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do you think AO3 bookmarks should be private by default? 🤔
no. people can choose if they want to make their bookmarks private or public. it’s literally just one click? all of my bookmarks are public because when I like a fic and bookmark it, I want to recommend it to others too.
but I assume this is about people being rude to writers in public bookmarks. if so, I don’t think the solution is to make bookmarks private by default and as a result make it less likely for fics to get recommended via public bookmarks. I think the solution is to not be rude to fanfic writers or their works.
allthingswhumpyandangstyAnonymous asked:If I write fictional stories about myself is that still whump or do it need to be an oc. whump isn’t about who the story is about. it’s about what the story is about. personally, I don’t even read or write about OCs — all of the whump stuff I consume is about canon characters only.I’ve made a post explaining what whump is here. #admin answers#whump#whumpblr#writing#writer#writeblr#writers#fanfiction#fanfic#writing community462
allthingswhumpyandangstyAnonymous asked:HAIIII WELCOME BACK OUT OF TUMBLR JAIL I'M SO GLAD TO HAVE YOUR REGULAR ACCOUNT BACK I MISSED YOU IT WASN'T THE SAMEthank you so much!! 🥰#admin answers472
allthingswhumpyandangstydespairsystem asked:It's really nice to see you unblurred <3thank you! 😊#admin answers40
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allthingswhumpyandangstyI think I’m out of tumblr jail now <3 will be posting writing-and-fandom-related stuff and answering asks normally, as many as I can 🥹 thank you for all the love and support you’ve been giving me and this little blog. I may not be able to answer every single one of your lovely messages, but I appreciate them and you all so much 💕that said @writingdose is my backup and I will be running it alongside this blog. so you always reach me either here or on @writingdose 🥰8191
allthingswhumpyandangstythis-angel-is-gay-2 asked:I’m not a squid game fan but I saw this on Pinterest and thought you might find it funny😂 I love this!!! thank you for sharing! <3#admin answers#squid game#457#seong gi hun#hwang in ho#inhun#lee byung hun#lee jung jae#gihun x inho#netflix#inho x gihun#lee jung-jae#lee byung-hun#player 001 x player 456#lee byunghun#lee jungjae#oh young il#oh youngil#ginho576
allthingswhumpyandangstyanother reminder that what you put in your public bookmarks on ao3 is public, meaning anybody can see them, including the authors. all of this. heavy on “the fastest way to discourage fandom writers is by rating/assigning numerical value to fanfics”. also the “but don’t you want to get better?” argument is so exhausting to me. because if us fanfic writers want to “get better” at our hobbies, the things we do out of love, and if we want constructive criticism, we will either directly ask for it (so if we didn’t ask, keep your opinion to yourself) or we will go to our trusted friends, whose opinions we actually value, for their feedbacks. because more often than not, the unsolicited constructive criticism random strangers give us isn’t even constructive criticism but what these people personally want to read. so here’s the thing, us fanfic writers write for ourselves first and foremost. we appreciate people who read our works and show us support, but we’re writing and sharing our works for free — it’s our hobby and passion, our source of comfort, something we do as a form of self care, it’s not a job we are paid to do — so we’re not writing to please anybody but ourselves. you don’t go up to a stranger you see in public, tell them what you dislike about their clothes and how they can “dress better” then defend your actions by claiming you “have the rights to criticize their clothing because they are in public”. if you like our fics, cool. if you don’t like them, that’s fine. you can find something else to read. or, better yet, you can WRITE THE THING YOU WANT TO READ YOURSELF, nobody is stopping you. but keep your unsolicited criticism to yourself if we didn’t ask for one. #fandom etiquette#ao3#archive of our own#writing#writer#writeblr#writers#fanfiction#fanfic#fandom#fandoms#blorbo#blorbos#fictional characters#comfort character4571,119
allthingswhumpyandangstyAnonymous asked:you finally got out of Tumblr jail!!!!yay 🥳 inbox will now be monitored and answered normally #admin answers264
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:Is it true that fics on ao3 will be shadowbaned if you comment to much on it? I usally try to comment on every chapter or whenever i reread a fic but now i'm kinda scared that It wrong writingdose answered:I have never heard of this before. also ao3 isn't a social media. as far as I know, they don't "shadowban" people. what they do, if someone breaks their terms of service (in this case, it's mostly fic not being tagged properly when it comes to content warnings), is that they email the user to tell them their work has been hidden from public views until and unless the user adds a proper content warning to the work, which can be "creator chose not to use archive warnings".even most social media platforms don't shadowban/punish users because of something someone else did (unless it's a mass report). usually, if a social media platform will shadowban a user, they will shadowban the account that does the suspicious act (which in this case would be the commenter, for commenting too fast/too many times on a work, not the work that was mass commented on).but yeah, for ao3, as far as I know — unless there's something I'm missing — they don't purposely "shadowban" users. unless it's a glitch, which they always try to fix as quickly as they can.please don't hesitate to comment on works you love.#admin answers24166
