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 - TRASHMOD

[(Anonymous)]

I'm one of the people who's been upset about this, and it's literally because I interpreted this proclamation is saying that because too many questionably topical recovery prompts have been posted lately, now all aftermath prompts are discouraged, and we have to curtail posting no matter how trash-relevant they are. I thought the nudge was about nudging the meme away from discussion and prompting of all aftermath material. If I'm wrong, and the mod actually meant to nudge recovery prompts back into higher trash relevance, then... I think that's totally fair, and... I support it 100%...

Re: "Recovery" prompts - TRASHMOD

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely agree, if the point is to nudge prompts back into the dumpster, I think that's totally fair. There's another anon in this thread who's put it well, I think -- if the prompt would be easy to sanitize for someone outside the dumpster because the focus is solely on the recovery and not the trash, then yeah, it's probably not super relevant for this meme. And I think generally, we're a fairly low-maintenance community -- we're pretty good at discouraging minimally-trashy prompts, most of the time, and I definitely agree with doing that. It's the vague accouncement with no clarification that I object to, because it's stressing out promoters and fillers of perfectly trashy fic.

Re: "Recovery" prompts - TRASHMOD

[(Anonymous)]

I think the sticking point is the line about "put[ting] the brakes on the flood of capital-r Recovery prompts." I've interpreted that to mean generic Recovery vs. Trash Recovery. As in: Trash Recovery is totally fine, Generic Recovery is discouraged. In terms of textual evidence, I'd refer to the trashmod's contrasting use of "mental heath porn" vs. "trash" and "optimum caretaking" vs. "sexual violence."

And I'm in favor of proceeding under such assumptions until told otherwise. Especially since it feels like everyone else feels roughly the same about Trash Recovery vs. Generic Recovery.

Re: "Recovery" prompts - TRASHMOD

[(Anonymous)]

I'm happy to proceed under these assumptions, but as we're currently applying literary analysis to trashmod's post in an attempt to figure out what she meant, I think the problem isn't going to go away until the mod comes back and confirms.