And then you forget that other people will naturally have different headcanons than you, and you’ll go, “why’s he acting so out of chara— oh, right. Yeah he might do that… I guessss 🤨”

Repost because I forgot to blur the name sorry!!

Ok, so I was a bit embarrassed to post this, but if it made me laugh in the end, I thought I should share it with you all.

This isn’t even about AI. I’ve been posting fics for years, using mostly Google Docs as my writing tool. Now here’s the “me being dumb” part. When I uploaded my first chapter years ago, it didn’t have any paragraphs or italicized words. Why? Because I used the HTML tab, and me, being a programmer who’s used to HTML, was like, “Sure, makes sense.” (It did not. I’m just dumb.)

I found a script on Reddit that you can run in Google Docs to convert your document into HTML, and I edited it a bit so it would format everything the way I wanted.

I posted like that for literally years. To the point where I couldn’t post while I was on vacation because Google Docs scripts don’t work on your phone.

Then the whole Claude AI thing happened, and I was like, “What? How are you guys posting from Claude to AO3? There’s no HTML!” The next thing I assumed was, “Oh, some people use it to generate the HTML. I think it’s wrong when the script exist, but I get it.”

Then I read about Rich Text and was like… “What do you mean?”
I went back to AO3, looked around, found it…
Just posted a chapter of my fic without turning it to HTML for the first time after literally years, and it’s so much easier! 

Anyway, I’m an idiot, and at least something good came out of this Claude drama. You learn something new every day.

Feeling soo stupid right now. I got no sleep last night and I'm a day behind my deadline for this chapter. (I need to write at least 2.5k words for each chapter, so I'm very behind). And apparently, Felix's anxiety makes him anxious.

Like I get it, if you want something and you can’t find it, write it yourself obviously but sometimes I don’t want to read my own writing.

I want to read other peoples takes and writing styles on a particular ship or character. I do write stuff I want but reading is fun, and it introduces me to new dynamics I myself wouldn’t have thought of.

I realize this is kind of a non issue, I just wanted to share it.

And it's not like they hadn't seen it, because they LITERALLY said in their comment "Yeah, I feel like you put X tag there just to have an excuse to justify doing that to the character" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, IT'S NOT AN EXCUSE, I PUT IT THERE BECAUSE I BLATANTLY WANTED TO DO THAT IN THE FIC

THAT'S HOW TAGS WORK

THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE TAG

Yeah I'm a little angry

Not pressuring people to reply to comments if they truly don't want to but I got this reply to a comment I left **6 years ago** and I was thrilled. I even went back and reread the fic! It's never too late

PLEASE someone tell me I'm not reading this wrong.. Did someone ACTUALLY took my fic and got.. inspired by it to write something???

I INSPIRED SOMEONE?!

Only took that bitch bc my program required at least one computer science course , but thank god it wasn’t entirely useless 🙏

I also took creative writing in college and pretty much only use that for fic now so. Yipeee

So, last night I received a hate comment and I don't think it was from a bot, mainly because after I replied they replied back, but then not even an hour later, after she says "so many ppl agree with me", someone else commented on the same chapter about the same thing.

And then!!! After that, a third account decided to hop under the comment of one of my dedicated readers who expressed her dissatisfaction in the scene in a NORMAL, TASTEFUL way, and start suggesting a widely known fic on the site (which I didn't redact just because I feel like it's so widely known she's like a celeb in the DR reddit lol.) but, I'm sorry, but isn't that rude as fuck?!

I just am not having a good time with the sudden pile-up, and wondering why it's even happening. Also, I understand that having the "sharing" and "dp" tags doesn't mean he'd kiss a guy, but I truly didn't think it was worth tagging since, as I said, it's a small working part in the greater scheme. Anyway, I'm newer to this site...has anyone dealt with this before? What do you do?

ETA: I've frozen the comment threads to make an example outta them and then added comment moderation on top of it. Thank y'all for your help!! I was getting a bit discouraged there, I knew the reddit community would have my back!!

Suffered a robbery attempt today, someone snatched my bag (with my laptop in it) as I took it off to pass the turnstile to enter the bus station. The guy was caught like 90 seconds later cause there was a cop car literally parked on the other side of the road (I honestly don’t know what he was thinking), but a couple minutes later, as I was sitting on the bus (hugging my bag tightly this time), a thought came to my mind unbidden: “damn, I forgot to save last night’s chapter on the hard drive, good thing I got my computer back”. And yes, there were probably like a billion more important work and uni stuff on the laptop, and I write on google docs so I wouldn’t have actually lost the chapter, but still.

Anyway, always make sure to save your work in multiple places, authors!

Was probably an accidental upload, but man I got so excited when I got the email 💔💔💔

I was literally 2 chapters into finishing - AND IT WAS A CROSSOVER CRACKSHIP FANFICTION AS WELL, GOD. I WISH I DIDN’T PROCRASTINATE ON FINISHING IT, AGH - NOW ILL NEVER SEE THE END…

Edit: I FOUND IT, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR HELPING! Hats off to all of you!

I’ve been writing a fic for LADs for two years and finally decided to post it. It’s not complete, but I was getting close and started to lose steam so I thought actually posting it might give me the inspiration to keep going.
And it did. It hasn’t gotten a whole lot of attention but there were a couple people that commented on every chapter. Suddenly I was pumping out chapters like crazy and feeling more confident in my writing.
And then the fandom took a massive shit. There’s so much drama. People are boycotting the game. My hits are still going up pretty consistently but the comments and kudos came to a halt. And now I’m stuck wondering if the last few chapters I’ve posted are ass or if it’s just getting caught up in the drama.

What the hell do I do? 😭 I'm going to talk to my other friend about it, but I thought I'd ask here because maybe someone else has accidentally been in this exact situation or at least a similar one and can tell me how badly I'm screwed.

Mine is " Let's do fauxcest with your coworker because you were both abandoned by your attending papa"

(Ignore the fandom)

LMFAO SORRY IF I SHIP CHARACTERS AND WRITE ABOUT IT????? 😭

The ship wasn't even the main topic of the work lmfao

Half the chapters pick up where the last one left off 😭😭 i’m rereading some of them rn trying to imagine what they would be like to read with no context and it’s endless amusement I love this commenter lol

When I was younger I loved hanahaki disease and love triangles (especially the love square in miraculous ladybug) but now I can’t stand either.

It wasn’t even conscious switch in my brain or anything, one day I just remember coming to the realisation ‘this is stupid’ and now I avoid them like the plague. Especially the miraculous one. I stopped watching the show years ago, but whenever I see anything new about it literally infuriates me😭

Not to say there’s anything wrong with liking these tropes of course, but I’m interested to hear what other tropes people have grown out of.

(used to post with an alt but finally made a proper reddit account lol)

Recently i've been researching some more on chinese culture and decided to test it out with a few oneshots i wrote, and i got this comment on the first one 😭

the detail that they went and re-read is just so niceee, like it's so small but it makes me so happy aaaaa <333

WHY DO I LOVE GETTING COMMENTS AS AN AUTHOR.

spoilers: he did not even get a bite, dw