me for the past week and i'm so fucking maddd
STOPšTAGGINGšXREADERšIFšYOUšUSEšANšOCšNOBODYš FUCKINGšASKEDšFORšTHATšOKAY???
The wrong thing is not the fact that you write a story with an oc, no, that's not the real problem, really.
IT'S JUST THE FACT THAT YOU USE THE WRONG TAG SO YOU HOPE MORE PEOPLE READ YOUR STORY. BUT BELIEVE ME IT'S JUST FUCKING ANNOYING 'CAUSE WE AREN'T ABLE TO FIND THE RIGHT FICS IF YOU KEEP DOING THIS!!!
There are people who like to read more stories with ocs than reader inserts, so use the fucking right tag go reach that community and stop spamming your stories among ours.
I don't think you get it but, you know, the purpose of fanfics with reader insert is to make the reader imagine her/himself as the mc of the story. The best part of these fics is the fact that EVERYONE can be included in them.
SO WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE TO RUIN THEM BY MAKING THE MC A PERSON THAT LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE READER AND EVEN HAS A NAME THAT IS NOT THEIRS?
Not to be dramatic but i hate y'all.
And the fact that it's always the same fandoms and we all know who we're talking about...
born to infodump forced to constantly worry if the other person actually cares or if im making sense or if i said something wrong or if im embarrassing myself or if they want me to stop talking or
girl there have been moments when ao3 has been down longer than tiktok was just gone for lmaooo
āpeople are allowed to dislike thingsā WRONG nobody is allowed to dislike the stackie friendship
We go deal with that, and when we're done, we both can go on separate, long vacations and never see each other again. I like that. Great.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (2021) // Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
I think something a lot of other people can relate to is the way that you get so conditioned to discomfort that you stop registering it.
I remember sitting at the table with my family, eating dinner as a child. Iād try to eat, because of course I was hungry. But sometimes the flavor or texture was so repugnant that it moved into a category of Not Food.
āTwo more bites before you can leave the table.ā
āI canāt,ā Iād say, trying to explain the impossibility.
But because I was a child they heard, āI wonāt,ā and made me sit at the table. Iād sit in dull agonized silence, bored and hungry for hours until bedtime when theyād give up. Iād hate myself for not eating and my parents for forcing me to sit there. The few forcefeeding moments ended in vomit.
Theyād say, āIf you donāt eat this you canāt eat a snack later,ā and I moved past trying to communicate my discomfort into accepting that Iād just be hungry.
That state of affairs didnāt last, because my parents realized nothing could force me to eat so they catered to my palate, worrying theyād starve me. But the message stuck. If you canāt do anything about a situation, just accept the suffering.
A few years later my mother called me off the playground to ask, āAre you limping?ā
I shrugged. My feet had hurt for a long time, but that was just the way things were now. My mom pulled my socks and shoes off and gasped. The soles of my feet were covered in huge painful planters warts.
āWhy didnāt you say anything?!ā She demanded but I could only shrug at her. Iād learned a long time ago that saying things about my discomfort didnāt matter, so now I had no words. Sometimes things hurt and sometimes they donāt. I simply accepted and did my best.
Now as an adult trying to learn to improve my own conditions can be hard. If I make food that I canāt eat Iāll force myself to sit at the counter still, full of guilt and self loathing, trying to will myself to eat it.
At first I needed my betrothed to gently take it away to present me with something I could eat. Now on my own I can usually admit that itās not happening before too long and get something else, but I still feel guilty.
Laying in bed at night waiting for my betrothed to finish getting ready I let out a huge sigh of relief when they turned the lights off.
āWhy didnāt you turn them off if they bothered you?ā they asked the first time it happened.
āI didnāt even know it was bothering me until it was gone.ā
Assessing my physical state now to see if I can improve it is something Iām still relearning but Iām relieved to finally have the space and support to do it.