sometimes I wish there was a site out there that would recommend books to read based on fanfic I like

alternately I spend my days saddened by the fact that ao3 doesn't have a recommendations engine

also I am discovering that there's more than one overwatch fic out there that's 100k+ words dedicated solely to shipping characters with the author's oc

Does the OC shipping really surprise you, though? We were all thirteen once!

I think you've identified a niche app that we all need. Shit, that's genius. Do you know any developers who can build something that analyzes sentence structure?

what's surprising is the word count, really. also bizarrely I feel that oc shipping with younger fans has shifted to straight up reader inserts these days.

kids know what they want and it's second person dickings from their favorite characters

I'd noticed the reader insert trend! It seems like it's mostly connected to band fics or otherwise RPF stuff?

it might have originated there but I have definitely seen a significant amount of it in Overwatch and Haikyuu

/gurgles/

well, let the kiddos do what they wanna do

we all have to have something to be embarrassed about when we're grownups

yeah. I'm not about to judge it's just not for me

100k words

that's COMMITMENT