This person Got ItTM and I’m just jenfkwnfgvdpkemckfkc kicking my feet and rereading it nonstop 😭😭😭

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I'm trying my best hhfhfhfnfn.

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Sorry for the terrible photo, but in case anyone was wondering, ao3 works on the vita

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They’re right...

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spam? Does anyone know what this means? I kinda don't want to put it in my search bar...

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I DIDN’T KNOW YOU COULD POST PICS IN THE COMMENTS!!! How????

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💀

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Me logging on and seeing somebody un-bookmarked my fic

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I feel so called out rn

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Here's A Little Meme I Made To Encapsulate How I Feel Sometimes...

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Boy oh boy...so, I got this comment tonight and let me tell you...this person needs to chill. See the story in my comment below...I’m going excitement flair because it’s funny...

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WHICH IS IT??????

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Yup

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I made this instead of writing

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15 amazing comments praising my character work, 1 jerk commenting OOC LOL. Guess which one I'm obsessing over.

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accurate

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I hope that they are doing fine

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Right, which of y’all are published authors?

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Happy birthday to AO3! It’s turning 12

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What are some of y’all’s favorite weird fic tags? I don’t mean kinky or anything specifically fetishized, just the shit that is completely out of pocket & hilarious. Sometimes these Ao3 writers have got me weak bruh 🤣💀🔪

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how it's currently going

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When a story just keeps getting better.

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Noooo!

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I have zero (0) excuses...

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Got an amazing Christmas present!☺️✨💕

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When you remember how hundreds of fanfics came up about Conan Doyle's Sherlock back in the 19th century and the amount of letters the man received threatening him because of the canon to the point he had to resurrect a character... We've been like this from the very beginning...

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me, knowing this chapter will break my readers' hearts:

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Funny lil red squiggly lines. (I didn't flair this wrong previously I swear it.)

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When you finally have time to write that fic idea you had in your mind for a week, but now it's too late and you're not interested in it anymore

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y'aaaallll i just hit a 100 days of writing every day at least a little!

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I'm writing fic for a relatively unpopular character and, going into it, I resigned myself to the fact it wouldn't get much attention. I received this comment the other day. Remember: anything you put out there will resonate with someone. That alone makes trying worth it.

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Even when I do make an outline I do improv anyway, so who cares?

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The pain of searching for new fics

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Antishippers ☕️

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This work could have adult content. If you proceed you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

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A placeholder fic with a special tone of voice.

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See this ain't for us, cause we'll start doing options C, D, E, F, G...

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When you refresh the Ao3 page to see if someone has left a kudos on the fanfic you've just posted, but find a bookmark instead

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English majors: fess up. Cat's name & current literary device.

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Why do people think this is okay? (Yes, I reported it)

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I honestly don't know if this person a troll or what, so I just deleted the comment from my newest fanfic. I didn't even bother to reply back to them. I just wanted to know what y'all thought and if I wasn't the person who got a comment like that.

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It's like playing Where's Waldo and I have no idea why I do this

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This has made my day ❤️

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Oh god

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Sometimes, in the comments section...

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yay I just got my first hate comment! I'm not even sad. I'm confused. does this count as hate?

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I do feel a little bad of following through so I just decided to block it.

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Celebrating 10 years 🎉

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Do y'all ever just-

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i’m not alone in this am i??

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Help

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Someone bookmarked my work and wrote this

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Those people need to sit back down

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Calling out all of you

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Okay, but I don't need a reminder that I have muted someone.

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If only word count was an indicator of completion level

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I've finally finished this monster of a fic!

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Is this format weird? I’m trying to write an epistolary fic that show’s handwritten notes exchanged between two strangers.

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FINALLY! FIRST SORT OF HATE COMMENT BABY! And all honestly I agree chapter 9 is the worst thing I've uploaded

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I’m free~

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An interesting take, ppl who write for fanships why do you?

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I’m BEYOND elated at this comment 😭 I’m just curious why people read fanfics about something they didn’t watch haha

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I wonder if my professor's instructions towards us grading each other's papers also applies to *constructive criticism* for fanfiction. 🤔

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I posted this like five minutes ago, this reader was so quick that AO3 didn't even register the hit before the kudos.

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Why does my brain keeps creating goddamn cinematic universes whenever I write a Fic that I like?

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Me after adding hurt/comfort tag in my filter...

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Opinion: If you are just going to ask for the author to continue, don't comment. I got a comment like this by the same person in each chapter of one of my fics. I am doing this because I enjoy it and for free, I have a life, these comments are not positive, they make me not want to continue instead.

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Have been using AO3 for 5 years, haven't clicked it once.

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It's been out for two days now... I usually get some

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What's the weirdest working title you've ever given a fic? I'll go first.

