FanFiction Opinions!

I have way too many opinions and no one to share them with, so I made this blog! I plan to post star rankings and reviews on all the fanfics I read. Be warned! Not everything I say will be rainbows and unicorns!

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[atomiclace]

these are my mutuals. they know who they are

[windrunnered]

[ID: A cycle that says "I feel like writing" at four different points feeding into one another with arrows as they circle around a person with their eyes closed. A smaller arrow points to aforementioned person and merely says "They aren't writing." /end ID]

[arodrwho]

super simple low-effort ao3 summary methods that are 1000% better and 1000% less annoying than just saying you suck at summaries:

copypaste the first few lines of the fic. u already wrote ‘em. let ‘em be their own damn hook

if ur feeling fancy & don’t mind showing ur hand a bit, copypaste the first few lines of the fic that u feel are esp. Important or Interesting - the ones where u first start getting into the real meat of things

state the main tropes! theyre probably already in ur tags - just say them again - maybe as a full sentence if ur feelin fancy. or with a joke if ur feelin Extra fancy

ask a question. pose a hypothetical. eg what happens if u take [character] and put them in [situation]?

make an equation. [character] + [thing] = [outcome]

just write like a one-sentence summary of what the fuck is going down. just one (1) sentence. doesnt matter if it doesn’t cover every important aspect. or if it sounds bland. any summary sentence is gonna be miles better than “idk i suck at summaries”

just…explain the fic like u would to a friend? it doesnt have to be a polished back of the book blurb. it can just be “[pairing] coffee shop au, but like, still with murder, and also i made everyone trans. enjoy”

just stick a meme in there

honestly who cares

just put literally anything but a self deprecating comment in there & ur golden

[cosmictuesdays]

#it’s okay if you even have to spoil a little bit of the early plot twists#set the lure; cast the net [x]

[wastemanjohn]

i just saw a post on reddit titled "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" and it was about OP clicking off a fic because they don't like the direction it's going in. slightly different context but can we all be more like this reddit OP. i think "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" should be the new "don't like don't read." dead doves may give you diarrhea but don't make that everyone else's problem.

[elf-trash]

this is a great way to frame it lol like just bc i'm lactose intolerant doesn't mean i should leave a bad review on the ice cream parlor

[posingasme]

Fanart & Fanfic

For the record?

Shakespeare wrote fanfic. Tolkien wrote RPF AUs. Every Disney or Marvel movie you’ve ever seen is fanart, and so is Sherlock, and so is nearly every religious work from the European Renaissance.

Don’t pretend your fanfic or fanart isn’t a real contribution. Unless you don’t think West Side Story and Wicked and Hamilton are works of art. And if so, you’re just wrong.

That’s just my opinion.

[ultrafanfictionreader]

This! This right here!

[alphacrone]

sometimes fan fiction is a love letter to a piece of media.

sometimes it’s a strongly-worded demand for custody of the characters.

[ultrafanfictionreader]

Give me the charcters of Firefly! You aren’t using them!

[ultrafanfictionreader]

Just finished rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender. It will forever be one of my favorite shows. Thank you for being so amazing.

[ultrafanfictionreader]

This is a ASL story about two very different boys. The older, Tom, is a little misguided. The younger, Jake, is a twelve year old boy with a lot of stubborn bravery.

[ultrafanfictionreader]

I just love detailed, logical responses to dumb statements. Makes me respect the human race a little more.

[depeachy]

It's 2017 and I'm still not over Merlin and Arthur

[ultrafanfictionreader]

ASL Tip #6: When signing ASL you have to remember the most important rule. ASL is NOT English! You don't just translate an English sentence into sign. You change the order of the words as well. For example when signing the English question "How many hours do you sleep?", you sign in the order of "Sleep you hours how many?". The action or main subject of the sentence goes first, then who your talking about, then the unit in question (hours, minutes, inches), then finally the wh-question that would go in the beginning of an English sentence.

[codependeant-deactivated2018112]

— excerpts from John Winchester’s journal

[cyberdelph]

New year by  まるい

[ultrafanfictionreader]

ASL Tip #5: If asking where the water would be, sign "I need water" in that order. If you are really desperate for some water, sign "Water I need" in that order (Remember to show on your face the desperation. It's a part of it too!).

[ultrafanfictionreader]

ASL Tip #4: When signing "question" your index finger needs to be turned so that the nail is facing you and the back of the finger in towards the people around you. When signing "understand" the opposite is true. (I.e. the nail faces towards the people and the back of the finger faces you.)

[ultrafanfictionreader]

ASL Tip #3: The signs for the Space Needle in Seattle and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are the same. If you are near one of these land marks then you need to use a clarification sign with it. (I.e. When in Washington state you can simply sign the Space Needle no problem, but if you want to sign the Eiffel Tower you need to add the sign for French as well to clarify which landmark you mean.)

[ultrafanfictionreader]

ASL Tip #2: When asking wh- questions your eyebrows must be furrowed and while asking yes/no questions your eyebrows must be lifted.