I can relate. When a certain ship of mine use to be very underrated, but their characteristics dynamics fit almost perfectly Wattpad kept recommending me "Dabi x Reader" or "Tomura x Reader" Wattpad: Shigaraki x Dabi... Me: Omg finally- Wattpad: ... x Reader! Me: ...
FACTS!! THAT'S ONE OF MY BIGGEST ANNOYANCES AND ALSO THE FACT THE DIALOGUE IS SO SQUISHED TOGETHER (NO BREAKS) THAT YOU CAN'T TELL WHO'S WHO IS JUST UGHHH
Because you realize none of it was real and none of it was canon and now when people talk about the fandom you can't even remember half of what actually happened so you just smile and nod and inside you're dying...
Literally happens on Wattpad all the time😓 Another nemesis has arrived: New story with an interesting concept, but the first chapter is "Author's Note" and that's it
Eva Smiljanić I read a fanfic a bit ago that was like this. The sad thing it was the only one of its kind. Must suffer through it. And then they don’t even finish it.
When you find the perfect plot, but it's written awfully or the characters say something in fanfic which they would never say. Drives me mad it or you want a specific kind of story but it doesn't exist why had no one written that yet?
i was reading one and i didn't see when it was last updated and when i finished the 3rd chapter i was like "want more" but it was updated 2018 and they haven't updated since qwq
My friends judge me and think all I read is just porn-all they think fanfiction is, is porn, written porn-it’s honestly annoying how they think that’s all it is
EmCakeGames Exactly. My friends don’t really seem to be able to believe that fanfiction can have plots and original characters that are just as creative as any other piece of writing
J Claflin the friends I do have that read fanfiction still judge me for it, they read like creepypasta smutfics and then tell me I’m weird for reading smut/lemons when I’m not even reading that, I’m reading fluff or angst that has a good story, a good representation of the characters, and a good author who actually cares for the readers and loves to write And it’s annoying that even my friends that read fanfiction believe it to be strange and nothing but porn that didn’t happen onscreen
Or all the fanfics available are not your ship. Dr stone has that problem, almost alllll of the docs on ao3 are some version of him and Gen getting together.
me with bungou stray dogs. I've been looking for a non-ship soukoku fanfiction, preferably one that talks more about how dazai and chuuya felt after dazai left the mafia. Not as in romantic feelings but like the "I miss my friend but also screw them" kind of feelings. I wanted to find something where like it would show how the port mafia was affected when dazai left, chuuya especially and I wanted them to have a different kind of reunion just to see how it would go. Personally I don't mind the soukoku shippers but I hate how soukoku has become a ship name and everyone forgot how soukoku was actually just a title given to dazai and chuuya since they did cool stuff together when they went out on missions. Introducing my friends to bsd I'm like I love soukoku then I have to explain myself that no I do not ship them I just love their partnership and bromance I AM NOT A FUJOSHI OK. And I'm not just saying that I genuinely am not a fujoshi idk I'm just not into that, or the whole romance thing in general tbh. Friendship>romance imo.
I hate how fanfics on Archive of Our Own have so many tags with every single character who appears in the story. You just can't find stories focused on a specific character or pairing you want.
I usually hate it when I look for one specific pairing (A x B) but their will be another pairing like this (A x C) Like unless it’s polygamy(A x C x B) I feel like that certain character is cheating and we have to focus one more character in the romance genre like some Harem.
Yes! I absolutely loathe when I look up fics for a pairing like Jack/Lisa and a story is tagged Jack/Lisa but it’s also tagged Jack/Lana, and then when I read the fic THERE’S NO JACK/LISA CONTENT
WHEN YOU FIND A GOOD FANFICTION BUT YOU CANT REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT AND CANT FIND IT EVER AGAIN Edit: is it bad that this is my most liked and commented comment?- Edit 2: My god I didn't know how many people wen through this struggle-
I actually argued with someone that Snape was friends with Lucius Malfoy, because Malfoy had made Snape Draco's Godfather.....turns out that never happened...😬🙃
@@MHScrat The godfather thing seems to be a "new canon." Almost as if the original books form the Old Testament and fan fiction is the New Testament or, better, The Apocrypha.
@@faithlesshound5621 YES XD i think that was my problem, it was just such a casual thing popping up in all the fanfic I was reading, even ones that stuck pretty close to canon had this so I was getting confused xD but that's definitely an interesting way of putting it!
Or when the pervert or evil dude is suddenly a emotional damaged puppy dog and suddenly a good person because he fell in love like he's not the character anymore. Found So. Many. Naruto. Fanfictions. Like, nice Akatsuki characters. Sure, if the OC got to them BEFORE the whole evil thing maybe I could by that, but suddenly Sasori is acting like discount Edward Cullen? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.
Blah and then every ship has different connotations. Like Marichat from what I remember was borderline creepy sometimes and involved more smut while Adriennette was either really tragic or wholesome. Crazy fandom
Fanfic author: I'm ready to move on & want a future in this field, but no one in the professional field takes fanfic seriously. So I'll just delete all my fanfics Fanfic Readers / followers: You monster, how could you! Traitor, how dare you abandon us!
When it’s a fanfiction based on like a ship and someone makes them hate each other for more then half of the story then they just like each other from no where
Yes. I really hate the plot of Character A: Hates character B for years cause stupid incident when they first met Character B: I've been in love with them forever, even though they hate me and I've not had a single nice moment with them Character A: *randomly* For some reason I love you now
@@smartzelda1597 thats not the dumbest thing The dumbest thing is MC and bad guy somehow hook up even though they wanna kill eachother like how does that work
@@velvetdarksoul8741 Yeah, honestly. It just always kinda looks bad if you're writing a shipping fic and you ignore the plot and actual development to get straight to the ship. Even though I may look for a bunch of fanfiction for my ship, I actually care about relationship development and the plot/concept and not just them getting to kiss or whatever as fast as possible
@@velvetdarksoul8741 And don't forget the canon shippers that insist a ship is canon and will fight anyone who says it's not, even though it hasn't been confirmed
When you start a story is listed as 'Complete' and you dive in to it after reading this amazing plot, with characters you love, and themes that you've been craving. Then you reach the final chapter only to find an A/N saying that the fanfic as been discontinued. Like I SPECIFICALLY FILTERED OUT THE INCOMPLETE WORK! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!?
That's why I ALWAYS check reviews on the last chapter before I read a fic. Then I know if it's completed or not, killed any main characters, or if it was good at all. I ❤️ reviews!
@@AnnRav44 people never recognize how much one review, like, or comment means to an author of fanfiction. Especially constructive criticism, i like that stiff
Exactly when they're really like popular and everone loves them but all of a sudden this really nice actual character who is amazing in the actual book/movie/whatever offend the oc and everyone hates the other character It just really annoys me
Stories that dedicate three quarters of the story to detailed sex scenes to the point of being kind of grotesque and crude. Writing intimacy is an art and you should always leave things to the reader's imagination. Our minds are good at filling in the blanks and it is always more exciting when you don't get nasty details. Also... you shouldn't transitioning from an emotional scene with a lot of tension to sex. (Just some thoughts about writing, not aimed at someone specifically.) If I may tote my own horn, stories of mine tend to be very well liked by my readers. For anyone who is interested, my name on aow is also Ikajo.
Me: *reading a really good fanfic and getting right into it* Fanfic: *pulls out some nonsense plot from its ass without any buildup or warning* Me: >:I
I also hate when the story is so good at first but then the characters get together and there's so much smut that you have to hunt for the rest of the plot
Yeah same, I've read loads that are just smut after they become a couple which is so annoying! I hate how some fics loose all plot and I just end up reading a fic that's just smut after smut. Relationships aren't just sex, I'm fine with one or two smut scenes but afterwards I'm just sick on it tbh
Yep. I get this a lot. My sister knows I read a ton of fanfic and she always acts annoyed but I'm pretty sure she is kind of amused. I mean, she can't hate fanfiction since she used to write and post it, and now she's an author of 1 book with sequels in the works and more series to come.
和 I agree! I mean I’m not totally against fluff cause it’s cute and all but there is only so much I can take before it gets repetitive or boring, however, with angst it’s like a gift that keeps giving. There’s so many directions that can be taken and it adds excitement and room for more development idk I just really like it XD
When they do this: I ran over to my mom, shoving the cereal in my mouth. Me: Hi mom what’s up Mom: Hey go to school please Like why can’t they just use quotation marks
The one thing I despise the most about reading fan fictions...when you're like half way through the story and there is an authors note saying that they're not gonna continue the story cuz they ran out of ideas. YES I GET THAT WRITERS BLOCK IS TOUGH BUT THE FACT THAT I CANT FINISH THIS STORY IS TOUGHER
Top5 Tuesdays Honestly, just finish up the story there, because like IT GETS REALLY GOOD AND THEN YIU SEE THAT AUTHORS NOTE ABD UR JUST LIKE NOPE NOT TODAY SANTA
Top5 Tuesdays As an author, this statement was kinda disrespectful to writers. Fan fiction writers have lives of their own, and saying that their work is more important than their lives is quite rude and disrespectful. Writers are humans just like the readers, and they are not obligated to satisfy your entertainment...
