Okay so there is a thing that some fic authors do that I just cannot handle, where they give you absolutely exquisite angst, like total heart failure, for chapters and chapters – I just read a fic like this the other day, beautiful prose, gorgeous characterizations, and oh the angst, that's what got me thinking about this – and then it has a happy ending, things are resolved, otp are happily together (bc I am a shipper to my core, so I really generally only read otp fic) …but that happy ending only lasts, like, two paragraphs. With one thing & another, the tension is resolved, & they sorta smile at each other, and… and then that's it. It just ends. And I'm just like, wait. Wait, no. Where is my happy ending? Where is the HAPPY in the happy ending? I went through all this angst and now I want fluff. I want schmoop. I want my characters laughing and snuggling and being so overjoyed with each other that they're fit to burst. And okay you don't necessarily need to do an entire additional chapter of fluff, but I certainly appreciate it when authors do, and you should really have, ya know, some sort of payoff after all the angst & conflict & working it out. It's like fic aftercare – you have to give me as a reader something to put on the stinging cuts & bruises on my heart left by all that lovely, lovely angst. Which is also to say, when it comes to my own fics: don't you worry. There will be fluff. Oh my god will there be fluff. We're talking snuggling. And kissing. And flirting. And one instance of intentionally loud sex that is going to make it in the fic if it kills me. And like, if you're skeptical bc you've only read the zombie fic, go check out some of my oneshots. I like fluff. I can do fluff. Just, when it comes to longfic, you have to, you know, earn the fluff. But I'll do my best to make it worth your while, promise ;)