the stage is dark but for a single white spotlight center stage. it is empty except for a single microphone. the audience is buzzing quietly.
I walk in from the side aisles and approach the microphone. I am clearly not affiliated with this production. I tap the mic twice and there is some obnoxious feedback. the crowd goes silent. when the speakers stop crunching you can hear a pin drop.
i lean into the microphone.
"fuck netflix"
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Actually concerning lately how many hostile comments I have seen about queer women in kpop circles on here and twitter that are kind of framed through the guise of statements you can't really argue with like 'idols are real people' and 'idols deserve privacy' but with a tone that just shows how much people hate queer women more than they care about idols being real people and their privacy. Like I will see people say things about female idols like 'Women attractor!!' And then when a queer woman actually says something about being attracted to them they'll log on like woah now idols are real people you shouldn't sexualize what if she sees that and gets uncomfortable by the possibility of a woman being attracted to her :( Or female idols will be on stage kissing each other on the mouth and if a queer woman says anything along the lines of how they're just like us people will be like woah now!! Don't speculate :( Idols are real people too :( And with the Karina dating rumor especially I don't even know anything about Karina but my Twitter feed this morning was full of recommended tweets with concerning amounts of likes (one had upwards of 100k) that were basically phrased like 'You disgusting women likers are delusional for thinking she ever would have dated you!! What predatory freaks some people like men and are just straight and you freaks are going to have to accept that'
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I feel like the "put Minor X/Y in the additional tags to avoid relationship tag clutter with side-pairings" isn't a great solution for a number of reasons, even though I am doing my best to switch to that when tagging.
How minor is minor? If it's not in the story as such but it's important for the character's motivations, for instance? I feel like a lot of people will interpret this as "the pairing is mentioned in passing" but between that and "this is the main pairing" lies many many options.
Nobody's going to filter for this sort of tag which will put people off using it, and while I am told this The Correct Way To Tag it's not common enough that people will know to filter it out.
Some people just don't read Additional Tags. This is their mistake/problem but since the purpose of this method of tagging pairings is only to help people avoid them (see above re nobody using this to find fics) it's more likely I'll get offended OTPers this way.
No but really what are we counting as minor? This is worth repeating.
My limited experience with this method has found that it's trickier for me to check my own Works to see how often I've written this or that pairing. AO3 filtering is AND not OR, so I can't bring up "X/Y, or any time I've put X/Y in Additional Tags in case there's not enough of it in the story to satisfy anyone looking for that pairing and only that pairing." This is a minor me-problem but it still puts me off a bit.
I don't have a better option though, so whatever I suppose🤷♀️It largely comes down to the issue of "am I tagging for people to find or for people to exclude?" that exists in theory for every tag but is mostly only a problem/dilemma when it comes to pairings.
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i think if i ever end up writing (more of) the everybody lives, nobody dies danganronpa au (the one where mukuro never finds out that she and ryoko are sisters but ryoko still knows which leads to some. different decisions and outcomes), i think i realized writing the mukuro/kirumi fic that uh. kirumi is actually the correct plot-relevant shipping option there.
because the general premise is that mukuro, not knowing they are sisters, definitely confesses to ryoko pre-fenrir, and ryoko, definitely knowing they are sisters, says no. as a result, ryoko is not on the trip when mukuro joins fenrir and a lot of things that happen do not happen. mukuro uses her time in fenrir to try and get over ryoko and then goes to hope's peak and hey, look who's here (and also has a boyfriend!) and just. realizes she is absolutely not over ryoko and so enlists the help of new classmate to help her get ryoko to fall in love with her. only to then fall in love with new classmate who is supposed to be helping her get ryoko.
(meanwhile izuru kamukura still exists in the background and will still probably get dealt with but differently because ryoko is still ryoko and not junko. this is not the main focus of the fic. kind of like how the sos brigade is still in the background of the dr haruhi crossover trying to keep haruhi and junko from figuring stuff out and we can see references to that happening but it's not the focus of the series yet.)
and like. a mukuro who has previously encountered kirumi and has rival feelings towards her but also who kirumi has told to hire her and knows that the ultimate maid can fulfill any reasonable request absolutely hiring kirumi to help her get ryoko to fall in love with her (and kirumi actually accepting the request - i would want to word this very exactly because kirumi probably can't make ryoko fall in love with her but she can help mukuro be more appealing to ryoko, probably (or at least can maybe think she can)) is a certain brand of shenanigans that i. think would actually be hilarious.
especially with so much of the class being aware of mukuro's crush and keep giving tips and kirumi just no, these are bad, these are stupid, no, my advice is better and also kirumi basically taking on a request that she has to realize over time is not something she can fulfill (to the point of ryoko having to just hey, this is what is going on, can you help and then maybe taking on a request to get mukuro to get over ryoko, which maybe is really what's going on in the background here - she maybe feigns taking on mukuro's request because she's already taken on ryoko's, but that's less character arc for kirumi, so maybe she doesn't have that request initially) and then the class taking sides over who mukuro actually really likes and mukuro being oblivious to her own growing feelings for kirumi like.
i don't know that i will ever write this but man it would be fun.
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