Raise your hand if fanfiction is single-handedly getting you through the mess that is 2021/life in general. 🙋♀️
If you're a fic reader, here are some tweets that will make you laugh and feel way too seen...
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no one: me in the middle of the night:
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nobody likes to talk about it but we all once sat in front of the family desktop and read FANFICTION in plain sight where anyone could just walk in and see. that is so fucked up. what the hell were we thinking
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fanfiction writers be like “i know a place” and then take you to a hotel where the last room available only has one bed
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Sir thats my emotional support 200 tabs of unread fan fiction
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sometimes found family can be you and your ao3 bookmarks
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opening safari in the morning and seeing ur ao3 tab from the night prior
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A fic writer who writes only smut and refuses to write angst. They write sins, not tragedies
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fanfic writers when they have a multichap fic
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LMFAOOO
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my ao3 history is between me and God and people who go “link?” that’s it
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"I can't believe this is free." - me, reading good smut on ao3
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"it's not okay to print out fanfic at home for your own personal reading" is the wildest take I've seen in awhile. Back in the day this was considered completely normal. There was no one click downloading. We printed our yaoi lemon smut out at the library and kept it in a binder.
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some of y'all woulda never survived fanfiction dot net ten years ago where there was no such thing as tags and the only way you knew a fic had porn was if fruit was mentioned in the summary
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Me: Checking my 'mark for later' on AO3. ✨✨✨1020✨✨✨
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people who read incomplete fic are so brave, what's it like to have that much faith in another person
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me: i hate clichés author: the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one me: *sobs* omg the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one
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*looks nervously at my AO3 tabs*
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do you start a +150k fanfic at 1 am and count how many hours you’ll be able to sleep if you just read 30 more chapters or are you normal
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Me leaving 50 tabs open on Safari of Ao3 The bookmark button:
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stop asking fic authors when the next chapter is coming out,,,,they don't know either ok
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All fanfic writers when faced w unfulfilling canon https://t.co/bmq29TRVGy