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leatherbookmark · 1 year ago

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i get it i get it i really get it but also it's very frustrating when a work of fiction raises you expectations, makes you thrilled for The Big Confrontation, and then the next post-clifhanger installment comes and it goes "after everything was over,"

#shrimp thoughts #this is sponsored by the abysmal atz diary story that makes me legit CONFLICTED because the diary ver is now my favourite #but also it contains the diaries (deeply unfavourite (annoying (i don't want to throw the photobook but i'm scared i might)))#but also i've read some fics that did this and as i said I GET IT a fic is for fun and not for Achieving Perfection. and also being great a #writing yearning or suspense doesn't automatically being great (or comfortable!) with writing confessions/fights #i personally love to leave my fics 'unfinished' in that they don't end with a conclusive state of things but like. in media res so to speak #i do enjoy that discomfort of not knowing what happens or IF it happens. i also enjoy making things Not Happen (characters being #passive and confused and just Not Doing Things they 'should' do because they don't know how/are afraid)#even though i know it probably seems terribly pretentious/cheap to better writers #that being said. there are stories that just... by themselves make a reader envision and anticipate The Great Thing and it's... not great a #all when it simply doesn't happen/is glossed over #idk man i am but an armchair-dwelling whiner

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