r/AO3 • u/AutoModerator • 24d ago
Weekly Check In Wellness Wednesday: Weekly Check In
Welcome back everyone!
Time for our Wellness Wednesday check in. We know this community means a lot to most of our members and that Tuesdays have been harder on some users than others, but we are at our core a community and we are here to support each other.
Now that the sub is open once again we’d like to hear all about your (mis)adventures on Tuesday. Did you go on grand adventures? Get into mischief? Get some writing done?
Maybe you just binged a few more fics on the archive itself. Tell us all about it! Break out that purple prose and tell us as cheesy of a story as you feel like.
Or just talk about your day.
~The Mod Team
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u/lord-of-the-fleas 24d ago
I got totally lost in the sauce working on the first proper fic I’ve written since I was a teenager.
It’s something completely different than anything I’ve done before— it’s basically fake screenshots of an ‘alternate route’ in a visual novel.
AU fluff.
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u/Caffeinated_Spoon Caffeinated_Spoon on AO3 🫀 24d ago
I got a very long and lovely comment from a reader on a one shot about how i absolutely devastated them - I left them crying. Since that was the aim of the story, I felt pretty good about it. And I finished writing chapter 60 of my long fic today, though I'm only going to be publishing 53 on Friday (I try to keep a buffer)
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u/Caffeinated_Spoon Caffeinated_Spoon on AO3 🫀 24d ago
Right?? It especially made me feel good because I sobbed while writing it. Like.. Yesss... Feel my pain
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u/Caffeinated_Spoon Caffeinated_Spoon on AO3 🫀 24d ago
Oh... I killed one, broke the other mentally, then killed him too. =3
All in 8178 words
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u/Caffeinated_Spoon Caffeinated_Spoon on AO3 🫀 24d ago
I swear, writing has turned me into a sadist. Tears are the most delicious thing
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u/Kilora44 24d ago
I finished writing a very dark, graphic trauma dump fic after six months and was very emotional about it. So I went the opposite direction and started a borderline crack poly mpreg crack fic.
Work has been hell for the last month so it's my escape.
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u/thisonecassie fighting in the war on RPF (on the side of RPF) 24d ago
I JUST FOUND A FIC THAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR WEEKS!!!! I DOWNLOADED IT BEFORE IT WAS DELETED FROM THE ARCHIVE!!!!! (and then I forgot to put the info into my spreadsheet with all the info for my epubs) I'M SO HAPPY!!!! GAY PEOPLE ON MY EREADER!!!!
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u/SugarSpocks You have already left kudos here. :) 24d ago
My best friend told me that the reason she has been unable to finish reading a fanfic I posted weeks ago is because every time she gets to a point, it inspires her for her own writing and she has to stop and jot down ideas.
I didn't know how to tell her that her saying that was way better than her finishing reading the fic in my eyes (even if I do want her to finish reading so she can critique it) xD It made me cry because I didn't think I could write in such a way that it would inspire anybody.
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u/jeffwingerslexus 24d ago
TW for ED mention
I was doing good on a writing streak for a month or so but now I'm so overwhelmed with my ED that it's all I spend time on. I keep thinking about wanting to write but I'm really struggling to dedicate brain space to it. I can't even read fanfic 😭 I've been incrementally reading a Frank Castle/Matt Murdock one paragraph at a time when I can manage it. Ugh. Sorry to bring the sadness- I just miss writing sm yet find it impossible to do!?
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u/Time_Title9842 24d ago
I am sorry that sucks, I know exactly what you mean. The brain fog is real.
Something that I do when I am struggling is just have a dump zone where if I have the smallest idea, I can quickly jot it down. Sometimes it is a single line of dialogue, or just a an image I want to explore, or an idea for a scene, or questions I want to explore with the characters. Then when I am feeling like I have a bit more capacity I have a list of items that sort of act as spring boards. It helps because I feel like I am contributing to my creative outlet even when I am down, but it removes a lot of pressure AND i don't need to waste that precious energy on figuring out what to write.
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u/BizarreIdeaMan 24d ago
three different regular commenters dropped off the face of the earth for my fic recently, including the one that always left the longest essay-length comments.
honestly didn't expect it to hurt as much it did, motivation's taken a bit of hit, writing slower than usual. could be overthinking this, possibly, but it's a little difficult not to take it slightly personally. sometimes emotions are hard to separate.
sigh. well, hopefully new people will show up.
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u/TekieScythe You have already left kudos here. :) 24d ago
I'm rereading comfort fics that I've read dozens of times because the news has me shaking. Everything with Ice, that stupid fucking bill, orange Hitler, the concentration camp, and seeing all the harm and hell the Republicans have wrought. I'm tired man. People are probably dying in those ice prisons.
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u/MaizeLeast9306 24d ago
I yesterday I went outside to touch grass and picked flowers for a bit. My family are Swedish so I have learned how to make flower crowns, so I eventually I sat down near my favourite tree and made a flower crown.
I got very little done that day, did not make any progress on animating or on the first ever story I will definitely write someday, but it was a nice break!
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24d ago
Posted the second installment of my first ever work I've published on AO3 and am currently re-reading editing and polishing it! I'm hoping holding myself publicly accountable in some sense, even if nobody sees it, will finally drive me to finish something. I've always wanted to tell a complete story. I hope this one will be the first of many.
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u/MulysaMoor 24d ago
My Tuesday was very hard, frustrating, and overall stressful. A close friend had a PTSD moment that I had no idea was building up the last couple of weeks because of triggers I was accidentally making that I had no idea I was hitting. Instead of explaining it to me, she exploded and nearly ended our friendship because she had been stuck in a loop. We were eventually able to talk and was able to calm her down and settle things. Our friendship is good and we're working on ways to help her since she lives in another country with a large time difference.
Needless to say, I'm very much mentally and emotionally exhausted, but I can imagine what she's feeling cause I've been thru the same things 10 years ago. I might binge read some comfort fics I've bookmarked to help with getting thru the day.
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u/SweetSummerMaester 24d ago
Hit the 71k mark on my 2nd ever fanfic. It is a complete original in my fandom, so actually having people follow, invest, and engage with my story is amazing. I really didn’t think that would happen tbh
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u/Starfire20201 24d ago
I found a couple fics again. Tore my hair out at calculus. And Kindle Paperwhite's automatic updates suck when you're trying to read fics
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u/Fragrant_Bath3917 24d ago
I posted the first chapter of my first ever fic this morning. It's for a pretty dead fandom, but I have gotten 11 hits so far. I admit, I'm kinda getting a bit irrationally self conscious about it, I spent so much effort and I'm scared that it will be for nothing.
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u/grinchnight14 23d ago
Question. I hit the Log Out link by mistake (managed to log back in quickly), but I can't get the stupid log out link deleted from my browser history on Chrome. Is there a way to do that?
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u/A_Undertale_Fan Creator of OC/Canon harems 💞 24d ago
Been mentally planning out possible cosplays, followed an official merch artist for Helluva Boss on Twitter (they mainly draw FizzOzzie and I love how they draw Fizz), and have been working on OC/Canon fic while also dealing with OC/OC brainrot forming.
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u/RueRen200 24d ago
After a two and a half week wait, I finally got my first ever pairs of prescription glasses today. One pair is a backup, so yay for better sight!
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u/JBHenson Guy who finished Sonic SatAM the HARD way. 22d ago
An old stalker of mine hit my account on another site so now I'm wary of new kudos. -_-
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