Since this is the new pinned post, if you’re looking for my fic recs, the link is here.
Anyways, since I’ve received many fic requests in the past month or so and quite a few of them have been impolite, I am saying this now instead of forever holding my peace: I do not and will not probably ever take fic requests.
I don’t need to explain myself as to why, but I’m hoping that if I do you will understand better. First of all, I am a health student with pretty sucktastic chronic health issues. I try to be as transparent as I feel comfortable with about this, and this past month my updating schedule has even been out of wack due to my health. The only reason I write as much as I do is because I’ve learned how to persevere past these health issues, but even still, they are a good chunk of the reason why I do not and will not take requests.
Second of all, I write for my own, personal enjoyment. I don’t write for others. Prompts do not give me personal enjoyment, it’s just not how my brain works. I need to write something that I have come up with on my own, otherwise it just isn’t fun for me. And I’m not writing something that isn’t fun when I don’t get anything else out of it (and no, I will never accept money for my work, don’t even think about asking).
Third, the time it takes for me to even start writing a fic would not be fair to you. The average time it takes me to start writing a fic after I first come up with the idea is well over a year, and I do not think any of you want to be waiting a year or more for me to write your fic. And my churn out rate is not going to increase for your idea at the cost of the several others of my own that I have planned out, or even worse, at the expense of my health. It’s just not. I’m sorry.
Again, I shouldn’t even need to be explaining my reasons. I’m also a little sad I need to be saying this at all, because again, I have been very transparent about well-being and the delicate balance it hangs in, and I’ve previously thought that my health alone made my stance on requests clear, but I understand that I was wrong to assume this.
But this does not mean I appreciate you guys any less. I am flattered whenever I get a request that so many of you love my writing enough to ask me to do a story for you, but the answer is always going to be no, or at least as far as I can see. If this ever changes, I will update all of my account profiles to let you know, I promise.
Selene out!
