martyrs and monsters

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[femalefemur]

me @ my mutuals

[the-pen-pot]

Don't you think you owe it to readers to give them what they want?

No? What an odd take. Read my fic or don't.

[bigmouthlass]

What do I look like, Burger King?

I write for my enjoyment. If you'd like to share in that, you're welcome. If not, please move on. This isn't school; nobody's going to flunk you for not reading things.

[throwingmenthols-deactivated202]

all debates abt the artistic merits of fanfiction fail to recognize the purpose of fic. you don’t write fic to be published or to learn how to construct a narrative although you can use it to develop style. you write it so that your friends will message you “bestie you’re utterly deranged for this one im eating dirt” 

[prokopetz]

Yes, your worldbuilding is thorough, your geography meticulous, your plotting elaborate, and your characterisation nuanced, but answer me this: is there a fucked up little guy?

[jackwolfes]

thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

[decepticonsensual]

I was just thinking about how important it is to have authors (both fan and professional) with whom I feel... safely unsafe, if that makes sense.

Like, this is going to hurt, there are going to be things that happen to these characters that I absolutely Do Not Want to happen, but I trust you and I trust this ride.

[decepticonsensual]

@prosocialbehavior you're right and you should say it.

Seriously, this is the philosophy of kink. And theatre. And tabletop RPGs. And rollercoasters.

"I want to experience the emotions of a situation that would be unsafe in real life, but in a safe, make-believe environment, and I need someone I trust to help create that and hold me through it," is a surprisingly common and very powerful thing.

[maraschino-fairy-deactivated202]

wishing all artists a very sincere "get weirder with it" this coming year

[homophobinnit-deactivated202409]

so crazy to me that someone can say “I’ve been in this fandom for a month I’ve been in it for pretty long” like no girliepop it is NOT long. there are people out there who’ve been abnormal about their blorbos for DECADES; a month is naught but a speck of lint on the fandom dedication timeline. you are lying to yourself.

[sunlitmcgee]

it's just so terrifying how the fast pace nature of recent media had rotted people's co cept of time when it comes to media like Honestly

[mylittleredgirl]

a They Deserve Each Other shipping scale where on one end of the axis you have the “no one else is good enough for them” ships, and on the other end you have the ships that need to be together monogamously forever as a quarantine measure. whatever the fuck is wrong with both of them must be contained for the greater good.

[thatoneconfusedcitrus]

decay sounds more gentle than rot. when something decays, it is gently taken apart in it's comfortable eternal slumber. when something rots, it's violently taken apart with agony. in this essay i will

[humunanunga]

[throwingmenthols-deactivated202]

i think the emphasis on "likable" characters has made people very resistant to seeing petty, unlikable human impulses on the page bc they need it to be a sign of incipient Villainy rather than just an unpleasant mirror of humanity like someone having mean thoughts abt someone else but being nice to them reads on the page as an intentional clue into a character's unique inconstancy but unless you are like the most honest person or a very very good person you have probably done that lmao

[writhe]

i do genuinely need to go on some sort of quest this year or i’m going to become evil for real

[borgevino]

there are so many things on gods green earth that are not platonic but are also not romantic. the erotic, the familial, the unconditional, weird codependency, weird codependency (hatred edition), etc. let us all broaden our horizons

[remnantglow]

i love when characters don't get to die

[remnantglow]

this is about villains/antagonists/general horrible people who finally face up to what they've done. especially if they try to pull the good ole "Dramatically Does One Good Thing To Redeem Themselves And Dies," but despite their best efforts they DON'T die. like yes motherfucker there's no easy way out for you, there's only the slow, awkward and painful process of learning to live with yourself. of learning to live with the weight of your mistakes. you get a second chance regardless of if you think you deserve it. you get to try to make amends and do good. you get to live.

[remnantglow]

this is also about every self-sacrificial bastard of a protagonist who puts themselves in harm's way again and again and again to a wildly unhealthy and unnecessary degree. see, there's something so compelling to me in the unspoken suicidality of repeated heroic self-sacrifice, and the thing about implicitly suicidal characters is that i want them to live. and that can be used to make a death so much more tragic and impactful - noble sacrifices and last stands certainly can and have been done beautifully - but there's also something special to me in seeing such a character make it. because you'd die for the people you love, yes, but would you live for them?

[foxconfessorandthewolf]

I hate the whole discourse of: "fanfic writers need to accept criticism so they can improve". Look, I did not post 5k of men blowing their loads so that I can become Hemingway or something, just don't read it if you don't want to, or do read it and drop your damn thanks in the tin.

[liveandletcry23]

Fan fiction truly is one of the last pure art forms because it literally cannot be commodified. It cannot be swayed or altered or sold out and so it will always be exactly what the author wants it to be. There’s no motivation for it to be anything else.

Because it cannot be commodified or made for profit in a world where work is so often taken advantage of, the community of authors at large knows and protects the sacred freedom all authors have to do whatever they want. It doesn’t matter if you don’t finish your WIP, or if your head canon isn’t popular, if the writing makes the story unreadable.

You’re doing it for free, so you get to do exactly what you want. Nothing more, nothing less.

Don’t like don’t read as a principle is essential to protecting this pure art form because you cannot take something so tied to something as unique as human joy and objectively comment on its worth to the individual who created it or anyone else.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Yeah, I gotta say...I'm an editor by profession, and I've worked, off and on, professionally as a writer, both fiction and criticism. I've written fanfiction that I now think is terrible and some that I think is pretty good, but I really neither need nor want anyone critiquing it. I've had work ripped apart in workshops, but the whole point of workshops is exactly that - to make your work better, hopefully with the assistance of people you know and trust. When I edit, I'm giving feedback because that's what I'm paid to do, and that's an act of trust too, because turning your writing over to someone specifically for them to take it apart and help build it back is really hard to do.

Some random person jumping onto a piece of writing you wrote for free, for other people and for yourself to enjoy, is not helpful. I mean, who is that person to criticize? What is their goal? What gives them the right to do something you're not even asking for?

Putting fanfiction out into the world is very much trusting other people, and folks should stop violating that trust.

[captainclickycat]

Yeah people need to remember that not every hobby is partaken in with the ultimate goal of doing it professionally, or making something monetisable. And honestly it shouldn’t be. There’s nothing wrong with making money or a profession from your hobbies if you want to, but it’s in no way obligatory and doesn’t have to be some universal end goal. Creating things just for fun and their own sake is a good and worthwhile thing. Even if you don’t think they’re that good. Leaving unsolicited criticism on fanfiction is like going up to some kids having fun kicking a ball around in the park and saying “you know, you’re going to have to really improve your technique if you’re going to play football with the pros”

[ineffable-writer]

And frankly, even if you are doing it professionally, it doesn’t mean you want the fun stuff you do on your time off to be exposed to the same level of scrutiny.

[rookthebird]

"redemption arcs are toxic, you shouldn't try to fix someone!"

actually it is so important to me that being in community and experiencing human connection can save people. thanks

[chriscdcase95]