That would be Dira's fic, correct? It was a good fic, but, yes, early birds and worms and all that. And, in all honesty, it lacked the emotional punch that I wanted from the fic, even in the Steve-stays-in-Wakanda(-with-Bucky) ending.
Yeah, it's not badfic by any means, but....it's already been recommended to me earnestly as "the perfect Endgame fix-it fic" by four or five people the same way people used to earnestly recommend Not Easily Conquered ("You like Steve/Peggy!") or This You Protect ("You like Steve/Bucky!") and I'm just like, that is so not my thing. Not what I'm looking for. And it is just what other people are looking for, which is fine! Cool even! And if it weren't so FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to find what I do want on AO3, or if people recced more like they did back on LJ, I really wouldn't care.
Yes, see, you've also confirmed why I would write mine with Maria and Steve/Maria, because that's my niche and what people read me for. Plus it would satisfy my id.
Yes! If you have a niche and it also makes you happy, why fucking not. I don't buy the "popular fanfic goes by the law of the Claw" thing (LOL no) but IMHO fics written with an eye to popularity and not much else (usually mundane AUs) just fall flat. And occasionally I can tell that even I get a reader who goes through the backlog of my stuff and likes it all and might even leave a comment saying so, and that's a lovely feeling I wouldn't trade for the 100s-of-kudos-in-one-day thing okay I might like that feeling once, LOL. But I'm just like, you know, I do remember a culture when people didn't all just rec only one fic for a particular thing and it was that over and over. Or maybe they did, but I could either find recs or search the fics myself for what I wanted.
And I like AO3. In theory it's a great idea. In practice I think they somehow need to rebuild the code from the ground up and fix the tagging and search (I know, they just worked on it, it's still bad) and not have the only metrics that work be sort by popularity. Because if someone writes an early enough fic and they have a big enough network and it gets like this critical mass of kudos/comments/bookmarks, it's just like an Amazon.com bestseller list except for fics, and that's not what I want out of an archive. (It's really arguable whether it's an archive, technically, anyway, because archives are managed by archivists who index and manage collections and help people find stuff and the donations can't be edited or deleted and blah blah bleeeeeeeeeee this has now turned into my "I love AO3 BUT" rant
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Yeah, it's not badfic by any means, but....it's already been recommended to me earnestly as "the perfect Endgame fix-it fic" by four or five people the same way people used to earnestly recommend Not Easily Conquered ("You like Steve/Peggy!") or This You Protect ("You like Steve/Bucky!") and I'm just like, that is so not my thing. Not what I'm looking for. And it is just what other people are looking for, which is fine! Cool even! And if it weren't so FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to find what I do want on AO3, or if people recced more like they did back on LJ, I really wouldn't care.
Yes, see, you've also confirmed why I would write mine with Maria and Steve/Maria, because that's my niche and what people read me for. Plus it would satisfy my id.
Yes! If you have a niche and it also makes you happy, why fucking not. I don't buy the "popular fanfic goes by the law of the Claw" thing (LOL no) but IMHO fics written with an eye to popularity and not much else (usually mundane AUs) just fall flat. And occasionally I can tell that even I get a reader who goes through the backlog of my stuff and likes it all and might even leave a comment saying so, and that's a lovely feeling I wouldn't trade for the 100s-of-kudos-in-one-day thing
okay I might like that feeling once, LOL. But I'm just like, you know, I do remember a culture when people didn't all just rec only one fic for a particular thing and it was that over and over. Or maybe they did, but I could either find recs or search the fics myself for what I wanted.And I like AO3. In theory it's a great idea. In practice I think they somehow need to rebuild the code from the ground up and fix the tagging and search (I know, they just worked on it, it's still bad) and not have the only metrics that work be sort by popularity. Because if someone writes an early enough fic and they have a big enough network and it gets like this critical mass of kudos/comments/bookmarks, it's just like an Amazon.com bestseller list except for fics, and that's not what I want out of an archive. (It's really arguable whether it's an archive, technically, anyway, because archives are managed by archivists who index and manage collections and help people find stuff and the donations can't be edited or deleted and blah blah bleeeeeeeeeee this has now turned into my "I love AO3 BUT" rant