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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2025 13:28:34 No.4366040 View View Reply Original Report

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>>4321529

>Main places to read fics:
https://archiveofourown.org/
https://www.fanfiction.net/

>An ancient archive of fics compiled and shared by a kind anon (note that this is not a curated collection, just a very large archive of works)
https://mega.nz/#F!oaphAAaZ!6FnZFfH2f-Vx5d9A47pSow

Post links to fics and discuss them and fanfiction in general. Link fics you like, your own stuff, it's all good as long as it's yuri.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2025 13:56:48 No.4366051 Report

Quoted By: >>4366580 >>4366583

I reread a fluff fic that I wrote almost a year ago and I forgot that I had one girl threaten to pee on another girl. Sometimes I wonder what my past self was thinking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:10:23 No.4366580 Report

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>>4366051
I often write when I'm half asleep, I've had pages of nonsensical dialogue appear overnight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:18:34 No.4366583 Report

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>>4366051
Your past self is cooler than your present self.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 01:21:01 No.4367069 Report

Quoted By: >>4367071 >>4367079

holy fuck writing is so hard i always end up rewriting the same paragraph a billion times before moving onto the next one FUCK

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Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 01:32:22 No.4367071 Report

Quoted By: >>4367112

>>4367069
Yeah I fell into the exact same pattern at first. Actually I still catch myself falling into it from time to time. I dunno if you're just venting or asking for advice but either way here's three major tips that helped me:

-Doing a clumsy first draft to begin with and then going back and altering it tends to help the process go smoother. It's easier to edit than it is to write wholesale, and having the entire scene written out (albeit clumsily) can help you shape the events when you go back to edit. You just gotta ignore the part of your brain that tells you you're writing cringe.

-Generally, steady progress over a few days/weeks/whatever will always be more consistent than trying to blast out the whole story in one or two sittings. If you're just starting out, try to go for just a few hundred words a day. If you get past it then great, if you fall a little short that's okay too. Just getting in the habit of regularly putting something out there helps a bunch. And always always write it down if it's good. A fun idea floating around your head you haven't committed to paper might as well not exist.

-The internet era makes this more difficult than ever, but it's always helpful to remember that basically everyone who's good at something started out being very bad at that thing. It's easy to look at authors with 100 fics and go holy shit they're so good at writing, but they had to struggle every step of the way too. Nobody sits down and starts writing peak right away.

Anyway. good luck and my bad for the sperging if you were just doing a drive by vent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 01:50:07 No.4367079 Report

Quoted By: >>4367088 >>4367091

>>4367069
When I first started writing fanfics and posted a sample of my first work here many years ago, I was told that I must read a lot since my first work was somewhat decent.
So my advice to you to write better is to read lots of books. The good grammar, pacing and characters will seep into your brain and teach you how to do it.
Maybe.
Also if you're writing smut, write while horny.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 02:12:01 No.4367088 Report

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>>4367079
>Also if you're writing smut, write while horny.
I've always been torn on this one. Writing while horny allows you to channel exactly what a horny reader wants to see, but writing while clear-headed allows you to write sex that might also mean something to a reader that doesn't have one hand under the table

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 02:27:13 No.4367091 Report

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>>4367079
>Also if you're writing smut, write while horny.

Oh man people always say this but it never really works for me. Distraction factor aside, writing isn't terribly exciting and it's not like you can stay horny the entire time. But yea jotting down ideas for later works well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 02:47:40 No.4367099 Report

Quoted By: >>4367123

>be far along into the writing
>have an idea that could've made things flow better 20 chapters ago

Alternative
>be near the end
>writing got better as the fic went
>go back to the beginning
>be disgusted at how rough writing was

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 03:32:48 No.4367112 Report

Quoted By: >>4367238

>>4367071
Any recs for pic related? I need more fics focusing on the teacher/student aspect of their relationship

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 03:38:09 No.4367123 Report

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>>4367099
I had a weird opposite experience, where I liked my early stuff a lot more than what I write now. I think the fresh novelty of capturing my ideas got drowned out by the process, and maybe the concern of how my work will be received. Sucks

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Anonymous Fri 24 Jan 2025 06:37:59 No.4367238 Report

