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

[kore]

Fucking WHAT??

I adore that book and that is just terrible. I am just so sick of all the self-insert Reader/Male Celebrity "Character" on AO3. It's just about impossible to filter out.

[aphrodite_mine]

Character/Reader is the CRINGIEST CRINGE AND I CANNOT HANDLE IT.

[kore]

I can't even look at it. "Sebastian softly mms and takes your face in his hands. He looks you in the eyes and leans in" and I'm just like AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH screaming off into the distance

[aphrodite_mine]

Am literally gagging and my body is passing away.

[kore]

I can't quite figure out what the reaction is! Sort of like extreme second-hand embarrassment? But like if that was set ON FIRE. "Cringe" seems good enough I guess.

[aphrodite_mine]

Cringe is what the kids call it these days.

Urgent need to escape the experience of reading something my body doesn't consent to?

[kore]

Yes, that is interesting! I don't much like second-person fiction in general -- outside of COYA books. But this feels too much like....being in someone else's fantasy? Their actual fantasy.