Maybe one of these days I’ll finally try to migrate over. The place is still undercooked, but if Elmo shoots himself in the foot enough times, we may actually get there!
This goes back to the Twilight era. Meyer has said that Bella's blank so that she can be an imaginative meatsuit for the reader. The point isn't differentiating between 1st & 2nd tense. It's putting on the meatsuit and transforming into that "I." Actual character be damned.
@timewarpoets I categorize my "hate reads" two ways:
1) The equivalent of a "bad movie night" fun time
2) A friend's sincere recommendation (we share very similar tastes). But it turns into a bad time and at that point, I desperately want to find out what they like about it
in my experience in 15 years of fandom, when a ship is too canon & too perfect, there’s very little impetus for ppl to write for it. when a ship is absolutely doomed af, it spawns an unbelievable amount of desperate fix-it fics from fans trying to patch the hole in their heart.
Discovering that people self-insert into whatever book they’re reading blew my mind actually because since the day I became literate I have been planted firmly in the cuck chair
If you were in the trenches, reading fic on https://t.co/9Ja3004CFm. Congrats, you are an elder.
Today’s fic readers will never know what it’s like to scroll through hundreds of fic for that “great” fic.