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allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowgive love to ongoing fics too. not just one shots or completed works. while “writers write for themselves first and foremost” and “fanfic reading is a form of self care and no reader should feel pressured to kudos or comment on the fic they read” are both true, kudos and positive comments are still so appreciated. and as a fellow writer, I can tell for a fact that while I do write for myself and my own enjoyment, seeing lovely comments from my readers always motivates me to write more and write faster. unfortunately some people choose to avoid ongoing fics because they either want to wait for the whole thing to get posted first or they’re afraid writers will abandon the works and leave those works unfinished. but the thing is that if you want long, multi-chapter fics, letting writers know you love and appreciate their hard works by giving them kudos and commenting nice things on their ongoing fics will almost definitely always motivate writers to write. and also, writing can be hard. I know writers who pull all-nighters doing researches on their fics. I know writers who put so much time, effort and dedication into their fics. the fics they allow people to read for free. please let them know you love and appreciate their works if you can, especially with the raise of bots (it can be super discouraging for a writer to see that the only comments their fics get are from bots and scam). kudos and comments help writers write more fics. appreciate fanfic writers. appreciate fan artists. appreciate ongoing fics. 4901,277
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allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowhi @tumblr @staff @support @changes when we reblog a post and add our little comments or tags in the reblogs, we don’t want to take credits or notes from the op. the whole point we add our little comments or tags in reblogs is so that op gets notes and credits. that’s their post. op deserves all the notes and credits. that’s why we praise “reblog don’t repost” on tumblr dot com — by “taking notes from the op and giving them to the commenters”, you’re basically turning reblogs into reposts. and it’s so discouraging to artists, creators, everybody on your platform. I’m thankful you are reversing the change. but please listen to your users when we say the original reblog system is already perfect as it is. it doesn’t need to be changed and it certainly doesn’t need to be fixed when it’s not broken. it’s what makes tumblr tumblr. you said you wanted to “give every voice in a chain the credit it deserves”, our urls are attached to the tags and comments we make, we already have the credits. things already work just fine. nobody is complaining about “wanting more credit” when they add their comments or tags in the reblogs. with all due respect, so many of us love tumblr because it’s not twitter or tiktok. so please stop trying to turn it into something it’s not supposed to be.6841,346
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:Is it weird to write stuff about oc x canon or stuff around that in your opinion? For my case, I ship Characters together but also have oc x canons for them but I never get to writing then cause it feels like unacceptable? Sorry if this comes off as weird in any way writingdose answered:I may not read or write about ocs but it’s never ever weird to write whatever you want. you write it for you. that’s the whole point of fanfiction. you don’t need strangers’ opinions on how you can have fun with what you do for yourself as a hobby, what makes you happy, what you love, and a form of self care. #admin answers12107
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:Is it normal to feel Extremely embarrassed writing fanfiction? I don’t even put them out publicly cos it feels so freaking embarrassing writingdose answered:personally I’ve never felt embarrassed, probably because I don’t see anything to be embarrassed about. there’s nothing embarrassing about doing what I love and what makes me happy. probably also because I started writing fanfics because I was a fanfic reader who looked up to my favorite fanfic writers and wanted to be as cool as them. there are fanfic writers who I look up to, as my role models. I only feel inspired by them and their works. so it’s the complete opposite of embarrassment for me. but my feelings are my own. I will never tell anybody it’s not normal for them to feel something. that said, if this is something that bothers you, then you may want to ask yourself why you’re feeling embarrassed, and if writing fics is something that makes you happy / something you want to keep doing. that is something only you can answer. #admin answers22162
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:Do you have tips to get the best ai fanfiction prompt. I want to start writing fanfiction but I don’t know what to prompt writingdose answered:if you want to start writing then my advice is to actually write it yourself instead of letting a machine do it for you. “ai prompting” is not writing. write what you want to read, but the most important part is that it’s you who do the writing#admin answers263917
