#‘oh if they escape their reservations they’ll kill everyone indiscriminately we can’t let that happen!’ that’s straight up propaganda

[eponymousfics]

Since I’m not doing NaNoWriMo in any official capacity, I’ve decided to let myself bounce around projects and add up the word count for whatever bit of progress I make across multiple works.

That means I’ve been opening up a lot of different stories and rereading older stuff, and there’s a lot of good stuff that I don’t think I’ll ever post.

Mostly bc I don’t like the idea of putting out snippets of things that might never get a full official story, or the fandom is something I’m not sure I want to associate with (even if it’s to “do it right.” I mean a lot of it is going “yeah so the original was pretty shit but here’s my take” and it feels weird putting that in front of people who are fans and presumably like the original version? Feels like putting “x critical” stuff in the main tag, idk. Then again I know people do that and I don’t have a problem with other people doing it, and the “thanks for canon but we’re taking it away from you now” is also a relatively common attitude so maybe I should get my head out of my ass lol)

But then I’ll read a really good bit I wrote and just go “oooOOOH BUT THAT’S SO JUICY IT MUST BE SEENNNNN” 😂

Idk I just have been pouring several thousand words into a fic that I love but have never considered uploading and I feel the need to acknowledge it in some way lol

#the problem with this one in particular is that it’s both a ‘rewrite the canon story but replace the mc with an oc’ #and also I’ve focused so much on side characters and villains that I’ve even trying to find out how to file off the serial numbers #bc it might be different enough that it’d better off as original work #BUT the whole premise does hinge heavily on the settings of the original canon #but it’s also a book series and author I hesitate to align myself w even if I’m basically going #‘yeah he did this all wrong and the original is also super colonialist? so let’s not do that’ #but ALSOOO I didn’t start writing this to fix he racist parts I started bc I wanted to romance the big side character dragon >_> #and fixing hat stuff is not necessarily the whole focus which might be disrespectful? idk??? #but I also can’t in good conscience avoid mentioning it bc. it’s the whole plot of the original #AND IT’S SO BAD #the optics are so bad!!!! there was definitely no sensitivity reader! or they were really bad at their job!! #and it bugs me and pointing out all the ways the original is accidentally (I mean hopefully it was an accident) siding w the #colonial power against a native population’s uprising. like. #‘oh if they escape their reservations they’ll kill everyone indiscriminately we can’t let that happen!’ that’s straight up propaganda #like you’re a white Mormon dude I shouldn’t be surprised but ALSO #DAMN SON THATS OVERT #ok rant over lol #epon rambles