(about a problematic ship) actually i think the power dynamics should get more unbalanced and they should have less respect for each other’s autonomy and they should violate more boundaries and commucate worse and fuse together in a tangled mass of tragedy until the lines between them blur and vanish and they are one single unified embodiment of unending worship
No you don’t get it, I’m a Good Person. You don’t understand. I’m a Good Person which makes it okay for me to think violently about the Enemy, who is Bad Person. I’m commenting “you should be violently murdered” because I’m Good Person and you’re Bad Person. You think saying that to someone is fucked up?? You should be violently murdered, you’re probably Bad Person anyway
Jokingly hating your favourite character and being silly like “oh haha they’re so terrible and awful” and then seeing someone who genuinely hates your fave because they completely misunderstand the very foundation of the story
The popularity of deeply patriarchal romance conventions is entirely unsurprising and I dislike when it’s positioned exclusively as an individual failing on the part of politically backwards women who need to be re-educated so that their preferences in this area become more progressive (not likely achievable anyway). But unfortunately it’s incredibly unpopular in certain social media milieux to admit you enjoy something in fiction that’s an obvious product of the dominant ideology, hence incoherent takes like “Tolkien’s work is anti-imperialist” and “male monster x female human romance is uncomplicatedly feminist”
I’m trying really hard to be woke about the Donald Trump blowing Bill Clinton rumors and being like gay sex is not funny when it’s the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever heard
Trying to write sex scenes is so aggravating because honestly describing sex is pretty boring. It’s mostly just people putting bits of themselves on or inside other people’s bits so you run into a lot of “they walked to another room” type problems where you can get caught up in just describing where everyone’s limbs and shit are. What really makes smut interesting and hot, in my opinion at least, is sensory description but that’s also hard because you’ll be sitting there trying to find a new way to say “they were feeling sexual pleasure and it felt pretty good”. Then you also have to figure out how to write dialogue that doesn’t sound completely ridiculous and hackneyed. Really makes you want to just write “they boned down real good and it was totally hot trust me, it was definitely the kind of thing you’d want to jerk your shit to,” and have done with it.
