X Reader Fic
I’m so sick of seeing discourse online everywhere where people are acting like X readers are some new thing. It’s literally been around FOR DECADES. I never see people who read X reader focus and complain about canon x canon readers. I only see people who only read canon x canon act like they have moral high ground or a superiority complex bc they read only canon x canon.
“It’s self insert!”
“y/n takes me out of the story!”
“2nd person is UNREADABLE for me I need to be in the cuck chair!”
OKAY? YES! MOST (not all) x reader fanfic is like that, it’s just part of the whole trope. But if you don’t like that then just don’t interact? Don’t act like you’re better than people who do enjoy/write it?
I guess me being on the internet for over 10 years makes me realize how much it’s changed. I come from tumblr age/era where people wrote everything and nobody gave a fuck what other people wrote/read. I feel like COVID did this but I could be wrong. I just feel like I have NEVER experienced such discourse over what the fuck people read/write.
These days people are way too comfortable speaking out against fic writers in general (canon x canon or x readers, but I this post is ab x reader specifically sorry) but especially x reader I have seen get the most hate. And as a mainly x reader writer, putting myself out there gets harder and harder because you don’t know who’s going to act nasty toward you over the simple fact they don’t know how to keep scrolling if they see something they don’t like.
I should note that I haven’t received any hate but holy shit seeing people get torn apart for x reader specifically in my fandom on multiple sites is pissing me off and making me feel like the shoe is about to drop on my fic.
Edit: this has nothing to do with tagging? ppl keep bringing up well x readers shouldn’t be tagged in an oc etc YES I UNDERSTAND THAT. The hate I am seeing has nothing to do with this.