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Half-breed Interference by JustAsSweet
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek
01 Sep 2025
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Amanda Grayson knew that marrying an alien diplomat would make her life difficult. She did it anyway. She knew that following him to his planet, far away from the little blue marble that was her home, would test her in ways she might not be able to anticipate, despite extensive preparation. She did it anyway. She even knew that having a child with her alien husband on his alien world would drastically complicate matters, despite the multiple reassurances that such a child was even possible. She (and Sarek) did it anyway.
A musing on what Spock's birth might have meant to a few people.
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What to keep and what to throw away: “Private Romeo” as a Shakespeare adaptation by JustAsSweet
Fandoms: Private Romeo (2011), Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet - All Media Types
23 Mar 2023
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I am, to put it mildly, a fan of Shakespeare. I love the language, I love the history, I love the variety of interpretations, I love the puns, and I love the queer subtext that shows up sometimes. And, because I like seeing the variety of interpretations, I enjoy watching different adaptations of popular titles to see what parts of the original they choose to keep and which parts they choose to change. It’s interesting, to me, to see how a new director takes the historic play and works it into a modern frame. It can shed new or different light on an interpretation of the original, sometimes in ways that are not wrong but are certainly a far cry from what the line or scene was ever meant to be.
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- Part 3 of Meta Essays
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Words vs. Actions: Meeting your match in "Maurice" by JustAsSweet
Fandoms: Maurice (1987)
23 Mar 2023
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Part of what I love about Maurice, the 1987 BBC film adaptation of EM Forster’s novel of the same name, is that it has multiple explicitly queer characters in a historic setting. I’m also a big fan of the happy ending and the fact that none of the queer characters die. But what I really love about Maurice is that it not only has multiple queer characters, it does a pretty decent job of showing within the narrative why the relationships function differently, and why ultimately one works and one doesn’t.
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- Part 2 of Meta Essays
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Slow burn: Acing asexual representation in "BoJack Horseman" by JustAsSweet
Fandoms: BoJack Horseman
23 Mar 2023
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As queer viewers, we are used to our identities being treated as the Topic Of The Week. Queer characters designed to make straight people feel good about educating themselves flit across our screens and back into the ether, never to be seen or heard from again; we put up with it because these crumbs are all we get. Also because we know the reality is these are the baby steps that lay the foundations of change. But sometimes...rarely, very rarely, we see a show put the effort in. The queer character is more than just a throwaway, the writers did their research, and we get the representation that we don’t even know we’ve been missing. For me, an asexual viewer, that show was BoJack Horseman.
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- Part 1 of Meta Essays
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On the eve of battle, Dà Qìng is reminded of something from his past.
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Meta Essays by JustAsSweet
Fandom: BoJack Horseman, Maurice (1987), Private Romeo (2011), Romeo And Juliet - All Media Types, Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare
23 Mar 2023
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“Two options, Matt. We do it right here with a bucket and sponge, or we do it in the bathtub, the way God intended.”
“And door number three?”
“Ah, that's where I chase you around my apartment with a washcloth, and we get dirt and water and blood everywhere.” Foggy pauses, breath gusting in, gusting out. “Door number three is everybody's least favorite door, buddy. Let's skip it.”
[For a prompt at the Daredevil Kink Meme: OP wanted Matt being bathed at least partially against his will, but was okay with him starting to enjoy it midway through. Spoiler: he definitely starts to enjoy it ;)]
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03 Apr 2022
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In Which The Avengers And Daredevil Don't Know How To Share Friends And Foggy Nelson Has The Patience Of A Saint by cosmicocean
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Daredevil (TV)
15 Sep 2015
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Honestly, Foggy’s just kind of grateful that the unconscious dude in the alley by his apartment isn’t beat up as bad as Matt was when he found him that first time.
He also kind of thinks it says a lot about his life right now that those are his feelings on the subject, but it’s best not to analyze that.
Where Foggy accidentally becomes bros with the Avengers, Foggy and Matt talk it out, and the Avengers and Matt don't seem to grasp the concept that the "s" in "friends" is there for a reason.
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27 Mar 2022
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Where Johnny goes, the Devil follows; where Johnny goes, the Devil is already there.
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02 Jan 2022
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Not How the Song Goes by sadlikeknives for brilligspoons
Fandoms: Mercy Thompson Series - Patricia Briggs
25 Dec 2017
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Kyle and Warren, from the beginning to the end of the beginning.
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18 Nov 2021
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? by poisonivory
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Super Sons (Comics), Superman (Comics), Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
04 Oct 2021
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After years in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, Jon is finally back in Damian's life, and Damian's determined to keep him in this century. If that means a little fooling around between friends, so be it. It doesn't have to mean anything.
(It just might mean everything.)
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18 Nov 2021