DAGuest wrote: ↑13 Oct 2021, 17:21Well, it takes a lot of sifting, lol Usually when I come back, coalitiongirl has a fic waiting. This time she has 2 - both are one (one is reeeeally long) so that should hold me over. I enjoy your writing for the most part. It's at least consistent and easy to read in terms of flow and actually having been properly edited. I wish some of the old writers would come back and just drop a random pic, but I get why they left. I mean I stopped watching the show for good around season 5. Before that I only really watched consistently up until Forest Fungus showed up, then I bounced. It's easy to read fic when you only ship in Fanon, and I imagine how hard it is to write for a couple, when you don't even watch the show anymore, lol.Guest wrote: ↑12 Oct 2021, 21:16I'm the same, but I'd like to find those fics worth reading. Everything I find when I wander back is just...subpar.Guest wrote: ↑11 Oct 2021, 22:52DA but I go in and out of SQ fic reading. I'll find some decent fics, read them, lose interest in the ship and move on for a bit. Then I'll randomly come back, and there's always a few worth reading when I do. A lot of the OG writers are gone, but the fandom is updated enough that I'm still able to find some fics worth reading.Guest wrote: ↑11 Oct 2021, 13:43It’s been ages. That’s why I’ve given up looking.Seriously? wrote: ↑11 Oct 2021, 13:16
I've pretty much given up on this ship at this point. The shit surrounding the show (from how they all treated us to what stans, multishitters and other loons turned the fandom into) aside, I don't know when was the last time I read ANYTHING even remotely readable anymore. I love SQ, and I read a metric tonne of fics (and still have entire libraries I saved) but I'm afraid that everyone with the talent already told all the stories worth being told and... moved on, ages ago. And what's left is just newbies and endless regurgitation of the... average, at best?
I don't know if it's just me, but... when was the last time you read anything good? Like, really good?
Last time I came back, I found Dangereaux; which was a nice surprise. Sometimes I'll find authors I like, and then go through their bookmarks. Most of the time, good fit writers only really read pics by other authors that have similar writing quality. So it helps to maybe find something I missed before
I know what you guys mean. I do the same, I drift to some other ships (and I thought that SQ fandom was top notch in terms of being prolific and talented but man, B&W is hands down the most creative one I’ve EVER encountered – but hey, I guess it helps when actresses are the biggest shippers of their ship and fandom is small and creative and there are no ship wars and bible-belt homophobic heteros peddling their ships *cough*craptainswan*cough* or stans confusing their faves with their characters *cough*evilregalmultishitters*cough* and everyone can just relax and enjoy and be creative) but when I come back it’s all just – meh. Like, coalitiongirl has punched out another average AU that only serves to maintain her rep (old glory, really) as, let’s be honest – the last two or three I read gave us either doormat or idiot Emma, and – what was the last really good one she wrote – Amor fati?
I appreciate that in once talented and prolific fandom – after all these years, most of the original ideas have already been exhausted and all the god stories have already been told. But when I drift back (and really, it’s not because I say, get sick of B&W as, again – unbelievably varied and talented, many of the same authors also wrote early-ish SQ, too – but mostly, it's because I still crave some well written SQ, it IS the ‘mothership’ after all, no?) it’s kinda sad when it’s only to find some old author who used to be good – and get disappointed by their – average, OOC, flat piece for SQSN? I get your sifting tactics, I use it too in some other fandom/ships, but when it comes to SQ I’ve (sad, I know – lol) been there from day one, and followed it all AS it developed. So I can mostly hope for some new stuff? And while I stopped watching the show mid S3, it kept living for me in the fics, so – lol, I know. What does it say about me if I still at times have the need to go back to it, and allow it to – continue living?
*sighs*
The idiots never even knew what they created, and they most definitely did not deserve it.