It has happened to me so many times it is not every funny

I thought a fic was going to have 21 chapters, they said so in their notes, but then it ended a chapter early and was marked complete. I still love that fic, (it’s one of my favorites) but I’m still off kilter thinking about it.

Throwback to when I used to use Wattpad and this would happen SO MUCH for no reason 😭🙏

I don’t mind reading abandoned fics but I want to KNOW they’re abandoned :(

Like there’s literally a tag specifically for that and they just refuse to use it

Yeah, I agree. Like, for example, just because some people headcanon Alastor from Hazbin Hotel as completely sex repulsed, doesn't mean that _I_ have to. I headcanon him as demisexual or greysexual. Like I mean, _come on,_ people. :P. And if I wanna ship Alastor with Angel Dust, Vox and Lucifer, and read a ton of smut fanfics with the tag Non-Sex Repulsed Alastor in them, then by God, _LET ME DO THAT, DAMNIT!!!!_ SHEESH, I am NOT hurting anyone else by doing these things!!!

Bruh I had an ex friend tell me to go kms bc I used to ship an OC with a character they shipped their OC with. Same person went onto harass voice actors from some indie project bc the characters they were voicing got engaged and they shipped their OC with the male lead.

@@GraveyardMaiden That is like 50 levels of toxic wtf

​@@hannahmetzger4880 are all of those people shipping him actually writing him as aspec though or are they making him allo in the fic. Bc from what I've seen (with a different aspec character) the latter tends to happen a lot more, unfortunately.

@@PhoebeTheFairy56 I don't really know, man. I haven't read all the fics shipping him. I think I've seen a ton that do it pretty well, at least in my opinion. :P.

Ah, Sexy Times With Wangxian…

And there were random tags like 'chairs' in it to artificially extend the tag list. XD I've actually seen screenshots of the tag list used in games of the, "zoom in and the first one you see is how your year is going to go" variety.

@@Pipkiablo That's wild😂

I’m pretty sure that’s the exact reason why there’s now a tag limit

​@@Pipkiabloapparently I'm going to die from vacation lol

Even if I didn't have something like that tagged because I considered it too minor in the grand scheme of a massive, multi-chapter fic or didn't expect to include it until the story led me there, I always ALWAYS warn people in the chapter's author notes so they have some warning, even if it wasn't tagged. I don't understand why it's so hard for some authors to warn people about triggering content.

real it’s been like 3 years and im still traumatized 😭😭

damn, not even tagging r*pe. are they desperate for their fic to get attention?

That actually sounds horrible. Hope you are doing better

Oh gosh. I wish tagging was more common even in fanart. People will draw a bit gore as romantic or smut and there here I "WHAT" Not every people are okay with gore and smut :))))) even more for characters that you don't think that would have.

James Summerton moment

Cave Story?

Can't believe tommy tallarico invented AO3. His mother must be very proud

People do this in every. Goddamn. Fandom. It's not an excuse. "But- but my father has cancer and this is thera-" "Shut up, stop with the excuses, take your story down."

before that part it sounded like cassandra clare,,

I know it's so annoying 🙄. Like this isn't TikTok, you won't get banned for saying killed

Omfg exactly! Screen readers also have a difficult time reading text when it’s censored, so people who need them to read might not notice the tag if it’s censored. Censoring tags defeats the ENTIRE purpose of tagging fics!

I'll do you one worse. I came across multiple smut fics written about real people who said they didn't want to have that sort of stuff made about them. Their names were tagged but censored so it wouldn't show up if people searched for that fandom. You'd just know what it was if you stumbled upon it via its uncensored kink tags.

That's so weird. If you're going to be that willingly creepy and invasive why even post it to the Internet? That's a genuine question but I also feel like it answers itself unfortunately ​@@IceFireofVoid

@mchjsosde I think there's a serious issue where people don't view content creators as people. They view them as things or fictional characters. And by dehumanizing them like this, they justify violating their boundaries. After all, a fictional character can't get offended. It goes the opposite way too with people who idolize content creators or celebrities and think they can do no wrong. Humans naturally have flaws, but an object or character can be made to be perfect.

yes oh my god its annoying

I always feel kinda guilty for being so genuinely frustrated over them, so I’m grateful other people find them just as irritating as me.

​@@perpetualsickMe too

What is even the point? The number one way to guarantee that i'm not reading a story in whatever fandom im actually looking for is to smother it under a bunch of other crap i don't care about. It feels like whoever writes them doesn't know how to use the website and thinks you're only supposed to post multi-chapter stories or something.

@@spacecadetkaito i think they do that because they want to get as many hits and kudos as possible

Oh my god, so I'm not the only one who's experienced this! It pisses me off too. And I completely agree with your point about transparency with writing and tagging. The people undertagging their CR works are intentionally trying to bait people into reading their works and punish them in a sense for liking the ship.

this is absolutely against the site’s policy that says the tags must be accurate, and you can report a fic for doing this

Really, like authors can chose to not use warning tags (r*pe, underage, violence, major character death) for spoiler reasons and stuff but if they do they should tag "creator chose to not use archive warning" so you know there could be *something* But what you said isn't even that, that's just being a shithead.

i once read a fic that had self harm in it that wasn't tagged and it fucked me up mentally. i have serious issues regarding such things and i avoid fics like that for a reason. not tagging common triggering topics is actively harmful and i wish those authors would understand that.

@@abiean222 I'm so sorry that happened to you, I wish you the best of luck in avoiding those things from now on

honestly, same.

