"am i still ill?"

i'm not hating on the popular fics, i'm just stunned that all of the popular ones after the finale are just smut smut/with some plot

there's nothing wrong with liking the fics that are popular right now, they're fun, but i just thought more of them would be based more on rewriting the show/adding new things rather than just smut

they are written with extremely beautiful description and characterisations, generally just like wonderfully written with their internal lives expressed with a lot of rawness. this is what draws so many people to read actively, its not just because it has sex in it.

also, smut can be beautiful too, it often is i find.. sex is just an expression of love and its used in these fics effectively - it is not Just indulgent, there is a lot to it

ttmd is very much character driven, dmitmu ive read less of but seems to be as well. sex is used as a catalyst for their storyline and allows for complex situations that are truly wonderful to read.

and doesnt it make complete sense that a fandom thats gotten queerbaited would want an outlet of just some indulgence? where their characters can be happy and their only problems are about what their sexual relationship means. its also just.. a common trope and it works so well with yearning young gays

there are rewrites that too are beautifully written and while i get that the pattern of sex centric fics being the most popular can be frustrating to you, does it really matter that much if the fics you do want to read are out there and are plentiful?? you dont need to read only the popular fics, tagging on ao3 allows you to find s5 rewrites very easily

theres also aus that are super popular right now like matador

i was more or less trying to say that the plot-heavier (not to say the fics with smut aren't plot-heavy, but the trending ones surround those topics and not so much other events and conflicts) fics, while they do exist, should be more popular. there's nothing wrong with the fics with smut being popular, i just think that after the absolute horror that was s5 that the rewrites would be more popular.