How long does it take you to consume that piece of work? Let's look at at drawing, another form of the arts. It takes you just seconds to consume it, and decide whether or not you like it. But the artist takes hours, sometimes days to create it. Now look at writing. It takes you a lot longer to consume that piece of media. It probably doesn't even take you a whole day to read a page does it? But the author takes days to write it. They have to come up with the idea, plan it out, write it, rewrite it, edit it, find spelling errors and then decide whether or not they like it or not. The author can't just read it quickly after school or after work. The author has a life that gets in the way of what is a hobby to them. You probably don't know how writer's block actually feels. It turns what was something you once enjoyed into hours of staring at an empty page. You keep typing ideas but they all feel wrong somehow, you start tearing apart every idea until you begin to hate the story and hate continuing it. So it's often better for the writer mentally to leave the project, and move on. It's easy to ask someone to give you more of what you want. It's not easy to do it yourself.
@@pooppoopzoopzoop9935 I had to abandon two of them because I just did not how to bridge the end of the middle to the end section. Now without an xbox1 and MEAndromeda I can not finish the Mass Effect one and I have to reread everything I have written for both of them to actually finish them up.
@@aproblem3503 XD Me whenever I write Fullmetal Alchemist that animes PTSD on a stick amd somehow I actually managed it make it even more of a mind fuck pffff
The ones where they say they're sorry for taking too long to update and that they'll try to update by the end of the week and then three years pass and nothing.
I bothers me so much when the story is "complete" and it's perfect and all fluff and cuteness but suddenly plot twist and at the end there's a cliffhanger and like three sequels that have angst and drama in the tags! I mean I just wanted something light-hearted and happy...
@@Natalie-kr7yc LIKE YESTERDAY I WAS READING A FAN FIC AND THERE'S FLUFF AND CUTENESS AND AT THE END MY CHARACTER DIED!! SHE DIED!! AND I STARTED CRYING AT 3AM HEARTBROKEN! LIKE WHY?!
And of course then you have to finish the whole series and, despite the fact that you don't want to read any of The Angst and drama and death and Gore new that's coming your way. Just because of that stupid cliffhanger, which day, of course, we'll add at the end of the next book as well. Or even vice versa, will you start reading a story looking for the angst and drama and it's really well written and absolutely perfect and ends on a cliffhanger and the next story is JUST FLUF!!!!
@@sassybrat6343 Me with a Transformers fanfic the first book was badass second one is kinda boring, like dude once mr big bad megatron isn't a threat everything else seems trival and using Unicron seemed like such an ass pull What weirds me out is the pairings like how to robots even conceive it scares me how kinky people are
Dude, I saw this book and they got together in the first chapter on the first day of school and the second day they legit just did smut and they didn't knew each other for like a day and I was so mad like BOI WHY
Exactly how I started. There were plenty of the type of fic I wanted to read, but most of them went unfinished and I burned through them all pretty damn quickly as it was.
I'm into rare ships that are unknow or that people barely knows and when I want to try to find that rare ship are only 2 or 3 and when I read it this is what I saw: -They change most of the characters personalities -They have the same plot -They move things too fast -And really bad grammar I really want to make one with different plot but I'm little scare that people would think that is stupid.
Me: *reading a fanfic* My mom: Hey! I don't see you reading anymore. You're always on that stupid phone of yours! Go read a book. Me: *screaming internally and crushing my phone in my hands*
That has gotten to the point where I am going to print my favorite fanfictions and put them into a binder for myself as a Christmas gift if I can. It's *unbelievable*
fanfic: "and i saw him across the cafeteria with..." Author: sorry guys for the cliffhanger! im going to update REALLY SOON so dont worry! also author: *last updated in 2013* me: 😐😭
I read one where "the reader" s boobs size was specified and I 😂. "you were a small C" like girl I don't ever remember being that small. I was born D cup and only went up from there tf you talking about
@@Cieruno My intuition when it comes to fiction rarely fails me. Parody crack fics and the like are usually the ones to catch me off guard but they often aren't too bad, usually I got what I came for.
When you read a fanfiction a long time ago and you didnt book mark it and you can only remember bits and pieces of it and you rrally really want to read it again but no matter what or how you phrase what you can remember about it or ask others on sites about what you can remember about that fanfic and you just cant find it. T.T
Maybe you can do process of elimination. Around what year did you remember reading it? Do you remember the author's name or anything about them? Do you still remember the characters involved in the story? Was is a ship? How long was the story? How many words/chapters? What category? What was the rating? Was it cute or raunchy? Have you checked your history (or do you clear that regularly?)? Maybe try filtering it on AO3 or Fanfiction.net to narrow it down (unless it's another site you read from). I dunno. Just some thoughts.
I found this a while ago but if you put this into Google: site:[url of site you think fanfiction was on] [a line from fanfic or character with unique detail] So an example is: site:archiveofourown.org/ Harry Potter what if he died This will search AO3 for stories with Harry and his death
Honestly same, there is this character from gacha world (an app by lunime) who I absolutely love and he is called demon hunter, Sad part is that he doesn't get enough recognition, if not none. I go to all the gacha wold x readers and he isn't there. Also please don't judge me, I just like gacha and other fandoms.
I'm pretty sure it's just beginner writers who write like that. Like no shame, write however the freak you want, use it as practice and publish it to get feedback, but if you're trying to make your fic feel more professional that ain't it chief
Eh, from what I know myself that's a novice writer problem. You eventually get the hang of interactions one way or another, I mean I'm not professional but experience helps, it really does.
When you plow through every awesome fic in the fandom and you start to get desperate and so you start reading tropes you don't like and even torture yourself by reading incomplete fics that have no hope of being finished. Oh also when you go through your bookmarks on AO3 and it tells you the author has deleted a fic but you have no idea which one it was so you panic for the next hour trying to figure out what it was.
Literally me on Wattpad. I read almost every fic on it for a ship that I like (except the smut ones), even if they were terribly written, because I was so desperate. Luckily AO3 has like 1000 times more of those fics I wanted to read and 90% of them are written so much better
Well that happened to me : once I read every good fanfiction in French in my fandom, I just decided to learn English. I've only read fanfictions in English for almost 8 years now.
@Atria Laurent Honestly, literally me. The first fanfic I started was for fun, but the rest were because I craved that ship. The day I completely ran out (besides ones that I was waiting for updates), I actually read my own fanfiction for that ship cause I was so desperate (this was before I discovered AO3)
dude you have not used this ability to its fullist potential You should read straight up smut thats when you reach absulate Geniusnes (I do and did this alot lol)
Lmaoo same, my mother has taken a look over my shoulder at what I was reading some times but since she doesn't know english she has no idea what I'm reading XD
Reading in public is not problem to me :D, In my country not many people know english so when they see me read FanFic on my Phone or Tablet they say "Oh you READ ENGLISH, great O_O" Hahaha if they know what i was reading :)
My friend was in the train and she saw this girl reading on her iPad. She took a closer look and it was actually fanfiction. Like, reaaaaaally smutty Johnlock fanfiction. My friend isn't in the fandom but she was like DAYUM DAT GURL HAS GUTS!
I CRY especially if its one that I love so so so much and one I read over and over! (In all seriousness it sucks but if they wanna delete it for whatever reason thats totally cool and I respect that they may no longer want their work online and stuff! :))
Agreed. My favorite author on AO3 completely changed their account- and deleted EIGHTEEN stories that I'd read almost everyday because they were so amazing. * sigh * And I don't know how/if I could message them or find out what happened... But, it's their stories.
I agree with everything. I also hate when the characters are out of character, big blocks of texts with no spacing between paragraphs or dialogue, and original characters sometimes.
I have a complicated relationship with OCs. I hate seeing them in the tags because that means they are treated as the main focus in a story they don't belong. At the same time I have used OCs myself, sometimes even in a fairly prominent role. My readers have told me they like my OCs because their inclusions feels natural and follow the flow of the story. Honestly, I also dislike minor canon characters that gets treated like OCs...
Her: “What do you mean it hasn’t been updated since 2011?” Me: Oh that’s right! I should check [insert fanfiction title here] to see if that final chapter is up yet!” Spoilers: It’s not. Last updated a month ago.
I was reading a series that started 2013. The last book was updated in 2018 with a note saying that she would look through submissions for an epilogue.
As a fanfic writer, I find it extremely annoying when I get notifications that people added the story I gave up on to their reading list even though I specified THREE TIMES (in the title, in the synopsis, and in the first chapter) that it’s discontinued. Edit: And then I get comments asking me to update. BOI I even wrote a lengthy apology + explanation about how I had too much going on and I wasn’t even in the fandom anymore. Let me live!
I did the exact same things with my fanfic! I left a really long message too explaining why I discontinued them and I still get messages to this day on my various social media asking me to update a story I wrote almost 10 years ago now!!😂
I never say Im never gonna update cause maybe ome day I'll get inspired again And im ome of those people who saves fanfics that haven't updated in over a decade cause I like rereading it
sorry i might be one of those people if it was on fanfiction.net of wattpad. i dont ask for up dates. i just reread them to think of different ways they could have ended.
@@erickalynch4522 I agree. Or maybe people just like to favorite their favorite fics, or as you said, reread them later. I don't think readers do that with the intention of annoying them.
I hate it when people just make a fanfiction and it’s like “Oh that’s cute” but then 1 chapter later there’s a full on smut scene with no prior information hinting to it
Or when I warned it in the story summary and author's notes multiple times that there was smut/lemons, and then someone yells at me for "not finding a creative way to hide it". I don't which situation is worse...
The first one just happened to me... 93 chapters in... 3 more chapters till the end, promised by the author... YET IT HASN'T BEEN UPDATED IN OVER A YEAR!!! I just don't know...
