Sorry sorry for this horribly late reply, but I have been so busy these last months to properly catch up on LJ!
Especially as there's a metric fuckton of really badly-written fic in big fandoms that gets a lot of squee when the author can't even spell, and that makes me really upset because they haven't even worked as hard. Oh god, I know. This makes me so angry! I'm not by any means the best writer out there, or have the best style, grammar or spelling skills (not even in Spanish, although I consider my spelling in that language almost top notch), but it pains me when people with stories that I consider weak plot-wise, badly written or are simply full of mistakes get a ton of comments and I'm sitting here making a party every time I get a single kudos. But that's the curse of being in small fandoms or, in my case, writing in a language with little presence on AO3.
Well, in a way I think Torsten/Laura is a very interesting ship to write about, because they're characters with a complex psyche and you have pushed yourself to great highs kink-wise. But if I had to choose a pairing to write, Jaffar/Princess would be, undoubtedly; Torsten/Laura scare the shit of me, and even if they could be more or less be placed in the timecock category (in the fucked up relationship aspect), I don't think I could ever find with them the sort of emotional satisfaction I find with other pairings. So I understand you so much, a writer has to write what they want, not being completely closed to suggestions from readers some times of course, but mainly they have to be happy with what they write and it has to work for them, not exclusively for the author. After all, this is fanfiction what we're talking about here, we don't have a publisher behind us or the sales tyranny to respond to!
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Especially as there's a metric fuckton of really badly-written fic in big fandoms that gets a lot of squee when the author can't even spell, and that makes me really upset because they haven't even worked as hard. Oh god, I know. This makes me so angry! I'm not by any means the best writer out there, or have the best style, grammar or spelling skills (not even in Spanish, although I consider my spelling in that language almost top notch), but it pains me when people with stories that I consider weak plot-wise, badly written or are simply full of mistakes get a ton of comments and I'm sitting here making a party every time I get a single kudos. But that's the curse of being in small fandoms or, in my case, writing in a language with little presence on AO3.
Well, in a way I think Torsten/Laura is a very interesting ship to write about, because they're characters with a complex psyche and you have pushed yourself to great highs kink-wise. But if I had to choose a pairing to write, Jaffar/Princess would be, undoubtedly; Torsten/Laura scare the shit of me, and even if they could be more or less be placed in the timecock category (in the fucked up relationship aspect), I don't think I could ever find with them the sort of emotional satisfaction I find with other pairings. So I understand you so much, a writer has to write what they want, not being completely closed to suggestions from readers some times of course, but mainly they have to be happy with what they write and it has to work for them, not exclusively for the author. After all, this is fanfiction what we're talking about here, we don't have a publisher behind us or the sales tyranny to respond to!