A follow up on the last reblog:
The Reddit post I mentioned in the tags is about whether or not readers understand that effort that goes into writing. The resulting conversation got me thinking about particular strain of negativity that arose out of AGGN. Nearly two after publishing that big happy ending chapter, I remain baffled by the number of folks who complained their way through the fic without once realizing it wasn't the story for them.
I won't go back and pull receipts, but a few remain in the AGGN comments, some landed in my Tumblr ask box, some in my twitter replies, and others in my Twitter DMs. It was shit along the lines of this:
'Why are you spending so much time on the law school details? They don't matter!'
'I skip over all the casebook book aspects and non-Kacy portions.'
'You don't need to research that! just give us Kacy! We don't care!' (yes they'd often use 'we' instead of 'I' as if they spoke for everyone)
The funniest/worst ones were the admissions to not reading the entire damn thing. I always wonder how that changed the story because all the non-Kacy bits usually had vital insight into the Kacy bits.
Like I get just wanting Kacy, but if that's what someone wanted, then I'm sure they could find plenty of other Kacy fics in the tag. AGGN was a story about Kate and Lucy finding their way back to each other, but it was also a story about healing from grief, and the importance of friendships, and how blood doesn't make someone your family. Those B through whatever letter plots were absolutely vital to story and the work would have suffered if I chopped them in favor of the 20k 'slowburn' that these idiots seemed to want. Yes, idiots. I think that's a fair word for anyone who makes their inability to curate their reading experience the author's problem rather than their own.
