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⌈ Secret Post #2693 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Pairings you think are sexy

[neonlovechicken]

Ah-hem, I want your job! Lately I can't really do anything that isn't work when I'm, well, at work. :D I headcanon at night... but it's not very, um, elaborate headcanon.

And OMG, I didn't even think of blackmailing. Yesssssssss.
AH. Blackmail scenario is my favorite, hihihi. Of course here's blackmail, it's the White House >>> there are politicians! Politicians >>> corruption-prone, insidious evil. And TJ is the poor pretty boy who just came out, and he's very pretty and doing drugs and therefore PERFECT blackmail material. So I give it a few years in my brain, so that he's not underage ('cause my brain can't do underage) and then BAM. I'm evil.

Me neither... sometimes I just enjoy some dark fic, but they have usually not enough build up to get too involved so that I don't have to grieve for a hour after I've read it, LOL. If it's dark!fic it must be short and not too emotional. In fact I read one with Rumlow/Bucky that was, well, horrible. It was pretty well written, but well, it was completely hopeless. (I was in a mood so I liked it, but also because it was set in a time before this movie, and we KNOW later TWS escapes, so the hurt was minimized by knowing this.)

Re: Pairings you think are sexy

[kaijinscendre]

See, I can't get into dark!fic unless it is short. I just can't invest a lot of time in a fic I know will end depressingly. But a sad oneshot (I probably read that same Bucky /Rumlow fic) is good when I am in a mood. Hell, I have even read a couple Major Character Deaths because they were short.

I don't think I have read a fic in any of my fandoms that have blackmail as a plot point. This is terrible. :C I am actually surprised that asshole vice president didn't try to use TJ's affair or suicide attempt to gain something.

Also, Political Animals talk. Did you think TJ OD'ing was a suicide attempt or not? I totally think it was but he lied about it so that he would not hurt his family. I can't imagine that someone with his history of drug use doesn't know his limits. And he went WAY over his limits (I think he took most of those drugs he bought himself?). Maybe it was a subconscious or spur of the moment decision though.

Re: Pairings you think are sexy

[neonlovechicken]

I also like them short. The one I read thought, Clockwise (or something similar), was pretty 'interesting' because Rumlow characterization made some kind of sense... he was an asshole clearly, but there was something under the surface we can't identify because of the unreliable narrator being Bucky. And that was pretty cool IMO. Then, I will admit it has some pretty hot settings, even if it had some aspects that made me cringe a bit. But all in all it was well written! Which is rare when it comes to non-con... in fact I never read non-con, and quality is one of the main reasons why I stopped reading it (also because I stopped being an emo teenager :P). I think non-con needs to be EXTREMELY well written if you want to make it work without it being completely OOC or completely cringe-worthy... it's not an easy topic.

Blackmail is kind of a thing I have... and with TJ and politic settings, well, it writes itself, LOL. What with people constantly spying on him apparently, because that's the only reason why they could catch him with the congressman I think.

Tbh I thought he was trying to kill himself, and the fact that they made the parallel with the early try made it more apparent... I think he had reached the end of the rope and just did what he felt he needed to do. And his little face when Elaine tells him he's in the hospital... you can see all of it crashing on him and he just looks heartbreaking in there. Seriously, I shed a tear at that. I think she didn't want to hurt his mom by lying like that. Because gosh, you can totally see HOW MUCH he loves her from the way he goes, 'mum' at her upon waking. HIS LITTLE FACE, THE END.

PS: but seriously, it's still surprising to me how so few people seem to enjoy PA? It had a soap-opera-ish look to it sometimes that also threw ME off at first, but once you start on it I think it's evident how great the writing and the acting are!

Re: Pairings you think are sexy

[kaijinscendre]

I am flabbergasted by the fact Tumblr did not latch onto it. It had everything tumblr loves! A well rounded woman in a high political position. Another female lead who is a top notch reporter and also well rounded. Pretty sure it passes the Bechdel test. Two more major characters are also women (one is an older woman and one a POC)! The two sons are both good looking. One is gay, has the face of a kicked puppy, is basically a woobie, AND makes out with guys all the time. That is literally everything tumblr loves.

Re: Pairings you think are sexy

[neonlovechicken]

Yeah! I mean, there's also the ust between the two brothers, if someone is inclined, LOL. There's everything!

And also, there's the enormous big dilemma of the modern woman: career and/or family, which FOR ONCE is handled fantastically. No extremes, no anvils, no bullshit, and that's radical writing to me. And we do get flawed AND fantastically ingenuous and strong (the real kind) women of EVERY flavor.

I even like all the surrounding men tbh, including the asshole dad, because he's cool.

AND, Sebastian Stan is making out with boys, they are sniffing coke from his chest, he cries almost every episode and he's fucking miserable all the way through. And I just love him with EVERY CHARACTER, damn him. I'm shipping him with the piano too, I'm so desperate.

Re: Pairings you think are sexy

[kaijinscendre]

TJ/Piano OTP. I wish there was even a big enough fandom to qualify for the Small Fandoms Big Bang. ;_; I was also hoping that the new popularity of Sebastian Stan would make more people watch (and write fic for) Political Animals.