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>>156179939Fuck off.
>>156179949Sorry for taking up a spot for another loli or fetish thread
>>156180156This is the same level of shit. It's fetish circlejerk faggotry.
>>156179939just make a fanfiction net account, ao3 is just for porn. at least with ff you can show it to employers i don't know how this shit works
>>156180156Replacing shit with shit isn't helping Choke to death
>>156180386>at least with ff you can show it to employersif i ever show up to a job interview and the interviewer knows about my fics i will sudoku immediately
>>156180373>>156180407Embarrassing that these threads were better than 99% of the catalog this week, huh. I think you got another organic indie thread to be in>>156180386Fanfiction is bot infested and half the time pages don't even load. I'd think literotica is the porn-fic site or do folks not use it anymore?
So, is the return date still placebo or do they really have no idea when they'll be done with this?
>>156180424>that these threads were better than 99% of the catalog this week99% of the catalog has been bot spam, and this was almost as bad. You faggots taking advantage of the board's shittiness and thinking you're above it all is hilarious.
>>156180428They likely have no idea and no estimate. The site is run by volunteers so even the most blatant site violations take days if not weeks to get responded to.
>>156180526And yet here you are being a wannabe janny, kek. Go wait until they open janny applications again for you to be denied once more.
>>156181120I would never want to be a janny. I'm just telling it like it is.
>>156181234you wouldn't want to be a janny because that would involve work. obviously you still want to be able to dictate the board like one
>>156180428They haven't posted a return date at all, right?
>>156181285Make up your mind.I'd like to think a lot people would rather the board be good than terrible.
People are defintely pissed about this since a couple of days ago they've made like $300,000 in a couple of days from that OTW thing.I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the supporters of this site just stop supporting it.
>>156180418Yeah I have a coworker that writes but I can never tell him i do as well cause Ive written exclusively smutIt would be beyond awkward
>>156182261Doubt it. The people throwing a hissy fit seem to be young writers who only got into writing recently. The ones donating seem to be ones who care about archiving old works. I don't particularly care if those annoying 20 year olds leave.
>>156180418What if they're a fan of your work and want to excitedly talk about your fics and it becomes clear you'll get hired if you go along with it?
>>156182320the chances of this happening are close to 0
>>156182261Doubt it. Also apparently their security is still way better than 4chan's (not hard)
So nothing’s actually been lost, right? The fic I was reading isn’t suddenly going to be missing when the site comes back?
Getting to the point in the current fanfic I'm writing where I have to write a three-way fight between three people using different weapons, powers, and fighting styles, with each one of them aiming to kill a different one of their opponents first. Gonna be tough. I think some people are naturally gifted when it comes to writing fight scenes and choreography but for everyone else it's a struggle.You hardly see actual three-way fights in fiction. I can barely think of any. It's more common in fucking wrestling.
>>156182851I remember reading a guy who did a three against three with them all having different skillsets and trading enemies fluidly. When I thought of how I'd write that, I had a fucking headache.
>>156182671>First, no AO3 data has been deleted. All your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are safe.
>>156182851Try rock-paper-scissoring that shit.
>>156179939When you find calendars you want to use in fanfiction who are wasted potential like wasted potential such as Diethard Ried. Newsman with intelligence and was actually 100% ethnically britannia wasted potential making him the gossip column type .
When will ao3 return from the war?
Had this idea in a Marvel Midnight Universe thread. Younger Peter and an older, slightly, yandere Felicia>Peter I wish I could keep you in my apartment. All locked up and mine. Mine forever… *nuzzles into him*>Wow Felicia that’s nice. I think *Peter now has an awkward boner*
Usually when a site goes down they’re only down for a few days, week at most, like even 4chan wasn’t down that long. But AO3 saying it could take up to 4 weeks is insane, the fuck they doing?
>>156184034They’re in the workshop like Tony Stark making the site stronger (I hope)
>>156180373>This is the same level of shit. It's fetish circlejerk faggotry.Dear newfag, welcome to /co/.
>>1561840344chan's big outage last year was almost a month tho
>>156184034The with the big AI hacks they must figure it’s worth it to patch every single little thing they could find lest this happen againAnd you don’t need to go far to see how close the zoomers are to killing themselves over it. A scam site went up with scrapped fics and a page to “contact us to get your fic taken down” and they couldn’t stop sending their personal info to it.
>>156180156>being against loli while using the proshipper fanfic website?
Worst shark jumps in fics?
>>156184342Nonhuman female character turns into a human
>>156184342HmmOut of the stuff I read, harems outta nowhere take the cake
>>156184034It's probably issues with hardware. Data centers made it hard to find parts not being used by them.
>>156184342Anakin built C-3PO.