Generally I think keep your opinions to yourself about ships unless it’s smth like incest or pedophilia (Granted you still don’t need to share your opinion but I think judging at the least is fair)

usually i just filter out smut and the ships i don't like and move on (though sometimes i get really annoyed if a fic looks good but theirs just one ship i absolutely hate but i just move on)

Idk. I think venting about how annoyed you are about something being popular and not your taste, so long as you give proper respectful warnings should be fine. Just as people are allowed to like what they like, they should be able to dislike what they dislike. It should be kept in a separate area from the place for the people who like that thing, but I think it’s fine for people who don’t like a thing to gather just as much as those who like it, so long as they don’t disrespect each other for their fandom opinions. Though I do wish people would be willing to explain their rationale. Sometimes I don’t get why they feel the way they do and I get curious.

@@starlydonati2008 I agree, I think the issue is when instead of like wanting to talk about why u dislike smth or have a dialogue ig about it you just trash on anybody who likes what you dislike and call them a horrible person and are completely closed minded about any of it, like even if it sounds crazy to u them liking that thing doesn’t mean they’re a horrible person.

I agree with you. How are you supposed to know not to read a fic when it's not tagged properly?

I know someone on the Watters in the Yugioh fanfic side who uses that excuse CONSTANTLY! Especially when they write really not good fics like corn of the Yugioh Sevens characters (who are like 11-13) and a Yugioh Vrains Datashipping fic where there’s a massive age gap. I can’t ship Datashipping without thinking about it. And I know this person (we haven’t had a single conversation but I have seen their account) because I use the same fandom tag for some of my fics and that’s how I mostly found out. And I even commented on some of their books before I figured out and I want to take back all the comments I placed! (Sorry if I ranted for too long)

Exactly. "Don't Like, Don't Read" translates to, "I'm a sick bastard who traumatizes people for my own amusement, and there's nothing you or the site can do about it."

thats definitely meant for stories and content that ARE properly tagged. It's supposed to be for people who bitch even after the tags are put in place.

Oh yeah I fully abide by don't like don't read but that's what tags are for and like it doesn't even just apply to dead dove do not eat or NSFW tags. As an example I would be really annoyed if I went into a fanfic expecting it to be in the original media's time period and read it only to realize that it was a modern Au that they didn't bother to tag as such

Awh. Glad that has a good ending. It’s so annoying when people bash others for having harmless fun.

@just..the..cyllyz YES!!! She is one of my favorites!! (Oh my god all my faves are women except one I just realized)

Man that sucks. Of all the rice to bash on they pick an innocent story of a kid having fun :(

That's actually really wholesome. I'm glad they supported her.

The MCSM fandom is honestly the least toxic of any that I've been in. It's such a chill, accepting and wanting fandom. We all wanna have fun, and write about the characters. It's cool! Heck, even I've been considering it but don't know if I should fully commit.

that's literally insane omg

Holy crap that's.. concerning

Whaaaaaat 💀?

okay wtf

That's like saying because someone comes into a store to get a strawberry boba means they're ok with having matcha mixed in

Especially since kinks are extremely weird to read about when you don't have them. Like, I didn't come here to read paragraphs about somebody's feet...

Yeah, like if I'm into bananas, does that mean I like apples too just cause they both fruits?

@@GraveyardMaiden I know what you're getting at but this is such a funny example to me because I would be so happy if I got surprise matcha in my strawberry boba 😂😅

@@CoraMaria exactly like you may like that in your strawberry boba but not everyone does

Fr like I just came her for the comments I didn’t even watch the video and I’m not gonna, I don’t need to know about what all those jerkwads did

As I always like to say, fanfics are the purest form of art.

I can’t even lie this is genuinely funny

Let’s write a fanfiction : Christian and Conservative edition

i saw an author write a mlm ship but then in an authour note start to talk about not like mlm as much as wlw and i was just like :0 i'm just here to see my rare pair.

That is iconic behavior, but also absolutely insane

i quickly became homophobic

It's giving Dante's vibes 😂

Divine comedy in a nutshell

That one was extra funny to me as someone who did the opposite. Me and my bestie wrote a super goofy fic set in a really niche fanfic (I think there were 6 fics before ours), and we were so excited to have attracted a single fan that we wrote her into the story and let her marry her favorite character instead of killing him (it was for a horror game and he was one of the bosses).

Literally just the Divine Comedy.

Wow...that's messed up.

That's literally insane, the other person was just showing their support for the fic. It's not alright to speak to your fans like that.

Oof that's extremely shitty. From my experience, writers love receiving those sorts of comments and being cryptic about it. It's one of my favorite parts of commenting. If someone replied that to me, I think I'd respond with idk "I'm not trying to write your story for you. It was a way to motivate you, letting you know there's someone who loves what you're doing and engages with it actively. If it bothers you too much, I'll leave. Have fun. 👍" ... Actually, keeping that for safekeeping. Just in case.

I do not understand authors like this. I get very little attention on ao3 (around 30-40 kudos highest being 70+ which is a good amount for me, honestly) and whenever I get comments like what you mentioned....I legit cry. Seriously. It feels so good to see someone so engaged in something I wrote and as someone who has really bad self-esteem, it just-I appreciate it so so so much and I wish I could hug that person.

if an author did something like that to me, i'd never comment or kudo their fics again, if i read anymore of their work. just that is so rude.

Fr same they killed my livestock too

That was me, I was the fanfic writer who burned their crops so I can confirm this

@@FlurryPie0 :(

⁠​⁠​⁠@@FlurryPie0I was also the fan fic writer who poisoned their water supply, and I concur

@@catboymikey They did?

Wow...that's awful!!! I've read stories where characters react to things, but 1. The author didn't have your permission, and 2. It's so negative! They could've just said no! I'm so, so sorry that happened, I might be getting a little worked up, but I hope that person either apologized and/or stopped being an a-hole, or you blocked them. You deserve better, here's a heart emoji: ❤

@@user-xc8zd1fg1c Thanks. And they never apologized. Especially since there were others in the comment section egging them on. However, I do think the author deleted their account cause when I looked it up out of curiosity years later. I couldn't find neither the story or their account.

