#fanfic reader problems

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

AO3 has been down all day due to a malicious (deliberate) DDoS attack. As a reminder, they are a volunteer team working on fixing this, so if you've been at all flustered, irritated, or upset today that you can't access AO3, consider this your cue to float them a donation.

Seriously. Mark a reminder in your phone, on your to-do, or however you remember future tasks. When the site is back up, send them a couple bucks.

#AO3 #archive of our own #fanfic reader problems #fanfic writer problems

[pastafossa]

Nurse: ok so you have to wear this monitor

Me: can do

Nurse: and you have to write down any symptoms in this diary, with the time and what you were doing. Heart palpitations, nausea, dizziness, increased heart rate, things like that

Me, thinking I'll only have to do this for a day or so: right, I can do that.

Nurse: so in a week when you take it off-

Me: EXCUSE ME, DID YOU SAY A WEEK

Nurse: yes, for 5 days! Remember, you need to log all your symptoms, and what you're doing when they happen

Me, thinking of all the smutty fanfic I read on a nightly basis:

#fanfic reader problems #haaaaaaa fuck

[eddies-puppet]

The worst way to start your day.

Flicking through Tumblr and spot a fic I want to read, just leaving it on the front page so I can come back to it later, going back to Tiktok.

Phone crashes so I hit 'close all apps' without thinking, screaming 'nooooo' a split second later as I realise I hadn't paid enough attention to the description to find it again.

Spending the rest of the day wondering if I've just missed out on the fic that would change my life.

#eddie munson #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson smut #eddie munson x you #eddie munson fanfic #eddie munson fic #fanfic reader problems

[businesscasualart]

Sometimes I think I’d like to see That Little Guy™️ put in some angsty scenario but I remember that one time I was watching Legends of Avantris vods and Kremy loved unicorns and was about to go up to the unicorn carousel and he talking about “Do you think they let you ride it more than once?” “Oh which unicorn do I choose?”. And then I stopped watching the vod right then, right there and didn’t look at the series for a month bc I didn’t know if I could take it if he didn’t get Everything he wanted. I continued the series after a month and cried until he got up there and got to ride the unicorns and was happy.

As someone who likes to appear cool and tough, you can understand my distress-

#legends of avantris #kremy lecroux #once upon a witchlight #Angst #fanfic reader problems #ill think about the most messed up scenario for a blorbo in my head for a months but READING IT????? #Lorelei’s yelling into the void again #This is why I need to catch the actual LOA streams; so they drag me along

[hopefullyandrogynousartist]

am i the only person who has a normal amount of love for ao3? like it's nice but I'm not obsessed

friend I love you but wtf. you'll be fine.

#ao3 #fanfiction #archive of our own #fanfic reader problems #fanfic #ao3 is down #well probably not anymore but you get the point #this was texted to me when ao3 was down just so we're clear #i love my friend lots but she is a little bonkers over fanfiction #and i am too but i never know if ao3 is down #I'm never on ao3 when it's down

[dubiousculturalartifact]

the inherent tension between 'i want to read only finished fics so I can have the catharsis of a finished story immediately'

vs 'i want to read WIPs for that little ping of serotonin when I get the inbox notification of a new chapter'

#fanfiction #fanfic reader problems

[orbis-alius]

You all keep complaining when you can go read FFN or Wattpad, that will remind you to show your appreciation to AO3 when the problem is fixed

#ao3 #ao3 down #ao3 writer #ao3 reader #fanfic reader problems #fanfic #fanfic writer problems #fanfiction

[lifeofmarvvel]

If you ever wondered how far back using orbs for eyes goes

William Blake describes eyes as orbs in The Book of Urizen. In 1794.

#b talks #fanfic writing problems #fanfic reader problems #william blake #anyway im back with more english lit fun facts

[embie-the-buttercup]

I just read possibly the best fanfiction I've ever read and I can't share it with anyone... 👉🥲

#i do have fanficton buddies in my friend group #it's that i would never admit to reading in this particular fandom #but it was so well written 😩 #fanfic reader problems #fanfiction #fanfic #fan girl #rpf #obviously #aaaaah #okay #it was #carson coma #hungarians #of tumblr #assemble

[krishneedanvers]

Me: Ok tonight I'm gonna be productive. I'm gonna revise and do past papers. I'm gonna-

*Receives mail*

Me: Fuck it-

#fanfiction #fanfic reader problems #fanfic readers #ao3 #fanfic meme

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

I'm not into Batman or comics at all, but I feel like there's a real and tangible difference between saying you have to engage with The Hunger Games to get Katniss Everdeen and saying you have to engage with comics to get a comic book character. The Hunger Games is a completed series of books that can be read in an attainable amount of time, and the characterization is easy to understand and consistent because it was all written by one person. Most media was written by one person or team of people and therefore has a certain level of consistency. Even if there was a reboot of The Hunger Games, it would either be characterized very similarly to the first one in which case the distinction would be irrelevant or the fans of the original and the fans of the reboot would be totally distinct fandoms and bodies.

