#i’m happy that sen will finally be able to a check by moving into trad pub after everything.

[wallflowerlore]

oh yeah, just one more influencer (this time an insanely popular booktuber from my home country), who is not familiar with the universe of fanfics and treats it like a published novel, creating content based on the “polemic” and “problematic” properly tagged dark fic that many who are not in fandom gets surprised when the fic contains said dark content. and then recommending reading a translation on WATTPAD when sen links to a translation inside ao3 in the author notes before even the first chapter…..i know this fic has breached containment a long time ago and that sen has been run through a lot by people who don’t know fandom etiquette so one more person making a video is nothing new, but like i know how the general br public and br hp fandom is towards dramione and fics in general, and is not good, and if this becomes a trend with other big br bookinfluencers (and another one seems like to be considering reading it) because they feel like they *have* to to get views rather than reading because they are interested in the story (and many of the accounts will read because it’s what people talk about and i can see at least some of them being very mocking and pretentious about it) i’ll have to wade through so many annoying fanfic discourse by people who don’t care about the ship or fanfic in not just one language but two while not being able to do nothing about it.

i haven’t seen the video in the screenshot and it does seem like the creator liked the story. but it doesn’t matter that she liked it because it’s the way these booktok/booktube/booktwt approach fanfic that doesn’t sit right with me (i mean, where did you read the fic that you told someone they can find a translation on fucking wattpad rather than using the one the author linked to???). i mean, and it’s sad that sen gets all of this weight on their shoulders (i mean, this thread made me sad).

these reddit posts are more coherent about the overall situation (excluding the issue selling copies which is another problem) that summarize my opinion.