#fuck i'm so tired of this trope

[lighthouseas]

alright friends i'm not gonna lie i wouldn't mind if the byler kiss had will leaning in first. or like. will kissing mike first on impulse during a heated moment. and then he regrets it immediately after because he thinks mike doesn't reciprocate (even though he obviously does) because mike just stands there for a second like 🧍🏻‍♂️ before swooping in to kiss will back

#im tired doesthis make sense #anyway. just a concept #i feel like a lot of takes have mike kissing will first but im gonna be honest i think will kissing mike impulsively is more realistic #<- like. at a point where he's 90% sure mike reciprocates but he's had these feelings bottled up for so long that he can't take it anymore #and just. finds himself kissing mike before he even knows what's happening #so he has his “oh fuck” moment when mike is just standing there staring at him. Bug Eyed 🐛 #because he's fucked everything up hasn't he??? what the fuck was he thinking???? mike ISN'T like him #only for mike to crush his lips against will's like 10 seconds later and they make out sloppy #(and they're clumsy about it DO NOT FORGET THE CLUMSY OKAY) #(((GIVE ME THEM SMILING AGAINST EACH OTHERS' LIPS. ESP MIKE OKAY)))))) #oh my god i thought of smthn even better. will leaning away from kissing mike and being like “i'm sorry i shouldn't hav-” #only for mike to INTERRUPT HIM WITH A KISS oh. giggles and kicks my feet #alr we are starting to tread in fanfic trope territory and these tags are getting long. im done now #stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #st.txt

[punkeropercyjackson]

Boutta check in my brutal honesty autism card and say that Hobie's big ass crush on Gwen was NOT subtle at all,he was being so classic 'cocky flirty punk dude' with her and gave her his sweater to borrow which is like the biggest unspoken 'i wanna be your boyfriend' move in the book,and neither was the (probably) accidental subtext of him liking Miles too that follows 'edgy and hardcore boy who's actually a huge softie has a thing for the cutesy and innocent ray of sunshine and is more protective and complimentary towards them than he is anyone else to show it' to a fuckin' T4T and the only reason people don't read it as either is that he's super handsome so they decided that meant he's a grown man instead of the cute lil black boy he is

#guys i'm so tired of people pushing the 'hobie and gwen are siblings-coded' and especially fucking 'gwen is hobie's kid' agendas on my posts #i KNOW gwobie is a rarepair cause hobie's afro seeing as every 'alternative cool guy love interest for the fem mc' ship blows the tf up #(looking at you zuko and katara who were ever even canon on either side-this is why i'm one of the biggest anti zutara advocators) #for hobiemiles.they are every trope you guys love including the one i mentioned but also pulling a korrasami height difference #the weird 'british x american' obsession thingy musician x artist the one person who was there for you when everyone else betrayed you etc #they are literally both such fanfic shit but hobie's black and not comic relief so erm ackstually he can't realistic be a kid-BLOW ME #oh okay my tag rants are back good to know lol #hobie brown #gwen stacy #miles morales #hobie brown deserves better #ghostpunk #punkflower #ghostflower #ghostpunkflower #atsv #spiderman #trans hobie brown #transmasc or transfem or transneutral or secret fourth things you pick #team dad hobie #autistic hobie brown #black gwen stacy #autistic gwen stacy #autistic miles #kidcore!miles morales #pastel punk miles morales #antiblackness #adultification tw #gamerpunk #summerposting

[brutaliakent]

DC branding Jason as Violent Robin again. And they even stopped acknowledging him as Bruce's son now and just a "ward"

And my god I know I didnt just read Bruce comparing him with Joe Chill

I'm literally gonna kill someone this pissed me off so bad.

