Caraway's Coffee Break

It's pride month so I'll allow myself to express one opinion on the internet :

like people are just going to keep saying “theyre only queer because they want to be/because it gets them off/because they think it’s fun/because they saw a queer person and thought it sounded like a good idea/etc. theyre gonna keep saying it

happy pride... that esther/scully/mulder fic of yours remains the hottest thing i've ever read. thank you for your service to the bi community 🙏

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

because grace learns eridian from rocky do you think he speaks to people on erid with his little piano/organ/instrument setup and theyre like lol wow. you've got a REALLY strong accent. and grace is like well im an alien, thats to be expected, right? and theyre like no that's not what we mean. it's just... you sound just like rocky :,) it's very cute actually

k but imagine Rocky wanting to learn about how humans became the apex predators of their planet so he has Grace “hunt” him in the biodome as an experiment and during it he thinks Grace isn’t trying or taking it seriously which is bad bad bad because this is for research purposes

I will never be over the romance arc of Shards of Honor tbh. testament to the characterization and the book's way of saying a lot with few words/small actions that it actually works, because the timeline is bananas. Cordelia takes like a week to go from believing this man is a war criminal to helping him resolve a mutiny and contemplating saying she loves him. Aral doesn't make it 24 hours from when they meet before he's planning how to propose to her. by all rights this should trip my "this is ludicrous" sensors but instead I'm not only going "yeah that makes sense for these people to be like this given the circumstances and who they are as characters" but actively rooting for it.