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Yeah, everybody says that "Steve" is short for "Steven" but my headcanon is that the Harringtons are either rich old money snobs, their new money trying to act old money or the mix where the mother is old money and the father is new money (or vice versa) and they have a lot to prove so there is no way that Steve's given name is Steven or Stephen or if you are spicy Stephan/Stefan.
No, his name is Stephanos or Stefano if you headcanon that the mom is Italian.
Even better, his real name looks nothing like Steve or Steven because it's Steven in another language (most likely because Steve is a first or second-generation immigrant which compounds the money issue). So if you lean into the Harringtons being Irish or Scottish Gaelic it's Stéig or (my preferred) Stìobhan/Stèaphan. Or a french Étienne (Eddie personally loves this one) or a simple Esteban.
Either way, Steve hid it so well that not even the principal knew that his real name was not Steven. There is not a soul in Hawkins that knows to call him that, and he's 85% sure that his parents forgot that his name is not precisely Steve since they also never use his real name when they bother to address him or talk to him at all. Only Robin knows that Steven isn't actually his real name.
So when Eddie randomly calls him by his birth name when they are alone, he freezes. Not only because he knows that name, but because of the sinful way it rolls off the tongue and the right amount of emphasis on the right syllables. He turned around slowly and didn't even bother to try to hide his blush. The blush that was turning hotter when he noticed the teasing smirk on the metalhead's face.
And then he repeats the name and Steve actively watches the name roll off that tongue and Steve realises
He really likes when Eddie says his name.
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Sometimes I see people ship these two romantically,  but I could actually see them being siblings.  They are both older in age,  don’t have any type of magical powers, they look alike in their facial expressions, and they have the same personality, keeping their “children” locked up and neglecting them.
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tirsynni · 10 months
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I’m unsure everyone’s thoughts on TotK spoilers at this point, but just to be on the safe side, putting my thoughts Sidon and Link and other under a cut. Just ramblings and some mild cackling.
Okay, so TotK presented a new fun facet for Sidon: they gave him a bride. Obviously, Sidlink fans went completely nuts. Makes sense. This is a big change from the BotW dynamics. So first things first: my thoughts on the betrothal itself.
Some people went batshit and accused Nintendo of queerbaiting. Of all things, they insisted that Nintendo saw people so excited about Sidlink that they inserted Yona to break up the pairing. I have multiple thoughts on that, which will be split up a bit through my flailing meta. Most obvious first, though: Sidon is the Prince of the Zora. He is the only heir left. A betrothal makes sense! Yona was known to him, trusted, and she seems to have a solid head on her shoulders... and is also good for not taking Sidon’s shit. She is a good choice for a Queen, both for the Zora people and for Sidon personally.
I love Sidon to death, but he absolutely needs someone to balance him out. The Zora people are a monarchy. While they lack the divine rule of the Hylian Royal Family, they do have a definite strictness and structure. There is a great deal of respect for the royal family, for the structure that is in place, and the Zora people also rely on the royal family for multiple things. The Zora royal family is clearly not symbolic or there for show: they are the guardians, protectors, and leaders of the Zora people. Whoever would be paired with Sidon would need to fulfill those roles. 
From what we’ve seen of Link, he has two sides: feral little warrior or duty-bound Knight. He doesn’t try to take leadership roles: he hears of a problem, sighs a little at how the problem isn’t being solved, and does it by himself. He works with teams, but there’s no indication of him ever leading. He’s the Tony Hawk of Hyrule. He’s the guy who does things so quietly that people are baffled when they’re successfully done.
So where does all of this leave Sidlink? I think there are a couple takes on it.
While Sidon is canonically marrying Yona (and absolutely no Yona bashing on my blog: I adore Yona), I think if Sidon married her and Yona acted as his queen and the Queen of the Zora, and yet he still had a full relationship with Link on the side... he would do so with everyone’s blessing. Dorephan’s, the Zora people’s, Yona’s... Fuck, he literally put a ring on it, and he was congratulated. He has a statue of him and Link, and everyone honors it. He has it literally in writing on the wall how much he adores Link and wants everyone to know how awesome Link is. And fuck, did everyone talk to Yona after Link successfully finds the Zora greaves? Sidlink isn’t even my ship and it seems like she is giving her blessing and sounds thrilled that Sidon found such a great side piece.