>>156184342Sudden introduction of OC's or random non-canon stuff for no reason.
>>156184342Harems or sudden yuri/yaoi even when the author gives canonical sexualities overtly and says they are straight.
>>156184342A man suddenly developed a functioning uterus out of nowhere, and the author swore he wouldn't get pregnant. He didn't before the author abandoned the fic, but I really don't get why he suddenly grew a functioning uterus and there was apparently no reason for it.
>>156185004wtf kind of fics are you reading
>>156185004my eyes need bleach
>>156185014It was otherwise a pretty normal superhero fic for most of it until things took a weird turn, and it had my rarepair ship as a background couple so that's why I read it.
>>156185004Why would they need to say Mpreg wouldn't be a thing?
>>156184342Theres an old harry potter fic where its a standard harem for like 20 chapters until 4th year, where harry turns into an anthro dragon to fuck the horntail in the first task. From there everyone turns into an 'animagus' furry and i dont think there is a single sex scene with a regular human woman.
>>156184342Gender-swap; plus the guy ended up getting raped as a female so "hurray"
>>156185014ABO hit fanfiction like crack hit the streets. Nowadays everyone knows to stay away from crack alley but back then people had to watch everyone around them turn into crackheads and the street of their family home turn into a hellscape, until they finally had to give up and abandon the tainted remnants of the past.
>>156185626I don't like Omegaverse stuff either, but mpreg has been a thing for a long time. It's a lot more common nowadays though, which is irritating.
>>156185847Mpreg is always a smut thing. The scariest aspect of abo is that a ton of authors convinced themselves that it is not a smut thing and that boywombs and male breastfeeding are wholesome teen rated fluff.
>>156185902I've noticed that, though the argument I usually see is that it's a non-smut commentary on gender politics and sex-based oppression...which is a stretch. I wouldn't care if they'd acknowledge that it's both.
>>156186016What if the fic is about seahorse characters?
Question, is it really so hard for people to follow character view changes?For instance, one paragraph is character 1's POV then the next character 2's POV. this is in sequential order.I've had complaints about it and that each chapter should be the POV of an individual and to not swap between two characters.
>>156186114>so hard for people to follow character view changesIf you're terrible at showing different ways of thought through your text then yes.
>>156186114Conventionally, narrative perspective stays consistent through the scene. If you want to change it within one scene, put a textual clue at the change, e.g. "Character thought that was a bad idea, and decided to say so". Speaking of which, that's probably a bad idea unless you want the flow of the story to be broken up in that part. Conventions exist for actual reasons most of the time.
>>156186016Bitches also said the minitour milking book was a commentary on capitalism. Women will say whatever to feel less ashamed about their porn.
>>156186163What did they say about Bear?
>>156186114Some people really really like to self insert and dont like to PoV anyone that isnt their favorite. These are also the people who complain that a character is 'out of character' when you directly pull a scene unchanged from the original work.Ourside of that, if a lot of people are complaining about smoke its probably because there is a fire. When you are doing PoV changes you should try to go out of your way to clearly indicate in the writing, as soon as you can, that the new PoV is character Y. Have someone refer to them by name in the first few lines and have the narrative voice acknowledge that they are indeed this individual. Even just do a page break and title card that the PoV is character Y for the rest of this chapter.
>>156186163Men do that too, so I'm not overly bothered. Everybody's a fucking hypocrite.
>>156186192pffffffffffffff
>>156186173>'out of character' when you directly pull a scene unchanged from the original work.That could be true. Lots of fan works change the characters such that unedited scenes from the original work wouldn't fit.
>>156186192Anon, i dont know how else to tell you this... they dont actually read it for the plot and the backstory
>>156186192Do we? Men don't really get erotica in that kind of way so i've never seen people try to defend it. In the fanfic space people mostly treat porn like porn
>>156186265There were a bunch of dumbshits on Twitter going on recently about how men care about relationships in fiction while women only care about getting off, and that is some of the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard. Again: everybody's a fucking hypocrite. Tons of people want porn while pretending they're reading/writing for a higher calling.
>>156186309if men gave a shit about relationships we'd actually have much of a romance scene towards males worth talking about
>>156186163You need to understand that for the average female reader 'capitalist power structures' is that thing that Christian Grey does under the table to tease her before he brings her back to the dungeon for 'blackmail' and 'rape'.
Where is the /co/ in this thread? I'm plotting an ATLA anthology series about an Earth Kingdom prefect chronicling the post-war Period.>>156186114For a typical 8th grader reading level novel (most adults' adventure fiction), I expect some chunk of line breaks when switching from one POV to another. You put extra space between the old POV last paragraph and new POV first paragraph to indicate distance between the two POVs, and maybe even a line divider marking the change. Or yeah, keeping POV the same for an entire chapter, and only trading off POVs between chapters.For high-brow fiction, I'm used to switching different characters' third-person POV without warning, or switching from limited third-person to omniscient third-person without warning. But I don't think those are the popular, easy-to-consume books.
