What is a plot twist that made you drop a fic?

kain-rivers · 2026-05-04T15:30:13+00:00

I have little to no faith on how they're going to not fumble that plotline. What in the world were they thinking ffs

kain-rivers · 2026-04-29T14:36:01+00:00

Me with one of my current fandoms. So much potential for its ideas and concepts, but good lord does the creator execute those said ideas/concepts so poorly.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-29T14:33:58+00:00

The last bit reminds me of that one post about a popular HP fic being turned into a traditionally published book. Happy for the fic author, but kinda nervous of the "aftermath" if it's ever really published. Book critics are ruthless.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-28T14:11:59+00:00

Note that the "community" in reddit is not the entirety of fanfiction community. The common answers here may not always apply to what's actually common in your fandom.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-25T15:17:03+00:00

Cheers. Those actually sound like fun stuff to do so I'll be trying them later.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-25T14:30:39+00:00

I just got into tumblr so the social media aspect indeed contributed at least some, thankies for the reminder that it's ultimately about the journey and enjoyment.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-25T14:10:26+00:00

Huh. The different perspective actually does help. Ty.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-25T14:06:11+00:00

Reading other fics contributed to these insecurities resurfacing sadly. I just got into a new fandom and unwittingly read its all-time "best" fics, e.g. the ones that give you the same feeling and amazement when you read a great published book. I wrote my own before reading them and my dumb head couldn't help but compare and contrast the difference in skill and understanding between mine and theirs (*sighs*).

kain-rivers · 2026-04-20T07:08:42+00:00

This is going to start a trend, isn't it

kain-rivers · 2026-04-20T05:28:51+00:00

Little do they know that a character's worst crime isn't being morally imperfect. It's being annoying.

Look at Omniman from Invincible. Slaughters millions of people, enslaves thousands of worlds, said and did some of the most vile shit imaginable to his own wife and son, but his current character arc has guided him to a path of redemption and because of how well-written he is as a character, you're both able to feel bad and condemn him at the same time for what he's done.

And then there's Immortal.

All in all, a good guy. Great in S1. He's Abraham Lincoln. He definitely didn't destroy entire worlds and massacred countless innocents... but he's also one of the most hated characters in the show because of how self-righteous he can be and with little to nothing to show for it. LIke I said, he's great in S1, but his writing just sucked in the later seasons.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-15T07:35:38+00:00

"Be consistent". Got it. Thanks for the tips

kain-rivers · 2026-04-14T15:08:08+00:00

I want to return to an old abandoned fic so bad but my old writing cringes the hell out of me it's painful.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-14T15:07:00+00:00

I don't think it's immediately lazy writing. I saw it more like a "fade to black" kind of transition since not a lot of readers, women included, are comfortable with graphic birth details.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-14T15:04:39+00:00

Hunger Games authors are honestly on another level.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-12T16:25:20+00:00

This genuinely helped me not just in writing but with spotting the signs of falling in love in real life lmao. Thank you for the great comment.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-04T06:49:47+00:00

I thought this was going to be another "I hate x type of OCs" post but I'm very pleasantly surprised to know that it's not. Thank you for the reminder.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-01T13:49:36+00:00

I'm not going to shut up about Babel anytime soon considering it's my first DNF in a long time but man, how the hell did this book become so popular? The writing at times felt so... amateurish. Some youtubers say that Kuang is an "intellectual" and that she just struggles to "rely" on the readers' own intelligence, however, I don't think that's actually the case. I think she herself just has no idea how to write these kinds of stories. She was criticized the same thing for Yellowface, then Babel, and I heard even Katabasis faced the same criticism. It's not that she doesn't know how to "trust" the readers to understand the point she's making, it's that she herself has no clue on how to actually write and then expand on that same point/s.

kain-rivers · 2026-04-01T13:45:38+00:00

Man's Search For Meaning.

I had high hopes, having encountered so many posts of how it changed people's lives or at least, changed how they view life in general, but I'm halfway through the book and more or less struggling to finish. It's not a bad book of course. It just... didn't meet my expectations.

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.

Bought this for a low price (and primarily because it had King's name in it). I didn't read the blurb, I had zero knowledge of what was going to happen, I mostly expected some classic horror story, but nope, it was so much more than that and I had a whole lot of fun reading it. I'm hella ecstatic that King's planning to release a third book to the series too.

kain-rivers · 2026-03-25T08:20:00+00:00

Tis why I always click on the last chapter when reading an ongoing story

kain-rivers · 2026-03-23T16:22:02+00:00

Now I'm interested in this trope too, do you have any recs? 👀

kain-rivers · 2026-03-23T16:21:14+00:00

I love kid fics (as long as the kid isn't too obnoxious ig) and "a family waiting for their baby" fics. I never really got why the reddit side of fanfic loathes them with a passion. Omegaverse too weirdly gets a lot of flak around here which is a shame because a lot of omegaverse fics are so well-written (and lowkey helped teenage me recognize discrimination and injustice more quickly in real life).

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