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me watching Roswell with my sister is just an extended improv session where I pretend to be a normal person who’s invested in Michael and Alex’s relationship a normal amount

craftydelusioncheesecake

This so much describes fandom!

monkeyelbow

I was thinking about that perhaps, before the fire, during Derek’s adolescence, he meets, without knowing each other, with Scott and Stiles, during his road to Beacon Hills High school.

#teen wolf #derek hale #stiles stilinski #cute

joelvoice

Christmas Polaroid Card by JoelVoice

were-dragon

Derek is bored. He’s been waiting for Stiles in his room - and no, it’s not creepy, Stiles, shut the fuck up, it’s necessary - for what feels like forever. That idiot probably got himself detention. Again. Bloody typical. In the middle of the territorial dispute with pixies and he chooses to waste more time than he has to in school. But back to the point. Derek is bored, and he already read all the books and comics Stiles has displayed in his room, because this is so not the first time Derek has to wait for him. For hours. Like he doesn’t have better things to do with his time.

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#sterek #stiles stilinski #derek hale

lockdownfest

Lock Down Fest (20-30 March)

Lock Down Fest is a non-anon, self-posting, multi-ship and multi-fandom mini fest that is designed to bring comfort to everyone staying indoors under quarantine restrictions at the moment and to all of us experiencing fear because of the pandemic. Anxiety levels are high and the news is distressing, so we want to invite everyone to use this time to be creative and spread joy. LDF will run from 20-30 March; announcements will be made here.

We want everyone to be encouraged to participate and to follow the fest, but we also appreciate that reading about the virus can be upsetting for many people. For that reason, we’ve decided on a twofold theme:

a. Getting Stuck In/Isolated Together (which doesn’t need to involve the virus in any way whatsoever)

b. Quarantine-inspired, if it occurs during the current pandemic. Works MUST be tagged with the tag: “Covid-19 Related” on AO3.

All kinds of fanworks are welcome with no minimum or maximum wordcount for fics. There is no claiming time nor the need to sign up. Simply, 1. visit the collection on AO3 and post your work when it opens, then 2. email: quarantinefest [at] gmail [.] com with a link to your fanwork.

If you don’t wish to write or draw, you can always contribute by offering beta services. Feel free to DM one of the mods and we’ll post a list with those volunteering to beta in the next couple of days. We’d appreciate it if all fics are beta-read.

Most importantly, please ensure you tag your work as “Covid-19 related” on AO3 if it takes place during the current pandemic, so as to give the chance for readers to exclude the tag, if they wish. Be mindful of your tags: if they deal with a pandemic anyway (historical or fictional), do tag and warn accordingly. If your work doesn’t comply with this requirement and we can’t get hold of you via the email provided, your work might be removed from the collection.

Lock Down Fest is open to everyone over 18 years old.

Your mods,

@magpiefngrl @nerdherderette @tackytigerfic @shealwaysreads (our fantastic and speedy banner-maker <3 )

geeky-sova

Safe and sound, all the way through the night…

IDEK what this is… it’s just something I needed to get out of my system.

[picture based on a reference photo]

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Oh my god this is amazing!

#sterek #stiles stilinski #derek hale

ren-nolasco

Set of holographic stickers dedicated to The Holy Trinity.

craftydelusioncheesecake

Heh

#fanfic

everythingfox

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Photo by Ivan Kislov

craftydelusioncheesecake

Cute

#fox stiles #teen wolf #stiles stilinski

darkmousyr

Druid Stiles

#sterek #stiles stilinski #derek hale

paw-prika

Everything is blue His pills, his hands, his jeans And now I’m covered in the colors Pulled apart at the seams And it’s blue And it’s blue

three--rings

There’s always a lingering question that I ask myself, which is why do I, a cis bisexual woman, enjoy romance between two men so much?

There are easy answers, like that it’s just fetishizing. And like, I find men attractive, yes. But I also find women attractive. I don’t have a problem with enjoying het romance, assuming I can find good ones. I enjoy stories with female characters I can relate to.

But there’s something much deeper at play, IMO. A friend of mine who is a gender studies professor was the first person to point this out to me, but a lot of women enjoy m/m romance and gay porn because of the lack of women. It removes a source of pressure and sexism. Without any women present, you don’t have to constantly evaluate the sexism of their portrayal, or be reminded of negative experiences in your own life. It allows women to experience romance and especially sexuality without all the baggage that comes with it in our patriarchal society.

This was recently illustrated to me rather dramatically. I read a recommendation for a het romance. And it sounded cute, and came highly recommended. The tropes at play were fun. Until I read a snippet and realized this was a romance between a woman and her boss. I had a visceral negative reaction.

Instantly I’m thinking of sexual harassment stories I’ve read and heard from other women. I’m thinking of how uncomfortable it would be to have your boss develop feelings for you. How icky the power dynamics would be, etc.

And then I realized…this wouldn’t bother me if it were two men. Now, there’s no logical reason for that. Sexual harassment is just as wrong when its object is a man. But I know I’ve read fics with a similar premise and never thought about it. Because when it’s two men I can accept this is just a light romance, a fantasy, meant to be fun and sexy and not to represent the real world.

But I can’t when it’s a het relationship. There’s too much baggage there. Too much societal history of abuse. I can’t relax enough with the premise to enjoy that story.

Now some people can. And that’s fine. And some people are never going to be okay with power imbalances like that regardless of gender. That’s also fine. I don’t think having either reaction makes one morally superior. It’s okay to just enjoy light entertainment for what it is without going into deep analysis.

But it’s much more difficult for me, and I think for many women, to relax and enjoy romantic and sexual stories when they involve female characters. We’ve been burned too many times by shitty depictions, by shallow role models, by abuse portrayed as romantic. We have developed a stress response, a trauma response to heterosexual romance. We are hyper-reactive to a wide variety of triggers in regards to it. But removing women from the equation makes stories safer for us. And maybe it shouldn’t? In an ideal world? But for many of us, that’s the truth.