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What are we writing/reading, /co/? Discuss WIPs, ideas, ongoing fics.
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>>154778292
currently getting together the plot for my planned batman detective fan comic ill post here, then get the scripting done then finally the drawing. im quite proud of the mystery myself and think people will like it
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>>154778292
Writing something rn but it's not /co/ pokemon

I don't write /co/ fanfic very much for some reason. I guess I find it less inspiring then vidya, or I just don't interact with it as much as vidya.

If nothing else, these threads have gotten to write some /co/ related at least.

>>154778385
oh wow, that sounds cool!
Mystery writing is pretty hard, good to see someone try at it
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>>154778511
Gimme the details on your story?
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>story has over a hundred thousand words
>Look inside and it's the worst thing I've ever read.
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>>154778593
takes place in past unova
knight sees his home town on fire and attacked by a hydreigon
rushes through a forest to reach it
gets waylaid by deino/zweoilous
gets saved by Virizion
they team up
they defeat the hydreigon and save the village
then they bang
happily ever after
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>>154778292
Currently still writing the first chapter of my latest fic. It’s taking much longer than I’d like but I haven’t had a lot of free time lately and that bites. I just need to buckle down and get these last few pages done and I can finally submit it.
Hopefully writing the next chapter will go more smoothly, I had a little trouble with this one towards the middle but managed to get back on track thanks to some advice I got from the last thread.
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On another vacation so I should have the next chapter in my fic sometime tomorrow. It's eh, about half way finished.
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Turns out the person who contacted me was an AI bot. But during the mean time I got 4 comments on my fic, but I'm too scared to read them now
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>>154780908
I haven't read any reviews/comments since 2009 or 2010, and I've been using ff.net since 2007 and ao3 since 2019. I don't even check favorites or follows or kudos. Yes, I'm that much of a pussy.
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>>154780908
Damn
Was this on Ao3 or FF? FF is a given, it's basically unusable shit now between bots, audience collapse cause of bots, and tech issues

The bots have gotten bad on Ao3 tho, I got a bot comment just the other day.

The big thing to watch out for is them offering you art or trying to lead you off site. Though Ao3 has had some more sophisticated bots, or rather they try to obfuscate the linking a bit. There's recently been one posing as Ao3 staff telling you you're in trouble unless you click a link.

If it gets that bad, you can always block guest comments on Ao3, which eliminates most (not all) bot comments.

I find it kinda funny when you see writers posting really obvious bot attempts asking "um is this a bot?", but at the same time I do understand it cause it's a real fucking gut punch for new writers to get their first mention of someone doing fanart of something you wrote and put a ton of time and care into that the recognition of it being fake is a little sidelined.

And even if you are aware of them, getting a comment is always a little nice moment writers look forward to, and getting bot spam instead especially on a story you really cared about burns. One time, I had like 3 bot comments in 24 hours a story that I knew was gonna be obscure and unpopular, thought someone or a few people liked it enough to comment only to open it up and see fucking discord link spam attempts. This is what really soured FF on me after using it for years. I think I've had only 2 bot comments on Ao3 in that timeframe, I must've had like 20+ on FF, plus Ao3 has plenty of real comments in between while FF seems to have petered off dramatically around 2023 or 24 or so.
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>>154781405
NTA but I haven't been on FF since I discovered AO3 back in the early 10s, is it really that bad?
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>>154781431
Yep.

FF had been kinda cruising along for a while, with Ao3 being quite large by the late 2010s at least. Ao3 I think may have surpassed in user base by then, but FF had (and still does based on fic numbers) larger communities for some franchises. Also the kind and number of stories could differ a lot based on which site it was, like Ao3 is noticeably gayer than FF, generally speaking, so there was a reason to still prefer FF back then from that angle. Crossposting was generally the way to go even then though.

But I believe Ao3 really exploded in popularity around the pandemic for reasons I don't know, and, looking back through my emails and reviews it looks like the bots got started in 2025 rather than 2024 than I thought. It's felt like forever.

In any case, I've noticed that real favs/follows/reviews have dropped dramatically. I'm not sure if any data reflecting this is out there, but I'm pretty certain FF's userbase is down a lot, or it at least certainly feels like it. I think a lot of users just hopped over to Ao3. We have some people whinge about the tagging system not being perfect and Ao3 having a lot of gay shit, which, like, yeah, that's true, but it's simply better in pretty much every way with the exception of PM's if you liked those from FF (granted they are ripe for bot abuse so I get not having them)

The real kicker too is the technical issues. I wasn't able to upload a story for a while for no good reason, and had to switch all the text from a previous document to upload (my final upload for the site, too). This along with longterm issues like the pain of getting the mods to add tags makes FF extremely cumbersome and shit in this day and age.

