#i have no stakes in this i don't read or like fanfiction i'm just annoyed when people misunderstand how fandoms actually work

[bisexual-detectives]

I've seen a lot of "fanfiction is only tolerated because it's not monetised" takes recently and they're completely missing the point of why IP owners tolerate fan works.

Fanfiction inherently breaches copyright, whether you make money off of it or not. The reason why copyright owners tolerate fanfic is not because fanfiction writers don't make any money for writing it but because fandom is insanely profitable for IP owners. Fandom gives the original works value those corporations could never dream of creating on their own. Why is Skyrim the one video game that won't die? Because Bethesda enables and encourages modding, releasing modding tools and even enabling mods on playstation, something basically unheard of. This allows gamers to change anything they don't like about Skyrim, personalise it to their preferences and add endless new content so it never gets boring.

Fanfiction does exactly the same for other mediums: it lets fans fix whatever they perceive as mistakes, personalise the content to their preferences and it adds endless new content. If you watch an obscure TV show that doesn't have a fandom, how invested are you going to stay long term when there are no gifs for you to reblog and no fics to read? And in contrast, how invested are you going to stay if you watch a different show which has endless fan content to consume?

Fan works keep media relevant, generate free promotion and create deeply invested consumers. Why can Bethesda keep releasing full price Skyrim reworks for every conceivable platform - that people keep paying for? Because mods keep people invested in Skyrim. Why are people buying stupid official merch for ancient franchises like Harry Potter? Because fandom keeps those franchises alive.

Fandom is only "non profit" for the fans. For IPs, fandom is free labour that generates absurd monetary value - that's the real reason they allow or even encourage it. Disney and Netflix won't suddenly start going after AO3 because some people made $15 on kofi lol AO3 is making them way too much money. Also, going after fandom in the age where internet fandom drives media consumption would be a PR disaster. Harry Potter was the first big fandom to be born into the internet era and Warner Brothers learned very quickly to stop cease and deceasing fansites when the fandom boycotted their HP products in return.

Don't delude yourself into thinking that multi-billion corporations wouldn't have fanfic sites shut down in a second if fanfic was inconvenient for them in any way. They allow fanfic because it's fucking profitable for them and they don't care if fan writers make some change along the way.

If you want to learn more, here's a video essay about copyright and fandom I co-wrote and here are the academic works we used as sources: "Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans" and "Fandom as Free Labor".

[hueberryshortcake]

I remember there being this one commenter on ao3 who would comment on like any story that mentioned Donald Duck just to say things like, “he’s actually badass, you aren’t making him fight enough” or saying that they made him too weak even calling people out if they said wasn’t the best cook. And it’s so weird how when people put him on a pedestal and ignore his flaws they basically end up making him into a different charecter entirely.

none of my friends are quite equipped to handle the breadth of my mind so when I get sent good asks you bet I'm gonna answer them. what follows is a bunch of thoughts about Donald and writing in general and ao3 and idk if they're relevant anymore but i wrote them

dude I'm so scared all the time of mischaracterizing characters to make them fit who I think they're supposed to be like I'm constantly thinking through and double checking that it makes sense for them

because a good interaction with characters that feel like themselves is what I want to read because that's what's good, especially if it sort of plays characters against each other / themselves in a new way. so I'm like ??? when people are so heavy on skewing a character one way or another.

like Donald isn't perfect ig because nobody is but I also don't think he's deeply flawed either but he does have some Character Traits. that you should stick to. he's kind of interesting from a writing standpoint, along with Scrooge in particular and even the triplets, because he's got such a long-standing mythos in Disney and Duckverse history that there is a lot of leeway if you want it.

"would Donald do [x]?" well maybe Donald Duck (dt17) wouldn't but Barks Donald would. or Rosa Donald wouldn't and neither would dt Donald but Italian Donald from x author's run in x year totally would. Paperinik is more likely to act this way than The Three Musketeers Donald.

this is extra complex because you're dealing with cartoon characters who act cartoonishly because they're from the origin of modern cinema and entertainment and they were created for slapstick gags and developed for propaganda. "would Donald respond like [x] or like [y]?" well x is a more slapstick caricature response that emphasizes the lightheartedness of the story and lowers the stakes, while y is a more dramatic action that humanizes him and those around him and ups our investment.

