what is your fanfiction job?

[@ColeyDoesThings]

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[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

only one bed

[@twotailedfox-Nix]

Hear me out- One bed, one bathroom, one kitchen, and two very angry cats

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

@@twotailedfox-Nix approved

[@chalksakademiya]

only one bed

[@karmak5461]

Call it the One and Done

[@VermilionSonata]

i want to be the pedestrian who mistakes the main ship for an actual couple when they aren't dating yet

[@Angelwhatsername]

yassss

[@adelaideebrahimy5623]

Oohh well aren’t you two such a lovely couple?! …. Awkward silence

[@faenene]

So, how long have you been together?

[@notactuallyacat.]

That’s such a good one!!

[@user-xh6cg7zf9h]

doing god's work 💪

[@LyndsayChan]

Doctor would be a tough one. Imagine the amount of times where you get to diagnose Hanahaki Disease, changing someone’s life by telling them their actually pregnant, the amount of people who run away from their rooms AND all the people coming in with life-threatening injuries soaked in rain, falling into a coma and waking up when their love confesses their love and kisses them.

[@thisisasupersayin376]

Don't forget the amnesia victims

[@fyodazi]

watching a drama first seat row

[@PurpleQuestions]

Or the one where you’re the doctor that has to tell the surgery patient who just woke up that their love interest gave up (insert organ here) so that they’d survive the operation

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

"Yes, this looks like another coma. I prescribe true love's first kiss" *mic drop*

[@freshcupofangst]

Not to mention when the doctors themselves are at the center of the stories! I’ve read some good Hospital AUs in my time

[@ozymandias7]

i wanna be the neighbour that always has to take my trash out PRECISELY when the main couple are having an emotional moment. i will make this story stretch out so long and you'll never catch me

[@thejoabear]

You're truly evil. Teach me your evil ways dark one.

[@GulabiLovesRoses]

AHFJAJDHUAGS WHY WAS THAT SO FUNNY

[@Rando_mIndividual]

OMG SO IT WAS YOU!

[@leonmayne797]

We will look upon your works and despair.

[@n0th0ughtzz]

SO IT WAS YOUUUU

[@lapellexduxbubblegumxvide]

I think I’d be a social worker who gets all the traumatized minors to their new found families for the trial week and then on the last day I come back and say something like “A has never been this happy, you make a good family for them, keep it up” and leaves with a smile on my face, tearing up, as well as the family does. I read too many sbi fics lmao

[@lavndvrr]

Fr they all have the same plot and then the amounts of trama A has, like “I’ve been in 500 foster homes and every one of them has @bused me” I have an addiction to those aus

[@StormBrehm-or3wv]

we all read too many sbi fanfic And we're all addicted to found family

[@sillyswrdd]

EXACTLY!!! YOU GET IT

[@lavndvrr]

@@StormBrehm-or3wv Sbi found family is my life

[@LocalUglyDuckl1ng]

I immediately thought of SBI Vigilante fics LOL

[@sheesoow]

I read this amazing fanfiction in which the heavily-traumatized main character who basically has no family or friends outside of work has a sweet 70-yo grandma as his neighbor and the lady is just being his grandmother figure, kissing him on the cheek, whishing him the best, spending holidays with him and I just want to be this cute grandma

[@Blwbelle]

Awwww

[@mirunail]

please drop the fic 🙏

[@maremsamy4850]

I want to be the MC.......

[@snickerdoodle3]

@@mirunail fr

[@Confused.canine]

I’d want to be a psychologist or psychotherapist, not only is it my dream job IRL but also because they’d need one for the sheer amount of trauma the writer chooses to bestow upon them. 💀

[@Confused.canine]

@Keepignoringmeh Can’t wait to have them in a session! 🥰💸

[@ArianeEvangelina]

My exact thought lmao. That’s one I added to my ao3 prompt book a while back because so many characters desperately need therapy.

[@rivkakinney6192]

SAME GURL I'll start a clinic with you.

[@amorfatikhb]

i immediately thought of two fandoms here; hannibal and batman (in which none of them will go to therapy but instead the psychologist will become a rogue)

[@RockinReads]

Ayyyy, me too! They need compensation from the sadism of the writers

[@GibusWearingMann]

I'd be the teacher in a college AU. I'm not involved in any of the romance, but I'd definitely be aware of it, half annoyed at the mutual pining and half annoyed at how the protagonists never do any schoolwork

[@GibusWearingMann]

Or a record store owner if those exist.

[@gevgnek]

I'll be the teacher that puts the main pair together for a group assignment in a rivals to lovers scenario

[@Sireington]

Let’s be real, I would be one of the most background characters ever, only ever being the main characters friend who dies but nobody cares because I was never important to the plot and I was boring and probably had 4 milliseconds of screen time (excluding the smallest advice/help to the Main Character)

[@devinwalker4161]

@@GibusWearingMannAs a record enthusiast, record stores 100% exist and the AU’s are much better than the actual experience. Being in a record store is almost like being in a book store, it’s better if you go with a friend. But the teacher in college AU is definitely something I’d like. Slightly annoyed in the background 😂

[@GibusWearingMann]

@@devinwalker4161 I was unsure if record store AUs exist, I knew they existed in real life, lol. I should see if there's any fics for them in my fandoms.

