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How to make your fanfiction easy to find (ao3 edition)

1. Ratings

Ratings are important.

On ao3 you have G, T, M, E, or no rating.

Something important to know is that Explicit is usually used on really smutty fics. And sometimes it's used for really really violent fics.

If you're writing smut, I recommend you rate it M or E. (Depends on the smut, really)

Teen and General should be easy to figure out. They're for more tamer fics, but Teen is usually used if the fic has swearing or just a little bit of violence.

2. Tags

Tags such as "hurt/comfort" or "enemies to lovers" or "alternate universe" makes it really easy for readers to find what they're looking for when they turn to filters for help.

What kind of story are you writing? Is it fluffy? Is it angsty? Does it have a major conflict that the character goes through? Will the story have a happy ending? Try to be specific. Make your reader excited by giving them a hint.

I also recommend relationship tags. If it's a platonic/family relationship, tag "character a & character b". If it's romantic, make it "character a/character b". It's very important that you never mix up the two with certain dynamics (like an adult and a child) because it will drive readers away. Anyway, relationship tags also make easier for readers to find what they're looking for. It's also good to include more than one!

(For example, I more often than not find a fic that has scenes of Eda being motherly to Luz, but it does not include the "Eda Clawthorne & Luz Noceda" tag, just "Amity Blight/Luz Noceda", and it's kinda frustrating)

Character tags are just as important. And I think that's easy to figure out.

3. Warnings

Reading those charts should be easy enough. If your story includes any violence, major character death, or r*pe, include a warning. This isn't a case of a reader finding the story, but more of them knowing what they're getting into.

4. Ships

People mix these up commonly.

For example, I've seen people mistake F/F for platonic/family relationship when really it's usually used romantically.

Much like relationship tags, it's important to not mix up the difference, otherwise the reader may get confused.

(Also I've seen the "other" tag be used for Raeda stories so I assume that's an appropriate tag for enby ships)

Chara is really getting into the modern vibe

(and by modern I mean the 90′s XD)

going with my headcanon that Frisk sometimes likes to dress up Chara into a fresh hip youth   🌱🌸 🌟

Visitation

This one was written during Season of the Witch, after Immaru said what he said to Eris.

Link to Ao3 if you prefer to read it there.

Ikora Rey and Eris Morn stood together at the table in Ikora’s office, pouring over a map of Savathun’s spire, the locations of various secrets marked upon it. Eris was adding the details of the unlock mechanism for another location that had been found in the most recent passthrough.

Immaru floated in from an adjoining room, angrily hovering over the map, his spiked shell shivering in rage.

“Figures you’d be here. Something I said must’ve touched a nerve. I had a little visit last night from your psychopath boyfriend.”

Ikora looked at Eris in confusion. Eris shrugged and shook her head.

“Eris doesn’t have a… boyfriend.”

“Are you kidding me? Have you seen the way that guy looks at her?”

“What guy?” Ikora asked.

Eris looked up impassively from her adjustments. “I have no idea who you are speaking of.”

“Sketchy. Wears a lot of green. Has a fucked up sewed together abomination of a ghost that can’t speak?” Immaru visibly shuddered.

“Hmmm…” Eris returned to the detail she was providing on the map. “…and what did the Drifter say to you that has you so terrified?”

“That’s the thing. He didn’t say anything. Just stood there staring at me with those cold dead eyes. Then he bounced a coin off of me a few times while that darkness mutated freak he calls a ghost scanned me. Like he was figuring out which bits of me he could cut off without being noticed. Didn’t matter what I said to him. He just stared at me. Then he walked away.”

“It does not sound like anything of note happened at all.” Eris said dispassionately.

“I’m curious as to how he got in there.” Ikora muttered.

“The Drifter has his… methods.”

“That wasn't nothing that happened.” Immaru floated closer to Eris, his shell twisting sideways. “I’ve given enough threats to know when I’m receiving one. You keep that psycho away from me. You need me. Someone like that doesn’t follow the rules. Someone like that’ll cut you up for no reason, just because, just like he did his own ghost. He’s unhinged.”

Ikora sighed, “I will increase security.”

