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there is no way I am gonna read every Taskmaster fic. For one, I think there's more of it, lol. I have read some great stuff, but there's an absurdly large amount of it (smutty and otherwise) that is not at all what I want from this fandom.

✅ There's stuff that's just more of the show. Yum num num.

✅ There's the weird shit. I always read the weird shit. My fav fic right now is a Pacific Rim AU where all the Jaeger pilots are British comedians (some smut but mostly ANGST)

↔️ If there's romance you have to sell it. I am gonna be needing a minimum of 10k words of toxicity before these fools talk about or even consider their feelings.

↔️ There's tons of smut that just empties a barrel of kinks onto the considerable canonical pile. From which I will obviously pick and choose like a garden full of delicious vegetables (some of which I do not favor). It feels like there's a lot more that's 🙅not for me🙅 here, which does not surprise me based on the starting point.

🚫 There's reader/x which is also just not for me. If I wanna make up a little story about myself, I don't need an intercessor.

🚫 There's a lot of very soft old man RPF, with feelings, and dealing with poor body image and whatever. If that's an element of a broader story, sure!! If it's short and that's the whole point, boring.

I walked by and heard a guy ranting about pepperoni. and I thought, huh, sounds like a weird one and by the time I got back I had heard that he was terminally ill

and I shouted

oh!! is this the one where the guy turns into a lizard?!?

and my wife pauses it and looks at me, like

what?

and I don't have my glasses on so I'm squinting at the screen like, what's the title? I say

is it Threshold??

and she is increasingly baffled like

what? yes? I think so? how do you know this

and I just shrug and say