#fanfic writer problems
This has become a write-one-sentence-and-celebrate writing stretch, but you know what? It’s still writing. It’s still a sentence. I’ll take it.
Reader: Omg I can’t wait for the next chapter!!
Me, the writer, slowly closing my blank word doc:
Edit: Credit to @luke-skywalker for the gif!
i am a simple but feeble soul
Me every time I start a new WIP:
Me, a writer: *considers myself an intellectual*
Also me:
adhd is so embarrassing ur basically like “I have to have fun right the fuck now or I’m throwing myself off the roof” 90% of the time and you also have very little control over this
…and then you don’t…for AGES. @ourunsungheroes42344
Do y’all ever want to finish a story, know what you want to happen, know how you want it to end, but can’t seem to put it into writing?
I’ve been stuck on this Toji fic for weeks and I can’t get it to where I want to go be ffs
working on the next chapter of my fruits basket fanfiction and damn, I’m like fighting back tears because some stuff just really hits home.
I honestly feel bad putting characters through some stuff but like…. sorry not sorry, the story must go on.
And other fanworks, for that matter, but let’s talk about fic: When AO3 was proposed, it was in response to Strikethrough and other similar events. Livejournal deleted a lot of accounts without bothering to distinguish between actual pedophiles, survivor support groups, and 100% consensual fantasy fandom activities being done by adults with other adults (most of which involved RP accounts for 16-year-old Harry Potter characters anyway).
I helped write the first AO3 Terms of Service and set up the Abuse committee. AO3 was always intended to be welcoming to all kinds of fic, no matter how dirty, sick, socially unacceptable, bizarre, or out of fashion. During those initial TOS talks, we specifically discussed grotesque RPF snuff porn as the test case for something all of us on the committee found distasteful but would nonetheless defend because, by defending it, we created a space where all of our own favorite things were protected too.
Policing fic content is a slippery slope. Even if you only police the “worst” stuff, you create an environment where the more sensitive authors and no few of the ones “shipping to cope” are no longer comfortable posting at all. Attacking people for posting fic about rape/abuse/etc. is demanding that all survivors disclose. No amount of whining and backtracking will change this fact. It is a disgusting behavior that drives people from your fandoms and creates needless misery while adding nothing of value to the community.
If you want to kick certain kinds of content off of AO3, you do not belong on AO3 in the first place.
If you don’t like AO3, you don’t have to use AO3. But you don’t get to demand that a fandom space that was created specifically to host all kind of content start banning content for <insert hobbyhorse of the day> because surely the people who made it couldn’t have meant that??!?
Yes. They did. And maybe that makes it the wrong space for you. That’s fair. You can go make your own space and mod it as you see fit. But you do not get to saunter into an existing fandom space which is maintained entirely by volunteers and donations, wave your hands, and go, ‘No, nope, this is all wrong. Change it. No, I won’t be volunteering, or coding, or tag-wrangling, or even writing content. I’m not going to donate any money to offset server costs. I plan to contribute nothing other than vitriol. But you need to use your time and expertise and money to create a fandom space dedicated to curating a delightful experience for me and only me, while I bitch about you constantly and maybe accuse you of being a sex offender just for kicks. Snap to it.’
The entitlement in that is stunning.
Preach!
Oh no. A new rarepair plot bunny.
