Much more of this and I'm going to need a "fandom rationalization" tag

[the_deep_magic]

Sigh... One day I will enter new fandoms without feeling like I have to explain or defend myself.  But today is not that day.

So BBC Sherlock is, like, a really good show, right?  And I totally ship that.  But I just couldn't get into the fanfic.  Not that it's poorly written, because it definitely isn't, but so much of it seems to consist of novel-length angst-a-thons, and that's not generally my brand of escapism.  And Avengers has years of awesome canon and an enthusiastic fandom and super-hot dudes all up in each other's space, but I never quite caught on to that, either.  What I'm saying is, the quality of the source material does not correlate with my involvement in the fandom.

Which is my super-convoluted, bass-ackwards way of admitting that I watched Teen Wolf.

And the show is so bad.  So bad.  Which is not, I realize, an unpopular opinion within the fandom, but I'm still trying to wrap my brain around why this one stuck, because underage/overage pairings are one of my long-time biggest, ickiest squicks... and I ship the hell out of Derek/Stiles.  Most of the fic I've read is amazeballs -- needless to say, far superior to the show itself -- and I've needed time to process my cognitive dissonance.  But even that got shot all to shit when I started fucking writing it without really even meaning to.

I'm just saying that this cannot possibly be my fault.  This is aliassmith's fault, via Twitter, even though she doesn't know it yet and she knows it.

So I've written a thing.  Well, actually almost two things: I started on this weird, angsty thing full of seriously epic manpain (no, I don't know why my Muse hates me), but then I came across a kink meme prompt that I started around 12 a.m. and finished at 4, so apparently this is a thing that will not be denied.  And here I thought I was so good at denial.  Oh, and it's sex pollen fic.  Because obviously.

I'll just go ahead and post that here in a minute, then shame spiral my way into a pint of Ben & Jerry's Key Lime Pie.  WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.

Comments

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

I was just barely into TW enough to keep watching after a few episodes, LOL, but going on was worth it. I'm somewhere in S2 and I'm excited to get caught up so I can read fic. I ship too many things.

[the-deep-magic.livejournal.com]

Every now and again, there'll be some unexpected moment where I'm all "Dammit, THIS COULD BE A HALF-WAY DECENT SHOW." And then Scott says something, ANYTHING about Allison and I'm back to weeping in my ice cream.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Yeah :/ At least Stiles seems about as sick of hearing him talk about Allison as we are.