#posting screenshots on Reddit like ‘should I be mad at this’ CALM DOWN
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not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…
‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.
‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.
even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.
I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.
fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.
idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.
#ao3#archive of our own#fanfiction#tbh even if I got a comment that said ‘I hate you I’m going to kill your family’ on chapter 75 it still means they read 75 chapters first….#it just makes me sad to see so many writers shouting into the void#and also see ppl complain openly about the specific types of comments they receive#posting screenshots on Reddit like ‘should I be mad at this’ CALM DOWN#sigh
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Professor Cavill HC
listen yall.... i usually stay away from the Real Person fic kinda stuff bc i learned from the psychosis that was the 1D fandom but... this post and @brexrif s additions got me thinking...
Henry as a prof of any kind:
he learns after the first week of his rookie semester that he needs to keep his shirts buttoned all the way. the girls in the front row did not, and could not, pay attention.
he abandons the idea of using the school gym to work out after two days
a group of students just camps in the slow lane of the track surrounding the weight room and ogle
someone said something about ancient Greeks collecting the sweat of gladiators and he had to wipe his sweat off to hide the giggle
ratemyprofessor dot com gets wild
“giant goofball. super hot. defs failed the course bc he was just too hot to concentrate. gonna take it again tho 😏 because i need the credits. just for the credits“
“My girlfriend dumped me bc she felt guilty that she was thinking about Mr. C while we fucked. Stung a bit, but it was the best sex we had...”
all the ‘i thought i was straight’ guys losing their minds
“Someone really should have warned me that hes this hot. I am too much of a thirsty bitch. This semester might actually kill me.”
the ‘how big is it?!’ discourse gets so many people banned that they move it to reddit
complete with zoomed in photos from the second row of class when they think he isn't looking
the engineering majors whip out that trig to try to figure it out, for thirst and just to end the madness.
it makes it worse when they all get results in the 8.84-9.62 inch region depending on what they use in the background for reference and where they rounded digits.
one class is brave and takes to carving their phone numbers or social media into apples to leave on his desk.
one day he walks in to like seven of them and just gives this long suffering sigh while trying not to laugh, it would encourage them too much.
he does that Hot Teacher thing where he leans back against the desk with his arms and legs crossed and has to be like “Guys. For the love of all that’s good and holy. I don’t have tenure yet, don’t fuck this up for me. Keep the thirst on reddit, please?”
half of them aren’t listening bc his arms are just so big and there’s chest hair peeking out above his sweater and they’re just weak like me
in five minutes there’s a whole new thread frantically trying to sift thru and find his user
his WoW character gets leaked and he just gets buried in gifts
the dean has to have that awkward, “look dude you gotta make a new profile, this is just a scandal waiting to happen.”
he deadass begged the openly ace seniors to be his TA bc the last one was just exhaustively flirty and shameless
he hears someone lament the Chin Dimple™ and grows a beard in hopes that tamps their enthusiasm
this only brings a new demographic into the reddit thread/what has almost become a fandom
he shaves and they go buck wild
he tries a stache because he sees a post about how every guy is instantly creepier with a pornstache
once again, makes. it. worse.
one particularly fearless student calls him “Magnum” at the end of that semester and he blushes
buzzfeed writes an article about him, screenshots of the threads included.
the day he gets contacts instead of those cute nerd glasses the whole class is drooling but half post later that they miss the dorky glasses
he assigns a ‘make a meme out of this’ project and half of them come back with the guy looking over his shoulder at the passing girl while his girlfriend looks at him in disgust, all about him.
his favorite one had the guy labeled “The whole class” the girlfriend labeled “getting any work done” and the passing girl labeled “Mr. C’s ass”
he gives this guy an A but swears him to secrecy, he cant encourage the thirst but the kid took a risk
the school has to be like ‘calm the fuck down guys. hes just some nerd in sweater vests. plz we like him and you are making us nervous about lawsuits’
Someone sees him out on a date in a leather jacket and reddit goes insane
everyone actually tries for his classes
he has to make a sign up sheet for office hours
which he now does outside in the courtyard because someone wrote a rather detailed and impressive smut fic called “Office Hours or Dick Appointment?” that had the dean giving him side eye
he secretly loves it but keeps up the long suffering shy boy act out of necessity
if he makes a song or movie reference it is immediately added to a playlist somewhere
the gays are praying hes bi
praying
the year he gets tenure the seniors do a skit about the redit thread at graduation - it fucking slaps
he give a thumbs up and approving nod
i could truly go for days. plz add to it.
#im scared to tag this yall#i dont think im gonna#😂 yall can with reblogs but i dont want that responsibility#henry cavill#the witcher#clark kent nerd vibes
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On Vette vs. Torian
So there's another discussion about that awful Torian vs. Vette choice on Reddit. Since I don't post there, I thought I'd gather my observations here.
