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@sephyathredon-writing
its important to write fanfiction no one cares about 👍
If you are a fan fic writer and you're alright with people making fan art of your fic, reblog this 💚
This user supports AO3
This user is anti-censorship
This user believes in “don’t like, don’t read”
This user believes in “ship and let ship”
This user believes that fiction tastes and preferences do not dictate moral character
If you are a fan fic writer and you're alright with people making fan art of your fic, reblog this 💚
I've been a fanfic writer on AO3 for two years, have 50+ stories and over 350k in words, lots of fun reader engagement and stay active on Tumblr to promote my stories and fan creations.
Last night I got an angry message on my Tumblr from a user asking why I was flaming their story on AO3.
I never leave negative comments (and I've left over 500 positive ones!). I looked into it, and the hatebots on AO3 used my username with (Guest) at the end to send one of the most vile messages I've ever read to a user in a completely different fandom from me.
I straightened it out with that user and explained about the hatebots. But their initial message to me was angry, they'd found me off AO3 on Tumblr and called out personal details from my page because they thought I was bullying them.
I still can't really fathom why these hatebots do what they do, but I'm also a little scared that a misunderstanding like that could lead to someone getting doxxed. And I'm also extremely sad that this bot is posing as me and threatening other users. I encouraged the one reaching out to me to report and block and made a note on my page explaining that (Guest) comments are not from me in case anyone else had that experience.
I still love AO3 for the ability to write and share and connect over our stories and fandoms, but this is really discouraging and scary, in addition to the almost daily art bot scams I get on AO3 too.
And my heart breaks for the user who thought even for a moment that a complete stranger would say such awful things to them using my name.
And it's devastating to think of so many writers waiting for feedback on a story they worked so hard on who are getting hateful comments like these. Or to think someone could internalize those hateful comments without knowing it's a bot.
My heart breaks especially for newer writers on AO3, it's definitely a different landscape from when I joined two years ago.
As a kid who grew up watching Terminator - I'm not sure I envisioned the robot wars looking quite like this!!
Here's the form to report abuse if you have a comment from a bot: https://archiveofourown.org/abuse_reports/new
Here's a link with additional information on the different types of bots on AO3: AO3 Comment Bots - Fanlore https://share.google/m9IhE4NEGMNgHjtWq
Here's a way to fight the bots by leaving positive comments, join the AO3 comment fest bingo: https://ao3org-tumblr-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/ao3org.tumblr.com/post/808198255312781312/welcome-to-feedback-fest-2026/
And anyone who sees my name or any of my pseuds with (Guest) please know it didn't come from me, and don't let a random hate bot discourage you from continuing to write!
Eesh. If anyone ever gets a negative comment from me, you can know immediately that it was a bot! I would never!!
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As a rule, no one should consider comments coming from "author's name (guest)" are to be considered as bots.
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My policy is to just leave the page when i dont like a fic. I never post negative comments. If you ever find a bad comment under my name, you can be sure that's a bot!
reblog this if you’re a writer who wants to let their readers know that you have not once used AI in your work and never will
reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform
Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.
Credit: tinawithana on TikTok.
Basically this is the same message as the previous video I shared by this creator. But it’s just an older TikTok. Like they have mentioned, it seems like this argument keeps cycling around every few months. It’s not hard to understand. If you don’t support and encourage writers, then they’re going to give up and quit writing. Simple as that. The community side of fanfic and AO3 has died off. Writers are leaving. AI writing, puritans and the “fandom police” are taking over. Please, just support those of us that are left.
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.
This blog is NOT a safe space for blorbos and OCs. They WILL be whumped.
Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.
the suffering never ends
This is the real process
Resources for you!
Character Ideas:
Character creation masterpost
Character Alignment Chart
More character alignment descriptions
Muslim Character questions
Characters with magical powers
Building a new character advice
How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)
Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page
Basic character profile
OC masterpost
Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)
D&D Character Building Tool
Character Design Ideas:
How clothing affects a character’s personality
Character Design Inspiration blog
Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by
Character design references and inspiration
Sources for POC character design ideas and models
Create your own character model using HeroForge
For horned characters
Body and hair types guide
Random outfit generator
Naming Help:
Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources
General advice on avoiding naming appropriation
Hispanic Surnames
Gothic Victorian names
Huge master list for character things in general
Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more
Another name masterlist
How to pick a character name guide
Yet another names masterlist
Creating Background/backstory:
Character Sheet/Development Sheet
Another character development list
In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet
320 talents and passions for characters
On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous
Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary
Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes
Random backstory generator
Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid
Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:
Comparing character height/height references
Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science
Describing what different voices sound like
Describing skin tones
Writing friendship interactions that are platonic
Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea
Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing
Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)
How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters
How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero
On platonic OC and canon character relationships
How to avoid Godmodding in RPs
When it’s cheap to kill off a character
Writing dialogue
Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters
Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs
Slang resources
Dialogue tips
Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships
Bonus art masterlist!
BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.
Oh my God!
It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.
Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD
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I ran out of tags…help…
a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.
Fifty Ways to Hurt a Sleeper
Heads up, this fic has to do with an abusive relationship (not romantic) where one person sees the other as an object. There are also most likely going to be getting really dark! The first three chapters aren't really dark yet, but I have things planned.
Heed the tags, please!
The story of how the sleeper was trapped by Laine and the ways they've been hurt and manipulated afterward. Also the story of how they grew from their pain.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65019370/chapters/167176552
Chapter 4 is up!
It's up to Chapter 6 right now! I'm excited to post Chapter 7 when I get done writing it.
Chapter 7 is up! Heed the tags, this chapter gets pretty graphic, but I hope you enjoy!
Fifty Ways to Hurt a Sleeper
Heads up, this fic has to do with an abusive relationship (not romantic) where one person sees the other as an object. There are also most likely going to be getting really dark! The first three chapters aren't really dark yet, but I have things planned.
Heed the tags, please!
The story of how the sleeper was trapped by Laine and the ways they've been hurt and manipulated afterward. Also the story of how they grew from their pain.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65019370/chapters/167176552
Chapter 4 is up!
It's up to Chapter 6 right now! I'm excited to post Chapter 7 when I get done writing it.
Tell me what you like BEST about my writing!
♡: Your narration
♥: Your dialogue
❥: Your internal monologues (thoughts)
❣: Your descriptions
❦: Your details
❧: Your plots
✽: Your ideas
✿: Your characterization
❁: There's good sentence variation!
✤: Your figurative language
❋: Your use of side characters
☆: Your understandably
☄: WILDCARD! Other: ______