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but if julian is ftm.... and garak has a cloaca....... scissoring?

I miss the days where Snupin was the fandom fav ship, not this fuckass Wolfstar bs😑

Same. I was always a Jeverus/Jirius/Snirius gal. Back in those days the fandom felt like home. Cozy, fun and so much love.

Older fan fictions, I don't know if it's just me, but did a way better job than the nowaday ones. Especially the very early Snupin fanfictions which many stayed true to the original characteristics of the character like you said with slight changes based on the tropes and all. James wasn't even that popular either. It was the loveliest time. Many fanfictions I read back in the day were sadly taken down in late 2010s/early 2020s. That was true but honestly criticism on characters did exist back then but not in this level crazy where it has honestly become so insufferable with all the projections, fanon materials getting mixed with canon and harassment. We did have a few cuckoos back then but now it's like 89% of them are downright idiotic, it's embarrassing. I’m so tired of seeing the same tropes and lazy sloppy characterizations recycled across every fandom.I want to go back in time where fandom was somewhere we shared our art, works, writings, bonded over characters we all loved. Fandoms were a way to connect with people across the world. We wrote letters, shared stuff, had little clubs and themed parties. It was soo fun. And plus no one was chronically online like they are now. Everything that made this fandom beautiful has been sucked out. I will hate ATYD for that forever. I wish old gens come back and knock some sense to these people.

The rise of moral puritanism has made fandom insufferable. Because now what you consume is directly tied to your worth as a human being; your sense of morality is circumspect if you like characters that are purely good who have never done anything wrong ever. And if you do like a character who isn't 100% good -- like James Potter -- then you need to break your back in order to prove "well, no, actually he really didn't do anything wrong, Snape masterminded the whole thing! Snape is evil! Every good act Snape did is actually bad, and every bad act James did was good! I can prove it with fanfic!" Fandom is bowdlerizing its own source material.

I am no saint. I am actually one of the meanest b*tches you can come across in real life. But even I wouldn't stoop low enough to date a privileged ass mf who bullied his peers for "existing", SAed my former best friend and threatened and try to blackmail into dating him. NO woman in their right mind would marry someone who harassed them, tried to threaten and blackmail them into dating. Lily is a disgrace to womanhood and women.

There is actually a ton of human literature that is like The Neverending Sacrifice, Julian’s just picking the wrong ones. (Obviously there would be, as the “Cardassian repetitive epic” was a concept created by human writers.) Just to throw a few out there that I think you could plausibly interpret that way: medieval epics and sagas, several of the big 19th-century Russian novels, 20th-century South American magical realism (or at least some specific books by Márquez and Allende, you know the ones), the Tale of Genji, several of the Great Novels of Chinese literature…. hell, most decade/century-spanning historical novels period. There’s a lot for fanfiction writers to mine here for stuff Garak might like or that will remind him of his favorite Cardassian books. (Putting aside that canon indicates he probably likes Julian’s books more than he indicates.) TBH Julian has probably read some of these too, and just picks books that will provoke a flirtatious argument from his boyfriend.

nah the people saying severus specifically would have lead poisoning from paint because he was poor (which "lead" to behavioral issues) pisses me tf off because lead was in everything back then. EVERYTHING baby. if you're going to say severus has lead poisoning, don't be shy, include the rest of the cast! they put lead in cookware and gas for christ's sake (only two major examples). this the same generation who destroyed the ozone layer too. like why are we cherry picking who got lead poisoning in the 60s/70s?

Not just Severus and the Marauders, but the Golden Trio too. Lead-based paint wasn't completely banned in the UK until 1992. Harry and Hermione and Ron have all got some lead in them.