#i hate browsing fanfic or reading non-peer reviewed fanfic bc it always ends in me getting disappointed like this

[iron-cutting-meteor-sword]

[reads a lupin fic] [goldilocks voice] characters in this one are too healthy and well adjusted :/ [reads another lupin fic] characters in this one are too fucked up and genuinely evil >:/ [reads another lupin fic] contrived plot line :/ [reads another lupin fic] everyone but Jigen/Lupin/Fujiko is out of character :/ [reads another lupin fic] everyone is out of character :/ [reads another lupin fic] resolved plot lines too quickly :/ [reads another lupin fic] too self indulgent :/ [reads another lupin fic] no one acts like they even like each other :/ [reads another lupin fic] way too soft and cuddly :/ [reads another lupin fic] way too dark and gritty :/ [reads another lupin fic] way too horny :/ [reads another lupin fic] this one’s anti-horny :/ [reads another lupin fic] so many headcanons that feel tacked on :/ [reads another lupin fic] this one is too hot :/ [reads another lupin fic] this one is too cold :/ [reads another lupin f

#samurai sharkie speaks #i feel so ripped off 😭 they weren’t BAD but they weren’t. the characters you know? it was like filtered versions of them #i haven’t even read as many as this makes it seem like bc some I saw straight from the summary or the first paragraph were 👎 #I’ve found less than I can count on one hand of fics that hit that sweet spot #where the characters and the story and everything all feels like itself as opposed to someone’s filtered lense of it #i went through a few tonight and I just had to stop looking bc I was getting too frustrated #the fact that even in some of the decent ones Goemon is done dirty by being portrayed as naive and soft and sweet #any fic involving Goemon is a risk bc I could just end up stuck w borderline part 5 Goemon for three paragraphs #i hate browsing fanfic or reading non-peer reviewed fanfic bc it always ends in me getting disappointed like this #i hate reading something promising and then seeing that they just cannot write more than one aspect of each characters personality #yeah we get it Jigen is cool and brooding Goemon is stoic Lupin is funny and ridiculous and Fujiko is perceptive and sexy. #poor Fujiko always gets pushed to this like. passive advice giver or event manipulator instead of being her own person too #sometimes ppl ‘girlboss’ her so hard she becomes one dimensional and boring #jigen seems to be everyone’s favorite but he gets put in the ‘I can fix him’ position way too much #for someone that has literally never been that and if anything it’s been the other way around #zenigata is mia if he’s not a focal point #lupin never gets any dedication to anything past his superficial personality #or he’s being overly condemned while all the other characters get treated like they ‘aren’t as bad’?? #goemon is almost ALWAYS too nice and open and tactile #ppl act like he’s ‘the emotional one’ as if this man hasn’t worn the same expression since 1967 or whatever