That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.

Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


askye - Aug 26, 2021 7:37:23 pm PDT #10265 of 10431
Thrive to spite them

I did end up going and adding a couple of tags to my little stories on A03 and then changing a summary. Not that I think it will do anything to get people to read it. They are all older, although I occasionally get a kudos for Vecchio's Keys.

Variations of a Kiss it the most popular with 10 kudos. But Biogenesis has the most hits.+

I've been trying to branch out my reading by finding authors I like and looking at their bookmarks and checking out stories from those. I've found some really great ones that I hadn't run across before and I was looking at how various people tag their bookmarks so now I'm thinking about doing something like that.


Beverly - Aug 28, 2021 7:54:19 pm PDT #10266 of 10431
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I'm so terrible awful about tags. I do search on about four that are ultimate nos for me, and a couple that I love. But having your story told in the tags is so stupid. Why would I read it after slogging through the tag farm?

I do tag for character death, and four or five possible objections, but I'm not telling the story in the tags, I'll invoke Choose not to warn. On other sites? I'm still on Tumblr and I rarely, if ever, tag any darn thing on a post or a reblog. I'm sure other people hate that, but oh well.


Calli - Sep 01, 2021 11:01:00 am PDT #10267 of 10431
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I sometimes enjoy tag-fic on AO3, when it's clever, but I rarely read it on my phone. That probably makes a difference. And clever is in the eye of the reader. I've started tagging art when reblogging it on tumblr, because some of the artists who post suggested it was nice when people did so.


Beverly - Sep 01, 2021 12:18:07 pm PDT #10268 of 10431
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

That makes sense, and I'll try to remember to do that, thanks!


Jessica - Sep 08, 2021 8:27:21 am PDT #10269 of 10431
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Goddamnit I did not think I was in the market for Ted Lasso fic but this one is legit ruining my ability to work today.


Dana - Sep 08, 2021 8:40:45 am PDT #10270 of 10431
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I've been waiting for that to finish.


meara - Sep 08, 2021 9:28:14 am PDT #10271 of 10431

Oh dear, now I need to go read whatever that is.


Dana - Sep 08, 2021 10:33:33 am PDT #10272 of 10431
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Ted Lasso/Trent Crimm The Independent.


amyparker - Sep 08, 2021 2:03:55 pm PDT #10273 of 10431
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

  • comes up for air*

I've never seen this show, and yet!


Kate P. - Oct 11, 2021 6:13:51 pm PDT #10274 of 10431
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

So, uh. *scuffs toe in the dirt* Would anyone be interested in betaing a 3k-word Good Omens fic?