RECON

anyone else perpetually feeling like they'll genuinely never find love LOL like not in a funny quirky way like truly......like im just not built for it im not the kind of person stuff like that happens to

I'll never get over how fucking ridiculous the post-hunger games dystopian YA trend was. Every book was "society is sorted into *rolls dice* 5 groups based on *picks card* astrology signs. It is illegal to *throws dart at wall* sing. The main character is special because she *spins wheel* knows how to read. Two boys are in love with her."

Hunger Games was a dystopian series. The copycats don’t seem to understand what dystopian fic is and wrote adventure novels that imitated it. That’s why they all read so weird. It’s like someone watching their first ever space opera, mistaking it for a romcom, and writing a romcom variant of it without understanding what they’re doing or why those tropes were there.

all debates abt the artistic merits of fanfiction fail to recognize the purpose of fic. you don’t write fic to be published or to learn how to construct a narrative although you can use it to develop style. you write it so that your friends will message you “bestie you’re utterly deranged for this one im eating dirt”