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Today I visited Ao3 and opened my bookmarks to see something horrible...
On the very top was a bookmark I had made with the note "can't wait to read" But above those words was one simple word "DELETED."
I missed my chance. And now I am going through the five stages of grief.
I wish that writers knew how awful it is to a reader to search endlessly for a fic that they deleted... Maybe It's not your favourite, but it very well might be someone else's... Please stop hurting us. Fics are food not fri-- well, that wasn't quite right, but it's two in the morning, you know what I mean.
daensa shippers be like:
the lemons!! who would ever dare to love a dragon? no one will ever marry me for love. they both want to go home!! the hair colors!! sansa is the ice to dany's fire cuz it's a song of ice and fire!!! THE LEMONS
i'm not trying to be offensive, this is a genuine question
why did you publish 'otte' if you're not going to be writing a second part? i get that it might be damaging to your mental health and it's personal, but then, why publish something that messes w you emotionally at all? and if you're not trying to 'actively be in diz's headspace' at all? i'm not asking you to revisit trauma or anything, but i'm sure you'd know that quite a lot of readers do like the story and would want a second part, right?
it's a genuine question, because there's no way that the possibility of people wanting a second part didn't cross your mind at all lmao
no offense taken, but this ask did irk me a little bit, so lets chat.
i personally enjoy stories that rip my heart out a little and leave me reeling. it ended in the way that it did because that's how i wanted it to end. i enjoy ambiguity and unresolved endings in stories.
one of my favourite books ends in such a way I couldn't even watch the final episode of the tv adaptation until a few years later because it upset me so much - and it's still my favourite book.
people are fickle, myself included. just because I was comfortable writing and publishing something 9 months ago doesn't mean I am now. if you were to know me irl, you'd know my situation has changed a lot since I wrote and published otte, especially in regards to the subject matter.
you could ask 'why don't you delete it?' and the answer would be that I can ignore the presence of otte in my notes (of which it rarely is these days), but I wouldn't be able to ignore repeated asks about it in my inbox. I've been doing this for long enough now to know how it plays out when I delete my work. it's easier for everyone to just let it linger.
i knew people wouldn't be happy with the way it ended, but if you want a cookie-cutter happy ending, there are plenty of stories that do exactly that. I've got a bunch myself.
are you saying no writers should ever write anything that deviates from your preferences? that all stories have to end in the way you'd like them to? 'cause the fic-sphere would be a boring place if we all wrote the same things, with the same outcome to satisfy the same needs.
and no offense to you either, but no writer owes you a part two of anything, let alone something written on their own time, even if you do enjoy it.
reader expectations don't really cross my mind for one shots so no i didn't think about it in the same way i do with ongoing fics. lmao.