[@VegaNorth]

Careers that have never been mentioned: - Secretary of a Supervillain - Assistant to a Case Worker for the Recently Deceased - Zoologist or Gift Shop Worker for when couples go to the zoo - Professional Busker who plays background music for anyone mutually pining - Overworked College Professor who also worries about several students and want to set up a meetcute for my students despite being very poor

[@Nixmeri2411]

Last one is found in majority Aizawa x reader/OC fanfic, if it’s not a student x teacher (my personal hated) it’s overworked teacher who tried to set up their class 1-A ships. I just thought I’d mention it. AND I actually read a fan fiction where the reader was a Zoologist and her BFF was a veterinarian (the Villain turned out to be an animal) hahahaha

[@warriormaiden9829]

My oc in the TfP fic I'm working on is a Blacksmith. Have yet to see another Blacksmith running around. XD

[@diputston]

I want to be the first one!!! I mean imagine your fav ship adopting you as their kid and allowing you to go coo coo

[@assussinanimeobssessive3292]

I'd be one of three things: -Either be the hot villainess who has an extremely homoerotic relationship with the heroine -That one fan who makes an edit that their favorite idol sees that makes them ( the idol) realise they are in love with their bandmate -Or I'd be the sassy, loner university student who can barely make ends meet working a part time job in a café until the hot dance major and eccentric art major, who are in a relationship with each other, shop at my workplace. We all become best friends whilst slowly falling in love with each other until I, not knowing that they are polyamorous, blurt out my feelings for them in the middle of a panic attack/mental breakdown. When everything gets cleared up, we live the rest of our lives as that one couple that confuses people on whether or not we are ACTUALLY dating or are just really affectionate with each other. wow that last one was scarily specific

[@Here_have_a_Flower]

That last one is real specific. You're not wrong 🤨

[@assussinanimeobssessive3292]

​@@Here_have_a_Flower in my defence. I'm very delusional

[@readerchan13]

You seem like someone who knows exactly what they want lol

[@Shsy7573]

I can actually imagine the Only One Bed Hotel. It’s a regular hotel most of the time. However, there’s a little bell on the door that ONLY WORKS when main characters enter the hotel. That’s when the staff get to work relocating the bed, and making the room look as suspiciously romantic as possible. They put ‘caution maintenance’ tape on all the stairwells, and always select a room on the very top floor so the main characters get the longest elevator rides available. They put out of order signs on the pool, only taking it off when the main characters approach. They always add just ‘that little bit of extra flare’ to the main characters room service meals, he it a complementary desert, side dish, flower, decorations, etc. They also always just take a liittle bit longer to bring the food so that whatever sexual tension both characters are hoping to escape but also basking in isn’t interrupted. Ofc, there are many other tasks, but these are just the highlights of what the job description entails. Basically, their sole purpose becomes making sure the main characters spend as much alone time together as possible.

[@50frogsinatrenchcoat9]

This is so thought out,it needs more likes

[@zakosist]

How would you know who the main character is? Anyway I don't really get this trope because I have been to exactly that situation myself of having a share a bed with a platonic friend on a hotel since the other were sold out and we were going for a concert. And nothing really happened of a sexual or romantic nature (nor did I really want to or neither did my friend most likely). It was a nice stay. But just seem unrealistic something "interesting" gonna happen

[@Shsy7573]

@@zakosist Edit: this got way too long I am so sorry. U do NOT have to read this Okay, first, the door is magic and it just knows. Everyone knows main characters have a different energy from us regular folks. Second, it’s fine if you don’t like it, I’m personally not a big fan either (being that I’m indifferent and don’t go out of my way to read it), but… it’s fanfiction. It’s not SUPPOSED to be 100% realistic. It’s supposed to be a bit whimsical and out of this world. It’s where the impossible can happen, and quirky situations end up being the breeding ground for true love. Like it’s fine if u don’t care and would rather it be realistic, but at the end of the day, a lot of tropes aren’t gonna be that way. I can tell you’re a person who maybe is a little too set in reality considered u tried to question the logistics of a fantasy, not real at all hotel described by one dumb commenter on a trope video, and that’s fine! Just… some people are more into fantasy and fate, and trying to question their imagination can kinda put a damper on the whole vibe, so just be careful.

[@zakosist]

@@Shsy7573 I did read it, you kinda have a point. Actually I dont mind things being unrealistic as long as its straight up magic or sci-fi, but when it's just logically flawed and you notice it can still be slightly annoying and kinda ruins the immersion

[@Shsy7573]

@@zakosist yeah, I get that. That’s totally cool. Also, thanks for reading it.. ig? Not sure if that’s the proper response but it’s what I’m going with.

[@cassandra1799]

Somebody should make a story where all the stereotypical side characters, like the ones in this video, share their different viewpoints or opinions on the main characters. Each chapter could be long to a different stereotypical side character

[@lizsmith1018]

If I write this, I’ll come back to this video with the link!

[@cassandra1799]

Ill definitely read it if you do

[@m2255-e3n]

​@@cassandra1799same

[@tielwarrior]

@@lizsmith1018commenting to know if you do because that sounds super interesting

[@thesilliestsilly]

doing the lords work @@lizsmith1018

[@rex1507]

i am the oblivious main character’s friend that says one line and disappears for the whole fic then loudly says “WAIT YOURE DATING?!?” dramatically at the main ship when they finally get together at the finale.

[@sleepysera]

I have so much practice for this role already from my real life friendships 😂🥲

[@TheCanadianWeeb5]

i already do that irl tbh

[@THATBrokeAroSpecWallet]

I mean i already disappeared for my friends' plot to continue. Now I just have to figure out how to reappear by surprise...

