May 13
There's a whole thing about making your 'x reader' character an oc in their own right
If the author didn't give the reader a personality with flaws and fuck ups, they'd just be a Mary Sue making for a quite frankly terrible story. I know people desire to see themselves in the reader but that's never going to be 100% achieved, there will always be someone out there who thinks "i would never do that" when they're reading your reader character
To go into x reader fics and expect them to be a clean blank slate is to go into the fic and expect no story at all, there's no story if the character is meant to contribute to every single reader with their actions, and that sense of entitlement is honestly really annoying
#ive seen some of my favorite authors get this complaint and it honestly always surprises me#bc the audacity#im with you in terms of leaving the description of the reader as vague as possible so people can see themselves in the character#but not when you dont want the reader to have a backstory or a personality#that just gives you really flat writing#this made me think about my reader in terrible thing and how#besides her angsty thoughts#she's pretty much a clean slate#and thats okay bc the story is only 4 chapters and focused almost entirely on the relationship#with full length fics how do you expect the author to keep the character blank the whole time??#idk that way of thinking just takes out so much fun from reading x reader fics#penny for my thoughts#x reader#ao3