I am reading this wonderful and beautifully written hp story and it hasn't been updated in months and we readers haven't heard anythig from the author and we are genuinely worried.. :/
Gah! I've been following one fanfic that is a gangster au version of a fandom I'm in, so very creative and well written. I think they updated it once this year.
Oh god ive been reading this one ff for the last 1 and a half years and it only has 38 chapters but the writer has really low writing energy but she said its almost over and now im sitting here waiting for the last couple of chapters but she hasnt uploaeded a new one since november ಥ‿ಥ
Ohhh I feel this One particular fanfiction, which I've known for almost four years now, hasn't been uploaded since November 2016. I don't know if the author is okay (i hope so), but I'm certainly never ever going to forget that story. It's weird haha
@@misscrouch this is me rn and its so sad lmao, there was this amazing fanfiction on ao3 and it was just *chefs kiss* and then right in the climax of the plot, the writer stops updating. last update was 2016 and I'm still sad :(
@@gabbymidd7 I still have hope that my story will be updated again, I mean, I have seen stories being continued after 14 years haha Good luck for your fic tho!
@@misscrouch oh that 14 years one is so lucky! yeah I'm really hoping this author concludes the story, they're kinda still active on AO3 but yeah. thanks 4 the good luck, you too!
IDK, I get annoyed sometimes when they DON'T change a character. read one NGE/MGLN crossover where Shinji get's raised by Nanoha and Fate. And somehow, despite growing up in a loving home full of people who know how to spot and diffuse mental health issues (especially ones related to bad parenting. Precia could be even worse than Gendo), as far from Gendo's influence as you can get, he still turned into a seething mass of daddy/self-esteem issues that looked just like his canon counterpart. ruined the story right there.
When i first started writing fanfiction I was young so dont judge me... it was a broppy fanfic and when i got bored i left for 2 years... just deleted wattpad completely... When i came back i felt terrible... but, now im writing again, not on that fic but a different one
@@madysonsmith6443 I know how you feel. I started writing on Wattpad too. My first fanfic was really bad. Still is... yet people keep voting it instead of the better rewritten version of it.
Yup. Yup. I am reading it because I thought it was a cute getting together/first kiss one shot, aaand then we get what could just be 50 Shades copy pasted with name changes
@@BJGvideos It's generally associated with bad writing, so it leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, tainting their opinions of even the good ones. I can understand their reluctance, really. Rare is the author who can handle first-person with style that isn't ripped straight from a detective film noir piece, even when it is in fact decent.
1. SUPER SPECIFIC: I go into a fan fiction for one ship, but there's a secondary pairing which I end up shipping too😑😭 I FEEL SO UNLOYAL. 2. Searching for good fluffy fan fics at 1am cos the other one is either too intense, or hasn't been updated. Or both.
@Erika Butnariu Or when they can't understand that illustrations colors are artistic choices, no the character's hair isn't dark purple it's actually black. (altho that one can be confusing so ok)
@Erika Butnariu oh also I've seen entire fandoms decide that a character was smaller than another because he's typically the uke in fanfic but cannonicaly these characters are actually the tallest or same height
@Erika Butnariu haha imagine reading homestuck fanfiction ,where everything is declared cannon even OCs and ALL the Ships and AUs. All the god damn Height headcanons? Canon you dont like that headcanon? too bad it's canon. yes everything is so much more harder to filter, it's because we have 4 romances and specific versions for like 100+ characters . I am dying and suffering- everything is inconsistent, some times the characters sexualities and genders do 180s because it's Homestuck....
I hate it when everything is going great, and the main character suddenly just goes like; "I suck I should kill myself" and everything turns angsty out of nowhere with no reason at all..
I died laughing when you mentioned the awkward "what are you reading" question! 😂 happens to me all the freakin' time! And I'm just like: nothing much...short stories on the internet.. Or give a totally not related legit book title (no way in hell I'm confessing to hermione/snape fic 😂) And don't forget the fics that start fluffy and amazing and take a sudden turn into pervertville!
Yes because you get embarrassed that you were reading an alternate universe of whatever you like reading/watching. Like I like tmnt and transformers fanifiction
OH GOD WHEN THEY DELETE THE STORY *screams* ITS THE WORST. Also when you read all the fics for your ship and left with nothing but disappointment :))))
I remember looking through collections of of fan fiction focused on a particular plot point (e.g. what if this character didn't die) and finding one fanfic who did this trope perfectly but when I went to find it again it was missing!
Congrats you made me an idiot. I was clicking at my screen a good couple times until I realized: 1- Nothing was changing. I had not highlighted the screen or your photo 2- Your photo is blue and I am an idiot.
When you find one with a really interesting premise, and you think; "This cannot possibly be good, but I really hope that it is." And instead of being pleasantly surprised, you're proven correct.
Things that drive me crazy: .Great plot but very OOC characters .Major Character Death: i veryveryVERY rarely read a fanfiction that has the Major Character Death warning, and once i accidentally didn't read the tags and got into something thinking that "it's a great story with a lot of fluff and just 2 chapters, what could happen in two chapters of a completed fic when the first chapter is so fluffy??" THE DEATH BY CAR ACCIDENT WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS OUT GROCERY SHOPPING AND THE OTHER ONE WAITS FOR THEM THEY ENTIRE DAY UNTIL THEY GET A CALL FROM THE HOSPITAL AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT WAS NOT A HURT/COMFORT HOLY FUCK WHY DIDN'T I READ THE TAGS i'm sorry, i'm still not over that one -.-
2nd worst after major character death: rape/non-con. If it exists in your story, it *needs* to be in the first 3 tags. Do *not* bury that shit in the middle/end of a huge paragraph of tags. Starts reading sweet romantic fanfic about cute young couple. Like 2nd chapter in his boss rapes her and forces him to watch/participate. THIS IS SO NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR!!!
Now I'm glad I always go for the happy ending no matter how grim things get while I'm telling the story... Alongside Major Character Death is those who drags out pain and angst for way too long without letting up.
Great video! Especially the ending:D Page not found?? Go "page not found" someone else! You covered all the majors, but I think I can come up with some more: "NOTP Nemesis" You start reading fanfic. Well written, original, funny, exciting. And then two people you don't really ship start talking. And more then talking. And you keep reading because it's a good fic bUT OH GOD GET A ROOM YOU TWO WHO CARES ABOUT YOU "How EXACTLY do you look in this?" For fandoms without screen adaptation (or with adaptation unfaithful in charakters' looks): So, you're... Blond here? Ok. Wow! Wow, who was just described as 'dark'?? "Who is doing what and where?" So, you kiss him. You turn aroud to sit do - wait, when did he stand up? And where exactly does she have hands? Where did the table came from? "Mixing up fanfics with same AU" (Fake dating, mostly for me) ,,Did you get to the part when they go ice skating?" ,,They don't!" ,,Yes they do! So his sister can see-" ,,He doesn't have sister in this!" "WHY THE HELL DID I ONLY LIKED IT ON TUMBLR" *Scrolling down for five miles* "Running out of fanfics on AO3" *closes windows* *takes a deep breath* *opens wattpad* "That is NOT her Hogwarts house!!!" aka painful HP AUs
Barbora Mottlová LOL! Loved all this, and so so true. “Who is doing what and where” got me because I’ve been taken out of so many ‘sexy’ scenes due to trying to determine what is happening and where people, their body parts and furniture are positioned... not sexy. Same with “that is NOT they’re Hogwart’s house!” though I’m lenient with that in regard to AUs and if the author shows signs and reasons why the character ends up in a non-canon house. If it comes out of nowhere and the character doesn’t really portray aspects of the new chosen house... “NOT they’re Hogwart’s house bitch!” PS loved your little anecdotes and explanations that went with each of your problems. Awesome!
Hans Bjorgman Hah! No probs mate. I hate that too. It was the middle of the night when I wrote that comment and I was also going back and forth, rewriting and deleting different parts. Some things slip through the cracks. I don’t usually make those mistakes but these things happen, eh? I’ve done the same thing as you when you just can’t help but correct the spelling even when you feel guilty about it. No worries.
When you find that perfect fic, and it's perfect in every way, and it's actually completed, and you go into a slump where your entire life revolved around when you get to read the fic again, and you only think about the fic, and you become the fic
When literally everyone ships a ship but no one writes fanfiction for it it
When one character gets shipped with everyone
Poor them
@Dark zero you are what I hate about fanfiction
Reader ships are a cry of desperation and no social life
I can relate. When a certain ship of mine use to be very underrated, but their characteristics dynamics fit almost perfectly Wattpad kept recommending me "Dabi x Reader" or "Tomura x Reader"
Wattpad: Shigaraki x Dabi...
Me: Omg finally-
Wattpad: ... x Reader!
Me: ...
《Yasaka chan》 I felt that too hard 😔🤚
@@ribavrx4131 The x Reader or the ship?
WHEN THERE ARE NO PARAGRAPH BREAKS. WHEN IT'S A HUGE WALL OF TEXT, BUT FROM THE TAGS AND DESCRIPTION IT SEEMED TO INTERESTING.
I HATE THIS ONE SO MUCH
YES!!!!
YES!! or when they don't put line breaks in between dialogue. so annoying.
OMG YES THIS IS SUCH A PET PEEVES I JUST LEAVE AND DON'T BOTHER
FACTS!! THAT'S ONE OF MY BIGGEST ANNOYANCES AND ALSO THE FACT THE DIALOGUE IS SO SQUISHED TOGETHER (NO BREAKS) THAT YOU CAN'T TELL WHO'S WHO IS JUST UGHHH
the worst feeling is when you finish a perfect fan fiction story.
