just call him chawarin panich

Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

Decide what the age difference between Fadel and Bison is for my fic!!!!

all of you not picking 10-12 are really breaking my heart they could be like gu xiang and wen kexing but you playing 😭😭😭😭😭

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Working on my novel and couldn’t figure out why it felt so empty. I didn’t have any filler. It was all 100% plot. The characters only interacted when necessary. I didn’t prattle on about the scenery or how the birds sounded. I had all my fuller stuff that I loved saved in another file because I “didn’t need it”.

Y’all, I knew this existed in TV shows but it didn’t hit me until this that everything is being whittled down. We are so starving for filler that we snap up anything. I unload all mine on Tumblr or keep it in a massive Google Docs. It SUCKS.

Honestly? Death to plot necessity. Revive filler. Revive unnecessary interactions. Revive just vibing with characters sometimes. I don’t want to just consume the plot and I don’t want to just create the plot either.

Why is it that even though all the gls we gave currently are getting millions of views and the gl pairings are selling out venues,trending on social media and appearing on magazine covers people are still saying there isnt much hype for gl? What do y'all even constitute as hype because clearly we have two different definitions. Freenbecky literally signed a memorandum with the thai government to promote thai products in their show but people swear up and down gl has a grand total of 2 fans.

@fromthedepthsandbeyond while this is correct the reason why there are fewer GL is dogged lack of investment DESPITE fan support. In the beginning times the support for Love Sick and Puppy Honey and even Offgun was far less than the support that FreenBecky and GAP have. Yet another vampire BL is a worse investment decision than a fluffy GL romcom. There’s no good economic reason that GL investment isn’t increasing other than outright sexism and it’s entirely unsubtle.

Dumb post about ‘old’ people in fandom being weird and how we shouldn’t interact with anyone younger than us. 🙄

This new gen of fans can at times be so frustrating. The world is not a void. You’re going to interact and be friends with people much older than you. It’s just facts.

I got my first job at 16, unwise with undiagnosed MH issues you will fail your exams don’t suggest, and I was far and away the youngest working there. My friends were Janet, sixty something and a grandma, and my manager William, in his forties smelt weirdly of onion, and I was just fine.

Adults aren’t the problem it’s how those adults interact with the young people around them and if they are being excessively weird then, yes, call that out. But don’t demonise all older adults in fandom spaces. 🙄

I like that I’ve now lived long enough to be the fandom elder that I had when I was getting into fandom. I think that that’s really cool in honesty.

Plus when I don’t understand some new slang I have the likes of @spicypussywave & @lamonnaie to tell me what it means.

We all win when we’re nice and courteous on the internet.

Why is it that even though all the gls we gave currently are getting millions of views and the gl pairings are selling out venues,trending on social media and appearing on magazine covers people are still saying there isnt much hype for gl? What do y'all even constitute as hype because clearly we have two different definitions. Freenbecky literally signed a memorandum with the thai government to promote thai products in their show but people swear up and down gl has a grand total of 2 fans.

Kristsingto exes to lovers or FirstKhao and Joongdunk foursome action BL

Pairing: Fadel/Style; Fadel/Bison (onesided) Rating: Teen Up Summary:

Style pursues an unwilling Fadel

OR

“I know you can hear me, you know?” Style says after following him for a few seconds.

Apparently for guys like these, no engagement is encouragement enough.

“I can hear dogs barking too. Doesn’t mean I stop to talk to them.”

The 'write for yourself uwu' culture shift has done real damage to fic writers imo. I recently had a post on the importance of strategic commenting break containment and I'm surprised by how many strangers who rb it in agreement feel the need to reassure in the tags that they do write for themselves, but...

There is a kernel of truth in the heart of this sentiment--if you only chase stats, you are unlikely to find joy in your writing. At the same time, I think we've veered too far in the other direction.

It is only natural to want engagement and the write for yourself crowd often overlooks how communal an effort fic writing usually is. So many story ideas are born from casual discussions about h/c's and favourite scenes and what ifs and the comment box is a cornerstone of this process. Not only can the discussions in the comment box be a hub for idea generation on their own, but even when the said idea generation takes place in DMs or Discord chats, commenting is often the first/easiest way into befriending authors; it's where community building starts.

Further, the write for yourself crowd similarly overlooks that the things a writer can write for themselves are often vast and many at any given time, and relative engagement levels across fandoms/ships can play a large part in which of those ideas a writer chooses to pursue--or whether they choose to publish their finished work at all.

In sum, I don't think we need to be this apologetic as writers for wanting feedback and engagement for what we post -- writing is hard work and it's only human that we want something external out of it in turn, however rewarding the process might intrinsically be.

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THIS TBH

Here's the thing. Writing the story both gives it life and kills it.

Before it's committed to the page, it lives rent-free in my mind, recognizable but constantly growing and shrinking, changing form... like some biblically-accurate Angel whispering "Be not afraid" as it morphs and shifts in wonderous and terrible ways.

As I write it, new things emerge, but the multiverse of scenes that live in my mind is reduced to a single, linear form. Which is GREAT, because now I can share it and interact with readers and see what worked and maybe what didn't. But the odd thing is that all the other versions fade away, even if they don't make it to the page. They're no longer squabbling with their alternate scenes for inclusion.

When people used to ask me why I write, I'd joke "so the voices in my head will shut up." It does feel like an exorcism. It's almost magic, the way the characters of a particular story stop talking when it's committed to the page.

It can feel lonely afterward without other voices filling the void.

We authors know the stories. We know so many versions of them, like related myths that are "same story, different versions, and all are TRUE."

We share them so OTHERS can know them and maybe share our joy about them. So we can talk about them with someone other than the voices in our heads. Without that, it's not worth the effort of slicing away the multiverse and getting it into a linear form. If I'm just telling myself the story, I may as well keep all the wondrous variety swirling in my mind and never quite taking form.

The sharing is the point of writing.