[@vyxxiez]

pfp checks out

[@TheChristianCountess2721]

No, cause that’s what I am irl 😂; I’m never in the loop, and I’m kinda ditzy sometimes, lolol.

[@Emmaem111]

My fanfiction job is the equivalent of when you make something for yourself but you still make enough for everyone cause you _know_ that your siblings are gonna ask you for some, entirely self serving at first but nice to know that other people like what you made

[@catbatrat1760]

Awwwwwwww...

[@b3nnefits]

Oh my god that’s me whenever I cook 😂

[@paulp334]

You mean, being a fanfic writer?

[@Emmaem111]

@@paulp334 Precisely

[@jar0jelly]

Honestly I feel like I'd be the stranger in the park who the main character runs into after having a falling out with their love interest who inadvertently gives them the advice they need to fix their relationship before mysteriously disappearing. Or a bookstore owner. Or both.

[@Hardcorecomicrelif]

The park is right outside your bookstore

[@noelle_main-ow6fg]

I wanna be the background character who has to deal with the main characters bs everyday,like them getting into a love triangle or making enemies,I would be a barista or something

[@valbea9958]

U were on your lunch break

[@ChaosChatter]

Honestly, lifeguard could be interesting as a fanfic job Like, you save someone out of a dangerous situation and carry them out of danger And maybe, you see their destroyed significant other (or rival) running up to you and being incredibly concerned

[@victoriayue1402]

My contributions: 1. A sex ed teacher who makes sure EVERYONE respects consent (I'm looking at you Daphne) 2. A scientist discovering an alien/magical plant that causes interesting effects on people 3. Lab assistant who makes sure aphrodisiac samples are always at the edge of the table 4. Witch who travels from town to town helping people but generally lives apart from the rest. Bonus points if it's a one shot where a very traumatized or emotionally hurt character needs to spend a night in my cabin

[@h0l0grm26]

👏👏👏

[@violetmiller1766]

YEAH DAPHNE!! lmao. i love her but she's so fun to pick on.

[@sandbees597]

Personally, I would go for the "that one dude that sends people across universes for no reason" job. I like crossovers, and being tasked to send different characters to another world sounds fun! (Basically I'm Truck-kun but for fanfiction)

[@darienb1127]

(Runs a 16 year old girl over with pink hair) "it ain't much but it's honest work!"

[@Someone-or8tp]

​@@darienb1127 don't try and take credit from truck-kun. You're just the driver :/

[@raerohan4241]

Sounds more like Yuuko from xxxHolic (the manga at least. I think the crossovers were cut from the anime due to copyright or something)

[@rumeysaongul4765]

Yessss!

[@kmladwig2666]

This sounds like something I'd do as well. I mean, I've already been kinda working on it.

[@Randomonium420]

I'd kinda wanna have a heat clinic in omega-verse specifically for those who are Asexual\Aromantic spectrum, celibate, Abstinent etc. Basically providing a place for them out of the public eye where they can just get through the heats/ruts without the spicy time with others, maybe with a beta volunteer to provide cuddles and company

[@best_of_ant]

As a fellow AroAce human, that lowkey sounds amazing, I like it

[@medea__witchhh]

doing the lord's work

[@ZuliusKaltaris]

Oh my gods I love that

[@jitterclick3392]

BLESS YOU, DEAR STRANGER YOU ARE PERFECT

[@paulp334]

That's just neat

[@switchtan277]

I want to run a coffee shop but secretly put potions in the drinks. What kinds of potions? Whatever advances the plot! ^^

[@minioneva1860]

In a fanfic, I would be a friend of 2 agents that come from rivalling companies. They would send me to chat with the other and get secretive information. I'd use this as an opportunity to set them up. I'd tell each of them lies, saying stuff like "They said they noticed you spying on them once, but decided to let you go because they said they liked you" and stuff like that. Then, I'd set them up to meet each other (and probably set them up to go to a coffee shop or café). When they did, I'd watch them from afar and watch things unravel. You should know what happens after that.

[@Averagenpc31]

But then when the they get together and you'll accidentally get in one night stand with the ml's comdeic relief best friend resulting in a spin off

[@Lady_ETHNE]

I find it hilarious that half of you guys are wholesome and the other half have very questionable answers in more ways than one

[@Die_Hard_Historian]

Going to have to accept I would be arrested for tax fraud because I would be the reason my workers would need sugar daddies and mommies to pay their rent. If I have to live in fanfic world I will live with all my millions intact

[@TheKingofGods69420]

Aka The problem starter

[@Die_Hard_Historian]

@@TheKingofGods69420 It would be the circumstance I have to pay them lower wages because we don’t make as much money when they spend their shifts staring at eachother in the shops. 😔 Besides, every good love story/mystery needs a CEO who ships it and sends them out to meet all these other people woth jobs and slowly develops the relationship

[@chaoscat1446]

I'd love to be the quiet librarian who seems suspiciously like a witch and always leaves little notes in the books the main couple take out to subtly push them together

[@LOBSTERMANN3000]

I wanna be the therapist from all of the "babe I've got too much trauma." fics that gets a one-off mention. I would never be out of the job, and I can therapize my favorite characters :))

[@theycallmeartisttheycallme9054]

In the “red strings as soulmate bonds AU” I’d be the one knitting the strings in my little magic wool shop and attaching them to people I think would be a good match. I’d also knit yellow strings for friendship and other colors with different meanings to them.

