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kindahoping4forever · 9 months

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queen do you have any fic recs to hold us over until you make your writing return

I'd actually appreciate some myself! A large number of the authors I had been following (both slash and reader insert) have either gone inactive or on hiatus. I'll occasionally peruse the latest AO3 offerings (Tumblr searches are often fruitless for a number of reasons, that's an entirely different topic tbh) but the fact is, the fic world is so scattershot in our fandom right now, I haven't been reading much lately 🥲

#even back when the fic world was a lot more populated I relied mostly on recommendations or reblogs from friends #the tagging system here has always been so unreliable PLUS people misuse the tags for the sake of exposure #the reader insert landscape is especially bleak and has been for a minute imo #there are ESSAYS i could write about what has happened to that genre in our fandom #and so between that and this weird author exodus that's been happening the past couple years #and now that reblogs are a Very Rare Currency #it often feels like drought city #and the drought has started to spread to the slash community as well which is unfortunate #bc that's what i've mainly been reading the past year or so #so if anyone wants to comment or reblog with some recs - any genre - for everyone that could be fun 💙#ask #anon #fic #fic rec

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