Seriously, my favorite pairing is Revalink, and every Zora interaction seemed like Sidon was madly in love with Link, and despite marrying Yona, everyone in the kingdom was cheering Sidon on. Wouldn’t be the craziest thing, really, and would require no effort to make Sidon/Yona a political, if happy and respectful, marriage, with the King (and really, the Queen, providing no children come from it) having concubines/lovers/etc. Which makes the second possibility for this subject even funnier.
This is my go-to, although, again, even for a non-shipper, Sidlink is amazingly easy in TotK: Sidon and Link have nothing going on. It’s completely platonic. It never occurred to either of them that people interpret their interactions and Sidon’s comments as romantic. Everyone -- Dorephan, Bazz, Yona, everyone -- is convinced Sidon and Link have been fucking for months, if not years, and they’re okay with it. Hell, they’re thrilled by it. Yona adores Link and is fine sharing Sidon with him. Hell, she encourages it (with neither Link or Sidon understanding it but happy to have some time to hang out together). Dorephan is convinced that he has a pseudo-son-in-law and couldn’t be prouder. He expected to have Link as an actual son-in-law a century ago, anyway. Everyone thinks they’re screwing, and everyone is happy with it, with Sidon and Link never catching on. 
Bonus points if Link is actually in another relationship, and one day, I might write that little bit of crack.
More bonus points if Sidon is actually ace (which is really, really easy to headcanon, honestly) and Yona attributes his struggles with babymaking to his love for Link.
There’s possibly Link struggling to figure out where he fits with Sidon after learning about the engagement, with most of the kingdom (including Yona) taking it for granted that of course Link would stay with Sidon. There’s Sidon struggling with figuring out how to insert Yona in his life and the canon struggling of having someone else to lose. (At least he’s confident that Link can and will survive, even though Link vanishing must have scared the shit out of him.) There’s possibly Link knowing that such things exist due to his travels and his own history with royals but not connecting it to himself, especially when he sees Sidon struggling with his relationship and upcoming marriage to Yona. Multiple opportunities for both fluff and plotty tension.
But yeah... at no point do I see Yona actually being a barrier to Sidlink. It’s amazingly easy to see her as a fucking Sidlink shipper, whether the pair or actually together or not.
(And honestly, I think she did what it wouldn’t have occurred to Link to do: yell at Sidon to put aside his personal feelings and fears and fulfill his damned responsibilities. I think Link would have just accepted Sidon’s actions and tried to solve the problem on his own, as he does. It is Yona who recognizes that it shouldn’t just fall to Link and that Sidon has to take care of his own responsibilities, too, and get out of his head.)
Of course, for the people who want to write Yona and Sidon breaking up the marriage, write Link taking up a leadership role and stepping up as a fellow ruler, whatever... this bit of meta absolutely is not critiquing any of those takes. I’m of the firm mindset that people should write what they want, that fanfiction is amazing for exploring, and if people dislike a certain writer’s takes, they should just leave the fic instead of going “Well, I disagree with what you did here and here’s why.” Hell, even if it’s not with my headcanons or whatever, Sidlink writers are awesome in this fandom and write many solid fics, both with worldbuilding to back up their choice and with fics without the details and background and just happy fluff (and porn). If you like the above takes, awesome! If you prefer for it just to be Sidlink (no Yona bashing, please, though), also awesome. It’s fanfiction. Have fun with it.
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drawingdroid · 7 months
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Warning, adult themes, minors DNI!
Something I've been thinking a lot lately (because I've been reading an obscene amount of FanFiction lately) is the necessity of depicting Reader as someone who has only had shitty sex, when they're not inexperienced or a virgin.
Im not talking about fics where corruption/purity kink is explored, and also it's perfectly understandable that there's a variety in the experience about intimacy. The point I wanted to make is about the trope where Reader has always been unsatisfied in their sex life until this character arrives to their life and gives them mind-blowing orgasms.
