there’s something so compelling about stories where a character’s virtues intensify into flaws that lead to their downfall. loyalty and love becoming so all-consuming that compassion outside of them ceases to exist. duty overwhelming any moral compass until order becomes more important than justice. selflessness so intense it becomes self-destruction. let me watch while whatever saved the hero in the beginning destroys them. let me see them fall to their own worst impulses disguised as what once made them good.
I’m making an effort to read long fic lately, esp some celebrated long fics in my fandoms that lots of people rave about. I’ve read one, currently through the second, and I gotta say: WOW. Amazing stuff. They were both real bangers.
I love getting comments on really old fics. It’s like a little tap on the shoulder that says, “hey the art you create is going to last forever even if you don’t think it matters anymore”
