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⌈ Secret Post #5882 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

While I do want my ship to fall complicatedly in love eventually, I totally agree with you about the kind of fics you're referring to.

I feel like most of the time it's kind of a less overt self-insert type thing, where the writer and readers are usually heavily identified with the uwu soft character who gets comforted and/or taken care of and/or gets their world rocked by the other character, who is hot.

IDK, I'm not saying that's what it is for everyone. It just seems like maybe that's the main appeal for some people. And obviously I could psychologize my own interests in the same way (and I DO, all the fucking time), so I don't mean this in some kind of, "Those people's psyches are weird but not mine, I only like cool shit for cool reasons because I'm a cool person who would never use fiction as an emotional outlet" kind of way.

[(Anonymous)]

A fair point about identifying, but I'd also throw in, there are a lot of people who want the uwu payoff without the interesting yet difficult work of ICly getting them there. which is...okay, I guess, fic thinking and creativity can be very hard and draining. but at the very least make that clear with summaries, setting, tags, idk whatever. even just an author's note "I know they hate each other but I want to pretend" would be great. the ones you and I and most everyone in this thread object to are the ones that are transparently NOT that, the writing makes it clear that the writer just self-inserted or fucked off into goofy-ville with no thought put into it. those are the absolutely most frustrating.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that if people would have a tag or some way of demarking their, shall we say, "Uwu fic" I would personally really love it. And yeah, it's more frustrating when it seems like the writer hasn't even thought about it for a second. Like they don't even care enough about the text their borrowing signifiers from to think about the most basic strokes of how their fic sits in contrast.

But as someone else said upthread, fandom's gonna fandom. I try not to be annoyed about it, though as I'm sure you can tell by this comment, my success rate varies day to day.

[(Anonymous)]

*They're, ugh