And also don't forget that THIS is supposed to replace the old site:

https://new.fanfiction.net/

It's been posted in previous fanfic threads here but it really still should be pointed out for how insanely awful it all is. All the search tech is ai powered and dogshit. I hope FF dies fr soon
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>>154781605
Damn, when you lay it all out like that the situation does seem pretty fucked, doesn’t it?
It’s a goddamn shame too, I have a lot of fond memories of FF.net so it sucks to see what’s become of it.
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I am currently working on a story set in the JoJo universe with /co/ characters. Right now I am thinking of Stand abilities for the two tritagonists. I have already planned the final scene, which takes place at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and it's a goodbye scene. It references the ending of Stardust Crusaders, as well as the ending of one the source materials since there that scene is also a goodbye scene and ends with a "The End." card, that is why I am using that source material's original soundtrack instead of the one from SC, and I chose this song for the credits because I want to and ends it in a happy note.
https://youtu.be/sySlY1XKlhM
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>>154782483
What /co/ characters do you plan on adding to the story?
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Any GOOD Sonic fanfiction? I swear, looking for a Sonic fanfiction that is decently written in terms of both quality and story is insanely difficult to find.
Anything that based off of the games?
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>>154782592
Main character from 1 /co/ property, 2 characters from another 4 since there is a secondary antagonist and a character's sibling is frequently mentioned but only appears at the end of the story, and pretty much the entire cast of the third one which is the basis of the plot.
Also one of the two main antagonists remembers the effects of Made in Heaven and her fate in Pucci's first reset world which would have been the same as it was in her story's source material thanks to her fate manipulation ability.
Some info of what the basic premise is here (Details might change over time, the dialogue I wrote afterwards is an example of that):
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/154303718/#q154393748
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>>154782261
Yeah it's a bummer

I've been more into Ao3 for many years now, but FF had a lotta legacy to burn. Some of the holdouts they still have there are people with like 20+ year old accounts where they made friends with people back then and had other writer pals that died and shit, stuff that means a lot to them that hurts to throw away.

What gets me is seeing communities there become a bit of ghost towns. It's one thing to have bots be annoying while real people are still there, the bots in an empty place is way more depressing.
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>>154778292
I can't find shit on ao3.
Every story has so many god damn tags that you practically find every single story of an IP no matter what character you search for.
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>>154782727
I don't read fanfic as much as I should really but this is one I can recommend

https://ao3.org/works/59790100

whole jist of the thing is various standalone stories of Sonic and friends doing shit animals do

highlights include:
sonic being grievously wounded and instinctively hiding like animals do irl
tails smelling awful like foxes do irl
knuckles not sweating
vector going all fours snapping his jaws at a pedo that tries to kidnap charmy
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>>154783468
>vector going all fours snapping his jaws at a pedo that tries to kidnap charmy
All of that sounded cool until this point. It's too outlandish for the franchise, and I can't take it seriously.
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I love 'To Fuel the Guttering Flame'.
It actually shows the scale a billions of years old civilization on a gas giant sized planet.
Unironically one of my favorite pieces of Transformers media in general.
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>>154778292
what writing software do you all use?
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>>154784381
The only way I found that keeps italics, bonds etc is Google docs with the ao3, conversion script
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I have a full on Martian Manhunter film in my head. I'd love to write and direct it.
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Not /co/ but I think I'm making decent progress at a Panty & Stocking fic. It's only a little over 1k words but I'm planning on making it a oneshot.
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Okay, but it's lewd.

Prequel AU fanfic where Katia Managan doesn't go to Cyrodiil and instead joins one of those nude witch covens from Daggerfall. Plot things happen, Katia gets her clothes burned off in an epic magic duel and she becomes a nudist magic barbarian woman. She even has a moniker: The Lion Witch.

https://files.catbox.moe/va693w.png

One I've been sketching today.

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Been reading a DCxMarvel shit about Prime just larping as Superman. It's okay, I guess
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Fics I feel I owe it to myself to write:

1. Another Tangled The Series Fic

I wrote a Tangled fic that leaned heavily into what the show did, and I feel like I need to write another, one of these days. I don't think I'm finished with Rapunzel as a character. She's still got a hold on me and I want to give her what I think she deserves as a character.

Tentative title that I've bounced around my head for years is "Rapunzel and the Doors of Midnight." The one plot point I have is that Cassandra comes back, and then the Sundrop and the Moonstone come back too, BUT, crucially, the two girls get mixed up in reuniting with their powers. In other words: the Moonstone goes to Rapunzel, the Sundrop goes to Cassandra. The dynamic of them having to figure out how to use their direct-opposite powers feels like it'd fuel the fic and make it a lot of fun.

But I need to figure out a lot more first.

2. DC Super Hero Girls Fic

Another show, and set of characters, that I think I owe a story to. In particular Zee is basically my /co/ waifu, and all my favorite girls get a fic from me sooner or later. Idea I have in mind is to make it a bit of a Zee/Diana fic and have something involving Hecate, the Greek Goddess of Magic. I heard that the mainstream DCU did something along these lines in a Justice League Dark storyline, but I also heard it was kind of shit, and, frankly, I think I'm a better writer than anybody at DC these days, so I think I could do a better job with such a concept.

3. Something With Sleeping Beauty

I've done a lot of writefagging and loremongering in the Sleeping Beauty threads we habitually have. I was a major contributor to the Sorceress Aurora threads, the Dark Disney/Vampire Aurora threads, and the Aurora-as-Maleficent's-apprentice threads. I need to pay it all off, sooner or later, with a full-blown story where Aurora's the star. She'll obviously be wielding magic, but what kind I haven't decided. Or, I think maybe I have, but I do need to commit.
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>>154778292
Has anyone here ever used a dictation app like wispr flow to write? I find it easier to say what I want typed out loud than typing it myself and then going back and editing in case the app mishears me.
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>>154779225
Everyone needs an orc city of their own, anon. It just matters if you're brave enough to learn from it and push past it.
I believe in you.
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>>154782727
Seconding this.
So many of them have dialogue like a stream of consciousness.
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if it's under 1000 words a chapter, i won't read it
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>>154784381
word
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>>154784920
My brain and my mouth don't get along very well at the best of times, so no.
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Reading and writing RWBY fanfiction. Currently I've got two stories nearing completion and a third one I'm going to be publishing in a bit under two weeks.

