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This but Sterek.

Derek is going to be 4 soon (Christmas Baby Derek 4ever), and Stiles turned 3 this year. They're friends because their moms often spend their days together — Talia's the Mayor and Claudia's the District Attorney. They're both busy women, and so are their families. John's busy being grilled under the current Sheriff, and all the Hales except Nana Hale have one or the other thing going on.

That means that Derek, as the youngest currently (Cora hasn't been born yet), is left to be babysat by Nana most days. Thing is, Nana Hale only speaks Spanish, so Derek only knows how to speak and understand Spanish. It's alright because as a werewolf he's anyways homeschooled, and the whole pack speaks Spanish so it's not a big deal.

On the other hand, John and Claudia are pretty much on their own, and quite busy making the best of their respective careers. Still, they manage to find time to be good parents, somehow. As John's job is more on-the-field and thus dangerous, Stiles spends most of his time with Claudia in her office.

Thing is, Claudia and John speak in English outside, and do try to speak in English with Stiles because he's gotta learn, he'll soon go to school. But they're more comfortable speaking in Polish, and it slips out more often than not, even when they promise each other to not do it because of Stiles. And Stiles? He understands English, a little bit, but he's speaking Polish like a pro.

Lo and behold the few days where both Talia and Claudia have to take their sons to work with them, and these two, despite the language barrier, become best friends. Now I'm not sure if there's any common words between the two languages, but I do imagine little Stiles and little Derek speaking pretty fast to each other, hoping the other understands them, and then both reaching for the same toy they were saying, "I'll play with that!"

Talia and Claudia think there's about to be a fight.

They're wrong.

Derek's eyebrows, entirely their own language, somehow becomes instinctually parsable to Stiles, who babbles in Polish something along the lines of, "You can have it! Take the wolf, I'll take the fox!"

And he does just that. Derek beams, and decides sharing while playing is better, anyways.

Fast forward to their teenage years, their families and friends are tired and sick of hearing a new language every week.

One week Stiles will be talking to Derek in Spanish, while Derek replies in French.

Next week Derek would be cursing Stiles out in Russian, while Stiles would be begging for forgiveness in Sanskrit.

Another week, Stiles would be flirting with Derek in Latin ("it's a dead language! how??" — everyone that knows them), while Derek would be blushing and mumbling sweet affections in Polish.

It is only when they speak to others that they speak in English. To each other, though? Derek really captured it best in their toddlerhood: sharing is better; so, they share new languages with each other.

[christinesficrecs]

This escalated into Derek speaks ALL the languages. I regret nothing. 💙🧡

Tell Me, So I Know by TroubleIWant | 7.4K | Mature

It took years for Derek to finally confront the way he felt about Stiles, and even after he figured it out he could only explain in Spanish. It took them two years more to get to where they were now. Only with neither of them quite willing to commit, where exactly is that, anyways?

Well, for Stiles it’s a deserted stretch of road behind the Hale house, half trapped in a car wreck after being abducted by hunters. Frankly, he could really use Derek’s help if he’s going to get out of this alive. Mates are supposed to be able to tell when the other is in pain, right? As Derek would probably say, ‘querido, no.’

Or, a love story in two parts… and two languages.

Is That a Gun In Your Pocket Or…That’s a Gun In Your Pocket by Elpie (Horribibble) | 8.1K | Explicit

Derek Hale is the best boyfriend. He’s sweet. He’s funny. He recites Pablo Neruda completely unprovoked. He also happens to be in the murder business. But hey, nobody’s perfect.

A romantic comedy with guns and roses.

(Well, maybe not the roses.)

#librarynerd by yodasyoyo | 7.7K

In which Stiles follows Scott into his Spanish study group, takes one look at the hot nerd who runs it and then decides to stay… even though he doesn’t actually speak Spanish.

Like wine upon the lips by MemeKon | 1.6K

“So, the word’s on the streets that you’re some sexy polyglot,” Stiles says, wiggling his eyebrows annoyingly before he slumps on the couch next to him and puts his feet on Derek’s coffee table, limbs akimbo, loose and long.

“Sexy polyglot,” Derek repeats, raising an eyebrow, and pushing Stiles’ feet off the table with his own.

“Yeah, you know, sexy man of many languages.”

“I know what polyglot means,” he replies.

How to Mostly Fail at Wooing Your Grumpy Next Door Werewolf: a comprehensive guide by Stiles Stilinski by crossroadswrite | 4.2K

Stiles peers down at the next profile sees a picture of a man glaring at the camera, ears red and big frames slipping off the bridge of his nose.

Derek ‘bunbuns’ Hale. 25. College student. Likes to take long walks on the beach, shirtless and on a horse and to be a buzzkill that should just get laid.

