going with the flo

Huge thanks again to @lesbianlenney for re-confirming my Instagram timeline for me. You can't really tell from the fic, but I was stressing out over this way more than necessary lol

Title: you wear my cap way better than me

Rating: Explicit

Relationship: Will Lenney | WillNE/James Marriott

Additional tags: Phone Sex, Mutual Masturbation, Possessive Will Lenney | WillNE, Friends to Lovers, Sharing Clothes

Summary: It's all that damn cap's fault. The cap and James and that knowing smirk, posted for all to see but he knows, oh Will knows exactly that James does it all specifically just to rile him up.

For anyone interested, this is the pic from Thursday that started my 26-hour obsession:

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

We can all agree that when people say "sexuality is a choice" they're bisexual and in denial, and "gender is a choice" means you're probably some flavor of trans, right? So why can't you apply this logic to poly people? You seem to understand it perfectly fine.

Just like sexual orientation, you can be strictly monogamous, strictly polyamorous, or anywhere else on that spectrum (ambiamorous). If you think polyamory is a lifestyle choice, congrats, you're ambiamorous!