jmtorres | Oh my god

I cannot fix all the badfic and I should tamp down hard on the desire to TRY. Like, that one wasn't even badly written, it just could have been more interesting with a slightly different premise, and it was off a kinkmeme so you fill what you get asked, I get that.

AND I DID NOT NEED SLAVE!TONY IN MY HEAD ASKING FOR A BETTER STORY FML

ETA: Other things that freak me out about fanfiction: horrifying Tony with Steve/Howard. And like, the weird thing is, I'm pretty sure, based on the whole Carter legacy, that if Steve had slept with Howard it would turn him into an obsessed creepface about Tony, but I don't get the sense that fandom is drawing that parallel, I think fandom is just having its own personal id all over everything creepface issues. (I SAY THIS WITH LOVE. I AM NOT JUDGING YOUR CREEPFACE. MUCH.)

On the other hand, I think it would be really hilarious to horrify STEVE with Tony knowing about Steve/Howard. It was just one of those things--Dad bagged Captain America. (I am imagining Tony got told as a teenager when he started sleeping with boys and Howard was like "You think this is a rebellion? Let me tell you about my boyfriends, trust me, you're not rebelling against anything here," and frankly, Steve is HORRIFIED that the tale of their LOVE got used this way. Tony is like, "Whatever, I was pretty horrible as a teenager, I probably deserved it." Ahahaha, oh Tony, as a teenager you were horrible. Yes.)

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This is now making me wonder about interpretations of requests. Because I have had people tell me "You should write [kink]", in a way that makes it obvious that they're after it because it turns them on, but I've also had people encourage me to write certain stories, which may or may not have been about turning them on. So now I'm wondering how my agreement that someone should totally write X because it would be awesome has been taken in the past. Hmm.

(A couple of years of putting up with certain people who would tell me things like they "had alone time" or "jumped [their] husband" after reading fic has left me oblivious to anything but anvils.)

I don't know if you've ever seen it, but I've definitely seen people leave comments on peoples' fic that say things like, "OMG, the way Bob jumped Pete was so hot! You should write a kidnapping fic where Bob has to rescue Pete and it's all so UST-y because he's remembering [blahblahblah]" and it's pretty obviously not about what the writer has written; it's about what the reader wants. And I think there should be boundaries around that--people should recognize that sometimes, that is your greasy id-issues. They're the kind of things that are actually subject to boundaries, even if it's just recognizing that your lustful ideas and the author's fic are not of the same part; they're separate.

Oh no, I absolutely have seen that - I've had that! I'm definitely not denying those exist, I'm wondering where the boundary is, but I think it's one of those "I'll know it when I see it". I just don't want to come off as skeevy if people are asking for suggestions, you know?

Oh my god

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