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Opening this page up as of the posting of chapter 4 of I Got Soul, But I'm Not A Soldier.

Don't know how many people will actually see this page, but I will provide updates on works and answer questions when possible.

live footage of me checking the ao3 status twt every 2 seconds

GIVE ME BACK MY KLANCE FIC

the only reason i have twt anymore is to check ao3 status 💔💔💔

y'all are QUICK with it too

anyway thanks to the staff as always

literally everyone on twitter rn:

im like a housewife waiting for my husband to come home from war

this page genuinely haunts me it's like a sleep paralysis demon

BACK !!! BACK I SAY !!!!!

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TUMBLR IM BACK BUT ONLY CAUSE I NEED HELP.

I REMEMBER A AO3 STARSCREAM X JETFIRE/SKYFIRE FANFIC I READ AND IT WAS REALLY GOOD BUT I NEVER FINISHED IT AND WANNA READ IT AGAIN BUT I CANT REMEMBER.

Key points I remembered: Star and Sky had a kid already, and we’re going to have 2 more. Star was the one with the new two sparklings. Heatwave was also in it. Cyrak was alive I think. The bots were building a daycare. I think there was birthday of some sort (?) or maybe it was a baby shower. Two other bots had a kid that said “No” to everything. The sparklings would kinda have like little meetings.

If anyone knows what fanfic I’m talking abt PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME ToT

hi.

As much as I desperately want my fics to be up to the same standard as a traditionally published work, I’m not a literary editor.

I’ve been an editor of professional copywriting for many years, but I’ve come to learn that there is a gap between the skills needed for professional/technical editing and literary editing. Maybe not a vast gap. It’s still there.

All that to say, fanfiction gives writers and editors an opportunity to learn new skills. We should always keep honing our craft, no matter what that looks like.

I hate that there’s a stigma around fanfiction writing because it presents such a rich opportunity to grow as writers and editors.

And I hate even more that such a stigma stems from misogyny. There’s a pre-conceived notion that writers who are women (often queer women) and young don’t have anything worthy to offer. Of course, it swings in every direction for women of every age. Misogyny is no respecter of age, but the way some folks talk about young women’s writing makes me want to throw hands.

You — yes, you, fanfic writer reading this — need to keep doing what you’re doing. There is no more noble endeavor than creating something you love in earnest.

Don’t stop. Please.

I have read fanfics that have left me in tears, both happy and sad, had me laughing my ass off, wanting to scream. Fanfics might be seen as weird and taboo (weirdly enough) but no one can say that some fics aren’t so well written it feels like you’re reading a best selling book!

People who think that AO3 should be censored in any shape or form don’t get it they whatever content they don’t want to see will not vanish.

Ao3 is literally the safest platform to read fics, because you can literally block everything that you find triggering or simply don’t like.

When I first started reading fics at a vERY young age, the site I found to do it had NO tagging system. The only thing we could filter was the ship, and that because the authors would put it either in the title or the synopsis so we scrolled down what we didn’t like (mind you, without attacking anyone because we didn’t like the ship). While there was a rating system (not rated, 10yo, 12yo, 16yo and 18+, if I’m not mistaken), there is a HUGE difference from a story tagged as 18 to a actually triggering story.

But you wouldn’t know until you read it. We had no control whatsoever about what we’d find within those stories and that was it.

If we start censoring AO3 out of whatever content you don’t like (because there won’t ever be a consensus over what can or cannot be there, yall be complaining about same age ships claiming their “sibling coded” as if it means anything), then these stories will go somewhere else and we have no guarantee it’ll be properly tagged and THEN unaware kids will get into this stories much easier.

The thing is my siblings in Christ: this content will always exist, because the internet is an ever growing black hole and there will always be a spot for fanfiction (yk, where there is a screen there is a way). You sound like those crazy people claiming video games cause violence. Just like video games, fanfiction don’t affect real life. Thats it.

The triggering topics didn’t start in fanfiction, they started in the real world, as real life problem that affect real life people, and if we start censoring them out of ao3… THEY WILL STILL BE A PROBLEM ON REAL WORD!!! They only exist on ao3 as a collateral effect.

You aren’t doing ANYTHING. You are not helping ANYONE. But while no one is being harmed in fanfiction (because I’m sorry to inform you, your favourite characters with whom you have a parasocial relationship to the point you cannot differentiate reality from fiction anymore) DON’T EXIST. You cannot harm someone who doesn’t exist.

Besides, all these themes also exist in very well known published media. That some of yall pay for. That sometimes is in the actual original source a fic is based on… but OMG, prOteCt tHe KIdS there is a non-profit story about it now.

Curate your own experience online, don’t consume things you don’t like, block tags before you even start scrolling for a fic. Don’t tell people how they can or cannot enjoy FICTION.

And for god’s sake: put that phone down a bit and talk to real people and live in the real world with real problems!!!!! You’re frying your own brain at this point.

Don’t like, don’t read.

This tiktok made me laugh thinking of Jayce and his desk in the fic and so i thought id share

(Only 6 chapter corrections to go before its public again!!!!)

