Chatter post

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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: Seriously curious - not trolling

[(Anonymous)]

Given how much trolling we get here, OP, it would do a lot for your credibility if you were willing to approach us under your own name. For all we know, with the way your questions are phrased, you could easily be one of our regular bullies looking to stir up wank here now that everyone has blocked you on tumblr. Personally, every time I've had someone approach me claiming to want to better understand, it's gone sour faster than you could say 'bad faith'.

In the meantime, a couple of things that might help you better come to grips with what we do here:

1) The Hydra Trash Meme is not a unique place. Fandom kink memes have been around in this exact format for ages, and almost without exception they centre around sex and kink. If you can understand that huge numbers of people enjoy taboo, shocking, 'naughty' sexual fantasies - and that a lot of fandom infrastructure exists to let fans indulge those fantasies - then you're already most of the way to understanding the HTP.

2) If I want violence, I can turn on the TV. If I want to watch Bucky get non-sexually tortured, I can literally just play The Winter Soldier on my blu-ray and skip forward to the bank scene. Sex is generally far more taboo than violence in modern Western culture, and the places where violent sex is portrayed (notably mainstream men's pornography) tend to be the kind of creepy I don't enjoy. I'd rather make my own space with like-minded people - and a lot of others felt the same, and so this meme came into being.

I hope that helps.

Re: Seriously curious - not trolling

[(Anonymous)]

"the places where violent sex is portrayed (notably mainstream men's pornography) tend to be the kind of creepy I don't enjoy"

A-fucking-men to this. Even compared to most other fandoms I've been in, the HTP has been a breath of fresh air. Here I don't have to worry about stumbling over fics that romanticise or gloss over situations where consent is undermined or absent; rape is always recognised for what it is.

Re: Seriously curious - not trolling

[(Anonymous)]

(OP) That's very true. HTP doesn't disguise it for anything other than what it is. I find a lot of het ships gloss over the abuse. The mods are good at clamping down requests where people try to get around this rule.

Re: Seriously curious - not trolling

[(Anonymous)]

(OP) Thank you for answering.