>>87063298I disagree about it being "boring." Fluff still has a plot and can still be entertaining even if it's simple and saccharine and doubly so if you're fan of the chuuba in question. I also disagree with it being "interchangeable". Yeah, having a fluff prompt more tailor-made would make it stand out more but the idea of a "one fluff to rule them all" is absurd. Cooking with Ririka would not be the same as cooking with Suisei. Taking care of Bae during period pains would not be the same as Miko, etc. Two cakes is a thing for a reason.
If there's any reason the "well has run dry" it is that authorial ambitions grow and so fluff takes a backseat or gets integrated with another genre. The double-edged sword of Fluff is that besides technical feedback, all you really get for critique is "it's cute." which you can only receive so many times before you start messing with it or move onto the true /wg/ end game of writing a fantasy series.
