My characters and fanfics

My AO3: Inner_Devil 

[inner-devil-on-ao3]

Animal Hybrid Mormor Prompts

Sebastian Moran, a 23 year old tiger hybrid who looked more tiger than man, had convinced everyone he’d ever met that he was just a tiger. Nothing more, nothing less. He knew what horrible things people did to hybrids and he wouldn’t be put through that if he could avoid it. He was silent except for the occasional growl. That is, until the day he’d been sleeping peacefully in his corner and Jim Moriarty had stepped on his tail. “Fuck!” he growled, bolting upright and glaring at Jim. “That hurt!” His eyes widened and his mouth clamped shut as he realized he’d spoken. (Replies don’t have to be this long!)

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Ever call me a kitty cat again and I won’t hesitate to claw you. SM (tiger hybrid)

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I may or may not have clawed the sofa. JM (cat hybrid)

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MPREG IN THIS PROMPT

Sebastian (23) snarled as he was thrown back into his cage. The blonde man had been found out as a tiger hybrid when he was just sixteen years old and dragged into Baskerville for experimentation. He'd lived the rest of his life in a cage as the employees there tried to turn him into the perfect weapon. Once they succeeded in making him furious enough to be a fighting machine and lean and powerful enough to kill anyone and anything on sight, they wanted more of him. They had discovered during a series of experiments that he was capable of bearing children as well, so he was injected with sperm from another hybrid in Baskerville and forced to breed. Now he was seven months pregnant with a litter of hybrid cubs and they were still experimenting on him to try developing the perfect pet and soldier all in one. He hated them all and had attacked his last "trainer". So they were bringing in a new one today and Sebastian already hated him. [Responses don’t have to be this long!]

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Sebastian (dog hybrid) sat in his cage with a wire door at the pound. He'd been returned more times than he could count. No one wanted the scarred, violent dog. He was brought in originally from the dog fighting ring, but had since been returned for multiple different reasons. Mostly for his violent behaviours. He rarely liked people anyway, so they'd return him. He'd given up hope of being adopted now and sat with his back to the door of his pen. He didn't even notice when someone walked in.

[inner-devil-on-ao3]

Our New Pet

Description: You've only really heard of these men in whispers. A spider and his tiger, wreaking havoc all over the country. You never expected to actually have any dealings with them. After all, you're ordinary, especially compared to people like that. You've hardly done anything criminal, nothing truly awful anyway. Certainly nothing that should catch their attention. And yet you find yourself face to face with Moran and Moriarty, tied down and woozy from the drugs your kidnappers used. The question is, what do they want with you? And will you make it out alive?

Length: 1/1 chapters; 2,275 words

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[a-really-hot-caterpillar]

One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

[shadowerrata]

I don't remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, "if you're stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there". It's not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I've actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.

[theothin]

I recently resolved a point where I'd been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn't work into the current one

[mackthecheese]

HEY WRITER MUTUALS COME GET YOUR WRITER JUICE

[gg-selvish-deactivated20250602]

the worst thing that could possibly happen to ao3 is it being put on the app store so please stop asking for it because you don't understand what would happen if that went through. ao3's whole deal is it archives EVERYTHING, while the apple app store's whole deal is keeping everything clean and safe. so if ao3 were to have an app all of the 'bad' stuff, including nsfw in general, would have to be censored at best or would be purged at worse. the google play store is more lax but who fucking knows what GOOGLE would police if they got their hands on the archive. do not ask for an app. do not use third party apps. it's on mobile browser functioning perfectly, just fucking use that before you ruin everything for everyone please.

[ask-artsy-oncie]

Stop demanding that your entire fucking online experience exist through apps. Buckle down and figure out how to use your internet browser goddammit!!!

Your dependency on apps is exactly *why* the app store and google play have the power over social media that they do. The less people rely on them, the less platforms will have to focus on becoming sanitized in anticipation for some obligatory app release.

[frownyalfred]

hello. this is a PSA. ao3 is NOT releasing your browsing history, despite what you may have heard on tiktok.

if you’re signed into ao3, your history is viewable in the dashboard tab. it always has been, nothing is changing. please don’t believe everything you hear on tiktok.

no one is able to view your browsing history unless they are signed into your account.

[ceruleanmindpalace]

Worrying about AO3 releasing stuff is not an issue. Your phone or your chrome browser, though, they are what any sane user should be worried about. Or all the freaking apps you have running in the background while accessing AO3.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

I have come to you again for your fic finding wizardry.

A tattooed John finally shows Sherlock his last tattoo, it is UV ink and needs a blue light.

My conundrum is, it may not be a Johnlock, it may be a 00Q with a tattooed Q showing Bond his tats (Sorry)

Hey Lovely!