Upcoming story is a big AU with a lot of things different but the main idea is that Salem is reincarnating the same way Ozpin does and you have no idea who she's currently hitching a ride with or what her plans her. A ton of other stuff is going on in it too, doing a lot of things differently with the various Maidens and how things usually go in RWBY.

>>154785231
Ditto unless it's specifically some kind of gimmick or a sort of anthology work or something like that.

>>154784869
>3. Something With Sleeping Beauty

Those ideas sound really fun.
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>>154781605
FF is going for the wattpad audience, that new site is such a huge downgrade
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>>154784381
Libre Office. Though its spell check isn't too great
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>fanfiction
I only write original content. Then I draw it.
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>>154786415
I write on AO3 but most of my stuff is under Original Work.
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>>154786415
Willing to share your art?
Was thinking of commissioning a piece or two for expy fic, if just for a nice cover and maybe have one of the scenes drawn out. Or at least having a visual ref for some of the characters
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>>154786415
Based
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I need your finest Chaos Gacha, Wiki Warrior and Celestial Forge/Grimoire fics
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>>154783628
tbf, the whole thing's an anthology really so that chapter can be easily skipped
and it wasn't just like an actual confirmed pedo, more so just a creep, it didn't go that far describing it
i thought it funny
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>>154786415
that's a big part of why I like Ao3: they allow original work alongside fanfic, making it really easy to jump between the two
plus the readership there is down with reading original stuff too so you actually have a place to put stuff out there and get seen by at least some people
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>>154786415
>Go into fanfiction thread
>Act like you're above the thing the thread is about
Fuck off faggot
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>>154786498
>Willing to share your art?
yeah. here's my OC AMERICA JOE.
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>>154787071
Be the American others think you are.
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>>154786415
Well I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
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>>154787357
Yeah he is my self insert character
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>>154786412
At this point you might as well be using a dictionary to avoid any accusations because god damn people have gone crazy.
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Does anyone know if theres a fanfic for batman arkham knight where steph, cass, etc are all present as well and not just babs and tim? Id especially like those with big angst when its revealed jason is the arkham knight
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>>154778292
Since when the fuck is fanfiction considered socially acceptable? Get the fuck outta here.
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>>154788099
>socially acceptable
Where do you think you are?
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>>154788562
A social media platform. No matter how desperate you are to pretend otherwise, that's what 4chan is. Now I repeat, get the FUCK outta here with this literal fanfiction garbage.
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>>154788099
Its 2026 not 2006, grandpa
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>>154788636
4chan is antisocial media.
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>>154787007
>Chaos Gacha, Wiki Warrior and Celestial Forge/Grimoire fics
I've heard of Chaos Gacha and it's the only one I've understand on how it works. I've written one actually, its fun.
But what the hell is a Wiki Warrior and Celestial Forge/Grimoire fics? I've been attempting to search how it works but there is like no guides on how to write one. I'm curious on what exactly it is, but like I've said, there are like no definitive guide on it like Chaos Gacha and Gamer stories.
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>>154788636
Why?
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>>154788636
>am i fitting in yet guys?!
lol lurk 2 years before posting, tourist
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>>154786415
Admirable
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>>154788887
From what I understand from the fics I've read with them, the Celestial ones are like more specified chaos gacha, so Forge gives knowledge and techniques for building things and tech, Grimoire gives mainly magical shit, Dojo gives fighting abilities stuff, etc.
Wiki Warrior I think is just literally randomized wikipedia entries or something.
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>>154783783
It's hard trying to find a good transformers fic that isn't gay melodrama.
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>>154790256
I'd say melodrama is kept to an appropriate minimum.
The plot is kept on track consistently since it is structured around their quest to the core. Later on there is politics but what can you do.
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>>154790667
Fictional politics are cool to me somewhat I'll read this tonight.
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>>154782483
>>154782592
>>154782919
Might as well do a joke spoiler.
How Irene Trent describes Moda Tokin
https://youtu.be/cJrruQNw0_k
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Bump
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>>154782727
Check out Eternal Tails by Pantalion, it adheres to the game canon while also twisting it in a surprising way
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I have crawled out from under my rock to post part 8 of this expy Toontown horror fic thing. These little infomercial bits at the start of some of the chapters, I'm debating making them their own separate parts since they are a bit long. Maybe cut the one at the start of this part make it it's own thing and just call it 7.5 so I have more of a word count to play with in the proper chapters. Thoughts if anyone has any?

https://rentry.co/toonshit8
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Code geass nunnally How smart should she be in fanfic?
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>>154788689
>>154788901
Explain how this shit is in any way acceptable. Fanfiction has always been seen as disgusting cringe nonsense, and has been shunned in all spheres of fandom for decades. Why are you pretending it's suddenly okay?

