#now that the poll has gotten off the ground and I'm not worried about influencing results:

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One of my favorite things about Starker as a ship is how many angles there are to approach the ship from! We've got:

Light: minimal to no age-gap angst or drama, no one has a major issue with the relationship, healthy relationship, usually of-age Peter

Gray: moderate to heavy age-gap angst or drama, other characters concerned about the relationship (or it's expected that they would be,) may or may not be presented as ultimately healthy but it's at least a consideration to the characters because they'd like to be healthy

Dark: we all know what darkfic is lmao. Your grooming fics, your villain AUs, most Starkercest though some of those can ride the gray~dark line, outright unhealthy dynamics or your unrepentant characters/settings where the question of "healthy" doesn't even enter into the equation, etc. etc. etc.

They are all beautiful flavors and I've written for all of them, but I'm curious about y'all! Obviously the lines here can be a bit blurry/subjective, but in general if you had to choose:

#starker #polls #now that the poll has gotten off the ground and I'm not worried about influencing results: #I genuinely enjoy all of these flavors but gray is the juiciest to me #esp. for plotty stuff though my taste can run darker for PWP and short plotty things #like I'd classify YNYD as gray and my Starkercest as dark! #but I live for everyone being emotionally conflicted and having to navigate a billion different emotions and dynamics #so even with darkfic I prefer Still That but on the outright unhealthy end #I read and enjoy darkfic that's full unrepentant and gleeful in its darkness but writing-wise I wanna Grapple #and then I love reading light stuff but most of my ideas in that area are like. post-YNYD stuff haha. #so still attached to that gray-er base!