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Cap-Ironman RecWeek: Tropey Tuesday
Over the past year my pandemic brain decided it would produce happy chemicals exclusively by reading and writing Stony fanfiction. On the advice of counsel, I decided to take my happy chemicals where I could get’em. And the result is that I’ve had the tremendous pleasure of reading some absolutely incredible works of art by some immensely talented people. And since it’s @cap-ironman RecWeek, I figured this is as good of an excuse as any to make some posts recommending my favs (and try to keep self-recs to a minimum, but I’m only human).
I skipped Multiverse Monday since I’m still not well-versed enough in the multiverse to talk about it with any kind of recommendational authority, but today is Tropey Tuesday, and so I would like to share some fics from my all-time-favorite, major-reason-I-bother-with-the-MCU, gets-me-every-time trope:
Found Family
And so, without further ado, here are some Found Family Stony fics that I simply adore.
Avengers Family Ficlets
Author: elwenyere
Word Count: 8,548
Summary: “You built a neural network that analyzes squash,” Bruce said flatly, “and you attached it to a laser.” A collection of short stories set in the extended Domestic Avengers Universe.
Why You Should Read It:
Thing number one that you should understand about me is that I would be perfectly happy with a story about body-less entities making funny quips at each other in a featureless void, and anything else is just a bonus. Elwenyere’s stories consistently get the banter down so unbelievably, ridiculously well that when you find out they also have heart, creativity, well-developed characters, and so much damn feeling in them, it feels like an embarrassment of riches.
Go read all of their stuff, please, but this one’s a great place to start. It’s got everything you could possibly want in a fic: over-competitive pumpkin carving, emotional hospital confessions, Christmas decorations that come to life and attack people, crab dip, Steve Rogers accidentally ruining Thanksgiving through the sheer power of his own snark, and most importantly, a bunch of human disasters that somehow make a beautiful family together.
Executive Party
Author: copperbadge
Word Count: 3,228
Summary: Tony's terrible December is suddenly looking up.
Why You Should Read It:
Copperbadge is another author where you should read everything they’ve put out there. They’ve got this phenomenally creative mind that manages to consistently draw out deeply human stories that can kinda catch you off-guard in the places they find touching moments. You might’ve heard of their very popular Foodieverse, which is an incredibly creative AU with the Avengers in the food service industry, but this is the one I come to whenever I’m looking to indulge in my favorite trope.
Tony’s looking forward to spending the night before SI breaks for Christmas doing paperwork. Steve gets the Avengers to have an impromptu video game Christmas Party in his office instead. Cb’s also got a gift for banter (I have a type when it comes to writers, ok?), and the little details like Steve’s carnage record on GTA, Natasha’s Russian appreciation for country music, and Steve’s SHIELD break-up mixtape make it just a goddamn delight to read.
patchwork people
Author: itsAllAvengers
Word Count: 28,247
Summary: It was a pretty well-known fact that Tony Stark had control issues.It was far less well-known why, though.
CW: Past abuse and non-con (not by main pairing)
Why You Should Read It:
If you’re the kind of person who regularly thinks to themself “You know what Tony Stark needs? More trauma,” then this is the fic for you.
Tony’s got some serious trust issues and PTSD thanks to some shitty, shitty exes. This is the story about how Tony learns to trust again, Avenger by Avenger, in his new Found Family. Come for the Whump, stay for the found family insomnia infomercial parties and Steve Rogers getting arrested for enacting some sweet, sweet karmic justice.
And now we get into a sub-genre of Found Family that is also a huge weakness of mine: Tony thinks he’s only tolerated instead of wanted, and his found family convinces him otherwise.
Some Things Shouldn’t Be a Chore
Author: scifigrl47
Word Count: 22,187
Summary: Steve takes things like personal responsibility and respect seriously. Tony's got people he pays to take care of that kind of thing, and anyway, he's pretty sure that he's going to die of some exotic disease in his workshop, because Dummy's still a little spotty about what is 'clean' enough to put on an open wound. The rest of the Avengers are in this for personal gain, except for Clint, he just enjoys being a dick. And some things shouldn't be a chore.
Why You Should Read It:
Honestly it feels a bit like cheating to recommend the first work in scifigrl47′s tremendously popular Toasterverse, since I’m pretty sure a lot of people who don’t even like or regularly read fanfiction have liked this one, even indirectly. Sci is so ludicrously good at building an engaging, creative, character-driven universe that this series is responsible for most of the fanon you know and love about MCU fanfics. Tony’s bot Butterfingers? Sci made him up for this story. Thor’s love of Pop Tarts? Clint the vent goblin? All sci. They’re just that damn good at world-building.
In this fic, the Avengers try out a chore chart. Hilarity and feels ensue. I don’t want to say anymore and risk spoiling it because if you’ve managed to get far enough in Stony fanfiction to read this post and haven’t yet read the Toasterverse, I want to keep the experience pristine for you to enjoy. Please read this. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll reserve a hypothetical genie wish to make this series the actually canon MCU (God knows I have).
Hold the Things You Wanna Say
Author: SailorChibi
Word Count: 6,316
Summary: Tony is still a consultant, and between SI, the team and SHIELD he's overworked and exhausted. That's okay. He and Steve have been having sex for weeks but that's all it is, just sex, and Tony wants more but he'll never get it and that's okay. Really. What's not okay is the fact that Howard Stark has somehow appeared in the future and is the same as always. This is definitely going to fuck up his schedule.
CW: Abuse, Howard Stark’s A+ Parenting
Why You Should Read It:
SailorChibi’s one of those authors I’ve been meaning to get around to reading all their stuff for, but it’s tricky when you have a short attention span and an author that is just so damn prolific. They’re a multi-fandom maven consistently putting out some really great stuff, and they’re absolutely worth checking out.
This story’s a real yank on the heartstrings, and as someone who can really identify with Tony’s fear of failing the people he cares about, the point in the story where he reaches his low is just unbelievably poignant. But the warmth and the wholesomeness of the end made my heart grow three sizes the day I read it. And the love that all these idiots have for each other is just so damn palpable in this story, it damn near made me cry.
Irreplaceable
Author: Orphan Account :(
Word Count: 4,952
Summary: There are obvious downsides to being the only member of the Avengers who is not a super soldier, a god, or a super assassin, and does not Hulk out when aggravated. The most obvious one is that when villains want bait, they've got a go-to guy. Tony already knew Mondays sucked. He did not need his opinion reinforced this way.
Why You Should Read It:
It’s such a bummer I can’t plunder this author’s other works because I love this one so much!
Tony gets kidnapped and says a lot of self-deprecating things that, unbeknownst to him, are projected on a live feed to the Avengers. They rescue him and have some opinions about how easily he could be replaced. This story’s got Tony hiding from feelings like an idiot, Steve manually carrying Tony somewhere the Avengers can say nice things about him, and a lot of feels.
That’s it for today! Tune in tomorrow for some AU recs!
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What are your top fave reylo fics?
[cracks knuckles] Let’s do this.
Disclaimer: I like my Ben soft and my Rey fierce. There will be no Supreme F*ckboi Kylos on this list, or any wilting flower Reys. There will, however, be plenty of sad space boy tears.
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Janus (Modern AU)
I go back to this time and time again. It’s incredible. This... this one sneaks up on you. Before you know it, you’re reading the last few paragraphs and crying in the dark at 3am on a Tuesday. The initial friction between Ben & Rey melts into one of the most touching reylo dynamics I’ve ever read.There are some real soul-crushing moments of pure emotion. Ben’s story arc is brutal, but so beautiful. I wish I could befriend this Rey in real life. The premise, you ask? They’re neighbours. Swoon.
Sword of the Jedi (Canon Divergent)
[cries in ‘growing up together’ with a side of ‘Jedi Academy Reylo’] diasterisms is a genius. We all know this. This series is everything I want & need teen Ben & Rey to be. The attention to the detail, the perfect use of canon and EU elements, the scope of the story, the way their relationship evolves & matures.... *chef kiss* Prepare for the ending of the first part to break your heart (...second part will slowly put it back together).
Mirrorbright (AU, Canon-Adjacent)
We all know how I feel about Naboo. Politician!Ben has all my uwus and Jedi Rey is the babeliest badass.
The Way to Tomorrow (Post-TLJ, Angsty)
Oof. Not only is this gorgeously written, it’s chock-full of the most incredible angst (mind the tags). The way they -- and their relationship -- heal & evolve is so beautiful and organic, I don’t think anyone could remain indifferent. Basically -- Ben is sentenced to exile. The Force bond remains open. Feelings ensue. Actual tears were shed during the reading of this.
My wildest wind (come blow into my room) (Modern AU)
The writing. The WRITING. I want to weep, it’s so gorgeous. ForceTime vignettes. Incredible characterization. Will unapologetically blow you away and give you major writer envy, while also drowning you in feels. A+
we could plant a house, we could build a tree (Modern AU)
[cries in growing up together’, again]. This is one of the first Reylo fics I ever read, and it’s simply a delight. My heart skips a beat whenever I think about it. Preeeeetty sure it’s what caused my arrhythmia.
Miles From where you are (Modern AU)
Everyone and their cousin will recommend this — for a reason. It’s what modern AU dreams are made of. They meet online!! they’re Star Wars nerds!! It’s meta af. Love at first read, guaranteed.
here with me (Post-TLJ)
Picks up right where the movie ends. Rey & Ben start off being very catty to each other, but they slowly come around and their interactions are some of the best I’ve read. Major brownie points for delicious snark & sass.
