Ugh. If you write, then by definition you’re a writer, whatever you write. It’s not that deep.
Some fanfic writers do it purely for fun and aren’t bothered about improving, and that’s ok. You wouldn’t have a go at someone who’s taken up knitting for a hobby and gives you a free jumper, even it’s shit.
Some writers want to improve, and that’s ok too, but they can do that without random input from non experts on Twitter.
Some fanfic is good, some not to good. It’s fine to not like stuff. There’s just no need to announce it to the world. Why are you shitting on someone’s hobby?
Most fanfic writers don’t care whether you treat them like a “real” author or whether you think their work is “real” art. They just want people to not be mean dickheads.
Can we just stop all the bullshit, please?
A lot of Fatui discourse boils down to "I saw this cool HoyoFair animation about something that hasn't been explored in the game yet. So I'm gonna blatantly assume that it's official (HoyoFair is fanmade btw), and when things don't line up in-game, I can say it was retconned."
wisst ihr noch damals als 30°-tage im *sommer* als so krass heiß wahrgenommen wurden und es deswegen hitzefrei gab und so
und jetzt sind das einfach . frühlingstage
why are yall missing the point so bad? we can absolutely get a portable ac, but we are complaining because this weather is NOT NORMAL. can you at least pretend to care about climate change in the big 2026
i just realized that when we love fictional characters, we literally fall in love with a fragment of someone's imagination and mind,, how beautiful is that 🥹
Bei der ganzen "über 8h arbeiten am tag" Debatte ist es mir vollkommen egal um welche Tätigkeit es geht, jeder Mensch hat es verdient sein Leben länger als 3h am tag zu leben
You’re allowed to have headcanons. You also must be mature enough to acknowledge that those headcanons aren’t canon and understand that people will end up calling you out on them if you try to claim it as fact
if you update slowly, readers leave. if you update fast, it’s ai. grammar mistakes? people lecture you. almost no mistakes or no mistakes at all? ai. long sentences? bad writing. short ones? also ai. you literally can’t win
I’m so tired of people declaring perfectly normal literary techniques “bad writing”. 1st person pov isn’t bad. Dual pov isn’t bad. Prologues aren’t bad. Dream sequences aren’t bad. These are all tools. People need to stop confusing personal preferences with objective critique
everyone who starts harassing authors after a week of no update needs to be made to sit down and WRITE. to realize how long it takes to write even 1000 words of passable prose. hours of nothing, of rewriting the same sentence, of switching three words around, of random research
people realise the content on ao3 is copyrighted right? and i’m not talking about the original source material. if you post original fiction (or even fanfic in certain cases) on ao3 you own that copyright. authors should be listened to when it comes to what happens to their work.
the fic writer urge to write an entire fic just because u want to use a specific piece of dialogue or write one very specific scene like yeah it started with a scene in my head and turned into a 172.000 word monstrosity and ill do it again