Slice_of_Apple

HQ (mostly oikageoi), AOT (erejeanere), recently bnha (tdbktd & dabihawks); fluff but some 18+, no minors pls! AO3: Slice_of_Apple (HQ and AOT) and Slice_of_Lemon (HQ and BNHA)

[chop-chop-manbun]

[nomettesbizzareadventure]

Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

Reblog this if you want readers to come into your ask box and ask for the “director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines. 

Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!

[starfruitjams]

So nice of AO3 to do, especially around lycanthropism awareness month! Really going the extra mile!

[amemiru]

I want your eyes on me always, but in this moment, I need you to close them

[amemiru]

recharging

[cheese24k]

Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

> Don’t give him a baby for a while.

[leradny]

HE GRABS THE CUP BUT THEN HE DROPS THE PEN 0.0003 SECONDS LATER

AND HE LOOKS UP AT THE CEILING INSTEAD OF AT THE GROUND WHEN HE CAN’T FIND THEM

[quasarkisses]

I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING HE JUST DROPS IT

IT’S NOT FUNNY IT’S VERY LOGICAL THAT HE WOULD HAVE ADJUSTED TO LIVING LIFE WHILE HE WAS IN SPACE BECAUSE IT’S DIFFERENT FROM EARTH BUT I CAN’T FUCKING BREATHE

*THUNK*

[emilyelizabethfowl]

i love it so much every time i see it

[official-aquarium-gravel]

“ugh stupid gravity” 

[bruh-moment-dot-jpeg-deactivate]

IM FUXKING CSHAKING

[perfectlyhopeless]

I haven’t seen this post on my dash in *years* bless this

[flootzavut]

Bless, this is absolutely amazing

[mxbuster]

I love this. It’s so gestural and he’s so exasperated about gravity.

[spacepsychologist]

The perfect comedic timing of the NASA logo.

[pixelartpeach]

Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

[bonesbeetle]

can see the pores on that thang

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Reblog to give a trans person a shockingly high resolution mango

[punkgemjasper]

I see a lot of folks use 'larp' as an insult to refer to terrible people being bad at their jobs like they're just pretending to be the prime minister or whatever.

If you've ever been to an actual larp event, you find the opposite is true. You got a bunch of lovely people putting their whole cunt into playing characters like fucking idk, Gritsnarl Dangerfoot, the goblin bard who can play any instrument, badly.

[mayonaisie]

the ao3 comment drought is like... do people not like saying nice things to other people? especially after said person has put their heart and soul into the work that they are so ardently consuming? do people not like to share their thoughts and little takes and pieces of reality? this, in the cultural climate that is fandom where sharing your thoughts and takes is the foundation... commenting is just basic fucking decency i fear

[slicesofapple]

i don't understand it. especially if someone writes something in their bookmarks that indicates enjoyment. this showed up in a bookmark on one of my fics:

but the person didn't fucking leave a comment. (it was only random luck that I happened to see the bookmark). the lack of commenting is pretty rude and very dispiriting. i also just don't understand how if you really liked something you couldn't be bothered to tell the author. is it laziness? entitlement? i dunno, man, but whatever it is, it serves as a real deterrent to wanting to post anything else... (esp when comments that do come in all too often are variants on the theme of asking why it's taking so long for more chapters or similar)

this was another fic that people seemed to have fun reading. i mean, > 900 kudos, that's a lot of people, right? almost 300 liked it enough to bookmark it? but *9* comments? pretty shitty ratio 🤣 kudos are nice and all, but comments are way more precious to me. like, actual engagement is what is the most fun about posting in the first place. someone could have maybe 20 kudos but ten thoughtful comments and that is a bonanza in my book.

and, yeah, you can totally say this is just sour grapes on my part, but it actually has an impact on whether or not i have energy or desire to write and/or post.

[mayonaisie]

the ao3 comment drought is like... do people not like saying nice things to other people? especially after said person has put their heart and soul into the work that they are so ardently consuming? do people not like to share their thoughts and little takes and pieces of reality? this, in the cultural climate that is fandom where sharing your thoughts and takes is the foundation... commenting is just basic fucking decency i fear

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

aftercare for posting on ao3

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

your fic was good you did grammar good you’re the kind of freak people like everything’s cool dude :^)

[aume]

Aftercare for posting on AO3😆

🧃🍊🍫

[chop-chop-manbun]

[chop-chop-manbun]

[aimmyarrowshigh]

as the crazy person with over 3,000 fics on AO3, who just hit over 2,000,000 hits, i have done... The Math

roughly 5% of readers leave kudos.

