mudpies and brainrot

I think people should be meaner to your blorbo, actually. I think they should experience uncomfortable things. I think they should be rudely confronted by their own weaknesses and flaws (and yes, they have weaknesses and flaws). I think they should make mistakes. I think they should enter a crucible and emerge changed. Stories are a place where stuff happens. Conflict is the fuel in the engine. The worst thing that can happen to your blorbo is nothing.

sometimes a fic can just be about the age old question 'how emotionally bad for everyone involved can a threesome be when they all did in fact agree to be there'

Will Graham is so torturable that you don't even have to torture him yourself for him to be tortured. He just does that by himself.

some of the best tropes: divorce, cheating, cucking, weird love triangle, breaking up making up, breaking up never making up, pining for your ex, pining for the person you're nominally in a competition with for the third end of the triangle, infidelity, emotional infidelity, fucking someone and imagining they're someone else, toxic soulmates, toxic codependency, proxy sex, exes with benefits, cheating, divorce