[@ablackhole4143]

I wanna be the gossip column girlie to create misunderstandings for shits and giggles that push the ships closer

[@irishawthorne7784]

Surprised no one went with “athlete who disrespects another sport only for someone to show them they’re wrong” or “talented athlete with equally talented rival who always gets in the way of each others careers”

[@lineanoves6650]

Huh. Funny how I recently actually read a fic like that. But it's rugby football and chess. It's a BakuDeku fanfic 😉

[@Violet-mi6oh]

I'd probably get reborn in a fanfic world full of all my NOTPs and would end up being the person who disapproves of them and desperately tries to break them up

[@justaperson4656]

Not a bad job if I do say so 👀

[@TheWandererOfDreams]

I'd probably get reborn in a Omegaverse Fanfic and try to NOT get my bussy WRECKED.

[@aaronxlycan2880]

Imagine being a fanfic professional mourner in a medieval AU you get to mourn someone you didn't know but have so much tea because they get to know that dead person's story.

[@_Unoffical_Norahhh_]

as a history nut yes

[@rowan404]

I just realized that my parents are currently experiencing the opposite of the Only One Bed trope. We’re on vacation, and their room has two beds, and they’re each using one.

[@GibusWearingMann]

oof

[@thesilverlock]

Definitely the ethereal and oddly anthropomorphized Red String in soulmate aus. I just feel like it’d be very on brand for me, knowing me as a reader, to be yanking the two idiots together by way of screaming “YOU FOOLS! GET CLOSER ALREADY”

[@cupcakeprime559]

Oh that sounds like fun. You could pull them into walls if there indoors

[@Astrophel24]

@@cupcakeprime559there’s a glass door and the people you are attached to are on opposite sides of the glass door…. muahaha

[@Here_have_a_Flower]

@@Astrophel24 :0 so evil. I LOVE IT

[@Daycore_lovers]

You could be the goose who chase them until they meet each other

[@phantomangel4799]

Oh my god

[@treeofrage7622]

Damn, you know ao3 is down when Coley uploads twice in 24 hours after being off for a month. 😅

[@doriangreytea]

My fanfic job would be a college English professor who dresses in sweaters and slacks, somehow isn't stressed 24/7, and actually has free time to write at coffee shops. I watch as my students go through their love dramas- I am thriving during the poetry unit. I keep longingly staring at one Studio Art professor who always wears sapphic tee shirts as we pass by in between office hours.

[@tiomela]

It's definitely Fanfic that there's no marking in this universe. Lol. So much marking 😅

[@amidlej8237]

May be weird, but being a Hanahaki doctor while having a florist best friend is really interesting! I get to help the main characters with their problems and get helped by the florist on different ways to help them according to the flowers. It's kind of bittersweet, actually. Imagine, watching your patients get worse and worse, while you and the florist can only give advice and medication. Then, it's up to the patient. Some you will never see alive again, others will be a completely different person if they got the rekoval procedure from you, and the original target of the feelings may come to you due to the same problem. But on happy cases, you'll feel the eternal happiness of succeeding and the love they have for their partner, or just friend in case of platonic Hanahaki. On tragedies, the doctor and the florist will only have each other. Personally, leaving these two concept people as friends through tragedy with no romance is perfect for me. Be free to disagree!

[@w0nd3rpl4y]

This is a cool fic prompt

[@ziyn6824]

pretty niche, i'd say, but i would want to be the coach that always gives the lead roles in a performance to the two rivals who obviously cannot stand each other, but have undeniable tension and chemistry. this can apply to ballet, theatre, figure skating even, i'd love to read more stuff like this. or i could be the security guard that watches them progress through their rivals-to-friends-to-lovers arc and closes up extra late to give them more time to 'practice' iykwim :)

[@amarvelousgeek222]

I would want to be the fanfic equivalent of Billy Joel's Piano Man, sitting in a bar, taking requests for music, giving out advice to all the people who pass through, matchmaking couples by playing the right music and generally setting the vibe... until one day the man of my dreams walks in. Or alternatively I'd be a chaotic magical being dubbed the "Now Kiss Fairy" who, when a situation could be solved through the two characters just confessing, pops in and screams "You two love each other, so just kiss already!" Like the verbal equivalent of a small child slaming GI Joe's face into a Barbie

[@darkstarr984]

Absolutely enjoy this stuff. It’s so much fun to write from this perspective

[@loronaranja7]

4:25 Being in a fandom when one of the most popular blorbos / poor little meow meows is literally called "pebbles" made me think people wanted to smash this character to the ground so people trip on him and I just accepted it. Before realising they meant pebbles. Like, just actual rocks.

[@llsilvertail561]

Is- Is this Rainworld?? Bc same

[@loronaranja7]

@@llsilvertail561 yes it is rain world hahaha

[@silvermoon6175]

I know this isn’t really a job, but I would want to be the friend that invites the characters to a fun outing. Then I eventually leave the main pairing by themselves and watch their awkward romantic moments from the slide lines. Also I am secretly loaded with cash just because.

