Okay fuck it I'm sharing the unfinished versions of my Kyle and Eric fics. These are the same ones I already posted to AO3, but I have a bad habit of messing around with fics once I paste into the AO3 editor so there are some (mostly minor?) differences drive.google.com/drive/folde…

The real question is WHY YOU SEE HUMAN INTERACTION AS 'PROFIT'

NO ONE is talking about profit, authors want to >>TALK TO THEIR READERS<<about things they love. About how they view characters, about what they liked in our writing. It's literally the most human thing EVER. The way you ppl misinterprete authors as attention gluttons is PITIFUL

everyone saying they didn't know how cute ryan/fabian and troy/harris were well see you could've known earlier if you didn't insist you didn't gaf about anyone else but hollanov 💔

I was pretty indifferent to the fic discourse but I've been ragebaited one too many times by brain dead opinions getting 10k retweets. you don't need to create to contribute to fandom, but if you cannot muster respect for the fellow fans whose work you consume you can get fucked

Everyone tell me what you’re writing ABOUT right tf now

maybe we ARE in a literacy crisis if 125k people don't know the difference between “download for personal use” and “reupload to external websites without consent”

can't find the tweet now but guys pls don't contact those ao3.life guys with the email of your ao3 account. they are not affiliated with ao3 so they have no businees knowing what email is even attached to your accounts. it makes no sense

this kiss but it’s vamp4vamp hollanov and their faces are covered in blood from feeding and they’re so out of it they’re biting into each other too

It's 2029. The dust has finally settled on the great Shutdown War of 2026. Writers and readers stick to their spaces and do not interact except at the AO3 neutral drop-off site. I head to an illegal underground writer bar. I knock on the door, they ask me to write a mini-fic about a ship they choose at random to prove I'm down. I get suspcious bc they don't even specify what fandom. I hear someone having a job inside and know it's a sting. I dive out of the way just in time: Google Drive and his corporate friends burst through the door. They have writers in custody who are crying things like, "fan artists take commissions, too!" "the shutdown changed things!" and "who sent you?" A woman with purple orbs looks at me ominously as they load her into the corporate-police-legal-intellectual-property van. "Think twice before you write for them," she says. I'm addicted to kudos so I will not heed her advice but I nod anyway. I look for news at the drop-off site. The air feels weird. I'm getting stared at. I notice that there's only readers around for some reason. I realize too late that I'm wearing my AO3-logo "Bitches That Write" custom sweater I got off Etsy before the war which signals that I'm a writer. Readers begin to circle me. I hold out my hands and tell them that some of my friends are readers. I tell them I read sometimes even though it's illegal for writers to do that (we lost the right to read in the war). I tear up and say that I don't even care about kudos, I write for me, I'm an ally. They snatch my laptop out of my hands and go to Microsoft Word. They find nothing bc I'm tech illiterate and only use Notes. They go on AO3 and push 'Download' -- immediately I fall to the ground. The potential kudos I would have gotten leave my addicted body. I curl on the ground in pain and need. Someone throws my laptop at me. Someone spits on the ground and chuckles as they say, "When you go back, tell your writer friends: copyright infringement."

can't stand that people think tops HAVE to be cool and nonchalant. what if i want my top to be a whimpering pathetic loser ?? what if i want them to cry and sob from pleasure ?? what if i want them kicking their feet and twirling their hair before dicking their bottom down ??

Also, if ‘love of the game’ should be enough to sustain a writer, shouldn’t ’love of the game’ be enough to sustain a fan? Why do you need fanworks if your love of the original work should be enough? Why do you want to meet other fans if your own passion should sustain you?

This is how we will survive the winter

When I’m having sex I barely want my original self to be there. What would I do with another one

Asking for people to maybe tell you they enjoyed your fanfiction is capitalist and "spiritually bourgeoisie". Truly we have our greatest minds contributing to this discourse. Awesome job everyone

Pro tip: continue to talk about fics you love in Discord. I will never see that as a bad thing. BUT THEN screenshot the nice things you said and send it to the author! I have never once done this and had an author be anything but delighted.

Keep them coming