Raspberrysoda's fanfics and musings

 Some of you, youngins, might not know who these people are. Just us old folks who had their start on FFN, which has been in a long-welcomed decline. I won't talk about my past fics on here mainly because they were God awful and not Fairy Tail, so not relevant. I never had a run in with CU (I am aware of what that means in Portuguese, so I'll use it because it's so fitting) thankfully, but I know many who weren't as lucky. Okay, CU was the moral police of FFN. FFN has some pretty weird rules about pretty harmless fics like no second pov, no audience interaction, no script fics, and no song lyrics. It's pretty dumb all in all. These were harmless. Admittedly, I could understand fics that were smut/spicy especially if they contained non-con or anything underaged. There was a separate site called Adult Fanfiction. Net for that and other sites as well. But song lyrics? Come on that's harmless. It should be noted that a lot of fics that including stuff like song lyri...

Yes, I know it's strange, but a fanfic author who doesn't read fanfiction? Odd, isn't it? All my books are pretty much published works. I don't even read wattpad. Let me explain, when I first got into Fairy Tail, I tried to read Fairy Tail fanfiction, and honestly, I wasn't impressed by what I saw. I just couldn't get over how grossly out of character they were, with little respect to the original intent. Like I saw so many playboy Natsu fics? Like what? I now understand that Natsu is possibly a little more pervy than he lets on. Mainly to Lucy. Well, pretty much just Lucy, but even then, that's far from a playboy. But regardless, I just didn't like just how OOC so much of it was. I just couldn't read anymore. In the end, I realized if I wanted to read the Fairy Tail fanfiction I wanted to read.... I have to do it myself! So, yeah, that's why I started fanfic partly. Because nothing I read in FT fanfiction was interesting to me personally. One of...