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The absolute delusion of writing a fic that is 95% done and then deciding to change a major plot point. Telling myself I would only really have to change like 4 scenes. It won’t be that much work…

#heated rivalry fanfiction #fic writing #don’t save me #i deserve this #it’s the only way I’ll learn

perotovar

We're more like... a square peg in a round hole. Ew, no. Sorry. Forget I said that. The thing is, I... I kinda prefer being the hole... rather than the peg.

shane hollander appreciation week: day one favorite moment: shane being very scared, but also very brave ♥

HEATED RIVALRY (2025-) 1.05 "I'll Believe in Anything"

#this dialogue worked so much better in the show than in the book #humbling how the moving picture can sometimes convey things the written word never could #shane hollander #rose landry #heated rivalry

hudconov

hungry

#what was this moment narratively?#like was he staking a claim over Hayden who he is a bit jealous of?#is it just part of their competition kink like I bet I can blow you so well you won’t be able to stay quiet?#was he playfully punishing shane for eating some of their precious time together?#was he having a moment where subconsciously he felt like being bad and sexually playful is all I have to offer to this relationship?#and then Shane immediately after telling him that it’s more than that was Shane being really perceptive?#all of the above and it works on multiple levels?#and where is the line? would Shane have found it as hot if Yuna had been on the phone? his agent? his coach? the press?#probably the answer is just rr needed a variety of sex scenes for a romance novel and this checked a box #also I just hate Shane right after saying maybe their relationship started as wanting to be bad but that’s not what it is now #it just isn’t true #of course Ilya is in some ways a personification of Shane’s badness #those are literally their characters if you will in the rivalry #and Shane finds freedom and self actualization from embracing his badness through Ilya #don’t try to make it more trite narrative #ok I’m a little unhinged this morning g2g

blackheartbiohazards

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy.

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

#I had an anon ask me to tag better and I had misgivings bc of not wanting to be forced to share spoilers but did do it #and ironically it happened right before the fic blew up a bit and I do think it protected me a little #people on threads were calling the fix toxic and literally crashing out about how it activated their trauma from past situationships #but anyone who had negative things to say about the content always added but it was my fault for reading bc it was in the tags #or with any rec they’d be like def not everyone’s cup of tea mind the tags #and please know my fic is no a dead dove do not eat kinda narrative #there is angst and a lot of yearning #largely everything hinges on a miscommunication that gets completed worked out in the end #I’ve even had people in the comments or the fic be like can you answer me if this is HEA bc I don’t want to read anymore if not #and me like I’m supposed to give away my ending in the tags?? not to mention I tagged it as romcom so isn’t the HEA implied?#not to mention the dozens and dozens of comments asking me to write a fluffy epilogue bc they deserve it after what I put them through #bratty fucking bottoms #anyway I have now muted my own pen name so I can’t see this shit #just a little vent session #mostly I have actually loved sharing my first ever multi chapter fic #but I do wish many of the folks newer to fandom spaces would spend some time learning norms like these #and not denigrating work (not just mine) that isn’t pure fluff and good communication

theburialofstrawberries

CLEAN SWEEP | rated E, 28k, shilya

Shane’s brain cycled rapidly through a half-dozen celebrities, porn actors, Grindr profiles, every attractive bartender who’d ever served him a beer, trying to find a comparison for this level of outrageously concentrated beauty in one person, but he was drawing a blank. The man—Ilya Rozanov, Facilities Attendant, his badge read—gestured around the supply closet. “I help you find something?” -- Canon-divergent AU set during the 2017-18 MLH season. Shane Hollander doesn’t have a single Cup to his name when he meets a very hot and very annoying janitor who works at the Metros stadium.

read here! with all my thanks to @nondeducible, @sexcromancy, @tackytigerfic and @thomasmomwell <3

#such a heart forward story #with laugh out loud funny dialogue #great balm for the woes of fandom right now #fic rec #heated rivalry fanfic

I am chewing on a crazy and likely controversial thought. I do not like the idea that some fic is written by AI. I do wish folks would just tag it so I personally could filter it out. I have limited free time and would rather engage with art and writing that was done by a person that I can be in community with. Caveat over lol.

