The votings are closed and it is decided which fic is the saddest, and which author is the biggest heartbreaker in our ship! 💔
Since many people voiced that they’d prefer to know more than just the winner because it was hard to decide on just one fic to be the saddest, I’ll share the top three sad fics with you.
The top three saddest fics:
Chapter 16: wrap my flesh in ivy by javelinas (@in-case-you-get-thirsty)
Chapter 5: Every day, for the rest of their lives by JamesJohnEye (@jamesjohneye)
Chapter 6: It Just Happened (Nightingale) by GayNinjaBadass @gayninjabadass
Head over to AO3 now (X) to look up which fic was written by whom to see if your guessing was right or wrong :D
Thank you so much to everyone for participating, reading, and voting! It was really fun to me to organize and see this challenge through <3 I can’t wait for the next one! Feel free to still give me feedback if you want @abigailht for future projects or @desussquad.
@abigailht ; special thanks to @annyanka-x-o for fanart contribution <3
The voting results:
85 votes altogether
The exact votes on each chapter won’t be revealed to not put unnecessary pressure on the authors! (So please don’t ask)
Did you read every chapter?
If "No": Why? And which ones did you skip?
I put yes but I technically didn't read all of Chapter 4. As soon as I realized what happened when Daryl threw the knife I knew I couldn't handle it and skimmed the rest of the chapter.
I read all but the last 5 and it was because reading so many sad fics got me triggered into a depression low. That I'm still in, 2 days later. But I don't want anyone in the challenge to feel bad! I've never been triggered like that, didn't realize it would happen, and it's really a testament to how great the fics were.
Only got through chapter 5 because I was crying so hard I barfed.
How did you feel about this challenge?
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Feedback:
This was awesome even if I am mad at EVERYONE right now because ow ow ow ow ow ow ow... ;P
I loved it! The thing that bothered me was the fact that almost all of them were about Jesus/Daryl dying. I wanted different types of angst. Break ups, unrequited love, etc. And i wanted some AU (no ZA) stuff but other than that it was great! Really hoping to see more challenges
It was perfect.
from what i can tell it was great, tysm for doing it! i love the idea that writers planned like this for the ship to have fun, but maybe another genre would be more fun, i cry easily ='( but still loved the whole idea. plz tell the others i loved all of them, i had four favorites and it was so hard to pick, some of the lines of this one just killed me tho. loved the art so much too. loved it all, team desus 4 life =D
Thank you for organizing it! Everything looked great. I hope the authors will reveal themselves eventually.
Great organization, I was totally pleased!
Perfection.
Fantastic project! Congratulations to all the writers - they are magnificent! Just wanted to add my notes on my particular favourites (perhaps the next project could have the reader's 'top 5'...?): 6. It just happened (nightingale) - Bawled throughout, beautiful. 5. Every day for the rest of our lives - This story is worse than having them die! 3. Vows - Cried, heart rending. 7. Smoke and stone - Broke my heart - really well written. 16. Wrap my flesh in ivy - Lots of tears, needs a 2nd read. 14. Once there was - Bawled @ the end, started so cute.
thank you so much for this challenge! it was a fantastic read and a good opportunity to clean my tear ducts. special thanks to you as a hoster, i've never seen a fandom event organised as smoothly and cleverly as this was. and the illustrations! *__* such a great job <3
I demand the next challenge to be a highschool AU.
maybe u can give the top 3/5, not just the winner?? sadfic kinda limits everything, they all killed one of them basically, maybe different challenge.nobody writes poetry; force them all to do something else
It is amazing! I want more absolutelly and can't wait for next! Thank You so much for this <3
Cried so hard over this story... (It Just Happened (Nightingale)