Wtf??? I'm sorry you went through that, some people are just too petty... 💀

The lengths some authors go to is absolutely insane but kind of funny. Like dude, why did you spend so much time getting angry over an innocent comment?? My goodness. Hope you’re alright.

This is so bad. Like The author just enjoys publicly humiliating people??

THIS

Looking for fics about a rarepair and most of the ones that pop up they just show up for 2 paragraphs as background characters in a 20+ chapter fanfic that's mainly focused on your NOTP. Why did you even bother tagging them on the fic when they are completely irrelevant like that?

*cries in Adrian Toomes tag* One single line in chapter three of your 20 chapter IrondadSpiderson fic saying "Peter remembered that time he fought the Vulture" does not count as said Vulture actually being a character in your fic.

I'm basically the exact opposite of this. I have a story planned out, and then have to decide if X character that's there for half a chapter should be tagged, or if he should have his relationship with Y also tagged, even though they're both in the story for like half a chapter

This so much. My favorite character is pretty unpopular (and was widely hated in the past) and I swear trying to find a fic in his tag that is actually about him is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It’s like 90% ensemble casts and fics about ships between two other characters where he is mentioned once. And on FFNet there’s a bunch of bashfic where he dies and his corpse gets ridiculed or something

I have a regular who only ever comments a heart emoji on every single chapter. It's a tad annoying when I see I got a comment and then realize it's just them, but I'd never get mad at them because in the end, they're just letting me know they read the update and approve, and I prefer a heart emoji over radio silence that makes me think no one read it.

@@Pipkiablo Leaving a heart emoji is kind of like a second set of kudos, if you think about it! I prefer leaving and getting comments with some more words myself, but wanting to leave extra kudos is a classic ao3 thing, and it seems like they found their workaround!

I treasure every comment I get

Honestly same. When I got comments for the first time after the fic before it got 7 hits, I was ecstatic. I don't see how people can be upset just because people don't say exactly what they want to hear.

I have made an attempt to leave comments more often on fanfics I really enjoy and authors are always so happy about it. It’s not like I’m giving them much either! Most people just get excited to see engagement.

I already blacklist crossovers due to these kinds of shenanigans. Sometimes I miss a good fic that was tagged like a crossover even though the things that they were crossing over technically took place in the same universe, but I'd rather that than have the entire feed be nothing but a crossover where your preferred fandom is only a footnote.

Right? Not so hard to have different story collections, like "PJO one shots" or "MLP one shots". Or use the actual collection function, that way people can pick out which they want to read

Ugh. It makes me feel so bad that I HAVE to blacklist crossover fics every time I wanna read something because like. EVERY fandom I'm in gets flooded with the things!!! And I miss out on the fellers in the crossover tags that have actually good stories with crossovers of fandoms I love because the "Wangxian-Sexy-Time-Infamy-Chasers" (as I've mentally categorized them) have given crossover fics a bad rep for me!!! I usually have to find the goodies on fic rec tumblr blogs that will often look over hidden gems it's so bad

@@Pipkiablo it sucks because for me I usually dislike Crossovers. (mostly because its usually another fandom I've never watched/interacted with) But I've read some amazing crossovers! I lowkey want to disable crossovers sometimes too but also some fandoms I read (TMNT) have different iterations and I think they technically count as Crossovers if it for instance is tagged {Tmnt - All, Tmnt 2003} so I continue to struggle lol

@@Memelord-md5hs They'd usually still show up if they were tagged, as long as they're all within the same universe enough to be similarly titled. I see this in numerous fandoms with many many continuities and games such as Transformers and Pokemon where even if you clicked a specific series or game, disabling crossovers will still show you fics that are tagged for multiple series or games that are still within the same franchise. The only time this affects it is if they're differently named. For instance, if you click no crossovers for Fallout fanfics while browsing the Fallout 3 category, you'll still see fics tagged with both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. If you disable crossovers while looking at Titanfall 2 fanfics, you're not going to see any fanfics listed as crossovers with Apex Legends, even though they are literally in the same universe and share characters.

honestly just post each oneshot as a separate work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ like unless each oneshot in every chapter has the exact same tags you putting them all in one collection is just gonna make it harder for people to search for your stuff. what if the oneshot in chapter one has exactly all the tags they’re looking for but they won’t be able to find it because the oneshot in chapter two has tags that they excluded? looking through the chapter index for what you want is pretty annoying too. if you really do want all your oneshots in a collection, well. there’s _literally_ a collection function on AO3 for this exact purpose. why post a fic and label it as a collection when you can just… make a collection????

seriously, there's been so many multi-fandom oneshot collections in my main fandom and it's very frustrating, especially when I go click on one and there's absolutely 0 content for the actual fandom I'm coming from I generally think oneshot collections arent a great idea, just makes it harder for readers to find what they're looking for man

@@justsomedweebcat Nah. Multi-chapters don't have the exact same tags for each chapter either and I've seen many multi-chapters, clicked them, and found the character I clicked it for is mentioned once in one chapter, so moot point buddy. With how I group my one-shots, when I get them in chronological order, it creates a vaguely cohesive story from multiple perspectives covering many events, and unlike normal multi-chapters, lets me insert a chapter in the middle of two others to say "hey, this thing happened between this and that" without screwing up the continuity. It's all the same story, split up across different events and perspectives. Too far disconnected to have it as a cohesive multi-chapter, too connected to have them as separate works, perfect for grouping them by timeframe and shoving the chapters in order of when they take place. Also said one-shot collection works redirect the reader to a multichapter then back again in the end notes of a chapter on SEVERAL occasions because the fics lead right into one another, but it wouldn't feel right to make the whole thing one multi-chapter fic due to the prominence of certain events, vast shifts in time and perspective, and many other factors. They can be useful to have one characters entire story in one place, or show everything that happened in a timeframe in a way that offers more freedom than a standard multi-chapter fic, but feels more connected than separate works in a collection. You just need to have the right use-case for using a work for multiple oneshots to work. Something that's rough to understand if all you've seen are those multifandom oneshot works.

