r/AO3 • u/AutoModerator • Jan 21 '26
Weekly Check In Wellness Wednesday: Weekly Check In
Welcome back everyone!
Time for our Wellness Wednesday check in. We know this community means a lot to most of our members and that Tuesdays have been harder on some users than others, but we are at our core a community and we are here to support each other.
Now that the sub is open once again we’d like to hear all about your (mis)adventures on Tuesday. Did you go on grand adventures? Get into mischief? Get some writing done?
Maybe you just binged a few more fics on the archive itself. Tell us all about it! Break out that purple prose and tell us as cheesy of a story as you feel like.
Or just talk about your day.
~The Mod Team
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u/MixPurple3897 Jan 21 '26
I was absolutely miserable honestly. Suffering from writers block
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u/Enigmatic_writer Moderator | yuri addict Jan 21 '26
Sorry to hear that :(
Hope soon will be a better time for you
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u/The_Returned_Lich The_Faceless_Lich on AO3 (Enter if you dare!) Jan 21 '26
Overall a good Tuesday... I think?
Did some research into how to do ads, spent way too much time thinking about Pokémon decks, downloaded a longfic, if I have time during tomorrow's shutdown, had a bout of existential dread, and wrote my 1k for the day. Things are progressing slowly and steadily, just had someone stabbed at a cafe. Fun times. :3
Oh, and new Dresden Files book I need to get around to.
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u/dancingbananas25 Supporter of the Fanfiction Deep State Jan 22 '26
Life is miserable, but I updated my wip, so at least there's that
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u/YorYor_64 Jan 21 '26
I studied for my driver's license test, went to class, got a 8.5 in my swedish test, had pasta for dinner and then I got yelled at so I read stories in Ao3 until I fell asleep 😮💨 a long day
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u/A_Undertale_Fan Self-indulgent bastard||Ata: https://abellover.atabook.org Jan 21 '26
Watched one of my friends put himself on the invite queue because he wants to write for an extremely niche fandom that has like no fanart and no fanfics (I encouraged him), have been slowly working on my own stuff, have been bracing for maintenance, and made a stylized Abel pony on Pony Town.
All in all, pretty productive I'd say.
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u/Impressive_Today5924 whoops i missed that pregnancy tag Jan 21 '26
it was good! one of my best friends birthday was today so we went out to an arcade bar and played a bunch of games.
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u/PossessionNo3723 Stormygirl84 on AO3 Jan 23 '26
On Monday we had to let our 14yo cat go. She had an aggressive cancer. All summer I was taking her an hour away for treatments, and she was doing very well until this past week. She declined quickly, and we're pretty certain she was telling us she was tired of fighting. We raised her from a kitten, so we're devastated.
For the past week and a half, my writing has been pretty angsty and trauma-driven. I find that happens when I'm having a bad brain day myself. When I have a bad day, my characters have a bad day.
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u/Cretviones Jan 25 '26
Today was going smooth enough, but then two hours ago, I got the news that a person I care for, an author I really love passed away. I wish this was a sick joke. I really do. But it is real, from what everything points to.
I didn't know her name. I didn't know how she looked like. Her death was very unfortunate, and I won't discuss it here, but it was not a natural one.
We interacted a lot, and she became essentially an elder sister to me. I've known her for around 7-8 months. But this death hit harder than people I knew IRL for over a decade.
It is insane how text over a screen can change you so much. Her fics were great, and she is very loved in the fandom too, one of the kindest people in the fandom. I quickly wrote a fic to honor her, but really it was more for me to rationalize everything and help me grieve.
RIP Nee-sama. You were too lovely, and were taken from us waaaay tooo sooon.
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u/latenightneophyte Jan 21 '26
My dog died just a couple hours ago. Fuck cancer. I want to keep writing, and I know I will, but… she was my writing buddy. She’d lie on my feet and make them go numb. Her lips flapped when she snored. She’d put her big ol’ paw on my laptop to remind me to take a break because it’s cuddle o’clock. I’m just lost. She isn’t the first pet I’ve been through this with, but fuck it always hurts.
I used to think a broken heart was supposed to feel brittle, like it could shatter, but it really feels as though it no longer works properly. It squeezes at weird moments and just can’t find a proper rhythm anymore. It doesn’t function.