Comics are almost completely unique in that any given run could have been written by almost anyone and characterization fluctuates wildly between runs. That person cited a specific run to read to understand Cassandra Cain, but there are probably dozens, maybe even hundreds of other series that deal with the character very differently and all of them have the same authority as canon. Saying that one is the best one is just another type of fanon, where the fans decide what the best representation of the character is -- or maybe that's the first one she appeared in (?) in which case there's some merit to adhering to the original version of the character, but it's still a community choosing to ignore a lot of canon material in favor of a preferred interpretation.

The closest equivalent to the way comics are produced today is, like, Arthurian legend and ancient Greek tales of the gods and heroes. These stories were made up by hundreds, maybe thousands of people over the years -- are still being made up in some cases -- and any individual's characterization fluctuates wildly between them. There are preferred versions and compilations of these old stories, but people aren't generally judged for liking to talk about the widespread cultural understanding of them, rather than citing a specific ancient Greek playwright or Shakespeare adaptation that they're adhering to and basing all their headcanons off of.

I wish you'd put your name to this, because it's a good take.

#I need a general ask tag #fandom #fanfic writer problems #fanfic reader problems #batfam

[ivlenyxx]

Comfort on New Year’s Eve (FengQing oneshot)

Summary:

Mu Qing is sad that his mother isn't here to visit him for New Year's and laments it on the balcony. Feng Xin comes to take a breather but ends up comforting Mu Qing instead. They talk about their feelings and this ends in a kiss

Notes:

Lol I wrote this in the middle of the night and published it at like 3 am, so it's very bad compared to my other fic and I didn't beta read it cause I was too tired to. Enjoy tho. Constructive criticism welcome as always.

Btw, translations for the text messages in Cantonese will be provided at the end of the paragraph.

“Why did I ever agree to this?”

Mu Qing asks himself as he stares up into the night sky, the loud noise of people partying behind him echoing to where he was standing on the balcony.

Mu Qing sighs and takes out his phone, unlocking it and staring at all the messages that his mother had left him.

Mama

Mama: 我個乖仔點啊? 喺大學讀得開唔開心啊? 識咗新朋友未啊? (sent 11:27 pm, Hong Kong time)

Mama: 新年快樂啊! (sent 11:27 pm, Hong Kong time)

Mama: 媽咪今個新年離唔到英國探你真係對唔住啊, 我喺香港好忙, 連新年過嚟搵你嘅時間都無,但喺你生日嘅時候我一定嚟探你!媽咪應承你! 希望你可以你可以原諒媽咪啦! (Sent 11:28 pm, Hong Kong time)

(Translations:

Mama: How’s my good boy? Are you happy studying at the university? Make any new friends?

Mama: Happy New Year!

Mama: Mami is sorry she can’t come to England to see you this year, I’m very busy in Hong Kong, and can’t even make time to visit you on New Year’s, but I will come to visit on your birthday! Mami promises you she will! I hope you can forgive Mami!)

Mu Qing stares at the last message, his mom hadn’t made it to England to visit him for New Year’s this year, but she’d promised him that she’d make it for his birthday.

The thought that she isn’t there for him this New Year’s made Mu Qing feel… sad? Ever since he was born, Mu Qing always celebrated New Year’s with his mother, making niangao, going to the park to look at the lanterns at night, playing with fireworks at night, those were all the things that they did together, and though it wasn’t much, it made Mu Qing happy, and the fact that his mother was there with him made it ten times better.

But ever since he started college in London, he hasn’t been able to see his mother much, and while she still visits him for New Year’s, Christmas and his birthday every year, the fact that she isn’t here this year just made Mu Qing feel awful.

He wipes away some tears forming in his eyes and takes a deep breath.

It’s just one year, Mu Qing, she’ll be here for your birthday. He tells himself.

But that doesn’t make it any better.