@@justsomedweebcat fully agreeing with you there, oneshots can stand on their own! If you want to connect them that’s why AO3 allows you to make works part of a series! This also has the nice bonus of readers being able to kudos/bookmark the individual stories.

Is your pfp Nice Cream Guy from undertale as the boykisser? If so, cool

@@BookWyrmOnAString Eyup. I love that dumbass rabbit lol

FR. My friends and I on AO3 all comment on each others fics, and I love it

as an author, i would love to have a loyal commenter. and i very much try to be one often! (as long as i can specifically think of something funny to say, because adhd be damned im going to be the funiest comedian possible) towards the end of the fic the author started replying to me more, always thanking me for my support and it genuinely made me feel so awesome i was able to show an author i liked more support than just a simple kudos and radio-silence.

fr i have a reader who comments on all my fics of a specific pairing and i’d lay down my life for them

I write on Wattpad a little but still (moving to AO3 as we speak) and I HATE those books!! If you have an issue with someone’s writing, keep it to yourself or maybe give them advice on how to become a more practiced writer. It’s not that hard to click out of something if you don’t like it

@malenaavalos7829 I once used a wattpad cringe fic compilation as a recommendation list lmfao the person was acting like everything there was terrible but they described it in a way that made it so inviting instead because I was into all of that.

Man, the people who hate the charlastor ship in hazbin hotel can (not all of them thankfully) be ironically toxic as hell. What's funnier is that after season 1 came out, pretty much every charlastor shipper with a decent head knows their ship is never gonna be canon but that's okay cuz that's what fanfics are for. But good grief, the amount of double standards the fandom has for people shipping charlastor and radioapple. What's worse is that the guy being shipped is an ace character. When he's in the charlastor ship, people hate on them for shipping an ace character. But when it's radioapple, the comments are nothing but pure positivity.

tbh that seems like a cool fic as long as it was tagged to happen

omg. was this tumoasd

@@lucid_nightshade No

I kind of wanna know what the story was though

Tell us the title

Also remember to tag your smut with other, more broadly applicable tags than just with whatever kink you're writing! I'm here to read crack, not learn new words.

Yeah, I got blindsided with one of those kind in the Fate Fandom. Literally nothing in the tags suggested it was NSFW. There were a few references to sexual acts that were done 'offscreen', but nothing explicit. Then suddenly in the third chapter, it goes into uncomfortable detail about what one character does with two other characters butts. I had to ask in the comments if the story is gonna get any more explicit, and only there did they admit, after I was 3 chapters in to what seemed like a mostly normal story, that it was gonna gradually get more and more explicit with every chapter, and there was nothing to indicate this.

i saw a fic that was rated teen and then tagged with explicit sexual content. like. dude what at least they tagged it tho 😭

once found some really, really traumatic smut in the gen category of a fandom and its stuck with me

There was one I saw that was tagged as "Fluff" teen or something. The actual content was them trapped in a closet with aphrodisiacs and one of them almost doing sexual favors for the other. And I'm like, that's fluff to you??

Same there but from another country. I still haven't used to " " and still use -. And i dunno. Should i learnd on how to properly use " "? Does that realy so hard to read with -?

I feel you, it took me so long to get used to it

Same in Portuguese! I have a google docs with the " " rules, but it's way more asshole-y to get mad at people for using the - than just not bothering to learn how the " " works. I'm probably biased, but the - makes so much more sense!!

If you find it hard, I'd recommend reading more proper books in English, it may help you get used to "..." and grasp better how to use them, bc for example you can write narration in the same line before the dialogue starts, while you can't if using -- (at least in Polish)

@@Romych If you're writing in English, it's probably for the best, though you don't have to. It's not really for the people who have English as a first language, there are only so many different kinds of symbols that are associated with the latin alphabet, so that's just a matter or a little bit of thought about the context. The English-only people can cry a river about it for all I care, it's not like you're asking them to learn your mother tongue, just slightly adjust to another consistent ruleset. I'm more concerned about people who have English as a second language might have their OWN language differences to try to keep straight and have over-lap that makes it double hard to adjust. I mean, could you imagine if the dash was added in and it didn't follow the English convention of being cut-off or emphasized a great deal in a sentence, and it _also_ didn't follow _your_ language's conventions of indicating dialog? There's bound to be another use for the em-dash in all of the languages people speak, can you imagine the frustration that would cause? At least for those people, for English language fanfiction, using the English rules would probably be a bit of relief. It wouldn't be as much of a of a mini logic test for something that's supposed to be for fun.

Clicking on that link is a gamble I'm willing to take. I'll come back with how traumatized I am.

This reeks of a desperate attempt at trying to repress SEVERAL things on the author's part. I don't want to read too much into the words actually presented, but it's hard not considering a flag factory produces fewer flags in a year than this one singular rant did.

DR is far from the perfect game, and the characters in the game are usually bad people, so I am dumbfounded by someone being offended of some characters doing bad things. Im sure the writers aren't misogynist- the character is.

​@@YourWaywardDestiny what a brilliant way to say that a person is a field of red flags

OH MY GOSH I REMEMBER THIS-the author was super homophobic/transphobic and also blatantly slutshamed the characters constantly??? “Not a misogynist” my ass 👀

I didn’t know that was a thing, pretty understandable actually.

ALL the ick, I genuinely hope they wound up banned for that BS 💀

Out of curiosity, which space lesbians?

@@BookWyrmOnAString Black Swan and Acheron, HSR.