I miss FanFiction where Reader is experienced, who has had loving relationships before and/or mind blowing sex already, someone who's not flashed about some guy finding their sweet spot. I've never seen that in fanfics even though I've been reading them for 15 years, and when they're are experienced is normally because they're sex workers. (Nothing wrong with that, but you can be experienced and work in a different job too.)
I'd love to read your opinions on this, my inbox is always open!
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unorthodoxx-page · 1 year
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I swear the way some of you have access to my drafts/notes in these asks 😲🤯
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In all seriousness Chapter 7 is a bit angsty, and not only with Leo.  I generally don’t doing angst or whump without a purpose, and I always end on a positive (this is a general statement for my writing). 
I will say that I am skipping Avatar Day lol.  It just wasn’t relevant in my timeline.
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femme--de--lettres · 1 year
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Wanted to make a somewhat frank post about something fandom related this morning, and while I'd hope this is something that would be read + discussed in an earnest way (as intended) and not a desperate one, I recognize that everyone who reads it will have their own interpretation, so with that in mind, I'd like to say quite clearly that this is not a cry for more interaction from folks who follow me before I get started.
additionally, because it’s long, the TLDR version is (bluntly) as follows: having a 1:1 ratio of rude/disrespectful interactions to kind/lovely ones is not only frustrating, but an inappropriate way for readers to be engaging with authors and will only serve to drive diverse voices out of the fanfiction community.
With that out of the way...In recent months I've recognized a trend in my inbox that seems to be endemic to this fandom, and it's the need to share every thought about a creator's work with them—good, bad, or otherwise. As much as I love that young people are consuming fanfiction with more openness than they did 10+ years ago (at least from my view, as a person who was much closer to young than an adult a decade ago, and would hide all of my fics behind a privacy wall on my ipod touch), there's something to be said for humanizing the people behind those stories.
There are a thousand ways to do that, including simple things like reading the tags of a fic critically to avoid triggers, but the one I'd really like to hone in on today is the uptick in 'constructive criticism'—which, when unsolicited, is more commonly known as negative feedback or just criticism—that I and other authors have seen in response to their stories.
To be abundantly clear—
An author doesn't owe you an explanation for their writing. Not for the plot choices they make, the content they choose to write about, or the way they choose to navigate the story that they've crafted.
As a reader, you're not obligated to finish every story you start, and if you can mark a book you didn't enjoy as a "DNF" on your reading log, there's no reason you can't make the same choice on ao3.
The difference between those two scenarios, though, is that if you choose to take your 'DNF' review to Goodreads or Storygraph to let other readers know how you felt about it, you're sharing that in a space designed for readers. For as brutal as Goodreads reviews can be, the founder is cited as saying he wanted to "create a space where people could write reviews regarding the books that they read". (emphasis added, NYT 2013). There's been a bit of buzz about this topic on "booktwt" (the book-ish community on twitter) lately that's essentially boiled down to "authors, stop seeking out bad reviews of your book on a site that's designed for people to leave honest reviews," which is a fair statement to make.
From a fandom perspective, I'd say that stance reflects the post that circulated on tumblr a while ago about how bookmarks are meant for readers, not for authors, so it's unfair for authors to ask readers to be 'nicer' in their bookmark notes. That take in particular has been met with mixed reviews from what I've seen, but even if everyone on tumblr/ao3 chose to accept that as an accurate assessment of how bookmarks should functon...
An author's comment section isn't that.
Their DMs aren't that.
The ask box on the blog they run to promote their work isn't that either.
Maybe I'm feeling this more acutely because I'm (admittedly!) not the world's largest/most popular blog within my fandom by a long shot, and to be incredibly clear—I'm okay with that. I don't want to be the biggest person on this site, and I'd argue that that's not what most authors on here are looking for either.
The thing is, as a small/mid-sized/whatever sized blog I am, the number of DMs/asks I get is manageable enough that I'm not overwhelmed by it. I'm not Neil Gaiman, going through tens of thousands of asks a day/week/month and picking which ones to respond to. By and large, if you send me an ask that isn't (1) spam/phishing (2) asking for more personal information than I'm willing to put on the internet or (3) rude, I'm willing to offer up my best attempt at an answer.