[@Angelwhatsername]

I was thinking something similar. Best friend of one of the mc's in a "dumbasses to lovers" slowburn where the two are too stupid to figure out either that they are in love with each other or that the other person likes them back. I'd subtly give them hints to help them along the way and in the end I'd scream at them "HE LOVES YOU, IDIOT!!" xD Also I'd be stupidly rich, because I have my own life to live and I'd love to spoil my friends with trips to resorts and other places where their romance can blossom. 😅😅

[@paulp334]

Additionnal bonus if you can be the friend who jokingly give them a hard time and laugh about the pining

[@Angelwhatsername]

@@paulp334 I'm totally that friend 😅

[@justaperson4656]

​@@Angelwhatsernameyou sound like my dr bestie ngl

[@the_dionysus_cabin]

in literally every fanfic I write, I put myself in this role bc YES

[@inksplat7330]

For me it'd be either the friend who introduced Y/N to the love interest and then comes in periodically to give advice based in my experiences with my polycule. Or the force of nature that's giving all these people their soulmate marks and threads of fate

[@dragonairice3375]

I want to be the kindly old person who sees the main couple have a daily /weekly meet up from their window everyday (not in like a creepy way but like a 'people watching' way) and then offers advice when something inevitably goes wrong and only one character shows up

[@PinkGoblin]

I think I’d be that one artist in fanfiction. You know the one. The one that has their own studio and there’s giant floor-to-ceiling windows that bathe them in sunlight. The one that always has paint on them somewhere. The one that will paint with a meaningful look on their face because their deep in thought, thinking about the meaning behind the peace or that random person they met the other day. That one. It’s also ironic because I’m a colossal idiot.

[@Burning_studio]

I feel like I’d be the guy living next to the artist and is oddly obsessed with porcelain lizards and bone dust . Like. Only ever mentioned as the butt of the joke and the artist guy thinks ‘im odd. Cough.definitely not based off real events.

[@thesaltdragon]

I'd probably be the friend who sets two friends up with each other, only to fall for both of them and be pulled into an ot3

[@broblerone413]

yess ideal fanfic role

[@wolfcriedback]

this actually happened to me one /srs

[@Burning_studio]

Pfft if only 😭

[@BLACKBOXWARRIOR.]

10/10 would be the hired best friend who mindlessly supports all of Y/N'S romantic endeavours, Probably would be getting paid by her mom or smth yk

[@ArbytheStrawberry]

I’d be an actress who has my rival as the co-star and pretend to be in love with them on set but then fight off set

[@lukelyon1781]

I could reasonably see Coley being a librarian as her fanfiction job since she's a cute, bookish, nerd.

[@ManCarSua]

The choice of memes for the jokes was so freaking funny The editing had dying

[@ReineGalena]

That one unassuming friend with a nondescript job and that they kinda feel sorry for. It turns out that they're a very successful author with a very hot and loving husband and they're just living their best life outside of the drama.😆

[@Hechauther]

13:20 the “don’t dream of labor” is the funniest and wittiest response I’ve seen 😂

[@WhiteRaven696]

I actually worked in a flower shop for a day a few years ago on Mother’s Day. I was helping out this guy I was hooking up with. I really enjoyed it. I can see why it’s a popular fanfic job TBH

[@lamhw]

villian's henchmen that’s really energetic and rooting in the sidelines during the villain's evil speech

[@86fifty]

23:43 - a new word for Coley! "Cadre," pronounced "COD-ray." Meaning a group of people or animals. Similar to "gaggle" or "flock." Implications of a more organized, intentional group, like "cadre of capable personal assistants." So, in this case, intelligent dragon customer service!

[@uncommon_nettle]

I love my job as an estate lawyer and I feel like I'd still love the fanfic version of it. I'm down to change the will of a rich dude days before his death then dramatically read it to his shocked family while they all sit in one room.

[@shootingstar8911]

Easy. I’ll be a fanfic wedding seamstress! Since we’re romanticizing it, it won’t be so crazy. It’ll be a small nook in the corner of the neighborhood! So cute! ❤️ (A bonus if I get to babysit a bunch of baby shippers!)

[@valentine8409]

I didn't even think of this one!! That's the dream, tbh.

[@sketchysketches]

I either want to be the friend who disappears and reappears throughout the story and actually has a comedically complicated story for when I disappear, or the knight bodyguard of a prince/princess who helps them escape from their responsibilities every once in a while so they can hang out with their peasant love interest

[@makeart-notwar-6732]

6:10 that tweet instantly took me back to that one really good seventeen minwon gods au fanfic. this was probably the best piece of fanfiction i’ve ever read, i literally stayed up 24 hours to finish it. if you replace the characters’ names, it could’ve been sold as an original novel really well fr

[@nokaydippp2762]

im gonna need that fic rq

[@makeart-notwar-6732]

@@nokaydippp2762 it's called 'acts of flesh' on ao3

[@eve_ningmusic]

Would "working for Coley as an editor" count as a fanfiction job? 🥺💙

[@Rosy.Stardust]

If I had a fanfiction job, it would be owning a two story building, and on the first floor it's a bookstore and the second floor is a café. ❤

[@ellas_pretty_silly]

THATS SO CUTE LEMME JOIN YOU

[@medea__witchhh]

that would be so cuteee omg

[@rainy302]

That would literally be my dream workplace. A bunch of books to read and coffee with pastries? Heck yeah!

[@elwingsmith7352]

There is a place like this near where I live, it's a coffee and a library specialising in SF and Fantasy books and all their goods have fantasy names. Needless to say I'm there often haha

[@galaxydacreature]

My dream fanfic job would be cryptid who's generally disconnected from human society and has a stable social network of fellow cryptids who I hang out with regularly, but I secretly have a ✨tragic backstory✨ abt how I used to be human but got turned into a spooky creature in a horrible accident and had to live amongst the fellow creatures. Then Y/N finds me in the woods and heals my trauma bcuz thats what Y/N does I think.

