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One time I was watching #TheNewsroom and I paused the show to talk to myself about how much I loved this one character. I must have gone on for about 5 minutes just gushing about how great this character was. Then I unpaused the show and he IMMEDIATELY fell over, hit his head, and died.
The next episode was his funeral.
Stuff like that just doesn’t fly with publishers.
Yet another thing publishers lack: balls. The bravery to obliterate mainstream appeal. Not just in terms of having actual queer characters. But also:
I read an Animorphs fic where one of the main characters had an orgy with a pod of dolphins. The whole scene was written as a serious character study that explored how he was coping with the horror of the story’s plot. THAT was unexpected. Took guts to include it!
I don’t want to be able to tell who the target audience is. I want to be surprised!
Tbh Watership Down would have trouble getting published today. It’s not for kids. But a book about talking rabbits isn’t exactly aiming at adults either. It wasn’t written with a specific audience in mind. It just tells a story. That’s what I want!
I want: Stories where controversial things happen. Stories that make the author nervous to post them. That make me uncomfortable.
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Ngl the majority of what I read is fanfic, unpublished original stories, and bs people write on subreddits like r/HFY. I need to read more published works.
But tbh I love how unpublished works are unfiltered. Untouched by the editors of a publishing company. How authors are free to write what they 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to write without having to keep a target demographic in mind. Without having to censor their story for the sake of being marketable.
And that’s why published stuff can sometimes feel a bit… stale to me. Nothing truly unexpected happens. And I don’t mean that in the plot twist sense. I mean like…
For example:
I just finished reading an unpublished story where the author literally rolled dice to determine if main characters would live or die. Imagine if Rowling rolled dice to see if Harry Potter lived through Book 3. Then if he died, wrote the rest of the series with a different main character.
There is a vast market for bootleg LEGO made by Chinese manufacturers. “Bootlegos” don’t just copy LEGO. They come up with their own original designs. Which means there are a ton of minifigures and sets that are AWESOME but totally unavailable on the US market.
Just like LEGO eventually retires its sets, these bootlegos eventually stop being produced too. And me, being late to the party, was devastated to discover that the Robin #BatmanWhoLaughs minifigs were sold out everywhere… (1/3)
…everywhere, except for Tokopedia and Shopee. Which are both Indonesian versions of Amazon. So of course I tried to sign up. Only to discover they don’t take foreign methods of payment. You pretty much need to be in Indonesia to buy from these sites.
So off I went, googling like a madman, to find a random Indonesian person willing to help me out.
And I did! Only to discover that due to the Russo-Ukraine War, shipping even small things like LEGO to the US costs like $60. (2/3)
Came up with the most elaborate backstory for one of my blorbos, complete with OCs, character arcs, and plot. Then accidentally fell in love with two of the OCs, and because they only exist in my head I can’t read fanfiction about them 
Question:
I was never on Twitter enough to know, so can anyone tell me how threadfics work? Are they cross posted to AO3 or other sites, or do they always exist solely in threads?
I ask because I love coming back to my fav fics, and if one of those was a threadfic... how on Earth would I find it again? Do they just get buried in timelines over time, never again to be found? Is that sort of burying intentional? Are there ways to find them again?
How does this work lol