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:Is it true that people who have pre 2019 ao3 account can sent invitations to other users? I had joined ao3 in 2022. I have recieved a message from someone asking me to invite them to ao3. I told them I can’t, they said I could if my account was pre 2019. Then they asked me to ask a few mutuals of mine. I found the whole thing sketchy and blocked them. But I’m curious. Is it true? Could people with pre 2019 ao3 sent invitations? writingdose answered:it’s true that you can send people invitations to join ao3 if you do have invitations!! so I don’t think that person was trying to scam you 😅 a lot of people join ao3 via invitations from other registered ao3 users — since it can take a while for ao3 to send people invitations, ao3 actually give some of their registered users invitations, so these users can then send these invitations to other people to join ao3 without having to wait for invitations from the site! it’s pretty cool!the only part I’m not sure about is “accounts made before 2019 have invitations”. because I’ve always been under the impression that ao3 gives invitations to their registered users, to give to other people, at random?that said, not every registered account has invitations to give. if you want to know whether or not you have them, you can check by logging into your account —> tap “dashboard” —> depends on your layout and what device you’re on, if you’re on your phone, you should see “invitations” right under your own name (if you’re on your laptop or computer, the “invitations” might be shown in the left sidebar) —> tap “invitations”.it will tell you if you have any invitations and if you do, how many invitations you have. this is mine. unfortunately I currently don’t have any invitations to give. but I can request new ones from ao3! (re: the request invitations button on the right)if you have, for instance, 10 invitations, that means you can send invitations to 10 people to join ao3!the part below is not from personal experiences, because unfortunately my account doesn’t have invitations despite being created before 2019 🥲 (I might request some though), but from what I’ve read 👇🏻if you want to send an invitation to someone, you just need their email address for that. so, assuming you do have invitations, under the “invitations” bar, ao3 will provide a box for you to enter the email address of the person you want to send an invitation to. you just have to enter their email address, click send, and then the invitation will automatically be sent to that person. so they can join ao3 without having to wait for an invitation from the site!it’s a built-in feature within ao3, so it’s completely safe and legit! it’s also a pretty cool feature that unfortunately not everybody knows about. #admin answers1291
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allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:this one really annoying user on ao3 has accused me of using ai in my writing even tho I'm openly anti-ai in my notes and tags. According to them I write too much too fast and too "smooth" (???) for it to be human-made?? I have been writing on ao3 since before ai even became big, but according to them that's also proof because my writing style has "improved" and "changed" in my recent fics. They've been stalking my fics and leaving long angry accusatory comments on all of them, and when I tried blocking them they returned with a guest account to do the same and in fact got even angrier bc apparently I was proving them right by silencing them. They've started replying to other readers' comments telling them i clearly used ai and they should stop supporting me as well, and they found my Tumblr and have been making multiple callout posts and DM-ing me here and harassing me for using AI as well. I don't use ai and nothing I say seems to convince them and they keep doing this kind of vitriolic stuff. Idk how to even process what they're thinking. What do I even do?? If you have any suggestions I'd be real gratefulwritingdose answered:firstly, I am very sorry to hear this, anon. secondly, from what you tell me, I think you may be having a stalker here. them replying to your readers' comments and telling them lies about you, even after you've blocked them, and then harassing you on Tumblr too? unfortunately, I fear this may be more serious than just a troll accusing writers they don't like of using ai.but from what they accuse you of, I can see flaws in their logic:"you writing too fast and too smooth" — yeah, a lot of skilled and motivated writers can write super fast. they can't know how fast a person can write because they are not that person. also just because something is recently posted doesn't necessarily always mean it's recently written too. this person can't know if something that's recently posted didn't spend months or longer sitting in the writer's drafts, finished and ready-to-be-posted, and the writer only just chose to post it now for whatever reason."your writing style changed!" — no shit. they are going to be so shocked when they learn real writers develop their skills, which means writers tend to get better at writing the longer and the more they write, which also means their writing styles won't stay the same. I actually don't know any writers who has never changed their writing style throughout the course of their writing journey. my own writing style now is so much different from my old style when I wrote my first fanfic almost a decade ago. it's called "practicing your crafts", it's called "getting better at what you do and finding the style that suits you better than the last". the fact this person doesn't seem to know this makes me think they are not a writer themself."you blocking them means you're proving them right" — well, they just proved themself wrong. there's no reason why anybody would just sit back and allow harassment targeted at themself when the block button was right there. they were harassing you and you rightfully blocked them. simple as that.my advice would be to report them to both ao3 and tumblr support, and maybe you might want to disable guest comments on ao3 — I know it's not ideal because that means genuine readers who don't have registered ao3 accounts won't be able to comment on your work, but it will also prevent this person from harassing you. or, if you don't want to disable guest comments, my other advice is to enable comment moderation. nobody's comment will show up on your works unless and until you have manually approved their comments first. this way, that person cannot comment or reply to your readers and tell them lies about you, because their comment won't show up if you didn't manually approve it.as for tumblr, you say they're harassing you via dm, my advice is to disable dms from users you don't follow. you can do this by going to general settings —> messaging —> 'only tumblrs you follow can message' if you're on tumblr app (blog setting —> messaging —> 'only tumblrs you follow can message' on browsers). this will prevent any dms from blogs you don't follow. you can do the same for replies under your tumblr posts, you can also choose who can tag your tumblr. feel free to inbox me if you have any question about how to prevent people from tagging your blog, etc.last but not least, I feel like I should say that while I am not a fan of ai-generated fics, I will never condone harassment. so hypothetically, even if someone is openly using ai, that still doesn't justify harassment. my advice would be to block them if their usage of ai bothered you (general you). but harassment is never okay. period.#admin answers46231