Five Times Derek Failed To Tell Stiles How He Feels (+1 Time Stiles Knew Anyway) by WhoNatural | 3.3K

Stiles grins, impish and proud, and scrabbles at another piece of his notebook. Derek is determined to ignore it - he really is, but Stiles’ legs are longer than they might seem and his reach includes the front leg of Derek’s chair.

He sighs, put-upon, and unfolds the note,

Wanna go steady w/ me? Y[ ] or Y[ ]

Step into the daylight (and let it go) by dearericbittle (dutchmoxie) | 14.4K | Mature

Stiles is a grad student with serious insomnia. So when he sees a stranger in need of help, he thinks it’ll be a good way to alleviate the boredom. How the hell was he supposed to know that the weird guy with the baseball cap was a famous actor (and a fucking werewolf)? He just keeps running into the guy. Coincidence? Stiles thinks not.

Two Minutes for Holding by captaintinymite (augopher) | 121.4K | Explicit

The story of how one epic NCAA Championship run and college, served as the backdrop for some of life's great hardships.

Tourist by rainsoakedshoes | 1.4K

Derek clutched the map to his chest and looked around. None of the street names looked familiar. He was officially lost. He was lost in Poland. This was just great.

Numbers Are A Bitch by words_reign_here | 15.6K | Explicit

“It's major surgery, Stiles.” Scott said and leaned forward. “We can be worried if we want to.” Stiles frowned at him, feeling chastised. “But you're doing a good thing.” Allison said. She was still holding his hand. “You'll be great.” She added. Scott looked betrayed. Lydia took a picture of him in the bed.

Driver's Education by arrowofcarnations | 9.2K | Mature

This is the moment he realizes he can never have Derek Hale – that he was stupid to ever think he could. Maybe their moms made them hang out when they were little and maybe they’ve managed to get along these past few weeks, but they’re too different. Derek’s cool, he plays a million sports, he drives a Camaro, he’s friends with Jackson. Stiles doesn’t fit into the equation and he never will.

Je t'aime by Robespierre | 17.6K | Explicit

Stiles’ boss is sending him to the Paris office for a few months. He speaks absolutely no French. Enter Derek Hale, French tutor extraordinaire. As Stiles works hard to master a foreign language, everything begins to fall apart around him.

On jest słońcem (He Is The Sun) by haaaveyoumetted | 6.1K

AU where Stiles speaks in Polish to his dad

And maybe he talks to himself in Polish too

And maybe he talks about Derek a lot. Derek’s eyes. Derek’s shoulders. Derek’s adorable teeth. Derek’s arms. Derek Derek Derek

chantes une nouvelle chanson pour moi by pr1nc3ssp34ch (dallisons) | 13.1K | Explicit

Stiles Stilinski has been at Hogwarts since his first year, okay. That’s six years of experience. He knows how Hogwarts works, how it operates. He’s not quite an expert or anything, but he’s pretty damn sure he knows this school.

So why the hell have they waited like a million years to start taking transfer students?

And why is he the only one who can’t get a French date?

lube and determination by bleepobleep | 4.8K | Explicit

It’s a holiday classic: homesick boy wants to make a pumpkin pie while studying abroad, boy realizes the only place to find vegetable shortening is a sex shop, and boy makes fool of himself in front of other boy.

Que Dis-Tu? by isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella) | 2.5K

What, are you gonna tell me you know Russian next?!” Stiles demanded, flailing one arm, other hand still closed around the spine of his book.

“I do know Russian,” Derek confirmed, still looking confused.

Stiles dropped the book so he could flail both arms in the air. “Of course you do! Why wouldn’t you know Russian?!”

Nothing But Trouble by charlesdk | 16.4K

Stiles and Scott, smugglers, come across an abandoned ship in the middle of nowhere. While looting the ship for goods and valuables, they find an unconscious crew member, who turns out to be a prince. With bounty hunters on their asses, they fly across the galaxy in search for the prince’s lost family.

Speak Spanish To Me by wazzzup | 5.3K

Derek keeps confessing his love and complementing Stiles in Spanish knowing that no one else in the pack speaks Spanish.

Expect Stiles does, fluently in fact and he can understand Derek perfectly.

What Derek says when he thinks Stiles wont understand by Delilah2040 | 3.3K

five times Derek complimented Stiles in Spanish thinking he wouldn't understand and the one time stiles confesses not only that he understood the whole time but much much more.

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[sciencey-winecy]

Derek: das ist alles deine Schuld

Stiles: I know, I know

Derek: You speak German?

Stiles: No, I just know the phrase ‘this is all your fault’ in every language

[jennoasis]

Dame Un Beso

“Ankle is...Pierna?”

