i wish people had like. the edeleth fanbase's love for PAIN and CONFLICT. as well as its love for fluff. variety for all!
Yeah absolutely. Some people love coffee shop AUs and I’m not angling to be the grinch who stole Starbucks. If that’s all there is, I’ll be disappointed because it’s not usually my speed, but that’s how it be sometimes. If I start to realize the fan scene is hostile to anyone liking other things and that’s why there’s nothing else, then that is angering.
Also it's kind of wild because every single fan I've ever known has gone through cycles of everything-soft-and-fluffy-and-wonderful and let them bleed and I wonder what the fuck the people who write nothing but soft-focus no-conflict vignettes are gonna do when they get the urge for something meatier? Freak out about how they're suddenly evil for craving variety?
oh thank god I feel less alone OH GOD YEAH THIS SHIP it's an interesting concept !!!! but both girls are stripped of all personality to make it happen! why is bsd fandom Like That
Perhaps nothing-but-fluff people are there to counterbalance people like me. I think Deadpool is the best comfort movie. The only slice of life anime I like is Saiki K. He is gonna make it slice of life but he reserves the right to complain. I love a happy ending, but I’ll probably be on edge or bored if we don’t go through hell on the way.
Fandom rarepair zine: "We've defined 'rarepair' as a ship with under 200 works on Ao3" Me, whose most popular ship barely breaks 70: ha ha ha oh man
I think Rare Male Slash Exchange has the <200 definition too, so that might have been where it was pulled from... but as has been pointed out every time noms come around, the ratio of rarepair:fandom size scales very poorly most of the time. edit: Admittedly, I live in fear of that threshold being lowered, because I've singlehandedly spammed my rarepair's tag enough to haul it up into the top 5 of my tiny fandom.
This is an 'in general' gripe, and it's actually more directed at me as a person but I hate how I can ship person 1 of my OTP with just about anybody but person 2 I just can't even consider, let alone get invested in, other ships of without feeling bad and vaguely sick and @ myself WHY
im in hell because i ship a rarepair that has EXACTLY two other works of fanart that arent either mine or my friends, and zero fics. like im fine with doing some of the work but holy shit!!! fandom i am begging you to give me food to eat, this is SUCH an obvious ship im in hell
Only one Stanley/Zero fic on AO3 and it's explicit without ageing-up, which I'm a lot less triggered by than I used to be but it's still really not my fave thing.
I am currently responsible for approximately 98% (By word count) of the fic for my current OTP on Ao3
What is "[character]/[character]/etc" even trying to communicate about what sort of polyamorous nonsense I'm getting into here? Does you leaving out the most contentious character off the ones you listed imply they're not a part of this? This cast is like. Fifty people, who is included in "etc" here?
