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Arden said:
Not entirely unreasonable, I guess. When you're super-strong and can fly, the idea that you wouldn't be able to dictate the area of engagement by just, I don't know, bear-hugging a single bad guy and dragging him out into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before he can reasonably react is a bit hard to swallow.
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It's more difficult when the person you're fighting is *also* super strong and can fly.

And it's not like the Superman canon -- even in extremely well received pieces -- has ever shied away from 'Superman punches bad guy through eighteen skyscrapers' sorts of things to begin with. Man of Steel just eats it because people dislike the movie overall, so it doesn't get excused.
 
Mid battle emotional support therapy session. No one has time to drop everything to hear a character's trauma, give a motivational affirming/supportive speech, tell them everything is okay and their emotions are valid and important, give them a pass for whatever trouble their mid battle breakdown caused, hug it out and wipe away their tears like their emotional state is the most important thing in the world while everyone else is struggling to not get slaughtered.

Unless the individual is a walking, weeping McGuffin and necessary for the victory. Unless that. Then the therapy session is a required tactical manoeuvre. Otherwise just WTF.
 
"I think it all started with my mother..."
*Boom*
"What?"
*Ka-boom!*
"I said, I think it started with my mother!"
*BAM!*
"I can't hear you, there's a battle going on!"
 
goes on ao3 because its the only site with a tagging system I understand.
go looking for fic with trans women in it.
finds like, 7 fics in the fandom, 5 of witch are porn. I'm writing one.
every. single. time.
 
When a new character in the protagonist role (whether an OC or a role swap AU situation) winds up casually solving/avoiding every single minor conflict or failure in the story. Someone betrays the party and is able to injure someone? They see it coming and preemptively stop it. A friendly character tragically dies? They just so happen to save them. The party loses the mcguffin and needs to find it again? No, they're smart enough to keep it more secure in this universe.

And I'm not against some of this happening - seeing how a new character changes the events of the story is the big draw of that kind of AU - but it's when they wind up solving every little issue the original party had without running into new problems of their own that it gets annoying.
 
the vale said:
Mid battle emotional support therapy session. No one has time to drop everything to hear a character's trauma, give a motivational affirming/supportive speech, tell them everything is okay and their emotions are valid and important, give them a pass for whatever trouble their mid battle breakdown caused, hug it out and wipe away their tears like their emotional state is the most important thing in the world while everyone else is struggling to not get slaughtered.
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I mean, that kind of thing is pretty much canon to a lot of shows... No, it really doesn't make any sense, but they also didn't exactly come up with the idea themselves.
 
Fourthmatchflame said:
goes on ao3 because its the only site with a tagging system I understand.
go looking for fic with trans women in it.
finds like, 7 fics in the fandom, 5 of witch are porn. I'm writing one.
every. single. time.
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I am deliberately misunderstanding this to imply you are complaining that you have spontaneously discovered that the fic you are writing became porn without your awareness or intention, thank you. :V
 
Sotek said:
I am deliberately misunderstanding this to imply you are complaining that you have spontaneously discovered that the fic you are writing became porn without your awareness or intention, thank you. :V
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finally, after like a year of being too unmedicated and depressed i begin to write the third chapter of breaking eggshells.
i go into a feuge state and when i come to i realize i wrote the steamiest petplay smutfic this side of the familar of zero fandom.
 
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