DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.
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Stories don’t have expiration dates! AO3 is an Archive specifically so you can still read old stuff!!!
I am baffled to learn that there were people who thought that they shouldn’t comment on old fics, honestly. We’re still commenting on Gilgamesh and Ea Nasir, Sappho and Homer, Tolkien and Lewis. Why wouldn’t we have things to say about a five year old fic???
I genuinely do not think Investigations 2 meant to imply that Blaise was physically abusive but when you give me a guy saying “let’s go home” and taking a single step towards his son only for that son to full body flinch I am going to draw some conclusions
I don’t see why it wouldn’t have been trying to imply that. I’m pretty sure that was the deliberate implication– and certainly the conclusion I drew as well.
More than anything it’s the way that they talk about him in the creator interviews I’ve read – there’s a lot of talk of escaping parents’ legacies and the gloves being about avoiding leaving fingerprints and very little talk about what his father did to him personally. Now, like I said, I do think the implications are there, and that not being the intention of the game’s producer does not rule out individual writers having it in mind.
Ahhh, interesting. I don’t generally read creator interviews, and I mostly only consider what’s actually presented in the game/story when I’m forming my interpretation of a character.
More than fair! I definitely believe in the text as the ultimate source of character interpretations, and the text of the game sure has a guy who’s constantly playing with fire and his son who wears long sleeves and gloves all the time.
I genuinely do not think Investigations 2 meant to imply that Blaise was physically abusive but when you give me a guy saying “let’s go home” and taking a single step towards his son only for that son to full body flinch I am going to draw some conclusions
I don’t see why it wouldn’t have been trying to imply that. I’m pretty sure that was the deliberate implication– and certainly the conclusion I drew as well.
More than anything it’s the way that they talk about him in the creator interviews I’ve read – there’s a lot of talk of escaping parents’ legacies and the gloves being about avoiding leaving fingerprints and very little talk about what his father did to him personally. Now, like I said, I do think the implications are there, and that not being the intention of the game’s producer does not rule out individual writers having it in mind.
Ahhh, interesting. I don’t generally read creator interviews, and I mostly only consider what’s actually presented in the game/story when I’m forming my interpretation of a character.
