I mean, first off, I think all of the tinhat “I come here for EXCLUSIVE JOHNKAT” psychobabbling can go ahead and take a seat in a fandom with, what was that again uu? 276 different pairings? Yeah.
There are literally almost 450 John/Karkat fics in the Archive. Quality’s variable, but something’s got to float your boat, right?
Because as a fan of Fivetail’s writing, I really love hearing from ALL of the characters. I feel like a lot of these people may not know where their material is coming from. Fivetail doesn’t just do a bang-up job of John and Karkat; FT writes everyone, flawlessly. That’s one of the reasons that I’m subscribed to Patronswap and the Coming Home ‘verse. As fabulous as these chatlogs really are, you ain’t seen nothing yet until you’ve watched Terezi and Gamzee come to a slow boil over their relationships with Karkat, or Kanaya rapping at Dave (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED), or Dave and John riffing on their potential new tattoos. I don’t always agree with the boyfriendleaders characterizations, but turning down an opportunity to watch Fivetail write everybody? This face right here? Is my “bitch plz” face.
And, like. I really wanted to see Karkat explore his black side. And I’d really enjoy whatever lengthy character development is written to get us there, if that’s what it takes. I think it’d be awesome if Karkat really did get to satisfyingly fill all of his quadrants. I’m slightly disappointed it’s over! I would have loved to see that arc continue. After all, damn. That fic+art was pretty fucking awesome. But this isn’t my fic to run. It’s not! It never will be. I just get to sit back and enjoy the ride. Sometimes the things I like are disappointing (hello, third installment of the Hunger Games; hello, the entire fucking run of Glee), but I like them enough to come back and see what comes next because I really, really like them. A lot! A lot, a lot. And as a fan of Karkat (and Fivetail’s Karkat!), Karkat/Exasperation and Karkat/Happiness pretty much dominate my nubbyshouts shipping grid, so whatever that means is good for me.
Plus, whatever. Writers write because they’re enjoying what they’re doing. Material that belongs to a writer belongs to that writer, and they get to decide what to do with it until it’s released out into the void. And once it’s released, we all get to have our own opinions on it. That’s FT’s askblog and FT gets to write it the way FT wants, and then this is my Dashboard and if I want to make the choice not to read it, that’s my choice, too. It’s a free internet (for now anyway)! Plus, once the HSO starts, I imagine we’re gonna see less of the askblog anyway. Let’s enjoy what we’re getting while we get it, and if we don’t enjoy it we can make a choice to read something else.
TL;DR: [lyrics go here] is still a flawless Johnkat fic if you need a fix, someone please write me Karkat/Dirk in any format, kthx.
