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>>3 No.6876
Not sure where to place this but I feel like I need to flame a fic I read. I won't mention the author, fandom or pairing but I just need to let it out because I just don't get NTRfaggotry especially when the author clearly likes the ship. I think this is my fault because I was being too horny and decided to try an ABO fic (yeah yeah, throw tomatoes), but at least I ragequit the moment I whiffed the NTR shit.
>ABO fic featuring super popular ship
>babby involved
>Bottom gets loss.jpg over the Top saying an offhand remark to some other dude (having no idea the bottom is present) that he doesn't like kids
>Bottom, who got knocked up, doesn't communicate shit and just aborts after crying for 3 days and runs away leaving the top super confused
>5 years later Bottom returns with a daughter and sees Top again where the fic currently takes place
>According to the writer's TL, the bottom wound up with some other guy very soon after his miscarriage and got pregnant and the new guy was abuse/manipulative. The child is 5 years old btw, and yes she truly is the child of the other guy. Don't ask me how the math works
>Immediately stop reading when NTR was confirmed, but look ahead at some chapters just to see where the fuck this trash was going
>Typical baby daddy drama where the ex is trying to manipulate the child into having her want the parents to return
I haven't read a fic that angered me this hard in years kek sorry it makes me laugh by how shook the NTR thing got me. It wasn't even a mind break moment, just some bitch ass rebound bullshit with a baby attached. I'm so mad hahaha
No.6877
>>6876This is really just someone trying to get their second fave ship views while relying on the first ship. NTR sucks but it doubly does when it's untagged and everyone is OOC. If I can copy/paste the plot into a telenovela except het then I don't want to read it. RIP hope you find a better fic for your ship.
No.6878
>>6877>This is really just someone trying to get their second fave ship views while relying on the first ship.Right, it's like putting the most popular ship as a background pairing so it shows up in more tags, even though they've got like two sentences of mention.
No.6879
>>6876Does it still count as NTR if they broke up?
No.6880
>>6877Was there even a second ship? Sounds like the ex was an unnamed random or mob OC. That sort of thing is pretty common in fic.
No.6881
>>6879The top didn't break up with the bottom, so I considered it as such. The retarded lack of communication trope didn't help. Overall it was an infuriating read and seeing comments praise it was baffling. You really are okay with this OOC shit with your fave pairing? The bottom in canon is never afraid to confront the top character in the media they're from and now he's a crying slut who spontaneously aborts over a dumb comment. Give me a break
>>6877>>6880It wasn't a second ship. Just an OC with a name that didn't match the setting and became prominent because of the baby daddy drama the author was milking.
No.6887
>>6876I tried reading a manwha with a plot like this once and needless to say I didn't get very far and don't even remember its name, because I just can't stand the way authors treat runaway single fathers with a kid. They always give them an abusive relationship and make them helpless in ways that are the opposite of endearing, and then the kid acts like they have developmental issues so they don't have to make them a real character. Just once can the bottom have (possibly unwarranted) confidence and teach his daughter to kick the top in the balls if he tries anything. It'd be far more fun.
No.6888
>>6881>The top didn't break up with the bottom, so I considered it as such.I… what?
No.6892
>>6889What is the lore on the "Fanart spammer" mentioned in the second image?
No.6895
>>6889Drary is this popular?
No.6897
>>6889I'm genuinely surprised Soukoku is that high… it's still going strong too seeing the 2025-2026 summer ranking. I must be on another side of the internet because I knew BSD was popular but not that popular for it to have the 2nd most written fics among anime ones. Discounting MDZS, I expected either a JJK or HQ ship to be after any BNHA one.
No.6898
>>6895I don't know why you're suprised, it's a pillar of western M/M. Good ship too. Teen Wolf still going strong is the shocking one at the top for me.
No.6899
>>6889>YoriMichi on the listGot excited for a hot second before remembering that 99% of that tag is in Chinese. I'll get around to google translating it eventually I guess…
No.6900
>>6898NTA but I always assumed anything Harry potter would've taken a popularity hit ever since Rowling's controversy because I'd gotten the impression most fic writers are some flavour of woke.
No.6903
>>6894>spamming your ships tag out of jealousy for rival ship and annoying fellow shippers in the processthis mindset is hilarious. tag spamming is usually something done to NOTPs
No.6905
>>6902You also get a lot of woke fans of HP to this day that always feel the need to go "fuck JK Rowling" at every opportunity so people know that even though they enjoy Harry Potter that they're a Good Person with Good Opinions, unlike her.