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>>4367112
I'm drawing a blank sadly. I lowkey haven't kept up with edeleth stuff in like two years. There definitely do need to be more fics emphasizing the teacher student dynamic for real though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 27 Jan 2025 14:21:44 No.4369448 Report

Quoted By: >>4369686

An anon in the last thread asked for feedback on their fics, I read one of them and wrote down my thoughts:
https://rentry.co/573zfwv5

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 27 Jan 2025 22:46:55 No.4369686 Report

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>>4369448
You're fucking awesome anon, I really appreciate it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 09:09:03 No.4371235 Report

Quoted By: >>4371280 >>4371544 >>4371552 >>4371559

There is something really soul-crushing about finding an author you like and then you go to read more of their stuff and everything else is 2-3k word fics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 12:12:13 No.4371280 Report

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>>4371235
>everything else is 2-3k word fics.
That's literally all I write.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 12:37:57 No.4371288 Report

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>>4371280
I will salt your fields.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 21:14:23 No.4371544 Report

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>>4371235
Not as soul-crushing as seeing the tag 'Girl Penis' used on their new fic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 21:28:16 No.4371552 Report

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>>4371235
2-3k words is at least long enough to get into. It's sub 1k fics that suck. I just filter out "drabbles" of any kind as those can barely be called fanfics

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 21:30:11 No.4371553 Report

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>>4371544
Hate crime. Let's see how long until your post is gone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 21:40:47 No.4371559 Report

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>>4371235
I agree 2-3k is often annoyingly short, but fics one notch above at the 5k-7k words mark are usually fine for me. It's just the difference of one or two scenes but it means a lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jan 2025 22:10:56 No.4371574 Report

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>>4371553
He's right, tron shit doesn't belong in yuri

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2025 00:45:42 No.4376128 Report

Quoted By: >>4377522 >>4377686

>want to write strap sucking
>run out of gas after like 3 sentences

Jeez this is tricky

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 05:31:13 No.4376938 Report

Quoted By: >>4377522 >>4378328

>>4366580
Same, except I also do it when drunk. My big problem is that I end up with docs full of random lines that I thought would be cool to use in a fiction some day and I usually can't remember the context behind them so it ends up feeling utterly bizarre and random.
Though some day I WILL expand
>this is it boys, toe to toe with the omegaverse in nuclear combat
into a full fic, probably with lesbian fighter or mech pilots or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Feb 2025 05:20:37 No.4377522 Report

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>>4376128
this is me any time I try to write smut. It seems I want to read romance and only to live smut.

>>4376938
damn, I really want to read whatever you put that in

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Feb 2025 18:50:40 No.4377686 Report

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>>4376128
Just lean into it and have them be like
>wew, this is weird, innit?
>wanna go back to the good stuff?
>you know it, guv!
and then have the good stuff be whichever kink comes naturally to you. Ez gyatt-claps!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2025 13:49:54 No.4378028 Report

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first time posting, probably not up to snuff but i will throw my hat in the ring

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62936887
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62964358
incest smut, in that near 2-3k range, spoilers for the aitsf games, can be read separately. bleh

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2025 04:00:21 No.4378328 Report

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>>4376938
>literally starting a nuclear war at the gay bar
>I'd read it

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 00:06:30 No.4380078 Report

Quoted By: >>4383770

Please recommend some good Otherside Picnic fics I'm obsessed and very sad that I'm out of books to read for now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 14:13:27 No.4380440 Report

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I remember getting into romantic fanfiction via a Buffyverse femslash site in 2013 that I don't think even exists anymore, I wonder how much yuri fanfic from the 2000s is just lost media now because nobody ever migrated it to major sites like AO3

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 22:28:08 No.4380636 Report

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I was reading a vampire AU and I thought the line
>savoring the fine wine of a mortal vineyard
was pretty good. One of those things that just sticks in my head.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 23:40:38 No.4380666 Report

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Any good time travel redo fics? It's a guilty pleasure of mine.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:23:52 No.4381404 Report

Quoted By: >>4381410 >>4381417

i swear to god i'll still write a fic with ritsuko and misato

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:25:52 No.4381407 Report

Quoted By: >>4381410

>>4366040
I like this image who are these people

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:27:04 No.4381410 Report

Quoted By: >>4381454

>>4381407
oh I just realized it's supposed to be xena and her friend lol I thought it's from some manga
>>4381404
they would be a lot happier together instead they died alone and depressed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:30:05 No.4381417 Report

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>>4381404
do it!

