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#(still testing negative thankfully so it's probably just weather/allergen related)
thevioletcaptain
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if you as a fic reader ever become possessed by the urge to do a popularity bracket with the fics other people wrote and shared for fun and for free, consider:
don't ❤️
#just!!!! make a rec list!!!!!!!!!
#popularity contests do nothing but drive writers out of fandoms by pitting people against their friends
#and invariably result in people being assholes in the comments as if the people who wrote the fic can't see it
#like ''oh clearly fic x is better than fic y''
#or ''why is fic c even in this poll?''
#nobody gains anything by you doing a bracket to see which fic is the ''most popular''
#a stat which could be found more easily & less cruelly by simply hitting the sort by bookmarks/kudos button on ao3
#anyway ugh. i saw that one of my fics was being pitted against one of my friend's fics in this bracket that's going around
#and i have no idea who is ''winning'' because i refuse to look. but either way it's gonna feel bad!!!
#because i want my friend to get his flowers so i want him to win!!! but i also would like to know that people like my fic!!!!
#so it's just a lose/lose situation even though i generally don't give a shit about numbers
#but this turns it into a schoolyard popularity thing
#and the emotional response to having people *vote* on if your work is *better or worse* than other fic is hard to ignore
#cannot reiterate enough JUST MAKE A REC LIST
#or if you absolutely must do a bracket like this do it in a private chat server or something
#don't create a public forum for people to pass value judgements where the authors can see it
#and feel bad if they get told their fic is ''worse'' than someone elses
#but also feel bad if they get told theirs is ''better'' because it came at the cost of telling another author they weren't good enough
#ANYWAY i still feel sick with a super sore throat and a headache & am probably extra cranky because of it
#(still testing negative thankfully so it's probably just weather/allergen related)
#gonna go make some tea and prep the fic updates i want to post today
#cass says things
#fandom problems
#wank adjacent
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