#I'm sorry in what world is it ok to compare your fucking son to your parents murderer #I'm genuinely speechless #not even son apparently BuT a wArD hE'd LeT tUrN iNtO jOe cHiLL #mark waid count your fucking days #I'm so tired of also a protagonist who's a good person being a bad father trope #also the way jason damian & stephanie are villianised #I smell something foul there #jason todd #bruce wayne #red hood #batman #robin #batman vs robin #dc comics #dc #wednesday spoilers #*** #brutaliakent

[shirozora-draws]

In which doing a 2-page character sheet is the closest you'll ever get to spoiling a story (but am I? Which of these am I using and which of these are for fun?). The idea of the Dangerous Dreams 3quelfic is getting into the weeds about Din's relationships with the Creed, his past, Mandalore, and the Jedi... while also dealing with the "Return to Mandalore" mid-plot and the "I'm gonna fuck around with the OG Thrawn Trilogy and y'all can't stop me" macro-plot. That's the idea, anyway. Who knows how well I'll execute it.

Repurposing the glimpses of Aq Vetina clothing for Din used too much brainpower and I am 1000% done drawing for the next week or so.

Click here for Luke's design sheets.

#shirozora draws #din djarin #dinluke #skydalorian #the mandalorian #star wars #designing for fic #I AM SO TIRED BUT AT LEAST I GOT ALL THAT OUT OF MY GODDAMN SYSTEM #if you look closely then yes I'm going hard on a trope #the idea that toggling a few layers means I can also create a jedi!Din and mando!Luke AU with these #the aq vetina design's really growing on me and not just because my wrist suffered to get it to work #hell on wheels it looks like such a fun ceremonial version of din's look #and now i'm having thoughts about doing a little quick sheet for grogu ha ha fuck #this ship and this clan of three are running my goddamn life

[naemors]

every time a visibly brown latino / indigenous character is made mainstream, there are people who immediately swoop in to fetishize them....... as a mixed latino / indigenous person, i am allowed to grab a baseball bat

#tbd. #yes i am aggravated. the latino lover trope is fucking horrendous #namor and miguel are suffering the same fate. people do not care about them as characters #they dehumanize them and project their fantasies onto them. #then when they get bored - they drop em and it's on to the next #you people have no substance and no creativity i am so tired of it #I'm being fuckin mean but I'm also tired. i am tired.

[chancellorxofxtrash]

Geats was good, actually, and Neon was very well-written, y'all are just mean

#kamen rider geats #i'm so tired truly #i have more criticism with the way Tsumuri and Sara are written #as in - just because you are doing a trope on purpose and highlighting it #it's still doing the trope in the end #and we can have discussions about it surely especially about tsumuri #but neon's arc was perfectly fine y'all are just mean as fuck

[alwaysbethewest]

I don’t read a lot fic so I’m simultaneously living in an ignorant lalaland but also wanting more and afraid to venture into wild territory for fear of repeatedly encountering the Joel you mentioned. If even someone like me has noticed it, then it’s truly pervasive. I like to think I do a decent job of separating the character from their dominant trope/au/fanon but it gets hard <insert Oscar Isaac coffee gif>

I'm kind of in the same boat! I'm not reading that much these days (and when my brain is ready to I have a looong to-read list for other characters!) but I like to scroll through the fandom tag and skim the summaries. I'm sure there IS some great, thoughtful, in-character fic out there but I rarely see anything that draws me in. I've actually literally just added a tag filter for his name so I can stop looking in the first place because I find it so dispiriting and confusing 😕

#i hate to even say this stuff out loud because i truly don't want to yuck anyone else's yum or whatever the saying is #it feels shitty to become self-conscious about what you want to write and i don't want to make anyone feel bad #AND i know that my own fics are often not that in-character #i really don't believe that being perfectly in-character is the most important thing #but at the same time i just am so.... #confused by the predominant themes and tropes and how much they do not align with my vision of this character #a deeply sad broken hollowed out tired man #who probably barely finds it in him to regularly fuck his long term partner #(not that she is ever acknowledged either 🙃🙃🙃) #much less someone younger than his dead daughter #like where did that.... come from #sorry if this makes me an asshole!!!! oh well #anonymous #ask #and i am purposely not using full names or tags lol bc i'm just saying my thing to my followers not trying to start a whole conversation 😬