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2025 04:53:58 No.4381454 Report

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>>4381410
>they would be a lot happier together
i think they would be catty and fight a lot but would always end up fucking. which would make eva a lot more interesting. but i digress, i really want to write something about hate sex/jealousy/possessiveness/whatever but im really slow and lazy

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Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2025 03:54:02 No.4382583 Report

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The Seduction Of Kirie Kojima
https://archiveofourown.org/works/47090779?view_adult=true
If anyone remembers Kirie and Kosame from "Girls Bravo", then this is a must read.
>One-shot. Hijiri causes trouble again by kidnapping Yukinari and Miharu and taking them to Seiren. Desperate to rescue her friends, Kirie enlists Kosame's help to save them. Kosame agrees to help, but only on one condition, she wants to have Kirie in her bed for the night as her lover. Unsure if she can save her friends on her own, Kirie reluctantly agrees. When the time comes to fulfill her end of the bargain, she finds herself in Kosame's bed like they agreed. But Kosame doesn't want just a single night with her, she wants forever. Now that she finally has the opportunity, she's determine to seduce Kirie once and for all into having a real relationship with her. And as Kirie quickly learns, being with another girl may not be as bad as she initially thought. Will she finally give in to Kosame's seduction?

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Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 01:31:01 No.4383071 Report

Quoted By: >>4383073

So is there an actual good Morrigan/Lilith fanfiction out there? There's a bunch of fanart, but

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 01:33:24 No.4383073 Report

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>>4383071
Ah shit, posted too early.

What I was going to say was "but Darkstalkers gets fuck all fanfiction. I do think that you could write a genuinely interesting story if you took the coupling seriously. I would do it myself if I had any confidence in my ability to write romance."

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 03:36:52 No.4383133 Report

Quoted By: >>4383135 >>4383337

Looking for moderate to severe suffering, preferably poly/love triangle with some degree of insecurity/angst/(requited) unrequited love. Not too picky on fandom as long as it's self contained enough to make sense.
Some offerings as examples in no specific order or preference:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59184181/chapters/150914272
A/B/O oc fiction - Omega only established polycule adopts a severely repressed businesswoman. No mention of penises (or genitals in general really). Pretty decent but felt a bit rushed.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23093689
Edelthealeth, dorothea doesn't want to live anymore and does something about it. Author has a couple others of similar vein and varying quality.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/58846936/chapters/149979505
EiMikoSara - Sara gets hanahaki and is crushed by her self perceived failures so she runs away to get surgery. Has some nice moments and supportive friends.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53524297/chapters/135479329
More EiMikoSara this time adding a baal. Sara is depressed about her failures, tries to off herself, and questionable medical practices ensue. Very drabble-y but it gets the job done.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39976716/chapters/100108749
EiMikoSara - lumine and paimon try to get the trio together by making Ei and Miko jealous. I didn't really like this one, hard to pin down a specific reason why - I think the characterization may have just not quite hit with my expectations. Still, it's 40k words so that counts for something.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36275533/chapters/90432277
Hina/Tsugumi & Sayo/Tsugumi, some light Hina/Sayo - twins share tsugumi but communication issues get in the way. Significantly lighter than other entries here, some suffering but not too angsty.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 03:40:09 No.4383135 Report

Quoted By: >>4383140

>>4383133
>cont.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46322239/chapters/116625517
Bumbleby with a side of weiss. Unfinished which is a shame since it had part of a good thing going. Weiss finally gets to watch her crushes get together and decides she's okay with that (she was not).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29951628/chapters/73728027
!!!!trans alert!!!
drakengard 3 incest polycule. contains several trans (mtf) individuals and penis in vagina sex as well as bisluts. This all aside I felt it's worth mentioning. Zero returns home to claim her inheritance, finds out all her sisters are fucking, reluctantly (then enthusiastically) joins in. Drakengard content is so rare that it earns a mention despite the many critical issues. Gave me some r9kelsa vibes which is nostalgic.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22046731/chapters/52616623
Five/Zero - it's been a while since I read this one but the prior fic brought it back to my mind and I'm fairly sure I cried. Ymmv. Letterfic between one and five, somewhat enemies to loversish.