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollow***not my own screenshot***AO3 saying they will not be banning AI-generated works on their platform I agree with them and I respect them for this. no, I am not a fan of AI-generated fics, but as I’ve said many times before in the past:AO3 was built with the “complete anti censorship” stance. them banning AI-generated works would be them going against their own core values of “no censorship”. and “no censorship” means nothing is censored. and that includes works you dislike for ethical or whatever reasons. as of now, most (I believe) of creators who use AI to write for them properly tag their works as “AI-generated”. so you can safely filter these works out if you don’t wish to consume them. but I have no doubt the majority (if not all) of them will stop tagging their works as AI if AO3 actually bans AI works, which means these AI works will be untagged. you can never know for sure if the fic you read is AI or not, since they aren’t properly tagged anymore. whether or not you like it, AI is getting better and more human-like, meaning it’s getting harder to spot when a fic is AI. speculation, witch hunts, wrongful accusations and harassment harm real writers, as well as writing community as a whole, as much as AI does, if not more. it’s impossible for AO3 to effectively ban and remove “only AI-generated works” without innocent human-made works getting wrongly marked as AI and deleted in the process. so if AO3 were to ban AI-generated works, it would meanthere was a chance of a human-made work getting wrongly marked as AI and taken downthere was a chance of an AI-generated work being wrongly accepted as human-madefandom drama could and would cause innocent writers to get their human-made works falsely reported as AIhuman-made fics that “upset people”, in terms of contents, could and almost certainly would be reported as AI, because there were people who “found the fics inappropriate/disgusting and wanted them taken down” — and the only way they could do that was by falsely reporting these fics as AIAO3 volunteers would have to decide which works were AI “based on vibes alone”. and not only was it impossible for them to always make the correct judgement, there simply weren’t enough volunteers and time for every single work that was reported as AI to be thoroughly read by a human volunteer no, “AI detector” is unreliable and the machine itself is also AI — it’s known to have incorrectly marked human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. TL;DR — no matter how much you hate AI-generated fics, banning them would do more harm than good. 1,0242,039
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:I was hoping to ask your opinion on how you feel about keeping real life stuff and fandom separate...is it weird to not want to talk about real life topics in fandom spaces? Idk why but the current circles I'm in on tumblr are making me feel like it's weird to only engage with content from your fandom and never reblog something...for example...political or about mental health or stuff like that...I literally only came here for fandom stuff to engage with and create content for the things I like...and my life is depressing as hell and I just want to create content that makes me smile and engage with content that makes me smile...I don't like how it's weirdly starting to feel like a crime to not reblog about real life topics as wellwritingdose answered:I think the only ones who are weird and in the wrong are people who think they have the rights to pressure others into posting/reblogging what they want. you don’t owe these people anything. and from what you say, they are the type of people I want nothing to do with. my honest advice would be to block or ignore them and continue using your blog however you want. if you only want to post and reblog things about your comfort characters without any politics, or other real-world issues, on your blog, then do that. you don’t owe me or any other people the reason why you want your blog to be about fandom only. because it is your blog, something you run for your own enjoyment. if someone is entitled enough to think they can demand, pressure or tell you what to do on your own blog, my advice would be to block them. #admin answers2391
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allthingswhumpyandangstyyour-shining-light asked:Hey! I love what you do with this blog ❤️ I wanted to hear your (& your follower’s) thoughts on the following:I got this comment on one of my fics:It’s from a registered user, and they mention things that happen in the fic, but it’s a scam right? I’m not being paranoid?it is almost definitely a scam. almost definitely written by chatgpt. doesn’t matter if it’s from a registered user, doesn’t matter if they mention specific character’s name or details from your fics. a lot of bots/scams are from registered accounts, a lot of them can mention specific characters’ names and details from people’s fics, because unfortunately they most certainly have run people’s fics through ai and let ai write their comments for them.