so like. is Donald "badass enough?" I mean dude idk depends on the story depends on the tone depends on the stakes depends on a lot. Donald is super badass (dt17 s1 finale) Donald is a total lame loser (the town where everyone was nice) and I do think you, random ao3 commenter who's being nit picky, need to acknowledge that or you're making him way less interesting than he actually is

also people are so weird on ao3 sometimes I'm sorry. like I'm gonna be honest I have HIGH standards when it comes to fanfiction because I know what I want and I know how I interpret characters and I think I'm right about everything and when people disagree with me which is often (because I accidentally got invested in a children's show which unfortunately leads to a lot of children being involved) I get annoyed and You Know What I Do. I close my ao3 and then I privately tell CycleGirl "you are not going to believe this thing that he would not fucking say" and then she says "that's nice caoimhin lets get you to bed" and it ends

[when-did-this-become-difficult]

2, 3 and/or 25 for the reading meme! <3

oh @doreyg friend! haven't seen you much because I haven't done much exchange stuff lately, very happy to see you, hello! <3

Answers under the cut because they're long and I'm not evil

2. Did you reread anything? What? I don't record everything that I reread because I'm trying to get more into new stuff, but I'm pretty sure I reread some Jack Reacher books for fanfiction reasons, reread Parade's End books because I simply always do that, they're comfort food, and I'm rereading War and Peace as we speak (and loving it just as much if not more this time!)

3. What were your top five books of the year? ONE. No Place for Heroes by Laura Restrepo, which I already rambled about here. Copying and pasting from there.

I’m a sucker for effective usage of two timeline storytelling, and I found both of the storylines compelling. storyline 1: a young woman working against the dictatorship in Argentina and the rise and fall of her relationship with a man she meets at the same time. storyline 2: that woman, now a single mother, goes back to Argentina with her son to find his father. I love a mystery story that isn’t really a mystery in the sense of “who murdered” but rather “what happened to this relationship? what have these people done to each other?” and also the way the mother son relationship is depicted is sooooooo i mean it is sOOOOOOOOOO I still think about one particular facet of it all the stupid time. hngh

Also, Laura Restrepo is my author of 2022 because I read three books of hers this year, the Dark Bride, No Place for Heroes, and A Leopard In the Sun, and they were all in her style, but at the same time, they were all vastly different in subject matter and in setting and I’m just in awe that one woman can have that much range. Honestly, I do feel like The Dark Bride would've been on my top 5 if No Place For Heroes wasn't already in it.

TWO. The Bitch by Pilar Quintana. Maybe I just haven't found out a way to read books in this style, but when I read this book, I truly felt like I was reading something that had a style I wasn't used to? The stakes OUTWARDLY are low, it's presented as simply the life of a woman who makes a living cleaning on the coast along with her fisherman husband, who adopts a dog. And yet I was so emotionally gripped by the whole thing. SO GRIPPED. I admire how much the book feels full of meaning and metaphor while at the same time the author very strictly keeps to telling plain facts about what's going on. The meaning is in the subtext and it's left up to the reader to parse.

THREE. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. I am so sorry to put this on here because I know it is exactly the type of business major thinking that most tumblrinas would find enraging, but I was told to read it by my then-Spanish tutor and I actually think it did help shift my perspective and inspired my late-summer 2022 thriving era. Now, did that era last? No. But it was great while it lasted. I was jogging like six times a week and I could feel myself getting stronger. The book's kind of obnoxious, but it got results. I might have to reread it in 2023.

FOUR. Women Talking by Miriam Toews. Sorry to use buzzwords but it literally is so nuanced, and I love that the central conceit of the thing (it's about women! talking!) means that a lot of the extraneous arguments about sexual assault and systemic misogyny are just things that the author can afford to ignore. Like, this is a conversation sort of by us for us, is the feeling I get, and so it can spend its time at the heart of the matter, on questions of what is right and what is just, and how to figure out the right thing to do in absolutely morally bewildering circumstances. I feel like its nuance comes from a real place of the author (and characters) trying to think things through for themselves and sincerely seeking truth, rather than being one of those annoying books where the "nuances" are just one person trying to flaunt that they can go bothsidesy at will. Also, it's not all philosophy, there's wistful romance and deep rage and friendship and bits of humor here and there.

FIVE. Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. This book is kind of a mess in some places, but it did actually hit in a way I feel like his more-acclaimed The Sound of Things Falling didn't for me. Again, I am a sucker for people being forced to grapple with their memories of the past, and I found it compelling that the main character is basically forced to doubt his own motivations and morality. Vásquez is an idiot for one or two scenes in this but on the whole it made me think, it had an effect on me, and I think overall it's worth reading.