>>156186383>For high-brow fictionYou mean the kind that's intentionally poorly-written?
>>156180373>>156180156what do you guys want people to discuss here? if you want resources you'd go to requests or ic, if you wanted to talk about a specific character, comic or show you'd just make a thread about it.
>>156186383>Where is the /co/ in this thread?For any Frozen fans, I recommend 'Mistress Anna' by Tamorasky. Anna and Elsa are Canadian Metis (natives mixed with Europeans). Anna believes her dad's blood grants her the privilege to go about in Canadian society and is left with Hans' bastard child. There's some art accompanying it, too.
>>156186509this feels like something so deep into au territory it makes me wonder why it's even a fanfic at all
>Seeing a guy claim he isn't using AI to write his fics>Check his favorites>It's all AI written ficsGrim. Don't let your style get corrupted like this...
>>156186383>easy-to-consume books.fuck you're right. i gotta keep this shit stupid for the normie audience. this is a capeshit type of story i'm writing but it's still in incubation phase. a rough chapter or two i've done is being crit by a friend and I'm working things out on it.
>>156186520That's how I feel about almost all of the modern day type AU fics, like changing the setting that much does have an effect on characters, so at that point why not just change the names and appearances and claim its original fiction?
>>156186562>why not just change the names and appearances and claim its original fiction?Because then nobody would read it. People who write AUs like that don't do it out of respect for the characters or setting. They want validation. They want the dopamine rush that comes from getting kudos and comments and bookmarks.
>>156186701to be fair, writing something only for no one to read it is super demotivating.
>>156186562Don't worry, once they get enough attention, they nuke the fic, change the names of everyone, and publish on amazon
>>156186705It is, and people are really weird about that these days. If you're ever bummed about it you're a greedy piece of shit, at least according to people who write very popular stories.
>>156186709This happens?How often?
>>156187341I don't know how often, but the book series Heated Rivalry comes from was an original work which was retooled into a Captain America/Bucky fic, and when it became popular the fic was nuked and turned into the book series we know today. Presumably the same thing happened with 50 Shades of Grey.
>>156187341Hunger games was a harry potter story about draco/hermionie if I remember correctly, that is before it was retooled as an original work.
>>156186114That is generally a bad idea, yeah. Like pretty much all literary rules it can be broken if you really know what you're doing, but most who do so do not know what it is they're doing.It's safer just to save pov/internal thoughts changes for new chapters or a break in the chapter
>>156179939Serves those fuckers right, to be honest. I hope all of their works will be gone for good, and never archived.
>>156178742I think both FF and Ao3 had the same number of chapters: I've got it at 72 in both versions I saved, I think.
>>156187713I feel like I would've heard that if that were true. What I know of Hunger Games also makes that very unlikely, except in the broadest terms of like "she wrote fanfic with that ship and then wrote this other work that vaguely has hogwarts houses and things like that but the characters and their circumstances are so vastly different as to be irrelevant as a comparison."
>>156186839It's one of those things that got caught up in The Discourse(tm), usually in relation to the fraught relationship between author and audience, balancing the wishes and expectations of both. That's a whole other discussion really.The "write for yourself" mantra is 100% true, it's foundational for any hobbyist writer, no one should write solely to be seen as that's just asinine.At the same time, some people think of it as a be all end all. This typically comes from a few different types; those that use it as a sort of defense mechanism arisen from an antagonistic relationship with readers e.g. a writer that's gotten fed up with people requesting a story going a certain way or one that's gotten mad at unflattering reviews, and those rare few that genuinely don't care about other people seeing their work.This kind of stuff is obviously extreme and shouldn't be the case for the vast majority of fanfic writers. We write stuff based off the works of others, we post it online for others to see; it's a community project by its very nature. It's normal to want views, kudos/favs, comments/reviews, and it's very satisfying to get them for a reason, it's motivating.Basically, don't ever let people try and tell you to completely ignore that kind of stuff as it really is the lifeblood of fanfic. At the same time, try not to obsess over it or let it completely dominate how or what you write, that's bad too.
>>156185598An author discovering a fetish mid-fic can be devastating.
>been about a week since AO3 went down>the thing says two to four weeks for the site to come back upWe're either 50% or 25% of the way there.
