Do you ever see a mediocre fic get really popular in a fandom just based on the author ran a semi-popular twitter account and it becomes kind of like a cult and nobody's allowed to say anything against that fic (not even that you're not interested in it) or the hoarde will come after you and the author even searches for indirects and sends their minions after people and you can't escape people talking about this fic no matter where you go and it's NOT EVEN THAT GOOD
Do you ever see a mediocre fic get really popular in a fandom just based on the author ran a semi-popular twitter account and it becomes kind of like a cult and nobody's allowed to say anything against that fic (not even that you're not interested in it) or the hoarde will come after you and the author even searches for indirects and sends their minions after people and you can't escape people talking about this fic no matter where you go and it's NOT EVEN THAT GOOD
OK starting out there’s a huge blurb about the author’s life choices and links to their socials before we even get to anything about the story... Definitely a good start
Is the basic premise that all of them work at Staples?
I thought as time went on the author’s notes would subside. Instead, they are only getting longer. Oh you’re trying to create suspense? How? By writing boring stuff and making the audience go “Oh it’s going to get better”?
Yet another “character establishing chapter”... Pity the characterization isn’t that interesting.
Our protagonists talk about starting a band. Some gay stuff happens between one of them and a side character like in last chapter, to kind of keep establishing that this is a slash fic. The job turns out to be seasonal.
The prose continues to be bland. This feels like the writing of a college freshman, if that makes any sense. Like someone who’s taking their mandatory writing course for the first time and focusing on making the prose not-bad instead of good. There is more excitement and character in the author’s notes than in the fic.
Maybe that’s why the author’s notes are so long.