#oh do you mean your average fanfic writer DOESN'T have a mental list of things to never write again ever? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bedlamsbard · 1 year

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man, sometimes the stuff that crosses my dash makes it really clear to me that your average fanfic writer has not had the experience I've had where one or two of their fics are deeply, deeply hated and have been for years. like, it's in the back of my head that surely everyone's had that experience at least once but...uh...apparently not.

#stuff like 'there's nothing better than an ao3 comment notification!'#oh do you mean your average fanfic writer DOESN'T have a mental list of things to never write again ever?#the response to wake/gambit REWIRED MY BRAIN #there's stuff I just will not do #I had to RETRAIN MYSELF to post on ao3 because I got so traumatized by it #it was SEVEN YEARS before I wrote another trio ship and even then I snuck up on it sideways #I have never written another slow burn #I won't write anything where the ship is not clear from the start #(this is btw why home and horizon put the ships in the first chapter)#(honestly probably part of the reason reaches is on hold is because that one can't put the ship in the first chapter)#I straight up had a panic attack over a SETTING that ended up cut from yonder because I couldn't write it without hyperventilating #the contortions I did for the chaos trio in horizon to avoid getting the gambit reaction are pretty severe even if they don't show #I got so stressed about home potentially getting some of the same genre of responses that gambit did #that I completely overlooked a different and more likely genre because these fandoms are different actually #whatever batshit thing you can think of someone saying about wake/gambit and a lot you can't: someone's said it #no: crazier than that. crazier than that. CRAZIER THAN THAT!#where do I even start #ten years this december baby!#(my beta issues come out of backbone that's a different thing entirely)#talking about feedback in public #anyway it's been a minute since the last time so I'm sure I'll get another one in the next month or so

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