About my fic archive

What I write + history

In earlier stages of my fic writing life I was principally an RPF writer, but since 2020 I’ve mostly been writing fanfiction about video games, and since 2021, mostly Final Fantasy X. I really just write whatever wedges itself into my brain and won’t let go, and certain Final Fantasy games seem to be quite good at doing that.

I’ve been writing fic, off and on, since I was five years old; everything I’ve ever completed (and not subsequently lost) is in this archive, although all fics from before 2015 are password-locked, which in practice means that only I and the hackers can read them. The main elements of what I like don’t seem to have changed very much since the beginning: a (usually male) character or two having a hard time in some way, often in a more mental than physical sense. I’ve also come to enjoy writing fics with an undercurrent of social class issues. I tend to like BL ships, especially of the master/servant variety, and ambiguous/unresolved relationships. Pretty much nothing I write is in any way related to my real-life experiences, aside from some minor elements of characterisation and the occasional section of dialogue.

Ratings and warnings

I don’t rate my fic per se because anyone who is looking at these pages should be an adult, so I think the concept of age-based ratings is a bit irrelevant. I do however indicate when a fic contains sexual content, as well as warning for some common potentially objectionable themes. I write about mental health problems and bigotry quite a lot; many of my fics also contain references to death (pretty unavoidable when writing about FFX). I never warn for strong language.

Warnings/content notes are shown as emoji in the fic metadata; the masterlist provides a key to these, and hovering over each one will also show what it refers to.

Syndication

This site is the canonical location for all my fics, and it’s moreover usually their only location. Sometimes I take part in fic writing events on other websites, such as Dreamwidth or AO3; in such cases I usually post the fic to those sites for a while and then take it down once some months have passed. In the case of gift exchanges where I’ve written fics for someone else, I usually leave them on AO3 indefinitely, but not visibly connected to a user account.

My one big FFX fic is the only thing I currently have displayed on my AO3 profile.

Commenting

If a fic has comments enabled, feel free to leave one. I don’t collect usernames/pseudonyms, so comments will display as anonymous, but if you leave an email address, you’ll be emailed if and when I post a reply.

Given that most syndicated copies of my fics are temporary and/or difficult to find, I also archive comments left on those copies (although not my own replies).

Transformative works permission

Like everything else on this site, my fic is licenced under CC BY-NC, so anyone is free to build on it as long as they a. attribute the source and b. don’t use it for anything involving financial transactions. If you post something online that’s based on one of my fics, please also let me know about it, and include a link to the original on this site (URL in the form https://tre.praze.net/fic/___). If you’re posting on a website running OTW-Archive software, please use the “inspired by” feature to do this.

Everything I write embarrasses me deeply so I can’t listen to podfic of my own fic. I’m also unlikely to read poetry. I will enthusiastically engage with anything else.

Archive code

I write fics in Emacs org-mode and use a script I wrote to export them in HTML, PDF and EPUB format. The masterlist, individual fic pages, and statistics page are generated by a set of Python scripts; other pages are written by hand.