June Something - Day 13

Day 13: Squicks - What are some things that squick you in fandom - not necessarily "icky", though it can be. From anything involving blood, to bad grammar.

I have had to give up on one of the things that used to annoy me because I NOW DO IT AND CANNOT HELP IT. Homophones. Just. I used to be SUCH a hardass about there/their/they're and now I find WORK EMAILS where I got it wrong, and there are three replies in and my mistake is saved for posterity and I want to murder things.

Other than that, not much? Mpreg squicks me. I don't like pregnancy fics anyway, and mpreg is just like, but no, why. NOT FOR ME. I don't love A/B/O but it's not as strong as a squick. I just don't like it because I feel like the whole concept of secondary gender is bizarre and also generally done nonsensically, and there's so many worldbuilding things that would need to be thought through that it's like. UGH. SO MUCH WORK. And it's never done because basically most folks who like A/B/O just want knotting porn and I'm just… not interested in that.

Music can be a squick. Music is so rarely done correctly that I honestly just flinch when I see even trusted authors try to write a classical music AU. I've tried to offer my services but the only time I tried, basically I shredded the entire premise of the person's fic because professional symphonies don't work like that and just. UGH. I can't handle it. The Scheherezhad Job episode of LEVERAGE makes me cringe. I cannot stand it.

Similarly, medical things can be annoying, but they're not squick level. I can get past them if it's just a small mistake (like when House, M.D. listed a bunch of blood tests and put a fucking FECAL test in there), but when the whole premise is medical and clearly the person doesn't know anything about hospitals/med school/medical profession that will drive me batty.

June Something - Day 14

Day 14: What fandom broke your heart?

Hm. None that I can think of? I came to Supernatural late and I was super cautious and I stayed on the fringes of that fandom because I knew it could be batshit crazy. So while it potentially had the ability to do so, I carefully protected myself so it would not.

I guess… the whole incident with Xiao Zhan and 227 was pretty fucking heartbreaking. But he's mostly bounced back and both The Untamed/CQL/MDZS and BJYX fandoms seem to be doing okay, as well as Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo's individual careers, so??? It was painful, it was heartbreaking, but we're getting better? I think we've mostly healed, actually.

I don't know that fandom ever has broken my heart. I've been disappointed with canon and canon creators (and obviously, not every fan/fanwork is a favorite) but in general both fandom and I are pretty resilient.