Ah, okay! I'll write something up to post maybe tomorrow, then, I think I am probably ready to be thick-skinned about this particular issue.
...you were around for that meta kerfuffle years ago about how all slashers are queer because writing slash is a sexual act, weren't you? Because on the one hand, no, we are talking about a bad Steve/Tony AU, it is not the same thing, but on the other hand, it is all a continuum, and also we are digging deep into our vulnerable places, and sharing them, when we do this, that's why these issues keep coming up.
...and I see, that explains it. When I ran out of first-run Steve/Tony recently I decided for some reason to instead start re-reading all of the Eroica fic on AO3. In chronological order, starting with the ones that were written in the 90s. And speaking of OMG THE CONSENT PROBLEMS. :P Either my memory has gone all rosy, or I really have gotten accustomed to much better treatment of this stuff in only the past three or four years since the last time I did that.
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...you were around for that meta kerfuffle years ago about how all slashers are queer because writing slash is a sexual act, weren't you? Because on the one hand, no, we are talking about a bad Steve/Tony AU, it is not the same thing, but on the other hand, it is all a continuum, and also we are digging deep into our vulnerable places, and sharing them, when we do this, that's why these issues keep coming up.
...and I see, that explains it. When I ran out of first-run Steve/Tony recently I decided for some reason to instead start re-reading all of the Eroica fic on AO3. In chronological order, starting with the ones that were written in the 90s. And speaking of OMG THE CONSENT PROBLEMS. :P Either my memory has gone all rosy, or I really have gotten accustomed to much better treatment of this stuff in only the past three or four years since the last time I did that.