#your discourse is problematic

[yoificfridays]

Week 3 Fics: Problematic Tropes

As always, feel free to send in fics for a prompt even after the “deadline” has passed. I’ll absolutely post the links :)

a kiss for a dish by this has been cary ( @cary-onmywaywardson)

Yuuri was sick of Viktor continuously leaving dishes in his and Phichit's apartment, and was going to do something about it. For a week, Viktor only got as many kisses as dishes he cleaned, unless he did them all. Also, they're in college, and three of them are strippers.

you can have my everything by spookyfoot ( @katsukiyuuristrophyhusband )

It’s not until they’re lying in bed—sweat cooling on their bodies, Yuuri’s head cradled on Victor’s chest—that Victor realizes all of his meticulously curated props and costumes are lying abandoned all throughout their apartment.

“Yuuri?”

“Mmmm,” Yuuri mumbles into Victor’s chest.

“Did you do that on purpose?” ___________________

3 times Yuuri strips out of self interest and 1 time he strips out of love.

Featuring: high-stakes Monopoly, novelty aprons, aborted role-play, and a lot of banter. It's approximately 80% banter.

Week 4 Prompt will be up within the hour.

[lookninjas]

I went into a tag rant about this, but I’m going to put it forth more publicly because I am so goddamn tired (so tired):

There is enough suffering in the world that everyone can have a share in it.  There is no need to turn pain into a pissing contest.  One person’s loss does not invalidate another’s, and it is a supremely dickish move to act as though it does.

FURTHERMORE.  If you’re willing to play these little “Who Had It Worse” games with fictional characters, I personally don’t trust you not to do it with real people.  Sorry. but I just don’t.  So if you’re dead-set on jumping into a post about how Leia comforted Luke and then Luke comforted Leia and hey they’re both kind to each other isn’t that great with a “Well, actually,” then you and I probably shouldn’t hang, is my point.

There is no winning the Trauma Olympics.  There’s just loss and pain and a handful of dickbags who can’t resist turning every goddamn thing into a competition because they’re dickbags.  DON’T BE THAT DICKBAG.

[lookninjas]

143.

I can't find the right words to make it clear and catchy and strong but not too controversial, but you've seen this, right?  This constant contest for the Most Woke Fave.  As though the Messiah, as though the Immortal as though there can be only -- you know the joke. As though what matters most is we all pledge allegiance to the right fucking flag and not that we lower our eyes to the anthill around us, all these strivers, all this small work and say, "Maybe this is how we find our own salvation. Not in one perfect being, but among our fellow flawed dreamers."

You've seen that, right? It's not just me.