#doesn't tumblr's unspoken tagging ettiquette conflict with the need/desire to keep a neat record of your own thoughts a bit?

[nostalgia-tblr]

one of my general multifandom problems (and i accept that it's a me-problem) is that there's not many pairings where i usually want to read a lot fluffy fic about them. i don't know why that is, and i'm also not saying it's bad if other people do (because like i said there are pairings i want to read mostly fluff about), i'm just setting the scene here, okay?

so anyway, fanon lokius is really fluff-focussed (in both fic and discussion) and partly it's that there's been a point where someone's decided it's "the wholesome pairing" that's much healthier than "the selfcest" and leaving aside the issue of whether or not selfcest is Bad, it means (at least as i interpret this) there's a certain amount of fannish investment in there not being any darker or less wholesome side to lokius. it's a happy healthy loving zero-red-flags relationship in a good 99% of fandom takes. which is fine obviously (gosh i'm really disclaimering this one aren't i!) but i like the darker side and the "actually this was pretty fucked-up" readings so even though i am in theory interested in lokius, i'm not much into fanon lokius (which i'm sure people will tell me is canon lokius and i disagree there but whatever) much at all, to the point where i barely interact with that bit of fandom really.

it's like when you read meta about some pairing you just Do Not See and you're thinking "WTF is this? when did this happen? how did they arrive at this apparently common take that is new and confusing to me?" only i do see why people would be shipping them so i'm more like "yeah that bit was very shippy! they should kiss! no wait where does the torture fit into all of this? are we just not... well, that's fine i'm sure someone else has... no? oh okay."

so that's where i am on that one. i'm not mad i'm just disappointed. *locks you in a torture-loop until you're willing to agree with me* (*in a wholesome and very pure way obvs*)