Mu Qing tries to wipe away more tears forming in his eyes and looks towards the sky once again.

“Hey.”

A voice rings out from behind him. Mu Qing turns around to see Feng Xin, carrying two cups of what he assumes is tea and looking at him curiously.

“What are you doing out here?” Feng Xin asks.

“Could say the same for you.” Mu Qing responds, trying to keep his voice as steady as possible. “What are you doing here?”

Feng Xin sighs and leans on the railing of the balcony.

“It was too chaotic in there, had to come out to take a breather.”

“What? Can’t take a bit of noise?” Mu Qing teases him.

“Hey-” Feng Xin opens his mouth to protest, but stops himself when he sees that Mu Qing is shaking slightly.

“Hey, are you cold?”

“No.” Mu Qing says, voice trembling. “I’m fine.”

Feng Xin sighs. “No, I can see that you’re shivering.” he takes off his jacket and drapes it over Mu Qing.

“Hey, what are you-” Mu Qing flushes a bit when he feels the jacket being put on him. “I don’t need this.” he glowers at Feng Xin and hands the jacket back to him.

“No, you do.” Feng Xin puts the jacket back onto him and shoves the cup of tea in his hands. “You’re gonna catch a cold if you don’t cover up.”

“Quit mother-henning me.” Mu Qing rolls his eyes and takes a sip of the tea. The tea is warm, not too bitter, and warms him up the moment it touches his tongue, and he could feel the warmth spreading from his stomach to the tips of his fingers.

It reminds him of his mom.

Tears start forming in Mu Qing’s eyes again and he wipes them away.

“Hey, are you okay?” Feng Xin asks him, concerned.

“Of course I’m okay, what makes you think that I’m not okay?” Mu Qing says dryly, but there’s a tremble to his voice and Feng Xin notices that Mu Qing’s eyes are red and there are tear tracks running down his face.

“Yeah I’m not buying it.” Feng Xin says. “What’s going on?”

“I said I’m fine, don’t you have better things to do?” Mu Qing rolls his eyes, trying to appear as apathetic as possible.

“No, no I don't.” Feng Xin says and scoots closer to Mu Qing. “You can tell me what’s wrong.”

“I told you already, there’s nothing wrong-”

“Mu Qing I will literally not let you leave this balcony unless you tell me what’s wrong, right now.” Feng Xin says firmly, and locks Mu Qing’s wrist in a tight grip.

“What the- let me go!” Mu Qing tries to yank his arm out of Feng Xin’s grip, but to no avail.

“I told you, I’m not letting you go until you tell me what’s wrong.”

Mu Qing struggles to get out of Feng Xin’s grip, and he tries and tries for a long time but to no avail. He eventually gives up and just sighs.

“Alright, fine.” he sighs in defeat. “I’ll tell you.”

“Hm.” Feng Xin says, satisfied, and lets go of Mu Qing.

Mu Qing takes a deep breath. “You know how my mom always comes visit me on New Year’s Eve?”

“Yeah, I know, she won’t stop fussing over us.” Feng Xin sighs fondly, reminiscing about Mrs Mu’s last visit to their campus, where she fussed over how Feng Xin and Mu Qing kept their dorm room and cleaned and reorganized everything.

“Yeah well, she didn’t come to visit this year.” Mu Qing hangs his head low, trying to not let Feng Xin see the tears in his eyes. “She promised that she would come on my birthday, but I’m still kinda bummed that she didn’t come for New Year. She always comes to visit, yet this year, she didn’t come. I know it’s silly and kind of stupid, but I haven't seen her in so long and I miss her, you know what I mean?” he sniffs and wipes the tears away. He uses a moment to muster up the courage to look at Feng Xin, fully expecting him to laugh at him or otherwise be weirded out, but once he raises his head, Feng Xin’s expression is unreadable.

“Don’t, I already know what you're thinking.” Mu Qing turns to the side, expecting Feng Xin to burst out laughing.

But what he didn’t expect was for Feng Xin to wrap his arms around him and envelope him in a tight hug.

Mu Qing is startled at first, but eventually melts into the hug and wraps his arms around Feng Xin’s waist.

“Mu Qing, it’s okay to miss your mom.” Feng Xin says as he rubs circles on his back. “It’s completely fine to be sad about your mom not coming to visit you on New Year’s. You can talk to us about it. Xie Lian, Shi QingXuan, me… We’d all listen.”