No.6907
>>6905And a lot of them haven't actually read the books or watched the movies, and are just fans of the fandom. I feel like the All The Young Dudes crowd does some mental justifications that they don't actually care for Rowling's works, just the fandom her works inspired.
No.6908
>>6907>fans of the fandomI really, really hate that this is such a huge thing now because of social media, same with people pretending they've watched/played something just because it's popular and they want to fit in.
No.6909
>>6908We need to start gatekeeping again.
No.6917
Is there a crisis in fanfic? So many fanfics revolve around rote, unimaginative concepts ('coffee shop AU' being the poster child). Why would any author want to copy-paste the same formulas, not even trying to play with them (ex. the coffee shop burns down at the end of chapter 1 - now the characters are jobless and PLOT ENSUES). Are so many writers really struggling for ideas? I find it hard to believe.
No.6918
>>6917I'm gonna write a coffee shop au where the shop burns down now
No.6919
>>6917It's an easy dopamine hit. In general it's a "by kids* for kids" genre so I try not to seethe about it too much because it's not like they'd be writing something good instead. It's a little annoying there is no way to to filter by author birth year because I think setting it to 1995 and below would guillotine so much clutter.
*tweens through 20-somethings
No.6920
>>6917They don't want ideas sadly… they want their cookie-cutter interpretations of complicated characters validated and basically want a filler episode with the characters. Which is fine but like you said you can do that in more interesting ways, I've been burnt out on fanfic because even fandoms like Hannibal can be so utter shite sometimes how can
a character attempt to rape another character and there's only ONE fic that actually explores if it was successful??? it is the poster-child for fucked upness but either Hannibal or Will get their rough edges sanded off.
>>6918Anon please do… I will make shitty MS paint doodles for it. PLEASE involve a lengthy legal battle about liability because the main couple accidentally left the panini press on because they got distracted making out.
>>6919Kek that would be cool, or even account age. But yeah, but I wish they would at least be a little edgy… at least it would be novel versus telenovela or blushy hee hee meet-cutes.
No.6921
>>6919I don't think it's an age thing. Back in my early fandom days there were lots of crack fics, wild crossover fics, parody fics, fics with the writer's self-insert being orbited by a harem of anime boys etc. It was self-indulgent, juvenile, often OOC, but fun to read.
>>6920>Anon please do… I will make shitty MS paint doodles for it. PLEASE involve a lengthy legal battle about liability because the main couple accidentally left the panini press on because they got distracted making out. And after getting fucked over by big corpo lawyers, they discover their lifetime vocation of burning down big brand coffeeshop chains. And call themselves Starbucks Crusaders.
No.6924
>>6920>basically want a filler episode with the charactersI won't stand for filler episode slander, those can be great if the writers care! Besides, you rarely get fic that's just characters hanging out doing mundane things in their lives. The stock fanfic plot that endlessly repeats is 'character has crush on other character and spends entire fic angsting about it until they finally get together'. If it's a coffee shop AU then this is just part of it. People basically have a hard time writing anything that isn't some mix of
>Character being in love>Character receiving asspats and validation for their gender identity>Stock omegaverse>PWPI wish there was more ship fic with plot or slice of life out there. Japanese fic has the same problem. I'm at the point where all I want is fic about my ship doing their job with detail put into it that isn't just 'they do a lot of paperwork, coworkers give relationship advice, then porn or confession happens'. (They have never been shown doing paperwork but it's just an assumption fandom makes)
If I actually want plot focus I usually have to go into the stuff not tagged with ship, which is fine I guess, but sometimes I just wanna know that the relationship is established in the background.
No.6935
I'm just finding out AO3 has an option to make fics viewable only to logged-in users. What have I been missing when not logged in…
>>6924>Character receiving asspats and validation for their gender identity>Stock omegaverse>Japanese fic has the same problem. Their fics are also full of gendie stuff and omegaverse?
No.6936
>>6935>Their fics are also full of gendie stuff and omegaverse?Omegaverse yes though not to the same extent, but I was referring to the stock character in love, angst, confession template.
No.6940
>>6936>but I was referring to the stock character in love, angst, confession templateThe advantage of pre-established couples is that this rarely happens in fanfiction involving them.
