Fan Fiction Is A Catch 22

Fan Fiction is a Catch 22

As a fan fiction writer, I’ve been told that my fandom is dying because no one is writing more fan fictions, or not finishing the ones that have been posted. I’ve also been told that people want to wait until a story is completed before they will leave a review.

To those readers who wait until the story is completed, that’s great, but sometimes all it takes is a little encouragement midway for an author to complete a story. Maybe some of those authors gave up because no one was commenting, so they figured no one liked the story, so why bother finishing it?

If the readers want the fandom to continue, maybe they should show a little more support to the writers who are trying to keep it alive. All it takes is just a few words;

I love this story

More, please

This is good

Don’t stop

Thank you for keeping this alive

Thank you for writing this

This made me cry

This made me laugh

You’re doing a good job

Fan Fiction is a give and take, but if the writers and the readers give each other what we all need, we can revive this fandom.

Plaidoirie pour la paix

Envie de s'évader, de me libérer de cette haine, de cette violence qui nous entoure et nous submerge jusqu'à nous emprisonner. Je veux la paix! Je veux que l'amour triomphe de la haine et que le pardon soit la religion.

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dianebella

11 months ago

Out of all of the many many reasons I love gear 5, one I haven't talked about yet is how much Luffy so obviously loves gear 5 as well.

It is honestly revolutionary to have a shonen protag's final form be enjoyable for them. To not be something born out of anger or hate; a thing born out of strict necessity that has to be unlocked by painful emotions/the loss of someone they loved (temporary or otherwise) but rather born out of joy and a desire for freedom. To have them want to be in that final form, to have it spit in the face of the idea that the only way to be powerful is to be serious, edgy, ""mature"" and to abandon joy and happiness in favor of that.

I LOVE that Luffy's final power-up doesn't come at the cost of who he is as a person, and instead amplifies and uplifts who he is. It uplifts his carefree nature, his goofiness, his creativity, his sense of wonder. And as such, the form is something that he enjoys more than any other gear he has used. It allows him to be the freest version of himself, allows him to bend the world around him to his whims, of course he's going to love it.

It also (in a weird way) acts as a message of self love. Luffy does not have to abandon who he is to become stronger, but rather has to lean even further into who he is. The traits that make him 'weird' and 'strange' by pirate (or hell, even just by regular standards) are the very things that boost him up and allow him to win against his foes.

A "ridiculous power" Kaido called it, and yet it was that power that sent him hurdling to the center of the earth, toppling his reign over Wano with the very thing he robbed from its people.

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dianebella

6 years ago