"...but I get wistful for stories about friendship, and sometimes fandom's SLASH ALL THE THINGS reflex makes me roll my eyes a bit. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes
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Yeah, it's a more complex world - but one in which you're less likely to get beaten to death for touching the wrong person the wrong way (innocently, I mean), so I guess I'll take it. Maybe the generation after ours will actually figure it out
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. . and I've clarified my thoughts on this a little, because really, wah, wah, wah, that I feel marginalized by being in a community where the sorts of relationships that are marginalized in the mainstream ARE the mainstream, poor me, world's tiniest violin, etc. Clarifying thought: mainstream media may be somewhat more likely to show the sorts of relationships, romantic or friendly, that I might have - but it doesn't show a person like me having them. Geeks and fannish people are comic relief in mainstream media, and often people with mental illness are too, unless you're talking some arthouse film wherein everything will probably end badly for everybody. So mainstream media makes me feel marginalized too - maybe in a much less huge and meaningful way than, say, NEVER EVER seeing gay relationships or polyamorous relationships as things the protagonists can do unless the movie is ALL ABOUT THAT - I get that - but still, I look to fandom to be a place where I feel like I fit someone's definition of a normal person. I have no
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Well, I kinda like Steve/Tony . . but moreso before 'Avengers' than after? Because yes, Tony/Pepper, and while at the end of Iron Man II they were a newly established thing and she was a bit overwhelmed and he was . . Tony . . and I could see them sliding back into friendship without it being too soul-destroying for either. After the relationship we're shown in Avengers, though . . . Tony post-Pepper would be a bitter, bitter person
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