any comment that mention “I’d love to make a fan art of your fic🥹” or “let’s chat on xyz (any platform outside of ao3, often discord or instagram)” is 99% a bot, and they try to get you to “commission” them for the art you will almost definitely not receive, or you will get some random ai generated art. that’s why they ask you to chat with them outside of ao3, they know ao3 will ban them if they mention money on the platform. you can still report their comment, the exact one in your screenshot, to ao3 though.
>>>> I have talked more about bots and scams on ao3’s comments section here. #admin answers#writers#fanfiction#fandom#writeblr#writer#writing#fanfic#fandoms#ao3#archive of our own#writing community1176
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowmakes me sad when people run their own fics (or anybody else’s fics) through an ai checker. 1. an ai checker itself is, I believe, ai. 2. ai checker is known to be unreliable. it’s known to have incorrectly flagged human-made works as ai, and ai-generated works as human-made. 3. ai itself is trained on real human’s works, in order to mimic real human’s works and how real humans write. and whether or not you like it, ai as a writing tool is getting better and more developed. because it has more and more works to train on. so by running a fic through its machine, you are giving it more work to train on. running a fic through an ai checker will not actually prove anything. it will either make you question yourself as a writer, or it will open a door for other writers to get harassed and wrongly accused of using ai. if you suspect somebody’s fic is ai and if that bothers you, click away from the fic. harassing the writer or making a call out post will only encourage witch hunt behavior, and witch hunt behavior means innocent writers can and will get wrongly accused too. again, you cannot know for sure if a fic is ai unless the author themself says so. but even then, the best thing to do if it bothers you is click away, block the writer, scroll past the work. harassment, accusations and call out posts do more harm than good to the writing community. “but why shouldn’t we harass writers if they admit to using ai”1. under no circumstances will I condone harassment. I believe there are better, more productive ways to solve a problem. 2. chances are that harassing writers who openly use ai won’t make them stop using ai. it will just make them hide the fact they use ai — therefore their works are no longer tagged as ai, therefore you can’t know for sure that it’s ai, therefore there’s a chance of you, or anybody who is otherwise against ai, reading and giving it kudos without knowing that it’s ai. 3. the most efficient way you can avoid ai-generated works is if “writers” tag these works as ai. they will almost certainly stop tagging their works as such if you harass them. 4661,209
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollowAnonymous asked:This might be a bit of a controversial question? (Hell, maybe just pure bad at some point-) but uhh... Is it okay for us to use AI as inspirations to write? I use AI to note down my fic ideas, and when it generates a fic, I usually use it to built the fic's flow and pacing. I'm a person who has a hard time putting my thoughts chronologically, so I use AI to basically put it in an order by summarizing it to them and choosing its pacing. Once I'm done, I finally write from scratch using that pacing. No taking from AI or things like that at all. Just an idea. So yeah- is that a bad thing or...?- 🧸writingdose answered:I can’t tell you what to do or what not to do. and I’m not comfortable calling anybody a “bad person” because they use ai. I myself may not agree with ai, but I know several of my friends and family members who openly use ai to help with their daily lives, I would not call them “bad people” and I would not end my relationships with them just because they use ai. my point is, I think you can’t use the usage of ai alone to judge if someone’s a bad person. people are way more complicated than that. so. you do you. you say this might be a “controversial question”, so I’m gonna assume you already know what issues other people have with ai, therefore I don’t have to recite them to you. as for whether or not it’s okay or if it’s bad that you to do this, that is something for you to decide. #admin answers562
