#rereading…. no reading for the first time oopsie daisy

[fayerenn]

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[takaraphoenix]

Uuuuuu! I & L & S & T for the ask game?? 💕

Aaah, thank you for playing, dear! ^-^

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

At this point, it's probably ABOverse? Just. Comforting. Both for writing and reading. Also soulmate AUs, if it says soulmate AU, it has my attention.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

Oh, once, if I find the time. I'm not a big believer in editing. Either it comes out right, or it doesn't. I'm doing this for fun, not as a chore? And the act of editing is the definition of a chore. :/

So yeah, usually, I will reread something right before posting, and I'll fix up lil spelling mistakes I spot that have me go "maybe stop writing after 3AM???" and sometimes a lil oopsie daisy on the logic that have me go "definitely stop writing after 3AM???".

But I think I'd lose any fun and joy in writing if I revised everything multiple times and tried, I don't know, to improve it before posting. I wrote it because it felt good and if it would suddenly no longer feel good by the time I revise? What's the point in writing? Why would I even have to bother if it loses my love and agreement this fast??

S: Any fandom tropes you can't resist?

Depends on the fandoms? But usually, if a fandom has a big "found family" trope (like Teen Wolf's Hale Pack. Been years but it's still the first one I have to think of for these kind of things), I am sooo on board. Love me when a fandom just unanimously agrees canon is garbage and substitutes it for a superior fanon (-> Derek stays alpha, Boyd and Erica live, they're a happy pack coexisting with Scott's pack). Peak fandom experience.

I do love in Shadowhunters when the Shadowhunters get wings. It's (sadly) a much rarer fandom trope, but when I come across it I go !!! because honestly it just makes so much more sense they get their powers from an angel why are their powers to use magical runes that's magic not angelic wings and a naturally heightened strength/stamina would have made so much more sense as the baseline power set for Shadowhunters than magical runes?? Especially with the shitty way they treat warlocks like my dudes y'all literally depend on magic to do your fucking jobs get off your high horses.

T: Any fandom tropes you can't stand?

Mh, I don't really think so? I can't think of one off the top of my head. But that may also be because I know how to filter stuff? So I usually don't see the things that really bug me and then I tend to forget they exist, if given enough time. ^^°

FanFic Ask Game

[moiraineswife]

1) I have a question that may or may not have to do with acowar (that you don't have to bother with if you don't want to). I had all of these opinions while reading the book - good, wholesome opinions about how much I loved certain plot points, certain ships, etc. I finish it, pretty happy (though admittedly not as happy as after acomaf), and go back on Tumblr... only to find everyone sort of hates it. I read through a lot of posts expressing really good points that I hadn't considered...

2) like how poorly Mor and Lucien were treated, how Rhys's character kind of regressed, how Feyre was not cool in the Spring court, and some ace- and biphobic shit. I realised I agree with most of it, and it made me feel kind of narrow-minded and stupid both for not noticing and for still liking the book even with all of its problematic aspects. I'm not even really sure what I'm asking, but you're really smart and nice and I want to know what you think? About the book and Tumblr's hate? (sorry)

Okay, first off, tumblr is a filthy salt pit where nothing is good and everything is vile and Problematic. I agree that I am a member of the current forming salt goblin army but...I think there’s an unhealthy mentality on here that everything must be bad and if there is one bad thing then you must burn the entire thing and all those who support it. It fosters this unhealthy hivemind and encourages you to just...Oh well that person is saying it’s bad I must accept this or else I am bad. 

Engage critically with media but do it on your own terms. If you like something this is fine! If you don’t that’s also fine! If you think it has good parts and bad parts then you’re probably doing this thing right. Nothing is perfect. But nothing is entirely condemnable either. Make up your own mind. (Which I’m aware you have done like it’s fine to see things from another person’s perspective and realise that you agree and alter your opinions but...Critically engaging with media is important but so is critically engaging with...the criticism.) OKAY. SERMON OVER. ONWARDS AND UPWARDS. 

I’m not really sure what you’re asking either tbh but I will just...Just pick at the points you mentioned and give you my gut reactions on them just now okay? (These may change when I have reread the thing which I’m planning on doing soon-ish. I require it to process properly) but as for now... 

Mor was treated poorly. Mor was, as a friend succinctly put it, hit by a plane and then a train and then a bus and then a car, just to be quite sure. I am not happy with the way Mor was treated in this book. At all. And I’ve been someone who has made posts about this (which I am not sure whether you have read or not but??) I stand by those. As a queer woman and as an abuse survivor her narrative was gross. I think she was used to generate angst and conflict within the Circle and was then shoved aside when that moment of conflict had passed and sjm didn’t really want to bother following-through with the consequences. This is an opinion it’s probably going to be hard to shift me off of tbh. 

Lucien....I know some people have complained about this but...Honestly? I wasn’t personally bothered my first read through? Or...I don’t think it was as bad as what happened to Mor. He got out of the Spring Court. He found a purpose again and people who wanted to put him to good use as opposed to just using him. I was not a fan of any of the Ianthe stuff especially as it got swept under a rug and was never dealt with (like...he was sexually assaulted twice...and....Not a whisper) And the comment about not asking Tamlin’s forgiveness incensed me like nothing else. I wanted that relationship being explicitly picked apart and said to be unhealthy. I would have liked to have seen him more, at the meeting with the High Lords, during the battle but...I think....It could have been worse. And it wasn’t wholly bad like Mor’s where she was repeatedly fucked over again and again and again. There were some moments with Lucien that I liked - seeing him in the Autumn Court, his journey with Feyre, some of the Elain scenes (NOT the library one where Feyre slipped into his head what the fuck was that) and his ending I felt was..Hopeful. This is something I want to think about a lot more when I re-read but..I can deal with what we got. 

I, personally, don’t think Rhys’ character regressed. I think the decisions that he made were perfectly IC and the things he did lined up with him. I don’t think it’s a regression to remind the readers that Rhys is morally grey and fucked up at times as well. (Especially with how black and white Feyre tends to be with people in her narrative - if she loves them she forgives them nearly everything, her response to Tamlin and how it changed when she fell out of love with him is a good example of this) I think the way the story then handled this sucked. See: The Mor/CoN incident. I don’t think that was OOC for Rhys. But I wanted far more lasting consequences. Grey morality is only a useful plot point if you actually make it grey and make it mean something. If you just have a character do something questionable then shrug your shoulders and five pages later have it all be smoothed over for them then what’s the point? I don’t have an issue with Rhys’ characterisation personally, this may change on a reread as I know others did but...I more have an issue with execution than content here. 

Feyre at the Spring Court is a similar problem to Rhys: they make mistakes that have a lasting impact on other people but it doesn’t affect them. There’s no repercussions it just gets glossed over and ‘oh well oopsy daisy’ which is just lazy writing tbh.  

I don’t know if this helps you?? I think there are problematic aspects of this book (that I have and will continue to criticise) but...if you still get something out of this series that’s valid? There are problems with it but I think we were all attached to these characters and your opinion is your own. Engage with the criticism (or don’t) but make up your own mind about how you feel. I just...Said what I thought here, this was my take on things...and it’s all subject to change when I reread it but...As it stands. Tehre were parts of this book that I liked (mostly character stuff) and I will probably remain in the fandom and keep ficcing things and the like and...I don’t think this was very helpful at all but...i don’t know, this was just..how I felt?