Do You Know Of Any Fics That Deal With Addiction? Preferably Multichaptered Fics?

You know what’s really disturbing to me? The culture that seems to have sprung up around fanfiction. Writers spend weeks and months working on a story – I think my record is six months on A Place For Us To Dream. And so many times readers expect to just be given a chapter even if they don’t give anything to the writer in return.

I’m going to date myself a bit here, but I’ve been reading/writing fanfiction for ten years. And when I first started it was a wonderful community. There was an unspoken rule – if you read/enjoyed it, you review it. You take thirty seconds to tell an author who probably spent anywhere from three days to a week writing that chapter you just enjoyed to tell them you enjoyed it. Even if it was as simple as “Great chapter, can’t wait to see what happens next!”

Writers spend so much time on stories, and then they post it because they have this thing that they’ve invested so many hours into and they want to share it with the world. They know how they feel about the story, and they want to know how other people feel, what other people think.

And when you read it and don’t review, you know what message you’re sending that author? That they’re not worth your time, or you didn’t enjoy their story. So why should they keep posting it? Yeah they might continue working on it in their own time, for their own enjoyment, but you might never see another chapter again because you couldn’t be bothered to take thirty seconds out of your day to tell them how you feel.

I’ve written stories in eight different fandoms, ranging from very small to very big (I’ll openly admit I wrote Twilight fanfiction once. Once. It was an Alice/Jasper story and haters can hate all they want but I’m still proud of it). I took a break for a few years because I fell out of fandoms during college, and when I came back apparently it’d become the norm to just greedily consume writing without telling writers how you feel. And that is one of the saddest things in the world to me because fanfiction is where I really started getting serious about writing. It’s how I’ve honed by skills and become the writer I am today. And that was largely in part because of all the support I got when I was an itty-bitty thirteen-year-old writing crappy W.I.T.C.H. fanfiction.

Everyone keeps saying “reviews don’t matter, you should just write for yourself.” Well, you’re wrong. Reviews make or break fanfiction. Reviews tell writers whether it’s worth their time to continue posting that story online or whether they should keep it on their hard drives and never share it with the world.

Kill the attitude that reviews don’t matter. Start telling writers you like their stories. And if you don’t, if you all just continue to be invisible readers? Don’t be surprised when that writer disappears.

Any kindergarten teacher AUs? Or one where either Shiro or Keith have a kid?

till my heart glows - aubadezayn 

10k. (Explicit) Contains: nsfw content

when keith’s best friend lance and his wife pass away in an accident and leave their young daughter marianna without a family or a home, keith adopts her and raises her as best as he can. maintaining his career as a sex worker and trying to manage a young child when he’d never wanted to be a parent is hard, but he’s managing. when marianna starts kindergarten and they meet her handsome teacher, takashi shirogane, things get a bit more complicated.

Growing Pains - damnspacebois @damnspacebois​

1k. (General Audiences) 

Shiro drops his and Keith’s daughter off at preschool for the first time. Keith manages to get out of it.

Ceremonious - swallowed_stars

3k. (General Audiences)

They have the perfect birthday party setup: family, cake, decorations. Now Keith just needs to figure out how to pop a certain question.

@disloyalpunk​ has her own ao3, but her domestic whole foods au is only on tumblr so far! It’s precious, and Shiro and Keith have a son named Tamaki.

- Monx & Catherine

Record Score

Third and final piece of Message Received (See my fic-list for parts one and two) not exactly what I’d had planned, maybe not what any of you wanted, but I hope you like it anywayyyy….This wasn’t even what I had planned to post lol but eh I think this was more anticipated.

Softly dedicated to all of my extremely patient followers, I appreciate you all.

Word count: 5363 Rating in case you stumble on this since we can’t tag responsibly anymore: lemon. (would you call this grapefruit?? Nahhh the next series I’m working is grapefruit.) Ship: Klance (Pff) now with some previous Jaith (And if ya’ll hate James you can shush, Jaith as exes who ended amicably will always be one of my favorite things so just shush up.) Where we left off: Keith had responded to Lance’s accidental phone sex with an extremely purposeful sex tape. Lance is now on his way to have at the guy he apparently could have had from the get go.

