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 Anabella Prodan | May 25, 2026 | LORE
With over 800,000 hits and over 500,000 words, Inrainbowz’s Flip the Coin series is the 16th most read Naruto fanfiction on AO3. “Writing still gives me such a rush. It brings me solace,” says Inrainbowz, 32, a middle school math teacher who has been writing...
by Domie Kamanda | May 25, 2026 | LORE
Have you ever watched a show where two characters keep missing each other while their relationships crash and burn, and all you want is for them to finally be happy? Well, shipping comes from that instinct. It’s the impulse to take characters you care about and...
