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every fleetwood mac documentary i've ever watched is like "the band was at the height of their success, enjoying the fame rolling in from their #1 hit 'i know about the other woman, lindsey'. however, nobody could have sensed the tension brewing between members."
"the group initially disbanded immediately after the release of the single 'well get the fuck out if you're going to be like that', leaving thousands of fans shocked."
What are your thoughts on Katseye?
WHO?
Are you going to watch the Netflix documentary on the accusations against MJ?
The "Totally not biased" shitshow made with the same guy that was exposed for being a scammer who did everything from editing videos to faking documents to slander people? I'd rather eat glass.
Can't wait for the inevitable "I know I tried to make this man seem like a freak of nature and a danger both to himself and others, but I actually believe he's innocent and adored him" switch up from Bashir once he gets chewed the hell up. Again.
Hope he dies choking on the shit that he spews out of his mouth.
Why do you say Harry Styles is overrated?
I didn't say he's overrated, I said he's BORING. Very different. Overrated would mean the people talking about him were the problem, not the shitty elevator music he puts out and that I'm expected to pretend its great and makes him the new Bowie just because he put on a silly/fruity outfit.
If the music was good, I'd say "Fans and the medua overhype how 'revolutionary' he is, but there's still good stuff to be found in the discography, just go expecting cool shit like you do with any singer, not the new Prince, Bowie or MJ"
But the highest praise I've ever been able to give him was "This one was mid enough for me to let it play but I won't remember anything about it in 5 minutes, instead of flat out slop made solely for TikTok that I'd turn off immediately".
Therefore he's boring.
some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.
also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.
“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.
reading problematic fanfiction but shaking my head so random tumblr user who thinks thought crimes are real knows I don't condone it in real life
ignore my boaner 👍
fictional characters can't consent because they aren't real.. but YOU can consent to reading heavy themes, and you can withdraw consent by clicking the back button and stopping any time, it is your choice to read stories that include or exclude consent 👍
I love when puritans are so far up their ass they circle back to being more perverted than the original concept
one of the things that makes autism a disability (and why some of us choose to label it as such rather than an “alternate neurotype”) is the stress.
part of autism is just being incredibly stressed. overstimulation? stress. holding a conversation? stress. something happening to our schedule? stress. people talk about how often autism is recognized and diagnosed via our stress responses (like meltdowns) because it is just so common to see autistic people stressed because of lack of accommodations to how our brains work.
and this matters because stress kills. stress causes a lot of health issues, or it can trigger pre-existing ones by making certain chronic conditions flare up. i once had a psychiatrist very unhelpfully tell me i “just need to manage my stress” when the stress i was describing was things i could not avoid in neurotypical society and can’t “just get over”. i can do “self care” all i like but i cannot at the very base level change the way my brain inputs information and reacts accordingly.
i only learned this year that loud noises aren’t physically painful for other people. i have lived 34 years in a world in which my friends and family regularly physically hurt me at random just by shouting, and i thought everyone else just thought i was kind of a wimp for not dealing with the pain as well as they did.
like. loud noises physically hurt. it’s like a static shock from my ears to my spine that doesn’t stop until the volume goes back down. i thought we all agreed that ‘that’s too loud!’ and covering our ears meant ‘ouch!’. turns out i’ve been dealing with a stressor almost no one else has, my whole life, alone.
autistic people have to keep functioning through debilitating levels of stress that no one else in their life acknowledges or helps them with. it’s no wonder that their most visible ‘tells’ are breakdowns.
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Do you think that Azula would ever force herself on Zuko? If so, under what circumstances?