BONUS NOVELLA. Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, it's a bit like Red Dawn or other action/survival stories that are a sort of mix between American dystopia and American action fantasy, except in this story, it's not about winning through nationalism and white supremacy, it's about fighting against nationalism and white supremacy but on a very micro scale, a very "and then we foraged for food in the gift shop" scale.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year? I haven't set them yet! I think I'll probably try to do a baseline total goal, and then maybe some specifics, both in terms of trying to patch the many holes in my knowledge of Official Literature Canon and in terms of trying to build of a base of nonfiction knowledge for Certain Fic Stuff as;asdfkl;sdf

questions from: ask game about what you read this year

[fangirlandtheories]

3 6 8 9 16 22

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

I'll be honest, I don't involve myself in the drama of the fandom so if it's a take I wouldn't agree with, odds are that I didn't see it as I don't actively seek out things that don't interest me. I will say this, and I'll say it carefully: If you want to look at Billy as a tragic character because of his traumatic life, that's fine, but that doesn't excuse everything he did. He's an inherently complex character and it's possible to hate that someone is racist and also hate that that person was abused. I don't know if that really answered the question or not, but it's a take of my own.

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

Honestly all of us 😂 We all annoy each other for different reasons. I will say that nothing has made me more angry than the Steve/Eddie vs the Chrissy/ Eddie thing. It's not even how the fans of either interact with each other, it's the fact that Joseph and Grace have been dragged into it. They're actors playing a role and shouldn't have to play mediators for fans. They definitely shouldn't receive hate or backlash either.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Specific to Steddie shippers: That Eddie is perfect or Steve is perfect. They're both loveable doofuses that absolutely don't know conflict resolution. It's definitely not all pet names and snuggles but massive arguments and silent treatments.

9. worst part of canon

God I could go on for so long that you would almost believe that I don't like the show.

I think ultimately it's that up until this season there hasn't really felt like high stakes or consequences. Steve and Robin were tortured and left with just bruises and a shock blanket. The injuries the characters have sustained would leave someone sidetracked and bedbound in the real world but they constantly shake it off. It's like the only consequences occur when necessary to the plot. Steve gets bitten by bats and strangled twice: Let's tie a shirt around his waist and have him get dizzy once. Eddie gets bitten by bats: Kill him for sad value.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Mike

No haha... Unless...

I'm really not into Kas!Eddie or vampire Eddie. I'm all for bringing him back and if that's the way that the Duffers want to do it: Great! It's a sound theory and it makes sense to the plot, it's just not something I am really into when I'm reading things like fanfiction.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

Here's a plot twist: I'm not going to talk about Steve or Eddie for this one.

Here's a comprehensive list of little things that I love that don't get enough conversation:

1. Ted Wheeler's little comments

2. Murray Mother Fucking Bauman

3. Joyce's (Winona's) eyebrows

4. The dedication to the fact that it's 10 pm and none of the parents know where their children are and don't ask

5. Erica and Dustin's friendship/ the passing of the DnD torch onto the next gen

6. The inclusion of Holly

7. Steve's plaid walls and car picture

8. Nancy "New Hair Every Season" Wheeler

9. Eddie having pretzels and weed in his lunch box

10. The sibling dynamics

11. Steve's butt in those jeans

12. Dustin's quirky style never changing and his mother who loves him so dearly.

Quite literally I could go all day but this would be the longest post.

[izupie]

I got tagged in this like a bazillion years ago but I only just now remembered about it aaaa - thank you for tagging me @microsuedemouse I do love answering these sorts of things <3

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1. three ships: ok here we go

Destiel (Dean/Castiel) - don't boo me I'm right - it's the angel/hunter frenemies to friends to lovers pipeline. theyre cute theyre messy theyre besties theyre fighting theyre risking it all to save each other again. *chefs kiss*

Albether (Albedo/Aether) - boyfriends with secrets and emotional scars find comfort in each other. the quiet one with the bubbly one dynamic. plus they just look cute together im sorry

Izuocha (Izuku/Ochako) - pure fluff. supportive and adorable. theyre uncomplicated to me and make me smile

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2. first ship ever: oooooh !! let me cast my mind back.... back...... oh no why is this so far back........ okay!