0.27% of people leave a comment.

truly, i GET that a lot of people, especially younger people who grew up on youtube and are living on tiktok, see "opening the page and viewing with their eyeballs" engagement in itself. but a) it's not, for fanfiction, that's not how it works; and b) "engagement" does not build a community -- interaction builds a community.

if you like someone's fanfiction, and you want more of that fanfiction, please react to it in some tangible way. leave a kudo. leave a comment. let the writer know that you didn't open it, see the first sentence, and decide it was garbage. let the writer know that you aren't a bot that trawls every webpage for AI content. let the writer know that their work is appreciated.

the point of fandom is to be a community, not a content engine. if people stop feeling like people are being reached with their work, they stop creating work for that fandom and move onto the next. there's a lot to be said for the way binge-model TV is killing fandoms prematurely... but there's a LOT to be said for the way infinite-scrolling consumption is killing fandoms prematurely.

if everyone binges a show on friday and feels weird about reacting to fics posted longer than a week ago/doesn't react to the fics they read at all, that fandom is dying out in about a month, max. even though there are probably a lot of people who would love to discuss it with someone or create more work or finish and post a WIP or whatever. because no actual community is created by consumption alone.

reading a fic is only step one.

reacting to a fic is the crucial step two of the equation.

step three is the fandom proliferating! and you getting more stuff to enjoy!

[grumpy-old-fandommom]

Link

A reminder that this is what censorship leads to and that it wasn’t all that long ago when purity culture was going after ships that antis would consider to be “normal” today.

Also I thought Fiction Alley was that one archive that Msscribe got shut down with her shitstirring

[resplendentgoldenwings]

This is what people tend not to realize when they complain about the Ao3 not havng all the bells and whistles, not offering a way for fic writers to make money, hosting content they don’t like,etc….AO3 just isn’t those things. Their whole existence and purpose is like a preservation site or a museum. Nothing stops you from hosting your content elsewhere and even if you never donate AO3 will be a place where your work will be preserved and protected that is it’s function and it’s a necessary function.

By all means host your work somewhere fancier where you can make money but try and value AO3 for what it is, a place where anyone fan fic writer –for better or for worse– can host there content and you will never be asked to remove your content for censorship reasons no matter what trend is currently rampaging through fandom.

[kari-izumi]

As an aside, AO3 legally cannot offer a way to make money, because they are a non-profit organization. This is part of the reason why they’ve been largely left alone (and also the lawyers they have on retainer to fight those Fair Use issues like the one in the Twitter post) and why they will suspend accounts for mentioning commissions period. AO3 can get in legal trou le if they were allowing people to market themselves.

I can’t stress enough how you should not ever, ever mention, hint at or otherwise infer that a fic was commissioned on AO3. I’ve seen accounts get warnings even without a direct Patreon link.

Even if I felt comfortable with the idea of making money off fanwriting (which I don’t because I Was There, Gandalf and it’s still blowing my mind to have this flexibility) I would still rather have AO3 be my main hosting site than to support Wattpad and their lack of fucks to give about the rampant plagiarism.

[allsortsoflicorice]

Fascinating, and important to know. 

[independence1776]

There are three pages of tags mentioning commissions if you search “commission” on AO3′s tag search. This is, bluntly, not good. If you have tagged it, delete the tag, delete anything in the fanwork notes that mention commissions, and never do it again. It is flatly against AO3′s Terms of Service because of all of the above.

[largishcat]

Nothing wrong with doing fic comms, but they are NOT LEGAL, and you need to keep them on the DOWN LOW. DO NOT even breath a word about them on your AO3 unless you want your account nuked

[bundibird]

Frankly, it’s probably wise to just. Never admit to doing commissions, ever.

Instead of “this fic was commissioned by Username,” say “this fic was requested by Username.” People give out fic prompts all the time; people request fics; gift fics:; etc. If you commission fics (which, oh my god, I personally would never) then for the love of God don’t admit to it. Don’t promote it. And certainly don’t ever even allude to it on AO3.

[chop-chop-manbun]

[fanfictionwriter101]

Opening up your WIP like