Chatter post

[trashmod]

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: Ick

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhhh. As a Steve-whump fan with long-running gripes about the trashmeme's woobie-Bucky fixation, who's had prompts hijacked with comment threads that veered towards "but what would bring some suffering that's actually interesting into the mix is how [hideously traumatic thing happening to Steve] would affect Bucky's self-esteem during his recovery," I feel the pain. But I'm not really feeling the Avengerkink comparison--none of the stuff I'd gripe about here rises above the level of "people who like one popular thing being thoughtlessly dismissive towards less-common things that don't include the thing they like." Avengerkink's problems ran sooo much deeper than that, and had long since lost any shred of plausible deniability or resemblance to the thoughtless stepping-on-toes that's normal when people are enthusiastic about different things.

And on a pure etiquette level, hijacking (especially hijacking that denigrates the original) is the rude way to deal with prompts that are one or two fundamental changes away from being something you really want. "Hey, I got inspired and wrote something but it wasn't really what you asked for, where should I put it?" is the most polite way I can think of to tackle it--it's an awkward situation, but it happens.