I write at unpredictable intervals

“Won’t someone pour the ocean over my head softly, Cover my whole body, I want to be bathed in all the fishes and the sun Have it all around me”

song here

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

- m/f ship between a nonblack man & a Black woman

- it's either canon (e.g. mel/jayce arcane, arthur/guinevere bbcmerlin) or entirely plausible (e.g. prism or coupé/robert dispatch)

- fanbase overwhelmingly pairs nb man off with another nb man and disengages from the Black woman character, shunting her into a background wise & sassy caretaker role (for which there is a name) or leaving her out of fanworks entirely

- fans who do this ^ claim it is an expression of love and admiration for the Black woman character, actually, bc the nb man (who may be her canonical partner) "can't handle all that" (he may be perfectly competent and engaged; she may be totally low maintenance; it has no bearing), she's just too wonderful (too much) and out of his league (lacking in flaws and interiority and fan appeal)

Explicit | 44k+ | 4/5 | fwb + s8 canon divergence | Lance/Keith

chapter four summary

“Well, you don’t have any control over it,” Lance answers, exasperated. This age-old topic is starting to drive him up the wall. He’s told Keith multiple times that he worries and that he doesn’t need to shoulder everything by himself, that Lance is there if he needs him. “What the Altean chooses to do is not under your control. If our ship gets attacked it’s not under your control. What I do is not under your control. What is under your control is how you choose to act until we get there, and what you’re doing is the shittiest option possible.”

Keith’s eyes widen a fraction.

“Then maybe I’m not the one who should be calling the shots if I fuck it up this much,” he brings out, immediately averting his gaze as if embarrassed by the outburst.