“No, that’s leg. Try again.” Derek smiled indulgently at his boyfriend as Stiles’ brows scrunched together in thought.  

“Oh wait! Ankle is tobillo!”

“That’s right.” A grin appeared on Derek’s face, pride filling his chest, and Stiles gave Derek a mega-watt smile for getting the word right.

“I’m getting better at Spanish. What’s the word for kiss?”

Derek knew where Stiles was going with this but played along. “Beso.”

Stiles nodded, moving closer. “Derek, me das un beso*?”

Derek pulled Stiles on to his lap, leaning up, face inches from Stiles. “Con gusto**.” He murmured before kissing Stiles.

 Foreign languages are fun to learn lol. The words for this drabble from @sterekdrabbles are: Ankle, Leg, and Appear (I used appeared) from Friday, December 21st). Thank you!

Translation:

*Derek, will you give me a kiss?

**With pleasure.

[whispering-sumire755]

Sterek Drabbles//Oct 8 Prompt  :: Pole, Jungle, Warrant

Derek doesn't really think The Jungle installing exotic-dancing poles warrants this, Stiles dressed up in a skimpy-sexy fruit-bat costume showing off skills he learned from who knows where, screaming "Happy Halloween!" in literally every language he knows, including archaic latin.

There's a crowd of adoring drag queens surrounding him, screaming for more, and as the man he loves bends in this exquisitely lascivious way, all mouth-watering flexibility, winks at him with dark-smudge spiderweb-swirl eyeliner, and displays with lissome grace a body covered in scars and glitter, the sinew-shift of hard-earned muscles, Derek can only grin at him, indulgent and proud.

A/N  :: @sterekdrabbles ignore me and my rapid-fire overdues, lol

[stilesisjustababy]

Poor thing. I love it.

concept: after having the nogitsune in his head stiles is apparently fluent in japanese. he has no idea until they’re talking to satomi one time and she says a japanese proverb and stiles responds to it without missing a beat. 

bonus bc sexy polyglot derek:

[stillbeatingheart]

Ao3 tag game

Thanks @browney3dgirl6 for the tag!  It’s taken me awhile to get to (required a good mood about my stats page), but here we go:

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

64

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

1,125,328  

Yeah I had to copy/paste that one, that number was too much for my brain...

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

5

AK, Shameless, Stranger Things, TW, and VM

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Uneasy In This Skin

So Very Naked and So Unafraid

Magic Finds You

Like Magical Babies?

Shut Up and Kiss Me

(They’re all Sterek)

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I’d say my angst always has a happy ending but probably the one where I killed off Mickey, but by the end Ian was dead too.  Reunited in the afterlife kind of thing.  

Blue Stained Glass

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

They all have happy endings, but I’ll go with the Chipmunk Stiles Series just because it ended on a wedding night.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I wrote an AK/Shameless apocalypse crossover and then got cranky and took it down, but maybe someday it will be revisited.  Crossovers are just too much of a niche crowd but I’ve been head-writing a Naked and Afraid mash-up mega crossover that’ll probably never hit the point of actual words, but maybe two other people would find wildly entertaining :)

8. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

But of course.  Except it always ends up being smut with feelings so I never deny some good old fashioned love-making.  

9. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes, unless it’s clearly someone just wanting to nit-pick then I delete and move on.  Actual constructive criticism is welcomed.  And positive feedback gets me high.

10. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

It’s a ritual in the Gallavich fandom.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don’t know if that’s a thing with Fanfic, but I’d hope if anyone ever wanted to steal a fic idea, they’d credit me in inspired by and write their own.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes.  Waiting for the Boy that doesn’t Come Home was translated by the lovely Ayann

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yep, the first time was a cute little one-shot for VM with my wonderful friend and talented writer @charleylynn called Kiss Me At Midnight (If I was that kind of girl) and the second time was with my partner in sisterly bullshittery and crazy headcanons @ms-moonlight-inn for a Gallavich kid fic called Zero To Six

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

I will respectfully ignore that question...  it’s too hard to choose!

15. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t ever think you will?

I have a collection of abandoned fics, and two that are hanging over my head but damn it!  I will finish them some day!

16. What are your writing strengths?

Pssshht.  All of it.  Just all of it.  

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

There are no chinks in my armor.  Yeah, no, there totally are.  The list would be longer than my strengths if I made it myself, so I’ll pass on this one too.

18. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I’ve done it with the assistance of google translate so I’m sure some of the grammar is off, but polyglot! Derek needed to actually use the dialogue, when I had Mickey the tiger trainer speaking Ukrainian I just told the audience to pretend his dialogue was in Ukrainian because it would have been distracting in that instance and also, I would have gotten it very embarrassingly wrong.   

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Shameless

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I’m going to go with Uneasy In This Skin because it tested me.  A lot.  And I suppose that is how you grow as a writer, to test yourself!

