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⌈ Secret Post #3319 ⌋

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[Homestuck]

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[Manhunter, Criminal Minds, CSI and X-Files]

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[Heroes Reborn]

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[Story of Seasons]

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[Keanu Reeves]

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[One Punch Man]

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[photo of naked dude in a suggestive(?) position]

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Infidelity, either having the characters of my ship cheating on each other or using my ship to break up/cheat on a canon pair in a fic, nope. Don't like it. Can't do it. Don't want.

I agree with this. I hate infidelity, which is making it hard for me to read most post Deathly Hallows Harry/Hermione fics because rather than AUs or having breakups first most of them seem to involve infidelity.

If there is a legitimate reason for it (say abusive partner where it is in-character for that person to be abusive) or say seducing a bad guy because it is the only way to stop him, fine. But otherwise no.

IA

Also what makes it even worse is when the cheated-on partner is demonized for being upset.

(Eyes 'How You Became Mine' from A:TLA)

Yes so much. This happened in the Callie/Arizona fandom when Arizona cheated when they were still together (which, ugh, Shonda why do all your characters cheat?). Fans who favored Arizona got annoyed at Callie for being angry because Arizona lost her leg and therefore should be allowed to get away with cheating because it was really all Callie's fault for not being enough of a caretaker. Ugh.

Oh that makes it 100x worse. No, the character who got cheated on is allowed to be upset over that ffs.

The "best" is when the cheated on partner was demonized earlier for cheating on . The ship doing it though? Totally alright because it's True Love!

Yeah I can work with like an offscreen break-up, say it happened a couple of years ago(in the fic time-line), but my ship being the catalyst for it in the fic is awful and I hate it.

(Thankfully I don't come across it that often but I really dislike it when I do).

Oh god the in-character abusive character is so rare, most of the time when I have seen it it's been a ridiculous OOC crapfest that made no sense.

I always think of the Harry Potter fic that had Ron literally kill a little bird in front of his and Hermione's kids... and then I start giggling because it's so OTT and ridiculous.

Ugh. I don't like this either.

What if they're in a canonically open relationship, or if there's canonical cheating (Mad Men fandom, for instance)?

If it's an agreed upon open relationship that's fine, and I don't consider that cheating since all parties involved would have consented to it.

I'll be honest canon cheating annoys me too, but while I might be able to deal with it in the show/movie/whatever, I still wont like it in fic in order to get my ship together. I'm just really not a fan of cheating.

This is it for me, too. Especially if it's a character that's canonically not that sort of asshole.

Like, you're going to really REALLY have to work to convince me that Hermione's going to cheat on her husband rather than just breaking up with him and pursuing a new relationship.

For real nonnie.

+1

Especially if you, earlier in the fic, condemned other characters for cheating on their partners.

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