And you have to reread it to numb the pain...😔
just happened to me today 😪
And there's no sequel
Explooooosion of the heart :”(
Because you realize none of it was real and none of it was canon and now when people talk about the fandom you can't even remember half of what actually happened so you just smile and nod and inside you're dying...
I don't like when fanfiction is poorly written, but it has a really good plot to it.
my life
Oh it's so annoying.
Esty OMG YESS
Oh my goodness, yes there's been some pretty terribly written ones some with emojis and no capitals and things like that 😂
OH MY GOD DJGNENFJSNDBNSNS
my personal nemesis "Oh my god it updated!" Chapter title: 'Not a Chapter'
Literally happens on Wattpad all the time😓
Another nemesis has arrived: New story with an interesting concept, but the first chapter is "Author's Note" and that's it
@@smartzelda1597 pfff
Not an update
Ha
I do that.
@@smartzelda1597 I discovered someone had shared a story of mine on Wattpad 🤔 I was credited as the writer but it was still so very odd...
When you find a perfect storyline hut its written terribly
This! Like you had a great idea....I just wish you did it BETTER 😅
t h i s
Or a combo of the perfect ship, perfect plot idea, great tags and details...and then the author doesn't even use paragraphs.
Eva Smiljanić I read a fanfic a bit ago that was like this. The sad thing it was the only one of its kind. Must suffer through it. And then they don’t even finish it.
Don't forget the worst spelling EVER!!! Especially when their native language is English it annoys me all the more
@@evasmiljanic3529 I hate it when they don't use paragraphs. It distracts me so much.
When you get so into fanfiction, it's hard to read anything else
XD YES THATS ME!!
*has hundreds of stories on their computer that they have yet to post*
Fanfiction is all I read 😂😭
@@lovesbitca8xp
Thats all of us dude
I keep thinking I'd like to get into actually reading books... but then I never do.
whoops
*reading some dark and kinky fanfic in public
someone: what are you reading?
umm.... it's a ...story...with romance? yeah, that...
I can relate lmao
It gets even better when your reading in class
I just say I’m reading about who ever the fanfic about
Then they're like oh what's it about and im like ummmmmmmmm
I did that but in front of my dad and he was like “what ya reading” and I was like “uhhhhh....it’s uhh...”
when you’re a rare shipper and the only fics for that ship suck 🙃
ava melon Yes
What ships do u like lol
@@aaava2007 I feel you lmao
I know. I really wanted to read a ship and then I couldt find any not one....😭
I ship Luna Lovegood/Tom Riddle... I'm gonna go away now...
When you find the perfect plot, but it's written awfully or the characters say something in fanfic which they would never say. Drives me mad it or you want a specific kind of story but it doesn't exist why had no one written that yet?
H O N E S T L Y so many times i specifically search for a fic i really want and it doesnt exist
Sophie Rose yeah it’s really annoying.
I can so relate
@@CATmetchu i agree while it can be fun on some occasions. But not when there basically an angel amd scream everyones head off in the fanfictions
Sophie Rose i just pretend that they never said it and continue on reading
Me:Oh this is a good fanfiction I wonder when they'll update
*Last updated in 2009*
Me: *throws phone across room*
I am addicted to musicals this always happens to me and it makes me want curl up and *die*
Rips my heart out. I’ve started checking before I read to see if it’s complete or when it was last updated
@@ccxfanficsyt6300,addictions are various
😂😂
i was reading one and i didn't see when it was last updated and when i finished the 3rd chapter i was like "want more" but it was updated 2018 and they haven't updated since qwq
When people judge you for reading fanfiction. Honestly, leave us tf alone
Exactly. My best friend doesn't get why I like it but she has to put up with it. I'm glad my other best friend get it and is into it as well
My friends judge me and think all I read is just porn-all they think fanfiction is, is porn, written porn-it’s honestly annoying how they think that’s all it is
EmCakeGames Exactly. My friends don’t really seem to be able to believe that fanfiction can have plots and original characters that are just as creative as any other piece of writing
J Claflin the friends I do have that read fanfiction still judge me for it, they read like creepypasta smutfics and then tell me I’m weird for reading smut/lemons when I’m not even reading that, I’m reading fluff or angst that has a good story, a good representation of the characters, and a good author who actually cares for the readers and loves to write
And it’s annoying that even my friends that read fanfiction believe it to be strange and nothing but porn that didn’t happen onscreen
Oof everyone pretty much Judge besides two of my friends. I write fanfiction they proof read it for me to make sure I make no grammar mistakes 😌👌
When your early to a fandom and there is almost no fanfictions for it
......ok didn't know that was actully in this
Or all the fanfics available are not your ship. Dr stone has that problem, almost alllll of the docs on ao3 are some version of him and Gen getting together.
Hollow Knight
me with bungou stray dogs. I've been looking for a non-ship soukoku fanfiction, preferably one that talks more about how dazai and chuuya felt after dazai left the mafia. Not as in romantic feelings but like the "I miss my friend but also screw them" kind of feelings. I wanted to find something where like it would show how the port mafia was affected when dazai left, chuuya especially and I wanted them to have a different kind of reunion just to see how it would go.
Personally I don't mind the soukoku shippers but I hate how soukoku has become a ship name and everyone forgot how soukoku was actually just a title given to dazai and chuuya since they did cool stuff together when they went out on missions. Introducing my friends to bsd I'm like I love soukoku then I have to explain myself that no I do not ship them I just love their partnership and bromance I AM NOT A FUJOSHI OK. And I'm not just saying that I genuinely am not a fujoshi idk I'm just not into that, or the whole romance thing in general tbh. Friendship>romance imo.
The Society
I hate how fanfics on Archive of Our Own have so many tags with every single character who appears in the story. You just can't find stories focused on a specific character or pairing you want.
I know it's so annoying
Aria yes! I hate this so much
I usually hate it when I look for one specific pairing (A x B) but their will be another pairing like this (A x C)
Like unless it’s polygamy(A x C x B) I feel like that certain character is cheating and we have to focus one more character in the romance genre like some Harem.
Yes! I absolutely loathe when I look up fics for a pairing like Jack/Lisa and a story is tagged Jack/Lisa but it’s also tagged Jack/Lana, and then when I read the fic THERE’S NO JACK/LISA CONTENT
It is especially awful when it isn't the main pairing and it is hardly touched upon
The worst is when you find a lengthy fan fiction and find out that 50% of it is author’s notes answering questions and thanking reviewers...
One wattpad bnha chatfic is really funny but the chapters are short and yeah, 2/3 author notes??
Floppy Fishtick theres one called TODODEKU Chat fic and it has 53 long chapters without any authors notes and its not finished
dumb hair and time to yeet myself to wattpad even though i dont ship Tododeku-
Wattpad readers' thought lmao. One of the reasons I totally quit reading works in that platform
Darci Lynn and then she woke to find the author gave on the fanfic and was left incompleted
WHEN YOU FIND A GOOD FANFICTION BUT YOU CANT REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT AND CANT FIND IT EVER AGAIN
Edit: is it bad that this is my most liked and commented comment?-
Edit 2: My god I didn't know how many people wen through this struggle-
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
OH MY GOD THIS HAS HAPPENED SO MANY TIMES
I have this exact problem right now. 😭
Me...
Happens all the time!!
Who else has read so much fanfiction that sometimes they question if something actually happened in cannon or not? 😂
I don’t even what happened in the original material anymore..
All the time. Some of the fandom I'm in I've never actually read/watched the original works, but I got into them through crossovers or something.
I actually argued with someone that Snape was friends with Lucius Malfoy, because Malfoy had made Snape Draco's Godfather.....turns out that never happened...😬🙃
@@MHScrat The godfather thing seems to be a "new canon." Almost as if the original books form the Old Testament and fan fiction is the New Testament or, better, The Apocrypha.
@@faithlesshound5621 YES XD i think that was my problem, it was just such a casual thing popping up in all the fanfic I was reading, even ones that stuck pretty close to canon had this so I was getting confused xD but that's definitely an interesting way of putting it!
When a book gets updated after a year, but it’s an author’s note
OMFGGG that's literally the worst
And the authors note is either a) saying there wont be any more updates, or more infuriatingly b) to let you know they'll update rreeeeeeaaaaalll son
And the authors note says that they can’t find the inspiration to continue...
Or a author note saying they are passing the story on to another writer and then the new writer doesnt post anything or say anything about writing it
@@XLose_yourselfX Or even worse, when they do make the story, they then proceed to fuck up everything that you loved about the original fic. WHY?!
When the author turns your favorite character into a rude pervert. Like they aren’t like this in the show/book/real life WhAT arE yOu dOinG
Anni C Miraculous ladybug fandom does this a lot. Adrien becomes borderline abusive sometimes
Or when the pervert or evil dude is suddenly a emotional damaged puppy dog and suddenly a good person because he fell in love like he's not the character anymore.
Found So. Many. Naruto. Fanfictions. Like, nice Akatsuki characters. Sure, if the OC got to them BEFORE the whole evil thing maybe I could by that, but suddenly Sasori is acting like discount Edward Cullen? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.
Blah and then every ship has different connotations. Like Marichat from what I remember was borderline creepy sometimes and involved more smut while Adriennette was either really tragic or wholesome. Crazy fandom
Y E S
@@blah7983 I know! Like WHAT are you doing people, our cinnamon roll would NEVER act like that! XD It's just plain wrong.
When the concept for the plot is actually interesting and cool, but the author's writing skills are complete trash.
