“I have something to say,” Cosmereplay announced. “During last few months, how many of you have come to me, saying your favourites feel unpopular compared to the rest of Cosmere ao3?”
Tumblr fell silent. Finally, the Mistborn authors raised their hands. “We only make up 20% of Cosmere fic. It’s depressing how everything is so Stormlight-focused.” Then the gen-only authors raised their hands. “65% of all Cosmere fic is shipfic,” they added sadly. Then several others raised their hands, including the kadolin authors. “We only have 500 fics, just 13% of Cosmere fic. It’s so few compared to Supernatural, or Heated Rivalry.”
“Kadolin authors, I didn't know you felt this way,” Cosmereplay noted.
“Oh. Yeah, but we do. We feel it too, Cosmereplay.” They glanced down at their hands, calloused from writing 100k fics for each other. “There’s so much pressure. We don’t know if we can keep this up.”
“I still have nightmares,” the Kaladin/reader authors said softly, “about the way Reddit treats slash reader and slash OC fic, and how they treat female fans generally. We’re so ostracized. Anyone else?”
“Nobody cares about female characters, either,” the femslash authors added. “Femslash makes up less than 10% of Cosmere fics despite having so many female characters. It’s hard to get people to care.”
“Я пишу по-русски,” the Russian authors said. “Меня это раздражает, потому что английский доминирует в фандоме.”
A few glanced at the Moashfuckers.
“What?” the Moashfuckers demanded. “You expect this to be a feeling-sharing party because the storming fandom-old gave you a sour eye? Storm off. It’s a miracle I haven’t ragequit this fandom entirely, having to deal with all the #FuckMoash from everyone.”
The Elantris lovers patted them on the shoulder.
“And I write kink fics,” Cosmereplay said. “I know some of you do not like this. It makes me feel different. Not only because I am the only one with 111 fics.” He leaned forward and winked. “Not counting BlindRadiant of course. We all feel alone and unpopular because of these things, right? Ha! Perhaps we can feel alone together.”