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allthingswhumpyandangstyReblogged cleofast300writingdoseFollow?????? people do this? 😭 ngl this is the first time I’ve heard about it and I don’t see how that can work. wdym you don’t read fics about your preferred character? wdym you just slap your preferred character’s name onto another character in people’s fics when their personality and characterization aren’t even the same????? I’m not even talking about how this may be a not-so-good thing to do to the respective writers even though they. won’t know if you don’t tell? but. why? isn’t it so much better to just read fics about your preferred character or, better yet, write it yourself?questions-about-blorbosyokohamasonebraincellas a writer, i wouldn't ever go after someone doing this but i DO think it's disrespectful. because i write my fics deliberately, with the characters in mind. i'm saying something about those characters and the story is important to me. doing something like this (especially if you're not a writer at all) says to me, you don't value the art of writing or the story i'm trying to tell or the connection with community that fic writing is part of and instead just see it as something to be consumed. that's my take.22,7473,758
allthingswhumpyandangstyAnonymous asked:I love being able to write fanfics that I don’t have to post. I worry a lot about people not liking it or someone making fun/or showing distain for a concept I wanted to explore. With people on tik tok and twitter talking badly about AO3 writers and AO3 as a website, even going as far as to dox the writers’ personal accounts online because they wrote something they thought was distasteful makes me scared to post things I want to explore. So I just write and explore it in private and I feel better knowing I have no obligation to post it and it can just be something for me. I struggle with anxiety, paranoia, and OCD, I’m terrified of posting something that someone else gets the wrong idea about and tracks me down or puts my story on blast for people to make fun of and tear to shreds. It sucks, but at least I’m writing and still doing something I enjoy, I just can’t share it with others. yeah this is why I’m not okay with people, mostly on twitter and tiktok, shaming fics for likes and views. you can absolutely do what you’re most comfortable with and I respect that you choose to guard your works by keeping them to yourself.
i can also see more writers choosing to do this if people continue to mock and shame fanfics, for likes and views. (because I am positive these people are only mocking/shaming fics because it somehow gives them views and engagements. so they are doing it mainly for likes. which is sad. plus it normalizes “hunting fic writers” which, like you said, can even lead to innocent writers getting doxxed.)so if you, general you, think it’s “fun and harmless” for someone to publicly shame or mock fanfics you don’t like, I hope you’re not surprised if your favorite writers stop posting their works. #admin answers#writers#fanfiction#writeblr#writer#writing#fanfic#fandom#fandoms#ao3#archive of our own19121
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollow?????? people do this? 😭 ngl this is the first time I’ve heard about it and I don’t see how that can work. wdym you don’t read fics about your preferred character? wdym you just slap your preferred character’s name onto another character in people’s fics when their personality and characterization aren’t even the same????? I’m not even talking about how this may be a not-so-good thing to do to the respective writers even though they. won’t know if you don’t tell? but. why? isn’t it so much better to just read fics about your preferred character or, better yet, write it yourself?questions-about-blorbosadmiralcalI don't think it's disrespectful - the author wouldn't know you did that as long as you don't tell them, so who cares? I do think it's pointless. The story probably won't fit the new characters, and if you don't care about that and just want any random story with the names, you could pick any story in the public domain and do the search-replace with that.decemberwinterGoogle Docs is apparently(?) feeding works to AI. So even if the authors won’t know, you’re still feeding their works to AI by placing it on Google Docs 22,7473,758
allthingswhumpyandangstyRebloggedwritingdoseFollow?????? people do this? 😭 ngl this is the first time I’ve heard about it and I don’t see how that can work. wdym you don’t read fics about your preferred character? wdym you just slap your preferred character’s name onto another character in people’s fics when their personality and characterization aren’t even the same????? I’m not even talking about how this may be a not-so-good thing to do to the respective writers even though they. won’t know if you don’t tell? but. why? isn’t it so much better to just read fics about your preferred character or, better yet, write it yourself?22,7473,758
