Prettyxrat

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[prettyxrat]

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

Summary:

Fred Weasley x Female Gryffindor oc

Word count- 64k

Friends to lovers, denial of feelings

Hurt x Comfort trope

Felicity Sinclair’s home life couldn’t be more different than her best friend’s, between an avoidant family and her emotionally violent father.

Fred is determined to pinpoint every little reaction of hers— and he can’t seem to figure out why he cares so much either, now that you mention it…

Secret quidditch matches ending in sabotage.

Getting faded at the burrow on a warm summer night.

Him acting pathetically jealous without even realizing it.

Her being so bloody embarressed after being caught in a panic attack, but also clinging to experiencing comfort in someone other than herself for a change.

Haven’t really been on tumblr before either, if anyone’s got advice for reaching my audience 🫶🏼

[chimso-writes]

When you realize fanfic writers are just fanfic readers who couldn't find what they wanted to read 💀

[elleldoe]

when I comment on a fellow writer's fic and they, in turn, comment on one of mine

[prettyxrat]

Hii does anyone have any tips for getting more reads on ao3? I’m trying to reach my audience on platforms like here, but I feel like there’s got to be a better way than fighting the TikTok algorithm. This is a photo of me after uploading my 8th chapter only to gain 2 more hits (that I’m thankful for ily guys) but HELP

[prettyxrat]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67235977/chapters/173659252

Jealoussss Fred Weasley fic recommendation :)

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

[ao3statss]

There are currently 414,472 fics without a single kudos.

2,948,374 under 10 kudos

If anyone was wondering.