I can’t find the clips of Anthony saying “Black Widow is the love of his life” and “Falcon is a love interest for Black Widow” and Sebastian argues that he marries Natasha in the comics
This all leads back to fanfiction. There’s a new super popular show called Off Campus which is based on a “BookTok” popular book which is just Wattpad level writing. I haven’t seen it but judging from the posts on my social media feed, it’s seemed like internalized misogyny trash with two college guys who are womanizers but everyone says they are sweethearts. I could he wrong but there is no such thing as a benevolent womanizer/playboy, especially in college. The female main character walks in on her love interest having sex with another girl and she still dates him. I know it’s fiction but it’s just not realistic and I hate when female main characters are loser doormats with no self respect and the plot acts like it’s okay and the men can do whatever they want.
I go to Barnes & Noble and the fiction section is all the most popular books are Colleen Hoover or some sort of fanfiction-to-published fantasy book that is popular on TikTok and all the artwork looks like AI. I want to be a writer but it’s so discouraging. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that these are more popular after the Trump administration.
Regarding fandom, I used to be on Fanfiction.net back in the late 2000s and early 2010s and ot used to be rare to find a romantic fic with smut that was written by a woman featuring hardcore sex acts. Now, it’s hard to find a story or an author that doesn’t write hardcore bdsm and violent male-centered sex. Most fics for the characters I like feature straight to doggystyle, violent blowjobs/facefucking and the dialogue is all straight out of porn and I can tell instantly that the writer is pornsick. I only like gentle fictional men and for some reason, the fandoms I like have decided that he is some sort of dominant borderline rapist who enjoys hurting his girlfriend in every story.
Any mild critique of this on websites like tumblr will have authors pissed off and defending BDSM and porn. I want to write my own fanfiction but I’m scared that I will be harassed and doxxed by fandom people.
Or she’s a domestic abuse survivor and they bond over their shared traumatic past? I just love this trope, especially for Bucky and it is comforting to me after my abusive relationships
I want to dye my dark brown hair red at this expensive salon I found in my city but I’m nervous about only showing the stylist pictures because my hair color final results never seem to match the photo I show