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quicktimeeventfull · 1 day ago

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also writing au version of characters is so fun but also so difficult because you are constantly balancing "he would not fucking say that" with "but he WOULD say that if he worked in a coffee shop and drank three free lattes per shift." u know. like if you write them in a way that exactly matches canon they quickly become nonsensical but if you go too far it becomes a different guy altogether. the good news is i have found most readers are way more flexible about interpretations than it often feels like as an author but it is still a nice & occasionally stressful project to try to get it right

#like i genuinely think readers can tell if you put the work in to create a consistent and sensible interpretation #but they don't care as much as people think if that interpretations differs from their own #anyway relatedly im trying to write light in therapy as we speak #i think people care a lot re: meta esp frankly ime regarding light and near specifically #& this sort of freaks authors out bc you see people heavily critiquing certain versions #but i don't think people actually mind that much when it comes to fic #i mean like. maybe im wrong and there are people somewhere seething at my admittedly bizarre au characterizations #but i have only actually had someone say this to me on two occasions #if they're seething in private thats fine that's their right ghjlgh #the ONE thing people constantly get mad at me about is that genshin post for some reason lmao #but thats not a fic

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