Fandom Fairy

I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.

Why?

He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?

He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.

Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”

Me: Okay? So what?

Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.

Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”

He laughed.

I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.

Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”

He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”

So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.

I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.

Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.

"Phop take care of Tin."

hit me with your kill shot, baby

“Why do I want to become happy with you? Is it because you’re the only one who share the same grief of that day as I?”

“How can I, when you're trembling beside me?”

Ju Taeseon thought that if he found Lee Chaeha, he could somehow punish the person who destroyed his life.

He went looking for a villain. Instead, he found another victim standing in the rubble beside him.

He found maybe the only other person in the world who had been hurt by that day as much as he had.

And now what?

I want to destroy that bastard who became a cop with his petty belief. I will destroy him with my own hands. But you… You actually came to me on your own. So shamelessly, as if nothing happened. But I miscalculated. That day, you were completely broken. Just like me. I don't know why, but seeing you in this state isn't satisfying at all. It hurts.