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Alex, 30s, US. she/her ๐Ÿ’• this is a side blog!

adulthood is just a constant struggle of, โ€œman, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision.ย  On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me.ย  i know that fuckerโ€™s weaknesses.ย  i could totally take me in a fight.โ€

frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive

rachel zegler is so much better than me because if i had to work with a literal war criminal who can't act for shit and a movie that used cgi dwarves and had a poorly written script and then was blamed for the failure of the movie because i had the guts to say free palestine despite being the only saving grace of the film, i would 100% crash out

Iโ€™m gonna go ahead and rant real quick. Iโ€™m a fanfiction author, and Iโ€™m constantly looking for ideas I like. A lot of those ideas come from prompts, or tumblr posts, or other fandoms, or existing tropes.

Sometimes, fics already exist in those tropes.

So hereโ€™s my apparently โ€œunpopularโ€ opinion: I like reading fics of the same trope. If thereโ€™s a fic where theyโ€™re famous actors and they fall in love that I enjoy, I want four more slightly different ones. If Iโ€™m writing a fic where one is catfishing, I want to read the trope in at least four other fics like???

I like to see other authorsโ€™ take and style on common tropes. Just because one fic in a trope exists doesnโ€™t mean the trope is off limits for the fandom. Far from it - take a chance with that trope. If youโ€™re worried youโ€™re too similar, mark it inspired by. Youโ€™re not going to copy someone exactly, and you could have an interesting spin on it. I want that spin to exist.

If two fics of the same trope canโ€™t exist, I might as well delete over half my fics, including some of my most popular. Itโ€™s discouraging to hear people drop ideas because something like it exists - or even maybe exists.

tldr; more than one fic can exist within a trope or prompt in a fandom and be good fics. Please write whatever you want, even if something similar exists. Someone (like me) will read them all and enjoy them all.

nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au

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