You started Tides in 2023, do yu think the fandom changed since then? S1 vs S3 and all that?
I actually started āTidesā in 2022, it just didnāt get posted till January of 2023, so itās even older than people thinkš
Of course, 3 years ago it was already a thing, compared to letās say 2016, but these days the trend has become obsolete: any literary work gets judged from the perspective of contemporary agenda, and if it doesnāt tick all the boxes and doesnāt please everyone, itās considered trash, the author automatically being called names I donāt care to repeat. And donāt even get me started on the whole proship/antiship discourse.
āTidesā, being a targcest fic, didnāt escape criticism back in 2023, survived a new wave of hatred that came with S2 in 2024, and is slowly putting up shields now, on the dawn of S3. To be frank, I am side-eyeing this June and already preparing myself for the rise of purists and people who seem to have forgotten the definition of words fiction and fun. These are the same people who will knock on my inbox wearing an anon mask and try to dig up some subtext that has never been in āTidesā in the first place and say that it doesnāt have enough representation and that I should burn in hell for my ships and tropes and writing.
And I agree that some rough edges have to be polished, especially in those first chapters, but I cannot understand people who judge fictional characters as if they are real and get so worked up about a fanfiction work just because it follows tropes they donāt like. In 2022, when everyone was peeing their pants over Daemyra edits, purists were much quieter than they are now, thatās for sure. āTidesā has been called āharmfulā on the clock-clock app, while ironically, I have never heard that from any of the readers. On the contrary, I received messages how it helped them deal with their personal stuff.
In all truth, I believe that āTidesā became what it is because it was never meant to please everyone. I needed this story to be complex and painful and provocative, so that readersā hearts would pound madly in their chests when they read it, and if āTidesā offends someone by its mere existenceā¦ well, no good story seeks everyoneās approval.
So yeah. I think that fandoms changed, all of them, and not for the best. Itās almost funny how everyone thought that we would become more liberal and free with ideas as time went by, and instead history proved that its a cycle once more, and we are slowly retrograding to the middle ages in all aspects of life, fan spaces included.
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