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Day 10
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I love bad rats - in fact, a good bad rat's a solid way to get me interested in watching something new. (Hi there, Spike!) Bad rats are those characters who've got a bad signal-to-noise ratio when it comes to their feelings, with lots of signal and plenty of noise, who don't instinctively intuit social cues and interactions, that tend to stand apart and often wish they knew how to stand within - and can stand within, if the people around them understand that bad rats are people, too.
The simple fact of recognizing myself in the canon, even if it's just a faint ghost of a reflection, is the entirety of the appeal. When the bad rats are allowed to exist as themselves in all their flaws and glory in the canon, without apology or shame over their existence, it's lovely. When that's extended to fic, it's even better.
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I love bad rats - in fact, a good bad rat's a solid way to get me interested in watching something new. (Hi there, Spike!) Bad rats are those characters who've got a bad signal-to-noise ratio when it comes to their feelings, with lots of signal and plenty of noise, who don't instinctively intuit social cues and interactions, that tend to stand apart and often wish they knew how to stand within - and can stand within, if the people around them understand that bad rats are people, too.
The simple fact of recognizing myself in the canon, even if it's just a faint ghost of a reflection, is the entirety of the appeal. When the bad rats are allowed to exist as themselves in all their flaws and glory in the canon, without apology or shame over their existence, it's lovely. When that's extended to fic, it's even better.