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I swear someone once told me that [character] would Not Do That because when he made a comment about a threesome with his wife's incredibly close best friend in canon he was JOKING. Like this is in any sense going to put me off.

"hey, I think this would be fun!"
"☹️"/"😡"/"well I just think we'd all be happier if we admitted deep in our hearts that we liked one of these ships, the better one obviously, more than the other, and had the courage to pick a side..."

no :)

Also at least these ships are hopefully small enough to avoid the issue where some people who are only into one side of an ot3 and wish you as a writer were too get Weird about it.

Also loooooook at Erskin and Perrin there they could so be related. Maybe I want to write another one of the 'if you're going to cheat on me then I'm going to hire your illegitimate son and he's MINE now' fics as well.

Describing an age gap as Oedipal does remind me though of Sara Maitland’s short story ‘Loving Oedipus’, told from Jocasta’s point of view, which does NOT shy away from the subject matter (the first lines are “Of course I knew. They say a mother always knows.”)

never mind, fellow “but I LIKE it weird” enjoyers - we’ll always have fanfic.

“For those of you who are wondering if the age difference makes their relationship feel at all weird, I promise, it absolutely_does not. Cross my heart. They don't get physically”

and again I say: booooo.

screenshot of text: “happens ALL THE TIME!!) and that he was the younger man but it didnt turn into a creepy oedipal-thing, it was almost a non issue in the book until she found out at the end.”

boooooo.

Surely if ANYthing warranted a subordinate tag…

screenshot from AO3, text reads: “Mergers. Loyalty Kink has been made a synonym of Loyalty. Works and bookmarks tagged with Loyalty Kink will show up in Loyalty's filter.”

Well I appreciate ‘loyalty kink’ is often more narrative-level than character-level, but this is still a weird synning decision to me because it’s a specific *kind* of narrative-level thing, it’s not just general ‘loyalty exists as a theme in this story’

yeah!

YKINMKATO of course as ever but we need to bring back kink memes because those of us who thrive off that kind of hyperspecific weirdness are Suffering here.

Things I have actually tagged in my own fics:
- ‘non-consensual consent’
- ‘and i mean forest sex in a very literal way’
- ‘war prize’
- ‘accidental marriage’
- ‘flirting as military strategy’
- ‘sibling incest’
- ‘infidelity’ and various subcategories thereof, all the time always, love that one.

screenshot of a quiz: “Question 6 of 14 pick a kink: Answers, please choose 1 bondage spanking exhibitionism degradation dom/sub roleplay pet play age gap no thanks, I'm vanilla”

yeah that’s nice AO3 ‘which trope are you’ quiz but i need a ‘no thanks I prefer it niche and weird’ option.

finally done! archiveofourown.org/works/653414...

text screenshot: “He holds you tight across chest and shoulder though you don't think it's with his arms, and something unmistakably vine-like coils itself around your thigh, tendrils soft and stem turgid with sap. But it's him you can feel - his warmth, his breath - his hand between your legs, his fingers in your mouth. "You can do this," he tells you, "you'll do this - it'll only hurt a moment, don't worry -" A trial, of sorts. You imagine yourself in some woodland glade lush with spring and a crowd of trees lowering their boughs before you as you lie like a brought-down deer at the hunt's end, stretching out your neck for his teeth. It's his groan when he sheaths himself hard and wanting deep inside you.”

Maedhros’s negotiations with the Sindar going in unexpected directions

(‘you’ here is Maedhros)

Screenshot of text: “Beneath your hand, beneath your mouth, against your hip and chest, he feels ever less like living flesh to you and yet all the more alive for it. Although you can see his hands upon you you would swear they are cool summer leaves, soothing, easing; all about him lulls you, like the drowsy hum of distant bees in a forest glade. The first time he takes you there is a sharpness in his smile and you recognise the satisfaction of a hunter that has finally won its prey. "You can close your eyes if you want to," he tells you as if he thinks this a kindness. "It might be easier. Down. There you are." How strange that the bearskin on the floor of your chamber should feel so much like moss beneath your knees.”

More of the eldritch-forest-creatures-Sindar fic:

I can’t actually think of a better way to do that one because someone only using the parent tag could well mean either version, and yet somebody’s going to get quite a surprise with that tag one of these days

for clarity, it’s the second one of these I’m trying to tag for

Learned that AO3 groups all tags about 'sex against a tree' AND tags about 'sex with a tree' together under 'Tree Sex' and, well, yes, but also, no.

Blaming you both for finally setting up the NSFW alt I was dithering over bsky.app/profile/conu...

Also one day ONE DAY I will write something First Age where the safeword equivalent is “say it in Quenya”

screenshot of text: “Mairon had thought she might need coaxing in this, that the pleasure she did find would be guilt-soaked and conflicted. No, it seems. "I want him now," she says and pulls Mairon back, and then grips his hair so he must watch Celeborn's head between her thighs, Celeborn's mouth keen for more of her. A punishment, Mairon thinks, or a reward, or both; in so much of his long existence the two have been mingled. He finds himself drawn to a focal point of the smallest and softest shadow”

screenshot of text: “Mairon had thought she might need coaxing in this, that the pleasure she did find would be guilt-soaked and conflicted. No, it seems. "I want him now," she says and pulls Mairon back, and then grips his hair so he must watch Celeborn's head between her thighs, Celeborn's mouth keen for more of her. A punishment, Mairon thinks, or a reward, or both; in so much of his long existence the two have been mingled. He finds himself drawn to a focal point of the smallest and softest shadow”

ok here’s two of the Galadriel/Sauron/Celeborn fics