hey babes your ao3 username was recently used by a spam bot btw 🫂 idk if it helps to tell you
Thanks for telling me! I think all I can really do is tell people it wasn't me and to ignore it/delete it. I haven't been active recently so I haven't noticed anything so thank you so much!
Is it like a guest account using my username?? That is my guess since I haven't gotten any strange emails regarding my actual account.
If you could tell me where it's happening, I would love to be able to notify those impacted that it isn't me!
Hello, I love your story More Than Anything on Ao3, I just have a question, will you be updating it soon? I've been wondering about what will happen in it for a while now and always look forward to your new updates. Hope you're well!
Hi!!
I'm not exactly sure on an ETA, and to be real, I try and not promise when an update will come just so I don't accidentally get hopes up. I have been working on the chapter but haven't finished it yet. Though, once I work on it again, I can probably get it done quickly.
I'll get it added to the update quickly list! I've been making my rounds of my works and trying to update all the ones that I can. It's just taking some time.
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I have! I love Rising of the Shield Hero. It's one of my favorites. Though, I need to catch back up on it. I've been sort of neglecting getting back to it.
5+1 Things is another classic fandom trope. It's a structured fanfiction format.
It usually goes like this: 5 times X happens and one time it doesn't or 5 times X doesn't happen but one time it does.
So in the fic you will have five different segments in which a similar situation occurs. And then you will have a twist in the last, the +1 segment. It's basically an emotional payoff or a reveal. Something has changed from all the other times before.
This can also involve different people in each segment that the main character is interacting with, but the +1 is finally the right person.
It also doesn't have to be strictly 5+1. You can also use only 3 or 4 or maybe 6 other times, as long as there is change in the end for the last one.
Here are some examples, plus my masterlist of 5 + 1 prompts:
5 times they fell asleep on the phone and one time they fell asleep in each other's arms.
5 times Person A has to save Person B and one time Person B returns the favor.
5 times Person A calls Person B by a pet name and one time Person B finds one for Person A.
best trope: "ugh I guess I'll tolerate you for the time being, but this is a conditional, tactical alliance, and the second I get what I want, we're parting ways" to "you are the only good in the world and I will protect you to my dying breath"
thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3
I wanted to try a challenge, but I didn't want to make one, since then it would be predictable to me about the things I write and do all the time, BUT! My lovely Discord Husband, @phoenixkaizen, loved me enough to take our shared Braincell and made me a set of prompts that I was allowed to write for my challenge! So thank youuuuuuu!
Welcome to the RadioApple Collection of an ABC's challenge! Everyone and anyone are welcomed!
It's on the to do list! I have been working on it off and on, just haven't reached the end of the chapter yet! Though, I can't make any promises on when it will be up, I can reassure that I have been working on it/it's on the list to do!
Sometimes knitting is making stitches and sometimes knitting is untangling yarn. They both move the project forward even though only one actually looks like progress.
Squicks are similar to disgust. But it differs from it in that a "squick" usually refers purely to the physical sensation of disgust and repulsion. It's more or less just the reaction of the body, not a morally judgment on something.
In regards to writing and reading it means that a specific topic is not something the writer or reader is feeling comfortable with.
Hi! I have a hopefully quick question! So obviously I know you have like a million stories to work on which I greatly appreciate cuz I love them all but I was wondering if you have a potential time period in which “What About Now?” Might be updated again? Obviously I appreciate any updates this one is just my favorite and if you don’t have a date that’s completely fine I was just wondering if you potentially did? Anyways, thanks for all the amazing stories you write! I’m so sorry if this comment comes off as impatient I really don’t mean it too! Your an amazing writer and I love your stories! Have a great rest of your day/night!
Hi!! Ahhh, thank you so much!! Honestly, no issues here with me with it being asked about.
I am going to be really honest and say I don't know a time frame. Mostly because my own mind can and will bounce around like a little ping pong ball in deciding what it wants to do. Though, once my focus is set, it could be within 24 hours or a few weeks xD
Really, all I need to do is go read up on the fic, refresh my mind and I can probably nyoom right into an update. Whenever I try and say a direct time frame, usually doesn't end in the way I say it. So, I just need to do a quick read through and I could probably have it up soon! I'll make sure it's on the list of things to do quickly!
Thank you so much!! I'm so incredibly happy that you are loving them. You have no idea how much your words mean to me. Thank you so much!
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