[drewsaturday]

as a lesbian sometimes i wish i followed more lesbians so my dash wasn't SO full of old men disproportionally but i kinda prefer this to the time in 2017 where all i saw for days was a gif of katie mcgrath beckoning at the camera with 2 fingers because people wouldn't stop imagining what that would feel like inside of them

#txt #maybe i just dont pay attention to what ppl r saying about male actors on my dash because... i don't care... #but that kind of thing abt actresses + the way ppl on twitter talk about the y*llowjackets cast.... #i'd kinda rather not see half of that in all honesty #anyone can be weird about actors #and at least on tumblr they're probs not gonna see it #but it does feel like at least in some of my fandoms the sapphics get VERY weird in particular #(which i say As A Lesbian pwease don't say i'm perpetuating predatory tropes or w/e) #so i'm chill with my dash being the way it is rn #even if it's less about the sapphics being weird and more about me just not caring enough to notice other ppl doing the same w men #fj;aklsdjf ALSO IN ALL HONESTY #I do not care about most of the actresses lesbians my age seem to give a shit about so it's a shot in the dark anyway #and unfortunately some of the lesbians out there being REALLY WEIRD about real people in their 20's #also can't stomach the fact that sometimes older women r hot and it is tiring to have to deal with that discourse time n time again #next time i get called gross i'll just fuck their mom i guess

[alienheartattack]

I've really revolutionized my reading habits by sticking to the following rules:

If a new book has over a 4.5 rating on Goodreads, it's probably bad.

If Booktok is going insane over it, it's probably bad.

#i would like the hours of my life back that i spent reading the love hypothesis #and any other bad fanfiction turned bad not-quite-original fiction #sarah j maas also owes me like 12 hours over 2 books #it's so discouraging writing romance when stuff that is Objectively Bad Writing is what's getting popular #can we get some character-driven books for once? i'm so tired of tropes driving the plot #because that means psychological realism goes out the window #so much time crafting perfect book boyfriends when they need to spend that time crafting a good female protagonist #like i get that people want to be able to project themselves on wet cardboard protags like feyre and olive and bella swan #but that doesn't mean you have to write these hoes without a shred of personality! #no nuance no complexity we die like fucking idiots

[pollyna]

au: Iceman lives but he's still doing chemio, Mav and Slider have a kind of hate/hate/love relationship but when it comes to their mutual friend they pair up faster than you could ever believed. Oh, and Hondo is fuckin' smart, he follows Mav from job to job because he likes to go around and meet new people and have new challenges everytime, before he gets bored.

Warning for homophobic assholes, angst, slurs and not enough punching.

Sunny outside doesn't mean Maverick is happy. This fucking new place where they moved the base is always sunny and he would appreciate it if heat could give them a little breath because it's just the end of march and they already have to switch on the air conditioner and that made Tom get cold again. It's never a good day when his husband gets sick because of stupid stuff it could be avoided. Better yet, it is never going to be a good day until a cold won't degenerate into fever and long nights fighting sleep and nightmares.

He fucking misses Miramar, their favourite spot on the beach and the gentle old lady who used to spend the afternoon with Ice playing cards, watching stupid telenovelas and keeping him company when Maverick had to be elsewhere.

The new class isn't helping his mood either. The best of the best and a new brand of fucking assholes who doesn't listen to him, makes him want to punch everybody in the face and likes Cyclone a little too much for his, and Hondo's, taste. Hondo not liking an entire class says much, especially after three years of teaching at TOPGUN and the number of years the man himself spend working with many different kinds of people in every program the brass moved him to.

If on a normal and sunny day Maverick would have just let it slide and got back to them making the exercise just a little more difficult to complete, today he just can't, not again and not after what he heard while walking in his classroom. Skylab is the first voice he hears but Viking is the one who answers and the deafening silence from the others doesn't help. It hurts a bit when not even Empress, the only decent person and a very good pilot, says something.

The brass let a faggot like Kazansky win this stupid fucking price and then made him Admiral. Who knows how many favours he had to do just to enter the Navy.

Probably not as many he had to do all these years to save Captain Mavsshole. Probably he has AIDS and not even cancer but they are just too ashamed, to tell the truth, or everyone would ask too many questions.