[@RaichuWizDom]

Sounds like good original fiction, actually, webcomic material at least. Reminds me of that Laika movie 'Missing Link'. Was that inspiration? If not: recommended viewing.

[@galaxydacreature]

@@RaichuWizDom it was NOT but thanks for the rec! I like this trope a whole lot :)

[@RaichuWizDom]

@@galaxydacreature Fair warning, then, for tropes used and not used: it's a Last of Their Kind cryptid asking a Jerk With a Heart to find his kin. Basically Bigfoot wants to go to Tibet and find yetis, because, and this is one line that's worth spoiling: "Your world keeps getting bigger. Mine keeps getting smaller." The adventurer is a cryptid hunter, and he only wants to bring home definitive proof of the cryptid's existence. No backstabbing, no "You used me!" silliness, the relationship between the two avoids the obvious pitfalls very nicely. But it's not exactly what you were describing: definitely more "Around the World in 40 Days" than "Hotel Transsylvania," depends which tropes you prefer. The fight scenes are fun, too. If you're into the trauma healing of a cryptid in the woods, definitely check it out, it has a fine approach to that. If you want the support group of cryptids, not sure if that's been done yet. Also, it's Laika, so it's stop-motion, obviously. Just a heads-up, don't wanna be giving bad advice.

[@myomayo]

i’d travel dimensions and bring different fandoms together because yes

[@princessofthecourt3183]

0:20 3:44 4:46 5:25 7:05 - I NEED A FANFICTION OF THIS RIGHT NOW

[@bleeb90]

I'd be the tailor owning my own shop - either dealing with some rich CEO that wants a new suit in a time way shorter than realistic, or be taking the little kid under my wing that doesn't feel like they belong anywhere whom I could teach my passion. Idc, as long as I get to design and create the wedding outfits of one of my OTP's.

[@naolucillerandom5280]

Can I be your assistant who clearly doesn't get enough sleep? :D

[@bleeb90]

@@naolucillerandom5280 yes please!

[@emmagracelovesherdog]

I'd be the teacher who always puts the two kids who hate each other in projects together

[@TheKingofGods69420]

I don't know why but the first fanfiction job i thought of was a doctor at a fertility clinic. Don't know why, just felt like it

[@theninjakid1430]

3:13, It's giving tired background character vibes and I love it 3:51, Now THAT'S what I call unhinged (And brave, I salute you) 4:24, Who would pay you to do that anyway? Like, it's awful convenient, but who would pay to have pebbles thrown onto the sidewalk? 4:40, I've always wondered exactly WHO runs the business of selling children into bands... 5:06, This one sounds like a great setup for an anime 6:00, I've seen this on Tumblr writing prompts, this could go farther than you'd ever imagine 8:19, Sounds like my old Language Arts teacher lol 8:33, I have this job. It's a thankless task, but someone's got to do it 9:11, Well, when you put it THAT way... 10:25, This is why supporting characters are called supporting characters 11:00, You know you've made it when working adults start commenting on your content 13:05, I've actually worked as a cashier before and this has happened. It was the night shift and I was trying to restock the plastic bags at the counters and this couple was just going HARD making out on MY booth, of all places, and I'm just standing there in the dark waiting for them to leave because it's 10 in the f**king evening and I don't get to go home until 11 13:33, Also a very brave job 14:00, Everyone go home, this job wins 15:04, It's tough to be a beta in this alpha/omega world 15:35, The careful calculation this must take... 16:38, Stable boy in a Royalty AU...ALSO giving tired background character vibes 18:50, Now THIS is honest work 19:20, GOD'S WORK RIGHT HERE 19:31, My parents actually fell in love this way (well, kind of). My mom's friend is a jeweler, and she told me and my siblings the story of how they visited her shop pretending to be in a relationship so she'd get more business and then they ACTUALLY fell in love 20:01, I've written a oneshot like this before. It FLEW off the shelves 20:17, These are the underappreciated jobs 20:43, I worked as a barista also (in a Starbucks at a grocery store, of all places), and I can confirm, it's nothing like the fanfics. BUT! Whenever I saw a pair walk up and order together, I always made sure to milk the HELL out of it just so I could get in on that tea (once I confirmed they're not siblings or some s**t) 22:09, OOH, that sounds like an interesting one! (And a way more efficient way to get all the tea) 22:29, Real

[@Zero_Horizon_Dawn]

I would probably be the random pizza worker mentioned in the background of the scene and each time I'm mentioned it becomes clear that a relationship is forming between me and another random character. But the characters are rarely mentioned and only have like 2 or 3 sentences written about them. They also mainly talk about and watch the main otp go on their dates or have dramatic fights and/or reveals in the pizza place.

[@solarisishere]

me and my friends once wrote a fanfic about a feisty matchmaker who has to move out of his small hometown to the big city for college and also who has to set up a date for a handsome, kind and unconventionally buff rich boy. the matchmaker would always cuss his handsome future husband out and buff walking teddy bear would always resolve things with a simple hug. we never finished that fic.

