maleviolent

loves to -atic your problems

  • xe/xir + it/its [NO THEY]

30+ ★ queer [&] neurodiverse
nonwhite ★ clinically disastrous ★ purveyor of too much media ★ govt assigned cagab is information you're not entitled to

account made 15/02/'24


one of my friends has been keeping a spreadsheet of every fic they've read since basically the dawn of time for their participation in fannish things and I keep thinking about that because it is so smart and good to do. I have no fucking clue about 90% of the things I've read over time because I have the memory of me, who is someone who is deeply neurodivergent, lol.


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oh yea i should have done that too! sometimes i read through the tags of an ao3 fic i found and think “oh wow that sounds really good” and then i start reading it and i’m like “hmmm. this sounds oddly familiar”. and then the whole thing comes crashing back and i remember what a great time i had reading the fic and i basically completely forgot about all of that were it not for me randomly stumbling across it again

perhaps it's never too late to start making it... I'll never actually get Every fic I've ever read on there (also because some fics very likely simply do not exist anymore) but it's a bit tragic that they've all sort of poofed from my brain!

also I can't say I've ever experienced what you're describing here but that's probably because I take like one big dip into certain fandoms/ships per cycle and usually go back to a fandom with a different ship I like or to the same ship but with a different dynamic or specification I'm looking for (thinky emotion, intensely)

i have the advantage that i read almost all my fics on my ereader and they’re still on there. i didn’t get into fanfiction until i was an adult. but i think it would be good to just keep a list of all and add bullet points about the plot and what i enjoyed about the fic. enough to reminisce about it later :)

also makes sense to go real deep into a specific ship or fandom and then burn out from it and never look back. i’m just the kind of person who will rewatch atla for the 50th time instead of committing to a new show and will read the same three ships over and over because i know i like those :3

plurality has impacted our fannish experience a lot, admittedly, because we have many many fictives and therefore have been in (and out) of a lot of fandoms with usually a very specific focus or re-entered with a different focus. I think we usually don't go through Every fic of a particular ship or general vibe, but we like to find what we refer to as like "holy grail" fics which are usually the best-written and super mega long of whatever niche we're looking at

I can't imagine having been into fanfic since only being an adult but that's less data that you might have to contend with! having it all there on the ereader sounds nice too

we honestly wish we would spend more time invested on a singular fandom instead of moving around so much but c'est la vie

i had to look up what a fictive is first. but interesting. i see how that would cause you to deep dive into a lot of different fandoms :3
i don't know a lot about plural systems but i love hearing about their experiences :)

also yea i doubt you could practically go through every fic of a specfic ship. especially with the more popular ones. i just looked it up and there are 35k klance fics on ao3 (my tastes are SO mainstream lol 😌)

I can't imagine having been into fanfic since only being an adult but that's less data that you might have to contend with!

i've really avoided social media (except watching youtube) for many of my earlier teenage years and even after that only lurked on reddit (ik i do feel ashamed for that 😔)
i think i made my tumblr account around the time botw came out, so 2017-ish when i would have been 17. i only know that because i specifically remember coming across a certain botw link/sidon comic that taught me that sharks have two penises (very educational)

(very educational)

WHEEZES!!!!!

also some sharks can change their sex per breeding season (is what I have heard) so allegedly that would be a cool thing to pull from and implement into a shark-based omegaverse, if that's your cup of tea (both hypothetical and direct "you" usage)

if we use another term sometime for plurality feel free to ask if you want!!! or whatever. but yeah, "fictive" is very searchable, thankfully. and we're glad you like listening to our experiences!! being open-minded is so important tbh

I do recall actually that we've read Every Single Fic for some of our rarepair ships we like but oh man. sometimes it is suffering to do so. some fics are just. bad. and that's beautiful

if we use another term sometime for plurality feel free to ask if you want!!!

thanks, i will :3
also btw i read your tags under the "how cohost is nice for systems" post and from my experience i would totally agree that visibility has just been a lot better over the last few years. i didn't know anything about plural systems until i joined twitter in like 2019 and over time became mutuals with a bunch of systems :)

some fics are just. bad. and that's beautiful

that is so true!! sometimes you read a bad fic, but the premise is just perfect and you can still feel the author was passionate about it and it just makes it really enjoyable

a shark-based omegaverse, if that's your cup of tea

i really tried liking omegaverse. there's so much potential for it to be my cup of tea. but it just that most of what i've read so far had the one good alpha and then the rest of society just has another category to discriminate by. and i just lose interest as soon as i get to the misogyny squared part :( i'm just not into the non-consent aspect at all. if i could have omegaverse but it's just normal people with weird genitals having to call in sick because their partner's knot won't come out, that would be my cup of tea! but if the omega has to wear scent patches or else get raped in the public bathroom, then i'm out

yeah!! i feel like systems have become much more confident in being out and interacting with singlets more than ever, which is really cool to see!!

what you said to this (some fics are just. bad. and that's beautiful) is also a feeling we feel, but i meant more like, the really bad fics you don't even want to read? like you actually cannot read them because there's something objectionable about it that you can't get through it and have to quit them? they're written by someone who's still so passionate about writing their blorbos! and that is sincerely beautiful. always very happy on whatever level to see people being passionate. was also thinking about a lot of really old fic on ff.net or livejournal that was written by teenagers (when we were also a teenager) and that's just a rite of passage there!

oh man...... yeah........ the thing we like about omegaverse is it's SUPPOSED to be a build-your-own scenario of fun, but unfortunately lately it seems like things got streamlined and mainstreamed into a version of it we aren't so enthused by. we LOVE the weird genitals aspect (xenogenitalia is fun!) and we like the horniness of people smelling good enough you want to dick them down like an animal but we DON'T like the idea of rape being a constant concern because that's literally no different from society as-is. it really is repackaged misogyny. the ideal omegaverse, in our opinion, is a place to play with ideas about transness and intersex identity and whatever various spice of horniness you like, and potentially world-building as well. ("reverse" omegaverse or the AO3 tag for "non-traditional alpha/beta/omega dynamics" has been a best friend to us). so it's kind of upsetting that omegaverse has just become like hyper seme/uke 2.0 basically.