this has probably been said before, but i don't understand why people have this obsessive compulsive need to compare fics with similar ideas or basis to each other.

it's slightly ridiculous when every single robot/ai fic for exo is being compared to absolute chanyeol (even the chobits!au for run and gun which, hello, is based on chobits and not absolute boyfriend like absolute chanyeol is). or fics with time-skips, time-jumps, time-loops and non-linear timelines being compared to arbitrage. or fics with amnesia as a plot point being compared to anterograde tomorrow.

i get that those respective fics have made their round across the fandom and are essentially the go-to fics for the pairings or concept, which is fine, but it's like, jfc, don't assume that a fic posted later with a similar concept was inspired by them. they didn't come up with the concept, and it's not exclusively theirs, and people should be able to write robot fic without getting comments like "you were inspired by ac, weren't you?"