-- a standout quote:
“You’re on a different ship,” Kylo says, unaffected by the change of scenery as he cranes his neck to look at everything. “It’s still a piece of junk, though. That’s nice and consistent of you.”
“And you’re still offering your unwanted opinions,” Rey says, raising an eyebrow at him. “Which is nice and consistent of you.”
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Olive and an Arrow (Modern AU)
President’s daughter/Bodyguard AU. It’s just as wonderfully tropey as you’d expect and I love it 3000.
Embers (Modern AU, Ex-Lovers)
I know it’s cheesy to say that a piece of writing can be life changing, but... a piece of writing can be life changing. Case in point: this story. Some stories just really resonate with you and touch you in a very special way. I could probably quote half of it back to you, because there are SO many incredibly introspective lines that are basically engraved on my brain. The writing ebbs and flows in the most beautiful way, lulling you into an incredible ocean of emotions. I laughed. I cried. I clutched my chest and gave thanks to whatever fanfic god made me find it.
--a standout quote: (THE WHOLE THING, honestly)
“Rey.” Ben’s voice was low and brittle. “Are you—”
"Yes."
An answer to a question that could have been anything. Are you still sure. Are you still here. Are you still mine.”
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Be still, my heart
Currently reading:
Composure (post-TLJ)
Wild Montana Skies (Modern AU) I’M IN LOVE, OKAY
Ashfall (Modern AU)
Other favs:
Anything and everything by sciosophia (I have a disgusting crush on her writing, nobody tell her pls)
Anything and everything by Ever-So-Reylo (one of my ALL time faves was actually Head Over Feet, which is no longer available. Woe is me.)
Anything and everything by diasterisms Obviously.
Girl In the Mask, Boy in the Sand — Role reversal series! The FLAVOUR....
In the interest of keeping this from turning into a novel, I’ll end the list here. Let me know if you ever want more recs — I’m always happy to oblige!
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Something for Everyone (unless you liked Jadzia) in S7 DS9!
by Ames
How exactly does one pick top and bottom episodes from a clump that’s mostly serial? A Star to Steer Her By found a way! It’s a strange final season of Deep Space Nine that’s split almost evenly between the ongoing storyline of the show and a bunch of episodes to pad for time while the writers created that ongoing storyline for the show.
Read on below for our bests and worsts of season seven, which you can also listen to at our absurdly long series-wrap podcast episode here (jump to timestamp 1:38:05 for the season discussion), where you can hear the bonus tops and bottoms of fan-favorite guest star Liz and also the full series ratings!
[images © CBS/Paramount]
Bottom Three Episodes
This season really suffers from some characters regressing hard as if they didn’t make any development over the course of the show. Some regressed so hard, they basically restarted the character (oof, too soon…).
“Afterimage”: Chris
Quick! We’ve only got a couple episodes to establish Ezri as a character because we were huge dicks to the last Dax and killed her off. Let’s rush through showcasing this new Dax in a barely formed plot mostly spent treating her like a sex object. Check, check, and check!
“Take Me Out to the Holosuite”: Ames, Caitlin
Season 7 is all about wrapping up the Dominion War arc, but let’s pause that for two weeks to have a goofy baseball game that is entirely lifted from every other TV show, to wash all the sci-fi off the show, and to just crack jokes that don’t land. That’s strike three; you’re outta here!
“The Emperor’s New Cloak”: Caitlin, Jake
Mirror universe episodes tend to always feel like fanfic as it is, but our final trip through the looking glass basically said “Hold My Beer.” The whole thing felt like a checklist of in-jokes, some tropey character nonsense, and even more objectifying women to round it off!
“Extreme Measures”: Ames, Caitlin
Julian goes full hypocrite in this not-even-a-little-bit-surreal mindtrip when he kidnaps and tortures Sloan, gets him absolutely killed, and takes a whole episode for a boring brain adventure. This is not the Julian we thought we knew, and it’s a shame.
“Chrysalis”: Chris, Jake
And that’s not even the worst thing Julian has done lately! He has fully reverted to his sleazy season-one self, grooming women so he can date them, performing surgeries on them to “fix them,” and still somehow making everything about him. Gross, Julian. Gross.
“Field of Fire”: Ames, Chris, Jake
One thing we can say about our new Trill character is at least she’s consistent… because every single time we do a Trill episode, it’s entirely contradictory of all the preceding Trill episodes to the point of confoundment! Joran is the worst he’s been and what even is this new overpowered weapon?
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Top Three Episodes
On the flip side, this season also benefits from how varied its episodes are that it really does somehow have something for everyone, especially if you love you some schlock!
“Take Me Out to the Holosuite”: Chris
Sigh. Chris likes doofy, fillery episodes and I’m not even going to try to parse why this time. The uniforms looked good, I guess? That must be it. If you like doofy, fillery episodes and aren’t bored to tears by baseball, then this episode… has some good uniforms for you.
“Once More Unto the Breach”: Jake
We love us a good Klingon episode and this one’s got a lot to sink your teeth into. It was an excellent send off for the long-established character of Kor, it reflected on some of the less honorable elements of Klingon culture, and Worf got to put his knife skills on display!
“Badda-Bing Badda-Bang”: Caitlin
Heist episodes of the world, take note! This is how you pace and tell a concise, interesting, coherent, and clever heist story. Placement in the middle of the war arc aside, this episode gave us some great acting, costumes, music, film techniques, the works! Badda bing!
“The Siege of AR-558”: Chris, Jake
We’ve also got a straight-up war episode featuring some tense ground patrol action, horrifying new weapons, and Quark with a gun! Also we see actual consequences for characters’ actions! What Star Trek so far has ever given us that before?
“Treachery, Faith, and the Great River”: Ames, Jake
Proving that two Jeffrey Combses are better than one, this episode doubles your Weyouns and gives us some excellent Vorta time that really kicks you in the feels. It would take a bunch more Weyouns to reach the level of this excellent story. Those are our demands, Star Trek; get on it.
“The Changing Face of Evil”: Ames, Caitlin
One of the absolute highlights of the big honkin’ ten-part finale is the Dukat-Winn relationship you never realized you needed. The hottest elements of which are all on display in this episode in particular, which are all pretty drool-worthy, but the most props go to Louise Fletcher for totally selling every moment.
“It’s Only a Paper Moon”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris
This episode achieves the impossible: It gives us some really genuinely good Vic Fontaine. All the credit, of course, does go to Aron Eisenberg for his really touching and complete characterization of post-traumatic stress disorder. Thank you, ensign Nog, for being such a treasure.
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So that’s all the season-by-season bloodwine we can spill on Deep Space Nine. We’re sad to leave the station and take our final look at the wormhole, but there’s also the full series top and bottom fives to celebrate and lament, respectively. Watch this page for more, listen to weekly episodes at our home on the web on Soundcloud, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and tell the prophets to stop it with all the baseball already!
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F, I, R, S, T
thank you for the ask! <3 The answers are going to be a bit long because I still don’t know how to get to the point
doing this thing
F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
It’s from my captured!Jaskier fic ‘Always Lose-Lose’, Cahir is interrogating Jaskier:
“Try again. I know that you used to travel with Geralt. Everyone knows that you were the closest he had ever let a person. If anyone knows about where he would be hiding, it is you.”
The sound that left Jaskier’s mouth had more resemblance to a bark than a laugh. “If I’m the closest person to him then he must be truly lonely. We are the farthest thing from what I would call close.”
“Where is he hiding?”
“What even makes you think that a witcher - experienced fighter and hero of epic tales - would give away his secrets to a bard of all people? We are not exactly known to keep our mouths shut.”
A fact, he was dearly regretting at the moment. Each word was like a small knife scraping at the inside of his throat. But he couldn’t help it. As long as he was talking, he wasn’t able to think about food and what he had to do in order to earn it. What he couldn’t do, no matter how much his body screamed at him.
Cahir’s eyes narrowed. “And yet, here you stand, refusing to tell me the simplest thing about your friend.”
“And you don’t seem to listen when I do talk. I am not his friend.” His hand clenched into a fist only to unclench again. “Never was. Witchers don’t make friends.”
I’m proud of it because it does exactly what I wanted it to do (I can’t say what exactly because spoilers), but there is a bit of foreshadowing in there for those who have paid reaaaaly close attention and this scene pretty much has everythign in it that made me want to write the fic in the first place.
I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?
I have far too many wriitng guilty pleasures. the one i feel the most guilty about is making real life experiences into fics, mainly when people are fliriting with me and I am too oblivious to notice and it leads to some really tropey situations. The one that is most fun is writing good-bye scenes. I have exactly one way to write those and I want to shove it into anything I can
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
Kind of everyone. I’ve started writing down words I like and want to use more when I’m reading them somewhere. And most of my plot ideas come from me reading a lot of fics with the same trope, and going “what if that one thing that they all have in common was different?”
S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
uhh hair washing, Jaskier making flowercrowns for Geralt, Jaskier in Kaer Morhen and probably a lot more that I can’t remember right now
T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?
When Eskel, Geralt and Lambert are romanitcally or sexually involved. For me they are brothers/ friends and everything else makes me uncomfortable. Also, bloodthirsty Jaskier. I love the fanart and I can see why it’s a fun concept, but for me personally it takes away the thing that endeared Jaskier to me the most (him being normal and unable to do much physical harm when pretty mcuh everyone else is down to murder someone or is a skilled fighter)
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Drunj!Der Yells About Outlander
Thoughts on Ep. 511
Ok so this episode is like the perfect embodiment of my love/hate relationship with the books. And the show, but since the author wrote it, the books too, and her writing/plotting in general. I hated the other episode she wrote so my expectations going into this were *rull* low.
