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Without ao3, I can feel the life seeping out of me. Every passing minute the life force drains from my body, turning me into a sickly grey. My eyes are drooping and I can feel my organs start to fail. I can already see the light, shining so brightly above me. I am only hanging on by the transfusion of fanfiction.net. However, that is not my only woe. I can feel old fandoms creeping up behind me, ready to drag me back into their grasp. Danganronpa got me a week ago, yttd a few days before. Is this the end? Has life come full circle? What will historians think a hundred years from now? What will this crisis be called? The Fall of Creativity? Fanfiction Fodder? The Great Suppression? As a collectivity everyone has united in this detrimental time. We must stick together, offer up other sources to consume media created by talented, life providing authors.

How I use fanfiction.net:

Step one: search fanfiction.net

Step two: type the name of the character you want to read about

Step three: hit search; you will get a differentiating amount of results; use the box labeled narrow results to make your search more specific. It does not filter out ships, characters, and other stuff. However, it can give you fics based on what you choose, such as language, genre, etc..

This can help you @castielssuperhell

I’ve been without ao3 for too long that I’ve resorted to using fanfiction.net again.

I refuse to stoop to the level of wattpad. Sixth grade me was not prepared. I will not make the same mistake again.

I just woke up and am hypothesizing:

Has anyone else every thought that a large part of the reason romantic fanfiction is so attractive to women is that a majority of the authors are women? And women know how to write the female gaze. Having the female gaze applied to your favorite media (which is probably heavily effected by the male gaze) is attractive.

I remember a poll someone did for fanfiction authors and a large chunk, much bigger than 80%, were women and when I write a lot of the times it’s my fluff scenes that readers seem to be more effected by.

Can we talk about how some of the best fanfictions put there are 10,000-30,000 words?

Sure the full novel + fics are amazing. Shorter fics are beautiful. But fics of the 10,000-30,000 word range just hit different. They’re full stories compacted into a few chapters with the most amazingly written words. Absolutely love.

I need to finish writing my fanfictions so that I can forget about it and then reread it and be surprised by whatever it is that I wrote.

I miss when I was a preteen and poor grammar/ writing didn’t bother me at all in fanfiction.