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I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

#fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #comment comment comment

When people say life is short, they don't mean "The end will be here before you know it, so don't waste your youth because it won't be long until you're cold in the ground." Life in that respect is so long, each year longer than the next.

But life is short. Those moments, those feelings, those phases, which feel so long and terrible and inexpressibly heavy in the moment, are just blips when you look back on them. Life is short for both the good and bad things. Life is short because in a week this insurmountable hill, where the air gets thinner with each step upwards, will be a pebble once I look back from the other side. Life is short because the words that lived on the tip of my tongue for so long they could claim squatters' rights now flow so freely and easily. Life is short because we were together for 5 months and really that's no time at all, but I lived an entire lifetime in your arms. Life is short because the risks I take are always worth it, even if it takes me somewhere unexpected.

So yes, life is short. It's a fusion of blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments that somehow stack up to a year, a decade, a lifetime. And the year between 19 years old and 20 years old felt like a chasm and looking back at 25, it was the divot between two blocks of sidewalk.

#just a thought #the older i get the younger i feel #writing

Considering coming back from the dead again. As a treat.

#jay gatsby could never

aidaronan

sorry i haven't read your fic yet it's been in my open tabs for 8 months

wardog-of-whimsy

sorry i haven’t written your fic it’s been in my (brain’s) open tab for 9 months

bulkhummus

calling that word document a draft by the way im dodging it haha

sewer-seance

Two men closely inspecting grass. Details unknown

(click for better quality)

A redo of this

sewer-seance

Yes! This! I read an academic article ages ago (I can’t be fucked to find it again) about the possibility of Jay being mixed/passing and I loved that interpretation so much more for the extra depth it adds to the story and the conversation on the so called “American Dream”. Obviously there’s a discussion about new money vs old money and the futility of trying to achieve these lofty goals, especially in a capitalistic structure where enough is never enough. And then you add in the aspect of Jay as non-white and he’s even more cut off from ever fully realizing the “American Dream” which would only make his fight for it that much harder. It also adds more nuance to Tom Buchanan and his interactions with Jay. I think it better portrays any sort of narrow American experience than what Fitzgerald could ever have said originally.

There’s so much that could be unpacked here—I could write about 50 pages on this subject

#my undergraduate honors thesis discussed in part black culture and identity in America at the time of the Harlem Renaissance #so this is something i could literally take forever about #i will definitely have to reas your hs au #the great gatsby #classic lit

doyouknowwhatimeme

#new great gatsby prompt just dropped

Two men closely inspecting grass. Details unknown

(click for better quality)

A redo of this

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway #natsby #tgg #the great gatsby fanart #natsby fanart

roguesquirrel

The Great Gatsby 2 … they thought he was dead… ……..but they rebuilt him… …faster … stronger … smarter… old sports die hard In The Great Gatling-Gunsby West Egg is about to be Scrambled

Next update of ATWR is going to feature a character from the book that hasn’t been mentioned before, and will definitely be reoccurring. We’ll also be moving into the final stage/final few chapters of the fic (one last major angst hurtle - sorry!) but it’s all bulleted out.

There’ll be five chapters left (six if there’s interest in an epilogue) and then it is goodnight to ATWR

#and they were roommates #atwr #the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway #natsby #tgg #ao3 #writing #the great gatsby fanfiction #fanfiction

I’m just gonna drop this “Kings or Pawns” art here

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway #natsby #tgg #atwr #ao3 #the great gatsby fanfiction #fanfiction #kings or pawns

breadstickysquid

okay so I was talking with a friend about writing, and I was about to infodump about an au of mine over discord to them because I can't actually write out the ideas rn since ao3 is dOWN-

and they freaked out??? Apparently I'm weird for writing my works *in* ao3? Like I know people usually write in docs or something but I only feel motivated to write when I'm in the ao3 textbox HJLGFJGDH

So now I have a question for fellow writers on ao3:

Where do you write your drafts/final edits of your fics?

in the ao3 text box

Google docs

word

notes app

irl notebook

other (put in tags)

I don't write I read (non writer/see results)

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

#i am incapable of writing it all at once #so the idea of writing it in the ao3 box makes me physically ill #i transfer it over and edit it in the ao3 box #fic #ao3 #fanfiction #writing #poll

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

Teaser below for the one shot "And They Were Graduates":

Nick opened the door to find the apartment in a much different state than what he had left it in at 11 a.m. that morning. The ceiling had been crisscrossed in dark blue and white streamers, with confetti filled balloons tied to each blade of the ceiling fan. A tacky banner in giant, multicolored letters read “CON-GRAD-ULATIONS!” with a cartoon graduation cap making up the point of the exclamation mark. The coffee table had been cleared of study material and in its place were coned party hats and party horns. Tucked up into the couch, still in his day clothes, was Nick’s live-in boyfriend, Jay Gatsby.

Jay stirred at the sound of the door opening, his head popping off of the couch’s arm. His hair stuck up on one side, and he scowled at the light he had left on. Eyes still scrunched in sleep, Jay mumbled around a yawn, “Congrads. You grad. You did it. Yay.”

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway #natsby #tgg #atwr #the great gatsby fanfiction #fanfiction

sewer-seance

Since I can’t post the update for And They Were Roommates to Ao3, I’m going to post a little ATWR one shot to Tumblr (not connected to the main story) in the meantime

sewer-seance

This will be up tomorrow (it’s been an insane past few days that i shan’t bore you all with details of, but my time will be free to write and post then)

Since I can’t post the update for And They Were Roommates to Ao3, I’m going to post a little ATWR one shot to Tumblr (not connected to the main story) in the meantime

#some fluff to tie us over #as we wait patiently and appreciatively #the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway #natsby #tgg #the great gatsby fanfiction #f scott fitzgerald #fanfiction #atwr

pogidoow

AO3 is under a DDoS attack meaning that the servers are purposefully being overwhelmed by an attacker. Please do not refresh ao3 related links because each time you do, another request is sent to the servers meaning you are contributing to the DDoS! Wait for the official announcement from their twitter and then visit the site because the servers will keep crashing otherwise!

wheeloffortune-design

i hope the ao3 volunteers are okay, dealing with a ddos attack while the whole community is crying must be very stressful.

wheeloffortune-design

As seen on the AO3 twitter status uptade:

so yeah, everyone please stop refreshing your fics, that just adds to the problem.

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