Dumpster #3: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

[trashmod]

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)]

I don't understand all the problems with trashmod's nudge. at all. Nothing and no one is being banned; trashmod just said slow your roll. I love recovery trash more than any other kind of trash; it's the primary thing I read and write in the dpster and I'm probably one of the main culprits in adding "ooooh but think of Bucky's RECOVERY" to classic flavored trash. But I think it's absolutely on point for trashmod to occasionally nudge the meme if something is taking over, as recovery prompts have been lately. Do I wish this had happened a few weeks back when there was nothing but gaping assholes and milk/lactation as far as the eye can see? Yes, absolutely, but it didn't need to happen because trends in the meme change and the high tide of asshole gape receded to a dull roar, unlike recovery prompts, which have just been picking up steam. chill, trash babies.

Re: "Recovery" prompts

[(Anonymous)]

God, I was so glad when Sudden Milk Week was over.

Re: "Recovery" prompts

[(Anonymous)]

I was so SAD when it was.

Re: "Recovery" prompts

[(Anonymous)]

See, here's the thing. To take your own example - the person writing the lactation is actually a prolific writer and contributor. And yeah, I get it's not your kinks (it's not mine, particularly, either)- but since we're now actually calling things by name - how can they not be discouraged when they will read this?

The reality is that the person writing that fic you have zero interest in, might be the same person who wrote your fav fic earlier on - because let's face it, it's an anon meme.

And this is *exactly* the problem some of us have with it. You're actively discouraging good authors who skew to recovery, and making them feel merely "tolerated" instead of "wanted" here.