>>154788962
I'm probably older than your parents, teen pregnancy. Fuck off.
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>>154784869
That third one is pretty rad I'd check it out
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Do y'all plan the story first or write as you go along?
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>>154792562
This is 4chan, you retarded faggot. Nobody cares what's "acceptable." Go bitch on tumblr where someone might give a fuck.
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>>154793079
4chan is one of THE biggest perpetuators of the idea that fanfiction is bad. Fuck off and die, underage tourist.
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>>154793623
Fanfiction brought me to 4channel thoughbeit
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>>154792562
>>154793623
Times have changed
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>>154793728
That's even more reason for you to fucking leave. Subhumans like you don't belong here.
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>>154793746
Bull fucking shit. If I ever uploaded a fanfic, someone would hack the account and set my house on fire.
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>>154793786
The same can be said about any kind of account you create
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>>154793759
>Subhumans like you don't belong here
>wheredoyouthinkweare.jpg
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>>154794116
>whataboutism
Answer the fucking question. Why is fanfic suddenly considered okay? Oh right, it fucking isn't. Get the FUCK out.

>>154794174
You read what I said. And I fucking meant it.
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>read an incredible story regularly updates
>Guy deletes it out of nowhere and scrubs everything he ever wrote
Why do this?
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To however in the last thread made the John Walker/Ava Starr fic in one of the last threads, thank you it was great and make MORE godammit
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>>154792237
Didn't get to read this earlier as i was writing a lot

I think the little info bit at the beginning was short enough to keep in, not really a problem at all.

Good chapter overall too. I've never really liked first person stuff or going into game shit but this really is such an exception for me. You got a good grasp on stream of consciousness writing
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>>154795227
Some artists/authors are just hypersensitive and like to obliterate their own shit at the drop of a hat.

Ao3's orphaning has been a huge boon to the community for helping deal with the issue.

In general i don't really understand deleting fics. Like I hate FF now but I'm just not gonna upload there anymore, no need to delete my shit from it. Doesn't really benefit anyone.
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I gave up on writing fanfiction the moment Hollywood took it too far by responding to one I wrote a decade ago with a cringeworthy agendariddled film starring Justin Long
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>>154795704
Wasn't there a purge or something that happened over at FF?
remember going to check on some stories and most were deleted.
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I've been a pantser on a Ghostwalker fic that I have and think I've hit a wall. I've the two on rocky terms now and trying to think how to get them together again. Had an idea where Alexei forces the team on a cruise ship but I don't want to jump into that right away. With Doomsday coming I do want to write more Thunderbolts fics because I'm sure Marvel will tear the team apart.
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>>154797409
Unless they commit to killing people off I doubt the group would be in danger.
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>>154792978
cold turkey
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https://archiveofourown<dot>org/works/85625971/chapters/226242571
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3MMTt3MYbY
Been getting back into Phineas and Ferb and wrote a fic based on this YouTuber's (Beck the Schizo) interpretation of the characters. First fic I ever uploaded.
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>>154794306
>You read what I said. And I fucking meant it.
why, in your opinion, are yaoi/yuri boards acceptable, why were shota/loli boards acceptable, why is lgbt acceptable, why is /gif/, /hc/ and /d/, which are pure unfettered degeneracy acceptable? Why do you have a problem with fanfictions? Do you also tell people on /lit/ to kill themselves when they discuss dantes inferno or paradise lost?
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>>154799592
>muh Dante's Inferno/Paradise Lost fallacy
Those are official published works utilizing characters and elements in the public domain, you disingenuous little cunt. Fanfiction is straight plagiarism, and more to the point, cringe as fuck.
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>>154795704
>In general i don't really understand deleting fics.
At some point, the "author" realizes that what they've done is cringey nonsense, and rightfully attempts to correct their mistake by making sure nobody has to see their brain vomit ever again.
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>>154799683
>and more to the point, cringe as fuck.
dantes inferno being essentially a bashfic for every person who ever wronged dante and are all burning in hell is not a cringe fanfic?
Also, the fuck you mean "plagiarism"? Fanfiction is completely and utterly legal in any country that doesnt have completely retarded copyright laws, so north america and europe, which are the only countries that matter.
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ignoring the midwit desperate for (you)s, which fanfic authors are best at describing action scenes? or even professional writers.
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>>154799720
>dantes inferno being essentially a bashfic for every person who ever wronged dante and are all burning in hell is not a cringe fanfic?
By that metric, it is. But at least it's actually published and isn't stealing.

>Also, the fuck you mean "plagiarism"? Fanfiction is completely and utterly legal in any country that doesnt have completely retarded copyright laws, so north america and europe, which are the only countries that matter.
Only in the way that taking a shit on your neighbor's lawn isn't specifically written down as a crime. It's gonna happen one way though. And then you retards will be forced to either come up with a single original idea for once in your lives, or preferably kill yourselves.
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>>154799757
>By that metric, it is. But at least it's actually published and isn't stealing.
have you never heard of published fanfics? Those exist too.
And you cant "steal" something by writing a fanfic about it. Its like if ferrari sued lamborghini back then for "stealing" classic italian car design philosophy.
>Only in the way that taking a shit on your neighbor's lawn isn't specifically written down as a crime. It's gonna happen one way though. And then you retards will be forced to either come up with a single original idea for once in your lives, or preferably kill yourselves.
Are you fucking retarded? Taking a shit on your neighbours lawn is a crime in many countries because of castle doctrine or moral laws.
Also, nice goalpost change.
>Its illegal
>no its not
>well it will be, definitely, soon! Politicians care so much about anons making a gay yaoi fanfic of the avengers after all!!!
im not gonna keep arguing with you, because youre either b8ing or youre genuinely retarded, and i have better things to do.
I can only advise every other anon in this thread to ignore his posts and report him. I dont wanna act like a janny, but im already sick of mentally ill posters like you because of the indog vpn fag i have to endure on /f1g/
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>>154799788
>have you never heard of published fanfics? Those exist too.
Changing the names and terms doesn't stop it from being plagiarism.