“I do not control the Drifter,” Eris stood as she finished her sketch detailing the order in which the runes needed to be activated to open that particular door. “…and, with all due respect to Ikora’s security methods, if there is somewhere he wishes to be, there isn’t much anyone can do to keep him out.” She twitched her fingers and her soulfire wreathed Ahamkara bone flew from where it had been sitting on Ikora’s desk to her hand. “If you do not want him to visit you, I recommend you avoid taking actions which might attract his notice.”

“Yeah it’s totally just coincidence he showed up after I started talking shit about your dead ghost. Not related at all.”

Ikora raised her eyebrows.

“Hmmm…” Eris turned to leave.

“The fuck are you smiling about.” Immaru snarled.

“Hmmm…” She walked out the door, cradling her glowing orb.

POST FINALE HEADCANONS (ongoing list)

Camila and Luz both held Vee’s hands the first time she went through the portal door and returned to the Demon Realm

Vee is every one of the Hexsquad’s wingman. She’s give Hunter, Luz, Amity, and Willow dating advice.

Steve, Lilith, and Hunter joined forces to debelosify/decoven the Isles. They went around tearing down Belos statues and defacing Emperor’s Coven insignia.

Gus and Amity have gotten better at Spanish.

Lilith and Hunter are still rivals in a playful way. They occasionally recall their Head Witch and Golden Guard personas when trying to one up each other.

King found a way to reawaken Jean Luc.

Emira had her own episode with Eda and earned her Bad Girl Coven shirt.

Odalia and Alador got divorced. And Odalia got kicked out of the house.

Tinella Nosa now lives in the Clawthorne tower. She pays rent.

Anne and Luz have kept touch.

Luz and Amity made Good Witch Azura popular and it’s a best seller on the Boiling Isles now.

Per Vee’s request, Masha was the first other human to be told about and granted passage to the Demon Realm.

Vee cried when Luz introduced her to Stringbean.

Jacob went to jail.

Camila has created her own Dominican spin on Apple Blood.

Vee and King became friends the same way Lilith and Hooty did.

Luz found out about Amity’s Grom note.

Principal Bump loved his Hexside memorial.

Gus and Matt kept their promise to the Keeper and helped restored the Illusionist Graveyard.

Luz kept her promise to the Bat Queen.

Eda finally returned the favor (and the whistle) to the Bat Queen.

King and the Collector have repurposed King’s Island into their “treehouse.”

Vee took Masha to Grom. And Vee became Grom Queen.

Luz, Hunter, and Camila accompanied Vee in her search for the other Basilisks.

Vee had a “Katara find finds the man who killed her mother” moment with Warden Wrath.

Everyone finds out Evelyn was a Clawthorne (obviously) and Hunter gets accepted into the Clawthorne family.

Hunter goes to Hexside.

Alador and Edric have a cheesy “I’m proud of you, son” moment. Probably over something silly like pranking Odalia.

Sketch number two cause I have an obsession 💜

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Hey, d'you want to hear a horrifying Episode Echoes theory?

y'know we've had a lore book entry stating varying encounters with the Vex on Nessus and how weird they're behaving - like a Guardian saying they swore one was making sandcastles etc. kind of weird and almost childlike. And other reports have talked about how the Vex are spontaneously changing, adapting, learning, in a way that is wholly new for them?

so... remember that fucking weird Swarmers lore from Lightfall?

The CloudArk and Neomuna in the early days was being attacked by the Vex though they didn't know then it was the Vex. They were approached by an Axis Mind named Aesop, which offered to help them in exchange for their loyalty. When they refused... the children's connection to the CloudArk was severed which presumably killed them?

It's a nursery rhyme, so isn't going to be 100% historically accurate - it could well be entirely allegorical.

But I can't help but think about the minds of the children and if they got stuck inside the Vex network rather than outright dying...

And some part of them is now inhabiting the Vex...

Actually thinking about it... the Swarmers nursery rhyme is essentially the story of the Pied Piper, who killed the rats in Hamelin, and when they refused the promised payment, lured the children away with music (often implied to be magical, so the children couldn't resist).

Kind of like the Conductor did with Saint...

I love Undertale/Deltarune artwork like this

a very important lesson from sans undertale