what happened to ppl saying they were going to wear a mask from now on when they feel sick? bc in 2020 i kept hearing "when covid is over im going to stay home and wear a mask when i feel sick" and no one is doing that. covid is far from over, and trans ppl are struggling with long covid at a much higher rate than cis ppl, physically disabled ppl have been pretty much stuck inside their homes since the start of the pandemic, and new studies are telling us that covid is more like hiv than the flu and no one cares. i go to school and there's ppl in my classes coughing and sneezing so much (and sometimes into their hands or without covering their face at all) i feel like ppl are just worse about being sick now then before 2020. i just want to know why no one cares anymore
okay, i have to address something that i've seen float around a bunch on tumblr, reddit, and tiktok lately when it comes to readers who are angry at fanfiction authors for not writing the content they wish to see in their fandom spaces.
...did you ever think to try and write it yourself?
this weekend i saw someone comment on the bg3 sub about how they're sick of seeing astarion fics with 'special/edgy female-centric tieflings or durges' and not much else. they were angry that 'they scroll for hours on ao3 and tumblr but only find all this oc and reader insert garbage, when it's plaguing their fandom space'.
so write the damn story you keep searching for. write what you find the fandom lacks. you take it upon yourself to curate the content you want out there.
if a writer wants to make 50 stories of the same 'special/edgy' original character smutting up a canon, they can? it's their labor of love. their passion project. a hobby. they choose to share it online for free. we are so very lucky to live in a digital age where fanfiction is so readily available, and there are millions if not billions of stories (for free!!) at your fingertips to scroll and enjoy.
i'm getting very tired of finding posts/videos of entitled readers who vocally complain about not being catered to when they themselves are not trying to contribute with the content, pairings, or topics they wish to see.
best ending: they talk it out after lewis wins his 8th wdc and we end up with brocedes in each other's lives again. lewis shows up on nico's yt channel. nico is on lewis' insta. vivian dogwalks both of them for letting the divorce last that long. i join the convent because this is clearly a miracle from god and reblog gifsets of brocedes interacting from the chapel. rinse, repeat.
ending we're most likely gonna get: whatever the hell we have now. nico talks about lewis. lewis will say karting is the best time of his career. for two seconds out of the year, lewis will say nico's name. i will sob, rinse, repeat.
worst ending: they shut the fuck up about each other forever. they process the divorce and move on with their lives without each other. i will go on tumblr and reblog angsty web weaves about their relationship and what could've been. i take psychic damage. rinse. repeat.
*y/n feeling under the weather and tired* *looks up at Alcina with outstretched arms* uppies?
Alcina: *narrows her eyes at y/n*
y/n: *pouts*
Alcina: *scoffs, rolls her eyes and picks up y/n anyway*
Y/n: *nuzzles into her neck with a content sigh*
Alcina: *chuckles, shakes her head and kisses y/n on the forehead* what on earth have you done to me, my little mortal?
y'know i always wondered why it always felt like i was sick for SO long whenever i caught something when i was younger?? then i realised i was waking up at 6am and going to school and doing homework every day so no wonder i spent 2 weeks fighting off colds. the last time i got sick as an adult, i slept in and sat in bed and did nothing as often as i could and i was almost over it in 3 days.
so anyway fuck attendance rewards and shaming kids for taking days off school. let them rest.
calling in sick tomorrow........... I will be sitting on my bed vibrating and rocking back and forth until we get a dan reaction to the phlonde era.....