#my complaints about fanfic

[spdraws]

On Ao3 the Eliot Spencer needs a hug tag is never accompanied by the Eliot Spencer gets a hug tag and it will torment me until I die

[magpie-come-east]

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I want to make a 'I could write a better story for Shadow of the Erdtree' bingo card.

Spaces include:

‘The Hornsent genocide story was badly handled by fromsoft, but Messmer deserves a Steven Universe-esque happy ending’

‘Ansbach is uncharacteristically deceptive and violently unhinged’

‘Anyone but Radahn. Literally anyone.’

‘Miquella is stripped entirely of character and agency and becomes a blank, palatable doll for the player’

‘I felt railroaded into an unsatisfying choice, so in this version, everyone will be railroaded into my preferred option’

‘The narrative will prove my favorites righteous, and my hated characters will be punished. Regardless of established themes and characterization.’

Free space:

‘My rewrite will not mention Trina, Thiollier, Ymir, Jolan and Anna, Dane, Leda, Moore and the brood, Igon and Bayle, Florissax, any Hornsent whatsoever, Marika, Melina, Metyr, Gaius, Romina, the fire knights, Rellana, Freyja, Radahn, Midra, or Nanaya because the reality is I just care about Miquella.’

[yupuffin]

I never thought I'd say this back when I first got to Penacony way back in March, but…

…

I'm in love with Sunday.

[i-am-a-secret-ssshhh]

It's been a while since I've read a fanfiction, or even really a book with this trope, but a memory just came back to me of reading about it before and after I had glasses.

I fucking hate the trope that the character "forgot their glasses and is blind without them" Because, I am EXTREMELY nearsighted, and without my glasses I would not be able to function, and it has been that way for a long time. So, when I was younger, I was confused about how they could forget.

However, then my younger brother got glasses, but he's far-sighted. That makes more sense to me. If a character is far-sighted, it means they need reading glasses, and those are rather easy to forget, my younger brother forgets them all the time, because you can usually see pretty fine without them.

So, I propose that if you want to do that trope, that's fine, but specify that the character is far sighted, or needs reading glasses, or didn't realize they forgot their glasses until they get to where they're going because they didn't need them until then.

Because then if not, and they realize it nearly immediately, I'll just assume that they're doing this the entire way to get where they're going:

[sezja]

I'm a marriage mediatorrrrrrr

[recurring-polynya]

I was thinking about how it's cool Rukia and Renji's bankai are pretty complementary in terms of making a good battle couple. Renji has always been a straight-to-bankai sort of guy, which makes sense. In the grand scheme of bankai, his isn't the most powerful or the most destructive, but it doesn't have any detrimental area effects and he can use it for a long time. Rukia's on the other hand, is very powerful, but it's only good for a very short time, and it leaves her vulnerable. Fighting together, she can back up Renji with kidou support or her shikai attacks, and then he can give her cover while she transitions in and out of bankai, if needed. This is a lot more fun, imo, than say, Kyouraku and Ukitake, who are both so hesitant to go to bankai that we never even see Ukitake's. (and maybe this works for them, given that they are side characters and the most senior in Soul Society, that their powers get the super slow burn reveal)

That being said, Renji and Byakuya's partnership works much the same way-- Byakuya's bankai isn't quite as perilous as Rukia's, but he tends to save it (my headcanon is actually that he can't go straight to bankai, he has to sort of build up momentum, so to speak). I'm not gonna lie, the scene early in the TYBW anime where Renji pins As Nodt with Zabimaru and then Byakuya slams him in the face with petals was one of the most satisfying moments of the anime so far.

All this is to say that for the approximately 1,000,000 characters Kubo crammed into Bleach, it's a real shame that he couldn't have developed an interesting side character that we might say "hell yeah!" to see stepping into place as Rukia's lieutenant post-time skip. I mean, not to diss Sentarou, but 98% of his job seems to be clownery and the other 2% is carrying heavy things. Would it have killed Kubo to let him do something during the Blood War? (him and Kiyone both, tbh) I honestly don't think it would have been too much to ask to see his shikai, if he's going to eventually be the battle partner of the series' deuteragonist. I dunno, I also just think it would have been cool for Rukia to have another friend in Soul Society besides her love interest and her brother. There's Hanatarou, I suppose, and on one level, I would love to see him as Rukia's no. 2, but he so thoroughly attached to the Fourth, and also his shikai is too gimmicky for a serious character.

Flaming hot cheetos take I just came up with: Ganju should have had grudgingly join the Gotei after the Soul Society arc and come around on Rukia after learning what Kaien meant to her, and then eventually taking over his brother's job. I mean, Kubo liked him enough to write him into the TYBW, an arc that definitely did not need more characters in it than it already had.

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Person commenting on one of my fics: "All Might isn't a goofball, this is so unrealistic of his character."

All Might, within the first volume:

Also the most goofy bit that early on:

[x-neurotoxin-x]

It's always strange to me when ppl get several chapters into a fix then complain about it. Like homie you're 3 chapters in, you've read like 15k of this fic and now you're bitching? Lmao you look like a fan, why are you wasting your time reading and commenting if you dislike the story/dynamics/characterizations/etc? It's just not for you.

[fenkizard]

Putting a previously unplanned surgery in my fanfiction means the sentences I put about the open window before it have to be moved because I’m pretty sure that’s not considered surgery sanitary. How’s the fresh winter air feel on that flesh bro.

[ruethos]

So long Bravern, and thanks for the good food

[bebx]

WRITING HARD 😭😭😭😭😭😭. WHY, WHY SO DIFFICULT? 🫠😭

my brain most of the time: NO WRITING!!! whining about writing and feeling guilty about not being productive only!!!

[fluffykitteninabox]

Hate it when 90% of a fandom misgenders a canonically trans character because "ThE cHaRaCtErS iN tHe ShOw Do iT tOo!!"

[bsdtakanenohana]

There’s no part in the ending of the Hunting Dogs arc that is good, actually

[bonesandthebees]

We really do love your stories Bee! Some people tend to be louder than others and type whatever they're thinking in that moment without letting those feelings settle. I find the whole 'dead naming' thing kinda ridiculous. I mean, that isn't even why Glass!Wilbur doesn't want to be called by his name.

You write very complex and messy stories that can be difficult for some to digest. I sincerely hope you don't take these comments too hard. Seriously, we love you💛💛

thank you guys the deadnaming is especially ridiculous like that's not what's going on at all. ty all for reassuring me that people DO enjoy the messy human story i'm trying to tell it just is starting to get a bit discouraging when people keep getting upset at me over this

[mangoofthesea]

when you read a fic that makes you feel a little bit (read: a lot) insane and while writing down a quote because it has made you feral you realise you read one of their other fics years ago and it made you feel insane in a much more chill way because it was before some of the most changing and not great years of your life and it just so happens its hitting that niche again but now in a way that shatters you to your core because 2 years ago you would not have related quite so hard to the words 'they haunt me' 'that is often what kindness feels like' and 'he feels like a child. He feels too old for his bones' but now you're much older than the 2 years and it's 1am and a fucking zukka fanfic author has reached into your chest personally in different ways with different fics 2 years apart on 2 different ao3 accounts (for me) and you're wondering what life even is at this point

[sparingiscaring]

One Mask of the Rose playthrough down (and one half-finished one with my sibling to go!) Not put nearly enough time into this yet, but personally I adore it, and I am going to likely continue to adore tearing it to pieces looking all the little connections