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'To Tame a Magpie: "Deus Ex Machina"'
Penultimate chapter of my Loki X Steve fic is now up on AO3 - link in the title above
If you fancy a new multi-chapter, redemption, fish out of water, enemies to lovers story with plenty of feels, angst and longing, why not give this rarepair fic a try? Especially now things are really starting to get ... intimate😏
Thanks to everyone who has read, responded and stuck with me - hopefully these last couple chapters will be worth the wait!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
‘Perhaps we can help each other even if all we can offer are comforting words’, Wyll said.
‘Oh, I can offer more comfort than that if you desire?’ Astarion offered.
This time Wyll’s eyes did flick downwards, intrigued by Astarion's sultry voice.
‘Really?'
‘Why ever not?'
Wyll gestured to his horns ruefully and Astarion rolled his eyes.
‘Oh Darling, they're a blessing in disguise. I'll show you if you like?'
***
Astarion, ever the opportunist, decides to seduce Wyll to ensure he has protection.
Wyll, ever the hero, wants to save him from whatever he is running from.
What could possibly go wrong?
(Wyll and Astarion have a heart to heart [and much more besides] while in the bath together.
On my latest playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 and this little smutty plot bunny hopped into my head.
😉
Enjoy!
What if…Loki & Steve Rogers fell in love?
Got all excited seeing a comment on my latest AO3 fic and it’s from a 🤬ing bot
Yes. Thank you. I, a flesh and blood human, who spent hours creating something using a skill that I spent years learning how to do to a half decent standard really need an idiotic machine telling me ‘Gee that’s a story alright! Those sure are words describing a linear series of events!’
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
“Astarion, ever the opportunist, decides to seduce Wyll to ensure he has protection.
Wyll, ever the hero, wants to save him from whatever he is running from.
What could possibly go wrong?
(Wyll and Astarion have a heart to heart [and much more besides] while in the bath together)".
On my latest playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 and this little smutty plot bunny hopped into my head.
I'm in the mood to try my hand at BG3 prompts so if you fancy one, drop me an ask 😉
Enjoy!
I loathe hunting for specific scenes, especially when I need them in script format. I don't want a video compiling all of Astarion's scenes, I literally just want the script of the Bite Night scene as writing reference! Must I do everything myself?!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
‘Perhaps we can help each other even if all we can offer are comforting words’, Wyll said.
‘Oh, I can offer more comfort than that if you desire?’ Astarion offered.
This time Wyll’s eyes did flick downwards, intrigued by Astarion's sultry voice.
‘Really?'
‘Why ever not?'
Wyll gestured to his horns ruefully and Astarion rolled his eyes.
‘Oh Darling, they're a blessing in disguise. I'll show you if you like?'
***
Astarion, ever the opportunist, decides to seduce Wyll to ensure he has protection.
Wyll, ever the hero, wants to save him from whatever he is running from.
What could possibly go wrong?
(Wyll and Astarion have a heart to heart [and much more besides] while in the bath together.
On my latest playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 and this little smutty plot bunny hopped into my head.
😉
Enjoy!
‘To Tame a Magpie’: Chapter 17 - ‘A Balcony Scene’
New chapter of my LokiXSteve redemption fic now up - link in title above.
Promised myself I would get the next chapter up before Xmas and just about made it! Last chapter will be released in 2026 [after first starting it in 2017 🫨]
I think this is technically a rarepair but if you feel like giving something new a try for some holiday reading, here's the prequel: 'The Laughter Of Magpies'
I hope anyone who reads enjoys.
Thanks as always 💖
‘To Tame a Magpie’: Chapter 17 - ‘A Balcony Scene’
New chapter of my LokiXSteve redemption fic now up - link in title above.
Promised myself I would get the next chapter up before Xmas and just about made it! Last chapter will be released in 2026 [after first starting it in 2017 🫨]
I think this is technically a rarepair but if you feel like giving something new a try for some holiday reading, here's the prequel: 'The Laughter Of Magpies'
I hope anyone who reads enjoys.
Thanks as always 💖
‘To Tame a Magpie’: Chapter 16 - ‘Turning the Page’
New chapter of my LokiXSteve redemption fic now up.
It’s been a while since the last update and I’m not sure how many people are actually interested in this fic but after getting some recent messages/comments on it, I’ve been motivated to finally finish it.
Hope anyone who reads enjoys the second to last chapter - link above.
Thanks 💖
‘To Tame a Magpie’: Chapter 16 - ‘Turning the Page’
New chapter of my LokiXSteve redemption fic now up.
It’s been a while since the last update and I’m not sure how many people are actually interested in this fic but after getting some recent messages/comments on it, I’ve been motivated to finally finish it.
Hope anyone who reads enjoys the second to last chapter - link above.