[@nelliebursham8567]

I would work as a translator, but I fail to understand/ pick up on the hints from a certain foreigner, who for some reason only keeps asking for me to translate stuff for him. So we keep meeting in several places, and I still don't realize we're on dates. 😌💕

[@dieflattermaus617]

I'd love to be the supportive character who helpes the starcrossed lovers sneakily meet up. (I live for the drama) Or perhaps the seamstress who makes all the gorgeous dresses in a Masquerade ball au

[@MekuKuro]

Why on earth does your room look exactly like the bedroom i imagined for one of the fanfics i wrote years ago? 💀 that's scary we are coming full circle

[@small_and_dangerous2068]

I’d love to either be an early widow with a young child who falls in love with another single father or a daycare worker who falls in love with a single father and their child. :,) I love kids and having adults bond over them (hence my love for Spy x Family lol)

[@AlliumTheAce]

I would probably be that researcher that would try to figure out why males can get pregnant. Or a flower shop owner because I think it’d be a neat little corner of life to be a part of. Either job works for me 😁

[@v.v365]

Content idea for Coley: building the fanfic trope locations in the Sims 4, such as a combination coffee and flower shop that does tattoos in the back

[@paulp334]

And it's all ran by witches and bodyguards probably

[@geeking424]

YES THATS SUCH A GOOD IDEA

[@v.v365]

A hotel full of rooms with only one bed

[@broblerone413]

YESSS MAKE ONE-BED HOTEL A REALITY you could make like a street of different fanfic locations (hotel, coffee shop, clinic, big company, etc)

[@princesserika9899]

CRACK! Just chaotic crack, like in most fanfics xd

[@mochimonika]

I wanna be in an idol group with the mcs! I'd follow the gossip and make sure a random new girl with no experience who was sold to our band but is actually a huge fangirl always gets to sit with our prettiest and most popular center, and then we will go on a tour and I would be the one to organize the room booking to make sure there's only one bed left for them (i hope all of you hotel workers help me with that). All of this while simultaneously having fun singing and dancing, maybe writing something on the side, having a little fanbase of my own and maybe a boyfriend or a girlfriend too?

[@caleblim6890]

My go-to insert-myself-into-the-fic character is as the keyboardist/singer in the band that is busking/performing in the background of an emotional scene, and we’re always playing the perfect song for whichever stage of relationship the MCs are at.

[@Brightly-Colored_Goth]

Top Choices: 1. If someone needs a henchman, I'll happily put in an application^^ 2. A hanahaki specialist, mainly because I like the symbolism & biology as a whole 3. And finally: fuck it, tattoo artist simply because the vibe is phenomenal (Edit: While watching this, a question occurred to me: are there any fanfics about romance between hanahaki doctors and florists? I just think it would be poetic and well done if ever attempted.)

[@paulp334]

I want that fanfic now...

[@alexandersean4708]

I'd probably be the detective who, while investigating the mafia, overhears them say something horrible about the force I work for and is so disgusted that I offer to join them and take down my former bosses.

[@justaperson4656]

I like you

[@persialionheart]

I would be a wedding planner for all of my favourite couples, specialising in making the wedding rings for each couple. I also do wedding portraits on the side. Idc if the couple wants flame rings or their wedding in the snowy mountains. I'll do it all and more to see my favourite couples get married. This or the weird novelist who knows a lot of weirdly factual details but the main couple can't prove anything because that would mean calling themselves out.

[@kanelinden9400]

You really think you can do any kind of wedding? Bet. Me and Cyno’s wedding I want Vibranium rings and for the wedding to be at the edge of the universe.

[@justaperson4656]

On the novelist thing... You want to be chuck from supernatural?

[@persialionheart]

@@justaperson4656 I've never gotten into supernatural but if that's what they're like then I guess???

[@justaperson4656]

@@persialionheart oh there's an entire arc where the boys find a novel series (called supernatural ofc) that's just a rip of their life. They assume the author, a guy called chuck, is a prophet or something because he knows details that nobody else does. Thing is, angels have lists of prophets burned into their eyes, and chuck isn't one. He's just... A guy. One that knows things nobody else does, and one who has never even met the guys, he thought they were fictional.

[@persialionheart]

@@justaperson4656 that actually sounds really fun lol

[@VantheKeyofLain]

I'm so surprised by the amount of Tattoo/Florist romances! I didn't even know that was a sort of category. I read a great one in my small tiny current obsession of one of my OTPs and it was so good.

[@mayplay8684]

I'm late here, but I actually had the fanficy version of coffee shop barista. It was a downtown gloomy coffee shop with cozy vibes and constant french music playing. I didn't work there for long, as it was part of a program I went to but I'm seriously considering getting an extra job there. It was so nice and relaxing, I would clean, chat with customers, wash some dishes, practice making latte art while trying all kinds of ice cream and coffee combos while gossiping with my coworkers. There was busier times, but the place was very chill. I really miss it, and still go there to have coffee and say hello to the workers.

[@Heaoix]

We all know it may be cliche, but it is still a classic xD

[@miraculousdream7028]

Fanfic jobs sound like so much fun! Also you could totally make that one bedroom hotel thing happen! Just make sure its called a love/friendship hotel or something! Also I would love to run said hotel and just watch all the cute couples get together because of it! Amazing video as always Coley!

[@acemstudio]

Considering I'm in a HUGE Transformers fix right now thanks to rise of the beasts and my rewatches of Transformers Prime, I'd have to go with either like a medical examiner/mortician or a Special Agent. That way I can still somehow interact with the autobots and whatever human friends they meet along the way. Being a medical examiner would have me be of use to the team since they would know medicine to some degree, and I'd get to hang out with Ratchet and annoy his ass all day lol. Plus it would be fun to be total opposites I work with Death, Ratchet works to save lives, the duality would be so fun. And OPPOSITES ATTRACT after all lol. Oh it would be like the slowest of slow burns though. Being a Special Agent would allow me to be a liaison to the Bots but who knows how much I'd interact with them; Fowler only ever seemed to show up when sht went wrong and yelled at Prime.