​@@catdownthestreet fr honkai star rail fandom is so homophobic if you want good lesbian stories without this kind of people try dynasty sorry for long comment but I hate hate the fandom

@@gothgrape thanks for the recommendation, and yeah, it's so bad in the fandom that there's a whole video about it that specifically focuses on fan reactions to that tango. the fandom is genuinely stupid sometimes lmao

I’ve seen some marked as complete only to find out the last chapter was a notice about how the fic was discontinued.

@@billie-ve_in_yourself6464 WHY DO THEY DO THIS

That must've been awkward

I see you, but that was a really normal exchange? Like, "I was waiting until you were confortable saying anything, so I didn't project my idea of you as your responsibility". I'm also on the aroace spectrum, so when I tell it to friends some say "are you sure you aren't a lesbian?" and yes it can be annoying, but most people just don't know about aromanticism and asexuality, and most people will understand if you explain a bit more, specially if they aren't kids. Also, how people see us in their head isn't our business, everybody assumes stuff.

Yeah I am ace and I didn't find this out until my mid 20s but apparently my entire family assumed I was a lesbian and my mom had had a sit down with my younger siblings to...prepare them? For the day I would have a girlfriend. Yeah that day is not coming. But it's nice they were supportive I guess? Basically "He's a little confused but he's got the spirit"

This. Not everyone is going to want to be in a relationship so soon. These things take time, and others need to respect that.

Figure out what, their sexuality? Seems like a pretty neutral thing to say if it was really worded like that tbh, unless they were outright making assumptions other than her disinterest in boys being a general matter of sexuality. Of course it isn't always and people just love to jump to conclusions in this regard, but that's why shutting up and waiting for the person in question to say something when they're ready is the right move. I get it, allonormativity sucks and us aros and aces never get any consideration at all when it comes to shipping, but even as an AroAce person myself who has been assumed gay on several occasions, this particular example doesn't really sound that bad. Sad to say of course, I'm pretty sure it's true, I just have seen A LOT worse in this regard.

To clarify : it wasn't the fic author's fault that their words resonnated with my experience in a pretty bad way. I just needed to vent about it because when I mention the half of classmates pressuring me thing, my family and friends think of it as a funny story without trying to understand how I feel about it.

Fr like usually I filter out f/m works (cuz I'm a gay guy) it's so annoying like TAG THAT SHIT DAWG

when you're a gay guy and find a x reader thats "gender neutral" and then it uses female terms like bro...

​@catboymikey lol what you're incapable of reading about straight relationships because you're gay?

​@@brimalt RIGHT. i HATE how almost all x readers are aimed at female audiences

Well, being straight is kinda the default. If it wasn't, we wouldn't be a species. 97% of people worldwide are straight, so...

Enoby?

Are you sure the negative reaction to the criticism wasn't also trolling? Because that sounds like something out of My Immortal.

@paigemosher8697 I’m pretty sure, given that a) their grammar and spelling was much better in the reaction than it was in the fic, and b) they gave up on the story after this. The author of My Immortal constantly yelled at the “prepz” to stop “flamming” and threatened not to update the story unless she got enough good “reviowz,” but she did keep updating. Not to mention c) the author of My Immortal never admitted to being a troll. If she was in fact trolling, she knew that the best way to keep getting reactions was to keep treating her fic as serious business. This author, on the other hand, ended the story with an essay that boiled down to “I was trolling, but you’re all big stupid meanies for giving me the exact reaction trolls are trying to achieve, so I’m quitting this story forever and going home; waah,” and then they followed through on quitting. My Immortal’s author may have threatened to quit countless times, but what makes her a legend among troll fics is that she didn’t quit, and she kept her writing style consistent. This author didn’t do that. If it was a final trolling move, it was a terrible one. It took away the ambiguity of My Immortal and tied everything up in a neat little bow. It didn’t bait more fan rage, it just made the author look pathetic. Heck, even Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles, another famous troll fic, ended with the author confessing to being a troll, but it kept the voice consistent, worked the confession into the ending rather than having it instead of the ending, and it was a “ha, gotcha,” instead of a “waah you’re so mean.” (Sorry for the essay; I have a weird fascination with the art of troll fics.)

Now this is the craziest one I’ve seen. Who does that?

EWEWEWEWEWEW No tags or warnings whatsoever on any of my squigs automatically puts an author on my block list, NO THANKS!

Reminds me of a fic I read that was about a character (TW for CSA) realizing that his late sister had abused him and that it was okay for him to be broken about it. The fic had some raunchy moments that felt justified with the themes and was pretty well written. Then they added an epilogue that was an AU where the sister didn't die and was forgiven by everyone FOR R-WORDING HER LITTLE BROTHER. A lot of people were mad after this.

​@@kitkatboardStop with the "r-word" nonsense. Write actual words. People with words blocked need you to do so and this bizarre advertiser-kowtowing self censorship prevents that from happening.

​@@BJGvideos youtube autohides comments with certain words though, it galls me as much as you but people have no choice here

Same happened to me, except it was so much worse. Glad your two nickels weren't earned from reading a near traumatic untagged fanfic under your favorite pairing /gen

@@catdownthestreet Ouch, I'm so sorry to hear that :'( Yes, thinking of that, mine weren't so terrible. One (Yulivia from Amphibia) was only hating on a popular headcanon of the fandom about them being foster parents to another character (nothing graphic but sounding pretty petty when explaining how they never care, were awful, etcétera). And the other (Stolitz from Helluva Boss) was just a break up fic with an unhappy ending that was untagged and the author seemed to rejoice on breaking the two characters relationship on author notes, saying things like "see? This happens 'cause is a bad couple and toxic and bad >:)". ... Thinking of it, they sounded kinda hilarious because that's pretty much how they explained why they hated the ships and sounded more like immature childs throwing a tantrum than other thing

omg same, i’d reveal the fics/ships but one of them is popular within a fandom and my take might be controversial since people will think I’m too sensitive (not my fault the fic was tagged with my fav ship just for it to be hated on)

that sucks, i'm sorry. :/ i would say the vast majority of authors appreciate any positive response and compliments they are given(i know i would), and i hope that authors you read from in the future show you that if they respond to comments!

