I just read an excellent fic yesterday wherein the author fully invented a whole Romulan novel just for Julian and Garak to talk about. Being as invested as I was, I commented on the fic letting the author know how interested I was in an expansion of their ideas of Romulan history or more details about the fictional novel itself.
This beautiful fucking human being replied to be WITH A WHOLE FUCKING ESSAY DETAILING THE PLOT OF THE NOVEL AND THEIR HEADCANONS ON ROMULAN CULTURE IN REGARDS TO ITS INFLUENCE ON THIS FAKE FUCKING NOVEL!!
Im devastated this novel will never exist! I need it so badly! But also like. Star Trek fans? Nobody is doing it like they are. Theyâre fucking crazy (affectionate). Theyâre inventing whole cultures, art forms, books, paintings, people, etc.. Theyâre creating whole Tolkien-esque worlds for a 4k fanfic about a fucking pretty boy doctor and his gay ass lizard homie.
Comment on fics besties! Comment on fics!! Whole worlds of information are waiting to be infodumped on you if you just make it known you liked their work! Everything is yours IF YOU JUST COMMENT ON FICS đđđđ
Something similar happened to me! Somebody commented asking if the book about the Cardassian power plant accident Julian and Garak were talking about was real, and I said it wasn't... and then immediately started writing it. It's nowhere near done, but it's still three chapters in a book that wouldn't exist without that beautiful comment :)













