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Re: Just a slight rant here

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While I hate unfinished fics too, I've abandoned quite a few fics as well. For various reasons like college, getting my thumb drive stolen, falling in love with a new fandom, and so forth.

For one extreme example, three close friends all admitted to me last year they were sexually assaulted. (One was at a party, the other was at a friend's house, and one by her own father.) As you can imagine I was pretty depressed during this time. While I was watching an interview of a favourite actor of my current fandom/fic, he made a vicious rape joke.

I saw red. I felt sick that I spent so much time on these fics based around his character. I ALMOST deleted every fic I wrote in that fandom. (nearly 30 fics could've disappeared) The only reason I didn't was because so many of my lovely dear readers still loved these fics and I didn't want to deny them. It's been months now, and I've let go a lot of my anger, but I never went back to that fandom or those fics. Just thinking about it even now makes my stomach clench in anger, and yet at the same time, I'm sad because that was a lot of work I put into those fics. I wrote those out of love.

I've been on both sides of fics. Agonizing over fics that will never get updated again, and feeling utter relief to never have to write in that fandom again.