#fic fandom

[skyisana]

I’m currently re-reading The Missing Sister by @singularritae (seriously, chef’s kiss 🫶), and after that, I’m diving into Apostasy by @Deydralinne

Both of these writers are just next level, I can’t even deal 😭. If you haven’t checked them out, DO IT.

What are you reading right now?

[hahahahahangst]

self insert fics? i hardly know yn

[dduane]

An Ask Box query

Sometimes I get questions in that I don’t have meaningful answers for (due to lack of experience, or just having no damn idea). This is one. I’ll leave this open for answers at the end.

Hi - thank you for the post with the authors recs in BBC Sherlock.  I was wondering if I could ask you for some advice - I'm new to that fandom, and I haven't had much luck getting anyone to notice my stories.  It seems like all the recs and mentions are for older fics and well-established authors.  Of course, it's possible that my stories are just not very good or not to people's taste.  But do you have any advice for ways an author can promote their work without seeming obnoxious?  I would really like to participate in the fandom more.

Who has an answer?

[gigacat]

Hello! This may sound a little weird, but I needed to get it out there. Hopefully I'm sending these in the right order so they're easy to read...

 Hello! This may sound a little weird, but I needed to get it out there. Hopefully I’m sending these in the right order so they’re easy to read…

I’m not a particularly important person, or anyone with any real clout as far as writing goes, but I thought that maybe you’d like to know that even with it’s imperfections, you wrote something that stuck with someone(in a very good way) for *years*. Sorry for being so long winded. I just wanted to get it all off my chest. Good luck with whatever your current endeavors are, and thank you very much for being a writer.

I’m sending you this not because I’m demanding you finish polishing it up, or that you repost it as it was. I’m sending you this because I never told you how much I loved it. The moment I believed that it was gone and I’d never get the chance to tell you how much of an impression it left, I felt sincere regret.

Feeling some strong melancholy, I decided to make a quick tumblr post about how sad I was to find it gone. By sheer, dumb luck, there was another user here on tumblr who responded that very night. They told me you had put the fist chapter up on Ao3.I had no idea what Ao3 was, so after some googling, I found your story once again. I still love it, even though it’s just chapter one.

I was actually sad. It was like losing one of my real books, and now I realize I never even said anything to you. I never gave a review. I didn’t even favorite it. It hadn’t occurred to me the story *could* go away, so I never thought to even copy it to my hardrive.

All those years ago when I first clicked on it; with low expectations and boredom, I never thought I would love it as much as I do to this very day. Like clockwork, every year I’d go back and re-read it, enjoying it just as much as the first time. So you can imagine my shock when, after hearing about the possible sequel to the Bully game, I went to find it and it was gone.

I loved how much effort you put into each character, I loved how much you tried to keep people in character, and I love how(minus the sex and gore) it was almost like you could see it being made a part of the game. We both know the Bully fandom isn’t known for it’s amazing fanfiction (OCs and OOC everywhere!) but this story above all others I always go back to.

The story you wrote was a fanfiction. Canis Canem Edit. As a (hack)writer myself, I know what it’s like to look back on your old fanfiction and cringe, but I really am being serious when I say I always loved it.

You don’t know me. I don’t really know you either, but I know you write. I read something of your’s several years ago, and I have never forgotten it. It’s a little silly, and hard to explain, but when I read something I really enjoy; something that is truly and honestly unforgettable to me simply because of how much it made me smile, I tend to go back to it.

Oh my gawd, an old fan of my Bully fic exists 8___8 ♥  LET ME HOLD YOU, DARLING *huggles*

Yeah, I purged from ff.net because I just cannot with that site anymore.  AO3 is such a wonderful place, and I figured, why not?  I’ll stick the old Bully fic up there, just a chapter or two and see how it does.  I kind of forgot about it after that, and it definitely did not get attention (which I’m not surprised by, considering how old that game and fandom are now… I keep holding my breath for a remake or a sequel). 

Just for you, darling, I will try and put some focus on polishing up the old version and reposting the chapters as I adjust them.  Some parts might play slightly differently now; Peter, looking back, still came out way too effeminate for my tastes.  So it should be like a new story now, and a new experience ♥  I’m swamped with schoolwork and actual work, so I can’t say how fast I’ll get to it (pretty sure readers of my TW fics are ready to riot soon), but I am just so goddamn touched that you took the time to write me such amazingly sweet messages about it.  I know how dear certain fics can be to readers, I have many myself!  So just give me some time, and I will get it all on AO3 for you ♥