This episode was like a series of character-driven vignettes, which is what I like most about her writing (and why I bother even sticking around): random scenes here and there that I really enjoy as standalone bits. But, in true Outlander fashion, it also like ticked a lot of the boxes for stuff plot-wise that I can’t stand. Namely, yet more violence against multiple women, Marsali and Fergus getting shortchanged, Lord John crossing just over the creepy line for a sec with Jamie and the situation with Ulysses’ legal status. It didn’t check the rape box, but we may have to revisit that next week. I sure as fuck hope we don’t have to, but seeing as this show never met a rape it didn’t think was ToTaLlY nEcEsSaRy to include... *preemptive sigh*
Show-wise this very much felt like a penultimate episode and in that respect it accomplished what it was supposed to. In the overall arc of the season though, much like when considering the whole book series, a few solid standalone scenes here and there do not equal a good whole. To be in this fandom is to be an expert in eating around the moldy parts of the bread to get a few nibbles of good stuff.
Anywho, SCIENCE!JIZZ 5EVA!
Fuck yeah PB&J, and Claire is forgiven for not mastering fluff yet. But fluffernutters are also a staple in any growing kid’s diet.
Poor burned girl. It’s not her fault she vaguely resembles a walker so I spent the whole time thinking about TWD.
Omfg I got like PTSD flashbacks when I saw that dress in the title card. KILL THAT DRESS WITH FIRE!
There may not be fluffernutters, but Bree and Claire fluff and Young Ian and Jemmy fluff are good substitutes.
This kid is adorbs tho.
They’ve been really blasé about mentioning time travel in front of folks this season. First Marsali and now Young Ian. The latter will be remedied, but I’m still lowkey annoyed that Fergus and Marsali aren’t brought into the circle of trust... Esp. when there was a perfect opportunity for it later on.
I cannot with men, tbh. Seeking justice for a daughter who’s been “dishonored” by killing the dude is like the most overused trope of toxic masculinity ever. And now we’re supposed to be all like oh look how relatable the Brown guy is! Because our tropey men wanted to kill a dude like that last week! Hard pass. Also, fucking his kid wasn’t raped, she loves a guy who happens to be married, but everything was super consensual. Sooo like double gross points for you, dude.
And yes, I know it’s ThE pAsT, but I am not in the past, I am in the present, and the show is airing in the present, so thinking this sort of behavior is gross is totes ok. So the fucked up squad of randos who always jump into my notes about how they like “their men to be men” can just shove it, ok? Ok.
They’re like really not subtle with the foreshadowing this episode are they. But then again, when has subtlety ever been a thing on this show. That’s a nice still you got there, shame if anything were to happen to it...
I’m really digging the decor in this living room.
Oh hey! They finally decided to stop pretending like Young Ian was dumb and didn’t notice literally *gestures* everything about Claire.
I’m still salty they never told Jenny and Ian in S3 tbh.
Shockingly, considering who wrote it, so much of this episode is directly from the books. So I’m sure the Cult of Herself folks will be obsessed. And like yeah, some of the stuff in this episode is some of the bits I really like from the books as individual little scenes. However! I know some in the cult will use this as a reason why the show should StAy TrUe To ThE bOoKs more. And please, for the love of fuck, fight that instinct. Parts of this episode aren’t good “because they’re from the book,” they’re good because they’re emotional moments between characters, which is where both the books and the show are strongest. “Sticking with the book” on everything would make an already not great show even worse. I mean, the show ain’t great, but thank fuck they’ve streamlined the book stuff as much as they have.
Yes, I did notice the Pamela easter egg from the book. No, I’m not one who gets excited about shit like that.
Aaand here we get the problematic af bit about Ulysses and his legal status. In the book, he was offered freedom and turned it down to stay with Jocasta. Which is twelve kinds of fucked up. Here, he *is* a free man and he chooses to stay and cosplay an enslaved person so he can chill with Jocasta? FUCK THAT NOISE. That is some “benevolent slave owner” bullshit. They don’t get overt with the Ulysses and Jocasta are banging stuff from the book, which is also epically fucked up considering the power dynamic and how a fuckton of men enslaved their own fucking kids because they’d raped the mothers and children take the status of the mother. I’m glad they didn’t come right out and say that. But it’s like lowkey implied and even if it’s not supposed to be taken as canon, having a Black man be given the option to get the fuck out of there and choose to stay with someone who enslaves other Black people is like some dangerous white fanfic nonsense.
Also, thinking about the slave/master relationship dynamic today really makes me wish I saw Jeremy O. Harris’ play while it was running...
Oh yay, Bree and Roger are actually leaving. Much like the Bonnet shit, credit where credit’s due, I’m glad they’re not dragging the will they/won’t they go out for another season.
Don’t sound so butthurt that you didn’t get to murder a guy, Jamie.
Poor Young Ian. Buddy needs a hug. And more screentime for his story. Like, do we really need something else traumatic to happen to Claire when we could explore family dynamics instead? This time with Young Ian and his wife and their Mohawk family?
THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER WAYS TO HAVE DRAMA AND CONFLICT THAT CAN TAKE UP THE RUNNING TIME OF A SEASON THAT DON’T INVOLVE CONSTANTLY PUTTING THE WOMEN IN PHYSICAL DANGER.
Lol at the thought of LJG “working the land.” Like, buddy, have you seen yourself?
“No doubt there a great many things I shall miss about being here.” Don’t make it weird bro.
Yes, I know he’s like gonna miss their friendship and stuff. But he’s always been just a smidge too intense about it. And by a smidge I mean the gay guy openly in love with his straight best friend a gross trope and I don’t like it.
Ok so if we’re following the “rules” of the show that the production used to recite ad nauseam to justify why Jamie and Claire barely seemed to even like each other for a few seasons (”they’re married, we don’t need to see them fuck!” “we already know they love each other, it’s a given!”), this sex scene shouldn’t exist. Because it’s really not essential to the plot. Which just proves the “rules” are and always were bullshit excuses. And the author/writer of this episode def spouted that bullshit too, so she can also shove it.
Because this scene *should* exist and those “rules” *were* complete crap. Because Jamie and Claire are very sexual/physical people and, especially when they’re going through things, use sex to center themselves where they are and in their relationship. Bree and Roger are leaving. Jem’s leaving. They’re sad about that. But they’re also happy that they made a family and got to be together as a family and are glad to have had that chance. (And, they just like to fuck.) So of course this is a good character moment. This is the kind of shit we should be seeing instead of just a constant barrage of plot and violence. And the crew can fuck all they off with their not at all convincing talking points about “rules.”
Also this is a much better use of sex than them constantly having them fuck after a fight instead of actually working through the issue between them.
Also, fuck yeah, get it gurrrl.
SCIENCE!JIZZ! (I’m gonna need a gif of Claire’s face when Jamie’s figuring it out because that’s gonna be in heavy reaction rotation.
I just love Claire fuck yeah science Beauchamp.
It’s also another scene that does nothing to advance the plot, but is a nice respite from the constant trauma. The show has yet to find a balance between the two, which is annoying af because they’ve had five seasons to figure it out. So like whenever there is fluff, folks pounce on it like starving animals. Which some in the crew (and some fans) like to point out like “see, you all like everything now!” Or “look, why are you whining so much, we gave you this!” Or “wow you hate the show but now you like this part? Hypocrite.”
But like, no, that’s not what it means. Not giving someone water for days and then throwing them a small canteen doesn’t mean everything is hunky dory. It’s still super fucked up. So no, enjoying the fact that there are a few fluffy scenes in an episode doesn’t mean the show is good. If they made more of an effort to center the characters and spread the fluff around a bit more instead of waiting until there was like trauma fatigue and throwing in a fluffy life raft, the show as a whole would be stronger.
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Ok it’s super fucked up they hadn’t told Bree about Willie yet, but I’m glad Jamie is the one who tells her.
“And it wasn’t a matter of love between us, but it was her choice, and that’s all I’ll say about it.” BECAUSE SHE RAPED HIM. COERCION IS NOT CONSENT AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT HOW “HOT” THAT SCENE WAS ARE FUCKING DISGUSTING AND THE PRODUCTION IS DISGUSTING FOR SHOOTING A FUCKING RAPE IN THE MANNER THEY DID. AND ALSO FUCK THEM FOR HAVING IT BE A RAPE IN THE FIRST PLACE WHEN IT COULD HAVE SO FUCKING EASILY BEEN CONSENSUAL.
This show is so fucking not good.
This scene with Jamie and Brianna is super nice, but like, we saw nothing of them building their relationship. He didn’t even fucking hug her after Murtagh died. The scene loses so much of what it could have had because they never did the legwork to show us what they mean to each other.
It’s the same old shit they pulled with Claire and Jamie. “Oh they’re together and endgame so we don’t actually need to show you them building and working on their relationship that much. Because you know they’re together so just go with it.” Like no? Fuck you? That’s not how this works?
FERGUS AND MARSALI DESERVE BETTER!
Of course Marsali’s preggo again. Why the fuck should she do anything but spit out babies. Also, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT TIME TO HAVE THE FRASER KIDS TALK ABOUT TIME TRAVEL.
And Bree’s become a sister to Marsali? We saw one fucking scene of them together. See above rant. Fucking show us them becoming sisters. Sorry to interrupt your constant stream of violence and trauma, but fucking actually SHOWING characters building relationships instead of TELLING us they did the thing is how this is fucking supposed to work.
I’m rull pissed we never got quality Fraser kid bonding, y’all.