[@samid.4096]

i need you to drop some fanfic recommendations or write one yourself cause this is just 🤌🤌🤌🤌 perfect

[@acemstudio]

@samid.4096 oh dude I WISH I could write for TF cause I'd write SO MUCH SMUT lol. I just don't know if I could ever get characters like Optimus and Ratchet down right. They're hard to write for. Optimus especially since too many people think of him as a badass and that's it. And with Ratchet they only think of him as the kinda grumpy ahole and that's it but they got layers man. But a really good nsfw series fic is "Passing Time" by Sneezilla I think. It'll be like a little booklet of short stories and MY GOD the first two chapters are just....MMM. It's Synth-En!Ratchet and Y/N (yes I'm a lover of reader insert fics SUE ME 😆) and. Just. Mmmmmmmmm the way they write is so nice. They got Synthetic Ratchet to a T lol. I'll gather some other good TF fics now that the sites back up lol.

[@tinyshinyfeathers]

You're in luck! Transformers has a fully operational Human Distribution System, so working in a convenient profession is just a bonus!

[@acemstudio]

@@tinyshinyfeathers HAHA Human Distribution System that is so cute. Sign me up please lol

[@helli1233]

The genius prodigy. A plus if I own a bookstore.

[@jasmineplewright135]

This entire thing reminds me of a show called Dramaworld, it is Kdrama fanfiction in tv form and it is amazing

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

Well, I work in a lingerie shop in real life, so I’m pretty sure that could come in handy for fanfic characters. I bet most fanfic characters would at least know better than to walk into a lingerie store asking for shoes…

[@peridotunofficial]

I think my fanfic job would be one of the maids in the rich characters mansion, I could find out all the little secrets and say “oh sorry I was trying to clean” if I get caught somewhere I’m not supposed to be

[@someuncreativity]

Disregarding my lifelong dream to become part of a mega-famous idol group, I think I’d want to be either the mistress (is it just “mister” for men btw? Idk) of the villain who’s trying to take over the galaxy or be the villain himself. I just like being evil and honestly, having an entire gigantic evil empire (and for the mistress route, something else that’s gigantic) in the palm of my hands sounds pretty rad.

[@phantomangel4799]

Two fanfic jobs that could be cool 1. Creature doctor, aka someone who works with being an aid to any monsters and also A/B/O and maybe even Cakes (with defense charms) 2. Specifically for Ace Attorney, someone who works in the WAA who inadvertently gets Phoenix to tell his 20+ year old crush about his feelings.

[@Maraviedit]

In the mafia au I will be the medic of the mafia group who heals up the injuries & watch the 2 main characters fall in love

[@BlindStarLily]

I’d like to be the totally normal best friend who turns out to have secretly been the main character’s guardian angel throughout our entire friendship with said main character and I slowly falling in love over the years. Include a few life saving scenes, the part where I let her touch my wings for the first time, the very romantic first time we bang around 800,000 words in, all that good stuff

[@boxofstuff994]

definitely the palace gardener of a fantasy/royals au. they rarely get recognition but definitely vital to quite a few stories. I'd get to spy on all the royals just taking "walks" in the gardens, be a witness to the confrontations between ml/fl competitors, plan out the entire landscape to feature extra long pathways so the pairing has time to develop their conversation and get to know one another, privacy hedges of fluffy lilac or rosebushes for ~those~ moments. I also get to side eye the king/queen when they order me to plant a field of their SO's favorite flower for their anniversary, or when i have to arrange a large bouquet after a particularly messy argument. I just love plants and the possibilities are endless :D!! (after many failed search attempts i have resorted to writing this myself. we'll see how it goes.)

[@soupgoescronch]

the linguist who popularized the word orbs in referance to eyeballs

[@cinny1313]

A strange all knowing witchy lady who drops hints to the main characters about their feelings for each other

[@ameintherain4965]

im embracing it, the osha inspector that makes sure the main characters don't cause workplace hazards (applicable to any and all universes)

[@sbparty1200]

This was such a nice fun video to watch, I love how cute some of them sound and then there's the chaotic responses 😂 Also Eve's editing skills here are a banger!!! :3

[@avevee9708]

I’m the background OC that exists for half a chapter who moves the story along because no canon character fits into that very specific niche moment that needs to happen for the plot to progress (also the door knocking sound at 9:57 gave me a heart attack)

[@roideschiffres6760]

I'll be the engineer who makes apliances so they break the the most opportune time and the one who makes all the street so people run into each other when need. Be it adding traffic with construction or blocking a sidewalk so the two characters run into each other. Don't worry a engineer (be they a civil engineer or a hardware engineer) always have your back.

[@Yourlocaltrashgoblin]

I’d be the secretary to the ceo. Not dating the ceo but I have to constantly go in like “stop kissing and turn in your paper work”

[@its_gxl420babae3]

Since I write action orientated fanfiction, I thought "I ain't that lame! I follow my own wave!" Then realised something... My most action orientated fanfiction features a CEO of multi-bussiness conglomerate, and a Pokémon trainer space pirate who used to be a nun (kinda)... As love interests... I may have been on a different path than I thought...

[@floffnie]

excuse me but THIS IS GREAT

[@its_gxl420babae3]

@@floffnie I'm glad someone can see the method to madness... Even if the method is just more madness...