I love doing that; interacting with people on here—especially about my fics—is one of my favorite ways to promote the works I've written, many of which have taken weeks/months/years to complete.
But it's a lot harder to respond to those things in a positive manner when there's a nearly 1-to-1 ratio of rude commentary to kind remarks. I turned off my asks earlier this week because I—like every other fanfiction author you've ever read the works of—was going through my everyday life and had other things to worry about, and when I checked my phone for the third time that week to see a rude anonymous ask in my inbox, I decided it wasn't worth the effort to have that method of contact available anymore.
That's one of the more frustrating things I've had to do on here, I'll be honest, but when almost 50% of the interactions I've been getting on here and ao3 (where I already have comments moderated) have been rude commentary, it's hard to look at the fandom overall and want to continue providing more of my amateur writing up for it to critique—and that's what writing/posting fics is, really—because when I switched from fanfiction.net to ao3 in 2020, I didn't also sign on for folks thinking they were automatically entitled and/or welcome to be my copyeditors/fact-checkers/continuity readers/betas.
The stories I write aren't written with you in mind, readers.
I'm sorry if this is the first you're hearing of this, but each and every one of them was written for myself: the stressed out, part-time law student whose car broke down on a highway last week and who picked up fanfiction as a hobby when she was 11 and hasn't looked back until now.
If you don't like what I've written—if you don't like my characterizations, my plots, my writing style—you're welcome to not read my stories. You don't have to stick around if you're dissatisfied, and honestly, I give you full permission to do that unapologetically. That's fine by me, I know what I write isn't everyone's cup of tea. It's not meant to be, and I trust my own writing enough to assume it'll find the people it's meant to find regardless.
What isn't fine is the assumption that it's okay to approach me, in the only personal space of mine that you as a reader have access to (comments/DMs/inbox) and complain about what you don't like, that my writing isn't the sort of thing you'd call X/Y/Z genre, or attempt to make corrections to my work because you think 'I could do better' than what I've currently written and/or am planning to write.
For all that I'm accessible and open with people on here, that's a categorically inappropriate way to interact with any fic author, not just me—which I say because I know I'm not the only author this has happened to in recent history.
We're writing amateur stories about fictional characters for free, there's no need to waste your time/energy writing a lengthy manifesto about why you hate our work and sending it to us. At best, the author will respond to you kindly and say that they're sorry you felt that way. At worst, you drive diverse voices out of a community of writers that's often committed to increasing the quantity of genuinely diverse and representative stories that readers can find.
Like I said at the top, this isn't a call to action for the folks who follow me to be more active in praising my stories—I'm secure enough in what I'm doing, where I'm going, and how I'm writing to feel good about the work I'm doing. But as the dear @squintclover reminded me earlier, "you don't have to be [on my page] and if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."
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This or That (hero x villain edition)
Enemies to lovers or Enemies and lovers
The hero falling for the villain or The villain falling for the hero
Hero and villain falling in love before they start working against each other or After they started working against each other
Hero and villain knowing wo each other's true identities or The two of them not having a clue of who each other are outside of work
"We're not dating, they are my enemy and is a Hero/Villain" or "Oh yeah, we're dating"
Hero and Villain being married to each other or Hero and Villain just being bfs/gfs
The relationship being wholesome and light-hearted or the relationship being rough and extremely complicated
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i-knowmyself · 1 year
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I want at least 15 chapters of build up, angst, hurt/comfort, and mutual pining thanks
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myblurryreality · 2 months
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Mdzs trope opinions no one asked for
While I understand the appeal of redeeming characters, I find the way the people try to redeem JGY to be kind of insulting to his wife and child. Lots of authors tend to post the what ifs of JZX and JYL living being the key to JGY turning away from evil. They present it as, if he just had the brotherly love and was accepted as family by JZX and if he also received the love that WWX got from JYL, then of course he would turn away from his evil ways. It minimizes his character to me. JGY is (in my unprofessional opinion) a narcissist. The only way to 'redeem' him is to change his childhood. Or to make him decide that backing JZX is in his best interest, but this one is limited. JGY killed his own child. A child of another isn't going to sway him. Love isn't going to change him.
