Anon ā” Ā· 2mo
hie tabithaaa, how have you been? the past few days have been very lazy and soothing for me because i spent them re-reading your fics after a very long time away from ao3!! it was so comforting and nice, and honestly just the best way to spend the rare free times i get hehe
usually, after reading fics i spend alot of time scrolling through the comments and then the writer's retro because i love how writers talk/respond to other people regarding their fic! i love fic discussions in general. and idk how long i sat there and scrolled and read your responses with a smile on my face (tab, i genuinely find you so insightful and interesting as a writer, just need to say this too!! i'm sorry i'm a lil scatterbrained and i go off topic a lot but yeah) but then i read some anons' discussion on a topic that i kinda...wanna add onto? and it's a conversation from like monthssss ago so its probably weird that im adding to it now but... oh well :D there's just!! some thoughts in my brain now. and of course none of this is pointed /at/ you!!! all of this is said with absolutely no negative feelings at all, which i feel like is always necessary to point out because its very easy to be confused about someone's tone over text, at least for me.
its so very true with how there is a bunch of people with a preference for top jk and how they push on stereotypes and its so necessary to call it out (also, its kinda crazy that the last fic of yours that i re-read last night was "my sun, my life, i love your eyes" where there was this exact conv tae had with koo!! hehe. and those were bars for real, i loveddd that it was something that was pointed out the first time i read the fic, and even more when i reread it the second time) and as a lesbian who genuinely has no preferences when it comes to any smut including cock & balls (idk how else to put thisš) there is also another stereotype, not in your fics, that i have noticed which is just as harmful but i think most of the time just doesn't get acknowledged as readily? because its a little more subtle and interwoven within the tk fic comm. and its that the exact opposite stereotypes are given to taekook, about how taehyung, with his apparent rbf (that he has said he's been kinda insecure about in the past btw) makes it so that he looks "cold" and "scary" and like he can never be a bottom, or more so that he cannot take a submissive role because apparently alot of people hc him as this cold, closed-off tsundere person who doesn't need to be taken care of. on the other hand, a lot of stereotypes, especially in the last few years, have been put on koo just based on his baby face and his cute, dainty looks. hyperfocused onto his shyness or introverted nature and associate it as something that adds onto his "bottom-ness", and how he can just never ever top somebody or be in charge or take control and have fun with it ever ever because look at him!!
and like, its all genuinely crazy to me in general. and yeah i think i sometimes want these stereotypes to be discussed as well? because they do exist, even if its hard to believe or if they are not called out or acknowledged half as much in this fandomš and maybe im weird for feeling the need to point this out for no reason at all but i just do.
(tab, if any of this made you uncomfortable, feel free to just ignore my rant!! im so sorry for bringing all my unsolicited, complicated thoughts about the weird observations i have made about an mlm rpf as someone who is not even into themš but i just wanted to let my thoughts out and put them somewhere and this place feels like a safe space because of you so i just put them here where im hoping i won't be attacked for it hehe. anyway, again, sorry or this long rant!!
Hello! I loved reading this! š¤š„¹ Also, I know you said nothing was pointed at me, but I just wanna say I hope it didnāt seem like I was typecasting Tae in the asmr fic as the kind of person you talked about. He was like that with those qualities because sometimes theyāre autistic qualities, so I was just assigning those things to him. And sometimes they do have to be given certain traits just for the plot but I hope that I usually subvert that later on in the smut (like Tae in the touch-starved fic being tsundere and closed off but crying at being touched and loved in the smut) and that thereās a wide enough array of taekooks that it doesnāt seem like I think either of them are only one type of static person (like touch-starved fic Tae vs sugar baby Tae, or bunny hybrid Jungkook vs sugar daddy Jungkook). Okay enough about me though hehe
I, of course, agree with you š I was nervous about the little rant in that fic because itās such a huge discussion in the taekook fic community with so many unfair and stupid opinions LMAO. They all do have so many qualities that are opposites (Jungkook having the babiest face ever and being so giggly and cute, but also dressing in all black with tattoos and piercings and muscles, and Tae having a š face with sharp eyes and a deep voice but being a weird [said in adoration] baby angel), but the people who only read one dynamic exaggerate the qualities they want to see literally so much. Like in so many bottom Jungkook fics he wears baby blue with sweater paws and itās like what are you even saying š Or top Tae is always a degrading dom who somehow never has wide warm eyes or a boxy smile. Like okay youāre just ignoring who they are as people and seeing them how you want them if thatās a theme in every single fic and itās sad š
And Iām glad you said youāre a lesbian too because Iāve found that the gay people are often the kind who have these thoughts and opinions while others sometimes kind of assign roles that theyāre familiar with (and Iām not saying thatās always the case at all, just something Iāve noticed a few times).
And Iāll totally try to write about this in a future fic too! I got nervous doing it in the latest fic heh but Iāll try to bring it up again. Itās pretty topical too because in the vampire fic Iām writing, Tae is kind of closed off tsundere at first just because heās been alive for so long so heās just kind of š about everything (but somehow there is a human who caught his eye after so many years of things being monotonous) and heāll have kind of a tough shell to crack in some ways and itāll be even more like that because he thinks that because he becomes Jungkookās sire whoās an old vampire whoās been so serious for so long, he is now and always the one in charge in all aspects, but Jungkook will eventually be like umā¦ā¦.no? š¤Ø hehe so Iāll try to add something like that in there too š¤ I just wanted to rant in the asmr fic because I was in a mood LOL
Anyway I loved reading this and I love talking about things like this so it is always very welcome hehe š