I’m going to tag @ms-moonlight-inn, @fiamac, and @charleylynn but won’t be offended if you decide not to play :)

[josjournal]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale & Stiles Stilinski Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Sheriff Stilinski, Talia Hale, Derek Hale's Father Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Human, Hospitalization, Farmer Derek Hale, Heat Stroke, Pining, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Polyglot Derek Hale, Don't copy to another site Series: Part 1 of A Very Sterek Summer 2021 Summary:

Stiles' Jeep breaks down while he's traveling across the country to find where he belongs. He ends up with heatstroke in front of the Hale Farms.

Written for A Very Sterek Summer. Day 1, Theme: Heat Wave

[fuckyeahfanfictions]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale & Stiles Stilinski Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Sheriff Stilinski, Talia Hale, Derek Hale’s Father Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Human, Hospitalization, Farmer Derek Hale, Heat Stroke, Pining, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Polyglot Derek Hale, Don’t copy to another site Series: Part 1 of A Very Sterek Summer 2021 Summary:

Stiles’ Jeep breaks down while he’s traveling across the country to find where he belongs. He ends up with heatstroke in front of the Hale Farms.

Written for A Very Sterek Summer. Day 1, Theme: Heat Wave

[thehollowprince]

Hey, it’s the “coding” anon here and honestly that answer to my question was excellent and the exact reason I come to your blog. I would absolutely love to hear you go on about the fetishization of m/m relationships!

This has been sitting in my inbox for over a week, and I want to apologize. I'm sorry for taking so long to get to this one, but I'm overworked at the moment. I've been pulling 60+ hour work weeks, by myself and I haven't had off since the first of December, so I'm a little tired. But I'm here and I'm ready to murder this bitch of a subject.

For starters, and for context, in case anyone who sees this doesn't follow my blog or, if you do and don't really pay attention, I am a gay man, so a lot of this comes from my own personal experience.

Now, onward my fandom soldiers.

M|M Fetishization & Objectification

I've only been super active within fandom spaces for the last couple of years. Before that, I just scrolled through Tumblr and reblogged gifsets and fluffy headcanons and whatnot, but even then I noticed a trend in fandoms that made me uncomfortable. That trend was the overabundance of gay men (chatacters) in fandom works, especially when there either weren't any gay men in that show or book or whatever.

I'm not at all saying we need less of that. I want and need more gay characters in the things I watch and read. That's actually one of the criteria I look for before I start a new show, or a book series or comics. I want to see myself represented in the media I consume, even if it is only this one tiny piece of who I am. But the problem for me arose when I saw all these fan works and headcanons and gifsets and thesis length metas about gay or bi male characters that were neither of those things in their original source material.

The biggest examples of this occured in fairly popular shows that I loved at one point, but do to a combination of bad writing and then the horrible fandom, drove me to actively dislike and avoid them. And that's always a sad thing, when you end up losing the love you had for something because others just won't let you enjoy it as it is.

Those two examples are Teen Wolf and Supernatural.

For years I watched people go on and on and on and on about Stiles Stilinski and Dean Winchester and how they were bisexual and so on and so forth.

There's nothing wrong with headcanoning a character as gay or bisexual, especially when those characters are severely lacking on screen and on paper. The problem arose when the fandom at large started to ignore the ACTUAL gay or bisexual characters that are in these shows and focus solely on their headcanons as the only representation in the show.

To start with Teen Wolf, we had, in the first season, an openly gay character that everybody in the school loved, that being Danny Mahealani. This character was introduced as gay from the very start, but oddly enough, there is almost no large fandom meta or fics or anything about him. In fact, a lot of his traits and qualities ended up transferred to Stiles, such as his intelligence and overall popularity. Hell, even Danny's attraction to Derek was stolen and transferred to him. These aren't things that Stiles is overall known for in the actual canon. He's clumsy and socially awkward and on the outskirts of the school like Scott (the main character) and has been obsessed (to the point of being considered a stalker) with one girl since elementary school, but somehow, in fandom, Stiles is suddenly the genius polyglot queer with severe depression who has a crush on the broody muscular werewolf who just wants somebody to love him.

Fandom created this portrayal of the character that didn't exist anywhere in the fandom except for his appearance. The reason I saw behind this was twofold. 1: fangirls (fandom is mostly female) want to see two "hot" guys kiss and get it on because they get off to it, much in the same way that straight men get off to lesbian porn. 2: Stiles (or any of these headcanoned characters) becomes a sort of self insert.

What I mean by that second one is that women and girls find a male character that's not "too masculine", usually kind of gangly or skinny, somewhat on the effeminate side. Someone that they can project their ideas and insecurities and so forth onto so that they can that pursue that relationship with the hunky manly man that they want to bang.

