what if the right wrongs never come by anymore

[chase_acow]

First, and most importantly, I have a job interview on Monday with Career Services and the way he described the job really sounds like something I could do and something I would enjoy! Oh man, cross your fingers for me. Long time listeners know well how much I hate my current bosses and am tired of the job.

I accidentally left the cat outside for over six hours yesterday. I let her out with the dogs, then forgot when I doordashed, and I'm sure the strange car and person scared her off. She came back inside with stinky, hard mud caked in her paws and between her toes. It must have been super uncomfortable, but when I ran the tiniest bit of water in the sink to stick her paws in, it was like death had come for her. So much caterwauling! 





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 miss when squick was a bigger thing in fandom and fests. I don't understand it, but it always felt non judgemental. Maybe because it was the same time 'your kink is not my kink' was a bigger thing? or it's just a silly word that was fun to say? Or because people didn't have super long lists of them. Nothing turns me off faster than a request where the DNW list is five times the size of everything else in a signup.

I'll never understand why so many people DNW so many very specific I believe meant to be 'icky' things - like - scat. I mean, objectively sure, I don't want that either, but like, who is writing all these poop stories? Nobody's ever written me one and it's not in my very short DNW list. And if someone is out to ruin your good time, they'll find a way. Mosquitos man. I've never seen mosquitos on a DNW list but there's all sorts of gross possibilities there.

But personally, for Sam/Bucky a couple of things -

I don't like Bucky choosing to go by James all the time from everybody. I just can't take the character without that very specific nickname.  It was odd hearing Zemo call him 'James' but it made sense when someone points out how condescending it is for Walker to immediately start calling him Bucky like they were friends.

I can't stand it if Sam is cruel to someone, especially if it's all in a supposed jokey manner. That author shouldn't ever get the privilege of writing down Sam's name again. I think this has become a lot less prevalent as time moved on, but after CA:CW there was . . . a problem.

Comments

[dirty_diana]

I think there are definitely very anti-ish dnw lists out there, but also people who interpret the rules about how only dnws in the signup will be enforced by the mod to mean you should dnw absolutely everything you wouldn't enjoy just in case. It is kind of a worst case scenario way of looking at it. For me, there are definitely common dnws I wouldn't have expected to be as common as they are, so I kind of appreciate people actually saying them so I don't have to be psychic. Which I am not good at, lol.

[chase_acow]

I absolutely love and want prompts or maybe the requester's favorite bits of canon or where they think more exploration would be fun to see. And it's probably a me problem, but I have to acknowledge that I feel defensive at extremely long dnw lists and feel like they must think I'm stupid if I plan to write them a poop story for an exchange called 'happy fun good times only summer'. : )

[dirty_diana]

Oh for sure dnws are not useful as *prompts* and positive content is better for the creative soul. Though I don't mind having more room to do my thing, once in a while.