Related, I have a story which involves someone taking out his own IV, but he A: Bandages the site and has magic healing drugs for later, and B: does so because Vatican commandos are coming to kill him. Long story.
I got one day of IV morphine after my gallbladder removal. What in the actual American fuck. But yeah. Once I got back from the general anesthesia, all I could do was moan and cough a little and then vomit literally everywhere because I didn't have the body strength to aim toward the handy bucket the nurse had provided. Not very fanfic-grade dramatic.
Wait, they argued with that? The lasguns that the fandom jokingly refers to as flashlights because of how crap their damage is?
I mean, they're decently powerful weapons in the lore, though still small-arms, but.... yes, yes they did. I think that was partially because they didn't quite get concept of how I was having the 'Jackets work, but yeah. I think they really didn't like the implication their favorite space fascists could possibly lose to girls/non-bastards/both. TBH I think I gave 40k a lot of leeway in not immediately having a million mages and/or heavy area bombardment dumped on them the moment they crash landed, and generally upping the parameters of their basic kit to give them a chance (i.e, having Leman Russ tanks actually capable of traveling faster than a horse), giving the Guard widespread motorized infantry, etc, widespread Anti-Air, etc. There were Orks too, but oddly the only complaint was someone outraged that I implied a teenage girl could punch an Ork unconscious. Said teenage girl was, of course, a superpowered magical cyborg, but I think they might have missed that bit, as it was only stated outright like twice. Unfortunately I kind of went on hiatus on that story because writing it was such a drag, trying to restart it as a 3d comic or something, but... y'know, talent.
I have a really complicated relationshiop with Harry Potter these days, and usually I enjoy reading fanfiction that accepts the setting as-is, where Voldemort is the greatest threat in the setting amd Dumbledore was a well-meaning if flawed figure. Then like ten percent of the time I get mad about House Elf welfare or 'Albus Severus Potter' or something and then I wanna read about Ichigo breezing in and chopping Voldemort in half.
Writer, I really, really doubt, considering who they work for, the characters in question give a flying fuck about child abuse, especially when the child in question is Harry fucking Potter. These are not good people and they have probably murdered children as well as adults as a matter of course. A little child abuse is not something they'd care about, because again, not good people, and Harry wouldn't be a person to them since he isn't a goddamn "pureblood."
I think this is hilarious and wild im on the American Gods (TV) AO3 to scope out what people writing for this, and under AO3's relationship filter (which generally lists the most tagged ones) is this it's multiple authors doing this crossover. and it's enough to be in Popular American Gods (TV) tagged relationships there are 393 American Gods (TV) fanfics, and it's very amusing to see this, though it isn't like an american gods Thing
I re-found an old Fanficrants entry entitled "Surprise, it's bestiality!" which... pretty much tells you everything but the rant is pretty lolarious in an obviously very dark way. Spoiler: see above
When my sister was an infant, she actually did pull out an IV. It was messy and it was probably good that she was too young to walk out of the hospital afterwards.
nothing makes me kill a tab faster than reading a fanfic only to be ambushed by fucking tumblr memes. keep that to your blog gdi
The bane of my existence, summarized in an easy-to-read flowchart: Quality of the fanfic concerning [CHARACTER OF YOUR CHOICE]* 1. Does [CHARACTER] have tentacles? • If NO, proceed to part 2: The Usual Gamut of Fanfiction Genres • If YES, proceed to part 3: I Can’t Believe It’s Only Rape Porn *...It's Davy Jones. I'm talking about Davy Jones.
it doesn't get used as much but I appreciate the other end of the spectrum, the one that either buys into consentacles or makes consentacles look like a midpoint (wherein a non-tentacled character proceeds to go track down some tentacled characters For The Banging, homestuck comic here)
there is even an 'enthusiastic consentacles' tag, wherein lies the small but rich trove of fic on the premise: hydra summoned something from the outer darkness and it turns out to be perfectly content to answer to 'bucky' as long as it gets lots of nakey time and no one tries to stop it eating nazis.
More of a meta-fanfic gripe, but it never ceases to baffle me when people wail and wring their hands about hardcore kinky smut being The Only Way to get views and kudos. Shipping, yes, absolutely, shipping fics get engagement above and beyond gen fics most of the time but--fluffy shipping. Feelgood shipping. If there's smut, it's tasteful and vanilla, and there's a lot more torrid handholding than there is explicit sex on screen. And it's not that I don't understand why that is, because it's a hell of a lot more palatable than the dark, fetishy id-fics, but I am baffled by the number of writers (who don't write those fics, I've noticed) that... seem to be under the impression that Those Dirty Kinksters are just wallowing in reviews and engagement. We are not. We get private bookmarks and logged out guest kudos because the burning shame of being associated with the naughty kinds of sex drives people away from acknowledging that they're reading it. (And it would be one thing if this was just my fandom, but it's been pretty consistently so in other fandoms I read too--the Hot And Angry Smut, the Dangerous Fetishes, the Blatantly Kinky fics might be something that stand out from the crowd, but their hitcounts, their kudos ratio, and their comment threads are much, much lower than your average fluffy shipfic. The myth that only M/E rated fics get engagement can die at any point, actually.)
i haven't heard that complaint, but then, i don't really interact with the kind of spaces where people talk about it really. and i doubt anyone would approach me individually since i am pretty open about not giving a good goddamn how many responses i get, as long as i get a bit of engagement from my friends. like, i'm not purely Writing For Me -- storytelling involves an audience. but for me it's more like campfire stories or tipsy bar anecdotes than like playing to a packed auditorium. the few times i've got a packed auditorium instead are kind of bewildering tbh. so i don't fully grok the driving need for large numbers of kudo button clicks (though i do click that button whenever i like the thing i read, bc i know people do care about it), and that makes talking to me maybe feel kind of invalidating to people who have that need.
Yeah I hang around a few generalist fanfic author spaces and it's... a reoccurring trend I've seen happen? And I always feel kind of bad having to dispel that myth because most of the people who are clinging to it use it as a way to say "this thing is why I am not Big And Famous already" when, well, it's a stroke of luck most of the time and there's no real guarantee you'll get hits at all unless you actively market your stuff. (I get the '????' thing about big numbers too, actually. I like analyzing trends and trying to figure out why one thing gets lots of engagement and another doesn't, because apparently my fandom absolutely hates werewolves, but for the most part, well... I originally posted because it was easier to get AO3 to make ebooks for me than fight with Word and AdobeReader. Motivations might have expanded from that point a bit, but at the end of the day, it's a bunch of numbers and I'm generally more invested in how my friends feel about it than anyone else.)
the thing i've come to realize is that the biggest factor is time. you just keep doing the thing, and you get better known, and better at your craft, as time goes on. before my spine did the thing, when i was still ficcing regularly, i was getting pretty fandom famous, but i didn't start out that way. i didn't get 'discovered' or something. i just kept winging out things that i found fun to write, and over like... ten years or so... i developed a following. and my stuff's not real kinky, either. it's not even all that sexy most of the time. one or two sex scenes maybe, but mostly character development, or comedy, or playing with tropes, or plot. so when somebody's going "i wrote two whole fics and nobody cares and it's hopeless" i'm just like. honey i know. being a teenager is hard.