Ohhhhh. Hmm, a conundrum indeed! I know I have fans of both 'ships, so perhaps it will get found regardless, hahah. I would like to read it myself if it's Johnlock, hahah.

Anyone able to pin this one?

[inner-devil-on-ao3]

The Painted Man by jinglebell

It's a locked fic, so only logged in AO3 users can find it. One chapter, Johnlock, and there's smut

@inevitably-johnlocked

[fandomtrumpshate]

creator signups begin soon!

fanwork creators, it’s almost time! Starting February 6th, you’ll be able to sign up to offer fanworks in the 2023 auction. (see the full auction calendar here.)

We’re supporting some truly amazing nonprofits this year: you can see the full 2023 list here. We’ll be posting more detailed information about each of them in the coming week.

Now is a great time to:

start thinking about what kinds of fanworks you want to offer, and in which fandoms. FTH welcomes written fanworks, vids, various kind of art, and podfics – and we even have an “other” category for the truly uncategorizable digitally-delivered fanwork. (And if you’re interested in tangible fancrafts, you could take part in our semi-official crafts bazaar!)

spread the word to other creators in your fandom. The auction is just more fun if there are lots of people offering fanworks in your fandom! And you are the best person to get more of your fellow-fans involved: read more about that here!

(what is FTH?)

[musashigouda-deactivated2019032]

hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

[blooming-wilting]

You know it legally is a charity, right?

If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code … 

The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function. 

You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity. 

It needs what it gets to function and improve. 

[fangasmagorical]

kiena-tesedale replied to this post

They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)                    

In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.

AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.

Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.

It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.

JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.

It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.

But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?

Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.

Care to guess its budget?

Double that of AO3.

AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.

The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.

It’s absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.

[redvanillabee]

Can I also add that apart from running a legal team and the best online library around, they also run a free, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to fan studies called Transformative Works and Cultures.. They incorporate studies of fandoms from all around the world, and are able to follow very closely with fandom trends. Studies found in TWC are leagues better than those cringey ‘I heard about this fan-dom thing from my teenage niece’ essays. 

[superhumandisasters]

Just reblogging this to remind everyone that AO3 is fucking incredible and it has singularly transformed fandom.

[antisrterrible]

Antis trying to literally destroy any form of freedom & happiness in the world.

[salchat]

I’m so thankful for AO3. It makes such a difference to my quality of life, and the lives of millions of others. And, yes, it needs monetary contributions to continue doing its thing. But mostly… it runs on love.

[jbaillier]

Many readers don’t seem to realise that when they create an AO3 bookmark, their notes on said bookmark are visible to everyone. I keep finding bookmarks for my stories containing massive spoilers, including the big surprise revelations I have tried to build into certain stories. Kinda annoying since I know that readers use bookmarks before reading a fic to see what people have stated as the reasons for it being a recommended piece. I solely blame AO3; I have not seen it made clear anywhere that those notes are publicly visible.

[solarmama-plantsareneat]

Agreed.

Along with spoilers, occasionally someone will bookmark a fic to something like ‘Never read again’ and really lay out what they disliked about it. I had just one of that kind of bookmark on a fic I particularly loved writing and re-read often because it made me feel good, and now I can’t read it - my own story! - without being hyper-aware of the thing that one anonymous person was critical of. Perhaps other authors have thicker skins than I and can shrug that off; so far I haven’t.

So, folks: if you’re gonna put spoilers, or wax highly critical in a way you wouldn’t say directly to the author - make the bookmark private, hey? There’s a wee checkbox at the bottom of the create bookmark window that makes it easy-peasy.

[jbaillier]

Authors can’t hide or delete bookmarks, so this is a real problem.

[alyona11]

Those who understand understand.

[shadow-manor]

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

[faustandfurious]

oh god it’s that time of the year again, so here are some quick reminders:

The content allowed on AO3 is legal according to American law. This is a sensible place to draw the line when your explicitly stated aim is to have a fanfiction site where the content is not subjected to random purges for obscure reasons

AO3 is run by a non-profit organisation. Nobody is making any money out of this, and when the donation drive goal is exceeded, excess money will go to running the site in the future and fighting potential legal battles for the right to create fanworks

It’s possible to donate to AO3 and various charities etc, stop acting as though every cent donated to AO3 is a cent taken from “people who need it more”

“Fiction affects reality” yes but the fiction that actually has a societal impact is the latest heteronormative, subtly racist, mass marketed drivel from Disney, not that one properly tagged incest PWP fic with 150 hits and 40 kudos on AO3

[elfwreck]

The donation drive goal is kept deliberately as low as possible to keep things functioning, to avoid people panicking about “is AO3 going to collapse if they don’t make this goal?” Many types of improvements will take more than the base goal. There is no “excess” money.

