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For all your discussion needs.

Ground rules:
- Try to keep it loosely trash party related, or at least Cap fandom related.
- Disagreement is fine, nastiness is not.
- Being offended is not carte blanche for nastiness.
- Trashmeme ground rules apply. Read at your own risk, no romanticizing your noncon garbage, no wank about the moral acceptability of noncon kink.
- Body shots, sniper shots, and tetanus shots are all available at the open bar. Party like it's 2014, kids.

Comments

Re: dumpster etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

(OP again) Yeah, that makes sense - I also appreciate the variety. Though out of curiosity, what would you define as "competence porn"? I'm unfamiliar with that term.

Re: dumpster etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not 100% sure, but it seems like people use that about stories where Bucky is superficially functional post-WS, where he's either pulling off amazing missions by himself post-hydra, and/or is very clever and snarky? Googling it, it seems to mean something different but in this fandom it always seems to be applied to Bucky and involve that characterization.

competence porn

[(Anonymous)]

Competence porn is basically, like, someone is really really good at something and it's written in such a way that even if the other characters aren't marveling at it, the author is definitely making a big deal of it to the reader. It's not dramatic tension: the joy comes from seeing the character just kicking epic amounts of ass. In movies/TV it often involves a montage to establish someone's skill.

Bucky is generally considered to be very very good at killing people (I mean, that's canon!), but people don't always play that up in their fics. I am one of these people, because I am bad at writing action sequences. But I love reading fic where his skill is emphasized.

Re: dumpster etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, well as someone with a huge physical competence kink, the best examples of competence porn (for me) would be any of the WS' action sequences in Cap 2. Especially that fight before the big reveal. Good god, that knife flip..... Also I recommend you check out Nate Bateman if you have time!! I saw him on my tumblr dash last night and lost my mind.

Re: dumpster etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Nick* Bateman, whoops

Re: dumpster etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

DA I'd add in Steve's action sequences. The first ten minutes of TWS on the Lemurian Star, his fight with Batroc, that fight in the elevator, and then him taking out the quinjet (without harming the pilot, too), unf!

Re: dumpster etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

God yessss, tbh now that I think about it, pretty much the entire film was competency porn lmao