#and i like reading fics and feeling like im reading a good book!!

[titan-meredith]

what happened to fics tho? almost all of them are character x reader now. no i do not want to remember that i exist. i do not want to be a part of it. i just wanna read about already existing characters and their interactions based on canon

[xxplastic-cubexx]

cant stop thinkin bout charles and erik readin together on the couch but instead of reading with him charles is listening to eriks thoughts while he reads. Live mind commentary ……..

[mamawasatesttube]

uh oh i can feel myself getting bogged down in the perfectionism sauce again... i need to write smth stupid and self indulgent ough

[nomazee]

a month ago i said i would yell about misogyny and patriarchal themes in fanfiction and eventually i will but there are so many thoughts and feelings in my head that it will take me forever to type it down. But i will say this

Be critical of the things you read. i’m not saying you CANT read for enjoyment—you CAN and SHOULD read for fun. But i’m saying that sometimes you should take notice of the themes in writing and think “wow, i wonder why that’s written like that. Is this harmful or is this helpful?”

it’s a given that fanfiction is widely heteronormative because society and media blah blah blah We know all of this … but in my opinion i think it’s important to think about why women in hetero fics are portrayed the way they are sometimes. I think reader insert fics have gone a long way in being more inclusive and less harmful than they were years ago BUT. Do not let that stop you from recognizing themes in the works you read right now

like; Why are misogyny-affected people written a certain way?? Why are there often degrading themes in a lot of tropes and fics regarding women?? Why are there certain roles that misogyny affected people are expected to fulfill even in fiction?? why are women often the “default” for fics with male characters?? think about any of these questions for like longer than two minutes, read a bad fic, and you will probably see where i’m coming from

[lordsardine]

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[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Getting off my ass and downloading my favorite fics to put on a jump drive I bought with a fuck tonne more storage than the two I already had from when I was in school and, wow, this is actually so much easier than the rest of the stuff I’ve been downloading for various reasons (articles on stuff I want to have around but worry might be impacted by this new presidency). You just pick pdf (or whatever you like) and bam! It’s right there in your downloads ready to be stashed away, no annoying nitpicking where I have to delete stuff I don’t need in the document or huge blank spaces, it’s just ready! Like, listen. I love “print friendly and pdf” Firefox extension, but I always have to end up deleting some stuff that is just taking up space. It does its job! It’s just not going to be neat and tidy when the website doesn’t intend for you to do this. Archive of our own does that whole thing of making a pdf themselves! This is going to go so much faster than the other stuff I’ve been downloading as pdfs

Anyway, I love you as well Smithsonian magazine website for not only being free, but also just having that extension on all your articles! That’s actually how I found it in the first place. Before that I was copy pasting every paragraph into a pages document and it was way more tedious.

[foxstens]

read a fic so good it made me feel a bunch of neil feelings :'(

[godsfavoritescientist]

How do I explain the ways in which the bill origins fic 'A Romance of Many Dimensions' by haley3 rewired my brain without needing to give paragraphs upon paragraphs of context. The fic is something like 200,000 words long. Almost every single good moment calls back to things that are set up earlier in the fic

[mr-independent]

you know, its not brought up in fics often but ted is extremely well read. he doesnt brag about it, but hes read everything from f scott fitzgerald's b sides to ayn rand's doorstoppers to the sixteen book Ender series, etc etc etc. Ted reads about as much as we see Beard reading (which. in my head is a trait that was passed on, a new focus to sharpen the mind and keep him out of trouble and his mind off drugs, something Ted offered up as a coping mechanism for when his own dad died, a way to have fun and adventure and escape without ending up in jail like Ted himself had a handful of times before, scaring the bejeezus out of his ma.)

this turned into a mini fic and i lost my train of thought but point is, Ted reads So Much and more people need to pick up on this in fics please and thank you.

[bugflies00]

ive had a very weird day today. it was good but lots of novelty. i read an entire book without feeling ghe hours or checking the pages and actually not being able to tear myself from it in the first time in years. i saw a movie about SPOILERSSSSS a reformed trans cartel leader with musical numbers. i had period cramps but i also had a pretty good pad thai. also it rained. man

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Hes so silly and we love him for it

[nerdblob]

when i read fics from fandoms, don’t ask me why idk, my brain automatically assigns a character and that is the only characters pov or centered fic that i will read for that fandom (most of the time)

its not that they’re like my favourite character in that media or anything its just like yep only this dude no one else - absolutely no clue why, truly

[skitskatdacat63]

People need to stop making Rhaenicent if they were canon edits, it's killing me 😭😭😭😭😭

[hopefulqueer]

I'm starting to think the reason I'm not as good of a writer as I want to be is because I like writing more than I like reading.

[yellowocaballero]

literally shrieking. i stumbled on ur 100k stephanie brown fic by complete chance, loved it, found your tumblr only to discover you are also READING ORV??? THE SERIES EVER????

god. have so much fun. have so so much fun. i cannot wait to see what you come up with for the series

HAHA YUP. I'm 80% through I swear to God I'll finish it. I just found out some choice facts about the Secretive Plotter and my brain is breaking. It's definitely The Most Thing Ever. Every time I open it it's like getting blasted by a fire hose of parental abandonment and alternate timelines.

I'm facing a problem I've had before, which my brain very much wants to write something for it, and I have plenty of ideas, but absolutely none of them are good. If the inevitable orv fic isn't incredible I'm committing seppuku. It feels stupid to have no good ideas for orv, which by the logic of orv can hold almost any idea there is, but hitting the characters right is fucking difficult and you have to hit a hard balance of hitting exactly like orv while also being better (or just differently) structured than orv. I don't want to write it just like orv, but if I don't then there's no point. Maybe likely nothing'll get written because I'll be too perfectionist about it.

Relatedly, now I'm reading a lot of other #gamer manwha. And I finally found another one which matches up to orv for me, which is SSS Class Suicide Hunter. It's not a hydraulic press to the skull like orv but in many ways it's better done. That was probably the hardest I've cried at a work of fiction since I was a teenager. I won't write fic for it, it's like painting on the Mona Lisa, but Jesus it's incredible. If you're an orv fan check it out. If you aren't hyper-familiar with Buddhist philosophy you'll miss a lot, though.

[just-spacetrash]

text so good its got me writhing