>Its like if ferrari sued lamborghini back then for "stealing" classic italian car design philosophy.
They should, but they won't because they're pussies. Fanfic SHOULD be illegal.

>i have better things to do.
Like what? Making two fictional characters fuck? This is why fanfic "writers" need to commit mass suicide.

You STILL haven't actually answered my question, by the way. When did fanfic supposedly become acceptable, and why? You'll keep refusing to answer the question because you are also a bitch ass pussy.
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>>154798107
They're the perfect fodder to show how powerful Doom is. Only Yelena is in all the promo stuff and a majority of the clips so it's not looking good.
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>>154799817
>Changing the names and terms doesn't stop it from being plagiarism.
That's exactly what it does.
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>>154778292
I've recently gotten back into W.I.T.C.H. and was trying to find some fics after finishing the show.
I now realize that the fandom suffers from a disastrous combo of low volume + few good writers + too many fics are just rewrites.
I've only come across a single fic that I liked.
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>>154796135
There was a big one around 2010 deleting some smut that caused an exodus to Ao3, not sure if theres been any since.
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>>154800025
Bullshit. Everyone can see what you did. It's still fucking theft.
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>>154782483
Basically /co/co/'s bizarre adventure?
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>>154799721
I like Ohmyfae’s action scenes in a deceptively simple style, the FFXV Imperial Noct AU is pretty good.
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>>154778292
Writing chapter 39 of my Armored Core/Murder Drones fic. I think I'm closing in on the end of the story as a whole.

Brainstorming and thinking about my next project.
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>>154800151
thanks for the rec. Will check it out. Fight scenes and action scenes being a decent read is something I have pretty much always struggled with.
t. original requester
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>>154800080
Is 50 Shades of Gray blatantly stealing from Twilight?
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>>154800433
Wha? YES. If Meyer had any balls, she'd sue that retard for every last cent.
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>>154800433
You picked the single worst example possible.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hayleycuccinello/2017/02/10/fifty-shades-of-green-how-fanfiction-went-from-dirty-little-secret-to-money-machine/
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>>154796135
>>154800075
To my knowledge there have been 2 or 3 major FF purges, at least one in the 2000's and another in the early 2010's.

These were really just to rid the site of smut which has technically been against the rules for a long time.

I remember when I posted lemons on FF in 2017 getting comments saying my stuff was going to get caught in the next purge but they have never done one since that last oin around 2011/12 or so lol

And the site staff is extremely dead and wasn't all that alive when I started either, so most everyone knew there was no real chance of another purge.
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Which site is better to post on nowadays archive by archives our own or fanfiction. Net .?
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>>154800460
>>154800574
50 Shades has teenage vampires and werewolves?
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>>154801118
Depends on the fandom but generally Ao3.

I'd be good if we made a list of all the existing sites and ranked them since this question comes up in every thread.
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>>154801118
ffn barely works any more, there's no reason not to use ao3 now
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>>154801118
Spacebattles
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>>154780908
Let me guess "Hi, i love your stories. I'm an artist, would you be interested in commissioning me for art?" I get those fucking bots all the time with the exact same message. Fresh accounts, sketchy looking emails, the works.
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>>154801393
what surprises me is that i get these kinds of messages also constantly on my twitter account. I exclusively use it for reposting art, and i instantly block everyone who follows me, but sometimes an account looks real and i decide to ask why he followed me. And every fucking time, its some bullshit artist who does ai generated shit and asks for commisions. Whats the fucking endgoal here? Wait until someone is dumb enough to comission you and scam him for 20 bucks???
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>>154800574
That proves my point. It was a fanfic turned to its own thing. However the average person wouldn't recognize it if it was never outright stated.
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>>154801393
The exact same. Makes me wonder, does this actually make enough money for scammers to keep doing it?
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>>154801348
Only if you write for Worm, Warhammer, Youjo Senki or Mass Effect
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>>154801145
>>154801155
>>154801170
This shit right here is why fanfic is cringe and needs to be outlawed. Absolutely disgusting.

