✨jada✨

@thefudge_on_ao3 @janedazey and by 'or' i really mean 'and'

@thefudge_on_ao3 need you or @janedazey to write this ASAP instead of torturing me with your galaxy-brained visions

this is how you get me to care about a ship; when the guy is GONE and PATHETIC and YEARNS and hides it with jokes while victoria is like i'm busy mr hot nurse

mckay is an amazing character for so many reasons but perhaps her greatest quality is just being 45. all of robby’s mind games only work if you’re seeking his validation and that is something mckay simply is not interested in. on account of how she’s 45

he really nailed the walking into work and seeing the bullshit your coworkers left you look

joy clocked in, gave zero fucks, dropped the photographic memory bomb, humbled ogilvie’s tall ass, set her boundaries and dipped. what a legend

joy said y’all are depressed and dysfunctional not me tho

@pittwinks DANA KILL HIM

“is there anything else” “yeah you” EXCUSE TF OUT OF ME

@richiekim_WHSD @tsukaharaneko_ oh, i believe it. i really think some of it is just conditioning of expectations. i think people can't know they might like something else more if they've never and would never try it bc they've been trained to never stray from the formula.

@jeronicami @tsukaharaneko_ Well the dark Romantasy series generally don't dare to depict the female lead doing morally gray things whether it's for her revenge or for her newfound male love interest or both especially in East Asian reads. I kid you not their female leads "aren't allowed" to be morally gray

i think two things can be true. dismissing all het romance as backwards is shortsighted and shitty, but not acknowledging that a LOT of mainstream het romance (esp lately) is built on sexist and bioessentialist tropes just makes this argument go in circles.

@richiekim_WHSD i'd honestly argue in female demographic reads too. it's a genre of escapist romance that to be fair it's readers recognize as pure fantasy, i've just never been able to understand the appeal of reading about cardboard cutout women going through infantilizing tropes like dolls

@jeronicami And the "falling in love solves all your problems especially if you're a woman" writing element is actually problematically sexist to the fictional woman involved. This writing element is unfortunately common in action-fantasy stories especially in male demographic reads.

@richiekim_WHSD yeah unfortunately all i keep seeing in reference to her SA backstory is that it gives the male protagonist a chance to rage out and punch the guy who did it to her and 'it's so buzzy' which is 🙃

@jeronicami + "completely solved by the male protagonist" cos' that's the sexist way to say that female characters are always incapable to confront and/or overcome the problems they have just because of their gender as women. Hence I dislike the 'Rescue Romance' trope very much.

@richiekim_WHSD @tsukaharaneko_ i honestly don't even need it to be healthy as long as it's balanced. i've read some banger toxic psychosexual dynamics (some of which explicitly invert the trope scaffolding they're employing) but it requires both characters having equal teeth and getting equally in the mud

@tsukaharaneko_ @jeronicami Yeah, I've to endure going through the rabbit hole as a healthy give-and-take relationship between the hetero couple is a very rare find, including in animanga medium, not to mention having the female lead not solely define herself based on her romance with her male lead.

@queeniekie @tsukaharaneko_ true 'lately' is probably more of an exposure indicator

@tsukaharaneko_ @jeronicami you're right, it's probably just become more inescapable lately bc of booktok

i feel like a lot of fic discourse just boils down to yes, people can write w/e they want and no, that doesn't protect them from being judged for it. campaigning for censorship is wrong and a waste of time. campaigning for everyone to be cool w/ your kink is also a waste of time.

@seiiusa YESSSSSSS this EXACTLY

it's just not fun if the woman is not entertaining me as well with the head over heels shenanigans. i think ships are best when they match each other intellectually and emotionally and romantically

mmm yes and no

@ksgwave insane how people don't get this!

as someone with 9+ years of fanfic writing: fanfic and original fic are not comparable when you read fanfic, you're already emotionally invested. you love the characters, so even the most cliche romance prompt will hit because it's them. that same exact plot in an original book and you'd put it down by chapter two aside of plot, i think we've all read fanfic with rough writing and still felt something. clunky prose, weird pacing, none of it matters when it's your favorite characters. original doesn't get that grace. if the writing isn't pulling you in on its own, you're gone original has to build that investment from scratch. it has to make you care about complete strangers with nothing but words on a page. that's a completely different skill and a completely different reading experience. the standards are just different

feels like we're blaming the wrong thing

@nal4sit np, and same! her samira is what really drew me in. i loved how she's still so thorough and invested in her patients but not some cookie cutter goody two shoes at ALL and actually pretty messy. she feels like a powder keg and post-exile langdon's a surprisingly interesting match.

@jeronicami this was so fun to read, i found the writer’s portrayal of samira here really intriguing! im tuned in, thanks again for introducing me to this fic hehe

so sad that samira and mel have become the most self-inserted characters on the pitt

went to the beautiful doe eyed doctors going through the horrors convention and she's the first one there

since people are DMing me for this, this is the samira fic i was talking about. it's frank/samira (which is not my usual ship at all) but her samira is fucking perfect and at one point imagines langdon with a feeding tube that's feeding him constant praise archiveofourown.org/works/81451361…

to no one's surprise the 'real' books people are talking about in the comments are gay hockey books, fourth wing, and ACOTAR. can you outgrow twitter at 23? asking for a friend.