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Nobody ever talks about "ground-eating lope," but it's out there too.Like "tongues battling/wrestling for dominance", describing eyes as "orbs", or the perfectly-timed italicized "Oh."
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Nobody ever talks about "ground-eating lope," but it's out there too.Like "tongues battling/wrestling for dominance", describing eyes as "orbs", or the perfectly-timed italicized "Oh."
Fanfics like this make me smile by sheer virtue of being so aggressively feminine that I can't help but laugh. Such a domestic fantasy - a love confession, a marriage proposal - and it's made all the funnier by imagining it taking place between burly military men who likely spit tobacco and hang posters of naked women in their shithole apartments. Très magnifique! When fics get this girly, it's hard not to wonder if the authors have ever made contact outside of the borderline Themyscira they've built online for themselves.Okay, this is not a full fanfic but one of those Twitter-Fanfic threads where some parts really sent me.
Looks pretty odd, but Sonic the Hedgehog crossing over into fate is probably not as extreme as what this thread is looking for. Honestly weird crossovers are just standard fanfic autism.
More humanxhedgehog slop.
When fics get this girly, it's hard not to wonder if the authors have ever made contact outside of the borderline Themyscira they've built online for themselves.
So they never talked about their feelings, but decided in the span of 5 minutes that they're going to get married.
That is fucking hilarious. These fic authors put so much effort into sounding serious and then you read this shit and I imagine Ghost having wide-set eyes and looking like Sid from Ice Age, utterly black and resembling some anime character.What I can't ignore.
"dark cow like eyes"
Come. The. Fuck. On.
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He was probably listening to Taylor Swift, Chappel Roan or Ethel Cain. Those are the 'It Girls (and a guy)' of today. But in all serious, he does NOT even seem the type to play random music. He strikes me as someone who values silence.I can't stop but imagine Ghost listening to some Russian hardbass or some other random shit while crying about Soap here.
That is fucking hilarious. These fic authors put so much effort into sounding serious and then you read this shit and I imagine Ghost having wide-set eyes and looking like Sid from Ice Age, utterly black and resembling some anime character.
...I had assumed the pooner was thinking of "ox-eyed Hera," an epithet most famously used in the Iliad, and with much more positive implications in the original Greek. Thank you for enlightening us.Fake edit: I looked it up, it seems to be a Kpop thing
This is fascinating because I doubt the author is even Korean, it's more that these fandom spaces have become such isolated walled gardens that the women are all picking up language from each other and not realizing how ridiculous it sounds to the outside world.
I love it. I love you for this. Thank you so much. Every time I feel sad, I just look at Cowst and have to laugh hysterically.Also, as per your request, please find enclosed the mutant bovine baby Cowst. He certainly looks like the kind to have a passionate love confession out of nowhere, doesn't he? A regular Mr. Darcy.
In fandom, Soap is basically chewing on his ear 24/7 and being an obnoxious little shit in general - I bet he's just glad when he has some peace and quiet, yeah.He strikes me as someone who values silence.
Might be. The author's first language obviously isn't English judging by the grammar. So she might just be adapting random shit she's heard somewhere and doesn't realise how utterly stupid it sounds.Now I'm actually wondering if this is a language issue.
YES!!!! Especially since the whole "i want to fuck you but it's fraternisation so i might lose the job i really love doing and everything is driving me insane" offers such a good and wide basis to write the sappiest, saddest and most tragic shit ever, if you put in the time and thought to do so. Yes, 'forbidden romance' (not the kind booktok is currently promoting, that's just glorified rape/grooming lmao) is one of my guilty pleasures, shush.1. fraternization is against duh rules but most don't even mention it, and if they do, it's hardly ever an actual barrier.
YES!!!! Especially since the whole "i want to fuck you but it's fraternisation so i might lose the job i really love doing and everything is driving me insane" offers such a good and wide basis to write the sappiest, saddest and most tragic shit ever, if you put in the time and thought to do so.
Dunno about prior decades but the more modern US military will usually try to move things around so it's no longer technically fraternization, at least in my limited experience.Plenty of other military-adjacent fandoms actually do the "we can't date because fraternization!!!" thing too. I mean yeah most of these fics somehow end with the brass handwaving the relationship for some kind of super special unique reason, but you can still get some decent mileage out of the conflict before you get to that point.
Honestly, it's not even the lack of research so much as it is the complete lack of acknowledgement. Personally, I don't really care if the way the couple skirts fraternization rules is accurate to how real militaries would do it. Especially when it's in a more fictionalized military setting, e.g. its a military based not in real life/not in modern times, or it's one of those franchises where the military group is actually some SpecialDunno about prior decades but the more modern US military will usually try to move things around so it's no longer technically fraternization, at least in my limited experience.
We had several couples and at least two marriages come out of people meeting each other in my division on the ship. The khakis just shuffled people around so they weren't in the same shop/workstation.
In the case of a Chief getting orders to the ship, his wife, an officer, was moved to a different command, but it might have been time for her to move on anyway, can't recall.
In A-school and beyond, dating other students was looked down on, but when the ladies inevitably started dating their peers, the command just made sure we weren't in the same class or classroom. If someone wanted to date staff, that was actually verboten, but in practice people just kept it a secret and did it anyway.
Makes perfect sense to me that fanfic writers wouldn't even bother to get any of the military stuff right, or think about it at all; they're too busy with the interpersonal drama and romance and boning.