May 25, 2023
do you ever end up accidentally getting super attached to a trope so specific and rare you don't even know how to look for it? 'space aliens failing to understand that a human showing teeth usually isn't a threat display' isn't even an ao3 tag. finding that shit in published fiction or tv shows is next to impossible
#<- guy who searches ao3 by the 'misunderstandings' tag without even specifying a fandom#mumbling#if you've been following me for a while you may remember my introduction to mcyt was when i started scraping the bottom of the barrel#looking for 'humans are space orcs' stories#but what you may not know is that was already a ways down a rabbit hole that began with *avatar the last airbender*#it basically went#'holy shit salvage is a good story' -> read every existing version of hakoda being a good dad to zuko ->#'shinsou hitoshi getting adopted by aizawa has the same vibes fuck it i'll read that too' -> 'why are they aliens in so many of these' ->#get addicted to the 'humans are space orcs' trope -> find a whole collection of fics about that exact thing ->#for some reason the collection is 80% dsmp fics -> i am not picky -> 'oh no they've got a crow-coded father figure' ->#still not rly interested in the dsmp source material -> minecraft kinda interesting tho -> wait what's hermitcraft -> and now here we are#all bc 3 years ago i wanted zuko to have a decent father figure#firelord ozai made me draw pinup art of goodtimeswithscar: the true and harrowing tale of my descent into madness#flameo hotguy or whatever the kids are saying these days
