[ SECRET POST #4253 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4253 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I hate soulbonding as a rule, but why the assumption that it's the only way an author manages to write their ship, rather than way they want to?

[(Anonymous)]

*wince* For some antagonist/enemy ships it's sadly glaringly obvious. The author wants them to bang because they could be hot together, but has no idea how to make it happen - other than suprise, a soulbond. And I'm saying this as someone who loves reading soulbonds, especially the "destroyer of consent" ones the other anon mentioned below.

[(Anonymous)]

And how many soulbond fics does it take to trigger this response from you? Is it if the author writes one? Three? Ten?

I;m equal parts confused by you and the OP. Why does someone wanting to write a soulbond fic mean they have no other idea how to get the pair together, rather than that they just wanted to write a soulbond fic?

If someone writes and AU get-together fic, does that mean they obviously don’t know how to contort canon so the couple gets together?

[(Anonymous)]

new person but honestly, regardless of number, if a person has a few fics of a BFF pairing that aren't all soulbond, and then 100% of their enemyship fics are souldbonds, even if it's only, like, two? I'd go in with my standards lowered and my finger hovering on the back button. The point isn't to convince anyone to write this less, it's just part of my personal system for finding fic I want to try.

I love soulbonds and I love enemyships but yeah, the intersection of the two often contains a loooot of really lazy contrivances that don't actually give me what I want from enemyships in the first place. Instead of sexy antagonism or painfully coming to understand each other better, soulbond fics way too often just have characters 100% change their minds and fall in love and be unrecognizable because hey, the tattoo words are right! or whatever.

Not saying it can't ever be done well, but yeah, if it's the only device an author uses for that ship, I'm going to suspect they can't write the dynamic without it.

As for the AU example.....sure, maybe? But that's a lot more forgivable for me because I read fic in a lot of closed canons. Often it IS impossible to have the characters be together happily in canon-compliant fic. But an AU that has the villain live or whatever isn't replacing the character's canon emotional dynamic whole cloth like a soulbond fic sometimes does.