People like pointing to his fondness of LXC as proof that he has the ability to be a better person. This belief tells me that they don't understand, truly understand why he was fond of him. As I stated, I believe he's a narcissist, and as a narcissist he's going to hold on to people who think the best of him. And LXC always saw the best in him and never truly doubted him or his character. This unshakable admiration from somebody who was politically and socially advantageous for him to associate with was perfect for him. It must have been euphoric for him to have such an advantage. Plus, LXC upbringing and personality made him the perfect person to attach himself to because he knew how to play him. He knew how to get his sympathies and make him not question any doubts that might have popped up in his head.
(Trust and believe that at any point that admiration turned into suspicion, he would have been betrayed. People like to point out the fact that he didn't kill him in the end when he had the chance, but I honestly think he did that on purpose because how much more would he agonize and think about him if he saved him. To me, it read as him trying to make sure that he was always in his thoughts. Because at the end of the day a narcissist wants to be the most important thing in the room, in your life.)
JGY is an interesting character to read if done right. I think his cunningness is his best appeal. I think some people want to redeem him so bad that they kind of just make him a different person honestly. But yeah I just think that people try to redeem him through the power of love and I just think that is kind of a spit in the face of his wife and child that he murdered.
So sorry for any kind of mistakes. I am doing this through chat to text it's so much easier to do this way. Thank you for reading my rambles have a wonderful day or night or life I don't know.
P.S. Don't even get me started on the ones where he's overcome with guilt because he sees the similarities between him and WWX.
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unhumanrights · 5 months
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Spell Trek brainstorms
Okay, so I thought it would be a good time to start brainstorming Spell Trek in earnest, since I’m giving my T’Lyn/Mariner/Tendi fic chapter a few days to marinate (probably pick it up tomorrow, actually). I decided to live-blog my thoughts and just go through the entire process here because why not. It will be messy, but fun. Plus, people could leave feedback if they wished. Maybe I’ll change my mind later, but for now, you all will witness the process. Might leave some questions unanswered, but I can at least go through possibilities. Let’s go!
In case you haven’t seen me talk about it before, and in case the naming wasn’t too obvious, Spell Trek is my fantasy conversion of Star Trek. While I’m a fan of some sci-fi (obviously), I am personally a fantasist, so I thought this would be a good way for me to write slightly bigger stories than I could if I stuck to the canon universe. My knowledge of science is not extensive. Magic, I can do.
I guess the best place to start is with the big stuff and work my way down. So, what’s the cosmology of this setting? Obviously, the original Trek is in space. Should I basically just keep it space, but magic? Planets, nebula, black holes? Maybe it would be analogous to space, but modified. Actually, if you’ve ever heard of Spelljammer, that’s a possible way to do it. I don’t know much about the setting, but I skimmed the Wikipedia article for it, and it’s kind of what I’m talking about. Might have to do more research into it.
Perhaps instead of traveling through space, it’s all interplanar travel? Each species could come from a different dimensional plane instead of planet. Might be some kind of “space” between planes that the ships would travel through, which is where the actual space stuff would occur and would allow for actual travel instead of just blinking from plane to plane. Almost the same as the previous paragraph, I guess, just…worded differently. Planets, planes, same diff. Yeah, it’s pretty much the same concept. Magic space.
It COULD all take place on one world, and each species is a different race and nation. Kind of limits the scope, though, unless I introduce some ways to expand it, like the Underdark, parallel planes, etc. Still would have a physical limit. Unless…it didn’t? Okay, THIS is new to my brain. When I’ve thought about the possible setting before, I’ve usually thought about the previous two paragraphs, really sticking as close as possible to outer space. I briefly imagined it as one world before, but dismissed it due to limited space, and therefore lacking in terms of exploration. But what if…the landscape just had no known limit? One unending (as far as anyone knows) physical landmass/watermass? Could still have ships, but they would be airships instead. Warp could still work, as the landscape is basically infinite. Exploration is still doable. It being a flat world instead of 3D space, that would make travel slightly different, but that’s not important. Actually, maybe the travel could still be 3D? Could have underground species, perhaps landmasses in the sky, too. Or maybe…what if there are multiple physical planes stacked on top of one another? A big lasagna of reality. Cosmology is fun to play around with, huh?