But being a threads lurker (gotta freaking stop that) I can see quite clearly that some people do not care. They are asking for downloaded epubs of some of the fics on that list that authors have since deleted (and I’m talking the ones that had hundreds of instances of AI code, not just a couple) and saying things like well this is the only story that ever made me cry so I don’t care.

What if we could somehow create a different word, a different taxonomy for people who use AI to write fics. They’re not exactly authors in the same way as someone who is independently typing out a story. But maybe there is skill in crafting just the right prompt for the LLM. Maybe there is skill in editing and sewing together multiple outputs into one cohesive story. So maybe they are more akin to betas. Tech betas who take the raw slightly unhinged ramblings of a machine and make it into something more human, often hitting more popular and romantic tropes. Maybe we acknowledge there is skill in it and that some people love what this process creates. And then it can be morally neutral and just a different thing. That gets tagged appropriately as that different thing.

Maybe if it’s acknowledged as work even by some of us who are kind of offended by this process, it lessens the need for deception. Still leaves room for them to get their adoration from community. And encourages a more plain stating of people’s process.

#idk #is this anything?#I was just thinking about why some of the fics have hundreds of instances of AI code #meaning they didn’t just wholesale copy and paste one prompted story into ao3 #and how maybe that implies this took time #and maybe some of these folks defensively feel like they did work for their accolades because that process took time #even while I would still argue it’s a really different kind of work from what I as a human did to write out a multi chapter story #i don’t want to go too easy on folks #but I fear there’s no way to turn back the clock on AI #apparently it’s already infiltrated fandom without me personally realizing quite how pervasively #but maybe there is still an ability to constrain and create the parameters in which it exists in fandom?#writing #fanfic writing #heated rivalry fanfic

lavenderprose

I like to imagine that, partially due to the Hockey Robot stereotyping and partially due to his watertight media training, commentators are constantly going on about "What's going on in Hollander's head? What was Hollander thinking there? Can't help but wonder what the Metros' Captain has on his mind right now." and it's like. Well statistically speaking. Cock.

#ok this did make me literally lol #shane hollander #heated rivalry

totallyboatless

I think it’s important to acknowledge the ways Yuna and David fucked up, and also that they operate trying their best for the son they sincerely love and want to do right by

But i don’t think i will ever, ever be over that they didn’t know what to do when Shane was having a meltdown at the table and Ilya did

Ilya looks to them first, giving them the opportunity to act, assuming they will bc they (in theory) should know how to handle this better than him

But they don’t. Being gay isn’t the only thing Shane has masked from his parents and it makes me want to sit on the floor and cry

totallyboatless

@raan-miir-tah WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

#oh #oh!#sometimes love and good intentions isn’t enough #shane hollander #yuna hollander #david hollander #heated rivalry

toxicgaysource

KILLING EVE 1.08 | God, I'm Tired

#this went so hard #craziest love confession of all time #the goat #god I miss when this show was good #the show ended after season 2 for me #killing eve #eve x villanelle

inyourorbitx

write fic even if you think it's shitty. write fic you think no one else cares about and you just have an audience of one. write fic that is extremely self indulgent and packed to the brim with all the tropes you like and want to read. write fic for the love of the game, for that fic fest, or that one person who comments on every chapter or work. write fic to have fun, but for the love of god, don't write fic to achieve some metric, a weird nebulous idea of 'success'. people don't come to fandom to compete, they see it as a space for community and to gush over their favourite characters. using ai just deprives you of all of that joy, the rush of caring about something to the point where you put effort into it (even if it's staying up until 2 am) and produce a creative piece of work other people have the privilege of enjoying and sharing as well. don't let ai ruin fandom too, when it's already deprived us of so much.

#to me this would be the ultimate fuck you to the rampant AI use #if it inspires more people to just try it #the metrics are bullshit #the most popular shit has been revealed to be AI slip #so just put your stuff out there yeah?#writing #my fic writing

postarcadian

truly the idea of "this scene is (un-)necessary to the story" is such a fundamentally uncurious and anti-art way of engaging with fiction. the story itself is unnecessary, in the sense that all art is unnecessary, because art is not a fucking optimization problem. that's the beauty of it

#art is not a fucking optimization problem #wow yes this #sometimes I get very obsessed with tightening my narrative #or making every word serve a purpose #bc actually I don’t know what I’m doing when I’m writing #and this is such a lovely anti-capitalist talking back to that #writing #my fic writing

thisfeebleheart

Let me show you how to do this good.

