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.

[marginalia]

This is me SO OFTEN in AO3, scrolling through like... did we watch/read/listen to the same text?

[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.

[fiachairecht]

DO NOT THE MOVIE, I know kore already said that but truly! Was That Necessary: The Film.

I think I have Merricat/Constance recs stashed somewhere, if you'd like?

[summerstorm]

Actor-based fandom is so off-putting. Like, I get seeking out movies for an actor you’re into, and then maybe being into their character in those movies (I got into Chris Evans via MCU even! I got into Push AFTER that! I’ve also seen a bunch of his movies where I had no interest in fic), but most of the people I see do this just go ‘oh, pretty person, bare-bones setup, characterization who?’ and it’s so damn weird.

[lunabee34]

And now my secret plan can be revealed for yea verily I did write We Have Always Lived in the Castle for Yuletide that one time and now I can rec it to you:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16569809