CW: discussion of character death
IMHO saying that Vette is a 'damsel in distress' is not giving her credit where credit is due. If you are a Sith Warrior, you know she was part of Nok Drayen's crew as a kid, and that's nothing to sneeze at. You know she's been an assassin. You know she's been strong enough to get onto Korriban, which is supposed to be a restricted world. You know she can get through numerous Sith tombs and solve puzzles on Korriban that the Sith couldn't solve themselves. And as a wonderful post on Tumblr pointed out, in the Dark Temple where everyone is going mad, Vette's calm comment is to ask if she can lift a few bits and pieces.
If you are from the other classes you may not have that backstory for Vette, but you do know she was clever enough to rewire a warhead for her own amusement. She was able to break her way out of impossible confines on Iokath. She's obviously verrrryyy good with computers. And she does not back down. Vette isn't a weak damsel in distress; she's got a kill count.
Having said that, it's also obvious that between Torian and Vette, Vette is terrified of dying. That's another piece of backstory that Sith Warriors have: on almost every planet in the class story, in the background chatter Vette has a line like "have I ever told you, I'm afraid of dying of (whatever is on that planet)." She tells the Sith Warrior, "If I die, I'm going to haunt you.," It's all delivered as quips, but they are 'jokes' that Vette keeps repeating without laughing.
Without that background knowledge, it's still obvious that Vette is more afraid. She does not want to die.
Torian is a Mandalorian. He's as fierce as they come. If you are a Bounty Hunter you know his backstory; how locating and defeating his father on Taris was important enough that he was willing to cover himself in rakghoul entrails and sacrifice himself to accomplish it. You know he's a young man with a very large legacy on his shoulders, a lot of responsibility, and no clan to back him up. It's all a tall order, even for a Mandalorian.
But I don't think anyone ever denies that Torian is tough. In the other classes you meet him as you are planning for battle. You watch him sacrifice other Mandalorians to the fight. You share a Death Ceremony with him. Despite the Mandalorians' talk of dying in a blaze of glory, though, Torian still wants to be saved on Odessen.
Now, between the two of them, who should be saved? Either. IMHO there is no positive or negative choice.
I always save Vette. My canon Outlander/Commander is my Sith Warrior Viri, who considers Vette to be her sister. There's no way she would sacrifice Vette.
But even my bounty hunters save Vette over Torian. I'll be honest: it's because I personally like Vette more. I also want everyone who goes through KOTET - which is an AU for everyone but Viri - to be able to fit into Viri's world with certain characters always available for screenshots.
I object to the auto-complete choices for KOTET, which say that every Republic class - plus the Sith Warrior - saves Vette, while the remaining three Imperial classes save Torian. It's not a LS or DS choice, it's about which character has connected with the player more.
I object to the choice in general, as well. It's a Virmire choice. It's the same sort of choice one has in the Trooper story, where one has to decide to let someone die as they are literally begging for their life or to kill off a lot of unknowing prisoners. It's meant to evoke strong emotion and conflict in the player.
In KOTET's case, I feel strongly that it's also specifically engineered to eliminate any sympathy one might have toward Vaylin after learning about her horrific imprisonment on Nathema. Vaylin killed your pal; you have to retaliate. To make it worse, they picked two very popular, beloved companions for this choice. That's how it is set up with no way to veer from the narrative.
I've seen suggestions that if one has Senya/Arcann alive, they should be able to rescue whoever is left from Torian or Vette. I don't agree with that. I personally feel that whether the player has Lana/Theron or Senya/Arcann, they should have had an option to save both. Maybe that could have hinged on your actions earlier in KOTFE and KOTET, or a combination of actions.
- If you'd raised the Specialists' influence levels, for example, maybe your Specialists developed enough expertise and weapons to save both Torian and Vette.
- If you saved the refugees and civilians on Zakuul, perhaps they showed up to help.
- Maybe the Scions decided to help out if you were nice(r) to them and didn't kill Hesker.
- If you finished, say, four of the Star Fortresses, maybe those companions showed up as your rescue team.
- Did you give the Mandalorians the plans while you were on Darvannis? Since you didn't kill them off, they are alive to help!
- Did you put money back into the Alliance after the Vette and Gault mission? You have shiny new weapons to save both companions!
The point was, there were ways they could have rewarded the player for engaging more in KOTFE/KOTET that would have led to a more positive outcome.
In my own headcanoned universe, Torian is dead. That's because the game narrative is set up that way, and while I do diverge from canon when I can, I feel that removing pivotal moments in the game is perhaps taking it too far. I have Viri send Pierce and his group to try to save Torian, but they are cut off at the pass and can’t get there. But I also respect the headcanon that sees both companions survive.
As I mentioned, I really don't like these choices. They usually feel like a cheap way to raise the stakes in a story, and I feel there are other ways to get there.
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