When she can't stand the blue balls anymore and just attacks him when he's drunk or something. Basically the Andy and Leyley route XD
So I reread some early zucest fanfiction and I want to say a few things on the whole "Evil Azula manipulates/takes advantage on poor defenceless Zuko" trope. Are there fics that fit into this category with zero additional depth? Yes. But I'd argue that it's not all of them. A lot of fics don't show Azula as pure evil, but rather as a broken girl that craves love and is using sex with her brother as a way to be close to him without emotional intimacy because she was raised in an extremely fucked up way. A lot of fics also showcase how Zuko craves to dominate Azula in any way and loves seeing her defenseless so he'll gladly take sex as a way to do it (I'm especially amazed at fics written in 2006/2007, before the finale and before Zuko said the infamous "Help me put Azula in her place" line). What I will say though is that most if not all of this fics don't treat Zuko as someone who is just as responsible for sleeping with his sister as she is for sleeping with him. Like there's always a little too much emphasis on "Azula is fucked in the head for using sex to manipulate Zuko" and not enough emphasis on "Zuko is fucked in the head for going balls deep in his younger sister and getting off on her being submissive to him." To me it's kind of "Crossroads of Destiny" situation. Is Azula a big reason as to why Zuko made the choice that he made? Yes. But at the end of the day it was his decision and the narrative should treat it as such.
The very fact that it has Zuko wanting to DOMINATE Azula shows me you either haven't gone far back enough or looked into very different sites from the ones I had to suffer through, or either overfocused on a few key exemples or the search function was shit and gave you a wrong impression.
The truly ANCIENT Zucest fics I bitch about didn't treat either of them as complex characters. It was spineless victim and crazy rapist sister. It had the general vibe of "Either inspired solely by Azula almost taking him prisoner/having a breakdown OR written by someone who never even watched the show." It wasn't the ONLY kind of fics around, but it was the majority, at least for a bit and on sites like fanfic.net.
The type of fics you're describing sound more like the early days of ao3, or at least like the kind of fics that inspired that era, in which their roles of Good Guy VS Bad Guy are fixed but there's some semblance of their canon dynamic, with hints of the days of "Azula is the main character who does everything and has actual goals and thoughts, Zuko is just the emotional crutch with no real arc or skills."
Basically you've went far enough to get a transitional stage, but not the true "BACK IN MY DAY."
As for the fics ignoring the obvious "Azula can't seduce Zuko if he's not already attracted to her" problem, yeah, that was the main problem with that era of fics. Though it does not surprise me that some of them were written before Zuko's line of wanting to put Azula in her place because, while that was the first time he explicitly SAID it, the vibe was there much earlier.
I'm sorry but zucest has rotted my brain to the point where I cannot take any Maiko/Maizula love triangle seriously, especially angsty ones because my brain will automatically go: "why won't these three just screw each other." People will be like: "Oh Mai and Zuko are married but Mai and Azula clearly also have a thing going on and Zuko is going insane with jealousy" and I'll be like: "Why is Zuko mad that he won in life? He should stop being a dum-dum and go ravish his sister and his wife."
He should go ravish his wife and his sister-wife. Who are glad to share - especially since Mai is quite the cuckqueen, which means Azula doesn't have to ACTUALLY share that much XD
In honor of my puppy:
Zuko and Azula each attempting to clicker train each other
They'd get snappy at each other for it, hate-fuck about it, then switch methods of training. Guess the results? Same bullshit.
What do you think was Ursa's whole deal with Azula? Did she really fear or even hate her daughter, or was she just concerned and Azula misunderstood/interpreted that concern as hatred/fear?
Show!Ursa was a concerned parent that absolutely fucked up to express her valid concerns in a way that wasn't doomed to be taken the wrong way by Azula, or literally anyone with eyes.
She did not hate or fear Azula, but Azula didn't reach the wrong conclusion because she was stupid or crazy, Ursa didn't help her own case.
She wanted her kids to get along and encouraged them to play together, and would spend time with the two of them - but one-on-one time seems to be something only Zuko got. That's playing favorites, even if she didn't mean to, something the writers themselves acknowledged. Hell, ZUKO acknowledged it by not arguing when Azula said their mother preferred him.
She corrected Zuko's bad behavior gently, with Azula she went straight for the scolding - and no, her being right to be mad/concerned doesn't negate her going about it the wrong way/in a way that she wouldn't have done with Zuko.
She was a human being who messed up.
Comics!Ursa was a bitch though. Bad parent, bad person, bad character, nothing salvageable there.
I wish more people would be more like you.
Thanks!
LONG OVERDUE - Zucest Week, Day 2 - Parent(s) walk in on them
Buffy The Vampire Slayer episodes 1 & 2
