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[farla]

Hey, so there's our inevitable nadir where we progress from PS/SS to switched PS/SS to switched and genderswitched PS/SS ending in girlSS being written like an angry kitten flailing cutely at suave PS.

Also apparently Slick/PM has become popular because PM's totally fine with Slick as long as he's not the guy who actually murdered everyone, just the one who would have if he'd gotten the chance. Expect to hear more detailed rage when, ten years from now, I actually reach that point in the archive.

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[whatpipeswhy.livejournal.com]

...Carapace fandom, why. I continue to fail to understand why the popular ships in the intermission/carapace/PS corners of the fandom are so consistently terrible in conception and execution.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I feel like there's some master reasoning just outside my reach. There's an underlying pattern shared by so many of these fics, but the exact motivation remains elusive.

I hypothesize it's the same kind of thing as the person on the anon meme saying they liked to write Jack as the clever underdog getting revenge on his incompetent boss because clever underdog vs stupid incompetent boss was the dynamic they liked generally, particularly because people who like the popular OOC ship sometimes write that as well.