Don't be put off. You already hit odds that are basically the equivalent of the jackpot (but the bad version) so what are the chances it happens again? Pretty low. The fic author must have been super young and completely unaware other people are going to be drawn to different things. 99.999% of fanfiction authors could never even dream of acting like this, so please, go make someone else's day and forget this selfish person. They wasted everyone's time and spoiled the positive interaction for themselves. Too bad, now it's energy spent on more worthwhile authors.

Here, complement me. I promise I won't bash you. /gen

@@teerowawa thing is i'm also a fic writer so it just hurt even more :((

I can understand wanting to hear feedback on specific parts, but being mad at you for liking a different aspect is uncalled for imo.

Admittedly I got passive aggressively hostile to one commenter once, and I still feel bad, even though the reason it happened was because I was in a depressive slump because a beloved pet had died in a very traumatic way, my updates were slowing because of my depressive slump, and he kept asking me, "So, when are you going to update again?" if I took more than three days to update.

@@Pipkiablo Nah bro pressuring for updates every three days is _CRAZY_ you should've cursed them out

@@Pipkiablo Same, I had someone "are you even going to update this ?" once. Not even "hi", not even "I like it but...". Just felt really entitled so I just left a "when I'm done wanting to kms

@@PipkiabloTo be fair, people who pressure authors into updating are frustrating. When it’s every single comment, I can see why you’d not be in the mood for it.

Exactly! I’m actually kind of doing something adjacent to that? I’ve been inspired by a certain fic, but I don’t have all the same headcanons so I’m just going to shout out the og author for inspiring a certain aspect and leaving the rest when I finally post.

How is a fanfiction intellectual property? It’s not even by a big dollar corporation or the names are not even made up.

@UltimateDespairado I pointed that out, they don't own any of it and the names weren't even made up. Just got called a bitch and blocked.

@@DragonLandlord that comment wasn’t even directed towards you It was directed towards the author of the fanfiction

…please say this wasn’t an adult. I'd expect this behaviour from a younger insecure kid

@@No-longer1 As someone who's seen a lot of things, it probably WAS an adult.

Same

Oh yikes. That’s horrible. Acephobia at its usualest.

BANHAMMER on whoever pulls that shit, EW 💀

@@Daelyahi saw 'banhammer' and thought of phighting,, the brainrot,,

jadian animations?

@@hello_ree That’d be my guess

When I see some criticism or some people disagree with my personal thoughts of the day, I would turn off KZfaq, be upset, and search up on Google if I have bad taste or me being cringe.

I think when I finally get into fic posting, I’m going to admit something similar. I’ll say “I would love feedback! I may not be the best at handling the negative stuff, but I’ll try my best to not make it your problem.” Something like that.

I'd say being able to come back after innitial hurt and engage with the criticism calmly is fairly impressive. I don’t know how much it applies to you, but it also takes time to learn what criticism you can and should ignore, and even more time to have those criticisms drip down from you like water from a duck feather. Sometimes readers are complelty missing the point or direction you are going towards, are stupid, or their suggestions don’t match the energy and wants you put into the fic. You are allowed to write horribly (if whatever kind of universal metric for it exists anyways), you are allowed to do things amatourishly, you are allowed to be self indulgent. Perhaps you genuinenly don’t wanna be, and that’s fine- both options are fine, actually

My hero

Oh thank god I needed this

Better option go to San Francisco get sour bread

I've been trying to make sourdough for so long! Thank you for finally giving me the answer to my internal struggle!

I dont have a walmart where i live, do you have any alternatives?

Her not knowing that is a massive red flag for something in her life being very very wrong and I hope she's okay now.

Yes!! If I open a oneshot book and get met with chapter titles that don’t specify the ship, I just leave. Because that’s such a strange thing to do, and I can’t be bothered looking through all the chapters for what I came for

Yeah, like there is a section on AO3 for Original works! And even in actual fanfics, OCs (if written well) can enhance a story.

@@LadyPsychic literally, that's what I told her, beyond that she was just rude in telling him to get off the site. I looked in to her profile and saw she'd never published anything on AO3 either, it was crazy

What the heck?????? That's so dumb like let ppl write how they like goddamn

Something similar happened to me but with 13 books of the same author! I can't remember what any of them are called, so I can't look them up!

I respect the hustle but that's just disrespectful to the readers... if they wanted income they should've made the story completely available for free and made Patreon optional if readers wanted/could afford to support them

I think I know which fic you're talking about! Maybe. I found a zombie fic a few years ago and loved the beginning of it! Then all of a sudden around chapter 10 I couldn't read any further and had to pay! I remember feeling so let down :/

It also doesn't help that a good chunk of people who ship Gold/Silver (in either contexts) have hcs that Lance is like a dad/older brother figure for Silver... And none of this was even tagged when the first update happened.

Did you or anyone comment while fic was on hiatus? Maybe the author thought no one cared for the story after so long and that's why it felt fine to "ruin it". Also you made me remember I used to read a gold/silver fic where at the end silver came to as if time travelled to the first chapter, and in the sequel having lived that life he got together with gold quickly but out of the blue started cheating with an oc, like that was the main point of the sequel story and it felt so weird??

also sorry if im wrong but isn't silver a kid and lace a fully grown adult even in the manga

@@SilentProti Anxious teen + didn't have a FF account to begin with led to me not commenting, and I do not remember if anyone else commented. I remember FF was a little wonky with how you looked at comments so I never really cared to look at them ALSO I KNOW WHAT FIC YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT- THAT WAS REALLY DAMN WEIRD-

@@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel Last time I checked Lance is 19 at the LEAST when Silver comes into the manga meanwhile he's(Silver) 1 0.

