I stole a red pen from work (I probably have 40 in the basement but this one is Better) so tomorrow it’ll be time to edit chapter 1 of my Rhinedottir fic!!
I finished a 116k fic ~8 years ago for a fandom/ship that by now has gone mostly dormant, but I recently reread it and not only did I still love it for being my ideal representation of the characters but I was reminded how much fun it was to engage with other fans at the time.
Do y'all not reread your own fics? Like I reread shit I wrote all the time. Cause I wrote that shit for me.
I think when we say we write for ourselves, it really means, we wrote things without the worry of "Is this a popular trope, will this go viral, is it trendy"
They should offer DLC packages (they could charge a flat fee idc) to go back and play events from previous years so players have the option of access to those exclusive stories and rewards again.
To answer OP’s question directly: I’m
getting back into fic after about 8 years of nothing and trying to branch out style-wise so I have more to offer more fans. It helps me grow and learn what people do enjoy alongside what I enjoy.
I hope OP is finding some encouragement today despite a lot of dismissive sentiments, but there is nothing wrong with being sad when something you worked hard on seems disregarded or overlooked by the fandom and community you wrote it for.
This is dumb and vulnerable and I may regret asking and delete, but here goes anyway: fic writers, how do you deal with the heartbreak of having a project you were very excited about absolutely flopping? I had a bunch more planned & written. I can’t bring myself to open the doc
one of the bleakest facts of reality is that if you are gen z but grew up in fandom (particularly on ao3/tumblr) you will forever have some amount of Millennial Particles and theres genuinely nothing you can do about it
The idea that Rhinedottir longs to be a mother but might in reality struggle with being a parent with Albedo unsure if she truly loves him like her son or if he is something like the lab rat she got overly attached to for a minute but might eventually grow tired of….