i don't know if this will help, but regarding comments, i'm pretty much chill with whatever. i mean, some comments will make me go all "????" and i don't like it when people are outright, blatantly mean to me, but... i generally don't get too upset about the comments i get. and if i do get upset, i tend to realize pretty quickly that my feelings are emotional, irrational or whatever - like i might feel insulted by something at first but i then realize that my feelings don't necessarily reflect the reality of what the other person was trying to convey.
If a writer is going to go on at length about how homophobic a society is, can they please maybe NOT have LITERALLY EVERY CHARACTER WHO APPEARS be loudly supportive? I hate being taunted with potential conflict which never appears! In the same context, joining a monastery to avoid pressure to be married would work better if it was set in a society which, in canon, showed any signs at all of ever pressuring anyone to get married.
Also, can authors stop making their fics aggressively het except for the main homosexual pairing? Like oh my god, if Harry and Draco are boning why exactly are Dean, Thomas, Ginny, Pansy, Lee, George and everyone else pleasantly 2.5 kids and white picket fence heterosexual?
Don't you know that they're both married to women? And that Lee Jordan spends his time boggling his co-workers because his pregnant wife won't have sex with him? Seriously I liked most of this fic until the reveal of the murderer but that bugged me.
I knew I fucked that up :P The point still stands, those guys are as straight as I am. I'm a trans mlm, for reference.
The fact that I can only think of them as the pair Dean and Seamus says things about how I feel about their straightness.
i still think it's super weird when a fic has Only Straight Pairs or Only Gay Pairs and there's like this. weird sense that bisexuality does not exist, what are you talking about
YES like this is why in my star trek fic there will also probably be nyota/Scotty at some point because bi trans dudes ftw
I think it admittedly depends somewhat on the fandom (it would make perfect sense to have a 100% femslash ships fic for Steven Universe), but yeah, it doesn't always compute for me either.
i mean like, you know those fics where it's a huge laundry list of pairings and some of them are only background stuff? those sort of fics and honestly, with su it depends on the characters. if someone's writing rose quartz fic and pretending bisexuality don't real, i'll be upset.
For the record, the actor who played Seamus also ships it: And re: all ships in a fic being one orientation—I'm inclined to give a lot more leeway to All Gay fics than All Straight ones, but that might be due to past experiences with deeply homophobic fandoms. But I pretty much write everyone as bi, so, y'know.
"Y/N" remains one of the most aggravating fanfic trends to pick up, and I'd really rather reader/character writers at least make a hint of goddamn effort.
honestly it took me far too long to realize it was Your Name instead of Yes/No, for some reason, which makes it even worse
i see the phrase "can't really complain" so fucking much that it's nails on a chalkboard especially since it's almost always like! "character A has a qualm about character B, but [excuse], so they can't really complain." and it just hand-waves away the qualm completely to the point that it's like, why did you even bring it up?
When the writer means "bowls" and types "bowels". Then again, I could see the Grand Highblood keeping candy in a glass intestinal tract.