The first time I can remember wanting two characters to be together is probably when I was a teeny tiny Izupie watching Sailor Moon while I was in primary school, maybe year 3/4 I think? (UK school system - I have no idea what the equivalent would be in the US) (I could google it) (but I don't wanna)

I was obsessed with Sailor Moon every morning on tv. I watched the dub though - back when I had no idea these things were even dubbed over at all. I loooooved Serena and Darien - I'm sorry I know their dub names can give people hives, but I have so many fond memories of them I'll love them even if nobody else does asdfghjk

the whole he's really secretly tuxedo mask thing broke my tiny little mind and I was like gaaasssppp ! and I wanted them to be together even more - their initial I like you/you annoy me dynamic probably informed a lot of my ship preferences going forward

Every time there was an episode focusing on their relationship I would get so invested. they were my first real 'ship' for sure

3. currently listening: I'm not really listening to any particular music rn - I listen to the radio a lot though! Just a popular music station that plays all the latest hits

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4. Last movie: I can't believe this is legit going to be Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings lmaoooo - it's a comfort film and I needed some cheering up after a long hard day at work last week, so I booted up disney plus and on it went. Literally the lowest stakes you can imagine, just lots of pretty visuals, sparkly wings, fairies, upbeat pop songs and a happy ending. ultimate comfort film.

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5. currently reading: soooooo much fanfiction. so. much. fanfiction. a shameful amount of fanfiction. but it's sooooooo good.

Destiel has the most fics on AO3 guys. there is so much to choose from. it's glorious. if you can think of ANY trope you enjoy there will be pages of fics for it. I am so spoilt for choice and I'm having so much fun with it

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6. currently watching: *looks at the screen like I'm in The Office*

SUPERNATU*gunshot noises*

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7. currently consuming: nothing right now but I'm hungry and I'm going to make some dinner soon. I've been snacking on a lot of the chocolate I got for christmas recently ahaaaa

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8. currently craving: a hug. which is bizarre because I would describe myself as not-a-huggy-person but I had a dream that I hugged someone the other night and I woke up like. I WANT A HUG. but like. not just a hug. I want a HUG. rib crushingly tight with an even tighter squeeze thrown in there. chins over shoulders. noses in necks. closed eyes. breathe deep. step apart but still holding on. That's a HUG. that's what I want.

Universe - get on that please.

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here's the Tagging part, but I'm not sure I want to tag anyone at the moment - so this is a ~free tag~ to anyone reading this that just wants to answer some fun questions! yes, you there!

[radellama]

Fanfiction "Would you rather?"

Tagged by @future-dregs , yours were so fun to read and I got a bit rambly but had fun answering too!

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Friends to lovers, or enemies to lovers?

Friends to lovers, definitely. I'd rather not have animosity and troubled backgrounds that add baggage to the relationship, it's frustrating for everyone. Unless it's a very rare case of well done enemies to friends to lovers slowburn.

Be forced to watch a terrible movie adaptation of your favorite fanfic, or an amazing adaptation of your least favorite fanfic?

Amazing adaptation. If something like Harry Potter can be decent movies with THAT kind of source material, you can do anything. I think I've already seen enough terrible fanfic movies with all these shitty 'franchise reboots/sequels' so. Yeah. looking at you star trek and resi

A more fun question for me would be which one I'd have to direct, my favourite fic with too much upper management meddling and ruining it, or adapting a source material I hate but with mostly free reign over how I go about it - to which I'd still go for the one I hate cause I'll work through it with pure, hard boiled spite and turn it into something good LMAO

Read fanfic chapters backwards, last to first, or read them as parsed from google translate?

Backwards, but I'm taking the assumption that each chapter is in order and I'm reading the chapter order backwards, not each word of each chapter backwards as well.

Consume every fanfic as an audiobook read by a monotone narrator, or have to read every fanfic on a tiny printed piece of paper written in yellow highlighter?

I can't fucking read yellow highlighter and I already watch enough of that monotone shit on YouTube when I'm studying/drawing, easy win to monotonous reading.

Get a tattoo on your body of every fanfic title you read, or never read fanfic again?

Tattoos. Just get a good artist and make a kind of design out of how all the titles are placed, make em tiny so you got room for more, and off ya go.

Vampire AU or Werewolf AU?

Vampire! But good ones please lol. Werewolves are fun too but a lot of what I've read is too bland-angst or unfunny crack, and vampires just appeal to me more

Get sold to a boy band, or be stuck in a time loop with your love interest?

