I Got A Feelimg Theyre Talking Abt That Son Of Zeus (metaphorically Speaking Ofc) On Tiktok

mid life crisis ? no no, mid DAY crisis. happens every day

why cant we have anything nice? :(

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

*opens the doc again* let me glorify lust once more as I write another chapter....

Shout out if you also include erotica or smut in your works to turn meaningful narrative into an indulgent detour designed only to stimulate arousal

27✨️days

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I hate to break it to you, but they were right. You really do just have to finish that first draft. It can be a hot mess, but you can’t clean up a room that doesn’t exist

ive also heard abt replying to comments as artificial cumment inflation

and also, a fic of mine that has a bestiality tag on it is getting overlooked (compared to my other ones) and it makes me feel that theres this disconnect between "pwp/wank material readers" and every other vanilla reader to add to the fact that the hits are alright, so ppl maybe feel ashamed or something to kudo/comment, which is nuts.

I just want crazy porn, good writing and community. isnt that what ao3 is abt? 🌈🫶

One thing I feel like the Ao3 community lacks compared to other sites, especially Brazilian fanfic websites which was part of my cultural upbringing as a Brazilian writer, is responding to comments.

Sometimes I’ll see a fic with a lot of comments and the author rarely replies anything, even to the bigger ones. This is something I personally had difficulty adjusting when I moved to ao3 from Spirit Fanfics, the Brazilian fanfic website I used to post on.

You guys don’t have a culture of replying to comments and I think you miss a lot by not doing so. A lot of my greatest friends were found by talking in the comment section of fics, whether they were mine or replying to my comment, and it’s very nice to engage with readers and authors in that way. I feel like ao3 doesn’t have much of this and I have the feeling Wattpad isn’t much different.

I get very happy when an author replies to a comment I’ve made and it makes me more excited to actively engage with what they write, knowing it could start a conversation where we both gush about the media talked about and the fic itself. But for every comment I leave, there’s a bunch of people that end up never replying, especially those with bigger fics (which partially I understand cause they get a lot of comments and it gets hard to manage every single one, but still) and it’s kinda disappointing.

I’m not trying to say the author owes the commenter a response for their comment, but I do think it could improve the influx of them by engaging with the readers in that section. It’s very often I see fics with lots of comments but absolutely no reply from the author. At best it’s a “thank you for commenting” on the start of the next chapter and that’s it. It’s a nice thing but still, generic thanks. It’s not much to gush about and have a bigger interpersonal connection with.

Maybe I’m just steamrolling here or maybe I’m too Brazilian for gringo culture, but I think y’all are missing out on some great experiences by not engaging more with comments, whether it be between author-reader or reader-reader.

i thought i imagined dead doves suddenly being posted mostly anon, but now i guess this new wave of fanfic authors thinks their boss is going to magically find they are "babygirlgoku" on ao3 or sth

also, dead doves are art, dont like dont read, etc 🧏

"you don't post your dead dove fics on anon?" no, all of my dead dove, dirty, disgusting gay smut are posted on my main. I have no shame. normalize a girl being a pervert and a sex-crazed freak

I wanna read it

They do this shit for free, IF YOU LOVE IT AND WANT MORE COMMENT 👏👏👏