And ditto with this scene with Lizzie. We saw more of Bree and Lizzie than Bree and Marsali, but like we never really saw them becoming friendly post Bree’s rape and Rogergate.
All the goodbyes are like making me feel inch deep feelings because they’re rooted in nothing we’ve actually seen. And I’m not a Bad Fan or dumb for not filling in the feelings myself. I’m the viewer. It’s not my job to fill in the show’s gaps. It’s the show’s job not to have emotional gaps.
Oh hey! Another shitty man who hurts his wife and another woman trapped in a physically abusive relationship who thinks the abuse is her fault! On Outlander? Who’da thunk they’d have something like this?!
I’m so tired, y’all. So. Fucking. Tired.
I HOPE YOUNG IAN FINDS HAPPINESS TOO, ROGER.
Ok but for real, every time Lord John talks about how Willie and Bree are like Jamie it has that gross tinge to it. Like I know he’s not meaning it like a creeper, but they leaned so fucking hard into him being so into and not over Jamie that the layer of grossness is always there.
Also like, grannie and grandda, we got like one scene of Claire and Jamie playing with Jem. WE COULD HAVE FELT SO MANY MORE FEELINGS ABOUT THEM BEING SEPARATED IF ONLY THEY HAD TAKEN THE TIME TO BUILD THE RELATIONSHIPS ON SCREEN.
Claire making everyone PB&Js is fucking adorable and I love her.
Old timey forks will never not be fucking weird looking.
“And now it’s just you and me again.” Uh, Fergus, Marsali and Young Ian might be a tad offended by that sentiment, Clairebear.
Ok but like do they really think a rope is gonna hold up to fucking magic time travel rocks? It’s gotta just be like a mental security blanket thing, right? Because if not, loooooooooool.
Ok but the really just let their kiddo run off like that in the middle of the magic time travel rock circle? Dumbasses.
Ok but like what’s the betting they ended up in like a RenFest type thing and think they haven’t traveled but they have and it’s like lol look at them fitting in with their old timey clothes vs. skipping them going back to the future and doing the going adventuring around the even past-er past part but with them all together instead of Roger and Buck?
I’m just hoping it’s something completely different than the books because I have zero interest in Bree and Roger in the 20th century and hate the Roger and Buck nonsense with a fiery passion.
Erm, that’s a little close to the house to build a privy, my dudes.
Is the setting a guy’s dislocated shoulder thing supposed to be a cute callback? Because like hey wink wink, first she was kidnapped and then set a shoulder and now she’s setting a shoulder and then getting kidnapped is kind of a fucked up “joke.”
But how about we get more of Nurse!Marsali and less of Marsali just being constantly preggo.
“Sort of like the opposite of what you do when ya joint a hog.” I JUST LOVE NURSE!MARSALI A LOT OK.
Aaand now that we’re all good and docile little fans who have been placated with some fluff and Fraser fucking as a treat, we can go back to the regularly scheduled violence against women. Because we literally just had a violent abduction last week. So clearly it’s time for another.
Everything in this story has been done before...
I swear to fuck, if they do the thing I think they’re gonna do next week, I hope they get rightfully dragged by fucking everyone.
And if by some fucking miracle of Caitriona putting her foot down they don’t do the thing next week, they get zero brownie points. You don’t get rewarded for doing what you should have done the whole time.
And of course the closing is Jamie lighting Flaming Dildo 2.0. His men swore oaths to him, not any government or crown, and protecting his family has always been the top thing for Jamie. So good choice there with saving Claire being the reason he calls up the men.
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June 2020 | #1
Every month, we ask our reader members to rec us some BTS works they’ve enjoyed. The works can come from any source (AO3, Tumblr, Twitter, Wattpad, etc.), can be either a fanfic or a SM AUs, and doesn’t have to be from our own writer members. We’ve compiled this month’s recs in this list; Happy browsing!
SFW | Fanfic
Pull me under by Oh_Hey_Tae (AO3)
Fluff | Pining, E2L | Oneshot
Summary: Hoseok works at a summer resort and Namjoon is the newest lifeguard. Chaos ensues.
@galaxiejoon said: this is one of my favorite Hoseok/Namjoon fics, its very cute, funny, and sweet.
How to get away with blind dates by Tsoookie (AO3)
Fluff | Fake dating, College Au | Oneshot
Summary: Kim Seokjin is already at that age where he probably should get rid of his single since birth status. His roommates, Namjoon and Yoongi wants to help him but Seokjin refuses to accept it. After all, why would he agree to date someone he doesn't even know?
@tigertaehyunq said: just a cute little fic on Taejin that warms my heart. I love the characters, the way the story is written and how it progresses. The plot twists are fun too.
Coalescing Memories by @dawndrms
Fluff | Mutual pining | Oneshot
Summary: Taehyung and Hoseok have always been close, closer than close but they never seem to get that their feelings for each other are mutual despite already acting like boyfriends.
@bangtiddies said: ah this fic was so sweet and cute!! the domestic simplicity between hobi and tae, annoyed yoongi just wanting them to finally admit their feelings for each other, hoo boi i'm soft.
NSFW | Fanfic
Glass Diamonds by Ginforink (AO3)
Smut, Angst | Pining, Denial of feelings | Oneshot
Summary: Jungkook accidentally fires his skateboard through the window of a dance studio.
@joopiterjoon said: I liked this because it was tropey: Skaterboy Jungkook falls for Dancer Jimin. I don't read this kinda Jungkook often but this couple and their interactions felt real while also having 90s movie vibes.
Sweeter than sweet by @j-sope (Tumblr)
Angst, Fluff | Pining, College Au | WIP
Summary: In his second year, Hoseok discovers dance, befriends Jungkook and his silly friends — and makes the mistake of falling head over heels for Park Jimin’s boyfriend.
@hobiance said: i love this fic for many reasons! it's wonderfully paced, and although sometimes you feel like you just want to throttle sope because they're being such emotionally constipated boys in denial, it's the perfect balance of angst and fluff. it's never so sad you're heartbroken, but it keeps you on the edge of your seat-- and there's some amazing comedic relief tucked into the story as well. genuinely one of my favorite fics of all time!
Got a kiss (with your name on it) by Orphan_account (AO3, account required)
Fluff, Smut | Oneshot
Summary: “I just—I just thought, like. Maybe I wouldn’t be so horrible if someone more experienced than me taught me what to do.”
@megahwn said: I'm reccing this work because it's one of the first Taekook fics I ever read, and it holds a special place in my heart for that reason. The smut is sweet and gentle and their relationship is so believable in its evolution. I definitely reccommend it!
Fake sugar by Minverse (AO3, @park-loins on Tumblr)
Crack, Angst, Fluff | Fake sugar daddy au | Completed Series
Summary: Hedge Fund wunderkind and Certified Awkward Gay Jungkook needs a sugar baby to show off at work, and Professional Competitive Eater and Objectively Beautiful Human Jin just wants to stop working shitty side-jobs. Fake Sugar Daddy AU. A trope and a half.
@joonsrack said: Jinkook was never on my radar until I read this masterpiece. I didn’t think they would work but it did, so much. The author brought to life the characters so vividly, I kind of miss them ever since I finished this masterpiece. The humor is grad A worthy of its own award, the plot is hilarious and original and everything you need to keep warm at night. The relationships in this (be it the platonic ones or the romantic ones) are just so well mapped out. Minverse is honestly the best writer I’ve ever read, be it from fanfic or published book.
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Epenthesis in Academic Convergence by Bazooka (AO3, account required)
Angst, Fluff, Humour, Smut | College au, Teacher au, E2L | Completed series
Summary: Epenthesis; A phonological phenomenon in which two disparate sounds meet, creating a third sound between them which wasn't there before.
There were a lot of jobs worse than being partnered with world-renowned Absent-Minded Professor Kim Namjoon, but Professor Kim Seokjin couldn't think of what any of them were at the moment.
@joonsrack said: Im reccing this fic because the namjin in this gives me life. They're just two dumbass perfect for each other if they could just stop being dense for like, one second. I also love the format the writer used, with the hilarious teacher/course rating. It sets the tone perfectly for the story.
Same damn hunger by Orphan_account (AO3, account required)
Angst, Smut | College au, FWB, Slow burn | Oneshot
Summary: When it comes to fucking around with his best friend, Yoongi follows two rules:
1. They must be inebriated.
2. They must not kiss.
@j-sope said: I will never shut up about this fic. this fic is brilliant. both yoongi and hobi are so well written, their relationship is beautiful and it's definitely the sope fic. who knew a kiss could be so important? it's funny, full of feelings, there's the perfect amount of angst to balance everything. the dialogue and writing style were amazing, everything about this fic is amazing, tbh you don't even have to stan sope to have a good time with this. it's the sope bible. idk what else to say i just love it, nothing will ever top this ever 2145145/10
SFW | SM AUS
None this month
NSFW | SM AUS
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8, 15, 17, 28 for the writer meme, if you didn’t already get any of those
8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
i just answered this, but since it’s you, i’ll go for some blake ;) hm....
i must say, i think i have written some pretty great dialogue for blake’s 7 in my time. here’s one of my favourite bits -
“It’s a quality operation,” Vila said. “They wouldn’t skimp on a thing like that. You want a boyfriend, Blake – and I want to go to Del Ten. Give me your promise that we can spend a week there once we find Docholli and I’m your man.”
“Vila, once we’ve found Docholli, we will have the key to finding Star One,” Blake pointed out.
“Are there any dancing girls on Star One?”
“I very much doubt it.”
“Then I’d still rather go to Del Ten,” Vila said.
“Couldn’t you wait?” Blake suggested. “Until after we blow up Star One?”