Thank you for all the love you've expessed toward Ximena in my fic guys 🥹 her character weaving into the narrative was very unplanned and unexpected. Here's a bit of one of her letters to V post jayvik divorce

Direct link to the fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

The way this bookmark made me CACKLE HAHAHAHA

Direct link for those who are into neurodivergency and emotional calamity I suppose 😂

Very* WIP for chapter 26 - who's ready for the divorce 😭

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What happens when your lab partner watches you get in on from across the room? The gay awakening is what happens 😩

❄️ Modern au, high tension slowest of burns 🔞 (159k and counting), friends to enemies to friends to lovers, scientific competition, petty lab-wars, neurodivergence and demisexuality, major angst, major pinning, major yearning, soulmate connection.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

Ready for some audible oofs?

I'm close to being done 🕺 it's the longest chapter to date 😩 (WIP CH 25)

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I'm super curious.

WIP Chapter 24! 🫃

Let's talk about sex, baby! 🕺

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Viktor not knowing what to do with himself when Jayce is shirtless is very dear to me

❄️ Modern au, high tension slowest of burns 🔞 (101k and counting), friends to enemies to friends to lovers, scientific competition, petty lab-wars, major angst, major pinning, major yearning, soulmate connection.

Thank you for being so welcoming in this fandom 💜 I'm adoring interacting with each of you and there's so much talent it's crazy 😭😭😭

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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Here are the tags, if it's of interest to any of you 🫶🥹

Viktor's in love, your honor.

❄️ Modern au, high tension slowest of burns 🔞 (111k and counting), friends to enemies to friends to lovers, scientific competition, petty lab-wars, major angst, major pinning, major yearning, soulmate connection.

I know I say this a lot but thank you for being so welcoming in this fandom 💜 I'm having the most wonderful time and there's so much talent it's crazy 😭😭😭

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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Here are the tags, if it's of interest to any of you 🫶🥹

Have a nice day!

You know when you get to that part of the enemies to lovers where the bickering is also half flirty? Jayvik in action 🫶

(First picture starts mid paragraph in "Leaning in...")

❄️ Modern au, high tension slowest of burns 🔞 (111k and counting), friends to enemies to friends to lovers, scientific competition, petty lab-wars, major angst, major pinning, major yearning, lots of love and soulmate connection.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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Thank you, once again, for being such a welcoming community. I've been loving interacting with people in this fandom😭🫶

Here are the tags

I'm all for Jayce beginning his gay awakening 🥹🫶 also cheers to nonbinary viktor 😎

❄️ Modern au, high tension slowest of burns 🔞 (101k and counting), friends to enemies to friends to lovers, scientific competition, petty lab-wars, major angst, major pinning, major yearning, soulmate connection.

I've been having the absolute best time interacting with the jayvik community, you guys are awesome 🫶 it's honestly been such a joy to post this 🥹

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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Here are the tags just in case

Have a great day!

Chapter 20 is out 😭💜

Our babies are dancing after the distinguished innovators competition, holding each other as GOD INTENDED

❄️ Modern au, slowest of burns, friends to enemies to friends to lovers, petty lab-wars, major angst, major pinning, major yearning, soulmate connection, and just so much LOVE.

Direct link to the fic

Here's a tidbit

Thank you for the endless joy this community brings. I am having the best time interacting with other jayvikers, so thank you so so much.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

Here are the tags

I am taking forever with the new chapter, my apologies. Will probably try to upload this weekend 🫶

Anybody else into deep internal declarations of love? 😭 Viktor surrendering to love will always be a trope close to my heart.

Here's an excerpt of just that!

...forcibly trudging forward. (That's how the paragraph ends, couldn't fit it)

❄️Modern au, scientific competition, friends to enemies to friends to lovers. A lot of yearning, angst, pinning, hurt/comfort, petty lab-wars, soulmate connection.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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I've been adoring interacting with the jayvik fandom. You guys are honestly awesome.

I'll leave the tags below in case you're interested! :-)

Have a great day, tumblr 🫶

Let me cook ☝️ (jayvik fanfic WIP)

❄️ Modern au, slowest of burns, friends to enemies to friends to lovers, petty lab-wars, major angst, major pinning, major yearning, soulmate connection, and just so much LOVE for one another. 19 chapters already out!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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Interacting with jayvik fans has been like a breath of fresh air in my life. Hence, my being here. Thanks for this wonderful community, guys.

Here are the tags

Chapter 19 is out 💜

❄️Modern au, scientific competition, friends to enemies to lovers, high tension slow burn, 🔞

Where are my words of affirmation jayvikers? 😭 V isn't loose when his compliments, but when he does compliment... 😭😭😭😭

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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I'm having the best time interacting with people in this fandom 🥹🫶 thank you.

Chapter 18 is out 🥹 What's some harmless flirting between lab-partners? 👀

If anyone enjoys modern aus, the slowest of burns, friends to enemies to friends to lovers, scientific competition, petty lab-wars, genuine care, so much angst, so much yearning, soulmate shit, with a special fuck you to our shitty ass capitalistic nightmare of reality, then this fic might be for you 🥹

Interacting with other jayvik fans has been a breath of fresh air, you've brought me so much joy and company. Hence, why I am here 🥹 so we can huddle up if we share anything in common. 😌

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61602655/chapters/157489549

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