Writer In The Gutter

Aine | 20s | She/Her | Author Writes MxM BTS FANFICS for fun!

[writerinthegutter]

As someone who absolutely LOVES friends to lovers, I’m so happy this trope is slowly getting more recognition, like, imagine tying with enemies to lovers !

As we all know, all tropes, if done well, are absolutely immaculate, but each their preferences :) and mine just RELISHES a slow-burn friends to lovers with one-sided love to mutual (or from denial to acceptance) and extra bonus points if the one who falls last suffers a little before getting together lmao, this is oddly specific

[writerinthegutter]

The most exciting part in romance, for me personally, is when they slowly but surely fall in love with each other, going through the five stages of grief, starting with denial, denying their feelings, then slowly easing themselves to acceptance, but with acceptance comes doubt, if the other person loves them back or not, and all the reasons why they could never be together OOF just immaculate!

[overthinkingao3]

i posted a fic and a nice reader commented thanking me for writing it.

i thanked them for their kind comment.

but then… they thanked me for replying to their comment and then added an additional kind comment.

now i want to thank them for their additional kind comment but i no longer understand how either of us is supposed to end this interaction.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

hi !! hope u are well !!! idk if you’ve seen this but theres alot of writers putting their fics (mostly within x reader spaces but it might be within charxchar spaces aswl) behind a patreon paywall … idk i might be wrong but isn’t that borderline illegal ?? like copyright infringement ?? since they are profiting off of characters they don’t own ?? again i might be wrong but its rubbed me the wrong way for agess

it is technically borderline illegal and it gives studios a good and solid reason to take legal actions against them, if they want. also if "taking commission for fanfics" is normalized on a mainstream level, I can unfortunately see platforms like ao3 facing serious challenges or maybe even the risk of getting shut down — because as of now, ao3 and fanfic as a whole exist in a "legally grey area". the main reason people can freely and openly post fanfics, and the main reason studios aren't taking legal actions against fanfic writers, is because fanfic writers aren't monetizing fanfics of other people's copyrighted characters.

some people have already explained why "fanfic commissions" are riskier than "fan art commissions". I can't quote their exact words, but it's something about fan art being "more difficult to prove that the characters were others' copyrighted material". meanwhile with fanfics, it can be easily proved that it's from other people's copyrighted material and is being illegally monetized.

so like — a little message for folks who take commission for fanfics — for the sake of fanfic community as a whole, please don't normalize this. I understand wanting to earn money, and, as a fellow fanfic writer, I think all writers deserve to earn income for their hard works, but it's not worth jeopardizing your future and fanfic community as a whole, if fanfics commission were widely normalized and studios started taking legal actions. a hush hush payment between two people in a private one-on-one chat may be harmless and free of consequences, but that will not continue being the case if we normalize this on a mainstream level.

[writerinthegutter]

i’m writing comedy so why the fuck am i crying

[luna-azzurra]

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[writerinthegutter]

Falling off the treadmill (and straight into your heart)

BTS - YOONMIN (Jiyoon) - mature (+18) - Completed - 34k

Tags: explicit, eventual smut, comedy, hilarious, hurt/comfort, pining, idiots in love, etc.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Sneak peek!

“Dude, the gym is like sex.”

“Dude, the gym is like sex.” Jungkook says. “Both get your heart hammering, your lungs burning.” His eyes meet Yoongi’s and doesn’t look away. A smile tugs his lips. He got him. “Get your endorphins up. Turn you into a complete mess; sweaty and breathless. And,” Jungkook pauses and leans forward as if to share the blueprint of the universe. “—both are always better with a partner you trust.”

[vampireautism]

there is an IMAGE in my HEAD and i cannot DRAW IT. hatred and rage.

[flowerflamestars]

there is a CONVERSATION in my HEAD and I cannot WRITE IT. rage and hatred

[ocean-stuck]

there is a VIDEO in my HEAD And i cannot ANIMATE IT. hage and ratred

[y2kbugs-moved]

There is a GAME in my HEAD and I cannot CODE IT. Ratred and hage.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

there is a SONG in my HEAD and I cannot COMPOSE IT. haged and rate.

[gender-luster]

there is a MOVIE in my HEAD and i cannot FILM IT. raged and hate

[yahooo-official]

there is a CRAFT in my HEAD and i cannot BUILD IT. snage and snatred

[writerinthegutter]

there is a FORMULA in my HEAD and i cannot DEVELOP IT. redhat and rega

[writerinthegutter]

This never gets old. Whoever knows who this author is, send me her works.

[p0ppyfl0wer-deactivated20260504]

"What are you writing?"

Ooh, you might wanna sit down for this one buddy.

[nondelphic]

i’m not procrastinating. i’m allowing the story to ferment. like kimchi. or a crime scene

[writerinthegutter]

like alcohol, it grows better with age

[nondelphic]

writing tip: put words on page. hope this helps. i will not be taking questions because i have not done this

[nondelphic]

i would finish my book but sadly i am busy being haunted by the concept of finishing my book

[writerinthegutter]

i would finish my book but sadly my book is busy being haunted by the concept of finishing me

[alex-just-vibing]

looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

[alamogirl80]

Reblogging for the absolute brutal accuracy of this comment

[anachronic-cobra]

And then you're like "fuck it, I'll make my own" and once you've done that you toss it into the goodwill bin to be someone else's prada or container of human teeth

[mjrtaurus]

And sometimes you gotta go with the container of human teeth purely out of morbid curiosity.

[waterme-stories]

The container of human teeth is what I was looking for specifically. If you must know.

[writingdose]

© _ADWills

[writerinthegutter]

It never ceases.

[decemberwinter]

listen. I’m all for “writers deserving of having their boundaries respected” but this is so funny to me and like the funniest part is that I don’t think it’s even grounded in reality. like, how are you going to require proof that your readers are in your specific age range? why does it matter to you how old your readers are??? they are???? strangers???? why do you care? how does it affect you? 😭

but to be fair, this is some shit I did when I was 12 and thought I was edgy too. so I get it.