I'm just kind of. ??? Why would you think an AO3 comment was the best place to express this sentiment? Why would you select, as the fic to do this on, a one-shot from January 2018 which is near the bottom of the second page of search results for the fandom? ?????? Did you maybe forget to consider that this may not be a new observation to an author who has written 20/91 works in this fandom on AO3, with publication dates from mid-2013 to two weeks ago? ?????????
i am a shriveled husk from lack of updates (authors gotta take care of themselves and i am 100% behind them if they need to take a break or stop altogether, but i retain the right to be a shriveled husk about it sometimes if i'm not bothering them)
I like compliments on my fic but I never really like the ones where it sounds like they expected my poetry to be fucking shit. On the one hand I'm happy you think it's good, on the other hand did you really need to let me know you were expecting it not to be?
Spoiler: Nsfw The word "slime" in any NSFW context. If one of the characters is like, an actual slime being or something then it I can excuse it but Why do i keep encountering this word
I mean rape is pretty high up on the list of awful things that might happen to someone, tho i'm not sure how the rapist's marital status affects the figuring
it's.... i am awkwardly getting "reskinned purity culture borne rape fantasy" vibes, but gay? and also like, utterly without self awareness, so that the homophobia is like... even worse than the initial premise contains (i don't know how much the purity culture borne rape fantasy needs explaining, but: it is a p common experience for afabs to come out of purity culture with hang ups and triggers around they themselves consenting to sex, and thus "i can have sex i like if i'm being raped so i don't have to admit that i like it" is borne - obvs this has, uh. many issues. handled more deftly at some times than others. i nope out pretty quickly when it lacks self awareness, but just from the circle of people who were formative to my early sex education (generally ex-quiverful or otherwise evangelical types) it's something very familiar to me. this fic hits a lot of those notes, but reskinned as "i might be gay but i don't want to admit it, so-" instead)
Yeah, a lot of porn tropes that obviously arose from the hangups of a misogynistic culture seem to get reskinned into MLM porn sooner or later. And it's usually done badly, because everything people do is usually done badly, so it ends up feeling both homophobic (despite being gay porn) and misogynistic (despite featuring no women).
All you have to do is look at the number of Chuck Tingle books with "turned gay" in the title to know it's a pretty well-established m/m porn trope.
i found a promising looking fanfic collection but the first avengers fic was a 'team tony' 'fixit' for civil war, which appears to be basically a 100 chapter long vindication of the idea that -- idk, i don't really understand the 'team tony' viewpoint, but apparently that the avengers all owe tony bigtime for him using his money and publicity on their behalf, and cap should've just signed the accords like a good boy and let tony kill bucky? or something? like, what i liked about that movie was that both sides were very flawed, and unreliable narrators, and there was no good answer. so when somebody takes a side and starts bashing the other side, it pisses me off. but bashing tony is just about not understanding tony's scrupulosity and guilt, whereas bashing steve is pretty much demanding that he hand the worlds biggest weapon to general 'super corrupt warmonger' ross and watch his bestie die. that's fucked up. also, the fic's opening scene is tony ~left to die~ in siberia by cruel cruel cap, trapped in his inoperative suit. because he hasn't installed an emergency release or brought his phone or anything, of course. because he is a woobie who is victimized by all those cruel cruel non billionaire non geniuses who should've known better than to try to keep him from doing a murder, i guess. uhh teal dear now i'm not sure i want to bother with this collection bc it's probably full of author soapbox pieces and i HATE those.
yyyyep, after a scroll through, the avengers fics that are not venom fluff are p much all about the rest of the avengers, and steve in particular, being made sorry for hurting tony's feelings.
i've become hyperaware of the phrase "to give him better access" and it's marring my porn-reading experience *pout*
the "Crowley used to be the Archangel Raphael before he Fell" headcanon. i hate hate hate it but it seems to have become a piece of universally accepted fanon. it just... completely misses what's so wonderful about Crowley and Good Omens in general :(
??? i've never seen that one, and it doesn't sound at all plausible, i wonder why it's got any traction.
it exploded on tumblr after the show came out because "hey isn't it weird that the famous Archangel Raphael doesn't appear in the show? I wonder what could've happened to - OMG WHAT IF". at a guess, a popular blogger or two tossed it around and a bunch of their followers picked it up because it looked shiny. i think the shine might be starting to wear off though - i've seen several folks talking about how it doesn't make sense and weakens Crowley's character. can't fade into obscurity fast enough, if you ask me :P
This reminds me so much of my dad’s worst pet peeve, which is teachers who begin classes with guilt trip tirades about tardiness. Only the tardy students are spared. Push button, receive wrath about people who didn’t push button.