Pete has to count until ten and then until a hundred and then another time until a hundred before taking another step. He knows all his seeing, and hearing, is just blind rage and it could make it worst, probably ending up in prison or in the hospital and then Ice should get up to fetch him and he isn't in the state to do anything, he shouldn't do anything if not get better. He counts from one hundred to zero a third time, takes a deep breath and thinks he can handle this without resulting in homicide and a dishonourable discharge from the Navy and leaving so much mess to clean to Carlos and David. He likes them and he likes having lunch with them. So no to punch because then his husband should come for him and he can't, no to kill or he's going to lose two friends but he can't act as if nothing happened. So he'll have to think about what to do and they're going to regret even letting their own brain think about something like that.

The punishment arrives in town under the shape of one Ron Slider Kerner who decided to come around to see his best friend and spent time making Maverick's week a complete hell. Or maybe not.

When he comes back home that same night Slider is already around, sitting on the couch, talking with Ice about something and someone who got married down in Cali and people Mav doesn't know. Tom looks a little better and just that makes the day a little less heavy, when they kiss hello he can feel his husband's hands around his face and their grip is stronger every day and that would have made his knees give up and cry a little because it was such a close call this time he almost can't still believe this man, four starts admiral Tom Iceman Kazansky, is still alive and fighting and kissing him when he comes back home. Then Slider cough and oh, oh man now he knows what to do and how to make that bunch of assholes pay. They're going to hell without moving a step and they're blissful unaware of what it's waiting for them.

He has to wait after dinner after Ice is in bed and Slider is tidying around because he lived with Ice too and took some of his husband freakish habit when it comes to have a spotless kitchen in a spotless house. So Slider, I have a favour to ask he announces once he's back in front of him and Slider's smirk is a very knowing one. And so the game begins.

Wednesday morning is a little cooler than Tuesday and Ice's cold seems a less intense. He takes Slider with him because he must see the new state of art place where he's working he says to Ice and his husband laughs and looks like he's sayin' I know something is going on, be careful babe. 

The class is already sitting in their usual spots, a pilot and their RIO every row, and they look at them walking in with the most confused expression ever. Oh, you don't have the slightest idea of what is going to happen now. 

Class this is Captain Ron Kerner, callsign Slider, he was Admiral Kazansky's RIO for most of their years in the air and he's going to teach you a couple of things this week. He worked around a little bit, after he stop flying, went to DC, decided to put his ass on a chair and then went back in combat with some very tough dudes who taught him a thing or two. He's here for a visit and, over dinner, I was thinking it would have been so nice to have him over to teach you something new. He was so happy to accept. 

Slider is subtle in what he does and how he does his work, he learned it following Ice around during his first years in his Admiral carrier and perfect the rest working on his own projects at the Pentagon and around DC. He takes the all class up in the sky at five am, makes them run miles every time their manoeuvres aren't exactly by the book, gives homework and books to read, checks their rooms and confiscated their alcohol and cigarettes, and takes them to the veteran home and forgets them there for a whole day because he has to take Ice to try the new ice cream place, then comes back at eight in the evening, makes them run again, questions them about politics and tactics and makes them running a little more. But the worst is the inactivity: after spending days moving around like the world is going to end the second next to this one, he makes them sit in class st five-thirty in the morning and makes them wait. For an hour, then two and then three. It's eight-thirty and Slider is strolling in the classroom looking like someone who had the best sleep and coffee in his life while every single student is dying to sleep, drink something other than water and, generally, their poor brains are begging do something. Good morning class, today we have a nine-hour lecture, so get ready to have your world shake and you're going to learn stuff you're never going to forget.

Almost ten hours later, a break of thirty minutes around midmorning and Slider smiles and announces, candied as the day his parents baptized him, that everything has a reason in this life and a day of lectures on the culture of queer people, slurs, AIDS and flying is the bare minimum they deserve and he's going to make sure no one's name is going to end of the plaque because they don't deserves such an honour, or any honor, when they can't give the basic respect to a human, let alone to one of their superiors. And yes, every single one of them is going to get back in flight school, even if it will cost Slider and Maverick all the favours they have to ask, and not isn't just because of the comment on Admiral Kazansky, that was only the last straw and yes Viking you can call the President of the United States for all I care.

