Snowflake Challenge #3

[dickinsons]

Challenge #3

In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.

Well, this wasn't an easy challenge! I'm not one to never change opinions, but I've been in fandom for long and it was hard to find an opinion I remember changing. But I found one!

You see, until a few years ago, I'd go 'NOPE' if I saw a fic was angsty and had a BAD ending. Angst with a happy ending? Sure! Without a happy ending? Why, why would anyone want that, I asked myself. I didn't get it. I thought that, you know, this is fandom, we're here to have fun, fix the parts of canon we aren't happy with and so on, so I didn't understand the point of stories with bad endings. And that didn't exclusively mean something like major character death. I wouldn't read a one-sided ship fic, that sort of thing. I wanted my perfect happy ending, thank you very much!

But now? Boy, do I get it now! I love a messy relationship, a fucked up situation that has no easy solution in sight, a one-sided drama, infidelity... Yes, I still read fic with happy endings! But I'm also open to darker stories that make me cry. I truly get it now! There's so much to explore in fanfiction, and I totally understand if something isn't personally appealing to a particular fan, but all these stories have their audience.

Comments

[author_by_night]

Yeah, it really is so sad, but good. And deep down I like to think in that version, they still find each other again for real, as it's clear they only broke up due to a lot of their own shit and not lack of loving each other. But also, sometimes you really can't come back from those things.