“After you blow up the Federation’s weather control systems, you mean?” Vila said. “And throw the civilised world into chaos? Right, I’m sure that would be a lovely time to take a holiday. Got any more suggestions like that, Blake? Perhaps I should invest in the stock market at the same time.”
“Two days,” Blake said. “I could give you two days on Del Ten.”
“A week!” Vila repeated.
Blake shut his eyes, and pinched the bridge of his nose between his thumb and forefinger. He willed himself to find the strength to complete this conversation and make the right choices.
“Oh, Blake,” Vila said kindly. “You really need this, don’t you?”
Blake felt a hand rest on his shoulder and looked up into Vila’s sympathetic eyes. “Yes,” he said with relief. “I’m sorry, Vila. I don’t want to put you in this position. But I really do need this.”
“You’re going to have to give in then,” Vila told him in the same kindly tone as before. “Unless,” he said, a twinkle in his eye, “that is, you want to ask Avon to be your boyfriend...”
i could have quoted this entire scene - even this is a lot. i love writing blake and avon, i love writing avon and vila, but i really really love writing blake and vila together because there are some lovely moments in canon to draw on. they’re two characters who have very little in common except that they’re both smart. this conversation is about how blake - who almost always gets his own way - now needs something he can’t just demand that vila does, and that gives vila the upper hand repeatedly throughout this conversation. blake, even though he knows this is an awkward conversation and really should be better prepared.
i also like the different lengths of the dialogue - it has a good patter.
it’s also funny, and funny because it’s cruel to someone (in this case blake, not usually), which is very blake’s 7. also also - it ends with vila insinuating what is essentially the plot - i.e. that avon will have to pretend to be blake’s boyfriend by the end of the story - and this is a trick that i always enjoy for a section end. the audience is like - oh ho, wouldn’t that be simply TERRIBLE? ;) ;)
good times.
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15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
hm - not sure. maybe right now ... ‘Hang the Moon’? it’s got a lot of good action that would translate well to film, and i have a very clear idea of how most of the scenes look.
it would be kind of weird, though, right to have a film of a ‘carry on’ fanfic before we have a ‘carry on’ film. so i’m finding it quite hard to visualise.
i would have loved to have written some dialogue for blake’s 7 people to actually say (assuming they remembered how to do the voices properly, paul darrow). i would be so embarrassed to present paul darrow with my porn, though (although ‘An Apple Cleft in Two’ would be so great, though, as it’s practically a bodyswap - i love the idea of seeing the real stephen pacey pretending to be blake, and paul darrow just being so angry), so it would have to be some sort of gen.
ok - i think i choose ‘Showdown’ because it basically is ‘Duel’, so I know the Beeb could have staged it. it’s got some mega emotion that gareth would have done beautifully, too -
Blake extracted his hand slowly from Avon’s. He pressed his fingers against Avon’s wrist and waited, but there was no pulse. He let the hand drop and tried the artery in Avon’s neck, but he knew he was just prolonging the inevitable. Avon was dead.
He forced himself to look back at the man who had been his friend.
Avon looked peaceful. The blood spattered on his face was not his – it was Travis’s and had fallen from Blake’s cheeks like tears. Blake screwed his eyes shut again in an attempt to stop it, and in the darkness Sinofar’s voice said,
“So – the battle is over.”
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17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
i almost always write in order. when i think of a scene that is in the future, i will usually write some notes about it, but try not to write it because i very much build on (in my head? i dont know how much comes through in what gets written) what i wrote before in terms of how people think and feel/i do a lot of dialogue call-backs.
there are a few occasions where i go ahead and write something that happens later, but then i feel like i really screw myself when i try and go back and write the missing piece. i have to re-write everything i wrote previously to make it make sense... ‘Greener Grass’ actually is an example where i didn’t write out of order on purpose, but i thought i’d start with simon’s section which introduces all the bodyswap stuff fine, but it was too heavy with the bodyswap plot AND the introduction of the agatha-isn’t-here/get simon’s magic back stuff. there was just too much going on.
so then i had to write an intro section for baz, which i thin is good - it frames the story as baz’s story, which i know is what rainbow would want, and gives us calm before the storm ... as well as giving me an opportunity to write the exposition i needed.
but i had to go back an edit the next section a LOT to make room for it. which i hated.
28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
i’ll do two batches.
blake’s 7:
x_los is my girlfriend, but i knew her first as an amazing writer. i wouldn’t have written half the things i did for b7 if she hadn’t started writing these epic, involved political stories, and she writes great porn. i really am not interested in david copperfield/uriah heep, but she thinks baz is a cat killer who does not deserve the time of day, so there you go. we’re in different fandoms now.
elviaprose is not only a great writer (the foot fettish fic is incredible, given that neither she nor i have a foot fettish as far as i know), she’s also really engaged with other people’s writing and i love that. it’s really good fun.
judith proctor - i wanted to put in a second generation fan, and i was tempted to go for willa shakespeare (so good, so plotty, so porny) or nova (such pain!), but i have to go for judith. judith taught us all how incredible blake is. her love for this character, and the way that she always writes him as smart but flawed, and attractive to avon because he is smart and principled, rather than for any other reason, is fundamental to any of us reclaiming him for the future. (it’s probably not a surprise that the authors i like really influence me as a writer, but worth calling it out - i am very much saying that as well). Touching Life! so good.
carry on:
we have some amazing writers, thank you fandom <3 three of my very very predictable favourites (the same three, i think, who wrote my favourite fics of last year) are:
@basic-banshee - what can i say? (insert long pause while i think of what to say.) i mean, we all know Ban is a great writer. it’s a pleasure when the most popular writer in the fandom is also a genius. i love all her secondary characters and that she spends so much time with them. she writes the way i want to - lots of good tropey stuff, great fun AUs, and plotty plotty good plot stuff. also - she always writes the most perfect endings that just make you feel GOOD.
@sharkmartini - i think we share a lot of the same ideas about what we like in fics i.e. we like the same tropes, we like that baz is a vampire, we think the same things are hot and romantic. i love the way sharkmartini plots this and she always writes great dialogue. also, i do think we owe snowbaz smut to her - maybe it wasn’t the first-first, but ‘Monster Under the Bed’ (which is SO good, honestly still one of my absolute favourite things) seems to have influenced so much of what came after it.
@krisrix - also an amazing artist, but for me an even better writer. the smut is amazing and sexy while also at the same time being really tender. kris also writes beautiful, long amazing kisses - and again, endings that are so beautiful and tender. also - let us talk about the plotty things! i love writers who mix plot and romance (or even dare i say - smut) because i love to have all the things in one fic. What Stays and What Fades Away is so smart and interesting. and, of course, kris has written my all time most favourite trope - fake relationship.
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Episode: The Scar
Weirdly, I actually got a fair amount of enjoyment out of of this episode. Not because it was good in any way – no, it was so bad it rocketed right past just being merely bad into so-bad-it's-funny territory. Seriously, if you stop caring about how it's treating the characters we actually know and are invested in as either assholes or idiots, this episode is fucking hilarious. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that's entirely unintentional.
Okay, so the part where Dean is making fun of Sam's beard is intentionally funny, and it works as a way of reassuring Sam and the audience that Dean is back to being Dean. That and Dean stripping down to a single layer are likely the only things I enjoyed about this episode as they were intended. Okay, maybe the nod to Sam's serial killer hobby counts, too. Other than that?
How the last episode basically ended with Jack giving a big speech saying Dean needs to die if they find Michael, but this one opens with him immediately going in for a hug from Dean and then five minutes later the show acts like we should agree Dean is “a dick” for just saying the literal truth that Jack isn't a trained, physically capable hunter? With Jack's obvious sad woobie face and shoulders of sadness? LOL (Chalk another one up in the column they really do not read each other's scripts.)
Castiel staying behind to try and save the B plot, because now it's not just super epic best ever witches like Rowena who are more powerful than angels. Nope, now his powers are no match for those of a random-ass witch who was taken down by some “hunter” from the AU world. LOL (Seriously, the Winchesters should have just saved themselves the time, hassle, and heartache of fighting the apocalypse and just bribed a couple of rando witches to take out Michael and Lucifer in the first place.)