Time loop! There's some really nice episodes of shows that have time loops (I'm mainly thinking star trek but I'm SURE I've seen other time loop episodes) so I'd be interested to see how that'd go with different stakes and have it be relationship oriented/character driven instead of in massive high stakes must save the world lol

Kill your favorite character, or marry your least favorite character?

I MEAN.... CT already gives you the option. I can just do that. I've also jokingly already been married and divorced to the annoying shit head from CT as well, but I don't think it counts cause I love to hate him. Dunno. If eventual divorce is an option maybe I'd get married, cause I can already kill

Meet your love interest in a coffe shop AU or a college AU?

Really depends on what we're studying. If it's my current major, that could be kinda funny. Making short films with these constraints and pretty much no budget is insane, and I'm even more so. It'd surely be interesting. Also tbh I don't go to coffee shops because I don't like the smell and they're always loud as fuck and I don't even drink coffee to begin with soooo......

Have your fic history leaked, or never read another fanfic again?

Fuck it. No shame. I've read some shit and it'd be a bit nostalgic to see what I read way back in the day cause some were fun (most the fics are lost or got deleted) but most of it is cringe LMAO

Be able to read amazing fanfiction but it always has an mpreg plot twist, or only read bad fanfiction for the rest of your life?

Listen. If it's amazing, mpreg could be good. I just don't like seeing weird mpreg that feels fetishy and not well done. Plus if this means cool trans rep in fics, sign me up I'll get over my own personal discomforts. Also will it stay a plot twist if it's in EVERY fic I read? That's just overdoing the trope with no innovation

Gay ships or straight ships?

Honestly I prefer The Gays ™ cause at least back in the day, when did we ever get shit. It was all queer baiting or villain characters or bury your gays. But! If it's written well I honestly couldn't care less, I'd take an interesting het ship over a bland gay one any day

Ship a rarepair with almost no content, or a pair with lots of content but almost all of it is cracky nightmare smut?

Haha both of these are reality 🙃🙃 I mean, I made an OC to ship with my favourite dude (almost no content cause I'm da only one making shit) BECAUSE all the other fics with my man were fucking gross. Not even funny cracky nightmare smut just straight up. Enemies that are together but not really lovers, taking advantage of power imbalances, incest, and straight up being disrespectful and blurring lines of consent and all of it feeling wildly ooc. YUCK NO THANKS I'LL STAY IN MY CORNER WITH MY OC AND CONTINUE MAKING DUMB MEME COMICS AND ATTEMPTING THE NICE FIC

See your OTP shatter years after their happily ever after, or never have the happily ever after happen in the first place? 

Hmmmm..... Well considering my oc ship I mentioned previously ALREADY HAS a betrayal and break up with ambiguous ending in mind for their 'canon' fic, I might have to go with the first one. Cause it can be done well and having that reflection of all the good times together being only memories can be so bittersweet... Though I'm up for reading a good one that explores never having gotten together. Any otp I'll read either if it's good

Read a poorly written but complete fanfic, or a literary masterpiece last updated June 2013?

Listen. I've already read some masterpieces that haven't updated since earlier than that. I still think about a lot of abandoned fics all the time. If it's good and I have to live with it being incomplete I'll take it

Read SSSS++++ tier smut with almost 11k words, or 70k words worth of fluff?

Both, if they're both well written. But tbh I'll take the smut if it's that good

Read only alternate universe fanfics, or only canon fanfics?

Considering I get a little inwardly pissy when I see some utterly whacky ooc stuff, I'd rather take the aus, cause then if people feel too ooc for me it's just an au lol..I know the point of fanfic is that you can do whatever but also, if you're doing a canon/canon adjacent fic, I prefer when they're taken seriously. I know that's pretentious as fuck and definitely of the 'you will never understand these characters like I do' shit but. Aus are so much easier to enjoy cause so many people have weird interpretations that'll piss me off way more if they're trying to pass it as canon...

Introduce fanfics to your normie friend with an ongoing smut fic with great writing, or a complete fluff fic with terrible writing?

Great writing. Nothing wrong with some smut if it's really good, no need to be prudish. And honestly, if the normie friend is REALLY against it, I could just create a censored version for them and snip out the smut scenes.

Read your NOTP with all your favorite tropes and perfect characterization, or your OTP with tropes you despise and inconsistent characterization?

