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Jan. 17th, 2026 11:07 amIiiiit's 3 Sentence Ficathon season! Looking forward to the usual collection of prompts that make me pause and reflect that even within niche hobbies there are many people who walk through the world at a different angle to me.
I'm actually battling with a certain degree of curmudgeonly feeling towards fandom habits in general... something about not wanting to fall into the trap of arguing that shipping and self-inserts are lower forms of engaging with a story, but nonetheless feeling weary of how immediately the text can get pushed aside in the collective eagerness to focus on one's own vision for it. I've always felt a big part of the enjoyment lies in marinating in the actual canon for a while before getting all transformative about it! O for a grace period of analysis and speculation before the tag is swamped with reader insert ship headcanons.
Relatedly, Ersatz is a fun little indie project about an amnesiac waking in the trenches of an undying war. Strong aesthetics, evocative animation style, lots of juicy worldbuilding implications. Reminds me a bit of Wildbow's Twig serial, in a good way.
I'm actually battling with a certain degree of curmudgeonly feeling towards fandom habits in general... something about not wanting to fall into the trap of arguing that shipping and self-inserts are lower forms of engaging with a story, but nonetheless feeling weary of how immediately the text can get pushed aside in the collective eagerness to focus on one's own vision for it. I've always felt a big part of the enjoyment lies in marinating in the actual canon for a while before getting all transformative about it! O for a grace period of analysis and speculation before the tag is swamped with reader insert ship headcanons.
Relatedly, Ersatz is a fun little indie project about an amnesiac waking in the trenches of an undying war. Strong aesthetics, evocative animation style, lots of juicy worldbuilding implications. Reminds me a bit of Wildbow's Twig serial, in a good way.
