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girlscience · 1 year ago

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I hate finding a fandom that likes to take a slightly emotional character and makes them cry and have panic attacks constantly in every fic. Least favorite fandom trope ever

#leave my man Kirk alone 😭 he's a little sensitive. he's in tune with his feelings.#he's not sobbing every episode or having breakdowns every time something stressful happens in screen #I don't WANT to read about his trauma feelings when as far as I can tell they are Grossly exaggerated in every instance #sure. I will accept he was traumatized by the shit that happened in his childhood #however if he was acting like he is made to in half these fics he quite literally would not be fit for command #ack. this isn't just a kirk thing though #I really have so little patience for visibly or over the top emotional characters to begin with #I know it's my low empathy talking but it's so annoying #shut up!!!! put it away!!!!! I don't want a character sobbing every time someone treats them nice for however many chapters #suck it up and move on!!! get into more interesting shit!#I know people use fanfic as an outlet or therapy or whatever but I wish they would write about more interesting feelings #or find more interesting ways of having characters express them #like idk. give Kirk weird issues around food cause of starving as a kid #give him weird attachment problems that make him over protective but also distant to avoid being sad when they die #make him work extra hard to keep the enterprise safe because it's like the one consistent home he's had #make him relentlessly curious because his education as a kid was inconsistent so he works to learn everything he can now #or like he over compensates for his lack of childhood education. have him perceive failings there where there aren't any or something #make him have lots of issues with dictators #I mean fucks sake even in the episode with the man who killed half the people on the colony he was on as a kid #he kept a level head and was the only one trying to actually work through it logically and didn't immediately jump to trying to kill the guy #unlike the other characters #it just makes zero sense to have him falling apart over essentially nothing all the time #it's just stupid!!!! and annoying!!! and I don't want to read it!!!!

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