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a 500 word short story with the same plot as your novel that explores how quickly the problem could be solved by sonic the hedgehog
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I’ve never seen this one before and it just punched me in the fucking face.
Just like Knuckles did to Sonic
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why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.
Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing
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Shoutout to incredibly contrived set-ups for kink stories, I respect the grind so much. One time I was frolicking in a field of flowers and I found a fic whose summary started w 'IN A WORLD WHERE THE LOSING ATTORNEY HAS TO SUCK OFF THEIR OPPOSITION' and it's been stuck on my mind ever since
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When I read an incoherently dramatic tf fic i like to imagine that it's written by Thundercracker
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Reminder that ao3 does not have an app. Any apps you see are third party and are making money off of the writers without their consent. They’re also probably harvesting your data. Do not support this garbage.
writing a fanfic, day 1: haha fun little porn fic lots of fluff no angst happy ending :)
writing a fanfic, day 30: so it turns out japan signed the 1929 geneva convention on the sick and the wounded but NOT the geneva convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and therefore the definition of "war crime" in this situation is
i feel so bad fort TF fans who don't like megatron/optimus, it's not a ship i will actively look for but if it's there in a fic that sounds otherwise interesting or has other ships i care about it's fine
bit RIP to those who don't like it
when you go to check a fanfic wip you have been thinking about
how much you thought you wrote :
how much you actually wrote
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I also do not care for sex work/relinquishment clinic comparisons! I feel that acting like sex work inherently voids your bodily autonomy (esp more so than "traditional" labour) is regressive, just for starters. I've actually not seen much of drift as a sex worker and I'm curious as to how he specifically gets fucked up, but I don't want to attract hornets to your blog just to find out
You have absolutely hit the nail on the head and located my actual objection, anon; any attempt to seriously claim that a reading of a character as (metaphorically) doing sex work is progressive should not involve people unironically using the phrase 'selling your body' as a description of sex work, and needless to say, this headcanon immediately fails that basic vibe check 95% of the time. It's only 'obviously a sex work metaphor' if your views on sex work are deeply misinformed at best.
It's bound up in this idea of sex work as this uniquely degrading thing in which a person/body, not their labour, is 'sold', distinguishing it from 'legitimate' work and marking it out as a fundamentally different beast. Needless to say, 'sex work is Just Different to other labour' is still a regressive statement even when it doesn't come along with more stereotypical denouncements of sex workers and other more easily discerned whorephobia.
Tied up with this, to get a little into 'how has fanon historically fucked this one', is that this headcanon is typically used for the sake of making Drift a helpless victim for Ratchet to 'save' or whatever at the implicit expense of his less sympathetic actual backstory of 'killed people for hire'. It is basically a tool used to strip his agency so dratchet can be more feels-y and Drift sadder and less 'difficult', to make him miserable and abused, and present him as someone his social better Ratchet needs to kindly save. Which... hah. WELL. Anyway.
I would actually like to see more and better discussions of sex work in fandom! And lord knows I've discussed just that with more than one sex worker in fandom before. But this ain't it, and I would really like if fandom could cast a more critical eye on some of that old fanon tbh.
@weapon-up-wallflower Other than the obvious issue of portraying sex work extremely disrespectfully (tale as old as time, sadly), that’s the bit about this headcanon that drives me nuts — the retconning of Drift’s backstory and removal of his agency. The fact that Drift violently clawed his way out of his position because he had essentially no other choice is so, so important to his character. ESPECIALLY because he canonically is fighting in part so no one ever has to become what he did (fantastic at murder) which is part of the tragedy of his character — in the end everyone ended up there! In the end everywhere got as bad as the Dead End. Drift fundamentally failed, and if you take that away and his motivations away idk what character you’re even left with, but it ain’t Drift. (Really long replies bc I do not want to bring trouble to your door but I Must Yell)
Mmhhm. I suspect a lot of the urge to do this stems far more than anything else from discomfort with the pre-war dratchet dynamic as we know of it not fitting into very clean, very romanticised (even, dare I say, fetishized) 'cross-class romance' tropes; you also see it with the way his canonical substance addiction is more subtly changed in fanon. (In some cases, adding in detail in a clear attempt to make it 'not his fault', because people implicitly do not sympathize with addicts they see as 'to blame'. In other cases, making Drift deeply ashamed of it as some dark secret he hates talking about, despite canon showing that he certainly regrets that period but is perfectly happy to discuss it, because people again can't sympathize with addicts who don't constantly flagellate themselves, I think.)
The desire for this to be a kind of 'Drift is so lucky to be Fixed and Saved by someone who didn't write him off even though he probably deserved it!' narrative, which canon never treats that relationship as, is. Palpable, lol. And for that to work, Drift must have no agency because Drift can't be the one to claw his way out; that's Ratchet's job, as the nice middle-class one swooping in. And as you say, at that point, do you even like the character as he actually is? Because Drift's a lot of things, but lacking agency and proactive drive is not one of them in any part of canon he is in.
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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you're like dude. what. then they're like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i'm hungry and i deserve cake. and you're like dude we're at a party.
Three months later you find out that fifty people locked themselves in a room to discuss how much they loved your cake and how they wished you made more. None of them ever told you.
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It's too bad you can't send private messages on ao3 but at the same time I completely understand why 😂
i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes
protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later
And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"