Currently reading:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55326364/chapters/140360995
Oc allegedly poly fic, so far (by chapter 7) reads more as narratively biased TTRPG session notes than a proper story (nominally this is a solo rpg of pathfinder 2e and is addressed at the end of the first chapter). Has some potential but feels a bit choppy and inorganic as a result of this.

Could add some other non poly fics but that's a pretty respectable list of everything I've found worth reading thus far in the spheres I'm looking for. Trawling through ao3 tags only gets you so far these days though, so much has been hidden away from time on ff.net and otherwise

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 03:48:39 No.4383140 Report

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>>4383135
>!!!!trans alert!!!
I don't want to be rude but this is a big no here, you can do a thread in /b/ if you really want to share it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 13:23:33 No.4383337 Report

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>>4383133
Pretty sure you'll like this https://archiveofourown.org/works/50806108/chapters/128346823
Time travel suffering. The author takes months to update but it's really good. So, so much angst. It's not fully poly yet but it's getting there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 20:31:53 No.4383724 Report

Quoted By: >>4383749 >>4383752

My deepest secret is that I kinda like the heat/mating season trope, but I absolutely loathe how omegaverse portrays it. Besides all the retarded power dynamics that just mimic het people, it just feels less magical when most of the global population goes through it. I prefer it when it's restricted to a certain species of supernatural creature and her human gf doesn't even know about it at first. I'm writing something that will never see the light of day and I just threw the possibility of parthenogenesis in there too, in case I need more drama in the future. The magical being is an oni

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 21:36:47 No.4383749 Report

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>>4383724
It's definitely one of those things that's hot when it's this rare and exotic and uncertain deal yeah. It really isn't special at all when half the human population experiences it on a regular basis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 21:41:11 No.4383752 Report

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>>4383724
Same sis. Heat/mating season is a top tier trope but omegaverse just doesn't work for me, even when it doesn't have dicks in it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 22:01:07 No.4383770 Report

Quoted By: >>4383830

>>4380078
I've always liked this one:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/30260577
Sorawo's doppleganger is criminally underused in fics. I haven't written for urapi in forever so I'd have to look through the fandom tag to see which ones I remember liking, it's crazy that there's over 300 fics so far.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 00:09:57 No.4383830 Report

Quoted By: >>4383893

>>4383770
Thank you for the recommendation but I hate the idea of Toriko and Sorawo doing it with anyone else, even if it is Sorawo's doppelganger so I won't read it, sorry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 01:31:01 No.4383893 Report

Quoted By: >>4383951 >>4383978

>>4383830
Now that's autism

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 02:37:13 No.4383951 Report

Quoted By: >>4383963

>>4383893
Really? The desire for a canon couple to be faithful to each other and not fuck anyone else is autism?
You people really need to come up with a new insult.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 02:47:10 No.4383963 Report

Quoted By: >>4383966 >>4383967

>>4383951
Toriko is not fucking anyone else. She's fucking Sorawo and Sorawo

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 02:52:24 No.4383966 Report

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>>4383963
Yeah I don't like the idea that Toriko is fucking an alien entity from another dimension, just cus she looks like Sorawo doesn't mean she is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 02:53:53 No.4383967 Report

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>>4383963
I should add that doppelganger Sorawo and mujina Toriko being together would be cute though, I just don't want them fucking the real girls.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Feb 2025 03:12:15 No.4383978 Report

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>>4383893
You are retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 16:16:34 No.4384676 Report

Quoted By: >>4384677 >>4384705 >>4384736 >>4384740

I spent hours of my life writing a few thousand words of a new fic, and I think it's really good so far.

Then the new episode of the show comes out, completely upends everything I thought I understood about the character, and my fic is now unpublishably OOC.

