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Snowflake challenge, day 3
Jan. 5th, 2025 05:38 pmIn your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
Oooh, there are some tropes I used to intensely dislike because the first fic I had read about them were a specific subtrope that I indeed hated, and I though all the trope was like this.
Exemple 1:
I had read one too many mpreg fic that were "character A gets pregnant from a one-night stand, doesn't want the child, but doesn't decide to abort because abortion is wrong, finally has the child and it's the biggest joy of his life, and he gets together with the other father and everything is right"
Which I still don't like! But I was under the very wrong impression that all mpreg was like this, and that I disliked all mpreg, and I was very, very wrong.
It took a long time for me to discover some variations and to realize that I could really love some of them (I love a lot of mpreg mythological stories)
(And like, when after some years I realized that some mpreg was about a guy being pregnant on purpose, it brought me stupefaction. You can laugh)
Exemple 2:
The first sex pollen fics I read were basically all the type: characters get dosed (by accident of enemy action), decide to have sex together while emphatically being like "I'm not gay though" or "I had never been attracted to him", and after sex, after the pollen wears out, they confess neverending love and are a couple from now.
Unlike for the mpreg example, I couldn't say what I didn't like, and to be fair in some cases I might have misunderstood the story and not have noticed the "I'm not gay" thing was just a very, very unreliable narrator. But I was still like, yeah, I don't like sex pollen.
What made me change was reading a story (not fic) where two characters who had been flirting a bit, and were submitted to sex pollen, and the fucking definitely killed their romance, because after they had trauma about each other. And I was like, yeah, that's what I want! Sex pollen as an horror trope! And now I loved it - when it was done like I loved - which didn't mean it can't have a happy ending, I discovered even alter, some horror has an happy ending. But the terrifying loss of agency was what I was after - still is.
(And in this trope too, the idea that some people in a relationships could consensually use sex pollen never happened to me - or to the writers of the fics I met - for la long time. You can laugh again because it's funny it happened two times. "the first fics I read on a trope don't make be believe the on-purpose version is a thing")
Oooh, there are some tropes I used to intensely dislike because the first fic I had read about them were a specific subtrope that I indeed hated, and I though all the trope was like this.
Exemple 1:
I had read one too many mpreg fic that were "character A gets pregnant from a one-night stand, doesn't want the child, but doesn't decide to abort because abortion is wrong, finally has the child and it's the biggest joy of his life, and he gets together with the other father and everything is right"
Which I still don't like! But I was under the very wrong impression that all mpreg was like this, and that I disliked all mpreg, and I was very, very wrong.
It took a long time for me to discover some variations and to realize that I could really love some of them (I love a lot of mpreg mythological stories)
(And like, when after some years I realized that some mpreg was about a guy being pregnant on purpose, it brought me stupefaction. You can laugh)
Exemple 2:
The first sex pollen fics I read were basically all the type: characters get dosed (by accident of enemy action), decide to have sex together while emphatically being like "I'm not gay though" or "I had never been attracted to him", and after sex, after the pollen wears out, they confess neverending love and are a couple from now.
Unlike for the mpreg example, I couldn't say what I didn't like, and to be fair in some cases I might have misunderstood the story and not have noticed the "I'm not gay" thing was just a very, very unreliable narrator. But I was still like, yeah, I don't like sex pollen.
What made me change was reading a story (not fic) where two characters who had been flirting a bit, and were submitted to sex pollen, and the fucking definitely killed their romance, because after they had trauma about each other. And I was like, yeah, that's what I want! Sex pollen as an horror trope! And now I loved it - when it was done like I loved - which didn't mean it can't have a happy ending, I discovered even alter, some horror has an happy ending. But the terrifying loss of agency was what I was after - still is.
(And in this trope too, the idea that some people in a relationships could consensually use sex pollen never happened to me - or to the writers of the fics I met - for la long time. You can laugh again because it's funny it happened two times. "the first fics I read on a trope don't make be believe the on-purpose version is a thing")
