-tober - Make art about your OTP daily ☼ - Whumptober ( @whumptober ) - whump-based prompts

Final Week of October :

♥ - Just Leave a Comment Fest ( @justleaveacommentfest ) Challenge: leave as many comments as possible. Each day comes with an optional reading theme. Mini-events are often run throughout the year. ☼ / ♥ - FicWIP's Ship Week - ( @ficwip ) Multifandom week of celebrating shipping. Includes a week of writing prompts and a support bingo board for non-writers.

October 31st :

☼ - Good Intentions WIP Fest ( @goodintentionswipfest) A day for celebrating/sharing/posting abandoned WIPS by submitting them to the ao3 collection. Let's give the dead a proper send off. ☼ - Trick or Treat Exchange (Revealed) Annual fic/fanart exchange hosted on ao3. Prep/sign-ups begin in September, and fics are revealed on Oct. 31st to the annual ao3 collection.

NOVEMBER

All Month :

☼ - Novella November ( @novella-november ) Challenge: Write 30,000 words. ☼ - Rough Draft Month ( @roughdraftmonth ) Challenge: Bring a creative project to completion alongside of other creatives doing the same. Comes with different levels of word-count goals and a flex goal option.

DECEMBER

All Month :

☼ - Hurtcember ( @hurtcember ) Daily whump-themed writing prompts ♥ - Zero Comment Challenge ( @polizwrites ) Challenge: Comment on one or more works with zero comments. ♥ - Fanfic Summer Reading Program (Southern Hemisphere) ( @ao3commentoftheday ) A summer-long challenge to encourage people to read and interact with a variety of fics. Mostly self-guided, but comes with a number of attractive achievement badges.

December 13th - 25th :

☼ - 12 Days of [Blank] Old fandom tradition of doing daily prompts in the 12 days leading up to Christmas. Some are more self-directed than others. ☼ - 12 Days of Christmas ( @12daysofchristmas ) - 12 days of holiday/winter-themed writing prompts. ☼ - Fluffmas - 12 days of fluff, #fluffmas ☼ - Kinkmas - 12 days of kink, #kinkmas ☼ - Smutmas - 12 days of smut, #smutmas

December 25th :

☼ - Yuletide Secret Santa (Revealed)( @yuletidetreasure ) Annual fic exchange for rare/obscure fandoms hosted on ao3. Prep/sign-ups begin in fall, and fics are revealed on Dec. 25th to the annual ao3 collection.

[destinationtoast]

TOASTYSTATS: Fandoms with the most femslash on AO3

As of February 26, 2017

This time around for Femslash February, I thought I’d share some numbers along the way rather than just the graphs at the end.  Here are all the fandoms on AO3 that currently have at least 500 F/F fanworks. 

Edit: If you think any of this data looks wrong/wonky, it’s straight from AO3 and there are a number of reasons that might be the case.  This is a follow up to this post – please go read the explanations and caveats there if you plan to write meta about or make use of this data. 

There will still be pretty graphs soonish, though!  :)  And I’ll do further breakdowns beyond what’s shown above – like which fandoms have the most femslash after you remove M/M and F/M from the picture, and which have produced the most in the past year.  I’ll also be looking for F/F/F+ polyships.  If there are other analyses you want, please let me know.

BTW, I tried to highlight the F/F ships (Edit: and at least one NB/F ship, which I highlighted in italics) in the above data, but I may have missed some – please let me know if I did.  (And sorry you can’t see some of them fully; click through to see the full data.)

Raw data (including more than what you can see in these screencaps), notes, and corrections below the cut.

Keep reading

[mrs-elsie-barnes]

Off to a good start this year, managed to read lots of fics in January and I hope you enjoy them too!

I've also tried to complete the @feedthefandomfest fluff and smut bingos this month, with varied success. A line complete for smut but fluff was all over the place, let's not look into that too much! Cards are at the bottom of the post alongside by non-fic reading roundup for January

Fics in pink are for the fluff bingo, fics in red are for the smut bingo

Azriel

Made for Him by velarisdusk (AO3) 🔥 (Free space - Dollification)

Bucky Barnes

Aftercare by @thyme-in-a-bubble 🔥(Short and sweet)

Against the Rules by @ellemj 🔥 (Shameless smut)

Bed Chem by @tom-whore-dleston 🔥

Birds of a Feather by @jobean12-blog (Love confessions)

Butterflies by @wolvietxt

Corruption by @fanfictiongirlie 🔥 (Oral sex)

didn’t know if you’d care if i came back by @nickfowlerrr (cuddling)

Dirty Mind by @sergeantbarnessdoll 🔥 (Fingering)

Don’t Mess with My Girl by @ofstarsandvibranium

Eyes on Me by Sellitonceremony (AO3) (Fluff and smut)

Fangs and Spells by @vunblr 🔥 (Public/Semi-public sex)

Golden by @aquaticmercy (Couch cuddles)

Imagine... (‘this snowmaze seemed fun until I got lost’) by @drabblesandsnippets 🔥

Needs and Wants by @ellemj 🔥 (Sex Pollen)

Pillows on the Floor by @noonecareslol (Domestic fluff)

right where i need you by @nickfowlerrr 🔥 (Fluff and smut)

Kink: Somnophilia by @gremlin-girly

Bucky Barnes x Natasha Romanov

Oh, What You Do to Me by @missmorwen (Soulmates)

Cassian

Held in Silence by velarisdusk (AO3) 🔥

In the Firelight by velarisdusk (AO3) 🔥 (Size difference)

Plank You Very Much by @illyrianbitch

Sweet Surrender by velarisdusk (AO3) 🔥 (PWP)

The Weight of Expectation by velarisdusk (AO3) 🔥 (Dom/Sub)

Clark Kent

Wait a Minute, Are You Jealous by @hederasgarden

Eris Vanserra

Strings of Devotion by velarisdusk (AO3) 🔥(Pet Play)

Loki

Liberties by @lokisgoodgirl 🔥 (Sex magic)

When the Ball Drops by @mochie85 (First kiss)

Poly/Multiple Partners

Being mated to ... with Azriel, Eris & Lucien by @fieldofdaisiies 🔥

birthday girl by strawberrybrat (AO3) 🔥 (Bat Boys/Feyre) (Double Penetration)

First Night by @buckets-and-trees (Stucky x Reader) (Romantic fluff)

Shadows and Steam by Abyssqueen (AO3) 🔥 (Bat Boys x Feyre)

When the Stars Bear Witness by velarisdusk (AO3) 🔥 (Bat Boys x Feyre) (Threesome)

Sergei Kravinoff

for all that he’s rough, you're soft. By @dearhargrove (Sleepy cuddles)

In the Hunter's Arms by @moonlight-joy

Kraven's Temptation by @omgkatherine01 🔥 (Rough Sex)

Steve Rogers

Steve & Photographer Reader by @imyourbratzdoll 🔥 (Daddy kink)

[feedthefandomfest]

CONGRATS, @mrs-elsie-barnes!! Those stats are amazing. Very jealous of your January. Please accept this badge to commemorate your victory.

WELL DONE ❤️‍🔥

[baggnshield]

peak philosophy in ao3 tags

[saggitary]

There is no greater bond than the one between a person and the fictional character they’ve written 50k+ words about

[wisegirl25]

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

[gabrielislovegabrielislife]

Me checking on one of my beloved ao3 fics that hasn't been updated since 2017

[ao3screenshots]

that's what fanfic is about I'm pretty sure?