How does one deal with this? It's been 2 days and I'm still pissed off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 16:33:41 No.4384677 Report

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>>4384676
Write between seasons/during hiatus rather than between episodes. Or just write AU. Not sure why you'd try to be predictive if you're the sort of person who gets annoyed when those predictions are wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 18:43:11 No.4384705 Report

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>>4384676
That used to happen all the time, with long weekly shows, it was called getting Jossed, Buffy writers originating it.

It also used to be common to have canon fics that would offshoot from a particular time or event, it was just an alternate reality, it didn't mean the writer had to stop.

Now, I think in your case it's more than just events making your fic obsolete, but actual characterization. That is tough, but unless you're completely media illiterate, you clearly had reasons for your interpretation before this ep. I'd still publish it, with a note about it being written before this ep, if you want, and maybe you can do a follow up taking into account the new reveals and see how that changes your story.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 20:00:16 No.4384736 Report

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>>4384676
Writing fics of ongoing work is like tap dancing on a mined field.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 20:11:08 No.4384740 Report

Quoted By: >>4384786

>>4384676
add a note: this was written before episode x came out and ruined everything

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Feb 2025 22:22:33 No.4384760 Report

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>tfw the Yellowjackets fandom literally got two new ships in a just two eps...
Is it me or does it feels like ALL the small fandoms that were feed more or less before okish? before the US pulled a hard right just jumped into the Yellowjackets show?

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2025 00:37:14 No.4384786 Report

Quoted By: >>4384797 >>4385473

>>4384677
>>4384736
I usually wait for exactly this reason. But the one single time I don't, I get fucked by the writers going a sudden unexpected swerve and making the mysterious, emotionally repressed, emotionally unavailable, clearly deeply jealous and angry cool girl actually a huge loser dork who isn't traumatized, just awkward.

>>4384740
>>4384705
I might try to rework it into something when the series is over. But I've learned my lesson and am gonna work on a different WIP instead until then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2025 01:21:50 No.4384797 Report

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>>4384786
People love 'what if this character was traumatized way harder than in canon' type stories though. I say just poast it with a disclaimer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Feb 2025 01:19:31 No.4385473 Report

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>>4384786
Something similar happened to me when I was reading a novel series where a character who forms a major part of the villainess's backstory is already dead when the series starts, and whose demise was the reason why the villainess breaks bad. Only the character's nickname was ever mentioned and nothing about her characterization was ever expounded upon in the books but I thought her relationship with the villainess was pretty interesting, so I wrote a prequel fic where I created a personality for her out of whole cloth. I figured the author would never write anything else about her in the books but he actually did, and it turned out that my made-up characterization of her being an overly friendly, leather-jacket-wearing delinquent was completely antithetical to her canon portrayal of being a mistrustful loner. I was happy that the author did expand a little bit on her backstory at all but I'm too proud of the fic to ever rewrite it or delete it. I just slapped the Jossed tag on it and moved on.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 16:37:28 No.4389859 Report

Quoted By: >>4389893 >>4390726 >>4392097

>get recommended fic
>pairing I enjoy
>like 30k words
>promising tags
>hell yea
>look inside
>it's written in that dreadful style where there's no paragraphs ever and the entire work consists of a series of one or two sentences followed by a line break

My god I hate this fucking shit. Any of you have writing pet peeves that instantly turn you off a work?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 17:40:15 No.4389893 Report

Quoted By: >>4389903 >>4390726

>>4389859
Saw a fic once that had paragraphs with 20~ lines and no line breaks between paragraphs. Individually those are already pretty awful, together they made me want to kill the author

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 17:49:09 No.4389903 Report

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>>4389893
Oh yeah the inverse is probably even worse. Word soup.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2025 13:25:26 No.4390726 Report

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>>4389859
>>4389893
This is one use case where I could see AI being useful. Someone pls make a service that lets you upload long texts to fix formatting without messing with the story. I tried to run it locally, but it needs to be split in small chunks and it's super annoying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 05:46:45 No.4392097 Report

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>>4389859
You people are such little bitches...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 03:21:43 No.4394667 Report

Quoted By: >>4394899 >>4394901

>>4366040
recommed me some peak yuri fanfics i dont care for the fandom, perferably something wholesome

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 15:35:44 No.4394899 Report

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>>4394667
https://archiveofourown.org/works/3099050/chapters/6714170