Real person shipping is iffy in general, because it reduces the people to the level of fictional characters for the author to play around with, and makes it seem as if the shipper knows better than the actual people themselves! I watch a pair of youtubers who are really close friends, and one of them likes to make sussy jokes about it sometimes. People on twitter would actually get mad at him for "getting their hopes up", as if their close platonic friendship is somehow inferior to a potential romantic one (also is your @ a MTMTE reference?)

@@liljatupsu Also makes me think of Gmm. Rhett and link are not gay for each other.

@@liljatupsu absolutely agree, also no it is not. What does that stand for?

@@All_thegoodnamesaretaken More Than Meets The Eye. It's a transformers comic

my 14 year old larrie self would be so mad at you for this but it's so true, there's so many fictional couples to ship why do you have to go for the real ones and be weird about actual irl people😭

Yeah, for me, even the simplest reply to a comment I make on KZfaq can make my day, once the KZfaqr who made the video I commented on replied to my comment (it was also many years after the vid had originally been made) it was a positive comment that still makes me feel good when I look at it

@@user-xc8zd1fg1cI get that feeling.

@@user-xc8zd1fg1cI get that.

They could've at least tagged something like "past -insert pairing-" or "endgame -insert pairing-" but they can't even do that much

More power to ya!

HELP NOT THE [Sims woohoo] 😭

Coming from someone who's parents were, shall we say, super fucking horny, that shit isn't sexualized. Most kids, when that happens, quite literally just turn on loud music, start gaming or put earbuds in and go to sleep

@@johngellare3507 gotta agree with you on that, my parents also had a healthy love life and I honestly didn't mind once I knew about it. I'm also aroace so maybe that's part of it

Which fandom are we talking here?

Really happy my fandom is small on AO3 😬 it’s super popular on KZfaq and I think Wattpad but on AO3, it’s SUPER small and everyone mostly knows each other

My fandom has someone like this too (along with a few lackeys who follow her lead), and she’s so infamous that getting a review from her is kind of considered a rite of passage. She has posted work of her own, and it has decent technical quality but it clearly comes less from a place of love than from wanting to demonstrate how she’s so much smarter than everyone else and show her very cynical take on the source material (which is a wholesome power of friendship children’s media). She also has a blog where she posts the responses to her reviews to mock them. Wild behavior from a fully grown adult.

Same here😂 I write a lot of Original works in addition to fanfic and i love it when regular readers comment on both or even better I've actually had readers for one fandom find a new one because they liked my fic for Fandom A that they decided to check out my work in Fandom B and found a new fandom 😂 that's so much fun 😂

I’m a writer for a Fandom, hahah! I’ve got about… seven friends who comment regularly 😅

Wait is it that one Glitch Techs author, I remember watching Izzyzzz video about it,that situation was crazy like also the fact that the 26 y /o also doxxed the 13 y/o was just insane also because the kid was uncomfortable with the smut fic they wrote

* all because

@@awhimsyreader9015 yeah, absolutely wild situation. my little sister was mutuals with the kid a while back. i've heard they're doing better now.

I felt that. The good news is tags can be updated as you go if you find a good one that you missed or need a tag that you didn't need before. But it's still a pain, especially when you don't know what to tag it as. I also have trouble because some things someone might find noteworthy might not even occur to me as something other than too mundane to bring up.

So long as you are hitting the warning tags it’s fine. I don’t mind stories switching lanes from General and teen to mature and explicit so long as all the warning tags are added. I’ve seen some people add clarifications in their tags like “only dubcon because x happens.” So long as you’re trying and correctly tag the triggers, it’s all good

geometry dash.... fanfiction?

@@segasonicsega623 you heard me.

@@ionthezeraora I've always heard the internet was a strange place..... omg i forgot the a wth

GD fanfiction as an idea is funny but if you really think about it it could be real cool if you think moreso the cubes are their own characters fightinng against stuff

@@clyde-or-monty that’s. pretty much what i do in my gd universe it’s a whole thing and i would yap about it but nobody is gonna read allat

An author abandoned their book just when they’re at the final chapter because in their words. ‘I got bored lol!’ And a fan of their book did something out the kindness of their heart finish the ending for the author. They didn’t claim ownership that the author’s book or the characters they just wanted to help. And out of nowhere the author came back, threatened to doxxed them if they don’t take down their book and sadly the fan did and everyone who read the fan’s ending of the book was pissed off at the author

I feel that’s fair. Though sometimes certain fic websites have some sort of copy lock that makes it impossible to copy and paste it into a translator. I don’t think AO3 has that problem though.

@@starlydonati2008 no, AO3 has no problem with that c:

I feel you!! I normally read fics for characters an actor has played where either their non existent or those come up. Its not fun realizing they stopped it BEFORE the fandom. Thankfully other characters from this actor have pretty popular fandoms but it sucks when I have such a bland choice of fics. Also does not help that one of said fandoms has been dead since the show ended and my preferred pairing has like 23 fics and 4 of those fics are in another language.

Wow, that author is really ungrateful. Don't feel bad for posting long comments on fanfics you enjoyed reading, because it's fun to read a commenter's thoughts and feelings about someone's work.