To vote in the elections, you have to donate at least $10 for a voting membership. (Does not need to be during a donation drive.)

If you think some kinds of content “are actually illegal”… unless you are a US lawyer, your opinion is not wanted. Actual lawyers have reviewed the rules; it is their opinion that the stuff allowed at AO3 is legal.

You may think some content allowed at AO3 is “technically legal but horribly immoral, offensive, and disgusting”… and that’s fine. However, that will not be accepted as a reason to remove that content.

AO3’s code is open source. If you like the structure and hate the rules, you’re free to make a clone of the site for you and your friends.

(No, nobody is saying that’d be easy. But neither was creating AO3 in the first place. Sometimes if you want a place for YOUR content, you have to make that happen, not try to take over the place someone else has already made for theirs.)

[anexperimentallife]

[togglepop]

NSFW will be tagged as #lemon sorta NSFW is #Lime Weird fet shit/ extreme NSFW is #orange reblog to spread awareness that we’re back on the citrus scale

[kiruharukorohara]

Let’s get back to basics. Kinda funny we rename things like we’re outlaws that try to cover up there crimes!

[a-good-bean-deactivated20190802]

why have i never known about orange

[rainbowravioli]

Orange was originally like…a PG-13 warning. You would tag orange for fics that stopped at making out. What you’re thinking of is “Grapefruit”. The scale goes as such: Orange (PG-13, basically making out like I said) - Lime (Non-explicit sexual actions, think an M rated fic instead of NC-17) - Lemon (explicit, graphic sex, the NC-17 fics) - Grapefruit (hardcore/weird stuff)

[therealbucky05]

Reblogging for the citrus correction of orange and grapefruit

[beaubete]

It is so weird seeing people rediscover the fandom of my youth. I haven’t used the citrus scale since I last lied about being 18.

[kitayys-archive]

this is now reborn

[neil-gaiman]

This may sound mean, but...

If you send me an ask containing links to Good Omens fan fiction you think I should read, I'll delete it. Do it again and I'll (regretfully) block you. This is a general blanket sort of thing -- I don't want to read it, legally I can't read it, no I won't make it into the next series, and, no matter how pure your motives, it's crossing a line.

[shadowweaver06]

A reminder for the kiddies who are way too young to remember the Anne Rice days... and for the adults definitely old enough to know better but too dense to Get It Through Their Heads Without It Being Oft Repeated And Said With Profanity.

Do Not Send Authors/Artists/Etc Your Fanfics. Ever. It opens them *and you* up to loads of potential legal issues, and is just... weird.

It crosses lots of just weird personal and also LOADS of legal boundaries, and it is *not* something you should do. Even if the author in question (in this case, Neil) supports the right of fans to participate in creation of derivative fan works, that is not an invitation to send them to him. He legally cannot read them. Period.

Seriously, y'all, knock it the hell off.

Also - do y'all wanna revisit the Anne Rice days where fan-authors got cease and desist letters and threats of being sued? Because I'm old enough to remember those days and don't want to go back to worrying about that nightmare.

For a primer on that drama... here's some reading material:

A Deep Dive Into the Anne Rice Fanfiction Debacle

The more I dig, the worse it gets.

[snake-and-mouse]

To any fic writers who worry they are wasting their time... I read a fic for a relatively small and inactive fandom about three years ago. And there was one specific scene where a character watched another dancing like an idiot to a beyonce song and it was so sweet and loving that even now years later I have that song on one of my spotify playlist so every once in a while it will play and remind me of that fic, and every time it does I smile and feel a little happier.

The stats on a fic will never really tell you if your writing touched someone. There's no numerical way to show you what impact you made. Maybe you are wasting time, or maybe you are writing something that someone will remember for a long time, something that will never fail to make them smile.

[serves-up]

I think all content creators can relate to this.

In my opinion, I don’t think followers really understand how much your requests/likes/reblogs/etc. and random asks mean to me. It’s just so refreshing and nice to know that people enjoy what I’m doing and support me.

People that go the extra mile and send an ask or message letting me know they liked my stuff honestly makes my day. I love reading tags and stuff…it’s honestly so cute….

And people who ask about how I’m doing or send me random questions or cute asks….I just want you guys to know it honestly makes my day. I just love all the interaction and such. It makes running a blog so much more enjoyable.

And Fanart/Fanwork? Honestly that’s one of the greatest things to receive. To everyone that draws or writes, please don’t feel too insecure to send it end! No one is going to criticize you over quality. It’s so sweet that you even thought about making something…I will always appreciate it no matter what, and I’m sure all other content creators feel the same.

So, in conclusion, don’t be afraid to talk to your favorite blogs and show them some love, guys! We always appreciate it! ☺️

[abbabycchio]

So true💕🥰