by Aya Ali | May 27, 2026 | #That'sHot
We’ve all been there. You’re scrolling through AO3 at 2:00 AM, filter tags tuned to perfection, and you click on a promising fic featuring an original character. You’re expecting an absolute masterpiece. Instead, you’re met with complete utter disappointment...
by Ruth George | May 26, 2026 | LORE
In the golden age of fanfiction, if you scrolled down the Wattpad search page or explored your carefully crafted Tumblr, you’d see a citrus scale of oranges, limes, lemons, and grapefruits. I don’t know why such fruits were the chosen ones, but they were once...
by Anabella Prodan | May 26, 2026 | KUDOS
The more I learned about writing, the less I wrote (in which I mourn my former productivity and lack of self-awareness). I first opened the notes app on that one old Samsung S6 sometime during cold November 2015. At 11 years old, I typed up the title of my first story...
by Ruth George | May 25, 2026 | WhatTheFic?!
During my hourly scrolls on Wattpad, Tumblr, or AO3, I always see a lot of references to ‘Character.AI’. What is this? I hear you ask, much like I asked myself. Naturally, I have a Google, and its own AI tells me: ‘Character AI is a conversational chatbot platform...
by Aya Ali | May 25, 2026 | LORE
Authors used to treat the word fanfiction like a dirty little secret, but our corner of the internet has straight up carried the publishing industry. Some of the most obsessed over books started out as fanfics. From spicy office romances to historical fiction,...
