SilverPetrichor

I got a few drafts I've been dusting off/stories that have been freshly inspired for Stranger Things that I love so much but I can't decide which one to work on. . .

(I'm still working on My Enchanting Girlfriend, and my Steve Harrington One Shots but I need a yuri break and something more light hearted!) All these fics have yearning and smutty happy endings but I'm not sure what to focus on.

So sound off in the comments if you want and vote!

So, the Nancy and the Robin fic tied! I thought it was going to be close but, nope! It's a fucking tie! So I guess I'll work on both but the Robin one might get released first, strictly because I love Jennifer's Body and have been fixating on the movie a lot lately. But yeah, thanks for voting y'all! Hopefully I can get them done by end of July but life's pretty busy right now offline.

Black bark snail, Pachnodus niger, Cerastidae

Found in the Seychelles

this genuinely makes me so mad. some of you really don’t deserve fanfics. at all.

comment like this, besides the ai witch hunt, is one of the reasons why fanfic writers don’t want to post their fics anymore.

we write for free. whenever we can. whenever we have time. whenever we’re not too exhausted by life and responsibilities. we write for our own enjoyment. as a hobby. not a job. we update whenever we can. whenever we want. we do not owe anybody anything.

one of my favorite fics was updated after literal 13 years. but the point is that fanfic writers do not owe you anything. whether a fic was abandoned forever or updated after a decade or two is not something you as a stranger has a say in.

stop being entitled. stop treating fanfic writer as a content farm or a machine that produces contents for your enjoyment.

Yes, this person is just disappointed. Their disappointment is not, by itself, entitled. It's about the context. Saying "it's been 3 years..." to the author, in the context of an ongoing query about whether there will be more, with (again, i cannot stress this enough) zero mention of the fic they've already read, says two things. Some readers think one of those things is an unspoken expression of enjoyment (because if they didn't enjoy it, why would they ask?) but they're incorrect. What is actually says is (1) "the work you've put into this isn't enough for me to comment on," and (2) "I hoped you'd give me better news and I hoped you would write faster than this."

I hope you're able to see the entitlement in that framing. For what it's worth, I'm sure this commenter didn't MEAN to sound entitled. I'm sure they didn't mean to be rude! As far as "more plz?" comments go, this is on the tame end of the spectrum. But again, the problem is not the disappointment. The problem is how they're expressing it and who they're expressing it to.

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