It's Wednesday again, it's raining outside, Maverick is making pancakes for three people, he doesn't have to go to work because he doesn't have a new class for at least another month and a half, Slider is looking around as if he was the king of the world and Ice is trying really hard not to ask what his husband and best friend did. He's going to read a report, a couple of days later, very detailed about everything that happened but by then Slider will be back in DC and Maverick will be fussing about taking a walk and looking to adopt a cat and starting a new hobby that will get them out of the house every time they can.

For now, Tom enjoys the pace and some delicious pancake, while Mav and Slider finish forging a strange new alliance, signed over the promise of mutual help and no question asked when needed.

#it was supposed to be a prompt bc i'm trying to prep at best for this afternoon lesson but apparently things got a little out of hand #ty grammarly to make this more redable but if u finds mistakes pls let me know!! #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #ron slider kerner #icemav #mav & slider forming tentative friendship to protect ice: new trope #new class is full of homopobic assholes and mav can't punch them all so he does what he does best: creates avock #slider is more than happy to help #but he has important things to do to while he is in town!! like take his bbf to eat icecream #homophobia #slider has a power point for his ten hours lecture with pictures and videos and he wanted a report after #viking & skylab & empress are callsign names i found on google lol #ice is loved #but it's a pretest to fix things bc the navy won't do it #it becomes a ritual of sort: every year slider is around for a lecture at the beginning of the year and if pilots aren't okay with what- #-he is saying they can leave the program at the beginning so they can find someone better to put there #idk what the fuck i'm doing honestly i'm still tired from this weekend and stuff #married couple #au: iceman lives #(cancer is retriving and he's getting better every day) #post-movie #top gun: maverick #ice x mav #otp: i heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey

[hideyseek]

what if i just went ahead and exploded

#oh god ...... oh god ...... the way he's almost smiling when he talks about everything that has happened #the way he says right after this. “i'm so tired” #oh my fuck .. #hidey watches granting you a dreamlike life #unfortunately i am extremely weak against like. these specific tropes

[annemarieyeretzian]

asmodeus hissing “you think that you are a man of true belief. who is the most proud man here? these ones who thought they would fly a city, or the man who thought he would teach me a lesson? the only difference between you and the dawnfather is that the dawnfather is a little more humble. now I'll tell you why I spit on your forgiveness. I'll tell you why I loathe your redemption. to reach a hand down to somebody, they need to be beneath you! and I'm beneath nobody. you wanted to understand me. then you should have accepted that I was right!”

#incredible #EVERYONE IS CAPABLE OF GOOD BUT NOT EVERYONE IS GOOD #EVERYONE IS CAPABLE OF BOTH GOOD AND EVIL BUT THEIR CHOICES MATTER #THIS BETRAYER GOD CHOOSES ENDLESS TORMENT WITHOUT DEATH #HIS ENTIRE VISION IS PAIN AND PUNISHMENT FOR IMAGINED SLIGHTS #BELIEVING EVERYONE IS INDEFINITELY REDEEMABLE IS ALSO HUBRIS #god I'm so tired #everyone in this fandom 'disappointed' that asmodeus 'turned out to be evil' can stay the fuck away from me #it's not a tired trope #some beings #and especially a fucking betrayer god #are beyond redemption #and not made more interesting by their anger and hatred #even if you think they're hot #annemarie watches critical role #critical role #asmodeus #exandria unlimited: calamity #exandria unlimited calamity #exandria unlimited #exu: calamity #exu calamity #exu #calamity #fire and ruin

[nereb-and-dungalef]

yeah i think i'm just gonna factor "waiting until the hype dies down" into all my media experiences. watched some of the iwtv tv show and i get to keep all my opinions in my head. it's great

