The Lost Sister

30+.she/her ~ El, Joyce, Nancy, Kali, Max, and Robin are my favorite ~ honestly I stopped enjoying the show after season 2 but I keep this blog up for the memories and to appreciate the cast my ao3 my fic

[peenor]

BOYCOTT STRANGER THINGS SEASON 5 I am NOT joking.

[kirisakin]

There's also like, an insane amount of hypocrisy here. Because this isn't the first time Stranger Things has been under fire or boycotted. You wanna know what happened in Season 4?

THEY TAPED IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP AND TRIED TO TURN IT INTO A THEMED AIRBNB.

So it looks like antisemitism is fine to ignore when you're doing it for your show, but you'll go out of your way to call people neo-nazis for condemning the executions of innocent Palestinians.

[robin-buckely]

NATALIA DYER

Nancy’s wig test for season 4. With this wig we really went for natural movement and volume🖤 for the iconic Nancy Wheeler — Sarah Hindsgaul via TikTok

[nick-nellson]

Heathers (1988) dir. Michael Lehmann

[nancykali]

“Some boys take a beautiful girl And hide her away from the rest of the world I want to be the one to walk in the sun Oh girls, they wanna have fun”

kalancy (kali prasad + nancy wheeler) 80s sapphic moodboard

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[nancykali]

“Baby, I just dyed my hair To make me feel like I don’t care It’ll be my war paint ‘Cause Lord knows I need strength, I need strength”

Kalancy (Kali + Nancy) bisexual pride moodboard

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[nancykali]

“I can see you’re real smart World class piece of art I can see you in the dark All we have to do is start”

Kalancy (Kali + Nancy) cyberpunk au

[purgeshubble-deactivated]

moodboard: nancy x kali

[nero-neptune]

kali prasad, you will Always be famous

[nataliesmisty]

[the-pen-pot]

Four of these "get you to a secondary location to listen to ideas" types in the last two days. How.... Wonderful.

[the-pen-pot]

So for those who aren't aware, this is a scam going around on AO3 where people are attempting to build a rapport so you will commission "art" from them. They can't do that in the comments because it's against the ToS, so they try to get you to go somewhere else.

There's a fairly good chance it's also a bot talking not a person. Some are more clever than others though, so who knows.

The interaction often starts off as either a question or a concern to encourage a reply. E.g. hope you update soon etc. They may mention relevant character names. They often try and build a rapport before trying to get you somewhere else.

In a climate of declining fandom interaction, this is obviously sucky for writers who are hungry for feedback and community. Just be careful, and don't purchase a fic commission unless you know the artist well, because in cases like this what you will probably get is AI slop, if you get anything at all once you've paid.

[the-reading-lemon]

For anyone who is relatively new to fandom, here is a brief crash course around fanart culture as it used to be and still should be:

Scenario 1:

A fan artist reads a fanfic, feels inspired and either asks the writer if it's okay to make art for it or, much more commonly, simply makes art, posts it publicly and TAGS THE WRITER and adds a link to the fic with a comment saying something along the lines of 'This story inspired me to make this art'. No money is involved. The author usually loves the artist and art to pieces and feels incredibly flattered. There is no higher compliment than your own art inspiring someone else's.

Scenario 2:

The fic writer has a specific scene in mind they would like to see art of and has a fan artist whose style they like. They approach the artist about doing a commission. Money may be exchanged if the artist takes paid commissions. Some artists may decide to do it for free, but that's their choice. The artist may also refuse if they currently or in general do not take commissions, so the author may either have to wait until commissions are open or find another artist.

That's it.

Those are the two ways this works.

Artists don't usually approach writers asking them to commission art. That's not how fandom culture works. A fan artist may advertise their work in general and announce that commissions are open, they may even tag people who expressed an interest in the past, but they don't approach individual people in the comments of their fics to trick them into paying for fanart. Anyone who does is either extremely new to fandom and copying from scammers because they think this is how it works, or they are a scammer.

Be safe out there.

[msilverstar]

It's not that this is new, it's that LLMs (AI) make it easy to spam lots of comments with personalized elements, so it seems like they actually read your fic. Disgusting.

[13personalities]

I need some people to understand that I will absolutely ship two characters who would absolutely never get together in canon simply because I want to. No I don’t think they’re canon nor will I look for subtext that they like each other. In fact, I don’t even want them to be canon. I just like the art and fanfiction man. Like their shippers low-key got something fire going on and I wanna be a part of that. It really isn’t that deep.

[lovesthe1980s]

Winona Ryder photographed by Herb Ritts.

[vivienvalentino]

[the-pen-pot]

This is your semi frequent reminder that there is no official AO3 app

All those are unofficial and available on the Google play store as of August 13th 2025. They mirror AO3's content and insert ads, for which the developer gets paid by page impression (that's every time the ad appears in the fic you're reading) not just clicks.

No money goes to AO3, nor to the fic writer. It goes to the person who did the bare minimum.

Many of these apps have poorly worded or non existent privacy policies, so they may also be mining as much data as possible and selling that on to unknown third parties.

Please, just use the official AO3 site and the browser.

[rooksunday]

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

[noodle-the-queen]

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

[kyrt4t]

moodboard: nancy x kali