if you’re a fic writer you always write for yourself. others loving your work is a loving bonus, never loose sight of your gift and don’t ever let anyone tell you how what you can and can’t write. so write that au it may have been done before but it’s unique cuz YOU made it.
And being told people are copying off each other and being unoriginal and being told not to do fun AUs. Where is your whimsy. Where is your “oh who cares they’re having fun” not everything has to be profound, original, and beautiful. Some people write just to have fun.
fanfic is traditionally one of the safest avenues to explore writing because you can experiment without fear and it seems like some people resent that and feel it’s a crime for someone to put out a piece of writing that’s Bad or not up to their personal standards
Just saying, you don’t see people critiquing/criticizing clique art. Only fanfiction. Why is there only ever open rude discussion on fanfiction skill/style and not physical art?
Makes ya think. Idk. Be kind. If you don’t like something, keep it to yourself. Uplift others.
when i came out as queer to my older brother i was so anxious and he could tell, and when i finally told him he was like “bitch you’ve met my boyfriends before why tf were you scared to tell me”
shouldn’t be a hot take but age gap aus are fine, but if one of your characters is a minor, or you are using pictures of one of the characters from when they were a minor, that is so beyond not okay on so many levels. just a thought idk