You may be asking yourself, "Why don't they just use one of the female characters as a self insert?" and I'm here to tell you that I have neither the time nor the experience to go into detail about internalized misogyny and how effects the way women do almost everything, even watching and interpreting their media.

But the reason they chose the male character is that, years ago, during the dark days of FF.net there was a lot of self insert OCs that infiltrated almost every level of fanfiction. Which caused the fandom gatekeepers to rear out of their hibernation and just shame anyone who tried to introduce an Original Character to this already beautiful world and ruin it with their lusts. Thus the OCs slowly disappeared and identifying with the male sidekick was born. And this is generally where we get the whole "my smol gay son!" bullshit. (side note: please keep in mind that 75% of shows are male characters and their problems, which is another cause for female fans to identify solely with men.)

So, for years, I watched Danny, and then his boyfriend Ethan, being shoved aside in fandom spaces so that the fans could focus Sterek (Stiles and Derek) despite the fact that both characters were stared to be heterosexual and that, on screen, they expressed nothing but mutual dislike for one another, if not outright hatred. This got so bad that Sterek, the crack ship whose members had no romantic or sexual interactions whatsoever, managed to beat (by a very large margin) actual gay ships from both this show and others in a fan poll. It got even worse when the character of Danny was written off the show (with no explanation) and we were introduced to the character of Mason.

Mason Hewitt was everything that fandom!Stiles was. He was smart and funny and openly gay and crushing on a hot werewolf. He even did the research that the fandom loved to attribute to Stiles, literally everything that the fandom had Stiles doing in fanon, but somehow the love for him (Mason) wasn't that big of a note in the fandom. I mean, Mason was even a major plot point of season five and the pack's mission to stop the Beast, but i heard nothing but cricket chirps from the fandom.

You'd think that after Stiles was written out of the show for the last season that maybe Mason will get some love now, right?

Wrong!

I didn't think it was possible to get any worse, but the fandom proved me wrong. Because instead of focusing all their pent up energy on Mason and his boyfriend, Corey, who had a number of cute moments in that final season, these fans focused on another crack ship that had no basis anywhere except in their fantasies. That ship being Thiam, which is based, once again, around two characters who actively dislike, if not outright hate, each other and even physically assault one another. But no, that apparently is a display of affection by someone who is emotionally stunted and just needs love to blossom and be his true self.

You notice how often the fetishization of homosexuality (even if only imagined) intersects with woobification?

You'll notice, if you look at Danny and Mason, that they're both POC, with Danny being brown (Hawai'ian) and Mason being black. Now, as I've said before on this blog multiple times, I am the Whittest White Man to ever White, so I don't have any qualifications to talk about fandom racism, so I'm just going to leave that little nugget there for you to think about and interpret how you will.

Moving on to Supernatural...

Before we start with this one, understand that I have not watched this show outside of an episode here and there since season eight, because I realized that no, this show wasn't going to get any better, so if any of this is contradictory to what has happened over the past six seasons (god, this show needs to die!) I do apologize.

Dean Winchester... I never really liked this character, especially as the show went on and I started to actively dislike and then, hate him. So it was annoying not being able to go into any aspect of the Supernatural fandom without coming across a post about Dean and his issues or his Bi sexiness or how his brother was mean to him.

Also, people, understand that this wasn't a new revelation for me. My dislike for Dean and the fandom's obsession with making him bisexual just so they could hook him up with Cas wasn't an overnight decision. I was there...

I was there at the Beginning, when this show first aired, when the ONLY constant characters on this show were Sam and Dean. I endured the hellfire that was Wincest and its infection of almost the entire fandom. Like, that right there, that was one of the most extreme cases of m|m fetishization I've ever seen, because the fandom needed to get off to two guys being together so badly that they turned to actual brothers for want of any other male character.

That's why Destiel immediately became so popular, because here was another guy that we saw with semi regularity that wasn't rated to the Winchesters, obviously they were meant to ship them.

Now, you may be asking yourself, "I thought this bitch was going to talk about gay fetishization, not his dislike for one character?" to which I'll just say I very easily go off tangent. But all of that is relevant because, come one of these later seasons, there was a scene where Dean was at a bar and the (male) bartender hit on him, and he didn't react negatively or homophobic.

Oh, my God, I watched my dash and the tags explode in post after post, meta after meta, about how Bi Dean was canon confirmed! Now he and Cas will HAVE to be together, because its canon that Dean likes guys. and Cas is an angel, who doesn't follow human sexual limitations, and... blah, blah, blah.

