>>4541052
thats a shame about the mega I found some obscure deleted fics in there from rec lists before

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67178404
I posted this oneshot last year, but I'm confused as to why people like it. Because, well, I never wrote smut before that, lol.

Anything with Frieren?
Specially like with Fern living with her until old and died?

>you read one amazing fic and everything else seems shit in comparison
For Class of 09 it's this one https://archiveofourown.org/works/53164156

I hate how much space the godawful gacha naming schemes take now.

>>4546974
The what

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Struggling with having to write for my job getting in the way of writing fanfic.
I love my job but I also wanna write my shitty angst smut sometimes.

>>4547045
Quit your job, live in the forest off the land for 20 years writing fanfics on tablets carved from wood then rejoin society and scan and upload them all.

>>4547045
Yeah, it sucks. I just got into an LN series where they girls are extremely shippable and I've got a half dozen ideas written down just after reading the first volume but I started a new position recently and I only have about an hour a week to write. I wish I was more productive when I was unemployed.

>read author's notes:
>CW for suicidal thoughts, self-harm, referencing sexual abuse, minor sexual references
I sleep
>I gave p-chan a job
How dare you

How slow-burn is too slow-burn? If the main Yuri romance arc doesn't start until 125,000 words into the story, can you still call it Yuri?

>>4548410
it's not slow-burn unless you add another 0

>>4548410
That's not really slow burn and I sorta hate that authors call it that. It's a slow burn, not a "is not lit until very late and then burns normally" burn. The arc should be there the whole, or most of the time but be a very long arc.

>>4548972
Not sure if bait or actually an underage retard.

jannies nuked my post wtf now she is sad :(

anyone got any good JJK stuff, preferably featuring Maki

>>4541052
Best Life is Strange stuff?

>>4542979
thanks, I loved it. I need more fics with that crass writing style, class of 09 is great, even if it's not for p/u/rists

I'm going to write some Magia Record fic

i want to write something with mommy issues and a mother's death. like the stranger by albert camus but with a lesbian

>>4556262
That does not sound very interesting. I read Camus in high school and found his works really boring

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I hate contemporary fanfiction """culture""".
What exactly is the literary value of this? I at least had the decency to read and learn for years before I started attempting writing my own fics. Nowadays, it seems like it's all just braindead tiktok zoomers treating AO3 like a social media site where they spam their worthless memes. It's always "LesBian character !!111!!!", "zomg so sapphic" bullshit nonsense. And it shows in the comments too, they are unable to articulate anything more advanced than "peak".
I fucking hate zoomers.

>>4556688
just filter out every fanfic that's less than 500k words

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>>4555773

>>4556688
Feels like it's probably not far off from really low end wattpad a decade and a half back or whatever. Like dA back in the day was also filled with retarded children spamming stupid, zero effort memetic shit, it was just braindead brony garbage instead of braindead roblox meme garbage.

>>4556696
>low end wattpad
At least in the fandoms I frequent, works usually meet a minimum quality criteria. I rarely if ever saw retarded spam. I think it changed sometime after the pandemic.

>>4556695
I liked Recursion personally

What makes good smut actually good? Tension, atmosphere, characterization?

>>4556688
I've read about Wattpad doing some sort of NSFW purge not long ago and about some of those people talking about a migration to AO3 so maybe that's why you found things like that.

>>4556688
Ao3 truly is an open sewer but the alternative is ads, algorithm milking, premium and censorship

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>open fic
>character acts and talks nothing like the character
I don't understand this. I get shifting a character to facilitate plot or an AU, making an evil character less evil or a good character less lawful good, or whatever. But who is sitting down to write a fic and going "Ahh, I know what will be good, I'll take this reserved, quiet and bookish character and have her say things like 'Bitch, please!' and 'Girl, you need to chill out!'"

>>4556312
cool

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>find an ongoing yuri fic for a het isekai villainess crap series
>last updated on 09 May
>take a chance
>it's actually pretty good, read all of the chapters in one go, hit the subscribe button
>realize that the update date was 09 May 2025

>>4556962
That's the sad reality of fanfiction; many are nothing more than excuses where the author simply arranges the characters to suit their needs or directly transforms them into another character from a different series that the author is a fan of, and any resemblance to the original series is purely coincidental.

>>4556967
You're not doing lesbian fiction any favour by ripping off Camus.

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>>4556688
The internet is just worse in general.
But we're all older now too.
I used read some serious garbage just because I was obsessed with a pairing at the time, like NanoFate or Mitsu.

>>4556990
chill

>>4556962
I will admit that I use a lot of profanity in my fics, probably because I was raised by wolves and I use a lot of profanity myself. Also, the idea of a cute anime girl calling another cute anime girl a cunt amuses me.

>>4556692
Reading extremely long fanfics is so weird to me. Why would you want to read what is basically an amateur's first draft of a novel that's about as long as War and Peace?

>>4557209
Entertainment.

>>4557166
It's not the profanity that's an issue it's the total break down of immersion from a character speaking a way that does not sound anything like how they would speak. Having Kyouko call Sayaka a cunt in an enemies to lovers fic? Sure, why not. But when you have fucking Madoka walk into a room and go "Oi bruv, did you see that cunt Saotome last lesson, fuckin' mental." ...what are we doing?

>>4557209
Their are people who don't have the means to be published, who can't focus on their own original work. Especially when there's zero guarentee of reaching an audience. I like to read what they come up with, and enjoy the connection of a shared interest.

