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it absolutely terrifies me as a fic reader when I sink a lot of time into someone’s project and they haven’t been active on ANYTHING in months. like pls just communicate in some small way that you’re alive and not grievously injured 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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I personally dislike Invincible plot relating to Oliver. and the whole “minor has to choose between the belief systems of his family members” trope (in which the distinction between good vs evil is fairly clear). the complexity of that narrative begins and ends with the fact that he is a child. when Oliver starts taking after Nolan I just roll my eyes in annoyance, biding my time until the story progresses to the point where he makes his final choice and we all move on. my brain has nothing to play with for now. can’t say the same for the ongoing Mark vs Cecil debate, which I think better covers opposing arguments about ethics and utilitarianism. hmm also I kinda just don’t like kids lol

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you bring up a LOT of good stuff in here. I guess what I actually now have a problem with in fanfiction writing is, based on your rundown, fragment misuse. but I think I can see how sometimes it’s totally justified stylistically. and come to think of it, I’ve read from authors who break hard rules in their books—it WAS consistency that made it work. this was a very thorough response to chew on, thanks!

#1 most common error I see in amateur fanfiction writing HAS to be the use of fragments. I think there’s a very serious epidemic afoot few are talking about. I see incomplete sentences SO often, and they’re usually used to build off of complete thoughts without using conjunctions or commas.

someone with a degree or actual technical writing knowledge could explain this much better than me and give examples, but fragments are very deceiving. I think so many people fail at catching them because they flow like our own thoughts. story and imagery are still communicated—the problem is structural (and thus many might argue it’s a matter of style).

someone has to know what I’m yapping about…

like if I write “John met her eyes. Saw the love shining in them.”

one of these is not like the other ⁉️

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chat are we using silvika or sevilco, this is a very important question.

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it’s been fun fighting for vanco in the trenches, MIND YOU 🤫🤚

I am still the #1 sevilco shipper

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the images of pre-canon/AU silco and vander coming out are my act 4

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not me creating a burner account just because the vanco antis got to me

there’s the run-of-the-mill complaint of “why do you have to romanticize and/or sexualize xyz characters who have a strong platonic bond in canon”

it’s nothing new and we know these people should just shut up, create the content they want to see, and settle with the fact that everybody will have different interpretations instead of shitting up ship tags between characters who aren’t even biologically related

but there’s a recent slew whining in shipping spaces about the use of “brother” in canon, which got me thinking about all the ways “brother” and “sister” are used IRL and in fiction to denote bonds not strictly familial in the traditional sense. you’ve got “brothers in arms,” minority men and women who use “brother” and “sister” despite being strangers, nuns and fictive witches referring to one another as “sister.” not even mentioning the history of queer censorship, it’s clear that these labels CAN and DO go beyond a bond only siblings can claim (whether blood related OR adoptive OR two people viewing each other as siblings regardless of legal status/history). they just as easily encompass group or shared identity, y’know, as two allied pioneers of an oppressed class charting a path to revolution might co-opt??? I think silco said it best: “you know what bore us through those times? loyalty. brothers and sisters back to back against whatever the world threw at us.”

these people spamming “uhh but they’re brothers” remind me of the “uhh a woman is a female” crowd. refusing to acknowledge the ambiguity of language out of spite or ignorance. meanwhile media-literate people are just rolling their eyes. to conclude: you’re not weird for liking vanco. you’re also not weird for preferring their friendship, until you start riding your moral high horse or being a nuisance over harmless things. enjoy yourselves shippers, spread the love