The Who, what, when, where, & why

For the sake of disclosure, I’ve been writing fanfiction for a long time. Back in the ancient days when the only internet we had was America Online and it costed an absurd amount of money that my poor parents often berated my siblings and I for overusing, but I digress. What drew me to fanfiction was the chance to use the characters in the stories that I liked and put them in situations or relationships that I personally favored, whether it worked alongside or against canon. Time passed and eventually, it came to the point where I wanted to add to the canon with my own ideas, filling in the gaps that the primary source of media that did not have the details there due to constraints imposed upon the source material. And the older I got, the more dissatisfied I became with the endings of stories that, I felt, did not satisfy me in the least and popular opinions that read more akin to conspiracy theories did not interest me in the least. Eventually, my dissatisfaction grew to the point where after watching a popular science fiction movie did I tell myself that I could do better, or at the very least, create something that would satisfy me. It comes with the caveat that I may be the only one it satisfies, but ultimately, perhaps that’s all we can hope for, let alone other people liking it as well. If you try to please everyone, you’ll end up pleasing no one, and conversely, if you stick to a vision that pleases you, those who will be pleased by it, will be.