Cut to a few years later, and we're introduced to a character named Max Banes, a witch and hunter, who is openly gay and flirts with Sam in his first appearance. Where were all of his metas and fanfics and headcanons? Granted, he only appeared in two episodes, but I have watched people in this and other fandoms build mountains our of molehills, going on and on about how two male characters weren't actually straight and how they were destined to be together because the once wore similar style shirts a couple of seasons apart, or because of a carnation in a jacket pocket that signified love via the Victorian flower code (or something like that), or how the wallpaper of that room they shared a scene in was a subtle clue to their true desire for each other, etc.

And I'm not exaggerating there, those are actual examples I've seen in fandoms over the years.

But back to Max, why is it that he was left along the wayside, despite fitting most of the criteria that fandoms love in their m|m ships while Dean had entire thesis level posts about that time he shared a glance with Castiel or he let a bartender hit on him and not get upset?

And its not just these two shows, not by a long shot. If you were to go into literally any fandom of a certain size or bigger, you will come across fans putting two straight characters together because of "the chemistry" they have. Even if those characters are confirmed to be straight - especially if those characters are confirmed to be straight. Because when these loud fans don't get their crack ship that they rub one out to, they scream queerbaiting and homophobia and oppression, harassing the actors and producers and directors and writers.

Here are some others that just pop to the front of my mind...

Asher Millstone from How To Get Away With Murder (saw him shipped with Connor a lot, despite Connor's actual boyfriend)

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from BBC's Sherlock

Tony Stark from Marvel comics (all because of one panel where he said "ladies and gents" when he announced he was off the market

Literally any male character in the MCU, which is his we get the things like Stucky and Stony that permeate the fandom on almost every level (and some leeway is given here because of the MCU's lack of wueer characters)

Klaus Mikaelson and Stefan Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries/The Originals (honestly, I was surprised that people in the TVD fandom weren't immediately all over Josh and Lucas, because they're literally everything that fans want and use in their headcanon gays)

Kol Mikaelson and Jeremg Gilbert, also from TVD

Elia and Filippo from Skam Italia (despite there being, once again, actual gay characters on this show. Hell, the entire second season was dedicated to a character coming out of the closet and being with a guy)

Etc.

I could go on and on but then this post would seem infinite.

Closing thoughts, please keep in mind that I am just one guy and that my opinions don't represent everyone in fandom spaces. But also bear in mind, that my frustrations are well founded and valid from my own experiences in the fandom.

My sexuality and the fact that I'm attracted to men is not a toy for a bunch of sexually repressed fangirls who think two guys being together is hot.

[christinesficrecs]

hey Chris. please can you recommend some Polyglot Derek fics?

Oh, absolutely!! 

Tell Me, So I Know by TroubleIWant | 7.4K | Mature

It took years for Derek to finally confront the way he felt about Stiles, and even after he figured it out he could only explain in Spanish. It took them two years more to get to where they were now. Only with neither of them quite willing to commit, where exactly is that, anyways?

Well, for Stiles it’s a deserted stretch of road behind the Hale house, half trapped in a car wreck after being abducted by hunters. Frankly, he could really use Derek’s help if he’s going to get out of this alive. Mates are supposed to be able to tell when the other is in pain, right? As Derek would probably say, 'querido, no.'

Or, a love story in two parts... and two languages.

Is That a Gun In Your Pocket Or...That's a Gun In Your Pocket by Elpie (Horribibble) | 8.1K | Explicit

Derek Hale is the best boyfriend.He's sweet. He's funny. He recites Pablo Neruda completely unprovoked.He also happens to be in the murder business. But hey, nobody's perfect.

A romantic comedy with guns and roses.

(Well, maybe not the roses.)

Je t'aime by Robespierre | 17.6K | Explicit

Stiles’ boss is sending him to the Paris office for a few months. He speaks absolutely no French. Enter Derek Hale, French tutor extraordinaire. As Stiles works hard to master a foreign language, everything begins to fall apart around him.

On jest słońcem (He Is The Sun) by haaaveyoumetted | 6.1K

AU where Stiles speaks in Polish to his dad

And maybe he talks to himself in Polish too

And maybe he talks about Derek a lot. Derek’s eyes. Derek’s shoulders. Derek’s adorable teeth. Derek’s arms. Derek Derek Derek

#librarynerd by yodasyoyo | 7.7K

In which Stiles follows Scott into his Spanish study group, takes one look at the hot nerd who runs it and then decides to stay... even though he doesn't actually speak Spanish. 

chantes une nouvelle chanson pour moi by pr1nc3ssp34ch (dallisons) | 13.1K | Explicit

Stiles Stilinski has been at Hogwarts since his first year, okay. That's six years of experience. He knows how Hogwarts works, how it operates. He's not quite an expert or anything, but he's pretty damn sure he knows this school.

So why the hell have they waited like a million years to start taking transfer students?

