#author community

[veronicaleighauthor]

[world-of-iridensia]

Every kudos is a person who really enjoyed my writing. If any of my projects only ever get ONE, singular kudos, then I'm happy.

[chaoticbatfam]

can i just say that the disconnect between the published author community and the fanfic community is both the most entertaining shit i pay attention to and the most hilarious/depressing clusterfuck?

we're specifically talking about the romance author community here, obviously. as an avid reader of both published books and fanfic, as well as a fanfic author, i have a toe dipped in both worlds, though i will always e more loyal to the fanfic community than the romance community. (i trust this needs no elaboration as to why). honestly, at this point, a large part of the reason i even pay attention to the published romance authors is the sheer drama and entertainment.

it's like---there are fanfics getting published, right? i feel like every week i wake up and hear news of some new dramonie fic getting a facelift. i'm sure y'all here with me get what i mean, lol. they're popping up faster than pimples before a school dance.

now the published authors all act like fanfic is lower, right? they think fanfic doesn't count as real fiction, they view it as a copying of the original material, all that shit. us in the fanfic community unfortunately are well aware of the idiotic misconceptions. that we're just plagarizers, that it's little more than child's play, that we only have porn on ao3, shit like that. literally the most blatant misunderstanding of what fanfic stands for, so much so that it's honestly amazing how widely believed all that shit is.

then there's the added drama of the divides within the published author community regarding the dramonie itself. some stand against JKR, others don't, the usual.

now here comes the funny part---when an author publishes their dramonie fic and allows it to be branded as such, ANNOUNCES it to the community, there comes a divide. the other authors who either think, "you're validating JKR by publishing this" and the ones that don't care about it being JKR but care about it being fanfiction. as such, the options are literally "against JKR", "against fanfiction", and "doesn't give a shit". and the author community likes to think they're all high and mighty for this, when in reality us REAL fanfiction writers know:

the harry potter fic writers are divided into "support JKR" and "don't support JKR". the former are hated by the community at large, the community that is made up by a majority of queer people. the latter would never publish their fanfic and brand it as dramonie. as such, any author that does this is not a REAL fanfiction writer---so group two of the jugemental authors (the ones that are like "this is fanfiction. disgusting" are completely irrelevant. that's not a fanfiction author, y'all can have them. we don't want them any more. we probably should have been tipped off by the fact that they wrote a straight, cis, toxic ship anyway . . . "

lmfao it's just hilarious because the published authors are like "we've got to defend our honor. that person right there *points to dramonie author* writes FANFIC"

and meanwhile any real fanfic author knows: no one who writes dramonie with enough righteousness and confidence to PUBLISH IT is not a fanfiction writer in the first place. that's a type of bull-headedness that belongs SOLELY to y'all published authors, thank you very much. also, if you support JKR enough to brand your "book" as dramonie, then you were ejected from the community, not rasied to the higher title of "published authors"

essentially

published authors: we are superior

fanfic authors: have fun with that, looks boring over there.

published authors: we're going to defend ourselves against JKR

fanfic authors: we have been for the past twenty years

published authors: *angrily pointing at fellow author* that person wrote a fanfic

fanfic authors: rude. we don't claim that shitstain, quit using our name for such slander

published authors: we're better than you

fanfic authors: keep believing that, means we don't have to let in any more refugee readers

[writingbypaigek]

Sometimes it's really hard to tell if I wrote something profound or ridiculously surface-level.

[ellakbilodeau]

It genuinely grinds my gears that the em dash and semi colon are considered signs of ai use. Like, no I don't use ai, I'm just very active on ao3

[eight-littlenightmares]

hey authors :D so this post applies to EVERYONE, but especially those of y’all with anxiety or OCD

if you are writing something that has a stereotypical trope?? that’s perfectly okay. even if it’s a trope that you see a lot of people on the internet whining about.

it’s okay. it’s okay if you have a love triangle, or a miscommunication incident, or.. well i’m having a hard time thinking of more examples of tropes, it’s a little bit late and it’s been a long day, but i just want y’all to know that it is YOUR story. YOUR writing.

why tf would you want to spend all your time writing something you don’t even like??? if you want to write about something but most people think that it’s ‘cringe’ or ‘cliche’, you should still absolutely go for it!!!

because after all, your stories are for YOU. maybe other people can read them too, if you’re posting or publishing them, but at the end of the day they’re ultimately for you.

you CANNOT make everyone happy. so PLEASE do not cut out things that make you happy just so you can try to make your writing more palatable to snobs on the internet who don’t realize that they can just choose not to read things that they don’t personally enjoy.

this was kind of long. anyways i hope y’all have a nice day/night :D

[meerawrites]

Hey guys! I have never done this in this way before, but, some months back I submitted a historical fiction horror/true crime Marquis de Sade/Angela Carter/Octavia Butler/Anne Rice adjacent tonall short story in which the fictional (lesbian/sapphic) Lizzie Andrew Bordon, I cannot l say excuses outright she knows murder is still a horrifying thing to do cause the way evil of minimizing other peoples lives and humanity even your overbearing and abusive father figure, but does rationalize and attempt a justification not morally that is perspective and meta physically impossible, but legally (by 1860 American legal standards) and historiographic about how ones perspective on *evil women says more about you, or us as a society than the women in question.

A riveting collection of short stories about the crime and house that has fascinated America for over a century

*Juliette in Juliette, or: vice rewarded is a bisexual icon who has a moral compass, she just also happens to be the original textual 18th century victim of villain by necessity not choice, and unreliable narrator to everyone including herself, because, the alternative is death. Also I know it is highly unlikely that Lizzie did it in this case. But, that is far less interesting and do you have an issue with women who are self aware and have hobbies?