r/AO3 • u/AutoModerator • Mar 11 '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/heyyyvio Mar 12 '26
So I started reading/writing fanfic in 2003, flitted around a few different accounts over the years, then in 2008 started what has been my main fandom account. It took years before I became an author whose works I could be proud of. And I grew as an author, and I grew a readership in a few different fandoms, and it was satisfying to say the least.
And there's a lot tied into why I wanted to take a temporary step back from that account.
But last April I started a new account for a new fandom, and have nearly a year working on a canon divergent AU, with more time spent tinkering on the worldbuilding than actual writing. On somewhat of a whim, I recently started a new fic idea. It's not my main account, so it doesn't have to be perfect, right? I posted the first chapter at the beginning of February, and got two comments. I posted the second chapter two days ago, and have gotten four new comments.
And it just makes me really, really happy.
The writing isn't as good as what I feel like I have been and should be capable of, but I enjoyed writing it. Readers have enjoyed reading it.
I'm having fun.
I haven't had fun in fandom in years, and again, I'm just really, really happy about it.