No.6943
Does anyone have phases they go through regarding what fanfics they like? When I was younger I used to be super into modern/college AUs, during quarantine I was obsessed with DDNE (including making "non-problematic" ships incest/having age gaps), and now I mostly enjoy canon compliant/divergent character studies.
No.6954
>>6943Not much. I've always enjoyed sequels and multi-chapter what-if scenarios.
No.6959
>>6958All the time! I'm of the opinion that a good fanfic needs only passing familiarity with the source material—it ought to be interesting enough on its own, and knowing the source should only make it better. I read a really excellent Gundam fic without ever having seen the show and it's one of my favorite fics to this day.
No.6961
>>6958Yeah, some Genshin stuff for recent reads and Mouthwashing for a little further back. Sympathy Crime is also a fic that's been on my backlog foreverrr because I've seen it mentioned now and again (I also just kinda dig how the title sounds) but I've never played any Persona.
No.6962
>>6943I've been pretty static. Big fan of "what if" canon stuff.
>>6958Do doujins count? If so yeah. I've tried to read some fandom blind recs but they just don't hit without a ship I'm already insane about.
>>6961>Sympathy Crimeholy blast from the past
No.6963
>>6958Only porn if a) I'm interested in the combination of tags, b) the characters look hot together, and/or c) I saw a clip/caps of a ship and liked their dynamic but am too lazy to formally get into said thing. Rarely do this though, maybe <5 times and it was DCU stuff.
No.6965
>>6958i'll do this to find out if a fandom is worth exploring before i try a new show or game. you can get a good idea of who is creating by sampling fic.
>>6961is sympathy crime even uploaded anywhere anymore? i remember it got deleted off ao3.
No.6968
>>6943I also like character studies, esp the purple prose ones even if the character is borderline illiterate lmao I like the contrast. Same as this anon
>>6954 I also enjoyed canon continuations, but I also liked established relationship esp when two BPD-kuns get together, it can be a fun mess. If a series has a tragic ending (see: Alien Stage) I like reincarnation AUs over canon divergence because I still like consequences of what happened being dealt with, & them being in modern times and having pre-existing lives without each other is bittersweet. I also like "missing scenes" where let's say a timeskip happened or we were told and not shown an event that occurred, it's a ff detailing it.
>>6958No, I don't see the point in it. I try to only read ff after I finish/catch-up with a series. Many fanfiction is very very similar so I could just read about an old OTP if I wanted to read a fic.
No.6970
>>6961I read Symphathy Crime years ago, when anons either here or LC were commenting on it's infamy/how the author got harrased into deleting it. It was really good, even as someone with little knowledge about Persona 4
Only watched the first episodes of the anime + reading what anons here write about it/the characters/shipsThere's a certain smut scene that lives forever in my mind, I liked it too much lol.
>>6965Re Symphathy Crime. I remember reading it on wattpad of all places kek
I'll even confess to making a wp account just to read SC No.6971
>>6959That's reassuring - I tend to shy away from recommending fanfic of series to people who are not familiar with it, but I will start doing it now. Perhaps some will bite.
No.6975
>>6958I read that one bsd fic with donuts which everyone seemed to be freaking about on youtube, and honestly it wasn't that bad. I get that the idea was a little out there, but otherwise the internet sentence was a little harsh, kek.
>>6918I would read the hell out of that.
No.6978
>>6975>I read that one bsd fic with donuts which everyone seemed to be freaking about on youtubeI've never heard of that fanfic. Is it still around?
No.6979
I want to go back to a prior conversation because I received a comment like post
>>6859 today and I feel I can better articulate my feelings while it's fresh.
The comment was basically "Thank you for writing x/x I loved it! Can you write more x/x?" It was on a fic I was proud of and am happy to hear someone liked it since I often write into the void. However, when I write a pairing I tend not to return to them, there will not be another story for this ship from me. As such it's hard to reply, I try not to leave impersonal one-word replies like "Thanks" but I don't want to tell the person "Thank you, but I don't have any more planned," since that sounds dismissive and rude.
In the past when receiving requests to continue oneshots I've replied with "Thanks, maybe in the future." but that's just a lie. I don't know, there's definitely some self-consciousness over disappointing strangers on the internet.
No.6988
>>6979You can ignore the latter part and write: "haha thanks! I love them too!"
No.6991
>>6979Why not lie and say that it was a gift to your friend and you're not into that pairing personally?