Notp done well for sure. If it's that good and in character with good plot and tropes, it could be fun. Dunno if it'll change my mind on it being notp lol but I'd rather that than have to read those shitty fics for my man all over again lol.. Already been through that don't make me do it again

Read a fic with an interesting concept but very poor writing, or read a fic with an uninteresting concept with really good writing?

I've already read plenty of both. Some fic authors are just able to make the most mundane things compelling, and some are still honing their skill but clearly have the passion, and both are fun to read. Don't really have a preference here, I'd probably just go on whatever is recommended to me/piques my interest first lol

Have a major character death, or have a bed sharing scene but it's a ship you hate?

Both lol, I don't really care. I'd be mildly curious about how others characterise the ship I hate, and major character deaths can be very interesting and help create some fascinating dynamics and character driven moments. Actually maybe I'd lean more towards character death

Read a fanfic that has consistent grammar and spelling mistakes, or one that the characters are wildly different than canon?

Grammar and spelling mistakes. I'm taking this as 'wildly different to canon but trying to make a canon fic,' in which case it's a massive no thanks. If it's a crack au or clearly meant to be silly, I don't mind, but grammar and spelling aren't that bad

Every fanfic includes Jackson Wang, or every fanfic includes at least one NSFW moment?

Fucking .. Jackson Wang... I've already been in the dark days where I read Kpop fic and every other fic he'd be there anyway and sometimes it's the most random thing... He's a nice enough dude irl but now I'm older and have different fandoms to actually read I realise I'm rather uncomfortable reading fics of irl people, no matter what the mental gymnastics I might've used to justify back in the day. So I'll take the nsfw thanks

Read the most absolutely messed up dead dove with your most wholesome otp, or subject yourself to 100,000 words of your NOTP all written in a solid block with no punctuation and horrible grammar?

Dead dove. I can take that, I'm fucked in the head anyway and might really enjoy it. Spelling and grammar being poor I can deal with, but a solid block? Even of a ship I do like? No thanks that's going to make my head cave in

Have the power to read every fanfic in existence, or have the power to make any ship canon?

All da fanfic, and please have part of that be that I remember the titles and where to find them LMAO. Unless we're talking about turning my oc ship canon in a game mod.... Coders hmu I have ideas to make this a reality

Have your OTP get together in canon but one of them dies in a tragic way, or all members of your OTP survive but get together with other people?

Hmmmm.... Really depends on what ship it is. And the context. I'd take either cause they're both great angst.. I am trying to think of what I'd lean towards but it really feels split down the middle for me lol

Read a cringy 70 chapter Harry Styles mafia AU, or a highschool Kpop AU y/n fic horrible grammar?

Already read those cringe kpop high school aus with next to no grammar and I'll fucking do it again. I don't care for Harry Styles at all lol

Accidentally send your boss a super detailed smut fic, or read a super detailed smut fic about your boss?

Read one, I can keep that to myself. Yeah maybe the first couple days/weeks after I read it will be hard not to laugh or something, but I'll get over it I can be professional.

Read smut fanfic aloud to your parents, or submit fanfic to the employer of your dream job?

I MEAN....... I'M STUDYING TO MAKE MOVIES RN AND IF IT'S MAKING A SCREENPLAY FOR AN ALREADY EXISTING FRANCHISE THAT'S TECHNICALLY FIC!??? I dunno if making movies is my ~dream job~ but I've always wanted to be creative and make stories so. Easy. Also if I make movies or whatever and there's a sex scene in it that's really similar to reading a smut scene to them anyway..

Pine after an oblivious love interest, or be the oblivious love interest being pined after?

Mutual oblivion 🙈🙈 🤯💥

jk, I think both have their interesting qualities, I can't really say. What about being oblivious to the fact that you're pining??

Hanahaki disease, or your soulmates first words to you tattooed on your body (and they're really stupid)?

Ummm... I don't really read soulmates aus all that often. Hanahaki has a really cool aesthetic to it but all the fics seem the same, and tattoo ones... Like once you meet, what's next? I'd probably say hanahaki just for the aesthetic and fingers crossed it's interesting and not bland tragedy porn, or I'd just ask for a better soulmates au LMAO

Be an Alpha, Beta, or Omega in omegaverse?

I've never read any of these kinds of fics so I dunno. I'll be whatever is funniest or provides the most compelling plot

Read a fanfic where the characters turn into furries, or a fanfic where the characters all get pregnant?

