A Fanfic Blog

[picascribit]

There are 2 types of fanfic:

fanfic that I like

fanfic that is none of my business

[nuffnotsaid]

World's most dysfunctional polycule

[haruki-stars]

them

[dvandom]

(For those not familiar with it, the middle logo is for DownDetector.)

[galactic-archives]

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

DogDay wakes up and encounters some familiar and unfamiliar faces.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

PSA

I just learned today that there is a new type of bot comments on ao3 who try to trick you into deleting your works from your computer/drafts/files. not from your ao3 account. from the folders on your device that you use to write and save your writings.

they will come up with some bullshit, the usual, and tell you you need to follow the instructions they give you in their comment if you want your ao3 account to be safe (or some other bullshit they come up with, with the goal to scare you into believing them and doing what they tell you to do). if you fall for their lie, if you do what their comment tells you to do, boom, everything you've written and saved in your folders is gone. there's no getting them back. ALL OF YOUR WIPS, DRAFTS, EVERYTHING THAT IS SAVED ON YOUR DEVICE WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED.

>>> HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THEIR COMMENT LOOKS LIKE.

DO NOT FALL FOR THEM. DO NOT DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU TO DO. REPORT THEIR COMMENT FOR SPAM.

>>> MORE ABOUT BOTS AND SCAM ON AO3'S COMMENTS SECTION HERE

[brainstreams]

I do my best editing after I hit publish.

[galactic-archives]

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

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Poppy Playtime (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: DogDay & The Player (Poppy Playtime), CatNap & DogDay (Poppy Playtime), DogDay & Smiling Critters (Poppy Playtime) Characters: DogDay (Poppy Playtime), The Player (Poppy Playtime), CatNap (Poppy Playtime), Poppy (Poppy Playtime), Kissy Missy (Poppy Playtime), Ollie (Poppy Playtime) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst, Sweet DogDay (Poppy Playtime), Chapter 03: Deep Sleep (Poppy Playtime), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Chapter specific warnings will be added in the notes if needed, Cartoon DogDay's gonna go through it, that's just how it's going to be, I will probably add more tags once I think of them, Blood and Injury, Non-Consensual Drug Use, because of CatNap's red smoke Series: Part 1 of Planetary Systems Summary:

"A binary star or binary star system is a system of two [suns] that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other."

—Wikipedia ______________

DogDay never expected a fun day with his friends to suddenly end with him waking up in an unfamiliar, run-down factory, with no clear ideas on how he could've gotten there in the first place.

He also didn't expect to run into a CatNap that was so different from the one he knew.

Accompanied by a human named Angel, he will have to journey through a place called Playcare, get past the ones who dwell there, uncover the factory’s dark secrets in order to help those who need it, and hopefully, eventually, find a way back home.

AKA: Poppy Playtime except SC!DogDay is also there now, and as a result, some things change while other things remain the same.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

Your comments mean something even when the author never replies.

Sometimes your comments mean something especially when the author never replies.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

exactly this

[nondelphic]

writing isn’t hard. i just have to extract 80,000 words from my brain using sheer psychic force

[galactic-archives]

Might be silly and post a Poppy Playtime Smiling Critters fanfic at some point.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

PSA: new type of bots plaguing AO3’s comments section.

as obvious as it is that these are all bots/scam, I believe there are still people who believe they are legit and fall victims to these trolls. so if you get a comment like these, don’t panic, don’t delete your works. they are all bots. you’re fine.

MORE ABOUT SCAMS ON AO3

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[galactic-archives]

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

What goes up must come down, but returning up after hitting rock bottom isn't as set in stone.

[holmesandtheroman]

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

[roboticnebula]

Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO

[taraljc]

oh fuck too real

[elodieunderglass]

I finished the thing?!

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

[ao3statss]

There are currently 414,472 fics without a single kudos.

2,948,374 under 10 kudos

If anyone was wondering.

[shaiiloo]

I keep seeing the take that authors on AO3 need to stop deleting their fics and instead to orphan them without any explanation of the consequences of orphaning a fic and as an author I really need to say something to this.

Stop telling people to just orphan their fics.

Orphaning a fic means giving up any and all ownership over it. No way to claim it back, edit it or delete it. Yes it's an archive but an author should still have the right to delete their work if they feel like they don't want it to be up anymore.

Readers always scream for authors to orphan their fics instead of deleting because they feel like they have a right to the fanworks that is shared with them for free. If it's so important to you to not lose a fic, download it. Also comment and encourage the authors, instead of telling them to give up all ownership to their work.

To authors, if you think about deleting your fics, there are other options you should employ first. If you don't want it connected to your name, put it into an anonymous collection. As long as it's in there, noone can see you wrote it, you still can edit ot or delete it and moderate comments on it. You can even move it to anther account, just create another one, add it as co author and then take your main account off. Then you can still edit it from your second account but it's no longer connected to your account.

If you don't want it to show anymore put it in a unrevealed collection, that way, the fic won't show up but it's still there, you can still see it, read comments and make it public again.

If you feel the urge to delete your fic, try one of these options first and see how you feel about it after a while, you can still delete or orphan afterwards, but this hopefully makes your decision easier.

Only orphan a fic if you're 100% sure. This is permanent, there is no way back from that, AO3 support will NOT help you if you did it on accident or change your mind. Don't listen to people telling you to just orphan it, make very sure, this is what you want.

[the-bar-sinister]

So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3's policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3's "no monetization/solicitation" rules were "bullshit" because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.

Look at me.

Look at me right now.

AO3 protects you.

AO3 protects you and your works. 

It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.

It protects your work from advertisers.

It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.

It protects your right to post adult content.

AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.

Please respect AO3 and its mission.