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mistynat meeting and becoming obsessed with each other in new and exciting ways (aka i’m finally posting my ‘Nat dates Misty’s ex’ fic) archiveofourown.org/works/86487841…

@catrahark that’s what i think tbh. Misty had such a specific way of thinking and i rlly don’t think she questions her own thoughts all that much so since Nat is very thoroughly in the best friend category to her, i don’t think she realizes what she feels for is something beyond platonic

@stardustalien16 Yeah. I still lowkey think she doesn’t fully grasp the fact that she was IN love with her. She just knows that she loved her and doesn’t really think about the exact context

you know, sometimes you just have to be sad about Misty and the fact she probably didn’t realize she was *in* love with Nat until after she died

@catrahark even if she wasn’t a good one, she was the leader they needed to get through the cabin burning down imo. by the end, i’m sure we’ll see why none of the leaders weren’t ever capable of being ‘good’ ones bc of their various flaws and issues and what the group is going through

@stardustalien16 through what may have been the group’s lowest point. In times of survival and crisis, she shines. But it is heartbreaking that she sort of needs to be given a purpose and can’t usually find one within herself :/

Random thought but I think it’s interesting that Nat became 100% more defiant to Shauna specifically once she was no longer antler queen. Like, she didn’t have the drive to put her foot down against Shauna in order to save Ben’s life. But once Shauna is antler queen, Nat is —

@catrahark was so focused on doing what she thought was ‘fair’ nothing else came to mind but redoing the vote repeatedly or she didn’t want to change the rules bc of the group at large. ik she didn’t handle it great but i just find it so interesting how she thinks

@catrahark of a canadian winter with limited shelter and had to rebuild everything. Nat’s the one who lead them through that and that’s impressive of her. i know ppl like to shit on her for how she handled the vote but i think it’s such an interesting detail that either in the moment she-

@rabbitsaints happy birthday!!!!!

balloon day ‼️

so learned that i need to apparently run my ideas by other people sometimes lmao. or remember i’m writing about known obsessive weirdos. i’m hoping that how i’ve decided to explore it doesn’t disappoint

it’s actually kinda funny how many ppl have mentioned they think Nat dating Misty’s ex is a great concept bc when i first thought of it, i really did think that no one would want to read it and the audience for it was only me

@vntu5zphyr lmao i’ve been there, so many times.. even worse when you’re shipping half the big ship in the fandom with someone else

@stardustalien16 there's also in a big fandom but rarepair shipper.. even that's a rare thing..

it’s very confusing watching people think under 500 kudos is a small amount of kudos on a fic… are people only in big fandoms and only reading for bigger ships?? have some people never had a rarepair or just been in a small fandom??

@WhodunitLover it really is 😭😭 i haven’t even had a really big ship in a couple of years now and it’s crazy how different that can be from smaller ones even in the same fandom

@stardustalien16 idek what the "big" fandoms in this era are, but when I was a teenager I was pretty much exclusively into some of the larger fandoms and the difference is kinda crazy

@Purplerose22734 it just amazed me bc how can you never have read fanfics for a smaller fandom?? ever??

@stardustalien16 I’m currently actively reading a fandom with only 1.5K-ish works in total for the entire fandom 😅 500 kudos is an insanely huge number of kudos in this fandom. I find that most of these posts are made from people who are active in super big fandoms, so I just ignore it lol

@ishipandfangirl oh some people def don’t lol. some ships have insane amounts of fanfic (ik some of the top of my head that have 10k, 20k, 50k fics written for them) so if you don’t want to, you never have to read the new stuff. i love seeing what new fics get written though so i don’t get it

@stardustalien16 id even read smth if it had 0 kudos do people not read newer fics 😭

@DominikaAeriar fanfic doing ‘well’ has a lot more variables + is so fandom depend that sometimes the most popular fics in a fandom where either written early on or at peak popularity while some amazing fics that were written later get ignored or lost in the amount of fics posted

@stardustalien16 I don't even look at the number of kudos anymore... I've seen some really badly written things with hundreds or even thousands and I've seen literary masterpieces with barely tens. It's absolutely irrelevant parameter.

@catrahark doing what they wanted.

@catrahark thought was right even more than she already did. she did very good as a leader when they were having to rebuild but she could never handle any actual conflict in the group. i also find it super interesting how often the others would to still defer to her when Shauna wasn’t—

@silky_puff it’s definitely fandoms dependent what counts as a lot of kudos but it’s still crazy that ppl rely on that so much. like 50 kudos is a lot!

@stardustalien16 i thought 50 is a lot and there are ppl reading fic only over 500kudos😭