Tears spill out of Mu Qing’s eyes and he cries into Feng Xin’s shirt, but his mouth can’t stop morphing into a smile as he cries, and once he faces Feng Xin, he’s fully smiling.

That sight makes Feng Xin’s heart leap.

“I-I know, thanks.” Mu Qing wipes the tears away and looks down. “Feng Xin, there’s something I need to tell you.”

Feng Xin’s breath hitches. “What is it?”

Mu Qing takes a deep breath. “I don’t know how to tell you this, but since we’ve known eachother long enough, I might as well tell you..”

“10!”

“What do you mean?” Feng Xin asks nervously.

“It’s kind of stupid, and you might hate me for it.”

“9!”

“But,” Mu Qing prepares himself. “I think it’d be better to just tell you instead of hiding it.”

“8!”

“Feng Xin,” Mu Qing begins, staring into Feng Xin’s eyes.

“7!”

“I have a crush on you.”

That takes Feng Xin by surprise, and he is frozen for a split second. “W-what?” he says weakly.

“6!”

“It means that I like you, romantically.”

“5!”

“And I would like you to be my boyfriend.”

“4!”

Feng Xin has to pinch himself a few times just to make sure he isn’t dreaming. “You’re serious?”

“Yes.”

“3!”

“Well then,” Feng Xin puts a hand on Mu Qing’s cheek. “I’d like to.” he says as he stares into his eyes.

“Oh.” a pretty blush floods Mu Qing’s face. “Well then would you want to-”

“Yes.”

“2!”

Mu Qing raises a hand to caress Feng Xin’s cheek, and takes a deep breath. He dives in, lips fitting onto each other perfectly, and touching as soon as the crowd chanted 1.

“Happy New Year, Feng Xin.” Mu Qing smiles as he presses his and Feng Xin’s foreheads together, fireworks going off in the background.

“Happy New Year, Mu Qing.” Feng Xin says before diving in for another kiss from his boyfriend.

Notes:

Thanks for reading this train wreck of a oneshot! It's definitely not as good compared to the other one I have and I think I'll rewrite it one day to fix the mistakes, but for now, happy new year and I hope 2023 will not be as bad as the previous 3 years (I do not have high hopes tho.)

Link to OG on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43982388

#tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #feng xin tgcf #mu qing #feng xin x mu qing #modern au #new year’s eve #hurt/comfort #getting together #first kiss #fireworks #countdown #mu Qing’s mom #i wrote this in one sitting #I should be sleeping #i wrote this instead of sleeping #fanfic reader problems #ao3 fanfic #Not beta read #no beta we die like shi wudu

[businesscasualart]

TFW you write by the seat of your pants and you’re following your bullet points and it occurs to you that you have NO idea how to transition scenes here. Like the previous scene is OVER, it’s time for us to move into the Next Bullet Point but it is. Simply. Not going. At all. So you just sit there typing the characters bantering like “Fun character banter take the wheeeeeeel~ take it from my handssssss~ idk how to get this guy into this lady’s bed~—“

#Writing #writing struggles #fanfic reader problems #writing process #fanfic writing #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #fanfic struggles #fanfic problems #writing problems #I’m glad we’re having fun BUT CAN WE GET TO THE UNCOMFORTABLE TENSION??? #Cracking jokes but I need y’all looking meaningfully into each other’s eyes in the next 100 words or I swear on my life and yours— #Lorelei’s yelling into the void again

[durenjtmusings]

Daily Fanfic Malapropism: Indiscriminately

“Bucky spins around a cramped corner, firing indescribably just to keep himself safe.”

To be fair, this one might be a nasty case of autocorrect.

#I mean-it could have been indescribable #but you just described it #fic name withheld to protect the author. #fanfic reader problems #writing is hard #autocorrect is an asshole #malapropism

[uupiic]

The problem with me and reading fanfic is that if I find one that I absolutely vibe with, I need to either a) tear through it in one sitting, or b) ration it, so I can enjoy it for as long as I can.

I do not get to choose which of those it’ll be this time.

#Uupiic reads stuff #fanfic reader problems #fanfic problems

[evilista]

It's so weird reading older fics. Like ones written now everyone's just automatically bi until proven otherwise, then you read an older fic, and everyone's "I'm straight! Except for him!" Or he sleeps with a guy after years of being with women, he's gay, he has a one night stand with a woman "So you're straight again??" "I don't like labels!" just say bi! Just say it! The fic is set (and written in) in 2006, bisexuals existed!

#fanfic reader problems