Well, this brainstorming session has given me some things to think about. To summarize, it seems like I have two options for the overall setting (with some sub-options thrown in):
Basically outer space, but magic instead of science (like Spelljammer).
Replace the infinite space with infinite landmass and watermass (and possibly multiple layers).
Not sure which I prefer. I like the latter because it’s the shiny new idea I just came up with, and I wouldn’t have to worry about astrophysics or anything like that, but I guess I could always fudge it all if it’s magic anyway.
Is anyone reading this? If you want to give an opinion, you can. Oh hey, I can do a poll! I love you, Tumblr. So just take the poll. Well, you can reply or reblog/tag too, if you want, but if the poll is easier for you, by all means.
Okay, bye now.
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violetlunette · 3 months
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Some people have trouble understanding why I like certain tropes in fanfiction and not in the canon works, but it’s actually quite simple.
In fanfiction and what not, it’s all “what-ifs.” What if this person was a yandere? What if they did this or that? In canon, if a person is a yandere, that’s who they are. Thus, I judge them differently from their fandom counter parts for better or worse.
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This a quick one-off that I thought of today.
As desirable and desired Steve Harrington was, even at the height of his reign, Steve has never once received a Valentine's present. He's given many, helped plan some and delivered others but he has never received one, not even anonymously.
That is until sophomore year when a letter flew out of his locker that Valentine. He looked around seeing only a freshman taking furtive glances at him (he thinks her name is Nancy or Nancine) so he assumed it was from her. He doesn't even consider it to be a love note until he gets home and reads the beautiful poetry in it.
It becomes important to him; he reads it over constantly and slowly but surely falls in love with the writer, who he believes is Nancy, which prompts him to ask her out in the summer.
When he gets with Nancy, she's a bit different than the mooning haphazard romantic the poem implied, but Nancy seems like a private affection kind of person, but if she is capable of writing like that it means that deep down she feels like that.
Then the Upside Down happens and Barb dies and Steve makes some bad choices and things become strained between them and eventually break his senior year at the Halloween party and dissolves during their next encounter with the upside down.
Once he returns from the hospital, he's tempted to shred the note with its mocking sentiment of his bullshit ruining feelings like that but instead puts it's away to later stick on his mirror to remind him of a time he was liked/loved like that.
Fast forward to sometime after Vecna and the elders of the party are watching Eddie perform his new song and the chorus is word for word and line by line of the letter stuck on his bathroom mirror in his song. It strikes him as odd and he turns to Nancy jokingly,
"Have you started writing for Eddie."
She pushes his arm lightly and says, "Steve you know I suck at any type of creative writing especially rhyming. The last time I tried writing a poem was in middle school. And it was nothing like that."
Suddenly, one of the pillars that held up his world shifted. Nancy never wrote that letter, which means the only Valentine's present he has ever received in life was written by someone else who he has been pining for ever since receiving it. So how did it end up in Eddie's song.
"That was our newest song. I wrote it about 4 years back for Valentine's and I've finally decided to perform it. Hope you enjoyed it."
That same pillar shifted again and snapped into a different space.
Eddie gave him his first Valentine's gift and he has been in love with him since then.
And to be quite honest, Steve does not mind being in love with Eddie Munson.
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heart--stop--flatline · 4 months
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How do y'all feel about OC stories?
I've heard and followed the standard rules like: don't make them overpowered, don't make them only a shipping tool, make sure they fit with the plot, don't character bash, fully establish the character, try not to make them too central to the plot, don't change the main plot too much, try to maintain in-character voices and actions, and lastly don't be too trope-y.
Nothing too specific; I'm writing two separate OC fanfics and I've just been wondering if there are any rules that make OC stories more... appealing to readers. This might be silly but I want to make sure I actually get engagement and since I know the "Orginal Character" tag turns off a lot of people, hell I rarely click on OC stories myself, I just want to hear from others about what could make them seem a the very least curious about the story. It's kinda been eating at my mind.
