Dumpster #3: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Holy shitballs, look at us go. Welcome to Captain America fandom's resident wretched hive of scum and villainy: ROUND THREE. AKA Bad Guys Do Dirtybadwrong Things To Your Faves, AKA the Hydra Trash Party kinkmeme. As usual, BLANKET NON-CON AND NSFW WARNINGS apply: just assume going in that everything in this landfill is unfit for human consumption.

Rules in brief: don't be a jerk except to fictional characters, warnings for particularly fucked-up garbage are nice but not required, thou shalt not judge the trashiness of thy neighbor's kinks unless thy neighbor is trying to pass off their rotting banana peels and half-eaten pizza crusts as a healthy romantic dinner for two, off-topic comments may be chucked out of the dumpster at management's discretion, management's discretion decrees that omegaverse, soulbond AUs, D/s-verse, non-superpowered AUs, and dark!good guys AUs are off-topic.

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Round 3 is closed; comments and fills in existing threads are still welcome, but all new prompts go to Round 4.

Comments

Re: "Recovery" prompts

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It's not really about the hijacking, though. Having a prompt derailed with an unwanted plot suggestion is an annoyance. Having a prompt outright invalidated with a suggestion that the really interesting thing about Steve trash is whether his rape trauma might hurt the feelings of a character who wasn't even mentioned in the prompt? That's a symptom. A nasty one.

I'm generally a fan of the trashmeme's comment culture and the back-and-forth elaboration on prompts. But the trashmeme's growing culture of "everyone else is an accessory for Bucky's pain, and the validity of their experiences is derived from how they might ~affect his recovery~" is alienating as fuck. Mod intervention is not the only thing capable of chilling effects on the meme's variety and creativity.

Re: "Recovery" prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it is a symptom. Of rudeness, and also of people liking something you don't like. I get it! I never liked childlike or robotic Bucky, and for a while that was all there was to read, and sometimes people still comment on my prompts like "Oh! Imagine robotic Bucky's reaction to so-and-so!" At which point I gently shoo them away, rather than trying to burn down their sandbox. I have all the sympathy for your irritation with people not respecting the spirit of your prompt, but I disagree that sweeping systemic cultural changes would solve your problem without unfairly sweeping out a lot of partygoers with it.