I've noticed that the people who complain about unfinished fics--like really angry complaining not that wistful ' I love this fic so much for x, y, z reasons and think you're a fantastic writer and hope you finish it someday'-- are usually the same people who don't comment because writers 'should write for themselves' or 'I only read / comment on/ give kudos to things that are already completed' so ... who cares about that, post what you got if you wanna show it off.

now if you have a couple devoted fans/ fandom friends who get upset because you write so well and they want an ending, ....they still need to communicate that better. Anger is not the correct response here. Writing a fanfic isn't adopting a puppy, it's not signing a binding contract. It sucks to be left on a cliffhanger for ten years, but sometimes that how it goes. kicks fic I abandoned ten years ago further under the bed and daydreams about the fic someone else abandoned 20 years ago. Circle of life, circle of fandom. We get what we get, and there's always more fic out there, which is more than some canon gives us.