This is my problem.
Great creativity, terrible writing skills.
Block of text, no quotations, extremely OOC characters, moves way too fast, small as chapters, man I could go on and on
happens way more than you think
ErenTheBombJaeger Name: **insert text here**
This shit in fanfiction is annoying asf, we know who’s talking bruh just clarify it
"People that delete their fanfiction"
*guilty and speedy exit of chat*
Lol
Mooooood
Fanfic author: I'm ready to move on & want a future in this field, but no one in the professional field takes fanfic seriously. So I'll just delete all my fanfics
Fanfic Readers / followers: You monster, how could you! Traitor, how dare you abandon us!
Please have mercy on us...
BlueFlameBird Why should we 😡
You could say: "I'm reading stories written by anonymous online authors which are based on the characters and settings of existing works"
Athena De Leon I love how all of us know this
Copy fanfictions? Cuz then i know a few
And you'll just sound super educated lmao
Way to make it sound mystical
Wow
When it’s a fanfiction based on like a ship and someone makes them hate each other for more then half of the story then they just like each other from no where
Yes. I really hate the plot of
Character A: Hates character B for years cause stupid incident when they first met
Character B: I've been in love with them forever, even though they hate me and I've not had a single nice moment with them
Character A: *randomly* For some reason I love you now
@@smartzelda1597 thats not the dumbest thing
The dumbest thing is MC and bad guy somehow hook up even though they wanna kill eachother like how does that work
@@velvetdarksoul8741 Yeah, honestly. It just always kinda looks bad if you're writing a shipping fic and you ignore the plot and actual development to get straight to the ship. Even though I may look for a bunch of fanfiction for my ship, I actually care about relationship development and the plot/concept and not just them getting to kiss or whatever as fast as possible
@Erika Butnariu you forget theres also idiot canon shippers who loose their shit if you ship two characters who arent canon
@@velvetdarksoul8741 And don't forget the canon shippers that insist a ship is canon and will fight anyone who says it's not, even though it hasn't been confirmed
What about when you've read so many fanfics they all start to blend together and you get facts wrong and can't remember which fanfic is which?
mood
yes!!! this is me!
Ive read more than 300 klance fanfics its crazy
BRO right ?? ive read like the same circumstances retold soo many times
Or when you have read so many fanfictions that you can't remember what's canon and what's fanon.
When you start a story is listed as 'Complete' and you dive in to it after reading this amazing plot, with characters you love, and themes that you've been craving. Then you reach the final chapter only to find an A/N saying that the fanfic as been discontinued.
Like I SPECIFICALLY FILTERED OUT THE INCOMPLETE WORK! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!?
TELL ME ABOUT IT DUDE
YES OMG
@@renfrances nobody:
Fanfiction authors who say their fic I incomplete: **files away into complete**
That's why I ALWAYS check reviews on the last chapter before I read a fic. Then I know if it's completed or not, killed any main characters, or if it was good at all. I ❤️ reviews!
@@AnnRav44 people never recognize how much one review, like, or comment means to an author of fanfiction. Especially constructive criticism, i like that stiff
When every oc is written the exact same way in every fic
literally
Exactly when they're really like popular and everone loves them but all of a sudden this really nice actual character who is amazing in the actual book/movie/whatever offend the oc and everyone hates the other character
It just really annoys me
I don't like true oc characters, I'm fine with ooc characters but no true oc characters
BobTheT-rex wtf is a ooc and a true oc, I only know fan characters and original characters.
ooc (Out of character, character) oc (Original character)
The worst thing is when you can’t find a fanfiction
Yes xd
Check out my new series ff...
I hope you will like it.. 😅💜😊
*cough cough* danny elfman x reader *cough cough* there's only two on wattpad but im making my own *cough cough*
bangtan __jk97, Are you on Wattpad or another type?
@pëppërmint_träsh owo Cool, imma check it out.
When you cry over a fanfic because all your favorites characters are alive and happy when in canon they all died sad deaths
Attack on Titan in a nutshell
Danganronpa in a nutshell
Harry Potter in a nutshell
*did you mean: all non despair danganronpa au fics?*
@@aunnobiitsu yes another danganronpan!
Fanfiction: Has a really good plot, well written characters
Also the same Fanfiction after 4 chapters:
*S M U T*
a good fanfic- with smut, will put the smut at the start so people know what they're getting into.
@@coralia.i Or- and this is ideal- actually *tag it.* I just want to read an interesting one shot with no unwanted surprise mid-way through.
Stories that dedicate three quarters of the story to detailed sex scenes to the point of being kind of grotesque and crude. Writing intimacy is an art and you should always leave things to the reader's imagination. Our minds are good at filling in the blanks and it is always more exciting when you don't get nasty details.
Also... you shouldn't transitioning from an emotional scene with a lot of tension to sex.
(Just some thoughts about writing, not aimed at someone specifically.)
If I may tote my own horn, stories of mine tend to be very well liked by my readers. For anyone who is interested, my name on aow is also Ikajo.
Personally I love a good written chapter with smut, but I get it why ppl want the writers to put warnings.
@@marisol9606 same
*When you’re late to a fandom and no ones active anymore*
That's me with Haikyuu-
Smh
Oh the pain
*crawls in a corner*
Re:zero 😔
Danganronpa
Me: *reading a really good fanfic and getting right into it*
Fanfic: *pulls out some nonsense plot from its ass without any buildup or warning*
Me: >:I
Why is it when I reach a smut chapter is when I'm in a public setting with my conservative grandma?
literally
Y e s
😂😂
xD Wattpad ruined me so bad and most of my books I read on Wattpad are smut
small bean the doodle
yeS sAME
I also hate when the story is so good at first but then the characters get together and there's so much smut that you have to hunt for the rest of the plot
too real
Mmm hmm xd
smut is the fun part
Fr, there was this good one I was reading then every chapter became smut after they got together. There's literally nothing else but smut.
Yeah same, I've read loads that are just smut after they become a couple which is so annoying! I hate how some fics loose all plot and I just end up reading a fic that's just smut after smut. Relationships aren't just sex, I'm fine with one or two smut scenes but afterwards I'm just sick on it tbh
Me: I like to read a lot
Them: What types of books? What are you reading rn?
Me: Uhh..
Same girl..
Yees, aghh
Yes.
I read...books online...that other people make...its like a community..
Yep. I get this a lot. My sister knows I read a ton of fanfic and she always acts annoyed but I'm pretty sure she is kind of amused. I mean, she can't hate fanfiction since she used to write and post it, and now she's an author of 1 book with sequels in the works and more series to come.
Friend:"why do you read angst ?"
Me:" I like the pain "
Stephany Vos Oml me. I don’t exactly like major character death fics but angst is my favorite
I love angst the most and I personally don’t really like fluff because it’s boring for me but everyone seems to love fluff and hate angst :(
和 I agree! I mean I’m not totally against fluff cause it’s cute and all but there is only so much I can take before it gets repetitive or boring, however, with angst it’s like a gift that keeps giving. There’s so many directions that can be taken and it adds excitement and room for more development idk I just really like it XD
@@erenthebombjaeger Same omr!
me
When they do this:
I ran over to my mom, shoving the cereal in my mouth.
Me: Hi mom what’s up
Mom: Hey go to school please
Like why can’t they just use quotation marks
dialogue tags make it easier to imagine please use those goodness me
Oh my god yes! I swear the amount of times the storyline has been so good but I just can’t read it bc of that! I can’t handle themmmm
@@sam.y4263 ikr
What dissapoints me is when theres no questions whatsoever
Like:
X ran over too O
Im sorry im late said X
Like wtff!
Yes, yes bloody yes. Why do people do this!!??
The one thing I despise the most about reading fan fictions...when you're like half way through the story and there is an authors note saying that they're not gonna continue the story cuz they ran out of ideas. YES I GET THAT WRITERS BLOCK IS TOUGH BUT THE FACT THAT I CANT FINISH THIS STORY IS TOUGHER
Top5 Tuesdays Honestly, just finish up the story there, because like IT GETS REALLY GOOD AND THEN YIU SEE THAT AUTHORS NOTE ABD UR JUST LIKE NOPE NOT TODAY SANTA
Top5 Tuesdays As an author, this statement was kinda disrespectful to writers. Fan fiction writers have lives of their own, and saying that their work is more important than their lives is quite rude and disrespectful.
Writers are humans just like the readers, and they are not obligated to satisfy your entertainment...
And here you see the average reader who has probably never written a story other than for a school project in their life
How long does it take you to consume that piece of work? Let's look at at drawing, another form of the arts. It takes you just seconds to consume it, and decide whether or not you like it. But the artist takes hours, sometimes days to create it.
Now look at writing. It takes you a lot longer to consume that piece of media. It probably doesn't even take you a whole day to read a page does it? But the author takes days to write it. They have to come up with the idea, plan it out, write it, rewrite it, edit it, find spelling errors and then decide whether or not they like it or not. The author can't just read it quickly after school or after work. The author has a life that gets in the way of what is a hobby to them.
You probably don't know how writer's block actually feels. It turns what was something you once enjoyed into hours of staring at an empty page. You keep typing ideas but they all feel wrong somehow, you start tearing apart every idea until you begin to hate the story and hate continuing it. So it's often better for the writer mentally to leave the project, and move on.
It's easy to ask someone to give you more of what you want. It's not easy to do it yourself.
@@pooppoopzoopzoop9935 I had to abandon two of them because I just did not how to bridge the end of the middle to the end section. Now without an xbox1 and MEAndromeda I can not finish the Mass Effect one and I have to reread everything I have written for both of them to actually finish them up.