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2025 15:45:25 No.4394901 Report

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>>4394667
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27649927/chapters/67656454

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50328562/chapters/127145230

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Mar 2025 15:28:51 No.4395316 Report

Quoted By: >>4403275

I cant believe I got baited into reading tsukihime, the far side, by a 300k Akiha fic posted here years ago, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE 95% LUSTING FOR HER BROTHER AND 5% BANGING SOME UGLY BITCH FROM A SPINOFF GAME, all because I like the vibes of that character and thought the fic was Akiha/Kohaku or Ciel
normally I jump ahead in a fic beforehand to check if it's cringe, but I didn't want to get spoiled with this one. why do people even post shit like that here

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2025 22:22:01 No.4396414 Report

Quoted By: >>4396567 >>4396634

>read fic
>author states that they wrote a bunch of other fics for the pairing but deleted them when the show ended
what the fuck is wrong with people

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2025 06:34:43 No.4396567 Report

Quoted By: >>4396610

>>4396414
What show?

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2025 11:21:06 No.4396610 Report

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>>4396567
squid game

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2025 13:35:19 No.4396634 Report

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>>4396414
>what the fuck is wrong with people
An awful lot. Fanfic writers are straight up cursed when they're not being weird.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2025 14:36:10 No.4396645 Report

Quoted By: >>4396704

>>4366040
>fic that I enjoyed got updated after 4 years and the author legit for back into writing it

I feel personally blessed

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2025 17:34:32 No.4396704 Report

Quoted By: >>4397031 >>4397384

>>4396645
Which fic?

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Anonymous Wed 19 Mar 2025 10:57:04 No.4397031 Report

Quoted By: >>4397384

>>4396704
life is strange Kate Marsh/Victoria Chase by tiger_with_spots

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Anonymous Wed 19 Mar 2025 21:03:48 No.4397384 Report

Quoted By: >>4397386

>>4396704
>>4397031
just post the link, dummy
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8699260

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Anonymous Wed 19 Mar 2025 21:06:05 No.4397386 Report

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>>4397384
>https://archiveofourown.org/works/8699260
>206,823 words
based

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Anonymous Thu 20 Mar 2025 02:25:20 No.4397482 Report

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Remake concept scripts of Madoka Magica.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14446850/1/Seeking-Hope

Put a gay diverse woman in it! Make it fucking lame!

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Anonymous Sat 22 Mar 2025 01:48:36 No.4398563 Report

Quoted By: >>4398630

whats the name of that fucked up bella/alice fanfic? like the one where bella slowly turns into a completely amoral psycho and also cheats on alice a bunch of times? i suddenly remembered that one as probably the most fucked up fanfic i ever read.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Mar 2025 05:52:10 No.4398630 Report

Quoted By: >>4398754

>>4398563
https://archiveofourown.org/works/992242/chapters/1960367
is it this?

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Anonymous Sat 22 Mar 2025 10:15:03 No.4398720 Report

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I absolutely love Astralyn era (not long enough idc) in zzz bcs all gacha yuri fans woke up and decided to write good fanfics about characters that have a lot of content together...

I'm absolutely destroyed that dead to me (tv) 2019 is actually dead and lying cold (3 season doesn't exist in my head).

Judy Hale/Jen Harding was a goldmine peak yuri to me and the fact that the general audience of the show were adults, making the concentration of good fics a lot more.
and all the fanfics are diverse with ideas (go by word count and you'll see) that the reading material feels like it never ends WHICH IS AWESOME!!

also can somebody recommend amazing yuri fanfics from squid game 2 season (Im not ready for angst of f/f 1 season)?? Like any yuri squid game but good writing and not mlm centered pls I can't find a fic worth reading bcs it's like finding a needle in a haystack.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Mar 2025 12:38:45 No.4398754 Report

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>>4398630
that's the one, thanks.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Mar 2025 17:45:41 No.4400320 Report

Quoted By: >>4400355 >>4400365

Any fake dating fics?