And why is he the only one who can't get a French date?

lube and determination by bleepobleep | 4.8K | Explicit

It's a holiday classic: homesick boy wants to make a pumpkin pie while studying abroad, boy realizes the only place to find vegetable shortening is a sex shop, and boy makes fool of himself in front of other boy.

Like wine upon the lips by MemeKon | 1.6K

“So, the word's on the streets that you're some sexy polyglot,” Stiles says, wiggling his eyebrows annoyingly before he slumps on the couch next to him and puts his feet on Derek's coffee table, limbs akimbo, loose and long.

“Sexy polyglot,” Derek repeats, raising an eyebrow, and pushing Stiles' feet off the table with his own.

“Yeah, you know, sexy man of many languages.”

“I know what polyglot means,” he replies.

How to Mostly Fail at Wooing Your Grumpy Next Door Werewolf: a comprehensive guide by Stiles Stilinski by crossroadswrite | 4.2K

Stiles peers down at the next profile sees a picture of a man glaring at the camera, ears red and big frames slipping off the bridge of his nose.

Derek ‘bunbuns’ Hale. 25. College student. Likes to take long walks on the beach, shirtless and on a horse and to be a buzzkill that should just get laid.

Que Dis-Tu? by isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella) | 2.5K

What, are you gonna tell me you know Russian next?!” Stiles demanded, flailing one arm, other hand still closed around the spine of his book.

“I do know Russian,” Derek confirmed, still looking confused.

Stiles dropped the book so he could flail both arms in the air. “Of course you do! Why wouldn’t you know Russian?!”

Endearments and That by WhenOopsMetHi | 2.1K

Some days Stiles simply can't go on, it's a building pressure, constant and painful. But then there's Derek, with his croonings and sweet words and endearments and that. And Stiles thinks, maybe, with Derek beside him; he could do this.

[wheredidhiseyebrowsgo]

do you have any Sterek where one of them speaks more than one language??

AND

Anonymous said:Hi. I’m always trying to find fics where Stiles is really into Derek’s ability to speak Spanish. Can you come up with any? 

Sí, por supuesto!  Some are Spanish and some are other languages.- Anastasia

Talk Spanish to Me *trumpet solo* by ShakeThatCocktail

(1/1 I 327 I Teen)

Stiles likes it when Derek talks Spanish

Genim! by thelucky13

(1/1 I 444 I Mature)

Derek and Stiles speak German in bed.

Tourist by rainsoakedshoes

(1/1 I 1,405 I General)

Derek clutched the map to his chest and looked around. None of the street names looked familiar.He was officially lost.He was lost in Poland.This was just great.

Like wine upon the lips by MemeKon

(1/1 I 1,673 I Teen)

“So, the word’s on the streets that you’re some sexy polyglot,” Stiles says, wiggling his eyebrows annoyingly before he slumps on the couch next to him and puts his feet on Derek’s coffee table, limbs akimbo, loose and long.

“Sexy polyglot,” Derek repeats, raising an eyebrow, and pushing Stiles’ feet off the table with his own.

“Yeah, you know, sexy man of many languages.”

“I know what polyglot means,” he replies.

Speaking in Tongues by d0t

(4/? I 3,837 I Explicit)

in which Stiles finds out Derek speaks Polish, a language he hasn’t heard since his mother died. Schmoop will ensue.

How to Mostly Fail at Wooing Your Grumpy Next Door Werewolf: a comprehensive guide by Stiles Stilinski by crossroadswrite

(1/1 I 4,242 I Teen)

(307): My new roommate is one of my Tinder matches… It is so on.(631): U know this is gone far when im in the bathroom trying to take a pic of my asshole.Stiles peers down at the next profile sees a picture of a man glaring at the camera, ears red and big frames slipping off the bridge of his nose.

Derek ‘bunbuns’ Hale. 25. College student. Likes to take long walks on the beach, shirtless and on a horse and to be a buzzkill that should just get laid.

Numbers Are A Bitch by words_reign_here

(3/3 I 15,692 I Explicit)

“It’s major surgery, Stiles.” Scott said and leaned forward. “We can be worried if we want to.”Stiles frowned at him, feeling chastised.“But you’re doing a good thing.” Allison said. She was still holding his hand. “You’ll be great.” She added.Scott looked betrayed.Lydia took a picture of him in the bed.

you know you’re on my mind by bibliosexual

(9/9 I 16,371 I Teen)

If there’s one thing Derek’s learned in life, it’s that crushing on someone who lives on an entire other fucking continent is probably a bad idea.

Nothing But Trouble by charlesdk

(1/1 I 16,478 I Teen)

Stiles and Scott, smugglers, come across an abandoned ship in the middle of nowhere. While looting the ship for goods and valuables, they find an unconscious crew member, who turns out to be a prince. With bounty hunters on their asses, they fly across the galaxy in search for the prince’s lost family.

