excuse me, fandom overlords, I have a complaint

[aphrodite_mine]

I finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle last night (MUCH SQUEE, much WTAF at Letham's outro - YOU SIR are dragging hoses and dirt into this house) and had a bout of anxiety-related insomnia (oh dread, I see ya there) so checked out AO3 because I recalled that I'd spied some fic when I'd done my initial look for anything related to Hangsaman (spoiler: there is none as of yet) and to my HORROR discovered that at least 50% of the fic is either Charles-centric or CHARLES/READER DUB CON. 

Is there a place I can sign a petition for Sebastian Stan to never be in a fandom I'm in? He's perfectly fine, but... GOD. 

(I do want all of the Merricat/Constance, though. Pretty please?)

(I want to say like, no offense if you're into that, but... I do not know if I can say that.)

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I hear you. Not on this one specifically (reading part of the book traumatized me because it was so well crafted, I don't think I could deal with visual media) but on fandom in general. There's always orders of magnitude more stuff for certain demographics and genres than anything else.

[aphrodite_mine]

I feel strongly that the movie will get it wrong, so am planning to avoid it.

Do you need me to cut-tag chatter about Jackson?

[minoanmiss]

Oh goodness, no cut tags needed. That the story traumatized me is a compliment to her writing -- it shook me to my soft and fluffy core. But I appreciate your asking. :)

spoilers for terrible movie

[kore]

LOLOL the movie is SO BAD. They change Charles so he beats up Merricat and tries to assault Constance after the fire and Merricat kills him with a Symbolic Snow Globe and they bury him in the garden and Constance thanks Merricat for saving her from Charles, LIKE SHE DID WITH THEIR FATHER. Fin.

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[aphrodite_mine]

Well they really did make the quiet part REAL FREAKING LOUD, goodness.

That's a bit much. I mean, a bit. :P

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[kore]

It reminded me of that Dorothy Parker review of the play about Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Browning's father was horrible enough, there was no need to make him horrible with raisins on top. (Paraphrasing, badly)

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[aphrodite_mine]

That's how I feel about Lethem's outro!

Have you read it?

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[kore]

Oh yes, and I loathe him, and I loathed his outro, and I just in general loathe the people they picked SOMEHOW to write the intro/outro for the new Penguin eds of Jackson's books. It's like they took all the people least suitable, wrote down their names, and got a hat.

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[aphrodite_mine]

Okay thank god I'm not imagining it because he basically drew dicks all over the novel????????

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[kore]

HE DID. And the horrifying thing was they seemed to be portraits of his own dick!

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[aphrodite_mine]

*pushes up glasses and sips martini smugly*

Oh, Shirley Jackson? You've never heard of her.

But you've READ her.

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[kore]

YES. Just, what even! What a self-aggrandizing superior dick. I just hate when "educated" people play that kind of gotcha. It's so stupid and mean-spirited and just makes people hate you, anyway.