Original work: cute and fluff= fanfic: angst train
Original work: grim dark= fanfic: slice of life family
Soooooo true 😂
Original: Is a mix of both
Fanfiction://grins evil while rubbing their hands planning on destroying the reader completely//
@@aproblem3503 XD Me whenever I write Fullmetal Alchemist that animes PTSD on a stick amd somehow I actually managed it make it even more of a mind fuck pffff
@@velvetdarksoul8741 Do you write about Envy and Gluttony fucking?
Hans Bjorgman oh my god now I need to wash my eyes with bleach
"What do you mean Harry Potter just died?!"
I'm not sure Harry CAN die.
For seven years, he faced death in the face and just
"Sirius said no"
When your reading a fic and there is- with no warning- a smut chapter
ikr like if you sign up to it and are prepared its chill but when it suddenly appears its like WOAH THERE FRIEND
renontheroad even worse when your reading around your family and suddenly *BAM SMUT*
Flam3 YESS
Flam3 OMG RELATABLE
I swear I hate that xd
me: reads fanfic
the fanfic: edgy and literally making no sense
me: no! this isn’t how you’re supposed to play the game
bruh moment IKK it’s so annoying
Saaaame xd
If ya wanna make it edgy, execute it properly LOL
When they literally haven’t updated the fanfiction in over a year but they said they have a schedule for when they update the fanfiction😒
The ones where they say they're sorry for taking too long to update and that they'll try to update by the end of the week and then three years pass and nothing.
I'm *so* sorry if you read any of my scheduled fanfictions on WattPad
@@aromanticfranziskavonkarma aye same profile picture
Ikr?!? What happened to that schedule
Is it every leap year
I bothers me so much when the story is "complete" and it's perfect and all fluff and cuteness but suddenly plot twist and at the end there's a cliffhanger and like three sequels that have angst and drama in the tags! I mean I just wanted something light-hearted and happy...
this is me rn, daddy issues and trust issues
This has happened to me too many times to count, I hate when this happens!
@@Natalie-kr7yc LIKE YESTERDAY I WAS READING A FAN FIC AND THERE'S FLUFF AND CUTENESS AND AT THE END MY CHARACTER DIED!! SHE DIED!! AND I STARTED CRYING AT 3AM HEARTBROKEN! LIKE WHY?!
And of course then you have to finish the whole series and, despite the fact that you don't want to read any of The Angst and drama and death and Gore new that's coming your way. Just because of that stupid cliffhanger, which day, of course, we'll add at the end of the next book as well. Or even vice versa, will you start reading a story looking for the angst and drama and it's really well written and absolutely perfect and ends on a cliffhanger and the next story is JUST FLUF!!!!
@@sassybrat6343
Me with a Transformers fanfic the first book was badass second one is kinda boring, like dude once mr big bad megatron isn't a threat everything else seems trival and using Unicron seemed like such an ass pull
What weirds me out is the pairings like how to robots even conceive it scares me how kinky people are
When the Main characters get together in the second chapter. I HATE THIS
Accurate, and what is even worse, they just fricking met.
Dude, I saw this book and they got together in the first chapter on the first day of school and the second day they legit just did smut and they didn't knew each other for like a day and I was so mad like BOI WHY
I only make exceptions if the first chapter was long and it makes sense for them to get together.
Extremely OOC too
Exactly
I didn't find the fan fiction that I wanted. So I wrote one instead.
That's why I started. I knew what I wanted and scoured the internet for it but it didn't exist. So I made it exist.
Thats.. Thats kinda what happened to meeeeeee
too many unnoticed CH ships ;_;
Exactly how I started. There were plenty of the type of fic I wanted to read, but most of them went unfinished and I burned through them all pretty damn quickly as it was.
I would want to write one but my writing skills are trash
I'm into rare ships that are unknow or that people barely knows and when I want to try to find that rare ship are only 2 or 3 and when I read it this is what I saw:
-They change most of the characters personalities
-They have the same plot
-They move things too fast
-And really bad grammar
I really want to make one with different plot but I'm little scare that people would think that is stupid.
Me: *reading a fanfic*
My mom: Hey! I don't see you reading anymore. You're always on that stupid phone of yours! Go read a book.
Me: *screaming internally and crushing my phone in my hands*
EXACTLY!
ME BUT IM READING ON K I N D L E TOO
That has gotten to the point where I am going to print my favorite fanfictions and put them into a binder for myself as a Christmas gift if I can. It's *unbelievable*
armyyy
OMG SAME BUT ALSO I LOVE UR USERNAME SHDSSIDJDDBSJDHE
fanfic: "and i saw him across the cafeteria with..."
Author: sorry guys for the cliffhanger! im going to update REALLY SOON so dont worry!
also author: *last updated in 2013*
me: 😐😭
F
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F
F
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when the angst hits in the middle and the writer takes a “hiatus” and never comes back
JinHit Entertainment
That’s a nice suicide note.
Sorry sorry, kinda a dark humor person-
XxShy SasukexX
I WHEEZED SO HARD-
im glad im not the only one who can take dark humor
JinHit Entertainment
Oh thank goodness, thought I’d scare you away or trigger some people who can’t take dark humor.
My favorite pairing is hardly found and when it is, the main pairing is my most hated pairing
Accurate
Exactly and I keep getting reccomondations for the pairing I hate
Oooh mine too😭😂
big o o p h
drarryfigнтme Literally me.. it really sucks
When the author makes a story pairing the reader and a character.
"Wait a minute, I wouldn't do that!"
Y/n is shaking 😂😂😂😂
I read one where "the reader" s boobs size was specified and I 😂. "you were a small C" like girl I don't ever remember being that small. I was born D cup and only went up from there tf you talking about
Cookies and Cream Y/N AHAHAHAHA NOO STOP 🤣💀
I recommend you guys to read Quotev fanfictions. Especially for the ones that want to find a good “x reader” stuff.
Ah, oh how fond of memories. Quotev is a really good site.
She forget one:
Actually finding a good one in all the bad ones.
Easy enough for me.
Isaac Matthews well your either lucky ,have low expectation, or the fandom you read is really good at writing.
@@Cieruno My intuition when it comes to fiction rarely fails me. Parody crack fics and the like are usually the ones to catch me off guard but they often aren't too bad, usually I got what I came for.
Honestly, you have the best luck on Archive of Our Own or Quotev xD On Wattpad it's really easy to run into bad ones.
Arak I get nothing but bad ones on Wattpad xD
When you read a fanfiction a long time ago and you didnt book mark it and you can only remember bits and pieces of it and you rrally really want to read it again but no matter what or how you phrase what you can remember about it or ask others on sites about what you can remember about that fanfic and you just cant find it. T.T
Maybe you can do process of elimination. Around what year did you remember reading it? Do you remember the author's name or anything about them? Do you still remember the characters involved in the story? Was is a ship? How long was the story? How many words/chapters? What category? What was the rating? Was it cute or raunchy? Have you checked your history (or do you clear that regularly?)? Maybe try filtering it on AO3 or Fanfiction.net to narrow it down (unless it's another site you read from). I dunno. Just some thoughts.
I found this a while ago but if you put this into Google:
site:[url of site you think fanfiction was on] [a line from fanfic or character with unique detail]
So an example is:
site:archiveofourown.org/ Harry Potter what if he died
This will search AO3 for stories with Harry and his death
When you are into rareships and unpopular characters (or just characters who get 1-2 lines and/or have 2 seconds of screen time)
Lord Cyanides' Crypt when you finally find a fic that has that character and a ship you like only for them to be the antagonist
When you finally find a fic with a ship between your characters and it’s written poorly and the plot is poorly executed
Honestly same, there is this character from gacha world (an app by lunime) who I absolutely love and he is called demon hunter, Sad part is that he doesn't get enough recognition, if not none. I go to all the gacha wold x readers and he isn't there.
Also please don't judge me, I just like gacha and other fandoms.
Attack on titan: any person that isnt levi
Me with SemiShira from Haikyuu. THERE’S NOT ENOUGH FANFICTIONS FOR IT AAAAA
When they’re written like this
??: Hello
Y/n: Hello
Instead of like this
“ Hello “
“ Hey “
I personally don't mind that but hey you do you. But it is shocking when they do that. Like, why don't you write the normal way!?
I'm pretty sure it's just beginner writers who write like that. Like no shame, write however the freak you want, use it as practice and publish it to get feedback, but if you're trying to make your fic feel more professional that ain't it chief
Eh, from what I know myself that's a novice writer problem.
You eventually get the hang of interactions one way or another, I mean I'm not professional but experience helps, it really does.
You did the quotation marks wrong. It’s supposed to be like this:
“Hello.”
“Hey.”
YES
When you plow through every awesome fic in the fandom and you start to get desperate and so you start reading tropes you don't like and even torture yourself by reading incomplete fics that have no hope of being finished.
Oh also when you go through your bookmarks on AO3 and it tells you the author has deleted a fic but you have no idea which one it was so you panic for the next hour trying to figure out what it was.
Literally me on Wattpad. I read almost every fic on it for a ship that I like (except the smut ones), even if they were terribly written, because I was so desperate.
Luckily AO3 has like 1000 times more of those fics I wanted to read and 90% of them are written so much better
Well that happened to me : once I read every good fanfiction in French in my fandom, I just decided to learn English.
I've only read fanfictions in English for almost 8 years now.
