#cannot exclude it entirely or the cool fic goes away forever

[teaandinanity]

I understand, in theory, that people like different things in their fic, but I am consistently agog that people look at a story set in a cool fantasy world and say,

You know what would make this better? Removing the fantastical elements and adding More Capitalism.

#I have read and liked a few modern AUs #but I usually have to be dragged into them kicking and screaming #very much the bob's burgers 'but I'm gonna complain the whole time' meme #(in this case 'dragged' means 'an author I like and trust wrote it so I will try under protest') #(or 'someone whose taste I trust rec'd it') #people have tried to explain the appeal to me and I'm just like #'okay yes I live in reality but I HAVE to live here and reality has a sad lack of dragons' #'why would you remove the dragons' #'WHY would ANYONE remove dragons if there could instead - get this - BE DRAGONS' #I really do just need to add more things to my exclusions site skin #except that unfortunately for most of them there is at least ONE fic that I don't actually want to send to the shadow realm #including for one of my NOTPs tragically #cannot exclude it entirely or the cool fic goes away forever