Is there any life on mars?

'I wish that i could have this niche thing in stories'

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'there's too many x things in shows now, i wish there was something different'

Just very clearly an attempt at saying, “my what?”

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them. Friedrich Nietzsche (1828-1900)

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

[Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina are] loose, baggy monsters. Henry James (1843-1916)

This is a bell curve meme to me

Because the obvious (and wrong) answer is that Magneto beats Tony easily because he can control Tony's armor and crush him

But the smarter (and wrong) answer is that Iron Man's armor isn't actually made of iron, it's made of a non-magnetic gold-titanium alloy.