i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much
fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment.
every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change.
you know what would’ve been interesting? frank and annabeth falling into tartarus. in this scenario it’s frank who flies down to save annabeth because percy couldn’t catch her in time, and the pull of tartarus dragging them both down.
we could’ve had percy going insane with worry. frank realising that he can turn into monsters too. annabeth stretching herself to her limits. jason and percy’s rivalry steadily getting worse, and the tension on the argo II becoming more and more evident. piper and leo trying to distinguish the jason from their memories and the real one because they’re just so different.
nico dealing with his feelings. percy could come with him to cupid, and they can actually talk it out and no romanticising the forced coming out. frank and annabeth having to learn how to work with each other even though their instincts say that they’re enemies, especially since they’re greek and roman and their parents are literally gods of wars. the potential for them going dark is so immense.
the seven being reunited but realising they’re all completely different people now. percabeth having a rocky relationship and not being all perfect. hazel and frank trying to talk to each other but it’s just not working. piper getting stressed because she can feel every emotion on the boat but she can do nothing to help. leo busying himself with the ship and barely getting sleep because this is all he can do to help. all of them having to learn how to work as a team.
there was so much potential there but we didn’t get it. it would’ve helped us know more about the characters too