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Anonymous Tue 25 Mar 2025 19:03:57 No.4400355 Report

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>>4400320
I've heard there are a lot

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Anonymous Tue 25 Mar 2025 19:29:34 No.4400365 Report

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>>4400320
Not quite fake dating, but it's the only one that came to mind
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49232146/chapters/124226182

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Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2025 15:26:31 No.4402760 Report

Quoted By: >>4402766

Do you guys have any edgy angsty RWBY fanfics with Weiss as a central character? The ship doesn't matter.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2025 15:54:40 No.4402766 Report

Quoted By: >>4402767 >>4402821

>>4402760
White Rose, Weiss is a mob boss
https://archiveofourown.org/works/32849485/chapters/81798541#workskin
Just started this, don't know how angsty and edgy ot gets but it's an enjoyable read so far

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Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2025 15:56:11 No.4402767 Report

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>>4402766 (me)
Accidentally linked to chapter 3
https://archiveofourown.org/works/32849485/chapters/81514792

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Anonymous Sun 30 Mar 2025 19:09:02 No.4402821 Report

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>>4402766
Looks interesting, thanks

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Anonymous Mon 31 Mar 2025 20:54:57 No.4403275 Report

Quoted By: >>4403278

>>4395316
This is a thread were retards unironically discuss het shows. Fuck 'em.
Tuskihime is alright though. Just not for yuri, beyond Kohaku/Hisui incest I guess. Melty Blood also has Sion/Ricebeef. Small victories.

For Type-Moon, stick to Fate/Extra I guess.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Mar 2025 20:57:12 No.4403278 Report

Quoted By: >>4403500

>>4403275
>Tuskihime is alright though
It really isn't, it's sorta just trash in all aspects, like all of his stuff. Also this isn't the VN thread, talk about fics or fuck off.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Mar 2025 22:13:16 No.4403293 Report

Quoted By: >>4403303 >>4403348

>it's a living together fic
>but they have separate bedrooms
Why even bother tagging it F/F?

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Anonymous Mon 31 Mar 2025 23:37:56 No.4403303 Report

Quoted By: >>4403348

>>4403293
I watch to see if they move on from that, it's pretty satisfying if they do. Breaking through that distance, etc

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Anonymous Tue 01 Apr 2025 00:05:39 No.4403306 Report

Quoted By: >>4403347 >>4403746 >>4405167

What do you all like when it comes to describing characters thinking of each other? Should the characters be really descriptive and flowery? Or should they just be blunt and straightforward in how they see someone? (this being an opportunity to characterize the one thinking aside.)

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Anonymous Tue 01 Apr 2025 01:05:36 No.4403347 Report

Quoted By: >>4403349

>>4403306
This really is a characterization point rather than a preference in writing style. Different characters see people and the world in different ways and that can change with a given character.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Apr 2025 01:10:30 No.4403348 Report

Quoted By: >>4403349

>>4403293
>>4403303
Alternatively a lot of people just don't know the difference between / tags and & tags

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Anonymous Tue 01 Apr 2025 01:15:46 No.4403349 Report

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>>4403348
Woof, yeah I know what you mean there. These friends really seem to gush over each other's intimate details! Or, these lovers barely seem to notice each other's behavior or talk about their... anything.

>>4403347
I suppose I'm asking how much you should overtly reveal about a character's opinion, then. Some of my best and most successful writing has hearts-on-sleeves from most characters, but I think that's prevalent and even expected in the fanfic writing space.

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Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2025 05:52:21 No.4403500 Report

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>>4403278
>EveRyThIng I donT lIkE is TraSh
>NOT THE VN THREAD REEEEEEEEEE!
Ah, retard doesnt understand that there are yuri fanfics for Type-Moon works and that I merely pointed to the game series (not VNs, retard) that has actual yuri in it and thus more yuri fanfics. Interesting how incredibly dyslexic you are.

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Anonymous Wed 02 Apr 2025 18:06:55 No.4403746 Report

Quoted By: >>4403896

>>4403306
I like straightforward descriptions, though flowery isn't bad either. It's just that when you put together elaborate paragraphs just to describe what a character is thinking it can feel like you're using descriptive ammo you could be spending on their interactions instead.

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Anonymous Thu 03 Apr 2025 02:18:02 No.4403896 Report

Quoted By: >>4403902

>>4403746
Damn that ammo analogy really clicked in my head, I appreciate that a lot. That is something I struggle with, though, because I often let my energy spool out into stuff that may not be important, but at the same time I really enjoy it. I'm not sure where to take it most seriously.

