I’m not going to reblog the post itself because I don’t want that behavior on my blog, but oh my god I just saw a post about “looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3” and good lord the amount of bad takes both in that post and in the notes?? I have to just ramble about this for a moment because oh my god. it was ludicrous.
people were complaining that, and get this, unfinished fics exist. and that if you read an unfinished fic you’ll have to, get this, wait to read more until it’s published next. they were allll up in arms that there’s fics for a character that don’t cater to their specific interests. that they involve other characters and either do/don’t put them in a romantic relationship when they want the opposite for the character.
like at this point, most of you people in the notes on that post are 1) just being mean and condescending about FREE WORKS you can, may I remind you, READ FOR FREE and EXIT at ANY time! if you don’t like it!, don’t read it!, it’s so simple!, and 2) straight up do not know how ao3 works lmao
like I saw soooo many people in the notes complaining about a certain ship, dynamic, tag, etc, and like… y’all know you can filter by romantic vs platonic pairings, by ratings, by excluding certain tags or other qualifiers, etc etc etc… you know about ao3’s actually incredibly usable filtering and searching system… right… right??
at this point I’m just convinced a lot of these people are spoiled by large fandoms with 100k+ works for their characters and have decided to just be mean and condescending for no reason on main, about literally free fan works you can read for free any time that people spend hours and hours pouring their free time into out of sheer love for their craft. cuckoo bananas behavior if you ask me 🫠
I was legit so close to commenting that maybe they should try shipping two characters with <10 fics, with 0 fics, try liking a rare pair, try hyperfocusing on a character or niche type of fandom with a tiny but lovely circle of fans, and stop treating fan works and fic as Content TM that they deserve to have handed to them that caters to exactly what they want for free and maybe they’ll calm down lmao
like y’all aren’t cool you’re just being mean. we fundamentally approach fic in wildly different ways and honestly the way you do sounds exhausting. literally could not be me, I’m to busy finding joy in shared love for characters and not flipping the table in a rage because there’s one (1) element of the fic that isn’t specifically catered to me, maybe try that and you’ll feel better, hmm?
and yeah I’m aware that last sentence is me being condescending towards them, but frankly it’s warranted when so many people are being that mean and haughty for no reason lmao but truly those takes were horrific. fellow fic writers and even fellow fic readers I interact with, am mutuals with, authors whose works I read, readers who comment and interact with my works, fans of niche fandom subsets that run in the same circles as me— I hope you know this is so wildly not how I approach fics, I love just finding fics for my characters and forming these lil communities where we share our interests and love for them and hype each other up. I love what we have in these fandom niches and I hope you know I would never dream of being so mean and condescending towards y’all. fic writers and readers and fan communities are so special and I cherish it even if clearly there’s people in the notes on that other post who don’t know how to do that lmao. I love your unfinished WIPs, I love your fics that may only partially be what I’m looking for, I love when you write characters in a way I wouldn’t expect but shows your love for your particular headcanon, I love the variety and diversity and variance in fic. I love us. genuinely. fic writer moots I am hugging all of you and I frequently reread your works, even the unfinished ones. ♡
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Pred who is a really good chef, thus putting prey in cauldron and letting them have a seasoned bath so they can eat em
prey: "well, how much longer?"
pred: "lemme taste."
prey:"oki *lifts up arm*"
pred: "(licc licc) mmm, few more minutes"
prey: "Okay :3"
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The wildest thing about being as Texas southern as I am is that people told me Boomhauer from King of the Hill is literally unintelligible…
…and then I watched it for the first time in 10+ years and went what do you mean. I understand every word no subtitles needed wHAT
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okay listen post canon setting (assuming that SL canon never happened)
Entire scene opens with Jinchul bleeding and chaotically trying to run among labyrinth of streets and turns and get away from his pursuers
apparently investigation went really wrong, cultists ratted him out and now want to use him as sacrifice to their so called 'god' and he would pretty much avoid it thank you very much
apparently he's out of luck and they do catch him and drag him back
and here he is seconds away from death, bleeding heavily and almost dead anyway, half not caring but also yelling inside how he still wants to live
and just when they stabbed him but didn't reach his heart yet time froze and with his fading from blood loss and pain shock consciousness he hears PROBABLY an outwordly voice asking if he really desires to live
he kinda nods because his brain ain't functioning at this point and then literal darkness swallows him and all he hears is distant screams of pain and agony
and then he wakes up in hospital barely alive
and then there's a visitor in form of an unfaniliar man who just smiles at him and says that he looks forward to their codependency
jinchul then falls asleep again and thinks it's him hallucinating because of medicine
but then same mysterious man keeps appearing and disappearing on periphery of his vision and one night he wakes up to a looming figure of shadows and wide open observing glowing violet eyes in darkness
he's understandably terrified and apparently it turns out cultists were sucsessful but not the way they wanted.
they managed to summon eldrich god.
but jinwoo casually makes them tea and explains that he never wanted followers or cult like that and everyone they sacrificed were either brainwashed or desired to be sacrificed and it's boring
but then there was jinchul who clinged to life until the end and it caugh jinwoo's interest who wants to experience how it feels to be human
so he appeared through jinchul who became his medium/connection to human world and as long as he's alive jinwoo can have physical form here.
so now jinchul is stuck with a literal eldrich god who apparently favors him (for some reason???) and is technically not hostile as long as no one threatens jinchul's wellbeing and helps solving crimes
and in exchange jinchul keeps being his medium to real world, teches him how it is to be a human and pretty much care about him (and exchange life essence with jinwoo because apparently jinwoo feeds on living energy and jinwoo's in return is the thing that keept jinchul alive until he was transferred to hospital and keeps him healthy--)
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Kejdofjdud why id my blog getting so much attention suddenly
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