I decided to do it. My organizational game is strong and I've been meaning to do this once my fics started to number in the dozens, so I made an Inuyasha Master List. It contains all the Inuyasha fics I’ve written, with titles, ships, and summaries. (Plus links to all the spectacular art on display in it!)
Neutron’s Master Fic List
I will try to keep this as updated as I can. If you’ve just found me and want to know what there is to enjoy, click in and feel free to take a journey through my warped and twisted Inuyasha brain!
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
7:45pm — Get a spam bot comment on a story. (And fuck you spambot for feeding my human written words into the slop machine, but I digress.)
7:48pm — Report the offending comment and commenter as spam. Takes no time at all.
9:30pm — AO3 has already gotten back to me, determined that they are a spam bot, and banned them.
THIS is why I will keep writing fanfic (even at a slow slow pace) and donating to this site, because there are a lot of humans who really care about the AO3 environment and work fast to keep it community driven and human led.
I keep going back and forth about whether to lock down fics on AO3 only to registered users or not. Locking them down feels like locking a door right next to an open window. None of these companies respect the resounding No, not when "moving fast and breaking things" makes the stock valuation go up.
And I like the idea that if someone clicks a link to one of my stories, they can access it without having to sign in.
So I just spent an absurd amount of time adding a "do not use this to train AI" on all my works. Is that going to stop the tech bros from slurping it up to burp up more slop? No. I'm realistic. But I want anyone who is tempted to know that they are doing it explicitly against my consent, so if they tell me they've done it, I'm entirely justified in throwing a punch.
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I saw someone on Bluesky say that their tinfoil hat theory on all these hatebots is to that they are trying to salt the earth.
AO3 is anti-capitalist. It's where people go to share their creativity and labor and love for free.
It's proof that the enshittification of social media platforms is not inevitable, it's programmed by greedy capitalists who would sell their own mothers if it would make shareholder value go up. Making bots to drive people to stop helps suffocate this special place.
bigots can now reblog your selfie or personal post, mock it, and block you, and if you don't see it the second it happens, it can spread to thousands of their ilk with literally no possible way for you to know, unless you happen to be on one of their blogs and come across it. are you comfortable with this? i know i'm not.
You guys really need to see what TikTok is doing with their new privacy policy today. ByteDance closed a deal on selling to the United States recently and then immediately posted this abhorrently violating document that made our entire household delete our accounts immediately, and I suggest you do the same. They force you to agree to it when you open the app, and many of you most likely did this without reading through it:
Last updated: Aug 19, 2024This Privacy Policy applies to TikTok services (the “Platform”), which include TikTok apps, websites, software and
And in case you feel overwhelmed by this document, I have provided a summary on what this means for you. I read the whole thing and listed everything they can do with your information in list format for people who TL;DR or felt like the legal jargon was too confusing:
TikTok Privacy Policy Breakdown Written by K.R. Locke | Jan 22 2026 TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy states that the company collects far more t
Please, for the love of god, read this. This isn't about "user data" or politics. They are selling your home address, immigration status, mental health conditions, and personal identifiers to your service providers and government authorities.
They are collecting your keystrokes and building inference files on you.
Conducting an unofficial un-sciencey poll, but I wanted to know something. Which character point of view do you prefer, and does it depend on whether it's fanfic or original?
What is your favorite POV?
1st person (fandom) and 1st person (original)
1st person (fandom) and 3rd person (original)
3rd person (fandom) and 1st person (original)
3rd person (fandom) and 3rd person (original)
Where's the option for 2nd person (my favorite?)
I like them about the same in both fandom and originals
Conducting an unofficial un-sciencey poll, but I wanted to know something. Which character point of view do you prefer, and does it depend on whether it's fanfic or original?
What is your favorite POV?
1st person (fandom) and 1st person (original)
1st person (fandom) and 3rd person (original)
3rd person (fandom) and 1st person (original)
3rd person (fandom) and 3rd person (original)
Where's the option for 2nd person (my favorite?)
I like them about the same in both fandom and originals
Conducting an unofficial un-sciencey poll, but I wanted to know something. Which character point of view do you prefer, and does it depend on whether it's fanfic or original?
What is your favorite POV?
1st person (fandom) and 1st person (original)
1st person (fandom) and 3rd person (original)
3rd person (fandom) and 1st person (original)
3rd person (fandom) and 3rd person (original)
Where's the option for 2nd person (my favorite?)
I like them about the same in both fandom and originals
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
There's a reason that we are seeing so many ship-specific stories turning original, why authors who openly and outwardly started in fanfiction are becoming household names. Because writing good fanfiction exercises many of the same muscles that writing good stories exercises.
