Ao3 Author - Blog Posts

hey y'all, it's the anniversary of the ao3 ddos attk🌟

and coincidentally, I got my invitation to ao3 today!! :D

so, yknow, look out for that.

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peak philosophy in ao3 tags

kill your insecurities

I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

Do whatever the fuck you want with your art and body forever and ever, until you die.

today's fic writer energy is

Hi!!! I loved the fifth chapter of Rakul and the third chapter of Shimsiam. I'm so happy that you are writing them, and I'm always excited when I see you upload a new chapter 🥰 I was wondering what stories inspired you to start writing about demons. Can you recommend some? 👀

Hello and thank you so much for the Ask! While I can’t think of any one story that inspired my Demon original characters, in my notes from 1/31/22 just over one year ago, I reference a few movies as story and place inspirations: Maleficent, Legend (1985), and The Last Unicorn. I’d written a little over 1k of a story, inspired by the dark and romantic lyrics of the song “The Killing Moon”, about a demon Thrawn who finds a teenage girl, Elise (female Eli) in the forest, captures and seduces her, then takes her to the Black Fortress as an offering to the evil Demon King there (demon Emperor Palpatine), but in the last minute lets Elise escape from the rest of the demons and he is imprisoned. Elise helps him escape his prison cell, but she is severely injured and near death as he flies her away from the Fortress. So there are several elements of that story that DID end up becoming part of Rakul, but that specific story is one of my few truly abandoned ideas. And it was reborn into Rakul and the sequel to Rakul, which will feature demon Thrawn and demon Thrass, as well as Elise as female Eli once again (which is at least half written, but the exact ending point is undetermined at the moment). That sequel was begun on Feb. 2, 2022, and the first chapter of Rakul was begun Feb. 23, 2022 and published on AO3 2/25/22. Anyway, most of the inspiration for all of these stories was simply some dark song lyrics and a certain mood. I actually didn’t start reading a lot of romance novels until later in 2022, and I actually haven’t read any demon stories like mine before, so there isn’t any specific novel I could recommend that inspired my demons unfortunately.

Finally, there IS a very lovely romantic fanfic about demon!Thrawn and human Eli already on AO3:

damn I just wanted to get an Ao3 account rlly quick so I can post my smutty Agathario stuff before this manic episode goes away and I can feel embarrassment again and therefore chicken out of posting it

I have come to the painful realization that in order for the spell checker to admit my writing is at least high school senior level, I can’t have blocks of just dialogue in the middle of my WIP.

Anyways brb crying over Sirius and Regulus while relentlessly working to wreck y’all’s hearts over these two. Hurt no comfort.

Chapter two is out

And so the first fic is finished, but don't worry, there's still much more to come.

drawing based on the chapter

fic

Hi! Does anyone have any other works by LunaMyLove on ao3??

She’s deleted or archived all her work and i was only able to download “Next To You (It's the rule).”

*sobs*

Yay, I’ve finally done it! I’ve finally figured out the plot line to the Crescent’s Ascent all the way to the ending! It’s gonna be a bumpy ride, but we’re gonna get there and I’m SO EXCITED for what’s to come! 😆 The ending is gonna be AWESOME!!! (At least in my opinion lol)

In case you haven’t yet, you can read the fic 👉here👈

SUMMARY:

When Big Mama poisons Leo and causes him to lose his memory, chaos ensues as she strives to convince him that she is his mother. What started out as an attempt at a new Nexus champion quickly spirals into an unhealthy obsession, and Big Mama will do anything to make sure her precious Crescent never even wants to leave.

Meanwhile the brothers search frantically for their leader in blue, but will they be too late? Will they be able to find Leo and restore his memory before he is too far gone? After all, there are already things Leo has been hiding…

Me: Ugh, I had such a bad day! I can’t believe that person would be so cruel… *spies computer*

My MC: Please don’t.

Me: *sits down at desk* We suffer together.

How am I supposed to explain this word to my writing software lol

Hey all! BTW I released chapter 10 of The Crescent’s Ascent early today instead of Friday since I was getting pretty backed up on chapters, lol! But anyways I hope you like it, and I’m so excited for the upcoming story XD

Here’s some concept art for The Crescent’s Ascent chapter 8! Really excited for this concept to develop :)

In case you haven’t read the fic yet you can read it 👉here👈

When people comment on my fanfic that it’s getting a pretty angsty but I as the author know it gets worse 👇

Oofta, I’ve been writing future scenes for the Crescent’s Ascent and made myself cry last night. I’m sure it’s normal for fanwriters, but this is getting so much darker than I had thought when I wrote the first chapter and had the idea 😬 I mean, I love it but like it’s really giving me a punch to the gut. But in a good way, yk? Hehe, stay tuned! I promise it will have a happy ending!

You can read the fic here :)

Readers: So do you sneak pieces of your personal experiences into your writing?

Authors: Whaaaaat? Pfft, nah definitely not me…. *Proceeds to incorporate their life stories into their work*

Me trying to wait to post the next chapter of my fanfiction on schedule (I literally can’t wait for people to read it but want to be consistent)

Cause I’m a ✨FANFICTION WRITER✨

lol please enjoy this stupid little video I made about fanfiction. No thoughts at all. Just silliness.

You’re welcome.

That next chapter ain’t coming unless you write it 😭

"i'm tired of seeing-" use your filters.

"but there was an icky ship-!" use your filters.

"i don't like that tag-" use your filters.

don't like what you're seeing? use. your. filters.

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FLUFFY ONE SHOT NOT A MURDER MYSTERY

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?????!!!

Feel like I should mention that if people don't leave kudos on my works I assume they don't like it

The fact that so many people waste there time writing a negative reviews on fics is dumb to me. Like, I understand writing reviews for movies, published books, tv shows, etc.

But fics, really?

You don't like it, click away. You're just wasting your own time.