We were planning one area for canon x canon shipping, and one area for self shipping, inclusive of canon x OC shipping.
We’d be willing to shift to three areas if people felt strongly that there should be a canon x canon area, a canon x oc area, and a canon x reader area.
I (🦇👁) have played and quite enjoy Eldin Ring. Please gush as you like. <3
My taste in romance has less to do with how romantic the relationship actually is (though that is a bonus) and more to do with how interesting I find the dynamic between the couple. Which is why fluffy vanilla romance usually bores the hell out of me. I want to see how these characters dramatically affect each other and fundamentally change each other and their individual understandings of the world!!! I want to see a beautiful tie-in between the romance and the themes + messages of the story and how it all builds to a climax!!!
🌟 Embrace diverse voices and perspectives in fiction.
🌟 Understand that some fiction is going to make you uncomfortable or disturb you, and that’s okay.
🌟 Realize that not all fiction is about you, not all fiction is for you.
🌟 Recognize that just because a piece of fiction disgusts you does not make that fiction immoral.
🌟 Remember that not all fiction reflects the desires of it’s author or it’s readers.
🌟 Recognize that survivors, victims, mentally ill, neurodivergent, marginalized and disenfranchised people are sometimes going to write fiction that is not safe, comfortable, easy, palatable, or comforting for you to read.
🌟 Accept that consuming or creating fiction that depicts harm does not undermine the willpower or morals of a reader. Fiction does not program you to believe that it’s okay to do harm.
When you’re writing and you get to a scene that you’re stuck at–
It is totally acceptable to put in a placeholder, move on and write a later scene, and come back to it later.
–“this is the scene where they confess their love but idk let’s move on to what I really want to write.”
–“insert fight scene here.”
–“character a and b discuss x.”
–“they break in. I don’t know how yet. Let’s move on.”
You don’t have to deal with it now, if it’s blocking other scenes you’re excited and want to get to. It can be future you’s problem.