I am once more posting about how character refusing medical treatment for no raisin is possibly my most beloathed trope
There are so many very legitimate reasons a fictional character might not get treatment!
Allergies
Negative interaction with a medication character is already on
Negative reaction to the medication in general
Character is nonhuman/alien/mutant/etc and standard medical treatment won't work
Not registering injury due to shock/nerve damage
Not registering injury due to pre-existing chronic condition that made things suddenly, unexpectedly much worse
Not registering severity of injury because internal bleeding can (and often does!) look a lot like bad bruising
Hospital is haunted
Injury greatly exceeds current medical resources (ie it's a spinal fracture and all they have is a My Little Pony first aid kit)
Character believes that death is imminent
Character has something illegal/taboo/valuable attached to their body (from illegal body-mods in a sci-fi universe to curse in a fantasy universe)
C'mon, guys, I get it! I also love when characters get the ever-loving blue-eyed shit beat out of them! Just, give 'em some actual reason to suffer. A basic pretext. Please.
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The Last Jedi AU: Ignore whatever’s supposed to happen or where people are in this movie. Paige Tico is foiled in her attempt to release the bombs that would take out the First Order ship. Her ship is boarded and she’s taken onboard the Star Destroyer as a captive intelligence officer, but before she’s captured she’s able to relay a covert message to Rose telling her what happened.
Instead of the diversion to Canto Bight, Rose is the one with the knowledge of splicing into Imperial ships and she and Finn impulsively plan to jet over to the Star Destroyer in an escape pod Rose had been experimenting with a cloaking device on, the two of them breaking in on their own.
Finn finds Poe to tell him of Paige’s capture and his and Rose’s plan. Poe knows that he can’t condone or contribute resources to it and knows for a FACT Leia won’t allow it, despite the fact Paige is a friend and the same rank he is. He’s torn between getting her back but needing to stay and lead, so he he tells them to take BB-8 and does that Mr. Incredible thing where he tells Finn and Rose what “NOT” to do to get into an Imperial flagship, him planning the distraction from the outside and still screwing with Hux over the comms and keeping eyes turned his way as Finn and Rose sneak onboard to find Paige.
Can you imagine if like they manage to get into some labs while they’re doing recon and Finn senses something? Can you imagine him hesitating as they move, telling Rose they have to go back while she’s hissing for him to keep moving? Her either hacking into the tech to redirect First Order troops away from their location, or going off to find her sister herself while Finn stays behind? Finn finding schematics and draftings alongside old codexes and scrolls before eventually coming to the humming, fractured kyber crystal in the next room, hanging suspended in midair above the equipment? Realizing as he’s digging through the odd mix of both scientific and semi-magical texts what it’s for, but that Ren hasn’t been able to force it to conform to his needs, too unstable to be housed even in his own lightsaber? Finn starting to configure and piece things together even as Rose tells him they’re running out of time?
As they’re sneaking around, gathering pertinent information to the plot and finding Ren’s plans for Rey and Skywalker, they’re nearly caught— Surrounded by First Order troops and with seemingly no way out, Rose and Finn prepare for the worst, when all of a sudden one of the troops goes rogue and eliminates all of their fellow officers instead. Paige Tico managed to escape and had disguised herself, just happening to be lucky enough to run into them in the lower levels. Paige tells them of some of the other rebel prisoners aboard the ship she was planning to break out, and the three of them, finally united, start plotting their means off Ren’s flagship when they overhear Hux in the corridor talking about Ren meditating in some inner sanctum with an order to be left alone with his own retinue on pain of death as he searches the Force or whatever for the location of Rey and Skywalker
Back onboard the New Republic ship Poe and Leia confer with the other generals as to what the Sith’s next move is going to be when they receive an incoming transmission from Kylo Ren himself.
As Kylo Ren and Leia Organa face off in what was to be their last confrontation, the tone and gravitas of their conversation somber, something flickers over the feed, and everybody on the New Republic ship’s bridge sees a blinding arc of light as one of the First Order troops behind Ren steps out of line and carves a blade of shimmering green in a downward arc directly behind him.
Outraged and caught off guard, Ren blocks the attack with his own blade, both lightsabers flickering with different energies, and as Finn’s voice shouts over the holo Poe realizes that not only has Finn given them an opening to hit Ren’s flagship, he may have even been able to stop this war in its tracks.
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maybe this a strange thing to get hung up on but like. I can’t be the only one who subconsciously texts my friends a bit more professionally after writing a long email to my professor. Or whose internal monologue temporarily changes to sound like that YouTuber I just binged for 3 hours. Or who acts a little more excited and dramatic after watching an action movie. It’s normal to pick up patterns from other people and situations, right?? Why do my friends act so surpised when I start acting more like them, or tell me I “shouldn’t change who I am”? Like buddy. In NO social interaction am I presenting the Real Me. And besides that, you’re an important part of my life—why would it be so weird to be influenced by you? I don’t like being thought of as Weird or Not Genuine just because I do something differently from your previous expectations of me.
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JUST FUCKING MUTE THEM AND KEEP THE REST IN THE GROUP CHAT. LITERALLY THAT IS ALL IM SAYING. JUST ACT LIKE ADULTS AND NOT LIKE SCHOOLYARD BULLIES. WHAT DO YOU GAIN BY BEING MEAN TO THIS PERSON.
There are four conversations going on here and people want to act like its just one.
Plagiarism. Report it! Eventually it will get taken down if it violated TOS.
You don't like what they're writing. Mute them! Im sorry but this is not a moral issue. People are allowed to write things that upset you and you are allowed to not read it! Nobody is being harmed by fanfiction that they have to go out of their way to read. This is not some mass market campaign this is one person writing stories on the internet, and acting like they are the same thing is absurd. And im sorry but ao3 is a site for amateur writers so calling somebody out for the quality of their writing on there is straight up just unkind and there's no excuse for it.
Tag flooding. Again, mute them! This is at worst an etiquette issue but I think it really comes down to point 2 which is that we only mind it because we don't like what they're writing. If an author you like posted 20 one shots in a day you'd probably be psyched about it.
Bullying. JUST DONT FUCKING DO IT. None of the things above justify this behavior. You can be bothered by them. You can vent to your friends about it privately. You don't have to like this person or their work or interact with it in any way. I'm sorry but it would feel like absolute shit to have an entire fandom of people (including people whose work you love! this person reads our shit! this person is a fan!) gang up on you, and I think you need to consider that this is an actual human being we are talking about here.
If you feel so strongly about preserving the integrity of the tag i suggest writing more of your own shit instead of complaining about what other people are writing. We cant control other peoples actions we can only control our own and some of us are acting like children around here lately and im tired of it.
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