part 344 birdies going tweet tweet tweet

[aphanon_meme]

on my little boat on the meme! How was your weekend, meme? Good, I hope! I am LOVING these updates, by the way! I feel like it's Christmas! But in October and November! It's really refreshing to have new material and it kinda feels like a ~rejuvenation~ in the fandom! Well... anywho!

Enjoy part 344!

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Re: ITT: Fandom pet peeves

[laurasaur]

+1 SO HARD ON THE LAST ONE

Mostly because it ends up really killing any kind of complexity in a relationship between two characters, or just a character's personality in general???

Not to mention, I have yet to see a fanfic that handles a suicidal character in a decent way and I've seen a LOT of them.

Re: ITT: Fandom pet peeves

[romanon]

Yeah, that's the thing that bothers me the most - I'm almost invariably in it for the characters, when it comes to fandom, so when so many works flatten them to this one trait it gets very frustrating.

And yes it's REALLY hard to find. Mostly because like anon said downstairs they're also terrible at subtlety and this is one of those things that requires some.

Re: ITT: Fandom pet peeves

[laurasaur]

Yeah, it's like, I'd much rather read about a rivalry between two characters that runs in a different manner than just "HATE YOU I HATE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS DAMN WORLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD" etc etc. Like for instance, having a moment between characters that are usually aloof or rude toward each other because of old grudges where they actually maybe think for a few that "haha, maybe you're not too bad" even if it's not for long. Or reading about a couple who is seen as "perfect" having an argument and having to own up to things and admit their mistakes in order to make things work??? I DUNNO, MAN.

Re: ITT: Fandom pet peeves

[romanon]

Oooh those are a huge soft spot of mine - fics in which enemies have to work together, for example. Even in shows when there's an arch-enemy everybody hates there's always one ep in which the enemy and the hero have to work together and it's invariably one of my faves especially because of that. Begrudging respect for the enemy is a concept I love.

And I also love fics in which my OTP argues when they're well-handled. Or in which they bicker all the time but in a way that shows how familiar they are with each other and how they're not afraid of arguing because they're so in love and they want to make things work and augh.

Re: ITT: Fandom pet peeves

[laurasaur]

Rrhrhghgh YEAH I LOVE THOSE... one of the main reasons why I loved one of my favorite games was because the protagonist and the antagonist had to share the protagonist's mind (the antagonist was an alien thing that possessed the main character) and they had to work together to survive because neither wanted to die, but wanted the other gone. And at the same time, through sharing a brain, they started like to... merge together (alien becoming more human and human becoming more alien etc) and that was SO NEAT BECAUSE YOU HAD THAT CONFLICT... A+

But yeah!!! Me too, because it shows that they want to make things work and being able to admit that they fricked up to the other and allow themselves to feel more vulnerable in that sense is SO GOOD.