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thestalwartheart · 4 days ago

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You’d think this would excite a writer but man, it’s so disheartening going through the tag for any piece of media (especially new media!) and seeing a bunch of posts saying some variation of: “fic writers hurry up! where are you?! why aren’t there more fics about x and y??”

It’s just so disrespectful to me. So entitled. I don’t know when we started thinking of fic authors as content farms, but I’m begging readers (at least the readers who don’t write) to realise writing is an extremely time-consuming labour of love and the process of getting it right doesn’t align with your schedule for binge-viewing or fleeting hyperfixation, sorry.

#I think I last experienced this en-masse about mickey 17 about ten minutes after I saw the film #and had a big FUCK YOU reaction #there are so many ways to go about this in a more friendly and community-building way too #fandom events! prompt exchanges!#but no #there they are flooding the tags with their entitled demands #it’s always the people with 8000 bookmarks and zero works doing this btw #just like it is leaving mean comments on people’s work #sorry for the salty post first thing #but I woke up in a real Mood #I’ve been working so hard on one particular fic #and I saw one of those posts this morning and ohhhh my god #snapped I did

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