Please share your thoughts, it would really help me. 😅
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chocfrog-enjoyer · 19 hours
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Things I hate in Harry Potter Fanfictions
This are the tropes I found multiple times in lots of different fanfictions and I got fed up with how illogical, overused and badly written they are :/
Completely changing the story to the point where I’m starting to wonder if it’s even Harry Potter because the only thing that stayed the same are the names.
( If it’s ships ) When one or both sides are already in love with each other ( in this cringy “I always loved him/her ) especially on what normally would be considered enemies to lovers. If I’m reading a story especially with a non canon ship I’d want to know how they’ve came to be, how the love blossomed. Or at least a reasonable explanation of why the character loves the other from the start of the story.
( If it’s Dark Harry ) The: One morning Harry wakes up and decides ah fuck it I’m changing sides “I care not for your good side anymore, now I’m going to be evil” and Voldemort is like “Oh well- guess I won’t kill him then, never mind that it was my obsession for the last decade and more, It changed today”
Evil-Good Harry…? Honestly I hate this trope soooo much. The: Voldemort was good from the start and it was Dumbledore that was truly evil and he manipulated Harry and/or he was the one who killed Harry’s parents. “Yeah, no like Voldemort is a pretty good guy. He can even be considered as a role model of being good if we ignore all of his other/earlier victims and people he tortured. I mean- I don’t see any evil right?”
Ron, Ginny and Hermione bashing because why not ( this happens especially often with Slytherin Harry fanfics). I don’t mind if some characters get their negative traits explored but make it real people, I can’t read a story where those characters act so bad and OOC for no actual reason. And no Harry being in Slytherin isn’t a reason because those characters never bullied and harassed anyone purely because they were a Slytherin. Yes they did not like this house ( for a good reason might I say ) but they never even acted out on Malfoy who was openly bullying them, the only situations we get where Malfoy and his friends got attacked by Ron and/or Hermione were deserved, and were responses to his provocations.
( If it’s not in order to hide his identity ) Changing Harry’s name. I can understand using Hadrian or Harris as the elongated versions of Harry but when someone straight up changes his name and now I’m reading a story about Daniel or Bob or something for no apparent reason then the whole thing seems stupid and illogical for me.
When Draco and Snape liked Harry from the start. Draco was a narcissistic, spoiled little child and he wasn’t nice to Harry both when he knew who he was ( train raide ) and when he didn’t ( Madam Malkin - their first meeting ). He expected admiration and friendship from Harry like if he had earned it. Making him be like a best friend from the very start is non sense, those boys would need time to come together, and with Harry’s personality I bet they’d still have a silly rivalry if they were in the same house. Same with Snape, like there’s no way he would tolerate Harry let alone like him. He hated Harry from the moment he saw him in the great hall and even before the boy went to Hogwarts. For Snape and Harry to like each other there would need to be a very good reason and it wouldn’t come immediately, but with lots of time and more interactions between each other.
Too much muggle stuff in the magical world. I don’t mind it if a lot of the story plays out in the muggle world or some muggle stuff is crucial for the story point but when I read a fan fiction where Harry was in St.Mungos and he was being treated the muggle way I lost it and dropped the fic. Like are you really going to put full on muggle medical equipment in a gigantic wizard hospital and make your healers use almost only muggle diagnostic methods? Most Wizards barely have any proper knowledge on muggles, and even muggleborns don’t know that much since they are introduced into wizarding world at a young age and basically spend the rest of their life in it. They have a lot more knowledge about muggles than pureblood wizards but it’s still not THAT much.
Overpowered Harry. The „Lord Potter; Black; Peverel; Gryfindor; Slytherin; etc… etc.. :/ nothing wrong with powerful Harry. I like powerful Harry. But it’s ridiculous that a child, a 11-15 yo boy would just instantly have more magical power than Merlin himself, and he would instantly know what to do with it
Gringotts knows everything about you. The „heritage tests” and all. Making a good use of Gringotts is amazing in fanfiction and I love exploring ideas people have on it but this trope is not only overused but also dumb. I’m not talking about simple family linking that people use or like blood checking. I mean the young Harry goes to Gringotts and just with a drop of his blood it is instantly known that he is meant to be a lord of this and that and he owns such and such properties and he is hella rich because of all the vaults that were left to him. And also goblins being friendly. These creatures do not like wizards.
