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I just had to take a deep breath, hit the block button, and think happy thoughts because I was this close to using some very harsh words because what do you mean you hate micky

no one talks about my son that way

no one

The second is that all of The Monkees knew about explicit ship fics and didn't REALLY care. (Micky found out from his daughter ending up on an explicit fic/art site. He was reportedly upset about discussion forums which insulted him/his wife for legal defamatory purposes, but not about the fics. Davy blew off the shipping by saying he could do better than the other guys. Mike reportedly invited a fan/friend to talk about the smut fics with him. Peter MAYBE? didn't like it but I've heard less specific info about his opinions. There was a post kind of recently that claimed he didn't like it though and I might as well believe that as much as any other of the opinions I've heard lol) In any case their opinions aren't nearly as negative as I think people tend to assume.

Personally I'm fine with RPF in a blanket sort of way, not just for The Monkees in particular. But it is also a lot easier for me to not care about Monkees fic when I feel the show is itself RPF-lite and when I know that the band reportedly didn't care much.

There are topics that still make me uncomfortable for writing when it's more specifically RPF than with the detachment of being through 'the showverse'. And if I met Micky and he was like 'man that fic you wrote about me and Mike is real weird' even though I think the topics in my fics aren't particularly controversial outside of it being RPF in terms of content, I'd probably lose the enjoyment for writing it lol. But tbh I'd also likely be put off writing fic for something like Interview with the Vampire because Anne Rice made a big enough stink about fanfic (even her more recent acceptance is patronizing enough I wouldn't want to write it). In general I think RPF including explicit is acceptable even in the cases that it's something I'd feel uncomfortable writing myself, and the major faux pas is just discussing it with the people who the fic's about.

Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.

Everyone say mean things about him.

Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:

His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid

He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times

He dies and gets resurrected

His wife gets possessed

He fails to save her and she dies in his arms

He dies and gets resurrected again

He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum

He dies and gets resurrected again

His ex gets possessed

He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation

He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped

He gets kidnapped by a princess

He gets kidnapped by a fish alien

He gets kidnapped and tortured by some terrorists

He gets kidnapped and tortured by another alien

He is driven to insanity by an alien device

He dies and gets resurrected again

Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz pretend to be old ladies for a 1967 radio advert. (Just listen to it. Seriously.)

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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