The episode generally, but Sam especially, going on and on about how Dean just won't talk about things! He's got to stop repressing! Look, I'm not saying Sam is ever going to learn that Dean needs more time to process before he's ready to talk than Sam generally likes. That is an established dynamic, and I can see why it’s frustrating for both brothers. However, the part where the only amount of time that's passed is the literal time to drive back to the bunker and leave again almost immediately? Yet it's made out to be a Big Deal Dean Isn't Talking Yet – because asking even a whole day is too much? Not to mention it only gets weirder if you add in that Dean didn't even have time to change clothes yet before it starts to be a thing. And it's not supposed to be weird Sam didn't mention there were a whole fuckton of people living in the bunker in this supposed ocean of time where Dean should have been opening up. LOL
Then there's the absolute soap opera cheese of Jack deciding to run away, stopping because OMG! A GIRL! Who happens to have also just Learned Her Lesson about running away? That's some epically on-the-nose bad teen after school special nonsense. I mean the acting was fine, but everything about the writing of this melodramatic time waster of a plot? LOL
To elaborate further, I can't remember and don't care enough to check if Castiel and rando hunter chick were close enough to hear Jack and teen drama's conversation. But the idea that literally anyone would take a witch saying her victims were “keeping her young” as a metaphor? Even if they didn’t hear it then, the idea that neither of them would have talked to the girl themselves or otherwise learned anything about the M.O. of the witch whose “curse” they were trying to fix? Let alone that neither would notice the goddamn matching necklaces? Jack is ~*so smart*~ for solving this blatantly obvious Blue's Clues level “mystery” that required everyone around him to be brain dead to not get there first! LOL
Everything about Beren's terrible Ninja Sue. The return of the cheesy slo-mo. That nobody's reported a bunch of heads on stakes in the woods even though Jody is supposedly investigating. That she's so super special Michael senses her and her McGuffin Spear and tries to recruit her. That she's so super special he literally physically fights her instead of obliterating her with a thought like the other humans and monsters that have tried to oppose him. That she's so totally informed awesome she actually wins and gives him the ~*Mysterious Scar of the Mary Sue*~. That two hunters and Jody are overwhelmed by Michael's monsters so she can come back and save them with more of her ludicrous ninja ballet mad fighting skillz. Maybe they're trying to make the wire fight look less ridiculous in context by making all of the rest of the show's fights look terrible, too? LOL
That given this joke of a character knocked out Sam and Dean and was going to feed them to a monster, was trying to kill Claire and sadly missed because reasons, and did kill actual!Kaia? I'm somehow supposed to feel anything about her other than disappointed Dean only punched her in the face the one time? Like I'm seriously supposed to give a fuck she's being chased by Michael's monsters? That suddenly now when we're talking about Dean threatening Beren's precious Super Sue, Sam suddenly cares about harming humans again after the whole BMoL fiasco? That I'm supposed to think bad of Dean and feel sorry for this murderous supposed human who can hold her own against fucking Michael (still funny) ... because she remembers that bizarre moment of Dean pulling a gun on actual!Kaia … farted out by this same fucking quote unquote writer? LOL
That I'm supposed to take everyone's teary eyes over some teen girl they knew for five minutes seriously. I'm talking about both teen drama in the B plot and Jody’s sob story about how she lost actual!Kaia. Not to mention the hilarious line about Claire's first love. Ah, yes, who doesn't love characters having informed relationships with randos they just met being The Most Important Evar? Has Berens, like, ever had actual relationships with other humans that he really thinks they’re this perfunctory? In bad fanfic by newbies writing for the first time, maybe even in unashamedly tropey shipfic, but writing relationships like this in an actual show? LOL
The multiple times Berens made Sam spout really fucking obvious exposition to (just barely) give him something to actually do in the episode, just in case the audience were brain damaged or had slipped into a coma to need it spelled out. LOL
How I'm not supposed to notice that whatever Not!Kaia is doing, AU!Michael is still out there with a plan they don't know and any lead on something that can hurt him is of primary importance and should be sought out as soon as possible? Oh yeah, focusing on that is definitely something for Dean to apologize for! LOL
Not to mention how Dean's reason for letting Michael possess him was to save the world from Lucifer as well as Sam and Jack. It's not like Lucifer was a gigantic threat who was planning to destroy the world himself. Oh. It's not like Michael was planning on crossing to their world as soon as he found out it existed. Oh. It's not like he made a deal with Lucifer that had him already there, wanting to fuck shit up. Oh. Nope, there's absolutely no reason Sam should say a single word to his apparently amnesiac brother. Yeah, yeah, I know Dean has a guilt complex the size of the known universe, but even still? It's all my fault. *crickets* LOL
I guess Jack’s case of previously hidden mystical consumption isn’t actually funny in and of itself, it’s just really cliché. Considering how badly the writers have sabotaged anything that even remotely resembles stakes of life and death these past couple seasons though? The idea I would be able to take the idea of it having any significant, lasting consequences seriously is very much a joke (regardless of spoiler knowledge).
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Hey! I wanted to watch some Avengers cartoons. Where should I start? EMH or AA? Is there a continuity? Which one's better? Thanks
To the best of my knowledge, there is no continuity between EMH and AA, though I think people used to think AA was a sequel to EMH. They have different Earth numbers on the Marvel wiki. So you don’t have to watch one of them before the other, but there are some overarching plotlines in each show, if that affects your decision to watch episodes sequentially or not.
If I were to sum up the differences between the cartoons, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is basically 616-lite and Avengers Assemble is basically MCU-lite.
The EMH team more closely resembles that of the comics – a particular standout is Jan Van Dyne as Wasp on the main team from the very beginning – and a great deal of its episodes are based on comics storylines. You’ve got things like the Breakout arc of New Avengers, Madame Hydra, Carol Danvers and her Kree storyline (Carol eventually joins the team), Kang, the Kree Supreme Intelligence, Ultron (including Jocasta), the Serpent Society, a guest appearance by the Fantastic Four, Abigail Brand and SWORD… basically, if you have an obscure comics fave, they will probably show up. Even Wonder Man is here! (I hate Wonder Man.)
It was clearly made with a lot of love for the comics, is what I’m saying. Probably the most well-regarded story element in it, in fandom, is that it gives us its version of a Secret Invasion arc, including Skrull infiltrators on the team in a deception lasting multiple episodes. I really enjoyed that arc.
The downside is that the art style is a lot more… interesting… than AA and many people who are into the aesthetic appeal of their faves do not enjoy looking at Giant Slab O’ Beef EMH Captain America, whose shoulders are wide enough for three people. It didn’t bother me, but I say this as someone who has watched every episode of Iron Man: Armored Adventures, whose animation is widely considered in fandom to be complete shit.
It is also not particularly slashy, at least not when you’re comparing it to AA; basically the slashiest Steve/Tony moment in the show occurs in the Purple Man episode (Emperor Stark). The Purple Man takes over Tony and the last thing he makes him do is that he tries to make him kill Steve and Tony snaps out of it just in time and then afterwards Tony has a lot of angst about what he did and they talk about how Steve still believes in him. There is a manly shoulder clap. It’s very nice but… there’s not much else if you’re there just for the slash potential. (There is actually an episode based on Red Zone but sadly it has no mouth-to-mouth.) The Skrull angst is good, as I said, and it’s what’s driven a lot of the EMH fanfic.
AA is EMH’s replacement. The art style is more conventional-looking and the team is very much MCU-based; to the best of my knowledge they started with the standard MCU team and have added various other characters based on who the MCU movies are pushing that year so they have a fairly large ensemble built up by now. Many of the storylines are MCU-inspired but not direct adaptations in the way that many of EMH’s storylines were of 616.
But what AA has going for it is that it is EXTREMELY FUCKING SLASHY and it is extremely fucking slashy in a way that makes you seriously wonder if the writers have been hitting up AO3. Not only do Steve and Tony basically just straight-up adore each other, there are ridiculously tropey episodes. They have to go undercover as villains! The whole team bodyswaps with each other! There’s an episode where they think they have been turned evil and yet Steve and Tony never lose faith in each other! There’s an episode where Tony is deaged by the Time Stone into a young child and Steve comforts him and they talk about how much they mean to each other while hugging! A recent season finale ended with Steve and Tony separated by an invisible barrier and they couldn’t touch and they did that goddamn “Kirk & Spock reaching for each other across the glass” move. When they finally reunited Steve gave Tony the hug of HIS LIFE. Basically, they are adorable together.
Having said all that, since you asked for my opinion… I don’t actually watch a lot of TV and of the two of these, EMH is the one I finished. I have seen maybe a season’s worth of AA here and there and I don’t stay current with it. When I was watching EMH I felt like I was actually watching adaptations of my favorite comics and I really enjoyed getting to see the storylines brought to life. With AA I enjoy the Steve & Tony relationship – those are the episodes I have sought out – but, I don’t know, AA just makes me conscious of the fact that I’m watching a thirty-minute toy commercial in a way that EMH didn’t. I know a lot of people are big AA fans and your mileage may vary, obviously.
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First of all I just wanted to tell you that this fanfic is just perfection I have no words to describe it it's just incredible and i can't wait to keep reading it, all the dynamic and all the characters are just so amazing, I think I'm in love with the Stefan of your fic 😂 And I was wondering , is there a chance that we get a steroline shower ( or bathtub ) moments again THIS WOULD BE SO HOT ( also you just killed me with the "jealous Damon" teaser it was amazing 😍😍😍😍
Gah, thank you so much, love! I’m a characterization slut (often at the expense of everything else tbhhhhh) so it makes me so happy that you’re responding to these characters the way you are! They’re a little self-destructive and dumb and frustrating but at the end of the day, my goal’s to have y’all rooting for them to figure out how to be happy. So this means a lot.
Re: bathtub moment, I meeeaaan: am I a tropey sap? Yep. Is the bathtub the first place they caught real feelings for each other? Yep. Do I intend to capitalize on that like the shamelessly predictable writer I am? Absolutely. And awww, yay for Stefan love! I’ve definitely diverged a bit from his canon character so I’m glad he’s still got that Stefan appeal. It’s that piss pants/danger-zone combo.
Irresistible ;)
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response round-up! Just gonna put the anons in block quotes, hopefully tumblr doesn’t do anything weird with the formatting. I’m throwing out a lot of ideas because I don’t think there’s a simple answer to any of these questions - so don’t think I’m insisting that any of my suggestions are the only possible explanation or anything!!
hi this is a different anon from the one before but i am also a lesbian and before i started shipping m/m i would write stories from the perspective of the boy in first person POV in love with his girlfriend, because i didn’t realize gay people existed (i was a sheltered kid) so when i discovered m/m it was amazing, i connected to the concept of same sex attraction more than two hot men being together, which is the appeal for many straight women who like slash.
what an interesting story, thank you for sharing! I know a lot of queer women who mostly write and read m/m slash. I can’t speak too much about their experiences, although I wonder if it’s also related to some stuff I’ve read about how men in fanfic are basically projected as women anyway. Like even aside from the “technical accuracy” stuff that’s mentioned below, m/m porn written by men is on average pretty different from that written by women.
