#ranting writer

[cocomoraine]

im getting so old that as much i want to lock in and finish a chapter of 'in pectore', each sentence i type, i yawn (im sleepy af) and my adhd brain decided that its much better to belt to 'reflection' than to write

[whumpthefuck]

People need to stop seeing fanfiction authors the same way they'd see having a personal chef.

Here's the thing, with a personal chef you can ask for whatever you want, and then should be getting whatever you ordered. If the chef makes something you like and you want it slightly different next time, you can ask for that. If the chef makes something you hate, you can voice that and tell them to never make that for you again. You get 110% control over the end result.

However, finding fanfic online is more like driving around and you see a sign outside of someone's personal home that says "Free apple pie!" and you go "Damn I love apple pie" so you show up, and I still have some apple pie, and I say "OF COURSE I DO!!" and get you the ingredients list (tags) for you to look over to make sure you don't have any allergens (triggers) in the Pie. Then I give you the pie (FOR FREE). Now you have two options, you can either eat the pie enjoy it, and maybe let me know, or if you don't like the pie, you don't come by again for more free pie. It's really that simple.

However, some of you, seem to think it's okay to (in this metaphor) see that you have allergens in the pie take & eat the pie anyway. THEN come BACK TO MY HOUSE and yell at me for including allergens in the FREE pie I MADE FOR FUN and because I WANTED TO MAKE PIE, and didn't make you eat the damn pie.

I (and I'd think most writers) got into writing because we enjoy making our own stories, stories we'd want to read. We write for our own enjoyment and post for people who want to read stuff we also like to read and write. MEANING if you don't like what we write, that's fine but you don't get to demand we write exactly what you want. You don't get to complain about what we write all because it's not exactly how you want the story to be written. If you want a story written a specific way, YOU FUCKING WRITE IT THEN!!!

Fanfic authors write FOR FUCKING FREE, this is not our job, this is not done under contract, this is not done by obligation. We do not owe it to you, to write consistently, to post consistently. WE DO NOT AND CANNOT GET PAID FOR WRITING FANFICTION!! So if you want something custom do it your damn self.

This is not me saying that you can never have or voice an opinion on what you'd enjoy seeing next. Sometimes that can be a great way for fanfic authors to get new ideas, and see things in ways they may have never seen before even with their own story. However you as the reader need to understand that this is not a writer's meeting. This is a bus, where you are the passenger and we (the writer/s) are the bus driver. You are free to get on or off the bus at any time, however, you do not get to decide where the bus goes. We as writers do. You are simply along for the ride.

I should clarify that I have never had this happen, however, I see it happen enough, and I hear about it happening enough that I wanted to vent about it.