Double down and make the comments even longer.

dude wtf. I _love_ long comments on my fics, so I always try to do the same for other authors! imagine having the gall to _complain_ about someone taking the time to tell you what they thought of your fic.....I would _kill_ for more comments like that 😭

Okay, that's just poor etiquette. Dark subjects and ships aren't inherently bad to write about but the authors doing it definitely need to tag and rate their fics properly to avoid situations like this. I'm sorry you went through that. :(

I'm actually so glad this isn't a bigger problem in the fics I've read, considering the amount of misgendering I see on other sites (*cough* Pinterest *cough*)

And sometimes they defend themselves saying the character's Canon gender is "open to interpretation" Also, something that happened kind often in my country was someone making a bad fan translation of something that would get a characters gender wrong. Then, when someone would try to point out to the people using the wrong gender, they would try to argue that the bad translation is just as valid as the original material, or that they have the right to a headcanon (wich is true, but they acted as If It was canon until they had no other choice)

that's 100% an asshole move for them to ignore the pronouns

*cough cough* Kris Deltarune *cough cough*

@@elipsis7651exactly who I was thinking. Kid can’t catch a break.

I'm yet to actually start an account on AO3, but that's a pretty extreme level of entitlement. Especially since they said they only write for fun

I encountered that once and it was especially bad cuz I was at work. Three chapters in, it suddenly starts getting slightly sexual, but not yet graphic. I had to leave a comment to ask them to let me know if it's smut and they should tag it properly so I don't accidentally read that shit at work. They told me that, yes it's going to be smut and I should have some class and not read mature fics at work. I had no way or knowing it was mature because NONE OF THE TAGS SAID SO..

I think you mean problematic shipper, not pro-shipper. Also, incoming ramble, I like to talk about terminology in fandoms and it really shows here lol. I want to discuss this with you since you seem like you might have some interesting insight into some of what I have to say. I hope you don't mind. :) Let's talk about the original meaning for pro-ship. Also, yes, I do know that this isn't the widely used definition for the term, hence why you used it in this context. But the original meaning matters more to me, so. Here goes. Pro-shippers just like ships and don't bother people for writing fics about pairings they don't care for. They ship and let ship, essentially. Doesn't mean they think criticism isn't allowed or anything- but being respectful of other people comes first and foremost, along with an understanding that ships are fictional and thus not always relevant to what the shippers like IRL. I'm a pro-shipper, by this definition. Anti-shippers are basically the opposite- they hate shipping, and they especially hate on people for writing about certain ships no matter how unproblematic the fics/pairings are. They can't understand that fiction is a tool that can be used to write about things that would be problematic IRL. They also can't understand the difference between writing about a problematic pairing, and writing a problematic pairing in a good light that makes it seem like a good relationship IRL. Antis conflate the two and assume that anything written about a problematic topic or ship is supporting that thing IRL. Obviously there's a lot of nuance and room for both to be true in some cases, but antis can't even understand that much and resort to attack first, ask questions/discuss later. They also mask their hatred towards other people as constructive criticism, when it's really not because it doesn't help the authors they're criticizing to improve or anything. Also, yes, not all antis are like this, but for the most part people who are antis tend to be this way, at least from my experience. Generally, the term problematic shipper tends to refer to someone more like that person- someone who ships a problematic ship. Unfortunately the definition of problematic has been muddied a lot in fandoms and is often used by antis and other shippers to bash certain pairings they disagree with, no matter how normal and, by definition, unproblematic, the ship is. I personally think the general definition of problematic shipper should be people who try to police other shippers for what they like/what they write about just because these people think certain ships are bad or something. As an alternative, dark shippers could be a potential term for people who ship incest, abusive relationships, etc., like what you're saying. But I don't have any control over what terminology people use in fandoms, I just want to suggest better words for the specific things we're talking about. If you like the idea and start using these terms as well, it might lead to more people using them and thus making things easier to discuss because we have proper terminology for the specific types of shippers in fandoms. But that's just me being optimistic. :) Also, while I do agree that "it's just fiction" can be a flimsy excuse for supporting dark ships, I think it's important to consider whether the authors who use that phrase are supportive of that kind of relationship IRL, or just writing about it because they can. Remember, preferences in fiction do not always equal preferences in reality. And just to cover all my bases, if the concern here is that impressionable people will read these dark fics and think those things are okay, the simple solution is for dark shippers to tag their fics properly and take responsibility by explaining that these relationships aren't healthy IRL. And let's be honest, most people reading these fics are already mature enough to understand that without someone telling them that. What do you think? Do these terms work in your opinion? Is there anything I could improve on? I'm open to discussion if you are. :D

Oh- I just realized I only responded to the latter half of your comment. Whoops. I was suicidal myself once, so I understand. Unfortunately I don't understand suicidal thoughts being triggered by seeing the subject, even though I tend to avoid it in fics. I'm sorry you experienced that, and I hope you're doing better now. That person really should've tagged it properly, but she might've been too immature to understand why tagging and trigger warnings are so important. She was definitely too immature to respond in a respectful manner, so I wouldn't doubt it. Although I would consider that she might've been on the younger side (which, yikes), and thus took your comment in the absolute opposite direction of what you actually meant by it. You definitely didn't do anything wrong though.

"Tags are super important, label your shit properly so readers know what theyre getting into and can avoid it if they dont want to see it" is like rule 1 of proshipping. The story may not be real, but your readers are! I'm so sorry you had to deal with that, and that someone misused "proship" like that.

The fact she was a 'proshipper' (or was she really? The shipping of certain characters does not make one pro-ship. You'd be surprised by the amount of people that justify shipping one 'problematic' thing and demonize an another one. It’s not indicative of their stance on the debate- or fandom drama, really, that’s more what it is.) and her taste in fiction has no significance on how she was dismissive towards you. She's not responsible for you or anyone’s triggers, but considering Wattpad’s poor tagging and filter options, it’s an unconsiderate behaviour and going into your dms is just cruel.

Personally, I believe there's nothing wrong with shipping things that aren't good, as long as you are able and willing to acknowledge how bad it is and how gross it would be in reality. But yeah, they definitely should tag their shit.