>>154801189
It's literally ripping off Twilight. Fuck you.
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>>154784685
Shame there seems to be a lack of Panty and Stocking first, glad to see more are being written though.
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>>154802073
What parts are being ripped off from Twilight?
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>>154802296
Everything. The "author" straight up admitted it. Are you seriously trying to go to bat for the fuckin' Twilight knockoff? And for what? Your continued refusal to answer the basic question of why and how fanfic is in anyway acceptable indicates that even you don't know, and that on some level, you know that what you're doing is fucking wrong.
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>>154801694
At this very moment there is a Marvel/DC Justice League crossover on the first page.
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>>154802315
I don't remember fifty shades having sparkling vampires.
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>>154802315
So you're saying that 50 Shades of Gray is about a teenage romance with love triangle involving vampires and werewolves?
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>>154802387
>>154802392
The two main characters are bootleg Bella and Edward. This is not up for debate. Now answer my fucking question, you bitch ass cowards.
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>>154800020
Aside from Stark and a few villains MCU kinda seems against killing they could just be injured/grabbing something have hope.
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How do you feel about fanfiction that is partially transcription of an existing work?
I have this Dragon Ball fanfiction where my main goal was to introduce a character during the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai and see how well I could fit the character into the world of Dragon Ball and test my mettle at writing in a Toriyamistic manner.
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>>154803143
If you're writing an AU best practice is generally to skip over stuff that stays the same as the original work.
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>>154803143
Usually "And OC was there too" fics aren't that well received. Their presence should actively change things and not retell the same story again.
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>>154802326
Share it and if its SI or SI adjacent I will slap you
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>>154803143
Please don't.
I'm in a few fanbases where people regularly re-write existing material. I've read those scenes too many times that I just skip over them entirely.
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>>154803206
SI free, but I'm sure you will find something else to bitch about.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-ultimate-league-superhero-multicross.1212095/
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>>154801145
How does shit like this get 3 kudos on 46 hits? I've seen genuinely well written stories that don't get that kind of ratio.
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>>154803283
You think your average AO3 reader cares about quality?
Oh boy I have news for you.
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>>154803170
>>154803196
>>154803241
Well that's the thing. The character causes a lot of small changes within the work along with major changes.
It is just that a lot of the overarching plots in Dragon Ball stay the same on certain levels because of the kind of character Goku is.
So just as a quick rundown:
>Former Red Ribbon soldier, got fired because she was getting too tall and Red didn't like that
>Beats Bacterian in prelims, beats Krillin, loses to Roshi, stays for the rest of the tournament
>Goes with Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong, and Pu'ar after Goku basically invites for her
>Alternate version of the Husky filler episodes without Goku - sense he'd be in Muscle Tower at the time
>Alternate Pirate Cave
>Skipping a lot of Goku stuff happening off screen that doesn't have any reason to change
>Character does own thing adjacent to the plot and away from the normal cast
>Alternate Red Ribbon Army conclusion
>Alternate Pilaf fight
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>>154803337
As long as you don't painstakingly write out all unchanged canon stuff that happens it should be fine. As the other anon said the things that stay the same should be glossed over. Not completely skipped but shortened and at the very least viewed through the lens of the new character.
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>>154803273
>multicross
>sonic
>disney
>gooner gacha #324
Damn you for pre-empting me saying it's shit
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>>154803388
Hey now. What do you have against Sonic?
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>>154803375
It started as an exercise to see if I could communicate Toriyama's paneling into a script style format, so I was trying (with the World Tournament at least), to keep a sort of continuity of story and also a discipline thing.
Then it ended up being a longer ongoing project than I initially expected to stick to.
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>>154803143
>>154803337
Go full Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead instead.
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>>154803590
Oh that's kinda what I had in mind.
Only the chapters that have something change as a result of the character's presence are getting covered.
Granted, I might be a bit too lenient with the extent of the changes I do coverage of, but the good news is that I am past the point of where things start to cascade more and result in greater differences.
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>>154803283
Kudos/hit ratios are just kinda unpredictable and random, though I think the it gets better with smaller fandoms that appreciate the works more as there are fewer.
Kudos and hits and comments and all that jazz are just kind of random too, it's hard to predict how well or not something will do.

My best received fic this year has been for happy tree friends, beating out my other shit for elder scrolls and pokemon somehow. Has like twice the kudos and ecstatic comments as anything else, was really not expecting that.
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>>154803627
Or you could go full Forrest Gump. Have the main character be kind of responsible for a bunch of stuff throughout the franchise.
>the two star Dragon Ball was in Bulma's basement because the MC pawned it for booze money and Dr. Briefs thought it would be a nice present for his wife when he saw it at the pawn shop
>Mr. Satan was going to go into showbusiness or politics until the MC met him at a bar and inadvertently gave him the idea to become a martial artist instead
>Ox-King's castle was set on fire when the MC visited and snuck out for a quick smoke
>Freeza's fear of a Super Saiyan rising up and his decision to wipe out the Saiyans were both caused by an off-hand remark about how strong the Saiyans were becoming by the MC during their brief stint in the Freeza Force (don't even explain how or why that happened)
>Turles decided to plant the Tree of Might on Earth because the MC drunk dialed him on Baba's crystal ball while trying to order pizza
>Goku would've been too late to register for his first Tenkaichi Budokai if the MC hadn't gotten completely wasted the night before and was too hungover to register in time (ironically, they wanted to compete to pay off their towering bar tab with the prize money)
I'm sure you can think of a few more.
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>>154803805
Why?
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>>154793759
Make me, ya fuckin’ whore! Doodly-woodly-hoooo! You can’t touch me because I’m an internet man and so are you!
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>>154804457
Why what? Be specific.