#i'm processing it. there's a degree of processing that also has to go in before posting. by the way #but i'm gonna post my commentary in the tags in case someone wants to idk. block me for my takes or something #very funny like. ppl saying the show is bad. like. as a fan of the originals: did you think the originals were *good*??? #(amendment: i fucking love the books. i just don't think they're good) #the show made some cringe choices. the episode where claudia fucks was a Very cringe choice #however. louis owning slaves in the original was also cringe. so #i think the vampire chronicles are some fantastic raw material #there's some really awesome concepts going on in them #the musical interprets it very well imo even if the songs are shit #the show making louis interesting was good enough to forgive lestat character assassination #also okay. the line they gave lestat like. 'well if you only want to kill evil people how can You tell who is and isn't evil?' #is. justification enough for lestat character assassination. so #idk. i'm only like four eps in #the episode where claudia fucks reaaaally turned me off the show tho it. might take a bit to get back into it #but the first episode was a religious experience i stg #even if i'm tired of the dead crazy brother trope #cw iwtv tv show #anyway. like i said this is really just for you to block me about. if you try to start drama i will block. i don't even post abt iwtv

[bylertruther]

i’m gay and look in the mirror every day and yet this is still the gayest shit i’ve ever seen in my life

#bro. like BROOOOOOOO..... RELACKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHILL !!!!!!!!! GET UP OFF THE FUCKIN FLOOR !!!!!!!!!!!! #HTIS IS NOT WILL'S ROOM ANYMORE UR IN A VAN WITH TWO OTHER PPL MICHAEL #they were filming for that long and used THISSSSSS shot and u wanna tell me this guy wasn't thinking abt smooching will . #wasn't thinking abt his boy bestie his guiding light the sun to his moon #ur telling me tht he wasn't zoned the fuck out thinking some gay shit trying to keep himself together while will is jsut #fucking . attacking him with his gay love #his relentless sweet love and subjecting him to the not-so-mortifying-after-all-when-it's-you ordeal of being known #ur telling me tht mike is straight. ur telling me tht the feelings are not reciprocated despite the fact tht he looks at no one else's #lips like tht bro. ENOUGH WITH THE LIESSSSSS #will is in the middle of a love confession and mike is LOOKING AT HIS LIPS? FOR WHAT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME? #HELLO. THEY ARE NOT REAL THEY ARE CHARACTERS IN A STORY HAS NO ONE IN THE GENERAL AUDIENCE EVER SEEN #A FUCKING . ROMANCE MOVIE OR LITERALLY ANYTHING #WHY IS IT STRAIGHT WHEN MIKE DOES THIS BUT IT'S ROMANTIC WHEN NANCY AND JONATHAN DO IT. DIE #DBFKJHSBDKJFHBSKDJ I'M TIRED I CAN'T TAK EIT ANYMOREEEEEEEEE GE TME OUT OF THIS HELL #MISCOMMUNICATION TROPE PLEASE DIE N MAKE WAY FOR CONFESSION AND MUTUAL PINING AND EVRYTHING ELSE #(im normal btw) (inca se u were owndering i am very normal abt byler thank u)

[tenspontaneite]

*stares at Bloodmoon Huntress* hoo boy. Time for more piaj edits huh.

#piaj misc #I've not actually read it yet because it's not released in the uk #but I've read some spoilers and #sigh #like. i always knew this might happen #but i am so. so fucking tired of character phobias in media always having a logical origin point #like sure a lot of people have phobias with instigating events #but a shitton of phobia just sort of develops #for no damn reason #and then you've got to live with this illogical and occasionally crippling fear #i was really hoping Rayla's water phobia wouldn't have a reasonable and sensible origin point #like whatever it's useful backstory fodder for characterisation so I'll probably use it #but i was just hoping. #like speaking as someone with a deep but unfounded phobia I'm really sick of media phobias always being sensible #and because tdp is my obsession in recent years i hoped the Explicable Phobia trope wouldnt get rayla #so I'm peeved #I'll get over it. I'm just peeved #gonna tag this with #bloodmoon huntress spoilers #bh spoilers #tdp spoilers #rant

[allthepandasintheworld]