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>>4557266
>she didn't read the masterpiece that was pic related, aka the maguca terrorists fic
Sadly it was deleted and this is the only screenshot I have saved

>>4557382
>Sadly it was deleted
Not since the burning of the Library of Alexandria has there been a greater loss in literature.

How do people feel about starvation as a kink?

>>4557209
For fanfic (and amateur online fiction in general) a big draw is that it's extremely tailored. Th authors can afford to be unfathomably gratuitous in the niches they spend time on, and if that happens to be a niche I like, then it's going to be very difficult to find something similar in published media.
I think a part of it is comfort, too. It's much easier to read a middling story with characters/setting you know you will enjoy than it is to start War and Peace.

>>4557403
If you mean the character is romanticising an eating disorder, I'd think it's a little cringe. As part of punishment or imprisonment though, yeah that's hot. Basically I prefer when the author's fetish isn't shared by the characters, but the story puts them in messed up situations.

>>4557437
>the author's fetish isn't shared by the characters
I will admit to being guilty of this. I've written multiple fics where a girl either looks inside another girl's mouth or sticks her fingers in there, but one was a story where one girl was afraid of going to the dentist and another was a girl exploring the mouth of a girl who was really a monster in a skinsuit who wants to eat her, so I think those are valid reasons. But yeah, I definitely fear that readers are like, "oh, there's the author's fetish again".

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>>4557437
>As part of punishment or imprisonment though, yeah that's hot
Yeah, it's this.

>>4557471
>a girl exploring the mouth of a girl who was really a monster in a skinsuit who wants to eat her
Give me the link sis, I need it

>>4557499
Perhaps I should've clarified that I meant "exploring" in the visual sense, not as in the cave exploration sense, I forget what the hell I write half the time, but anyway
https://archiveofourown.org/works/73322321

>>4557501
>common sense monster
Niiice, it's one of my favorite mangas but it had zero fics the last time I looked

>https://archiveofourown.org/works/20796611
>https://archiveofourown.org/works/20849789
>https://archiveofourown.org/works/33841336
>https://archiveofourown.org/works/21671071
Rate my yuri corpus

>>4558067
Ey, thanks for the kudos, much appreciated

>>4558067
Feels good knowing I mog literally every single author in the same fandom

I was enjoying a lengthy Worm x Bloodborne crossover fic (In Pale Blood) but it ironically turned out to be more wholesome than canon and I got pissed off. A shame, the setting is perfect for crazy toxic shit. Amy needing to restrain herself from wanting to hurt people while she's healing them, and Taylor encouraging her to use her powers on HER to mutate her body and mind in a vaguely masochistic way. I mean holy fuck, Amy's so obsessed she'd rather let thousands of innocent people die to save Taylor, and when they kiss for the first time, she forcibly alters Taylor's entire biology to make her monstrous,
>"Kill them all, and come back to me," Amy hissed. "Or I'll dig you up and bring you back so I can kill you again myself."
Why and how the hell are these whacko bitches actually healthy? I wish the author had taken a different approach. But Taylor in this fic just doesn't care what happens to her at all, she's borderline comically insane, so it feels like it doesn't have any weight.
I didn't like how overpowered she became either.
Nothing else in the ship tag has caught my eye but the hunt continues.

>>4557209
the first draft should be 3M words

>>4558584
I don't really enjoy Amy much in wormfic probably because she was woobifyied way too much in the early fandom days. A fic I'm reading now seems to be handling her well enough but she's not a love interest.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/68362061/chapters/207694466
It's a Tattletale joins the wards fic. Main pairing is heading towards Lisa/Victoria but it's slow going.

The thing that irks me about fanfic these days is reading phrases or sentence structure I associate with slop and being unable to tell if the author is just a bad writer or not. And modern fandom culture is all about coddling people so nobody has any desire to critique or be critiqued.

>>4541052
Are we dead

>>4562152
>And modern fandom culture is all about coddling people so nobody has any desire to critique or be critiqued
Yeah, because old fandom culture was famously of very high, extremely vetted quality.

>>4563613
Comparatively? Yeah. Old fandom culture was at least made up primarily of people who read books. Modern fandom culture has people arguing over their right to format dialogue tags wrong and never improve.

>>4563615
95% of the fics 15 years ago were totally out of character borderline wattpad garbage with punctuation optional and the average piece of fanart from back then was lower tier DA crap. No one was doing quality control and barely anyone was improving. The ability to pick and choose and argue for improvement and better quality is a product of how much larger newer fandoms are. There is so much more content (and so much better content because older fandom people have had decades to actually make progress) that now people can afford to be choosey and expect better.

>>4563616
Here are two threads as an example:
https://archived.moe/u/thread/1487013
https://archived.moe/u/thread/3841820

Both of these are western fandom pairings of a similar nature (from source media which is het but where both the story itself and fans care more about two female leads' relationship). The qualitative difference between the artwork in the two is stark. It was a genuine struggle to find decent fanart of old pairings like gelphie or shiznat or xena and gabrielle. It is not hard to find high quality new!gelphie fanart, or wenclair, or caitvi, or basically any F/F pairing that gets popular, because fandom is much bigger, and much more mainstream, so more serious and practiced creatives make more stuff and also younger newblood is literally raised in fandom shit these days and grows up on fanart and fanfics and so has a better grasp on then turning around and making it than 00s people struggling along with little reference.

what are some old must-read gems?

>>4563929
Inter Nos by ethnewinter
https://fanfiction.net/s/3816271/1/Inter-Nos

>>4563929
The Aeneid is fanfiction of The Odyssey and it's like 2000 years old.

>>4564324
>>4564333
thank you