[ SECRET POST #6446 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6446 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

There is this underrated book series that I used to tell people was one of my forever favorites (Warchild by Karin Lowachee is the first book).

The author is still working on it and I was super pumped for new books and novellas in the verse and ... then she released the first novella and I HATED it. A lot. Suddenly there is a romance between two characters happening no one has ever asked for (they're both shipped with several people but I've never seen anyone ship them - most people wanted them to become brothers int he found family kind at most) and that imo doesn't work, one character doesn't feel like himself anymore and another character has somehow regressed his character development (all in my opinion ofc). I don't want to say that it ruined the rest of the books for me, because I feel like that's a bit childish, but I'm no longer looking forward to new stuff in the series. I'm so bummed about it.

Doesn't help that I used to be very active on her now gone author run forum, reviewed all of her books, always recommended the series and regularly commented on her instagram posts.
I've stopped that. I haven't told her I didn't like it, didn't give it a rating anywhere and didn't write a review.
We were never friends or something but I still feel bad.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry that happened. It's likely the author had the ships and character arcs planned at the start of the series and fandom latched on to other ones, and if the author had plans for where the plot would go, they wouldn't change it to make the popular fanon ship(s) canon even if that's what the fandom envisioned and wanted. Changing it to appease the fandom might also run into more legal risk about copying ideas from other people, too.

Just kinda unfortunate for both sides.

Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

The author having the ship planned in advance seemed likely to me after the secret mentioning "brothers." If it's an M/M ship in a young adult series that's been going on for years, yeah, it's likely the author wasn't able to put it in the books back then even if they wanted to.

Re: Not OP

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OP

The books are definitely not YA and had two canon gay ships explicit on page and another revealed canon in book 3 and novellas.

The two characters in this novella barely interacted before and my wish for them to become brothers came from one character having a father-son-ish relationship with the other's father - a fact that caused some jealousy.

Re: Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

OP again.

Okay, "barely interacted" sounds wrong. Let's say they were barely friends for a good chunk of the one book they interacted in but got better at it.

I really don't want to generalize because I obviously don't know everyone but I have yet to meet someone who actually shipped them or thought there was ANYTHING non-platonic about them and those books drip with non-platonic vibes for various ships (some of which I don't ship, but can see).

[(Anonymous)]

As I said before, I didn't like the idea of the ship because of the lack of buildup and because I passively shipped both characters with others but I still have to read it. I actually bought the ebook after it came out and forgot to read it (mostly because I read about someone complaining about the ship to the author and I kinda lost the ambition to read it after that).
So basically that means I don't like the idea of the ship but I'll have to read it to see if I still dislike it afterwards. But I get you.