The Trash Account

The thing is, like all things, it can be done well. It can be done so well and most of the problems I see are from people writing them too OOC.

I’m not saying that all the problems will be gone if the characters are not OOC, just that it’d be a more enjoyable read.

Look at it this way: fanfiction works with already existing characters with already existing fans of said characters. Just making someone in character is enough sometimes.

Would be okay if it were just only that, I think. It’s the idea of the author taking these dynamics and loving them that I can’t stand.

You know what I mean?

Like, it’s one thing to write about how omegas thrive and succeed and fight subjugation and discrimination, y’know the good empowering stuff I need like a drug. But it’s another to write about how omegas love their subservience. How they’re willing to give up jobs to be tied to the stove barefoot and pregnant. It fucking reeks of the weird Christian novels they made me read when I was a child.

I’m not even on that schtick anymore, writing about extreme societal dystopias with extreme discrimination is just not my brand. I’m just a lemon farmer writing about different ways dynamics in general face discrimination. Like society sucks. They can’t just hate one thing at a time. They find ways to hate pretty much everything.

They’d sooner die than admit their love. Rather die than split open their chest and leave themself vulnerable to someone who possibly doesn’t even like them that same way. Rather the flowers bloom in their lungs, taking root there until their last stuttering breath, spitting them out with every word they utter until they’re sick with the smell of flowers following them everywhere they go.