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if you go on Ao3, choose tag no archive warnings apply, exclude a few things I always exclude, then sort by kudos
it looks like the archive of MCU, Harry Potter, and Teen Wolf.
Select F/F and it's The 100, which I have not seen.

the juggernaut pairings are really spectacular. There's stories with more kudos than my minimum requirements for word count, and I don't read short.

I've got so used to Ao3 I sometimes forget to wonder what isn't on there. I mean I know entire archives disappear and didn't make it over or onto the wayback (age verification click throughs are awkward), but I don't know which ones, you know?

There's a lot of fic I should have in email form around here somewhere, and sometimes I wonder how many things there's only one copy of left, and the owner doesn't even know it.

all of which is to say, I am still reading in fandoms I have never seen/read
and kind of mapping what the consistent appeals are.

... people with terrible angst to dig in to are likely to be fandom favourites, and despite a tendency to center around a particular romance, fandoms where people are beought together as team or pack or i guess houses tend to do well.

people like when people connect with people.

... why exactly is so much on the tv about the fighting only?
... or the catalyst for so many Everybody Lives AUs?

there's some fandoms where it seems like everybody lives so routinely they're mostly not tagged, it's just implied by the character list.

there's shows that kill like their entire cast and only bring some of them back.

one wonders how we end up at such crosspurposes.

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I just read a paragraph that reminded me that eating is somehow gendered
(growing men eat protein! same age girls get... small fruit or salad.)
and it made me so grrr I had to go read other stuff and eat a breakfast.

ffs, everyone doing fight training together needs the same food, not difficult.

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Things I do not like, even in werewolf stories: when one or more of them gets all grr grr don't go talking to other people grr grr you smell like someone else how could you do that to me.

I mean, if that's a problem to overcome, sure, whatever
but some of these stories are real fuzzy about which behaviours are red flags
and just kind of wave them like they're fun times.

nope.

isolation bad, lots of friends good, stop using horror monsters to dress abuse up and call it natural.
like yeah the growl face ones might act bad ways, but those ways are still bad, not, like, cultural or whatever.
It's not reasonable accomodations to demand you get to be angry boss all the time.

I'm annoyed now and had to give up on that story.