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clevermanka) wrote2021-01-07 09:22 am
clevermanka) wrote2021-01-07 09:22 am
Thursday
I haven't been doing the Twitter links because they use a lot of wrist movement that I still can't afford. But I have to share more of those amazing Weilan cosplays that went up yesterday.
This week's dump on cm.net.
Totally ignoring everything that happened yesterday for as long as I can. Which will probably only be a couple hours, but I'm gonna revel in denial while I can.
And now to start on the things people asked me to talk about!
solo asked: What are your favourite tropes in fandom? And what are absolute dealbreakers?
Favorite: *pounds table* Only One Bed! Only One Bed! Only One Bed!
This is probably a surprise to nobody here. 😄 For me, tropes like Oh My God They Were Roommates and similar fall under that umbrella. I love reading about people finding themselves in a benign, safe situation where they suddenly have to intimately confront their sexual feelings for the other person and navigate that in a way that (they think/hope!) will cause the minimum amount of damage to their friendship and/or pride. *rolls around in it*
Part of my love of this probably stems from the dorm room floor puppy piles me and my early college friends would sleep in on weekends. I remember the painful exhilaration of lying spooned up with one (or the other, I had a few *cough*) of my crushes, wide awake and heart pounding so hard I wondered how they possibly couldn't hear it. The nervous, illicit joy of being so close combined with the aching certainty that they would never feel the same way about me but still indulging in the fantasy of what if they did though... truly a brilliant combination for this emotional sadomasochist.
Of course related tropes like Mutual Pining, UST, Slow Burn, etc., are right up my alley too, as long as they have a happy ending. I might be an emotional sadomasochist but it's gotta be consensual and I like it when everybody gets what they want at the end of the day.
Dealbreakers: I don't like trashing fandom things I know other people like but honestly I'm kind of annoyed at myself that I don't enjoy Omegaverse.
For as much as I love sex pollen and dubcon, I should be all over Omegaverse! Alas, I can't get over my disinterest in the binary-ness inherent in the structure and mpreg is 100% not my thing, either (perhaps because I'm generally disinterested in kidfic to begin with). I'm also not a fan of Soulmates, so the bonding theme common in a lot of Omegaverse puts me off as well.
To point to the ridiculousness of my aversion to the trope, though, let me point outjo_lasalle's The Sharpest Lives as one of my favorite fics in Guardian. By *just barely* skirting a few of the usual things that trip me up in Omegaverse, she managed to write something that absolutely could be an Omegaverse fic but...somehow isn't. And I loved it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like my not enjoying avocados or Beyoncé's music, I kind of resent the fact that this particular indulgence is denied me due to my brain wiring.
I've got only twelve questions on my list, so please feel free to throw some more at me.
This week's dump on cm.net.
Totally ignoring everything that happened yesterday for as long as I can. Which will probably only be a couple hours, but I'm gonna revel in denial while I can.
And now to start on the things people asked me to talk about!
solo asked: What are your favourite tropes in fandom? And what are absolute dealbreakers?Favorite: *pounds table* Only One Bed! Only One Bed! Only One Bed!
This is probably a surprise to nobody here. 😄 For me, tropes like Oh My God They Were Roommates and similar fall under that umbrella. I love reading about people finding themselves in a benign, safe situation where they suddenly have to intimately confront their sexual feelings for the other person and navigate that in a way that (they think/hope!) will cause the minimum amount of damage to their friendship and/or pride. *rolls around in it*
Part of my love of this probably stems from the dorm room floor puppy piles me and my early college friends would sleep in on weekends. I remember the painful exhilaration of lying spooned up with one (or the other, I had a few *cough*) of my crushes, wide awake and heart pounding so hard I wondered how they possibly couldn't hear it. The nervous, illicit joy of being so close combined with the aching certainty that they would never feel the same way about me but still indulging in the fantasy of what if they did though... truly a brilliant combination for this emotional sadomasochist.
Of course related tropes like Mutual Pining, UST, Slow Burn, etc., are right up my alley too, as long as they have a happy ending. I might be an emotional sadomasochist but it's gotta be consensual and I like it when everybody gets what they want at the end of the day.
Dealbreakers: I don't like trashing fandom things I know other people like but honestly I'm kind of annoyed at myself that I don't enjoy Omegaverse.
For as much as I love sex pollen and dubcon, I should be all over Omegaverse! Alas, I can't get over my disinterest in the binary-ness inherent in the structure and mpreg is 100% not my thing, either (perhaps because I'm generally disinterested in kidfic to begin with). I'm also not a fan of Soulmates, so the bonding theme common in a lot of Omegaverse puts me off as well.
To point to the ridiculousness of my aversion to the trope, though, let me point out
jo_lasalle's The Sharpest Lives as one of my favorite fics in Guardian. By *just barely* skirting a few of the usual things that trip me up in Omegaverse, she managed to write something that absolutely could be an Omegaverse fic but...somehow isn't. And I loved it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Like my not enjoying avocados or Beyoncé's music, I kind of resent the fact that this particular indulgence is denied me due to my brain wiring.
I've got only twelve questions on my list, so please feel free to throw some more at me.