@Atria Laurent Honestly, literally me. The first fanfic I started was for fun, but the rest were because I craved that ship. The day I completely ran out (besides ones that I was waiting for updates), I actually read my own fanfiction for that ship cause I was so desperate (this was before I discovered AO3)
So nice being the only person in the room who knows English, I can shamelessly read even lemons. It still sucks to explain what I'm reading though
True. You don't know how many people don't want to learn a language which isn't their first one
Hahaa
dude you have not used this ability to its fullist potential
You should read straight up smut thats when you reach absulate Geniusnes
(I do and did this alot lol)
I live in Bulgaria and yet I’m still sure that everyone can understand what I’m reading
Lmaoo same, my mother has taken a look over my shoulder at what I was reading some times but since she doesn't know english she has no idea what I'm reading XD
When there’s so many AUs but you only like the original.
yesss oh lord
Yes, this!
maze runner in a nutshell istg
Undertale problems tbh
Historical au’s for ships like lams are my thing
When the concept in the summary sounds interesting, but it turns out one chapter means introduction page and the author didn't write anything
SmartZelda I felt that
Reading in public is not problem to me :D, In my country not many people know english so when they see me read FanFic on my Phone or Tablet they say "Oh you READ ENGLISH, great O_O"
Hahaha if they know what i was reading :)
My friend was in the train and she saw this girl reading on her iPad. She took a closer look and it was actually fanfiction. Like, reaaaaaally smutty Johnlock fanfiction. My friend isn't in the fandom but she was like DAYUM DAT GURL HAS GUTS!
You don't even have to explain what you're reading. I don't want to explain to my parents what fanfiction is and why I read it.
@@triplecatnip7413 and my parents keep asking me why I'm on my phone all the time but I don't wanna tell them
OMG so am I😂its so funny when they ask me what the story is about😅
I just say I’m reading Harry Potter or Percy Jackson lmao
Fanfiction is the best example of: if you want something done right, do it yourself
How do you cope when your favorite fanfic(s) are deleted?
I CRY
especially if its one that I love so so so much and one I read over and over!
(In all seriousness it sucks but if they wanna delete it for whatever reason thats totally cool and I respect that they may no longer want their work online and stuff! :))
Agreed. My favorite author on AO3 completely changed their account- and deleted EIGHTEEN stories that I'd read almost everyday because they were so amazing. * sigh * And I don't know how/if I could message them or find out what happened... But, it's their stories.
If it's AO3 , I download the story to prevent something like this happening.
I once had a girl deleting her account and she left a message saying so aaaaand the community had lost half of it's fanfictions
I just read incomplete fanfictions, and deal with the story not being finished and leave it
I agree with everything. I also hate when the characters are out of character, big blocks of texts with no spacing between paragraphs or dialogue, and original characters sometimes.
I have a complicated relationship with OCs. I hate seeing them in the tags because that means they are treated as the main focus in a story they don't belong. At the same time I have used OCs myself, sometimes even in a fairly prominent role. My readers have told me they like my OCs because their inclusions feels natural and follow the flow of the story.
Honestly, I also dislike minor canon characters that gets treated like OCs...
yesss like sis i’m sorry but i’m in 7th grade and i understand the basics of grammar and writing.
Erika Butnariu exactly 😂😂
Oml I hate original characters and OOC is my enemy
Im fine with ocs as minor characters, but if their the main character with no warning AT ALL I go mad
OR When the author gets a character's personality incorrect.
Okay but writing Bakugou Katsuki is so damn hard
Annalise Wedewer ok but you’re right
I actually like him hotheaded but being nice and playful to people around him
Writing Ouma is hard
Yess like canon losers club is so weird lmao
Her: “What do you mean it hasn’t been updated since 2011?”
Me: Oh that’s right! I should check [insert fanfiction title here] to see if that final chapter is up yet!”
Spoilers: It’s not. Last updated a month ago.
For me was last updated in 2015 ;-;
I was reading a series that started 2013. The last book was updated in 2018 with a note saying that she would look through submissions for an epilogue.
Still waiting for the epilogue of a fanfiction last updated in 2009...
The fanfic I was reading was last updated June 23, 2017. The story has been left on a cliffhanger for 2 years.
I'm waiting on one that was last updated in 2006. I don't think they're coming back... 😕
As a fanfic writer, I find it extremely annoying when I get notifications that people added the story I gave up on to their reading list even though I specified THREE TIMES (in the title, in the synopsis, and in the first chapter) that it’s discontinued.
Edit: And then I get comments asking me to update. BOI
I even wrote a lengthy apology + explanation about how I had too much going on and I wasn’t even in the fandom anymore. Let me live!
I did the exact same things with my fanfic! I left a really long message too explaining why I discontinued them and I still get messages to this day on my various social media asking me to update a story I wrote almost 10 years ago now!!😂
I never say Im never gonna update cause maybe ome day I'll get inspired again
And im ome of those people who saves fanfics that haven't updated in over a decade cause I like rereading it
Why that is like watching the greatest TV show then they just decide to cancel it in the middle of everything
sorry i might be one of those people if it was on fanfiction.net of wattpad. i dont ask for up dates. i just reread them to think of different ways they could have ended.
@@erickalynch4522 I agree. Or maybe people just like to favorite their favorite fics, or as you said, reread them later. I don't think readers do that with the intention of annoying them.
I hate it when people just make a fanfiction and it’s like “Oh that’s cute” but then 1 chapter later there’s a full on smut scene with no prior information hinting to it
yeah that sucks. I just wanted some pure innocent fluff.....
so many pokemon fics. so many. this is why I left behind FFN for SV.
Or when I warned it in the story summary and author's notes multiple times that there was smut/lemons, and then someone yells at me for "not finding a creative way to hide it". I don't which situation is worse...
So true i feel do betrayed. Cause
Cutness=/= smut!
I just wanted a sin free content for good Christians! lol
"To be continued"
Last updated: 12th March 2003
Yeah.
Or when they say they are going to update in a couple days, and it hasn’t been updated since 2011
I felt that
this happens wayy to often smh
I feel your pain. Am still waiting for a updated since the 2001 😂😭😭😭
As a fanfic writer, I'm... I'm sorry for that... 😅
When ur into a fan fiction and the writer decides to have a mid-life crisis and just stop posting
FR
The first one just happened to me... 93 chapters in... 3 more chapters till the end, promised by the author... YET IT HASN'T BEEN UPDATED IN OVER A YEAR!!!
I just don't know...
N/ A I’m curious....was it ever finished?
I am reading this wonderful and beautifully written hp story and it hasn't been updated in months and we readers haven't heard anythig from the author and we are genuinely worried.. :/
^^same
@@saracalmdown6787 same😭
Gah! I've been following one fanfic that is a gangster au version of a fandom I'm in, so very creative and well written. I think they updated it once this year.
For me it's when the writer updates the story 2 times a century and its a really good story too
Oh god ive been reading this one ff for the last 1 and a half years and it only has 38 chapters but the writer has really low writing energy but she said its almost over and now im sitting here waiting for the last couple of chapters but she hasnt uploaeded a new one since november ಥ‿ಥ
Ohhh I feel this
One particular fanfiction, which I've known for almost four years now, hasn't been uploaded since November 2016.
I don't know if the author is okay (i hope so), but I'm certainly never ever going to forget that story. It's weird haha
@@misscrouch this is me rn and its so sad lmao, there was this amazing fanfiction on ao3 and it was just *chefs kiss* and then right in the climax of the plot, the writer stops updating. last update was 2016 and I'm still sad :(
@@gabbymidd7 I still have hope that my story will be updated again, I mean, I have seen stories being continued after 14 years haha
Good luck for your fic tho!
@@misscrouch oh that 14 years one is so lucky! yeah I'm really hoping this author concludes the story, they're kinda still active on AO3 but yeah. thanks 4 the good luck, you too!
Canon divergence stories where the characters don't act at all like they would on the original material
IDK, I get annoyed sometimes when they DON'T change a character. read one NGE/MGLN crossover where Shinji get's raised by Nanoha and Fate. And somehow, despite growing up in a loving home full of people who know how to spot and diffuse mental health issues (especially ones related to bad parenting. Precia could be even worse than Gendo), as far from Gendo's influence as you can get, he still turned into a seething mass of daddy/self-esteem issues that looked just like his canon counterpart. ruined the story right there.
YES. dramione in a nutshell... that's why i just can't stand that ship
Somebody: What do you mean this fic was last updated 7 years ago?
Authors: *nodding and suddenly finding the floor to be interesting
Ha
I do that
When i first started writing fanfiction I was young so dont judge me... it was a broppy fanfic and when i got bored i left for 2 years... just deleted wattpad completely... When i came back i felt terrible... but, now im writing again, not on that fic but a different one
@@madysonsmith6443
I know how you feel. I started writing on Wattpad too. My first fanfic was really bad. Still is... yet people keep voting it instead of the better rewritten version of it.
‘I love cute and fluffy thin- that’s a naked person’
Yup. Yup. I am reading it because I thought it was a cute getting together/first kiss one shot, aaand then we get what could just be 50 Shades copy pasted with name changes
Saaammme. All new readers go through that. It's like a rite of passage XD
One we all LOATHE WITH OUR VERY SOULS.
But still.
THIS. FRICKIN THIS. WHY!? I JUST WANTED SOME CUTE FLUFF WITH A BIT OF ANGST GET THAT SMUT OUTTA HERE!
When you find the perfect story, perfect ships, its complete, AND its well written....but its in first person...