>>156189013I have to restrain from adding all my fetishs into my fics.I've gotten it under control but there always that moment of weakness where I nearly give in.It's a struggle lol
>>156184342>Timetravel, MC with meta knowledge and shit like that>Reveals it to the other charactersThis shit almost never works
I'm trying to come up with story based on a already made story, but replace all characters with Atlab characters.
>>156188694Yeah, I agree with you. It's best not to obsess about it, but it's only human to feel sad or hurt that nobody seems to care about your work (and all the effort you put into it). And it's shitty to kick someone while they're down about it, because people don't post their work online if they aren't hoping someone will read it.
>>156184342It's cool that you asked me because now I have forgotten every single fic i have ever read. Seems to happen whanever I get asked an open-ended question about something.
>>156180424>my pornslop is better than political schizo's tard rage sessionsThe absolute state of this board
>>156189388Be a better man.
>>156189098>It's only human to feel sad or hurt that nobody seems to care about your work (and all the effort you put into it).somewhat related>that one story you put time and love into does a lot worse in views and engagement and shit than that other one you care much less abouthate this shit
>>156190320i remember my porn getting a lot more attention than my actual written worksso yeah
>>156189013Happened to the Anita Blake books but it was the author fucking a fan she met at a convention and protag goes from hunting vampires to having to get gangbanged by vampires and werepeople (sometimes in their were form) 5 times a day or she will literally die
>>156184342Character gets possessed by the ghost of the woman she took her current uterus from and the protagonist has to perform an emergency hysterectomy to exorcise her.However, considering the series it was a fanfiction of, this was in fact an indicator to me that the writer really got the series and had written a story that was more than just canon compliant in the literal facts sense.
>>156187341fifty shades of grey was a twilight au originally
>>156190669that's even worse
>Have villain everybody loves>Later introduce main cast addition that's very controversial and people think she's unnecessary/don't get what she brings to the table>She's the villain's little sister and is the main crux of his subplotI'm a little worried people will find this contrived or bring him down, should I rip the bandaid off in their first meeting or give them a few encounters before they figure it out and try to establish a dynamic my readers will enjoy first?
>>156190757what
>>156190706Yeah, Twilight is the big one. You can still find the original online. This happens a lot with Harry Potter. A lot of fanfiction writers have gone on to become published authors, especially with Hermione x Draco stuff. The others are The Love Hypothesis (which started as a Kylo Ren x Rey fanfiction), and it recently got a live action adaption. And the After series, a self-insert x Harry Styles fanfiction series that was originally published on Wattpad. This one got a FIVE movie deal.It's called "filing off the serial numbers".
>>156190735than what?
>>156190768I am writing a fanfic and recently introduced a character my readers don't like yet. They think she's too strong and doesn't really have a dynamic that makes her worth adding to the cast. This is in part because she is secretly the sister of one of my villains who is arguably my most popular character, and (besides the MC) her interaction with him is where most of her development will come from.Should I reveal their relation the first time they meet one another to intrigue my readers, and risk it feeling cheap, or attempt a slower burn of allowing their rivalry to escalate before I drop the reveal?
>>156190807Not necessarily the same, but one of the biggest published ABO authors started writing Nolan Bane x Batman before moving to traditional.
>Just read first chapter of Faunus Ruby Rose story>She's referred to as an AlphaI don't know if I want to continue reading this... it didn't do anything else concerning that kind of thing except for Blake acting weird around her but it's such a turn off. It's so weird and awkward.
>>156189764Get raped
>>156190898I want to see a story that pretends to be omegaverse but the subversion is that its just irl wolf pack dynamics and the alpha is just their normal ass dad
>>156190914Fic that appears to be an omegaverse fic but it's a slow burn of the Alpha cryptically referring to "the Omega" all through the story, and at the climax arrives home to his master Darkseid.
>>156191039The Orion(or superman, I guess) Darkseid yaoi, just how Jack Kirby would have wanated.
>>156190352I only write porn so my equivalent of this is my long multi chapter porn I really put a lot of effort into and really liked the characters involved doing worse than a shirt oneshot I did years ago that got boosted by a stupid fuck ass meme
>>156190914>the alpha is just their normal ass dadThat's basically what real life wolf packs are like right?The pack are just a family and "alpha" is the oldest male thereSpeaking of Alpha I dare you watch this video till the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5zOC1hJMTE
>>156191486lol what
Are there any good Avengers fic that tried rewriting the movies in a non quippy manner ?
>>156190840Just write what you think would be the better read. The quality of your work will suffer if your main concern is placating your loudest and whiniest readers.
>>156191593My most popular story is a short fic of some dude banging a Vaporeon. It had always done okay but when that one meme happened it overtook my others after a while. Took me a while to figure out what was going on but it's annoyed me since I noticed.
>>156192103you deserved that, fag
