[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

never be good at your job. it's a trap. they'll just give you more and harder stuff to do and it'll pull you away from your true passion of writing gay fanfiction for people on the internet

[siren-meets]

Just two besties who love Band of Brothers. @indigo-graves

[bee2124]

How it genuinely feels to still be reading fan fictions from fandoms I’ve been in since I was 12

[skeletomez]

[marypsue]

the self-indulgent fanfiction will continue until morale improves

[hexhomos]

PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.

[pastafossa]

Reminder that bot comments are becoming an issue on AO3, so don't let it get you down, and consider switching off guest comments if it gets bad. Also, note how vague the comments are - no specific story beats or characters are ever mentioned. Why? Because it's been left by a bot. And it's leaving hundreds/thousands of identical comments all over. Report as spam, move on.

I'm also going to add an additional Fanfic Oldster reminder: while some of the people behind some of the bots likely have Big Hidden Reasons for this, some of these are likely just the result of the shitty commenters and trolls who've been around the fanfic community for ages. In FFN days it resulted in a lot of jokey author's notes like 'any flames [trollish or hateful comments] will be used to roast marshmallows'. It was that expected. It happened on LiveJournal. It happened on old forums. A few of my friends in Ye Olden Days used to joke you knew you'd become a real fic author when you got your first nasty comment, and yes, the lazier shitty comments were often just copy pastes onto multiple stories in hopes of getting reaction. That's exactly what some of these bot creators are - lazy hecklers who've found a way to spread the insults wider than they could before. And fanfic is an insanely easy target.

Don't beat yourself up over reasoning. This type of person doesn't have a reason other than that they like upsetting people. They didn't bother to read your story. You aren't getting these comments because you did something wrong, ok? This is just someone frantically flying down the street on their bike flinging flaming turds at a hundred random doorsteps in hopes of hitting a person coming out to get their mail. They don't even stick around to see the results. So while it sucks, for now the best thing to do is hose off your fic porch, drop the turd bag in the trash, and keep writing. Cause seriously, fuckin weirdos and their flaming turds, man.

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[milfsisyphus]

stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

[mephistopheles]

i hate high-budget star trek you have no business with that. put a unicorn hat on a cocker spaniel. wear felt

[mephistopheles]

star trek should be about three things

1. a hopeful, if complicated, future

2. the most batshit insane gay subtext youve ever seen in your life

3. sequins

[siren-meets]

This is just to say

I have eaten

the peaches

that were in

the ice box

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

[siren-meets]

The Beast giving Belle a library:

[vv00rm]

just finished watching Band of Brothers…

[numberonewastelanderbaby-deacti]

🧡DATA🧡

[comicexpertt-deactivated2025091]

Oh my queen. I admire you.

[swiftiesbuddie]

when i realize why i recognize the fanfiction i’m reading:

[tentacleteapot]

when tumblr dies we should just all go back to pdfs

[bixelfox]

and then fax them to each other? What??? What do you want to do from there???

[tentacleteapot]

we'll just go back to them

[ana-hyperfixates-on-tgcf]

I recently told an ao3 writer that I keep going back to their 260k word unfinished slowburn checking for updates for the last 2 years. They said I'm like that puppy that waits for his dead owner at the train station every day.

That's the realest thing anyone's told me online, I ain't even mad.

[seraphym100]

That Ao3 writer be cold, if someone said that to me I would have updated that night.