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It’s one thing, Lance figures, to punch an address into his uber app so that he doesn’t have to think about anything but Keith until he gets to his apartment. It’s another thing entirely to think of nothing but Keith and not get a hard on in said uber drivers back seat.

And even better to grow so incredibly anxious back there when he realizes that Keith not only lives off campus but a way off campus. Like— away, a way.

It’s twenty minutes before Lance recognizes Keith’s bike in a parking lot and knows he’s finally getting close. The uber driver shoots him a look.

“Man, try not to drool on my seats will you,” he scoffed.

Lance rolled his eyes and leaned his forehead against the window glass, his leg bouncing nervously.

“I have been a perfect gentleman James, don’t give me that shit.”

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Can shiro be my daddy?

CAN HE BE MINE???

a quick shiro in short shorts for no other reason than i wanted to see it :D

This AU would hardly be complete without our dear princess

Future!Keith meets Shiro

Fics where one or both of them are teachers? Preferably complete ❤

Give Me a Sign - avidbeader @avidbeader

ongoing, ¼ chapters, 4k. (Mature).

Shiro is the new science teacher, still dealing with some culture shock in adjusting to a school four times the size of his previous one. At graduation, he’s still meeting other teachers for the first time, including his first look at one of the ASL interpreters.

It’s Purely Educational, I Swear - cherryburlesque

10k. (General).

Keith is a volunteer at the school library, where he holds reading sessions for the kids who might not normally read otherwise. His motivation for being there is solely, one hundred percent genuinely focused on encouraging creativity and imagination in his young charges.

The smoking hot Kindergarten Teacher has absolutely nothing to do with it. Really.

Storytelling and Honey Buns - Holyangelheart @holyangelheart

11k. (Teen). Contains: minor Lotor/Allura.

Keith is a librarian at the local library but every Friday he volunteers his day towards reading for the kindergarten classes at the Garrison Elementary school nearby. For a year Keith continued to read to the kids, but one teacher always caught his eye.

It was nothing but a crush, but after Mr. Shirogane asks Keith if he wanted a honey bun, Keith finds himself second guessing that.

Ride My Firetruck - otayuriistheliteralbest @otayuriistheliteralbest

2k. (Explicit). Contains: NSFW content.

Keith takes his students on a field trip to the firehouse to learn about fire fighters and the lieutenant giving the tour is entirely too hot for his own good, especially when he slips his number into Keith’s jacket pocket, telling him to call him later…

Heart, could we bear the marvel of this thing? - Szoraya @szoraya

19k. (Mature). Contains: NSFW content, background Allura/Lance

“Healthy snacks. You got it.” Shiro nods, doing his best to look as devoted as the woman with the pumps and the Victoria Beckham-hairstyle did talking to Keith before. “I prepare Kiki’s lunchbox myself, and I always make sure she eats a varied diet and gets her, you know, five-a-day. You can count on me. You can count on us for sure.” Another nod for emphasis.

Keith’s mouth twitches.

“I must’ve heard wrong today when she complained about how her dad can’t even prepare frozen tater tots without burning them, then.”

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Shiro magically discovers that he’s very much a PTA dad when his daughter starts first grade. It has nothing to do with her teacher, Keith, unrighteously hot for a stupid name like that. Obviously.

Sweater Vests & Cigarettes - marmorashadows (onecharredwings) @pining-sheith

38k. (Explicit). Contains: NSFW content, mentions of abuse & suicide

Takashi Shirogane is a sensible man who drives a sensible car and has a sensible job – that is, until he meets Keith Kogane.

The AU where Shiro is a professor and he thinks Keith is a student. But he isn’t.

no one else has ever fit the equation quite like you - janie_tangerine @janiedean

39k. (Teen). Contains: Hunk/Lance

in which college maths professor Shiro takes a break from teaching after an accident that almost lost him an arm, but in order to keep himself occupied accepts to supervise the maths class for the local community college. He doesn’t expect to find in between his new students Keith, one of the uni’s janitors (incidentally, the one he might have been crushing on for a while, to his TA’s amusement). Then it turns out the guy isn’t just good at maths - he’s actually beyond gifted. Shiro might be over in his head here.

(Or: the sort-of-Will-Hunting-inspired AU you probably didn’t know you wanted.)

Also, check out our teacher tag.

- Kel

modern au: they love to talk to each other!! 

HES SO CUTE IM GONNA CRY,,