Nothing wrong with furries, could be fun. Lowkey interested in what's caused everyone to get pregnant, like is it just slice of life and EVERYONE is pregnant, like men women and all inbetween alike? Or is it a sci-fi or fantasy where there's some magic/science bullshit? It could be interesting? And tbh I have a few scenes in a fic I'm writing with sci-fi bs for some characters getting pregnant but it's coming from a body horror perspective so? If it's a cool premise I probably wouldn't care about everyone being pregnant?

Be able to resurrect dead fics, or have the power to create of plethora of new fics effortlessly?

So uh. This is the choice between resurrecting dead fics or actually having the time to write my 20+ aus just for ct? That I could even write fics for other fandoms? This is easy I wanna finish writing my fucking fics babbbeeeyyy

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Tagging @stillmoveforward @hellishgoat @fanimefreak @kanonavi @dishesoap @nyx4 and anyone else I'm forgetting if ya wanna do it. No pressure to it you don't want to either

[decennia]

I have reread my previous response to the OFCA, and I wish to extend an apology. Not to them, but to myself, and to my mutuals who have taken the time to know me, and the followers who have taken an interest in my blog and OCs. This is completely out of the norm.

This is not me. I am not this person, yet I have allowed myself to be reduced to this. I received many more anons, to which I will respond to below the cut.

I initially wasn't going to dignify anything with a respond at all, but there were some truly vile and malicious things said on the part of the OCFA, and I want this brought to people's attention. To show what kind of people they are.

Please note that I do not stand with nor am a part of the OCFA. I am not in support of them, nor their methods, and should anyone claiming to be me enter their inbox under the claim of being an OFCA member, promptly ignore and delete.

S T R I K E T W O

TW: mentions of Puti*n.

This is disgusting. This is truly sickening, for you to compare someone to a man like Putin. To compare anything a fucking fandom is going through to genuine fucking terror and war. There are people dying, and you compare a young writer to a killer. These situations are not the same, they will never be the same. I am not a mean person by nature, but you have genuinely disturbed me.

You think I'm angry? You haven't seen me angry. I don't get angry, because at the end of the day, this is an online community for fiction. Do you understand? This is for fanfiction. The stakes are immensely low.

Do not tell me who my friends are, or what they are saying. Even if a story was stolen, that does not excuse this behaviour. This is harassment. You are following people across blogs, across platforms, spamming their reviews and inboxes. This is not okay.

"Nikki was abusing people who shipped pairings she didn't like." I have not witnessed this at work, and I know you have a tendency to lie, but are you not guilty of the same thing? Did this all not start because of Darklina? This is abuse, too. Emotional, mental. Stop. And Dobby? Is? Fictional? Why the fuck does it matter?

My "input" so to speak wasn't written to "help." It was written as a warning, to get you to leave me alone. I want no part in any of this, I just want to make my graphics and OCs and read my Batman smut in peace.

I don't know who Rides is (I probably will recognise a username, though), but who the fuck do you think you are, degrading people like this? You claim to be the "OC Friendship Community," yet all you do is attack. There is nothing friendly about calling someone a "cheap hooker." And don't you fucking dare say a bad word against Sara.

So what if people think it's cute? LET THEM. It's what they like, stop shaming people for things they like. You don't like it, don't follow it. Don't go along with it. Block, move on. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

This was a safe community before you. I felt safe. I was happy. Just leave me alone. You are the ones putting the community in the state that it is in. Also, why does it matter so much?! It is an online community that should have no bearing on the physical world, on your day to day lives. I know it didn't have much on mine, until you came into my inbox to spread your lies and abuse.

Because yes, they are lies. I have spoken to Madz and Cat. I am their friend. They don't hide behind the anon icon. They don't attack and harass.

There is nothing peaceful about this. Please. Stop.

S T R I K E T H R E E

I apologize for cutting Jean short, but I was trying to sleep and it was very annoying to have my phone pinging off at irregular intervals. So, I switched my anon off. Why did they not continue, though? If they believe so strongly in what they say? I'm genuinely curious to know what "you all know," but alas, that will remain a mystery.

The OFCA, in theory, sounds good. A community where we could all get along without any of this abuse? Wonderful. But your methods are fucking abhorrent, and no, you cannot build a utopia on the back of hate. That's not how this shit works. This is not Marxism, this is not the culling of the upper-class to make way for paradise. This is just hate.

