You've heard about the Edmonton polycule but have you heard about the Gaydettes?
Warning to everyone that this is parasocial and if you are uncomfortable RPFing about two women who are not technically public figures, feel free to stop here. From what I can see of their social media they would eat it up — but fair warning and don't put this speculation anywhere off tumblr.
So it is very important to understand Adam is the least important part of the polycule. Well. That's not true. He's more important than the second husband (added today! Mazel tov!) but less important than the wives. Micaela and Madison are very hot women who look like sisters and have been best friends for over a decade (sound familiar?). I can only presume from their social media comments that they've been fucking each other and their conquests together for just as long. I'm actually gonna start with today's posts because I need you to understand the seriousness of the situation
Do we see? Do we understand!?? Good. I know very little but I will take you on a gay tour of their most incriminating moments, doing my best to ignore the typical straight girl comments so you too comprehend the truth of the polycule. Take my hand as I weave lies (THEY'RE FUCKING).
Vertex one: Adam
Adam has liked every single one of Micaela and Madison's posts. Boy is dedicated. He's commented at a near equal level as well. A sampling:
And of course it is mutual:
Now at this point I was like. Well surely this is one of those terrible straight jokes. Where they pretend to be gay to show how woke and comfortable in their sexuality they are. But then there is the Gaudette wedding itself, at which they three committed to each other and Adam was caught sending heart-eyes at them:
I am truly lost for words. I'm just gonna be pointing at things and making noises the rest of this post basically. Next, Micaela has a baby! Madison is beside herself ("my best friend is making me a new best friend"). Naturally they make her the godmother as her birthday present.
It's genuinely very sweet. Let's move on to the sex toy Madison's husband.
Vertex Two: Dalton
This guy is a football player for the AFL Texans and he has no idea he just entered what will inevitably end as a fourway polycule. But Micaela's testing the fences:
Yeah they're gonna turn that boy into a couch. And by the recent wedding photo, Adam's on board.
Vertices 3-4: Micaela & Madison
The MEAT of the thing. I apologize deeply for the weird way these will look but I am up to the tumblr photo limit and had to get creative because they're vital inclusions:
The first photo is part of a 'how it's going vs how it started' carousel of the two of them posted by Madison— this is 'how it started'. Micaela commented something uncouth about the hot dog. The 'how it's going' picture is a sweet couples photo of them sitting in an arena, Micaela's hand on Madison's knee in an air of comfortable ownership.
The second photo is a headless bikini shot of Micaela's tan which has clearly made Madison feral. Moving on! To more gay degeneracy.
2 for 1 wives??? Can't wait to smooch LESBIAN EMOJI and reenact these LESBIAN EMOJI????
It's also important to note that Micaela referred to Adam as #breedingmaterial. Clearly these dastardly women have been planning how to have a kid together for years and are using Adam to facilitate. He seems pleased as punch to be involved. Poor Dalton is gonna have a hell of an initiation.
On an rpfing note: the wacklins should go to Micaela for their big queer questions. Cat is great but she lacks experience.
Okey doke I need to get this out to the newsboys hot off the presses so just leaving you with this picture of the lesbian wives and their son:
i know i talk a lot about the relationship between humans and animals in ancient rome and i’m constantly very emotional about it but i NEED you all to look at this part of a mosaic of a race horse named polidoxus that says “whether you win or not, we love you, polidoxus”
i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.
Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.
Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.
However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.
The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.
The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.
I've made this observation before, but there's a distinct and strong correlation between "wanting simplistic, saccharine, and morally binary media" and "authoritarianism". It's not a 1 to 1, which is where a lot of people seem to misunderstand things; it's not "If you like fluff, you're a jackbooted authoritarian." Very much not. This is a pattern that grows up out of thousands--hundreds of thousands--of individual interactions, out of culture, out of a shift of perspectives on what is seen as the norm and what is seen as outrageous.
Individual people liking cutesy fluff? Not a problem. Thousands of people insisting that fluff is the only acceptable option and if you dare make them think and consider, you're the problem?
That's a Problem.
It's the shifting of norms in culture, and fandom is not an isolated bubble--it's a representative of larger trends. And the trend right now in our larger culture, especially in America, is authoritarianism. Authoritarianism that has gone past "creeping" and is now "prancing", "dancing", "galloping", or dare I say goosestepping. Of course that's going to have an impact on the cultural scenes, including fandom!
And there's a correlation in societies that want saccharine fluff and their own authoritarianism. I can point to numerous examples--Victorian England with the censored stories for children. The USSR with an entire kitschy style of stories and art. The USA before the rise of Trump with Thomas Kinkaid's art. And that's just scratching the surface.
The main point in bringing this up is to be aware of the trend, not to take it as a personal attack for enjoying fluffy stories.
And I think the way to keep this from pendulum-swinging into “fluffy stories bad” (because we know this does happen with any observation of problematic trends—see: feminist critiques of objectification turning into puritanical sex-negativity, critiques of appropriation turning into enforcing cultural “purity”, etc) is to shift the focus from the presence of this kind of fiction to the proportional absence of the alternative.
Obviously, the presence is easier to spot—you can actually see something that is present, but you can’t directly see something that’s absent—so it makes sense that this is the first piece of evidence in building this critique, but the critical thing that makes this an issue is the absence of engagement with challenging works, not actually the engagement with unchallenging ones.
Positive emotions and things that make us feel safe and cared for are as important a part of the human experience as for the negative. And safety-seeking can be as much a response to the rise of fascism to get away from it as an indication of people falling into it. We just can’t only have the safe, unchallenging stuff. Because it is that censorship and cutting out of fundamental parts of human experience that feeds into the social conservatism & puritanism of authoritarianism.
My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.
Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?
What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?
Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.
ughhhh the two guys i kidnapped and tied up together in my basement aren't even developing any sexual tension they're just crying and whimpering 🙄🙄🙄 fuck my stupid fujo life
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sorry it just hit me that in 4 years they'll be celebrating 20 years of knowing each other and now i feel like i'm gonna cry, because that's a lifetime filled with a million different lifetimes affected by two people loving each other so very much
in 4 years we're gonna have a 42 year old phil and a 38 year old dan who will have spent literal decades creating a whole world together ;____;
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