I do think you touch upon something else that I think is important about slash, which is that it’s a method for women to express and discuss sexuality. And of course it’s not perfect, but it’s so much more than exists outside of fandom.
Conrad Ricamora (an LGBT actor) has said somewhere that he wondered why m/m pairings were so important to women. He said he asked some fans once and they summed up that in m/m pairings on TV etc, both partners are portrayed as equal to each other, whereas often times women are portrayed as lesser than the male in the m/f relationships. Idk the exact quote but that always struck me as interesting.
YES. And even if the show has good characters and a good relationship, the sort of “cultural narratives” of m/f relationships that we hear and internalize are often so unpleasant towards women. And I like a little power exchange in my fic! But I can’t enjoy that when it’s a man and a woman, unless the woman is explicitly in power, so that doesn’t work with every straight pairing I think is cute. That’s a huge, huge thing for me, escaping the cultural confines of m/f relationships.
Of course, this doesn’t explain why femslash isn’t more popular. I think some of it has to do with male characters being better developed a lot of the time, and women learning to relate to male characters anyway - this shouldn’t be the case, but at the moment here we are. Of course, this is also a contributing factor to why fandom is so focused on white dudes. Sigh. I don’t know - because I have femslash pairings i’m interested in but I don’t always get as engaged by the fic. So I think for me there’s also, and this slightly contradicts what I just said about identifying more with male characters, but I think there’s a sense of distance that makes it easier to enjoy. If I’m reading goofy tropey smut, I don’t need to be able to see myself in the character, so reading m/m is almost lighter than f/f? I don’t know.
I used to be exclusively into m/m shipping, but now I feel fetishistic even thinking about it (I'm a straight white girl). I just can't see it as anything other than an expression of my own internalized misogyny it took me years to even recognize, and when I hear other people talk about it the misogynistic/homophobic undertones are so so obvious to me now. I'd like to agree that there are still cases where it's okay but I don't see how I could ever get back there :/
Awww, again, thank you for sharing your perspective! I feel like my own experience of fanfic, although I’ve definitely been influenced by internalized misogyny in terms of how i view female characters, is more about escaping external misogyny. It’s about not having to engage with gender for a little bit, not having to think about how gender impacts people’s interactions and sex lives and romance.
And of course, despite accusations of being the fanfic police, I definitely very often just say “welp this is weird, but it’s just fantasy and it’s fun and I’m going to enjoy it,” and I just think the key is to recognize that it’s fantasy. But of course that isn’t going to work for everyone and I don’t know if it’s the right approach at all.
I guess... I’m glad for you that you were able to recognize your internalized misogyny? That’s healthy! But I’m sorry that you aren’t able to enjoy fanfic anymore. It sucks when our awareness of these underlying issues prevents enjoyment of stuff that should be fun, but again - here we are. :///
As a gay man I think the most questionable thing about M/M fan-fic is the way a lot of writers view the bottom as the submissive role, which itself is rooted in the idea of it being the female role and women being seen as lesser, and so showing the internalised misogyny that society has inflicted upon so many women. Other than that, with all due apologies, reading a lot of the M/M sex scenes in female written fan-fic is actually hilarious for just how off-base so much of it is!
Good lord, straight people are SO WEIRD ABOUT PENETRATION. I’ve definitely internalized that to some extent. But there’s also a lot of different sort of aspects to the erotic/pornographic side of fics that I’m not qualified to get into. XDD But - and this doesn’t occur in a vacuum and i’m just throwing ideas out here - you might get women wanting to explore sexual submission in a way that’s sexism-free, hence the tendency to feminize the penetrated partner.
but lmao yeah, god forbid any young gay men take their cues from the vast majority of fanfic out there...
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A Silmarillion fanfic
Summary: The problem with sneaking into dark corners is that you can never know what, or who, you might find there…
Tag-type thingies: rating: Teenage audiences and up; relationships: Turgon/Elenwë, Maedhros/Fingon; some keywords: romance, family, (not actually very) secret relationship, mention of sex, some humour, years of the trees
A/N: This one-shot that I wrote when I should have been working on a chapter of my ongoing longer fic marks the first time I've written any Maedhros/Fingon – it is something I am frankly terrified of doing because I have read so many fantastic fics about them. Best start small, I thought, so here is a silly, tropey little thing where they make an appearance. I freely admit to having been influenced by the many wonderful Maedhros/Fingon writers whose stories I have read.
Warning: There is a scene where a possibility of discrimination based on sexual orientation is implied, a possibility which is not realised in this story.
Scriptorium=a room where texts are copied. Turukáno/Turno=Turgon, Findekáno/Finno=Fingon, Nelyafinwë/Maitimo=Maedhros.
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Cornered
'Please, my darling, I have missed you so, and we have spent barely any time alone together after I returned from my visit to Taniquetil. Let us just have a little while to ourselves in some quiet place. No one will even notice that we are gone.'
Turukáno glances around, his gaze pausing on his father and grandfather in the centre of the celebrating crowd before settling back on his golden-haired betrothed. He seems conflicted and a little uncomfortable, but his eyes are soft when he looks down at Elenwë.
'It is late, and most people at this party are drunk.' She continues her coaxing in a low, sweet voice that carries the merest hint of laughter. 'You and I have both done our duties – spoken with all the important people, danced with many enough partners to appear courteous and social – and your grandmother has already told me that she has no more need of me tonight. No one will miss us.'
'The palace is full of guests. Where are you suggesting we should go?' asks Turukáno with an air of still considering it, but Elenwë knows she has already won.
She smiles at him radiantly and tells him that she recently noticed a little nook behind a large statue on the second floor that should be a marvellous place for a private moment...
And it is indeed an excellent spot for some discreet kissing, Turukáno and Elenwë discover; unfortunately, they find this out by quite literally bumping into another couple who happen to agree on the suitability of this location.
It is Turukáno who discovers the two other lovers as he backs into the shadowy corner while pulling Elenwë to him to kiss her passionately, having finally given free rein to the ardour he has kept hidden behind a proper facade all night.
The other couple are equally engrossed in each other, so neither party realises the other's presence until Turukáno backs into someone else's back; both of them let out a cry of surprise, and then, recognising one another's voices, speak at the same time.
'Turno?'
'Findekáno?'
'Oh, no', says a third male voice, rather desperately.
Elenwë thinks she recognises it. 'Nelyafinwë? What are you doing here?'
There is no answer, only scrambling noises.
Confused, Elenwë cranes around Turukáno's tall form to see her future brother-in-law and his cousin and best friend, prince Fëanáro's eldest son. They are standing as far apart as is possible in the narrow space. Findekáno looks like he's struggling not to laugh, while Nelyafinwë looks like he wishes he were anywhere else.
And it might be the dim light playing tricks on her, but she rather thinks that they both appear flushed, their clothes look crumpled and... overall they have that look on them that Elenwë has seen on Turukáno, and in her own mirror, many times since they became engaged and were allowed some private moments. A well-kissed look, that's what she calls it.
On both Findekáno and Maitimo, hiding together behind a statue in a spot made for kissing.
She knows, of course, that Findekáno and Maitimo are very close, the best of friends despite their fathers' disagreements. She has also heard some of the other ladies-in-waiting whisper and giggle about them, implying that there was something else, perhaps an unconfirmed but entertaining rumour, about those two princes that Elenwë doesn't know. They have refused to explain it to her even though she's asked them to, and it has been one of the things that sometimes makes her, a Vanya among the Noldor, feel like an outsider.
Well, she has the explanation now.
All of this flickers through her mind within the space of a few seconds, and once she has come to the inevitable conclusion she finds herself the most collected of the four of them. The three men are just staring each other, Findekáno still stifling a laugh while Turukáno has turned almost as red as Maitimo. Elenwë observes that Turukáno does not appear particularly surprised, though, not like she is.
Elenwë clears her throat and says, very politely, to Findekáno and Maitimo, 'We are very sorry for disturbing your private moment. We did not know there was anyone here.'
It is her betrothed who first replies to her. 'El –'
Turukáno doesn't seem to know what more to say, and he sounds rather pained, so Elenwë takes his hand before turning to Findekáno and Maitimo with a soft smile. 'I dare say that I have stumbled upon a family secret. Don't worry; I will keep it as I intend to keep all secrets of Finwë's house that I learn. Now, I believe it is time for Turukáno and me to leave and go find a quiet spot of our own. Please do accept our apologies for disturbing you.'
She tugs at Turukáno's hand but he is still frozen in place, now studying her with a worried expression. She can see a fierce defensiveness in his eyes as well. 'Are you not shocked?' he asks in a low voice.
'A little.' Elenwë notices Findekáno reach out to Maitimo and place a hand in his; she watches the anxiety in Maitimo's eyes abate as he twines his fingers around Findekáno's, and he no longer looks like he would rather be elsewhere.
Elenwë continues, 'I will get over my surprise; it is no matter. I will not object to anyone else's happiness or affection, not when I have so recently found my own and realised how precious it is.'
'I told you not to worry, brother', says Findekáno approvingly. 'I knew she would understand. In spite of all your starchiness you would not choose a woman without generosity of heart.'
'Thank you, Findekáno.' Elenwë nods at him and he nods back, a half-unravelled gold ribbon in his hair glinting as a shard of light from a distant wall sconce hits it. She continues, 'Do accept our apologies. Turukáno, darling, let us go now; I believe we would all like some privacy.'
