I think that's just their style for how they do their roasts. I don't think it's actually burnt, it's just a darker roast than many places.
Nothing turns me off from a fic faster than obvious, flagrant miss characterization. I’m looking at you, Kylux side of the Star Wars fandom.
should we create a starbucks discourse thread to fight about whether or not it is the greatest sin ever known to man, beating out even folgers?
Huh, that's why that thread got created. General gripe: sometimes I run out of good fic by authors I like so I venture into search results and and then I remember why I usually stick to reading things that I've seen recommended.
Actually sifting through the pile searching for stuff you might like is certainly V tiring and a time investment hahahaha
Heck yeah. Drarry's lovely, but gimme some of that Dramione. I want two clever nerds from the opposite sides of the war learning how to get along and I want to see the wizarding world terrified of what they could do together.
I like how Draco and Hermoine play off each other much more than Harry and Draco. I like them as friends, give me all the fics about them becoming friends, BUT they just don't have the kind of chemistry I'm looking for...or any tbh. I don't fid harry that boring though, but I have read a lot of really good fic and haven't read the books in about five years, so i may have forgotten how Rowling did him. I am pretty sure he was a good protag in the books though. It's good to remember that he was an abuse victim and a CHILD who only kinda trusted other children and didn't have a lot of adult role models. His choices might have been more juvenile and poorly thought out because of those reasons.
Oh, I didn’t mean to bash Harry specifically. That was poorly worded. Mostly I was failing to communicate frustration at female characters being sidelined in favor of endless explorations of the same characters we already have an overdose of from cannon. But nah, Harry himself is cool.
I dunno if this is what you're talking about, but I do see stuff where people sorta brush off potentially very interesting m/f relationships as, like. Boring het nonsense you'd only ever ship because you're biased against same gender relationships. Mainly contrasted against m/m ships. Which can end up coming across as, why are you interested in this lady character when you could be writing this dude character instead?
Honestly, I hate it a lot because jesus fuck just let people be interested in the ships that they are. Het or no. Someone isn't suddenly straight or a traitor for liking a het ship a lot, jesus fucking christ.
Yeah, pretty much. And I really hate to bitch about it, because it’s not always just a brushing-off thing, just that people gotta go where their bliss is at, nah mean? This is their happy escapist funtimes that I’m being allowed to read for free, and generally it’s pretty awesome. But at the same time, after a while it starts to feel like one more instance of Girls Don’t Get to Play, and that kinda sucks.
There’s a lot of boring het out there, so when someone makes interesting het I think it ought to be encouraged
Spoiler: nsfw Why are there so very many fics and little fic-prompt blogs about robots having sex with either identity-free, personality-free human blank slate self-inserts, or about having sex with the most boring possible members of the human cast, when there are so many more interesting humans who are tragically underused and neglected? There's a million fics about shia witwicky getting it on with bumblebee or taking optimus prime's eighteen-wheeler cock up his ass, but Mikaela? Carly???? Never even mind Verity and Marissa, who are both current comic cast members are are both delightful human beings. Young adult space stowaway runs away from earth and lodges herself in the life of an intergalactic supercop, who works with an entire team of the biggest baddest war criminals this side of the universe. Former occupy wall street activist become apocalypse survivor and special forces soldier is put in charge of babysitting a giant war machine who wants to adopt a puppy and write screenplays and make friends, and then she gets appointed human ambassador to an alien planet. There is so!!! Much!!!! Potential!!!!! Even IDW Spike is ten pounds of fucker packed into a five pound bag, and GOD, anything involving him could get so deliciously ugly in unexpected directions. For the straight-up dark shit, take it over to Hunter and his couple years of [unrelenting horror] where nobody knew he even needed saving. Even just with the robots, everyone! Has! Solid light hologram humansonas!!! GIMME! I mean, I wrote Prowl/Verity, and I'm still very much planning to write Thundercracker/Marissa, and I'd totally be down for figuring out something with the holoforms (thundercrackercest for sure, maybe more). But it would be really nice to read this for once, instead of being responsible for content production myself. And I don't want to read about Megatron tenderly caring for you, dear reader, though he is caught in the throes of robot heat and could easily crush you with the sheer weight of his robot cock, except he loves so very very much and probably that organ is miraculously going to fit in some orifice of yours. (also write some intercrural and other inventive methods of stimulation, u cowards)
I suspect the glut of boring het is the result of the same mindset that asks gay couples, “But which one of you is the girl?” Because if you already know one character is The Girl and one character is The Boy, why bother with further characterization? Fuck individual personalities & unique character dynamics, the story’s already written itself! We know this because we’ve already read it 5000 times. Nope, can’t deviate, we must establish that the Girl is a Girl and make sure the Boy is a Man before we resolve the story. There are Rules, after all! ... Nope, I’m not bitter. *is extremely bitter*