Know it all Hermione. But like literally. Hermione being so overglorified and being literally smarter than Dumbledore and basically all Hogwarts staff often at age 11-16. She’s smart but let’s be real this is not possible. Like her being able to do anything in the world after “reading a book/going to the library for a bit”
Harry being the most handsome, ripped and freaking amazing Hogwarts student while literally being like 14 or 15.
Harem… Nothing bad with Harry having a flock of girls that are attracted to him ( this is canon ) but oversexualizing women in order to make Harry the girl-magnet that has 7 girlfriends and like all the „conventionaly attractive” witches around him - Hermione, Ginny, Fleur, Daphne etc.”
Harry hating Dumbledore from the beginning, blaming everything on the poor old man, being annoyed by the most stupid thing like: “Dumbledore smiled at him, and Harry went utterly furious” ://
Child Harry behaving like an adult and teenage/mature Harry behaving like a child. Why would a 11 yo go to Hogwarts and suddenly be a master manipulator, know exactly what to say to get out of difficult situation and can outsmart his peers and/or adults to show „how much better he is”. And the other situation: Harry being completely clueless, using childish language, being referred to by others as “little one, pup etc.”
All Slytherins are misunderstood angels. No they aren’t! As a Slyhetin myself I can recognize Draco’s ( and his friends ) bullshit when I see it! Yes stop the stereotype of “All Slytherins are bad” but do not excuse actually bad Slytherins.
Fics gloryfing toxic pureblood culture. Exploring different aspects of the culture, the better and worse ones is cool and creative but I’ve seen a lot of fics gloryfing what is just abusive and toxic and romanticizing it in the name of “pureblood customs/traditions”
Guns… just no… like what? It’s like how to tell you’re American without telling you’re American. I hate seeing guns in HP and the wizarding world, and the often following glorification of this weapon
Excessive American English. I don’t mind it much if it’s just some words but please all the slang and common words from American English are annoying. It’s not that hard to do a little bit of reaserch of the common differences in some words. The story is played ( mainly ) in the United Kingdom, the language used by characters should be British English ( like Harry & Hermione ) and Scottish English ( like McGonagall )
Excessive ( and especially if heavily described ) abuse from Dursleys that would have killed Harry at least 5 times before he would be 10. Like heavy beating, breaking bones, stabbing. I do not like reading such things and I found this in fanfics quite a lot….
Oversexualization of children 11-15. While exploring the sexual side of romance/life is okay in a teenager, it is a part of life, I hate seeing fics that oversexualize ships that at the time have characters aged 11-15 - literal children, especially oversexualizing young Hermione, in some Harmony fics ( where she was 14 ), or Ginny, with fics calling her a slut/whore because she had a crush on Harry, or when she’s a bit older because she dated a few boys.
Illogical use of Parseltongue. First of all Parseltongue is a language and Parselmouth is the speaker ( pls I beg don’t describe Harry as a Parseltongue ). But suddenly this language being like all powerful, and you can do wandless magic with it and basically perform any spell without ever using it before.
Luna being bullied by every Ravenclaw, ( like most of those ppl - especially the older ones or younger ones - do not actually care ) and her being like a super mega seer that knows all about the future and is actually super mega smart in her weirdness.
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justletmereadmyfic · 1 year
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So in the Scum Villain novels, it notes that priceless jewels and cultivation goods were abundant in the Demon Realm, but demons really liked trading for/stealing just whatever junk from the Human Realm, because these items were rarer there and thus more valuable/desirable.
So now I am having a giggle over the idea of Demon Realm high fashion being not jewelry and shiny ornaments (gold and diamonds doesn't scream "expensive" when you can pick them up off the ground), but instead having random human crap sewn onto their clothes and braided into their hair.
Sha Hualing wearing a dress made of different patterned dishtowels. Mobei-Jun wearing thimbles on all his fingers and a colander on his head. Just completely bizarre post-apocalypse dumpster diving looking fashion.
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