Your Heart’s Desire by GameCake

(1/1 I 16,848 I Teen)

“I wish we had curly fries for once!” Stiles muttered grumpily. When he turned around, he squealed in surprise. Next to the kitchen table stood a man who was shirtless with his muscular arms crossed over his equally muscular chest. The only article of clothing on his upper body were the weird bracelets that looked like silver thick cuffs. But that wasn’t all. The man was hovering and he did not have legs; his waist dissolved to smoke. “What,” Stiles said when his brain rebooted.

“If that’s what you wish for.” The man said and with a click of his fingers, a plate full of curly fries appeared on the table.

“What.” Stiles repeated.

You’ve Got Whatever’s Left of Me to Get by juniperjamboree

(1/1 I 16,869 I General)

Derek never wanted to run a book store in a college town, but when one hyperactive college student stumbles into The Den, he changes his mind.

He Sees Me for Me by Karlarado for tullycat

(6/? I 23,999 I Not Rated)

Derek and his adopted daughter move to Beacon Hills to try and start up a normal life. They meet Stiles in a park with his service/seeing-eye dog and while Malia bonds with the dog, Derek ends up bonding with Stiles.

[stereklibrary]

like a bomb that's ready to blow by the_problem_with_stardust (4/4 | 5,743 | T)

Derek Hale can handle anything. After all, he is an alpha werewolf and a member of the Supernatural Emergency Containment, Rehabilitation, and Eradication Taskforce.

A SECRET agent.

[jennoasis]

WIP Meme

Thanks for the tag @novemberhush !

 Rules: list 10 words/phrases that have something to do with your work(s) in progress.

 I guess I’ll talk about my Sterek WIP on AO3 since I’m still working on it. Some of these will have to do with what’s already out on the fic and some still to come. I won’t tell you which are which ;) If anyone else wants to do this, tag me so I can read your answers <3

 1)    Werewolves are known!

2)    Iced coffee and cookie bars

3)    Keeping Secrets and Telling Truths

4)    Arson

5)    Lovely dovey smutty fluff :D

6)    BAMF characters.

7)    Polyglot

8)    Derek Hale deserves nice things

9)    Future Planning

10) New York City

[zsphoenix]

Tagged by @shealwaysreads -thanks, darling. 

Rules: answer the questions in a new post and tag blogs you would like to get to know better

Nickname: Morg, Mo.

Star Sign: Taurus

Height:5′5″

Time right now: 12.16

Last thing i googled: Roberto Pereira (portuguese actor *fans self*)

Fave music artist: This week I’ve been loving OCAD

Song stuck in my head: Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You

Last movie i watched: Xmen Apocalipse

Last tv show watched: Almost Human (re watch)

What are you wearing right now: Sweatpants and a sweater

When did you create your blog: uuh? 4 years ago. 

What kind of stuff do i post: I don’t even know anymore. A lot of Sterek, social politics and feminism. Some Marvel and Harry Potter.  Cut & Run series. Anything that strikes my fancy. 

Do i have any other blogs: Museum Ramble / My Witchy Attic / A Polyglot’s Journey

Do i get asks regularly: Not really. My mutuals and I always exchange little things, but otherwise, no. 

Why did i choose my url: Because I need to remember that I can always reinvent myself from the ashes of my mistakes  - like a phoenix. And this came from Zane Garrett’s character.

Gender: Female.

Hogwarts house: Slytherin.

Pokemon team: *whispers* i don’t play pokemon 

Favorite color: Navy blue 

Average hours of sleep: 6.

Favorite character(s): torture. Ariel ( the little mermaid) and Zane Garrett (cut & run series). 

How many blankets do i sleep with: as of yesterday, one. Because it’s starting to get warm again. 

Dream job: oh boy... work in a big museum (Like the MET or the Rijksmuseum or MASP ). I just can’t chose which department yet. Something with conservation.

Following: so many, and most are innactive :( 

Not tagging anyone today. If you wanna do it, you can say it was me that tagged you! <3

[bibliophile246]

Ho Ho Ho it’s Sterek Santa here!! Sorry for the late message I’ve been busy checking my naughty list! Now what kind of Sterek do you like? Fluffy and festive? What kind of Sterek fanart do you like??

I’m so sorry, because I really have no idea when this was sent. But! I have a deep and abiding affection for oblivious!sterek. Basically married and unaware of it is one of my favorite tropes. I also love bamf!Stiles, nerd!Derek, polyglot!Derek, polish speaking!Stiles, sub/bottom!Derek. For fanart, maybe something with wolf!Derek and fox!Stiles or cat!Stiles.