#in spideypool in hannibal in shit that does not lend itself to that at all

[wellhalesbells]

For the reader ask, can I be greedy and do two?! (I’m gonna be greedy): 🤣 and 🤷🏼‍♂️

YOU BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO OUT THERE, FREN

🤣 Has a fic ever made your face hurt from laughing so much?

okay i’m mad because i feel like there was something i was reading in the past year or so that literally made me burst out laughing and now i can’t remember what it was and i tried, but here are all the ones that i know at least made me grinny (there’s a wild steter in there too, so look out!):

by a string of blue lights, by lapin (sterek)can’t be hateful, gotta be grateful, by halffizzbin (sterek)delicate, by livthelion (sterek)deputized, by whonatural (sterek)gravity’s got nothing on you, by zosofi (sterek)how not to be a virgin sacrifice by stiles stilinski, by bookjunkie1975 (steter)how to be a normal person, by drunktuesdays (sterek)the lovers [murderers] in 9b, by ofherlionheart (sterek)operation: stileswatch, by antpower (sterek)scent marking for dummies, by hatteress (sterek)sideways and slantways and longways and backways, by hologramophone (sterek)sleeping dogs, by starsystems (sterek)slightly damaged, still good, by trelkez (sterek)that stalky thing, by wangler (sterek)there’s a joke here about something being fishy, by reptilianraven (sterek)the time it wasn’t bigfoot, by annathaema (sterek)werewolf love songs, vol. 1, by aggybird (sterek)your lifelong membership is free, by minusoneday (sterek)

🤷 What thing that your fandom loves do you just not “get”?

there are so many. so, so many. pack mom stiles and intrusive, overprotective, weirdly involved laura hale are two that jump right to mind for the teen wolf fandom.

in an overarching way: mates. i do not get that. for me, the magic is in two people choosing each other, not having any guarantees as to fate or destiny or the future, because knowing is what? that’s nothing, that’s abdicating free will and hard choices and the little moments that stack together to make bonds unbreakable. i’m a puzzle pieces person, things not fitting, having to rethink and restrategize, knowing there’s a connection but not always confident in it, filling up more and more of the corners and edges and building on what’s already there to make something cohere, something that was once separate and now clearly goes together. soulmates is big picture, it’s cheating, the work that needs to be done doesn’t get done because, hey, we already know the outcome. they’re usually, ‘i know it’s supposed to be yOU but hOW can it be you’ type fics and while i get the fun of that, i do (and i get that same type of fun from fake dating/pretend relationship fics without free will going bye-bye), i hate that the catalyst isn’t the characters but this outside force going: if you follow the steps, you will get the reward. and, like, i don’t want… ikea furniture from my fanfiction? i want this impossible, unbalanced, unpredictable disaster of a contraption where you’re not really sure what its function is or how long it will stay standing because you’re never really quite done with it but, at the end of the day, everyone’s really proud to stand next to it and say: we made that, all on our own and, yeah, maybe it won’t stand the test of time but fuck if it doesn’t mean something to us. i TOTALLY GET why that is not everyone’s thing but that is very much my thing. i also don’t like the fulcrum on which soulmate-y universes rest, that idea that you are incomplete on your own. you need this other thing to make you whole.

because, hey, no. you’re already a whole, complete person living a life before anyone else bumbles into it.

also, a/b/o is like a rape-y version of all that to me. where now one of the characters for sure isn’t in their right mind but, hey, there’s this outside force: biological imperative to back ya.

not to say i haven’t read things with literally all of those in different fics and liked them (an a/b/o is literally one of my top ten in sterek fandom), but it’s something to overcome for me because at their basest components: i, personally, do not like them. i would also say they’re only things i don’t get because of their prevalence, not their existence.

ask more questions here if i haven’t bored you all to death yet :P