This! 🙃
So fucking true
Where is this hatred of first person coming from?
@@BJGvideos It's generally associated with bad writing, so it leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, tainting their opinions of even the good ones. I can understand their reluctance, really. Rare is the author who can handle first-person with style that isn't ripped straight from a detective film noir piece, even when it is in fact decent.
@@asherikamichaela8425 I've literally never heard this before the past few weeks when I started watching videos about fanfics, and I'm in my 40s.
When the author makes your favorite character suffer
That's my favorite part!
But but I like when they suffer! 👀
@@agarcia3986 same idky
Relate?? Especially with the character in your pfp lmao (yeah, you know who)
@Rebecca Herman Hey, I've seen you before-
1. SUPER SPECIFIC: I go into a fan fiction for one ship, but there's a secondary pairing which I end up shipping too😑😭 I FEEL SO UNLOYAL.
2. Searching for good fluffy fan fics at 1am cos the other one is either too intense, or hasn't been updated.
Or both.
on ao3, reading a fanfic without checking the archive warning : " *major character death* "
When people write characters with the wrong eye/hair color. :O pretty annoying
@Erika Butnariu Or when they can't understand that illustrations colors are artistic choices, no the character's hair isn't dark purple it's actually black. (altho that one can be confusing so ok)
@Erika Butnariu they describe as handsome a character who was designed to be plain or ugly
@Erika Butnariu oh also I've seen entire fandoms decide that a character was smaller than another because he's typically the uke in fanfic but cannonicaly these characters are actually the tallest or same height
@Erika Butnariu haha imagine reading homestuck fanfiction ,where everything is declared cannon even OCs and ALL the Ships and AUs. All the god damn Height headcanons?
Canon
you dont like that headcanon? too bad it's canon.
yes everything is so much more harder to filter, it's because we have 4 romances and specific versions for like 100+ characters . I am dying and suffering- everything is inconsistent, some times the characters sexualities and genders do 180s because it's Homestuck....
@Erika Butnariu The personnality can be up to interpretation but the full name uh.
*when there's only 2 fan fics of the best ships ever*
y e s
M o o d
U L T R A. M O O D
Or rare ones
I hate it when everything is going great, and the main character suddenly just goes like; "I suck I should kill myself" and everything turns angsty out of nowhere with no reason at all..
Relatable
Whe you read so much bad written fan fiction but they have good ideas:
Fine, I’ll do it myself.
I understood that reference!
I died laughing when you mentioned the awkward "what are you reading" question! 😂 happens to me all the freakin' time! And I'm just like: nothing much...short stories on the internet.. Or give a totally not related legit book title (no way in hell I'm confessing to hermione/snape fic 😂)
And don't forget the fics that start fluffy and amazing and take a sudden turn into pervertville!
Lama A. Wahed I just lie and say the name of the series. But I do cringe and worry, no one knows
I used to switch to an e-book when someone looked over my shoulder xD
Omg this so happens to me I do every time I'm reading smut my friend asks me what am I reading and I say just some fan fiction
haha..
*ever heard of drarry?*
Yes because you get embarrassed that you were reading an alternate universe of whatever you like reading/watching. Like I like tmnt and transformers fanifiction
“It’s ten to midnight,,”
Me: subconsciously looks out window
I have never related to something more than this video
OH GOD WHEN THEY DELETE THE STORY *screams* ITS THE WORST. Also when you read all the fics for your ship and left with nothing but disappointment :))))
I remember looking through collections of of fan fiction focused on a particular plot point (e.g. what if this character didn't die) and finding one fanfic who did this trope perfectly but when I went to find it again it was missing!
Congrats you made me an idiot. I was clicking at my screen a good couple times until I realized: 1- Nothing was changing. I had not highlighted the screen or your photo
2- Your photo is blue and I am an idiot.
I hate when they delete their work it sucks ass
That’s why I download my favourite fanfics onto my phone, or just copy them on a Google Doc.
When your favorite writer quits wattpad and delete all her books with her.
Omg.. as an actual wattpad writer I'll try to not do this bc I know how u feel holy shiz- 🤯🤯
okay then I was going to re-read a book and it turns out they deleted it.
Wattpad problems. That kind of thing made me jump off the edge of the platform
You can always download them!
Ikr 😔
I was so so so mad when I read perfect fanfiction and the last update was a year ago #fuckmylife
Yes! And when you see it hasn't been updated in over a year but theres only one chapter left
shit try 5 years 😂
@@roaaoverthinks
*whistles*
I haven't updated in 6 yrs
@@velvetdarksoul8741 ...2008 btw you evil 😂
@@roaaoverthinks
*has total writers block*
I've been following a story 10 yrs later still waiting for that update
When you can't pick the character you want a story about because he doesn't exist in the filter.
When you find one with a really interesting premise, and you think;
"This cannot possibly be good, but I really hope that it is."
And instead of being pleasantly surprised, you're proven correct.
this:
ROSES ARE RED,
CACTI ARE PRICKLY,
HOLY HECK,
*THAT ESCALATED QUITE QUICKLY*
Every "That escaleted quickly" fanfiction.
Yep
Things that drive me crazy:
.Great plot but very OOC characters
.Major Character Death: i veryveryVERY rarely read a fanfiction that has the Major Character Death warning, and once i accidentally didn't read the tags and got into something thinking that "it's a great story with a lot of fluff and just 2 chapters, what could happen in two chapters of a completed fic when the first chapter is so fluffy??" THE DEATH BY CAR ACCIDENT WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS OUT GROCERY SHOPPING AND THE OTHER ONE WAITS FOR THEM THEY ENTIRE DAY UNTIL THEY GET A CALL FROM THE HOSPITAL AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT WAS NOT A HURT/COMFORT HOLY FUCK WHY DIDN'T I READ THE TAGS
i'm sorry, i'm still not over that one -.-
major character death is the biggest betrayal especially when its not expected it rips my heart out
Thankfully, whichever story I've read with major character death either had a warning or was expected..
2nd worst after major character death: rape/non-con. If it exists in your story, it *needs* to be in the first 3 tags. Do *not* bury that shit in the middle/end of a huge paragraph of tags.
Starts reading sweet romantic fanfic about cute young couple. Like 2nd chapter in his boss rapes her and forces him to watch/participate. THIS IS SO NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR!!!
@@jenniferdeboor7990 lol
Now I'm glad I always go for the happy ending no matter how grim things get while I'm telling the story...
Alongside Major Character Death is those who drags out pain and angst for way too long without letting up.
The last one, when people delete their fan fictions while you're in the middle of re-reading it or about to
I hate it when a story says there’s a certain amount of chapters and then like 4 of them are author notes
I can relate
Wattpad problems, would recommend AO3 to avoid this. There's notes spaces, so the length of a note doesn't even change the word count.
@Annalise Wedewer Yeah, if I’m reading fan-fiction I usually read on ao3 now. But if I want to read original stories, Wattpad is still my go to
I love major character death because it makes me sad and hurts.
When the fanfic is perfect but then they do one thing and it ruins the whole thing.
Great video! Especially the ending:D Page not found?? Go "page not found" someone else! You covered all the majors, but I think I can come up with some more:
"NOTP Nemesis"
You start reading fanfic. Well written, original, funny, exciting. And then two people you don't really ship start talking. And more then talking. And you keep reading because it's a good fic bUT OH GOD GET A ROOM YOU TWO WHO CARES ABOUT YOU
"How EXACTLY do you look in this?"
For fandoms without screen adaptation (or with adaptation unfaithful in charakters' looks): So, you're... Blond here? Ok. Wow! Wow, who was just described as 'dark'??
"Who is doing what and where?"
So, you kiss him. You turn aroud to sit do - wait, when did he stand up? And where exactly does she have hands? Where did the table came from?
"Mixing up fanfics with same AU"
(Fake dating, mostly for me)
,,Did you get to the part when they go ice skating?"
,,They don't!"
,,Yes they do! So his sister can see-"
,,He doesn't have sister in this!"
"WHY THE HELL DID I ONLY LIKED IT ON TUMBLR"
*Scrolling down for five miles*
"Running out of fanfics on AO3"
*closes windows*
*takes a deep breath*
*opens wattpad*
"That is NOT her Hogwarts house!!!"
aka painful HP AUs
Barbora Mottlová
LOL! Loved all this, and so so true. “Who is doing what and where” got me because I’ve been taken out of so many ‘sexy’ scenes due to trying to determine what is happening and where people, their body parts and furniture are positioned... not sexy. Same with “that is NOT they’re Hogwart’s house!” though I’m lenient with that in regard to AUs and if the author shows signs and reasons why the character ends up in a non-canon house. If it comes out of nowhere and the character doesn’t really portray aspects of the new chosen house... “NOT they’re Hogwart’s house bitch!”
PS loved your little anecdotes and explanations that went with each of your problems. Awesome!
@@dawnmayflower4422 *their
Sorry...
Hans Bjorgman
Hah! No probs mate. I hate that too. It was the middle of the night when I wrote that comment and I was also going back and forth, rewriting and deleting different parts. Some things slip through the cracks. I don’t usually make those mistakes but these things happen, eh? I’ve done the same thing as you when you just can’t help but correct the spelling even when you feel guilty about it. No worries.
When you find that perfect fic, and it's perfect in every way, and it's actually completed, and you go into a slump where your entire life revolved around when you get to read the fic again, and you only think about the fic, and you become the fic
When it is so perfectly well written and researched that you wished it would replace the source material
When that story you love is never updated... twelve years later and you are still waiting (it was 2007)