#third gif #I cannot believe they held hands during this #like that is insane work #first time bj and we are holding hands???#throwing up #passing out #Hollanov #heated rivalry

hollanovhateai

ohhh man. apparently when you copy+paste stuff directly from claude into ao3 it includes code. which anyone can find. people have found it in big, popular fics in multiple fandoms 😬. also heated rivalry; some of which the authors fervently denied using AI. link to thread.

link to their complete findings for those without twitter

#hmm #idk enough about coding to understand how conclusive this really is #it’s bold to name names and I’m not sure how I feel about that #bc despite what others of this paper explicitly warn against I do think these writers will get villanized #but I really don’t want to read shit created by AI #I want the sloppy shit you write when a story is living with you and eating your brain for weeks and it’s painful to try to get it out #but also equally kind of painful not to write it #Idk for me it was really vulnerable to share fic with the world for the first time #and I worked hard on that shit #I typed some of it on my phone while I fed a newborn #and it feels unfair I guess to have this thing I vomited out that is more me than I care to admit in the world #getting read and loved but also yeah criticized and imho misunderstood at times #and these folks are just opting out of that without telling anyone #idk it’s a new frontier and I’m an elder millennial so maybe I am missing some nuance #but the lack of disclosure sucks and is a little hurtful #heated rivalry fanfic

So many bigger fish to fry when it comes to criticizing The Long Game but remember when Shane proposed and then at some game later on Ilya was like oh you have a chain too? And Shane was like yeah and a ring.

So Shane had to buy himself an engagement ring?? In a romance novel?

#I’m not even into romanticizing marriage like that #but Ilya couldn’t get his man his own ring #Jacob please change it #tlg spoilers

young-waverer

HUDSON WILLIAMS for WONDERLAND

#i di not know this man’s actually sexual practices #important parasocial caveat #but this is bottom behavior #bottom posing #I am just observing #without commentary #hudson williams

ticklefighthockey

it’s so sad to me that there’s no geno to shane’s sid. imagine if hayden was russian and alternately was ilya’s best friend and hated his guts. and squirted gatorade in his mouth like he was feeding a baby bird. and ilya punched hayden’s manager in the face in a club in russia. they’re screaming in russian at each other on the bench and then going out getting plastered and singing russian drinking songs together in public. hayden finds out about shane and ilya and is horrified that his best friend has such low standards that he settled for his on-again off-again frenemy. they love each other and they hate each other and they’re kicking each other’s asses. ilya holds hayden as he cries at the olympics. (also, can’t believe they had ilya winning so many cups! as a caps fan, the narrative of ovi as a guy who can’t win compared to sid’s three cups, the emotional weight it carried when he finally did, all of that meant so much more than just winning a bunch of cups effortlessly would have <- she said, copingly) and then hayden plays on a charity team in russia that ilya made called rozycup or something like that. all those things happened btw to any hr fans out there (obviously aside from discovering any secret relationships). they all really happened in the most dramatic, toxic, over-the-top, hot-and-cold relationship there ever was. and it was beautiful…

IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. GENO/OVI BEST FRENEMYSHIP MY BELOVED… talk about a situationship but the situation is just drama queen 4 guy who loves to bait a drama queen

#lmfao #what??#me trying to make my fics even slightly realistic but this is real life hockey #is it possible Rachel Reid is actually a master of understated subtle narrative #god bless the people in this fandom who drop this hockey lore #almost enough to tempt me to care about a sport #the horror #heated rivalry

blond-shell

HEATED RIVALRY Episode 1x01: "Rookies"

#what I’m desperate to know is #was this the plan all along #when he floated them the idea of doing the commercial together #was he like I’ll just play it by ear see where my in is #did he have a different more sane plan but then #was he just taken by the spirit when he saw Shane’s boner #like obviously it panned out but this wqs so risky #hollanov #heated rivalry

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