I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


WindSparrow - Jul 06, 2017 4:42:35 pm PDT #9992 of 10434
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I haven't even seen Zootopia and I ship the bunny and the fox.


Atropa - Jul 06, 2017 8:17:32 pm PDT #9993 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I also ship the bunny and the fox, but no way in hell will I go read Zootopia fic. Nuh. Uh.

3) I am such a newb to all this still - Character/YOU or Character/READER wha? how is there dialogue - I just don't brain that way.

There are a LOT of us who don't brain that way. I still side-eye Character/YOU or Character/READER fic really hard. Just write a self-insert Mary Sue the way the rest of us did back in the day!


DebetEsse - Jul 06, 2017 10:51:30 pm PDT #9994 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.

There is also apparently a...thing where there's a standard character string used (y/n or something like that) so that readers can search and replace to put their names in.

I feel like one of those "uphill both ways, barefoot, in the snow" old timers.


Steph L. - Jul 07, 2017 3:15:15 am PDT #9995 of 10434
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

There is also apparently a...thing where there's a standard character string used (y/n or something like that) so that readers can search and replace to put their names in.

Oh, so THAT'S what I see on Tumblr. I had no idea what that was.


Dana - Jul 07, 2017 4:05:57 am PDT #9996 of 10434
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

There is also apparently a...thing where there's a standard character string used (y/n or something like that) so that readers can search and replace to put their names in.

I did not know this. Huh.


Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2017 5:40:43 am PDT #9997 of 10434
brillig

Just write a self-insert Mary Sue the way the rest of us did back in the day!

Damn straight.


Consuela - Jul 07, 2017 6:40:39 am PDT #9998 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I did not know this. Huh.

Me neither! Fans, man. Still being creative, all these years later.

I'm trying to decide whether to sign up for the Narnia fic exchange. It's the only exchange I've had any success with over the years, but I always find writing to deadline stressful, and I haven't written any fiction at all in a couple of years...


P.M. Marc - Jul 07, 2017 12:03:25 pm PDT #9999 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I gotta say, /reader shit is why I have AO3 savior installed. It's blocked as hard as Tom Hiddleston and Darcy Lweis.

I need time to write. The story I am working on probably has an audience of exactly one. But I still want to finish it! (I have other WIPs with wider audiences, but my audience of one is going through health stuff and it might cheer her up.)

(AKA, "Here's the Gifted Five Things nobody actually needed but I felt compelled to write, and did I mention it's gen as hell?")


Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2017 12:05:20 pm PDT #10000 of 10434
brillig

I have AO3 savior installed

Excuse me? There's a way to block tags that don't appeal? I don't have see how quickly I can scroll past stories about knotting?


Dana - Jul 07, 2017 12:08:11 pm PDT #10001 of 10434
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

This is the one I use. It's pretty much like blacklisting tags on Tumblr.

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