New Stuff & Mental Meanderings

I recently posted part two in my Arda Exodus series (info below) and I was pondering my complicated relationship with Harry Potter, both the content and the fandom itself. I've come to realize that out of all the fandoms that I write in--I don't love it. I think I did at one time but the older I get the less tolerant I've become of parts of the original material. The bigotry in the material itself is so problematic that sometimes it leaves me breathless with rage. I find no joy in the fandom itself, either. Frankly, for every amazing reader I have in the HP fandom, I have ten that are absolute jackholes.

Reader entitlement is nothing new in fandom or for me personally. I was slapped in the face with it within hours of posting my first story. And, no, that's not exaggeration. Each fandom has its own brand of entitlement when it comes to readers. Each are demanding and greedy in their own way, but there's something special about HP fans and I don't mean that as a compliment.

What I do love is my own work in the HP fandom (and I realize how arrogant that sounds, your opinion on my arrogance is undesired). I love the world building, the magical theories, and the character work I've done. I especially love my ensemble of original characters and the stories that I can tell with them. I'm still brimming with ideas for the fandom and my favorite pairings.

Recently, and you might have noticed, I've been writing in the 9-1-1 fandom. Honestly, I've rarely seen anything like those so-called fans. I'm so put off by the readers and some of the other writers in the fandom that I no longer read in the fandom at all unless I know the author personally. The readers are awful and I don't trust most of the authors. I don't trust the writers to warn appropriately, I don't trust them to be honest in their craft, and I don't trust them not to pander to fucked up readers and their ridiculous, unfounded, immature, and uneducated opinions regarding characterization.

Trust isn't required to write in a fandom, but it is required to read. And if you can't trust a writer to tell you a good story in an honest way, then reading their work is impossible.

That's just my meandering thoughts about fandom at present.

Anyways, my newest offering in a fandom I don't love:

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Title: Warhide
Series: The Arda Exodus
Series Order: 2
Author: Keira Marcos
Fandom: Harry Potter/The Hobbit
Relationship: Razel Fireborn/Tyr Warhide, Ragnok Windrider/Lenore Feyborn, many secondary pairings (m/f, f/f, and m/m)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Fusion, New Dimension
Warnings: canon-typical racism, canon-typical violence, politics, explicit language, explicit sex, discussion-murder, minor character death, grammarly beta
Word Count: 81,120
Author’s Note: All mistakes are my own. Unsolicited beta will be met with a disdainful silence. Casting on the series page.
Summary: Tyr Warhide thought he understood the scrutiny he’d face being courted by the future king. There’s nothing simple about his circumstances, however, and not everyone is pleased with the choices they’ve made together. But the heart of Tyr Warhide was tested when he was little more than a boy, and no enemy could ever compare to the first he ever faced.