There goes all our stories ;-;

hopefully people still have them on their computers? lmao

...The hell?

I know, I wanted to read them though

what happened?

Discord (the company) is a bunch of liberal douchebags is what happened.

The mods put the server in lockdown and reset it.

...Because of Discord warning them about content.

Yeah.

Speak nicely of your overlords.

"You say I have no master. You are wrong. I am my *own* master."

Self-Own.

Ronin creed.

i downloaded your works

if anybody would like to repost them so i can repin them, that would be wonderful 😊

I think I'm going to hold off for a while. Might even stick to my own server for a bit.

alright, ronin. take care 👀

Y'all gon laugh me out of the chat if I say I write fanfic?

👀

No. I think we covered that a couple of us have.

That's a relief

I like to think it's pretty decent

But still there's a stigma against it bc of the trashy ones

Well, yeah. There are a lot of trashy ones.

What do you write about?

I write Star Wars and Marvel mostly, bc I'm basic af

what separates trashy fan fic from good

Trashy is mostly porn

I guess I'm not familiar with what fan fiction is then

I thought that was the purpose

Nah, it's not

not that I write any, trashy or not

The purpose I suppose is for people who can't or won't put the effort into world building to create something

so then what is fan fiction supposed to be?

Literally what I just said

It's an appreciation for a pre existing world and an excuse to make a story

Hey hey don’t bash smut fics some of them have nice plots to go along w the porn

At least that's how I see it

Yeah but I meant the *bad* stuff

Oooh

That stuff

Yea

<:Ben_Cringe:752572527120875520>

where it's out of character

And awkward, and clearly written by a twelve year old

Lmao yup

I can’t read fics without proper punctuation and grammar lol

I’m spoiled

Same

Anyway, I only bought up the smutty fics because there's a greater divide between the good and bad in them

Omg I remember this one time a girl who liked me was trying to get me to blush by showing me some smut she’d written but by that point I was hardcore into yaoi and gay fanfics so I just read it w a blank face, handed it back, and said she could use some work <:KEK:795742276549607456>

It was also straight smut so I wasn’t into it <:KEK:795742276549607456>

Lol, I'm a veteran fanfiction reader but I don't have the talent of chill like most of y'all

nah, i do. a kid posted a very cursed fanfic up here once, and ronin had an mlp/walking dead fusion

Lol, that's the only kind I read

I can read anything in front of anyone and nobody would know

Eek

That's a handy skill

<:thinking:726878987837636698> i like 'em nice plots

Yes it is <:KEK:795742276549607456>

Lol exactly

Absolutely, I always avoid the pwp

i like them (sometimes) when i know the author

It depends for me lol

Sometimes I’m in the mood for plot w slow burn over 100k words and other times I just wanna get to the smut w a nice 2k pwp

I get that

But usually I'm an enemies to lovers kinda gal and those aren't good unless they're a slow burn

Ooo yesss

Those are awesome

what constitutes a complete story

An ending

as in, at what point is a novel/novella done

Depends

at what point am I done editing it

When it feels right is usually when im done

Then again I reread and then delete 30 pages of work bc it doesn’t flow right <:KEK:795742276549607456>

With other things I make, it's whenever there's nothing else to take away

but idk if that applies to writing

Honestly I’d let someone beta read it and see what they say, give it one last run thru and then you’re good

good for publishing?

when you feel like it's done

idk how to explain it, but like you feel a satisfaction putting an end it if that makes sense

What kinda publishing we talking, online or actual paper book publishing lol

I just got myself a beta reader lol. I was always too nervous about showing ppl my stuff but now I have a boyfriend and he's looking over it for me

Aww that’s great

Ideally, I'd like to see it as an actual book

but I can start with online publishing and see

Yeah I'm v happy about it

Then I’d say get a beta reader, let em run thru it, edit after that, let em read it again, then last run thru and you’re good

I like to be thorough lol

what's a beta reader

Someone unrelated to the story who gives you feedback on it

They don’t have any part in writing it I mean

Best if it’s someone who is objective about it too

should it be another writer?

Depends

It should definitely be someone who knows how to write and use proper grammar

But they can just be an avid reader too

Yeah, my bf didn't realize how good he is but he popped on to my docs and made my wip way less choppy sounding

Oo that’s great

Yeah and he says he doesn't even write much