Thanks 💖
I hope this photographer won a prize
posting niche fic on ao3 is like releasing a small creature into the wild and hoping it survives and finds sustenance
got one whole comment… the small creature may yet survive the winter
Fan fiction reviews
Imagine you have a coworker who likes to bake. Every week, they bring in a batch of delicious, homemade cookies and leave them in the break room. Next to the plate of cookies is a sign, “If you like my cookies, could you please just leave me a note and tell me what you like about them? The more feedback you leave about what you like, the more incentive I have to bake.” A hundred coworkers walk by and take a cookie. One person leaves a note. “Great cookies! Bake some more soon!”
The next week, once again there are cookies in the break room with the same sign. Once again a hundred people take a cookie and only one person leaves a note. “Nice! More soon!”
Week Three- Once again, a hundred people take a cookie. No one leaves a note.
Week Four- One hundred people take a cookie. No note.
Week Five- There are no cookies. Someone leaves a note. “Where are the cookies? I loved them. Please, please bake some cookies.”
Week Six- There are no cookies. Ten people leave notes. “I miss your cookies. They were my favorites. I loved the chocolate chips. My friend really liked the way you had almonds in the cranberry ones.”
Week Seven- Motivated by the wonderful notes, the baking coworker stays up late to bake the best batch of cookies they have ever made. That week, a hundred people take a cookie. No one leaves a note.
The co-worker gives up baking for their colleagues.
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Please, if you like the fan fiction that you are reading, let your authors know. Stories are abandoned for a myriad of reasons, but it is very, very hard to stay motivated when you receive no positive feedback. If there is a story that you like, whether it is a completed one or a work in progress, please leave an up-lifting comment or review. By doing so, you’re providing that writer with motivation to spend their time and energy creating more stories for you.
And that way, you both win!
We got more feedback the year we took our website offline than at any other point in our 15 years of writing fanfic before that. So we put the archive back up. And all the feedback vanished again. Disheartening, but at that point, unsurprising.
Support your writers, your artists, your content creators: the people who spend time making things and sharing them for free so fandom can be nicer and a richer place for everybody.
Okay… You knocked some sense into me. And I’m honestly surprised because of it. I’ll try to write more revives.
This is the cause of a lot of unfinished fic. FFN has a page to show you your stats and you’ll have like 60K readers for chapter 1 and then chapter 2 will have only 17K readers. And the list of readers shortens as the chapters go on, until your in only triple digits and are getting maybe 5 reviews a chapter. It’s disheartening.
That last reblog about the chapters is super true. Please, if you love the whole series, don’t just like/reblog/comment on only the first chapter. When we notice that the feedback has depleted on the chapters beyond the first, we assume it’s because people aren’t enjoying the direction of the story and/or they’ve stopped reading the story. And hey, that might be true for some. But future chapters receiving a whole lot less feedback than the first has become too common to solely blame it on that.
So please, if you enjoy the next chapter, let us know. Whether that be through a like, a reblog, or a message. It’ll make us more motivated and invested in writing the following chapter, and it can potentially save the story that you enjoy reading from being added to the “discontinued” pile!! ✊🏻✨
If I could pin this like on Twitter I would
Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!
Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.
There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.
I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:
Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.
The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.
The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.
If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.
Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.
I'm always amazed how people have no clue how expensive data hosting is for a website of AO3's scale. Yes, it's all text, but you also have to host databases of all of those works and 7 million registered users. And the backups.
We're just used to posting stuff online and not thinking about it. Like, nobody talks how TikTok and Meta are both having a hard time to hosting so many videos (a lot of them in HD).
And then there's the speed at which it functions and the number of users accessing it. And again, yes, AO3 is text based but there's a lot of traffic on it at any point in the day because it's used worldwide.
comments on fanfics
I thought about writing this post for a long time and decided, fuck it, I'm gonna write this.
All over my dash I see people being disappointed because nobody is leaving comments on ao3 anymore/rebloging things on tumblr.
And the only thing I can think about this is: it's so true.
Two weeks ago I posted the epilog of my 60k words fanfic (I've been writing on it for almost a year and got some positive feedback on it) and I got ZERO comments, or kudos on the epilog.
I can see that people kicked on it, but I have no idea whether they liked it or not. (And I used to get a comment on my story now and then)
Last week I posted the first extra chapter (I planned three of these) and also got no reaction.
No I'm just sitting here, wondering if my writing is just true shit.
This is also the reason I was hesitate to post this. Maybe it's not the people and just that shithole of a story I've been writing.
Things like are just running around my head now and must say that the motivation to even finish those extra chapters is gone.
GUYS, IF YOU LIKE A FANFIC PLEASE LET THE AUTHOR KNOW, IT MEANS SO MUCH TO THEM.
So if you read a good story, not some bullshit like mine, write that comment.
