If we're mutuals (I think we're mutuals but I think it's on fandom side blogs gjlksfjgkldsj curse this inability to check my social standing) can I send you a fic rec or would that be Weird. (You can say no I won't be offended I always feel weirdly pressured when people send me fic recs.)
I think that if you want relationships depicted in your fiction – whether primary media or fan-work – to be emotionally compelling, there’s really no getting around the fact that one of the most compelling relationship dynamics in fiction is “hey, wouldn’t it be fucked up if”.
And I don’t just mean “one of them is clearly taking advantage of the other” type relationships, either. There’s a whole spectrum of upfuckery to explore, including (but not limited to):
Each of them thinks they can fix the other, but really they’re just enabling each other’s worst impulses
Sticking together no matter what because no matter how bad they are for each other, the terror of the unknown is worse
You’re pretty sure staying in this relationship constitutes a form of wilful self-harm; for whom is genuinely unclear
They actually just straight up hate each other, but each regards the other as the only one who Gets It
They’re perfectly happy together, but the way they play off of each other is harmful to literally everyone around them
Hey sorry your boyfriend has been forgotten by the franchise and merchandising teams over the course of the years. Yeah. Yeah, I know all the other characters from the media keep getting beautiful merch that shows no sign of stopping, but your boyfriend is on one plastic novelty cup released in 1991 and you can only find it on Ebay for upwards of 300 dollars. Im so fucking sorry
People like to talk about “wholesome” art like it’s the antithesis of sexually explicit media, but to be frank, some of the most genuinely wholesome and emotionally upliftng art I’ve ever seen has been art where somebody has their dick out.
For the benefit of all the weirdos in the notes who are determined to twist this around into an anodyne remark about “tasteful artistic nudity”, I’m talking about art which depicts people fucking.
Favourite genres of media include ‘makes me want to lie on the floor’ and ‘have to stop and stare into space about it for a while’ and sometimes both of those as well as ‘has rewired my brain so completely I will think about it every day forever’
