Ao3 subscriptions are so fucking wild to me. Every time I write my silly fanfictions and post them 124 people get an email just to let them know that this idiot is posting their fanfictions again. I send 124 people an email every time I write smut. Imagine sending 124 physical letters out just to be like “hello everyone, I put some guys we made up in our heads through the horrors again.” Absolutely absurd. I am kissing all of you on the lips.
“Self insert characters are cringe”
Bro I’m trying to survive capitalism with maladaptive daydreaming. Leave me alone.
Writing a self insert helped me unpack more trauma than twenty years of therapy. Do it.
I think the thing I love most about fanfiction is that no two authors will ever have exactly the same understanding of a character. If you gave multiple writers the same situation with the same characters, none of them would write the same thing or have the characters react in the exact same way, yet every time it would still be completely believable. Every author understands, relates to, and connects with characters in a different way and that will always show in their writing because they’ll bring out certain aspects of a character’s personality that others won’t even pick up on, and still the character will be written in a way that rings of how they were originally in whatever piece of media they’re from. Nobody will write the same thing with the same characters, even if they’re using identical prompts or tropes, and it provides so much variety and enrichment and it’s honestly just a beautiful thing to see how differently everyone views their favourite characters while simultaneously seeing them the same.
friendofthefellowshipsnerdblog:
Reblog if reading someone else’s fanfiction has helped you get through a hard day
theres something so nice about having a fic ur looking forward to reading that evening. like yeah im putting this on the shelf like a delicious little treat for later when im tucked into bed and maximum comfy. life can be dream
I hope the fic you are working on right now finds a reader who will think about it constantly for years
Babe, listen
Your fic isn’t a flop, it’s a cult classic. Only the coolest freaks like it, don’t worry about it, it’s great.
god literary fiction and high literature is all good and well but nothing. On this entire planet. Compares to a good fucking fanfic