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Anonymous Thu 03 Apr 2025 02:25:03 No.4403902 Report

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>>4403896
Oh yeah, it's always tricky to get that balance just right. In general the more you can describe the better, but also reusing adjectives and phrases drags a work down. And there's probably an upper limit to how much you should describe even when it's entirely unique.

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Anonymous Sat 05 Apr 2025 23:20:51 No.4405167 Report

Quoted By: >>4405171 >>4406030

>>4403306
Personally both writing and reading I prefer to spend 90% of the wordcount in a conversation scene on what the two characters are actually saying and doing, and at most 10% in the head of the person whose POV it is. When I do dip into their head, I'll spend a couple sentences there, setting out some particularly important thoughts that are passing through their mind and showing the reader the things that I can't show through external descriptions. I save the flowery stuff for very specific moments when it will have the most impact, and stay fairly blunt everywhere else.

But that's just me, and of course it varies a lot depending on the type of scene and the personalities of the characters.

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Anonymous Sat 05 Apr 2025 23:36:04 No.4405171 Report

Quoted By: >>4406030 >>4406351

>>4405167
>I prefer to spend 90% of the wordcount in a conversation scene on what the two characters are actually saying and doing
This brings up a separate issue that I'm constantly torn on in my current longfic. When I've written chapters that are almost all narrative prose I think to myself "this is supposed to be about a relationship between two women and yet I'm focusing on solo plot content", but when I've written chapters that revolve around dialogue between the main pairing I think to myself "this fic has caught Screenplay Syndrome, literary writing is not supposed to look like this"

It makes me want to pay much closer attention to dialogue-narration ratios in different categories of published fiction. Maybe I'm overthinking it, I remember there being a chapter in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that is just one long church sermon on hell

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Anonymous Sun 06 Apr 2025 14:55:41 No.4405469 Report

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After Severance I finally understand the appeal of selfcest. This author in particular is fucking great: https://archiveofourown.org/users/yeehawrabe
Also like their toxic Cobel/Helly stuff. Probably the hottest smut I've read.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Apr 2025 05:27:24 No.4406030 Report

Quoted By: >>4406351

>>4405167
Yeah I think my most effectively executed pieces skirt that percentage. I hear a lot of back-and-forth on how 'in a character's head' you should be, but I've noticed a lot of positive reception to letting their feelings out when you do get things from their perspective. Plus show-don't-tell taken too far gets extremely clinical and trite.

>>4405171
I'm extremely critical of myself for writing what I think others will see as "looking right." It's torture, really, that undermines my writing process. Write self-indulgent pieces, it's good for you and the authenticity comes through in the piece. That being said yeah you definitely do want a balance unless you're avoiding a balance for a point. I've definitely written a chapter (most of a chapter) that's borderline illegible gibbering because the character had part of their brain turned off, and that got me a holy-shit-wow moment from a couple readers. People like the weirdness, they like things that stray from life. The more you think of how 'things are supposed to look' the more you strangle your creativity in the cradle. I say that, of course, from the position of someone who isn't selling their work to survive, so I can say that if someone doesn't click with my writings, oh fucking well lol.

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Anonymous Wed 09 Apr 2025 01:50:43 No.4406351 Report

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>>4405171
I think that looking to published fiction, especially literary fiction like Joyce, isn't all that useful. If I read Dostoevsky, I anticipate multi page long philosophical monologues, and I enjoy it. When I read fanfiction, unless it's really really well written, I'm probably going to be skimming that monologue or giving up on the fic. In the fanfic context, readers are looking for something very different from a literary context not just in content but also in prose style (probably published romance fiction is a better model, but I don't read that stuff).

That said, I do think finding authors whose style you really like, and sitting down with their work, not letting yourself getting immersed, and looking at it from an author's rather than a reader's perspective, can be really valuable. I should do it more.

>>4406030
This is also really true. Fanfiction gives you the chance to break the rules and write weird, and who cares if it's going to be a turn off for most readers. As long as you're writing about lesbians, someone will appreciate it.

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