#reader rant

Classical vampires (deadly sun and silver allergy) in modern stories piss me off.

One, sunblock exists and there are plenty humans that burn easily, it makes no sense for them to be the sort that remain perpetually trapped indoors until night time. And beyond that, there are too many people that are nightowls either by choice or career, someone not coming out during the daytime is not a big deal!

Two, mirrors being backed with silver was why vampires could not see their reflections. Modern mirrors are backed with ALUMINUM. Meaning vampires should be able to see their reflections in modern mirrors and I will never stop being mad most media fails to use this!

YES I’D LIKE TO FILE A FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST MY FANFICTION TBR LIST.

You know how normal people have like... a couple of books on their nightstand? Maybe a podcast they haven’t caught up on?

Yeah.

That's not me.

I’ve got FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN AO3 BOOKMARKS staring at me like the ghosts of Christmas past.

Every time I open that cursed little site I'm like “oh neat, a 300k enemies-to-lovers slowburn with political intrigue and soulmate tattoos, let me just...”

Adds to list knowing DAMN WELL I won’t even glance at it until the year 2072 when civilization has collapsed and I’m reading it by candlelight while foraging for berries. (Not really care about the logistics of how I would have AO3 up into his scenario)

And don’t get me STARTED on the categories. we’ve got:

THE ONES I’M “CURRENTLY READING” (aka abandoned in chapter 12 because another fic seduced me like a raccoon with a shiny object - and yes I do realize Im obsessedwoth raccoons for awhile now, I cant explain, bare with me on this one).

THE FICS I SAVED FOR “WHEN I’M IN THE MOOD TO CRY” (newsflash: when I'm in the mood, I search a new random fic, and my graveyard of bookmarks stays there)

THE 500K WORD EPICS (you’re telling me someone created this whole world and gave me for free? BOOKMARKED!)

AND THE CYCLE OF SHAME™ - or as I like to call my comfort zone... where I reread the same 20k comfort fic for the 14th time instead of touching anything new.

BUT

BUT

LISTEN

Please don't stop.

Despite the chaos?? (That’s, let's be honest, it's my own fault) I love my authors. like every single one of you out there writing fics: you’re gods. You’re icons. You’re feeding us banquets for FREE. You are sprinkling joy into my cursed little brain, and I would let you step on me gently. Yes, even you, who is reading this non-sense rant (👀 yes, I mean you, the one reading this who also writes fics... you think I don’t know?? Your words ARE INCREDIBLE. You have personally - PROBABLY - ruined me, and I THANK YOU).

Like y’all sit there crafting masterpieces with themes and plot twists and fully fleshed-out character arcs, and I’m over here with my goldfish attention span, whispering “I’ll read it later” like a liar.

YOU DESERVE BETTER THAN ME.

Also, shoutout to the authors who write 5k pwp because guess what? Sometimes, I don’t have the stamina for a saga, but I WILL consume your filth in one sitting like a feral goblin and then clap politely afterward.

You’re doing the lord’s work, too.

So yeah.

My tbr list is not a list anymore. It’s a hydra. I read one fic and three more sprouts in its place. I'm not beating it. I'm not even TRYING to beat it. I will die buried under a pile of bookmarked royalty aus and coffee shop fics and honestly?

That’s fine.

That’s how I want to go.

(Kudos to the authors tho who made her really annoying in a well-written way, fanny still have some relatable qualities tho, personally. Like her hating expectations from other people to her, carrying the weight all on her own, and i can personally relate to that, especially in my situation of being in a pilot section and a high(?)honor achiever for my life)

Im so angry at this chapter i posted a whole rant targeted to fanny, lol, still its so damn good and i theorize the authors are secretly magicians

Big writing blogs are without a doubt successful in their writing. without a doubt they have worked hard to get where they are. I get the blogs with smaller follower counts want their work to be seen more by a bigger audience and there is nothing wrong with that. 

But since when did we stop supporting the big writing blogs? Since when did we decide that we were no longer going to read from them and only support the smaller blogs? Like I said, yes, support smaller writing blogs, but since when does that mean we stop supporting others based on their high follower count?

Since when did it become okay to leave out ones who worked so hard to get where they are? And you know what? Those are the ones who are struggling the most now. These popular blogs that you decided to stop supporting to only support smaller blogs are leaving and there is no way for anyone to be seen. The biggest blogs I know on here are some of the most talented writers I’ve come across, and all three of them have stopped posting regularly. All three of them have stopped interacting as much as they used to. All three of them are wondering what is even the point. 

Yes, support new writers.

Yes, support blogs with smaller follower counts

Yes, support blogs who have a high follower count. 

SUPPORT EVERYONE!

Isn’t everyone here for a common reason? Isn’t everyone here to read and write fanfiction? Aren’t we here for that? Aren’t we here to read about being in bed with Dean Winchester? 

I will support any blog because there is a PERSON behind the screen creating content for me to read. I don’t care about their follower count, I care about their story and so should everyone else.  I’m just tired of watching my favorite writers leave because of lack of interaction. I swear next luci-in-trenchcoats and supernatural-jackles will be gone and they’ll take their masterlists down with them.

In an attempt to get my writing-feet (my pencil??) back under me, I’ve been consuming fanfics by the dozen - nothing unusual so far, except I’ve been jumping fandoms a lot lately. And, as always when I read such a broad spectrum of stories, I’ve noticed something that bugs me.

I’ve talked about my pet peeves before: To date they include

1) Ridiculous nicknames that don’t correspond with the pronounciation of the name or the culture depicted in canon (‘Sakura’ = ‘Kura’/'Sak’) 2) Bully/Victim High School AUs (”I hate and love her, so I’ll bully her” - “He’s just a complex character and I forgive him”) 3) Over-youth-ing Maito Gai (”Youth is the staple of youth, I youthfully declare!”) 4) OOC-ness, because the author tries to sneakily stuff their original character into a canon character’s body 5) Dramatizing one trait until the character becomes a stereotype