*rings bells* WEI WUXIAN IS A NERD!! He loves learning and applying his knowledge in new and creative ways! He’s INCREDIBLY insightful and perceptive! He keeps notes and creates unparalleled inventions! He knows people and even knows politics! He develops answers and theories on the fly! Please I beg for people to stop calling him an idiot all the time 😭🙏🙏
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alekssss i have ques that i need more opinions on but what do you think of sending one fic idea or request to more than one writer? saw someone saying that it's a shitty thing to do plz ignore if you think this is a stupid ask
I really do not encourage you to do this. For one it’s not very nice to have one fic writer discuss your idea/suggestion with you, maybe even write a Drabble or a fic etc, and then see that you didn’t actually care about it being from them specifically and that you went around asking other people.
Think of it this way: if you wanted something custom made, would you walk around asking every single person who does custom work to do the exact same thing for you? Doesn’t that mean that you don’t really care for the quality of the product you’re asking for? Doesn’t that also mean that you don’t actually care about WHO does it, you just want it done? Writers are not here just to pump out content for you.
If you sent me an idea or a request etc in my mind you sent it to me because you like interacting with me, or you wanted to know my specific thoughts on it, or you thought I was a person to come to with your thoughts. That kind of feeling goes away completely if I see that you didn’t actually care for my opinion specifically, you just sent the same ask to a bunch of other people. It just makes you feel like you are one of many people that they are hoping will just write for you, without concern for your individual sense of creativity or writing style etc.
While we’re on this topic, I also want to say that it is incredibly rude to take one person’s ideas and then suggest them to other writers and play it off as a suggestion in their ask box. I’ve seen this happening a lot lately and it’s very uncool. like the right thing to do here is if you see a writer make a post about an idea that you like, maybe ask them to elaborate, or nicely suggest that you would love to read a full length fic with that idea. The very rude thing to do is instead to ask someone else to write that idea. Do you think the author is not capable that you go to someone else? This is a community, people’s blogs are not places that you just stop and shop and take what you want and then leave.
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some people love to pit black sails and ofmd against each other for a weird and unfounded battle over pirate show supremacy. but apart from the tonal differences and totally different perspectives of their main themes, and the fact that it doesn’t diminish either shows to recognise the other, it seems to me that in ofmd there are numerous quotes and appreciative nods to black sails in both dramaturgy and minor details (despite their differing genres) that make clear that it’s not the intention to be the “better queer pirate show” that some fans seem to read from it as an act of insolence but a recognition of the great work that at least in some way paved the road for their show. ofmd is in itself a transformative work both in it being in a way like fan fiction and its consistent commitment to giving tropes of incredibly popular genres of fiction (both the adventure/pirate story and the rom com - genres that come with a whole force of normative power) a different spin and a new reading.
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Read “on my way” and I had so many emotions and thoughts but not ones I think you were hoping for. I was angry at Peter. The whole point of his huge sacrifice at the end of NWH was to be alone to protect MJ and Ned but then this story has him replacing them w Harry and Gwen within the year??? Like what?! What happened to selfless Peter? And then FOS find him, he slams the door on their faces and he’s in love w Gwen?! The woman with the same name as Peter 3 who he had tragically lost but this peter chose to still sleep w and eventually fall in love with her and then lose her like peter 3 had? Knowing full well that was her fate?! Such selfishness and betrayal on Peters part, which is so unlike Peter Parker that I could not get past this to really get the full effect of the story that you intended.
Wow.
Way to reduce a 21k word story into one cut and dry paragraph that contains none of the nuance that I worked so hard to build.
Sigh.
I could pick apart every piece of this and tell you why I disagree with it (and maybe I’d be more inclined to do it if you weren’t on anon and it felt like an actual conversation rather than you grading my school work) but for now, just a few points:
I need to raise the alarm on Gwen Stacy right quick. Do you know that Peter Parker, the character, is unaware that he is living in his own story??? How does he know Gwen’s fated to die in every universe? How is he supposed to know the entire lore that surrounds Gwen Stacy just from hearing “I lost Gwen. My MJ.” from Peter 3 (mere moments after his aunt died, might I add). Also—Peter does have these thoughts and feelings in the fic (which has me convinced you didn’t read it properly). Please accept that Gwen is not a plot device—especially not to the people living within the plot.
I also think it’s funny that everything you mentioned here actually takes place in like the last 15% of the story. Where’s your analysis on Ned & Betty? How do you feel about Flash? Isn’t it lovely that MJ was there when Harry needed someone? If your (mis)interpretation of one of the plot lines was enough for you to shit on the whole story then I’m convinced it just wasn’t written for you and I’m 100% fine with that.
Beside the point—I think there are many fundamental misunderstandings of Peter Parker as a character (I’m sure I even have my own), but one that really grates me is the perception that he is the self-sacrificial Good Guy all the time. Peter Parker is a kid who has experienced way too much in his 18 years of living. He’s selfless, definitely. But he’s also selfish in many ways. He’s nuanced, and flawed, and despite that, he’s still able to be a hero and beloved character.
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Venting on tumblr always feels weird bc I like the catharsis of talking about my feelings without the shame and guilt of going to someone to talk about them bc I don’t wanna be someone who just bitches all the time. But at the same time venting on a public online space makes me feel self conscious of like, ppl thinking I’m ranting for attention idk bad brain hours
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Well, I’m still glad that Gojo was always a character who was growing and learning at least. He’s literally one of my favorite characters of all time now. Like, he’s never been as perfect as how the fans would make him out to be despite canonically being viewed as an absolute nuisance to everyone around him (I don’t think his peers necessarily hate him but a lot of them probably hate to see him coming and the ones who’ve dealt with him long enough to consider him a friend, tolerate him and groan whenever he opens his mouth, too 😭… out of love. He’s extremely childish so there is only sm the other adults around him can take and to an extent, his students. I think the only characters in canon who adore him and their eye’s sparkle whenever he’s around, and being a silly teacher was Yuuji and Miwa (she asked him for his autograph (he’s the most famous sorcerer in the jjk world) and when she was alone, she did a little dance in the empty hallway 🥺…) from what we’ve seen even though the others still care about him, too. They just find him rather annoying, which he most definitely is. And he does it on purpose. He plays too much.)
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