>>154804600
We need to bring back the stabbing over the internet meme. Shame people are too delicate for that these days.
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>>154804836
What was your first exposure to fanfiction?
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>>154805403
I don't read fanfiction and never have.
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>>154805448
That does not answer my question. When did you first learn about the existence of fanfiction?
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>>154788099
Since when was fanfiction considered socially taboo?
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>>154778292
I'd share but everything I've written is smut
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>>154807595
And?
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>>154807595
what media did you write smut for?
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>>154807595
Nothing stopping you
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Any good crossover fics where it doesn't blatantly wank the character getting transported (x) universe?
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Speaking of crossover fics, anybody have any ideas for good ones?

It's semi-/a/ related but for years I've had a Code Geass/Transformers crossover fic percolating in the back of my mind.
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>>154809265
I've never written anything like it but part of me has dreamed about doing a story of a typical isekia loser going into a show he likes, succeeding at dominating the actual cast by knowing all their moves and plans and how the plot goes and shit, living on top for a time
only for the show to soon warp around him, the plot changing with his intervetion, characters growing to dislike his shitty personality, and trope-y things befalling him
and then he has a sort of breakthrough and learns to go with the flow and remember why he liked the show and essentially become a character and a better person

might get around to doing this sometime, seems like a really fun idea
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>>154809265
I've yet to find a good crossover fic.
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>>154807595
The people demand to see your smut.
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>>154809330
>>154809265
>>154809938
If you like Murder Drones and Armored Core, I'm writing one on Ao3, just look up Armored Core: Copper Frost
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>>154800104
Sort of, it's more of "what if you had X comic's plot but now it's in the JoJo world and it has a character from another /co/ property on it now as a crucial character and there are also these other important characters but now they are humans despite that not being the case on their source material?"
I can tell you it's 12 chapters long and the climax takes place on December 16th, 2015 since that is an important date that represents one of the main characters metaphorically entering his adulthood, (There is an epilogue that takes place in 2016, though).
I'd rather keep some details private until I get at least a third of the story done.
Also joke spoilers here >>154791176
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I wish there was some more Cursed Princess Club fanfiction. Or maybe I could always write my own.
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>>154807595
I'd share too but I'm paranoid about someone from the website I used to write on finding me here.
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I have an idea for a comic book but i cant draw write and am not focused enough to learn any of the skills required to do it
I was thinking of a fantasy series about a young knight on his Walz (Wandering years basically nobles used to send of their children away for one or two years to see the world and make some experinces)
It could be like Asterix wher every issue would focus on a new adventure like robber barons bullying some merchants by taxing them for using the roads and some bridges or mediating a feud between two people or defending a village from viking raids
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>>154812458
Well you got options. Here are the two I can think of off the top of my head.
Start writing just in prose and either become good at/or hire someone good at art to adapt it into a comic.
Learn paneling, make paneled pages, and write a script for those panels, then the art stuff (this will probably be better for finding artists).
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>>154812348
What site?
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>>154813922
I'm not going to say that either, but it's not a pornographic website of any kind. Let's just say that I made a few enemies on that website and it wouldn't surprise me if at least some of them posted on 4chan too.
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>>154812348
What, were they a stalker?
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>>154814032
I don't know and I don't want to find out.
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I find detective and comedy to be the hardest genres to write for and I want to combine both, imagine the hellhole I'm putting myself through.

Anyone know someone with some experience in that which I could hire for cheap around $100-$300?
I'm looking for a Kids Next Door, Fillmore, Recess stuff but with some swearing and racial slurs to make it more South Park ish.
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>>154794306
>whataboutism
Ew, a leftist.
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>>154787071
Can't wait for you to publish his 500+ page novel debut.
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My ass had a dream about a fanfic I was working on but stopped due to laziness but after that I'm gonna try get into it again
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Here's a shameless shill of a 'The Sword in the Stone' fanfic I wrote almost a decade ago featuring Arthur & Hazel having a passionately lewd night together
https://pastebin.com/0DfTg1z8

Alternatively it's also featured amongst a bunch of other really good Hazel fics & greens written by other anons on the /co/nservatory that I'd highly recommend checking out, too
https://the-conservatory.fandom.com/wiki/Hazel
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Hey, if the anon that wrote this homfa Tigress Kung Fu Panda fic on Ao3 is in this thread, I beg of you please continue.
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>>154807595
I'm currently writing a magical boy fucks monster girl fic though it's not really fanfiction
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>>154815291
Drop a link whenever you finish it
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>>154809330
The Matrix/Serial Experiments Lain. I tried writing one but the IQ requirement crushed me.
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>>154815355
Alrighty. Not sure how long it'll take though. 5k words in. It was meant to be a quick short thing but I got carried away and still have a lot more to go. I can link what I've got so far. Not that amazing but it's something
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I want to add to my X-23 fic, each chapter is to explore Laura's life living with Gabby and her past as a Prostitute coming back to haunt her.
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>>154815802
Sure, I’ll read it.
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>>154816650
Alrighty. The dialogue is a bit corny I'll grant, real pornslop talking but I think it's fun. When this is done, I might write more with other members of the team porking their own monster/villain girl or each other.

https://rentry.co/magi-prinz-wip
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>>154784746
Lewd is good.
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>>154815497
>IQ requirement
>Serial Experiments Lain
Yeah, 105 is a really high bar.
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>>154817768
You do it then since you're so smart
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>>154816832
Yeah, it was alright
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>>154818656
Good enough for me, thankyou. Still a wip so I'm open to ideas if someone wants to see something in particular play out
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Here's one I can never do:

Rudy desperately wants to give Penny a "rusty trombone", so he creates a chalk version of Penny. However, when he gives chalk Penny the "rusty trombone" he kills her in the process (due to the moistness), and real Penny finds out. Rudy is sad and scared of what Penny might think of him. Surprisingly, she decides to give HIM a "rusty trombone" and he ends up discovering its what he really wanted all along.