Now Maitimo speaks for the first time. 'Of course we accept your apologies, but you do not need to leave on our account. Findekáno and I can go –'
'No, you were here first, we will leave', says Turukáno in the only slightly stiff voice he uses with family, and Elenwë stifles a giggle at how he retains his sense of honour even at a moment like this.
'Good night, Turno, I will see you in the morning. Elenwë, I believe you are dining with our family tomorrow evening?' Findekáno appears little affected by this encounter.
'Yes, I will see you then. Good night, Findekáno, Maitimo.'
Elenwë pulls her still-embarrassed betrothed along as she steps around the statue, leaving the two other men alone in the shadows. They can hear her telling Turukáno, 'Do not look so crushed, dear, it wasn't so bad.'
'I was kissing you when I backed into my brother! Yes it was bad, it was very bad...'
Findekáno smiles fondly as the two voices, one soothing and the other grumbling, grow fainter. Maitimo groans and leans against the wall. Findekáno stands on tiptoe to press a placating kiss on his forehead, and he glares at Findekáno, half balefully and half desirously.
'I would never have agreed to kiss you in a place this public if you hadn't plied me with wine all evening', he complains. 'See what comes of indiscretion?'
Findekáno waves his beloved's complaint aside. 'My brother is marrying Elenwë in a little over a year's time. She is going to be family, and she was going to find out eventually, one way or another. So think of it like this: now it is over with, and we don't need to worry about it. About her.'
'I just wish that she found out in a little more… dignified manner.' Maitimo shifts uncomfortably while Findekáno just grins.
'Think of how much more undignified it could have been – at least we were wearing all of our clothes.'
'Just barely.' Maitimo meticulously smooths out his overrobe that Findekáno had scrunched up to his waist before they were surprised. Findekáno eyes his movements with disapproval.
'Don't take too much care with that. Because next we are going to get out of here and find somewhere where we can get thoroughly undignified, aren't we?' Findekáno is still grinning, and as so often, Maitimo is struck by a desire to kiss that wide grin.
But he is still embarrassed. 'I'm not sure about that, Finno, your brother and his bride went elsewhere to leave this spot to us. Wouldn't it be wrong for us to leave too?'
'Why am I surrounded by idiots with an overdeveloped sense of honour?' Findekáno rolls his eyes. 'Let me put it this way, Maitimo, my dearest idiot: would you rather stay here and dare to barely even kiss me for fear of discovery, or find an empty room with a door that locks and let me do all kinds of undignified things to you, and with you, and –'
'Shh! Someone could hear.' Maitimo, blushing so riotously that Findekáno can see it even though he is now blocking all the light, puts his hand on Findekáno's mouth.
Findekáno licks it.
Maitimo groans. 'I think the scriptorium is closest.'
#look at me writing my first fic with even a little bit of slash#tolkien#silmarillion#silmarillion fanfiction#tolkien fanfiction#elenwe#turgon#maedhros#fingon#russingon#humour#romance#my fics#cornered#elesianne's fics
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Sonic X!Rogue/Knuckles for the meme
B-But I haven’t watched more than five episodes ofSonic X :’) I actually hadn’t seen any of it prior to about a month ago? I’d like to watch more but it’s a work in progress, anon.
So the only real KnuxRouge content I’m familiar with is the second SonicAdventure. That’s where most of this is coming from. Under the cut~
when I started shipping it if I did:
When Knuckles saved her from falling after theirbattle at Meteor Herd. They had the hand hold moment. And then Rouge called hima creep that only saved her so that he could hold her hand. A+ dialogue. It wasgood. Very good.
my thoughts:
idk, KnuxRouge is very tropey, but I am weak. Therewas a femme fatale character. There was a sweet and strong and smart but inexperienceand dense af guy who probably wouldn’t know what flirting was if it kissed himon the nose. There was a conflict based in different ideological values. I’msorry, it was inevitable.
I suspect I would’ve started shipping it earlier ifI had played this game later in my life. At that time I was a little moretentative and relying on canon evidence before shipping. Now I’m all aboutmixing strong personalities and romance in hypothetical combinations and fuckcanon.
What makes me happy about them:
They’re both strong characters who seem to carrymore or less equal weight in the collision of their relationship. I’m actuallykind of surprised that the writers managed to not make it so that Rouge wasn’tovershadowed by Knuckles, despite the fact that he already had an established placein the series.
Also, I like that there’s a certain amount of…unseriousness to their struggle. A playfulness. Unlike Sonic and Eggman andTails legit murder attempts… For all the heatedness of Knuckles and Rouge clashingin their different ideas about duty and responsibility, when things ultimately startedtaking a more serious and fatal turn, they both came through for each otherinstead of for themselves. (I kind of joked about this before, but I do kind ofwonder if Rouge and shattering the Master Emerald do become part of a flimsyexcuse for Knuckles to justify leaving the tedium of sitting around on AngelIsland playing bodyguard to a rock.)
And, aw, the banter is fun.
What makes me sad about them:
That SA2’s plot is so, soooo bad. In terms of thisship in specific, it makes me sad that their big moment is the second time Rougewas damseled over the course of this game. And neither time she’s damseledmakes even the slightest bit of sense. What?!She’s going to fall from a great height into a pit of space lava?! She’s afucking bat!!! She can fly!!! And arguably she won that fightagainst Knuckles and, aaaaargh!!! Andthen the first time she’s damseled, she’s trapped in the military base by thepeople she’s working for as a double agent. It just makes zero sense. The plotof this game was so filled with holes and contrived BS. And I’m not evengetting into the gameplay mechanics. Ship deserved better.
In a less meta and more in-universe sense… I dothink in a romantic or otherwise emotionally intimate context, Rouge is aboutfive thousand times more adept than Knuckles. She could run circles around him,and I’m not sure you could trust her not to be manipulative about it, even ifshe had the best intentions. And she doesn’t always have the best intentions…
things done in fanfic that annoy me & things I look for in fanfic:
I haven’t really read any in detail. I pulled upsome Sonic stuff recently and was reminded uncomfortably of fanfiction relatedtropes specific to fandoms dominated by male fans. A lot of power fantasystuff, and dark morality themes that liked to think themselves complex but werereally simplistic and unsubtle, and female characters being victimised orotherwise uncritically robbed of their agency. None of this was about Knouge,but it kinda put me off the fandom. I’m sure there’s good fic hiding somewhere,but it put me off on looking for it for the time being.
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
um, idk? I have a fondness for Julie-Su/Knuckles inthe comics, even though I do think the characterisation work wasn’t always veryclever. I like the other lady Echidnas with Knux too – so Knuckles/Tikal andKnuckles/Shade are both okay, imo. I think the Knuckles/Sally friendship in thecomics was really well constructed – the way it was set up around them havingthese similar but conflicting obligations was really clever – it couldtheoretically make a great romance. And for some reason I feel utterly charmedby the idea of Knuckles/Shadow after seeing those couple of comics about them.
For Rouge… I really don’t know… I know Rouge/Shadowis popular, and I think it could be good in the hypothetical – certainlythey’ve made a more stable team than Rouge&Knux – but… idk, in terms ofcanon it feels like there’s been quite a bit of Rouge taking interest in andcare towards Shadow as an individual, and not a lot of reciprocation whereShadow really considers Rouge beyond her capacity as an ally. It just seemslike a relationship very centred around /his/ needs and /his/ existential angst.Even when Shadow goes out of his way to save Rouge’s life, it feels like it’sset up as Shadow wanting to come to terms with his own morality and define forhimself what he’s spiritually capable of rather than ‘wow, I care about Rougenot dying’. All of which kind of turns me away from the idea that Shadow would everbe romantically interested in her in a way that could possibly respect that shehas her own needs and goals and values. I mean, I think this is up forinterpretation, and I think their relationship is interesting and could developin all sorts of ways… so I’m not really against the ship, but I remain kind ofunconvinced as of now.
Ugh, I feel like Rouge femslash should be where it’sat, but… who would I pair her with other than Amy? (no.) jfc, why are importantsonic female characters in such short supply?!? and why isn’t Rouge close toany of them?!?
My happily ever after for them:
Rouge decides to stash her hoard of gems on AngelIsland. She reasons that, because they’re stored with the Master Emerald, theMaster Emerald is also part of her collection. Knuckles humours her.
I think they’re often occupied with their ownobsessions and work. They probably spend long months away from each other whenKnuckles is doing Guardian work of one type or another, and Rouge is offtreasure hunting or working as a spy. They kind of reconvene and do battlecouple things together. They probably like travelling and treasure huntingtogether too, or otherwise visiting friends on the mainland.
I’m not sure how interspecies furry babies work, butthey may have a kid. ‘One. Only one,’Rouge says. The kid spends more time with Knuckles, training to be the nextGuardian. But they’re a little more enamoured with Rouge’s lifestyle – has a tastefor grand adventure and glamour. Knuckles’s life is struggle. Much compromise andreworking the system happens in the process of trying to reconcile expectations.
who is the big spoon/little spoon:
Rouge is little spoon.A little more like their animal counterparts, I imagine Knuckles is about twiceRouge’s size. So it’s very big big spoon, and very little little spoon.
what is their favorite non-sexual activity:
I think it’s included in that happy ending up there.Treasure hunting? Visiting friends? Digging through archaeological sitestogether, maybe. Does that overlap too much with treasure hunting? It’s aboutthe journey rather than the destination, though~
They both like swimming too right? They visit hiddenhot springs and oases and relax.
Thanks anon!!
#if you're the anon that also asked for some analysis on kyle & wendy#mea culpa it's probably gonna be forever before i get to answering that#sonic#ask
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