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shoot-i-messed-up · 13 days ago

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Now that I'm a fanfic writer, I can't help but wonder what kinds of narrative themes I must've been missing all these years of reading fanfics because I sure as hell know I can't write a fic without somehow stumbling across a theme and running with it

#simu's two cents #inspired by the fact that I'm writing the superlantern arranged marraige au rn and I just realized that the central theme is consent.#i literally went ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh out loud. like a cartoon character.#that makes so much goddamn sense because it's an *arranged* marriaged and more than a little forced on each end too #so of COURSE consent is going to be the main theme of that trope. it's literally right there. the main point is figuring out consent #and ofc hal jordan: the guy who made superman cry thrice's theme is agency of the victim vs. safety #i use theme in the loosest sense. this post would make my ap lit teacher roll in her grave (she's still alive. just retired)#the main theme of american alien and the man born without fear is obviously being 'othered' and how different ppl react to that #embarcation is so on the nose and up front about the themes i don't even think i have to explain #for nice logical fallacy i guess it's internalized transphobia and toxic masculinity?#and then is somebody gonna match my freak (out)? was kinda just from a dream but is also abt consent?#and ofc this is kinda reductive like there's more than one thematic through-line in each of these fics and there's overlap too #but yeah.

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