And they live happily ever after, kek.
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Have an idea for a Spider-Man fic where Miles visits Peter’s universe for spring break. With each chapter being a single day. It would be set in my own take on Spider-Man that’s why Miles still lives in the original Ultimate universe. Also Peter and Felicia live together and he works at the Daily Bugle as a reporter with his own science based column

>Hey do your parents know where you are?
>They know I’m staying with my friend Peter.
>Do they know Peter is a grown ass man in a different reality?
>…No.
>Whatever your funeral. Oh and Felicia’s bringing pizza for dinner so don’t fill up.

>Felicia I can’t believe you-
>We’re not arguing in front of Miles, Peter. I don’t want to upset him.
>Miles is not our son!
>Oh my God I’m adopted?!
>Sweetie we were going to tell you! *Felicia hugging Miles and exaggeratedly mad dogging Peter*
>You guys are insane.

>Morning Peter. What’re you doing?
>Getting ready for work… cause I’m an adult
>Well what am I gonna do?
>I dunno. Go to McDonald’s?
>Really dude?
>Ok well I guess I can work on that article at the Baxter Building they’re probably up to something.

>Why don’t you ever visit Miles? He’s always coming here.
>See we tried but people kept throwing things at him cause they thought he was disrespecting the dead.
>Yeah and I saw my own grave and it freaked me out.
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>>154778511
You do go to the /vp/ fanfic thread right, anon? I know Greenfag is still shitting things up every so often
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>>154819472
Oh fuck, Greenfag is shitting up the fanfic thread alongside the romhack thread?
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>>154819472
I pop in now and then but pokemon is only kinda a small part of what I write now (mostly /v/ stuff but as i mentioned trying to do more /co/); these threads here and this one fanfic board on an altchan have satisfied most of my discussion needs.

Also desu the /vp/ fanfic threads are kinda really centered around the big name threadfics, which is perfectly fine if a little weird after I came back to find the fanfic threads there WAY different from what i remembered from many years ago, but all I really write are smut oneshots with the very occasional chapter fic, not really at all in the vein of the threads as far as I can tell.

I do also got to /spt/ and post my applicable stuff there now.
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>>154819496
Who the hell’s Greenfag?
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>>154819565
Some guy that floods threads by talking nonstop about Green/Leaf
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>>154819588
Oh the fuckin Pokémon character (right?) ok
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shout out Saber_T00th
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>>154819496
Greenfag spams every general now.
>>154819530
>Centered around the big name threadfics
Idk if I’d call then “big name” (even PoPT is below 25k views on Ao3 so idk how “big” it is), but yeah, discussion will often bounce around threadfics or the same set of fics some the threadanons follow religiously. A few years back an anon purged the old thread OP and re-named it (including taking out the archive that might’ve gotten too big). It was very bizarre (I at least understood taking discord out of the OP). So I fully understand why most oldheads from before leave it be now.
>>154819604
Yes.
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Been in a dry spell lately, but slowly writing a few fics for Flufftober. At the very least it's a warm-up.
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>>154784381
Word, and I put in all the italics, bolds and whatnot at AO3 myself.

>>154795227
Might have gotten depressed (I do the delete stuff in my depressive episodes), or maybe he got doxxed and freaked out.

>>154801189
It's Twilight AU fic, re-skinned into an 'original' work.
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>>154819659
Dude thank you! That’s really nice I promise to actually fuckin write something soon. Probably another chapter of my Thunderbolts fic
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I saw this in the Avatar fighting game thread and it made me think of Object Lesson, since Toph and Azula becoming unexpected friends was a pretty notable part of that story.
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You ever read something so unhinged it made you question if the writer was going through something?
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>>154784381
Notepad. I just write greens.
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>>154822067
No but I've read a fic where I could tell things were going to veer into fetish territory eventually, even from the first chapter.
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>>154822144
Fetishes can be subtle and not even tagged. The author might not even intentionally be doing it, but it shows.
There was one where there were several vomit/purging scenes, described in detail too. If not a fetish, it was some sort of eating disorder.
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>>154822067
Many years ago, long before AO3 with its protections for adult and weird content existed, I was very surprised by the fic writer who'd write stories about Roy Orbison in clingfilm. I just checked and it's still online. That guy was a pioneer.
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>>154822067
I assume everyone who writes is going through something
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>>154809330
/v/ related but Tron/Deltarune could be fun. Have the grid corrupt the game’s code and threaten to brick whatever server the grid is currently running on.
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>>154822346
You're probably right. I think a lot of writers know that deep down.
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>>154822346
I go through a bag of weed when I write. I've literally never written sober and I'm damn sure not picking today to start.
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>>154822144
For some reason I've been running into stories where spanking is snuck in every now and again not even in a sexual context.
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>>154822346
All creatives are crazy. All of them.
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>>154822067
Well there is that author that has several stories where the main character was a former drunkard that killed his daughter through negligence.



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