I was asking myself whether I’m actually Good At My Job, and have started to become concerned that what I’m best at is writing fic. Not just writing in general, but specifically fic. :/

No, no. I am calm.

And I am certainly not whining about have any of you even SEEN them in an interview together? The Vanity Fair lie detector test? The big post-s1 talk with Ro and David?? DID YOU EVEN --

Nor am I pointing out that calling Jesus/Judas "RPF" is somewhat misleading and that it shouldn't even really be in the tournament

Namely, I am not complaining in the tags about the fact that practically everyone on Tumblr outside the OFMD fandom has an irrational level of loathing for us such that they will leap in to vote for the other option no matter what and then go "coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb lol"

Taika/Rhys is up against and badly losing to Jesus/Judas in a Tumblr RPF tournament right now, and I'm working so hard to be normal about it.

I don't even remember now! 😅 It was one of those "hop on, see incredibly bad-faith take, hop off" situations.

This is the glorious thing about fanfiction. Here, deep thoughts about personhood. There, flimsy excuses to get characters in bed.

And Ed being a ship, his crew seen as the ones doing incredible feats of piracy while he’s the actual mastermind? Being a genius but a vessel? The thoughts I am thinking ...

On one level it’s just “how can I shoehorn these characters into Murderbot,” yeah, but Stede being a construct that’s served for decades and doesn’t want to be a human but wants to be *treated the way humans are treated*, and to be respected for once, and (although he hasn’t realized it) to be loved