first and last time I’ll ever pitch in on fandom discourse, because I like to keep my blog centered on whimsy—but these posts are so tiring to read.
if you can’t find the fic you want to read, write it.
I won’t listen to the “but I can’t write” talk, because literally no one can unless they start. my first fics are an absolute mess. the grammar is fucked beyond repair, and I’m sure there are words in there that aren’t even English. it’s why they’re safely hidden in my personal folders and not online. they’re training grounds, full of cheesy dialogue and poorly written lines, but they brought improvement after improvement.
if you’re lazy and you don’t want to write, then interact with the writers who do.
if you’re afraid of being found out by friends and relatives who follow your blog, anonymous messages with compliments in the inbox do wonders. share positive feedback. show interest. it’ll push the writer to follow certain trends in order to keep the community they built happy—while being happy themselves.
fluff-exclusive stories are the ones with the lowest interaction on Tumblr and AO3.
even angst and MCD are more prolific in that regard, because fluff-exclusive multi-chapter stories lack the catharsis that things like sex or confrontation bring. unless the author is writing it as a passion project, the lack of feedback will have a negative impact on their will to continue, and they will inevitably switch to something that creates more discourse and interaction—because the beauty of writing also resides in sharing.
most of the time, fluff writers end up sitting at a table on their own, while the food they made is picked apart by a few who won’t even thank them for preparing it.
also, stop shaming smut writers.
sex isn’t something that needs to be further demonized. the world as it is today is doing a fairly good job of shaming sex by itself; we don’t need to spread more hate toward something that is literally biologically made to be fucking okay.
that’s it. write it yourself, or share how much you loved it. and stop being mean about sex, for christ’s sake.
