oof

Telling gay creators a character is not queer and being continuously bitchy over it won't stop them from making fics. There is no such thing as being "underrepresented" and "oppressed" by ONE fic 🤦

❌️ ableist

❌️ encourages capitalism

❌️ people can be losers and be employed

❌️ makes being jobless sound like a moral failing

"Get a hobby"

✔️ keeps disabled people who can't work in mind

✔️ does not encourage capitalism

✔️ if they already have hobbies you can tell them to get a new one

when a writer makes a fanfic series with multiple chapters, they are quite literally writing a book. I suppose the word “series” gives a different connotation to it but, yes, a writer is committing themselves to writing a book.

these “series” take a lot of time not only to write, but to plan. there's a lot of thought that goes into timeline, chapter planning, scene planning, character journeys/backstories, three act structures and so on. some writers even go deeper and add a bunch of symbolism and foreshadowing.

it's not much different to writing an original story. most book authors take months, if not years to finish a book. I think there's a mindset that fanfic is “easier” to write, but I'm going to hold your hand when I say this: it's not.

recently I've been seeing a rise of "update demands" when it comes to writers on here and their series. I've experienced it myself, so this post is to put into perspective that a lot of us writers can't publish more than one chapter every month or so.

our series aren't film series with big production teams, nor do a lot of writers write everything in advance so that they can publish weekly. add that to the fact that a lot of writers, myself included, have other series going on and— unfortunately, your favourite series may only see one chapter, maybe two if you're lucky, a month.

and I know that a lot of you are just excited but also understand that phrasing is so important. if a writer feels like they're being rushed/hounded they'll lose motivation. so perhaps instead of saying things like “when's chapter two!!”, “PLEASE update chapter 2”, “WHERE IS CHAPTER TWO??” or the dreaded: “are you ever going to update ( series name )?”, change your phrasing to :

“I'm so excited about ( series name! ). I'll eagerly be waiting for the next chapter.” even throw in something you liked about the fic.

I promise you, writers wanna finish their series and let you all see it as much as you lovely readers want to see it, but you reaalllyyyy need a different approach and mindset.