Yes, you can call me Dina. That's... my name? But as an organization claiming to want to cultivate friendship, there is nothing friendly about you, Jean. Do you not understand that you cause anxiety, too? This anonymous tirade, it ends here. You are openly maligning and abusing others too, and I will not have it on my blog. Not in my house, my safe space.

Here's something: block the Darkling tag, unfollow the blogs. Why should the other person have to do it all? You have the power over your own online experience. Not me. I have the power over mine. And you're right, I can delete any anons I do not wish to respond to, which I will be doing after this post.

You cannot make a positive change using negative methods. At the risk of sounding twelve, two wrongs don't make a right. I'm sure if you approached me with kindness and truth and respect, I would've been open to hearing you out. As it stands, you made it distinctly clear you don't care about me (so, why are you even contacting me?), nor do you care about the truth.

Now here's something interesting: how the fuck does one intimidate someone else online? And why go to so much effort over fictional stories? How could someone be intimidated into silence on a fucking fanfiction forum? I'm just so fucking curious, because, as stated before... This has no bearing on my real life. It has a bearing on my mood and perhaps my mental state should I allow myself to linger too long, but there are options to remove yourself from that situation.

Stealing stories is wrong, I do not condone that. But to my knowledge, no one has done that. And even if they did, this reaction is completely unwarranted.

Again, I have no clue what the Dobby issue is, but may I just state once more: my guy is a literal fictional character. I...?

WHY DOES IT MATTER WHAT PEOPLE LIKE OR WHAT THEY WRITE?! IT'S MADE UP. IT'S FICTION. THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE.

This is my final word on the matter. I will be turning anon back on, but please note that every anon henceforth that does not pertain to my OCs or stories will be deleted. The askbox is not designed for this. Respect that, and respect my space, as I will yours. Do not contact me again. Please unfollow me if you are a member of the OCFA. As I do not know who you are, I have no way of removing myself from your lives through blocking. So please, remove yourselves from mine. I am not your enemy, I am not your friend. Consider me nothing to you. I just wanna make my OCs and simp for Robert Pattinson. I'm not hurting anyone, nor do I intend to.

This is my safe space. Leave it.

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

Hello! It's great to have you back. Hope changing cities went as smooth as possible 😚

Yet again, the way you describe emotions is so detailed and realistic, wow.

Magnus considered it a privilege to see Alec like that.

Simp.

“You’re allowed to move on if something ever happens to me.” Alec said after an hour of silence.

Magnus: are we really talking about it now? If the sex was bad, you could've just said it.

Whooooo, miscommunication, the cornerstone of fanfiction (affectionately). It annoys sometimes but also reminds that it is easy to judge people when you're not in the situation like them. It is easy to talk about the things that aren't triggering or don't make you feel insecure and unsafe. Communicating is an ordeal which is why I choose not to communicate.

What's with your characters and getting engaged to people they don't love. Only Imasu is selfish enough to do something for himself. I guess your fav fic trope is fake marriage/dating.

"You want the man back and you won't even go say hi to him."

I smell hypocrisy. But magnus is pretty so he gets away with it. Pretty privilege for magnus.

"He's my Alexander, Magnus."

Low blow, imim!Alec would appreciate if only Imasu didn't propose to magnus.

"Okay. I'm coming." Magnus disconnected the call.

Yeah, my sweety, go! You know, I really love all this romantic grand gestures at the expense of your future but they sometimes seem toxic to me. A very important part of your life is at stake. If a person loves you, they would understand your choice. Especially Alec, judging by what he said earlier.

Lightwoods are little and big (Maryse) shits and the greatest malec shippers. Good for them. Oooh, and the awkwardness i anticipate...

Thank you for the chapter! And I hope it is really the last time you update the chapter count. Have a good day, night, or whatever time you are reading this :)

Hi again.

“If the sex was bad, you could’ve just said it” SCREAMING AT THIS BRO.

I completely agree about the big gestures thing. We’ve seen time and again how Magnus keeps on making these big sacrifices for Alec in timeline I. This is why Magnus decided to go for that meeting in timeline II. This is growth for him. He’s learning that he doesn’t always have to be there. He can put himself first too—it doesn’t mean he loves Alec any less. And even Jace and Izzy understood. If Alec was awake, he would have too. He would have been proud of Magnus for doing that in fact.

Also yes, get ready for some awkward times bb. Thank you. I always love hearing your thoughts. 🌻💚

P.S. I have to catch up on the last two chapters of the vampire au. I’ll find you soon with my reactions.