#IF ANYONE SEES GOOD FICS ABOUT THIS CONFLICT... PLS.... I NEED....

[coffeebanana]

*screams incoherently about arcane*

[faejilly]

not a study in scarlet

Works-Not-In-Progress 2/∞ 

So sometimes the best inspiration for fic is spite. But then sometimes we I don't actually write the spite!fic, because wtf, I don't actually know how to plot a mystery?

so please enjoy this nonsense instead. (Yes, I did put Toby in my collection of evidence photos/moodboard, mostly because I love Toby, but also because I love Magnus and cats. Yes, there's also a Paget illustration and cigarette ash, and NYC stuff because NYC is legit a character in Shadowhunters, even more so than London is for Holmes imo, and there's a pentacle for Magnus' magic and an archery target for Alec, and idk, I have lost my train of thought here?)

ANYWAY: spite!fic

Once upon a time, I ran across several Sherlock AUs for Shadowhunters in a row, and every one of them had Magnus Bane as Sherlock Holmes and that is, just. Not Right.

Like! I understand the impulse, when trying to translate soldier and power dynamics and etc. that you'd put Alec in the Watson/respectable member of society role, and Magnus 'never met a question he couldn't deflect with a smile' Bane in the vaguely incomprehensible detective role

But I counter!

WHICH of our heroes is in fact:

socially adept

extremely skilled at his preferred profession even though it comes up less often than one would expect in canon

has a completely incomprehensible romantic history

is ride or die two seconds after meeting someone because they are both smart and pretty

hates war and conflict (has been grievously wounded by same and yet always keeps going)

and yet, is in fact deeply petty and ready to throw down at the slightest provocation

can effectively (metaphorically) murder someone with a look or a phrase

can also literally murder someone but usually doesn't

is incredibly loyal but hates to admit it

is very compassionate and incapable of not helping someone in front of him (unless you have previously landed on the grudge!list, see above re: incredibly petty)

is perhaps the world's MOST unreliable narrator but no one ever calls him on it!

That would be Magnus Bane, and that would make him Watson, sorry, Watson is deeply unhinged but fakes it so well that people think he's the sane one.

AND THEN, of course, for Alec/Sherlock, he:

has only made a good first impression one single time in his life, but it was the time that mattered

is brilliant and tactical and very few people are able to keep up with him (and yet almost no one appreciates it, they're all, oh when you put it that way it's obvious, even tho none of them could do it on their own)

is abrasive in company; he's CAPABLE of walking the fine line of polite behavior and proper etiquette he just thinks it's stupid

(he will tell you to your face if he thinks you're an idiot, but if he needs to, he'll do it in such a way that you don't realize that's what happened until much later)

clearly has a traumatic backstory he does NOT want to talk about

partly given away by how aware he is of the way people around him can be hurt/persecuted whether anyone else wants to admit it or not; he is good to people no one else bothers to believe

has less than no patience for perceived stupidity in the people around him who ought to know better and will yell at them to get out of his way so he can do their jobs better than them

(unless he has taken responsibility for you and then he is delighted to explain every possible way he can make things better regardless of whatever you did that might have exacerbated the situation)

effectively intimidating when called for

effectively violent if that didn't work

secretly a marshmallow and if you tell him you like him and he did a good job he probably won't actually cry but if you know him well you can tell it was a close call

So yeah, pls enjoy jilly's unhinged Holmes feels despite her complete inability to write a Holmes!AU in fic?

[plaexus]

(i know that if you weren’t in med school you would be a diplomat or stg cuz theres high chances you’ll ignore this ask or say stg like anon if you don’t want to see some ppl’s content don’t ) but could u pls explain why this fandom’s writers focus a lot on sex and it’s not even cute sex its nasty and super violent and dehumanising and at some point it feels like a must to write sex scenes and for jm to have a dick (its so sad reading tags and seeing a super random Karina has a dick like imagine her reaction if she sees it) is it because sex sells? what happened to shame ?BTW this is not about shroomrina i still follow and like her and i remember that her tumblr only got nasty because of her nasty horny dumb anons with their stupid sex scenarios as if jmj are some sex dolls and although her only mistake is answering those asks she would say stg super dry or say shes asexual but yet at some point those anons and the writers on the jmj tag need to get wacked and get hit with reality reality that jmj or sick ppl in their circle see those fics/drawings: and that’s it’s simply not okay to write stg so easily available to literally anyone:(

to be honest, my thoughts about this and rpf in general are very scattered. and yeah, this definitely bolsters the conflict-avoidant, non-confrontational jmjer / rpser allegations against me. but it's true. i can't speak as to why fic readers and authors have their preferences and why there are these popular tropes in aespa ficdom and fandom spaces like neospring and tumblr as of late. for me, they're just trends and not really a reflection of the entire aespa rps community as a whole. if you read a lot of fics and scroll further down the tags, you'd see that fics like those are just a fraction of all the other fics that are being written. yeah, it seems like a more significant percentage these days, but i feel like it just seems that way because more and more aespa stories are being written and published in general

as someone who has been reading fics and rpf in particular for a long time and someone who greatly enjoys fanart as well, i can't say a lot of things surprise me anymore. regardless of the morality or ethics behind the tropes you named, they are are not new and have existed in older fandoms, i can assure you. it is what it is and it's fiction for a reason. but i understand that rpf is not for everyone and there are things within rps spaces that are harmful

i do think that it is, in general, good practice to avoid posting things that are explicitly rpf (especially nsfw) in very public spaces like twt where minors (and possibly idols) can easily access them. or at the very least, people who post them should: 1) censor names or use rps-specific ship names (e.g. using kw instead of jmj), 2) explicitly state in their bio that they are an nsfw / r18+ rps acc that minors should not interact with, and/or 3) go on priv. but i can never be against the practice of rps / rpf, like ever