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

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.

FIC: Teen Wolf -- The Perils of Fungi

Title: The Perils of Fungi
Author: the_deep_magic
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairing: Derek/Stiles
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: none
Word Count: 4,119
Warnings: underage, dub-con of the sex pollen/fuck-or-die variety, barebacking
Disclaimer: uh, no, not mine
Summary: “Yeah, he’ll be fine,” Derek says evenly, hoping Scott is too freaked out to sense that it’s at least two-thirds of a lie because Derek probably knows what this is and Stiles is probably going to be just fine, but poking purple mushrooms with sticks has consequences, dammit.
A/N: For this prompt on the kink meme.  Tweaked a little and reposted here.  Also, this breaks my “first fic in a new fandom is invariably h/c BDSM” streak, but the sex pollen would not be denied.  Nor would the rampant abuse of italics.

( SOS 911 GET TO STILES HOUSE *NOW* DO NOT USE WINDOW )