When a fic isn’t very good but it’s got your favourite tropes in it so you keep reading it out of pure stubbornness
Not even a joke here, I have so many stories that I have bookmarked that aren’t even very good but by god am I curious on where they’re going
when the fic isn’t very good but it has your rarepair and you’ve already read the other 10 fics of them
when the fic isn’t very good but the idea is and the characters are and you go through reading it as it is and then imagining it better just like you do with original media