1, 8, 10, 11, 22, delear's choice on fandom 👀

choosing violence :)

i'm gonna go dc themed for this one (when it applies) thanks for the ask archie!!

also, as a disclaimer, it's stuff i personally dislike for whatever reason. i've filtered tags and blocked the majority of people who say/talk about these things, but occasionally posts do escape through my filters bc a lot of the shit i'm annoyed by with DC are SUPER common among the fandom (which is partially why im annoyed)

the character everyone gets wrong

BATMAN. god. not even the actual writers can write a batman i can tolerate. there are like. maybe five(?) fanfic authors whose batman takes i actually enjoy? the others are so hit or miss. i barely even browse the tags anymore it's too much emotional effort to filter through the fics that are left even if i use stringent filters

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

that clark/bruce can't have a dad bod or be pudgy or be fat. like there are SO many artists who draw them in these ways, and also? Strength isn't defined by how dehydrated you are when you flex? you need fat to pad out the muscles, or else you're going to REALLY hurt after working out so much. yes, even clark. besides, the soft look is sweet. i like it a lot. i know i draw them a bit more on the 'hunk' side, but i will defend the dad bod/chubby/fat bruce and clark truthers to my death

10. worst part of fanon

the sheer number of people who try to heteronormify a literal gay pairing

no actually it's two things: clark being nothing more than an idiot (he's allowed his himbo moments but he's also very competent!!) and bruce being... abusive? verbally or physically?? there's like two sides of fanon bruce that i strongly hate: the bordering on abusive bruces and the bruces who are aggressively baby-ified. both are. not fun. a certain amount of pathetic is fine in a man, whatever, i love rene and he's a super pathetic man, but there's like there's a point when it stops being 'ah yeah just a sad little man' and starts being 'the author is REALLY piling shit onto him and putting ALL the responsibility on the other character to fix him'.

11. number of fandom-related words you've filtered

ok depends on fandom but for DC? like. four? i think. no wait five, although the fifth is like sometimes hit or miss bc there ARE a lot of major character deaths (and undeaths) in canon and like i don't really care as long as it's not permanent?

but i filter a/b/o (and related tags), mpreg, incest, and rape. all are self explanatory, but just filtering the first two ALONE absolutely guts the fic count and i stare at the fic counter the way you might watch a horror protagonist just barely get away from the killer without realizing it. am i saying the fandom has rank-ass taste? yes. actually. who knew so many people had a kink for bioessentialism?

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

in THIS big of a fandom i feel like there isn't a lot that people ignore? like there's something for everybody, and i mean everybody. although i do feel like a disproportionate number of people prefer batman and the batfam over superman and the superfam and im really sad about that bc people automatically write them off as 'good is boring', and the canon writers often do the same. which like. guys. cmon. it's not 'boring' to put your entire (superpowered) might into uprooting the deeply entrenched weeds of oppressive systems in the world and looking forward to a brighter future. that's why we fight?? isn't it? so we can have a better tomorrow??? superman isn't boring at all, happiness and hope isn't boring. hope and happiness find meaning in knowing that they are not the default, that we have to work hard and struggle for it!! anyways. i do follow some people who talk about this so it's not entirely ignored, but like in the wider ship spaces i do NOT see enough people talking about this specific element of superman. i think they all just think he's hot. which i agree with. but i ALSO think he's cool and interesting and more than just his appearance.

#not art #ask games #i could commit further violence but i think ive trashed my least favorite tropes for long enough #let's just say that bc of the fandom's kink for bioessentialism it feels a little unsafe to be trans in this fandom #which is ridiculous bc we're literally shipping a queer ship #it's so fucking prevalent that people post about it WITHOUT TAGS #i LITERALLY can't even FILTER it #like maybe im tired of being told i 'can't do x y z' bc i'm a 'woman' as 'dictated' by my biology #so like sorry not sorry i DON'T want to read about society having an even more extreme version of it in FICTION where i go to ESCAPE realit #and for it to be portrayed POSITIVELY it's so fucking bad i hate it so fucking much #not much triggers my dysphoria these days but THIS does especially when it just APPEARS with zero warning