Fanfiction IS A Genre

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[lostinfantasies38]

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

I'm not sure who is already following this story and who isn't, so I thought I would spread the word for anyone interested. To those on this site who already are following this on AO3, let me say THANK YOU.

"Inevitable" has almost 20,000 hits, 1,000+ kudos, and over 800 subscriptions. It is my most popular story EVER. From any fandom.

I am humbled by everyone's hunger for my self-indulgent baby. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for every kudo, subscription, re-read, and comment. They keep me going!

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: N/A

Category: M/M

Fandom: Harry Potter

Relationship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Characters: Everyone is here

Additional Tags: Romance, Not A Slow Burn, It's A Flash Fire, Character Bashing, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin Rivalry, Good Slytherins, Slytherin Harry Potter, Soft Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter), Muggle-born Culture, 90's Music, Childhood Friends, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Supportive Slytherins, Gryffindors Being Asshats, Except the twins, They're cool, Probably OOC but I Don't Care, Self-Indulgent, Unexpected Relationships, Severus Snape Has a Heart, Protective Draco Malfoy, Morally Grey Harry Potter, Morally Grey Draco Malfoy, So many tropes

Summary: Harry's name is spat from the Goblet of Fire, turning his excitement for the Tri-Wizard Tournament into a nightmare. The Champions believe he cheated, Dumbledore is less than helpful, and his friends have abandoned him. Resigned to his fate as a pariah, Harry is about to receive an offer of support from a most unlikely source. Of course, this leads to a domino effect, revealing things Harry and his new friends could never have imagined, changing the course of the war and his life forever.

[doctoralhashimi]

"I need a fic about this!"

but have you commented on an existing fic today? have you left guest kudos today on that fic you've already kudos-ed before but can't stop coming back to? have you shared a writer's post today?

have you supported your writers today such that they feel encouraged enough to write the fic you are asking for tomorrow?

[meatdiaz]

what they don’t tell you about online relationships is how easy it is to ruin them by simply having nothing to say. i like you so much but i don’t know how to hang out with you in silence. i don’t know how to text like a person so now you think i hate you. aaaaaaaaa

[saywhat-politics]

Trump proposes genocidal national ban on transgender existence if he wins 2024

On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump released an anti-transgender tirade of a speech on his social media website Truth Social, outlining a genoc

On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump released an anti-transgender tirade of a speech on his social media website Truth Social, outlining a genocidal plan against all transgender existence in the United States. Everyone on the right from mainstream Republicans to hardcore neo-Nazis are celebrating the video while Democrats and legacy news media outlets have so far largely ignored it. “So this is what we are up against,” tweeted legislative researcher and pro-transgender activist Erin Reed. She continues, “a national transgender ban in 2024. This is what they are planning. DeSantis is practicing this through executive actions in Florida. Trump is openly saying he will do the same.” This is unambiguously genocidal territory. Holocaust museums have warned that this rising anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric mirrors the hate that led up to the rise of Nazi Germany.

[contemplatingoutlander]

Here are the proposals outlined in Trump’s genocidal three and a half minute rant:

Pass a bill that falsely claims there are only two genders, male and female

Reverse legislation for life-saving gender affirming healthcare

Ban all education of transgender and non-binary issues in schools nationwide

Ban transitioning for youth nationwide

Sign an executive order to end programs for gender transitioning for all ages nationwide

Criminalize and hunt doctors and educators who try to save transgender and non-binary lives

[roskvawinther]

i think republicans should be killed actually

[malfoyiss-deactivated20180702]

top 5 people draco is in love with

• harry potter

• the golden boy

• the boy who lived

• saint potter

• the chosen one

[liberalsarecool]

Look at the 2000 years of Christianity. When have they not oppressed or looked to oppress?

Inquisition. Missionaries. Dark Ages. Crusades. Monarchies. Colonialism. Imperialism.

[slipping-into-madness]

[knight-watch]

reading/writing fanfiction about your otp be like:

[beebox-illustrations]

Who do you think did a better job? (There is of course just one right answer 😂)

Heyyy! So I finally finished the ‘draw drarry bad’ challenge. Thanks for the nudge @lilbeanz 💚 - if you have not yet seen her comic, go and read it! it’s hilarious

Have a nice week lovelies 💚🥰

[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.

[winterandwords]

I'm not sure I can express this sentiment strongly enough, but I'm going to try via the medium of large bolded text.

Write what the fuck you want.

Write what makes you happy. Write what makes your soul sing. Write what fucks you up and makes you cry. Write what comforts you. Write what distracts you. Write what you want to read. Write what you want to watch.

Write what you want to dream about tonight.

Write what you can't get enough of. Write what you're completely obsessed with. Write what wakes you up at 4am and drags you out of bed because you can't stop thinking about what your characters are going to do next.

Write what turns you on, if that's your vibe. Write characters you're in love with and characters who inspire you and characters you want to be friends with and characters you fucking hate but oh my god they're so much fun.

Write about things you would sell your soul to do in real life and things you would never do in real life. Write about things that are happening right now and things that happened a thousand years ago and things that might happen in the future and things you wish could happen.

Write to get a publishing deal or to sell your books yourself or not to sell your books at all. Write for your friends or for strangers or for the people who reblog your posts on Tumblr and send you songs that remind them of your characters.

Write for yourself.

Fuck any system that tells you there's only one right way to create or one valid way to share your writing. Your story, the way you tell it, has so much value. Make people smile or piss people off or do both of those things because art is divisive and fascinating and beautiful.

Start writing. Keep writing. And write what the fuck you want.

[mysharona1987]

[ellesivy-deactivated20221225]

“You have already left kudos here :)” not on this chapter bitch move over

[gender-luster]

reblog to give the person you reblogged this from the motivation to finish a wip

[ao3commentoftheday]

give yourself the gift of reading your own fic. it was literally written just for you.

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Hey here's a reminder that you're allowed to publish unfinished fics and snippets of fics that you're never going to continue and you're allowed to abandon WIPs and you're allowed to orphan unfinished fics and ficlet collections and you never have to finish a single fic if you don't want to.

And there will always be someone who reads that unfinished work and is happy with it and feels glad that they read it even if it's never continued.

[lalaurelia]

Was so baffled at people claiming there’s only porn on AO3, so did a quick stats search. 

This is how the ratings look at the moment of counting, over the total 9,3M works on the archive (9 380 645 to be exact, atm)

Explicit: 1 551 860 (16,54%)

Mature: 1 409 093 (15,02%)

Teen and up: 2 834 938 (30,22%)

General: 2 651 772 (28,27%)

Not rated: 932 982 (9,95%)

Even combined, Explicit and Mature works barely overtake the total percentage of T-rated ones. That’s the overall stats on AO3, but fandom to fandom the landscape would differ greatly, of course.

The Underage tag, which is used to justify the witch hunts against the archive as a whole, returns only 222 748 works (2,37%).

EDIT: Look at the follow-up to see the ratio of Explicit and Mature works that contain sexual themes.