My wanna-be enemy, my unhappy not-friend, let this be my last response to you before I just start deleting these messages:

I was the weird cryptid haunting my school libraries/outskirts of the playground growing up, entirely possible that I was doing this before you were born even! I am the weird coworker with headphones muttering/gesturing at my computer screen when my brain shortcircuits and occasionally fixes a basic tech issue/helps train newcomers. My number one talent is having a soothing (or cheerful) customer service voice on the phones and eating an absolutely stupid amount of damage in video games.

I am happy chattering into the void about my OCs and ship dynamics, and soon to be whining about the way my back hurts after working in the yard + posting photos of the results of said work when I have them. I spent too much of my childhood, teens, and early 20s being an angry, scared little demon who swung between "I want to protect/heal everyone!" and "I hate everyone and everything; I was hipster (derogatory) before it was cool".

I beseech you to ask yourself why you want to waste the time you have in life harassing and insulting other people for your myriad reasons you find as justification instead of simply blocking and forgetting I and others even exist.

Take the energy you're using to stay triggered 24/7/keep your finger on the pulse of the newest hot take etc and put it toward happiness and personal growth instead. Take up some reading and filling out of a myriad number of character profile skeletons to get to know and learn about your own OCs. Write for your NOTPs/the ships that annoy you as a personal writing challenge and watch your mindset change about it as you do your research and work to go in character etc.

While it's not the full truth that I wish you well-- I do wish you consequences for your bad behavior should you continue it going forward, some don't learn until the "finding out" happens-- I do wish you and others like you healing. It sucks being that miserable and I hope you find your lighthouse to guide you out of the storm of negativity you're stuck in.

• Kireon

TLDR: Yes, I will be and see below for what I have currently in the pipeline.

I'm halfway through the HythAzemEmet fic thing that I've been enjoying from a character study aspect. Learning a lot about my Azem, Hyperion, because of it and how he views himself and his relationship with his partners.

I'm also kicking around more ideas with Yrkir and whatever matchmaker with benefits game he's playing with Sicard and Emmanellain, some Erenville/Urianger, G'raha/Urianger (current and ShB era), and G'raha/Erenville fun. I still have my mlm prompt list to work through too.

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Now for the less fun but honest response:

I'm reluctant to write more mlm fic because of the overwhelmingly negative experiences I've had from the mlm shippers from the early 00s as a young fandomer on ffnet, LiveJournal, MediaMiner, etc to now. While I am more than well aware it's "not all mlm shippers!" and follow folks who have been nothing but wonderful and enthusiastic in their own ships (and enjoy them very much!), the openly hostile, entitled, and gatekeeping attitudes across multiple fandoms do not inspire me to branch out.

Said attitudes and behavior are a large portion of why you see a predominantly femme/female focus in my writing; early fandom told me "no one likes female characters/femme presenting characters/there's no place for them in fandom/etc." and the sheer amount of double standard/character bashing continues to be off the charts.

I'm going to end this by saying something I've seen others say as well; if you want more mlm/wlw/trans/ace/etc ships, fics, art, and so on? Don't drive away the people who haven't written/drawn/etc yet. Encourage the writers/artists whose writing you like. Commission them to write/draw/gpose/etc. If you see them considering it/hesitating? Cheer them on instead/encourage them.

Be part of the solution, not part of the force driving people away.