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This guy is accusing me of copying his story on Wattpad. I obviously didn't, I searched the same name of my story and there isn't one. Since it's a guest account, I think it's a troll but, What should I do? Do you think this is a proper response? (Please, I need answers quickly)

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Hit 5 million words published on AO3 today. Five years ago I didn’t even know what fan fiction was and now?? CHEERS to fandom and fan fiction and how it’s changed my life and introduced me to an incredible community.

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Past me loves to create plot holes for future me to solve

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Like, at least spice it up a little

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My Usual

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I just got my first Kudos!! Its my first fanfic so it’s a little rough and more of a practice fic but it makes me happy knowing someone enjoyed reading it.

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Wholesome commentors are amazing

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i made a bingo card for some friends

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Me with an Assassin's Creed fic

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... found in the wild ... I thought ‘AO3 writers write through crazy life events’ was a joke ......

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My puzzle got solved!!

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I love these tags

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not the type of reading you think......

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Currently watching as my smut’s public bookmarks stay stagnant but the total bookmarks keep rising.

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And I’m not sorry

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Best chapter title I’ve seen in a while

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Let’s Normalize this Tag Shall We?

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This is my favorite comment that I’ve gotten

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I know ppl tend to laugh at such comments but honestly two years later and this comment still was one of the many things that made me overly critical of my work

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Compliment or Insult?

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Me waiting for the night to be in the right angsty mood and write my angst fanfic

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And on today's topic of ao3 authors going through the most...

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Someone—actually gifted me a work. I AM CRYING🥹

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When one of your precious bookmark ppl stops updating their chapter progress in the bookmark text 😩

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[Question] I am fairly new to AO3 (bit over a year), and these bot comments started popping up on my recent work. Why do these happen? I get excited about someone reading my work just to see these generic comments

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genuinely love when authors reply to my dumb comments

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Hmmmm, I feel like calling out some people today (including myself)

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How would you reply to these sort of comments? Back to back complaints about something which gets addressed later on

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I did it! I finished an actual fic for the first time in my life! Woo!

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Pain

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My stats after 4 years of writing and posting 16 works. I am proud but also still very insecure and always doubting myslef

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Didn’t plan on it, but I definitely can’t abandon the fic now

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Prime Video UK so real for this. Someone in the comments told them to drop their AO3. 🤭

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when the angst is so good it physically hurts to read

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First hate comment... I think

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I'll just be at the coffee shop down the street, writing and waiting for my fandom soulmate to walk through the door and knock over the umbrella stand.

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Anyone else relate to this when they’re writing?

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Random meme I found.

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Literally just woke up from a nap 🫠

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vent post: i’m trying not to equate kudos to hits ratio with the quality of my work, but man it’s hard :(

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The Bot Place

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Please tell me I'm not the only one who, when randomly wakes up at 5am, instead of going back to sleep starts a super writing session till 8 am and then finally goes back to sleep

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i feel like it needs to be posted here

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Is It Weird that I’ve Been Waiting For This?

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Reached 100 Kudos Today!!

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I challenged myself to write 10k of one-shot and I’ve already passed that word count.

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i reached 1000 notes for the first time and i didn't even realize it!!

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So I made a meme to explain to my non-writer friends what happens when I get into new fandoms as a whump and hurt/comfort writer

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To the line I refuse to put in the final draft:

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Me realizing Iman Vellani reads fanfic and after realizing she might have read mine.

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This comment 🥰 This fic was sitting at 153k @ 41 chapters.

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What types of snacks do you usually eat when writing?

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How do you melt a car? lmaooo

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I always feel so powerful doing this. No, I don't want the F/F couple to be the side couple!

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Me, checking my stats after posting the final chapter of my fic

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AO3 authors are truly a different breed

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reminder that the episode that has the iconic dead dove not eat scene turns 20 this year

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Starting the day calling everyone out

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ao3 truly is an unhinged place

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oops i did it again?

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Mfw AO3 is down late at night AKA my prime reading time

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Which is it😭

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Nice

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When someone comments “why would you write this?” on a questionable fic of yours (feel free to apply your own captions to this gif)

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Misjudging just how absolutely stoked your audience is gonna be for something

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(all love to the commenter it isn’t their fault and I appreciate their dedication to punctuation) but this 25% of the edited emails I received for one comment tonight — maybe a cooldown period should be implemented on these kinds of emails when it’s just formatting/punctuation??

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I received my first kudos for my first fanfic on Ao3🥺

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I had been feeling kinda bad about my fic, but then I woke up to this amazing comment this morning. 🖤

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Writers, keep doing what you're doing!

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I don’t have anyone else to share my accomplishment with except for my poor husband, but I thought that you guys might understand this feeling

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Just wanted to show everyone my attempt at “coming out” about writing!

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Mom approves (she asked what website I write on and I said ao3 and she looked it up to see if it was age appropriate lol)

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I was so confused lmao (this was a few years ago)

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