F: Share A Snippet From One Of Your Favorite Dialogue Scenes Youve Written And Explain Why Youre Proud

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it. K: What's the angstiest idea you've come up with?

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Hahaha oh wow I actually find this really difficult to answer because honestly, I don’t think dialogue is really my strong point? But I’d have to go with the dialogue from the first chapter of Coming Together (Falling Apart).

“They said it was one of us or all of us, and there is no reason for all of us to get tortured.”

“So what, you want to offer up one of us to get hurt?” Clint’s eyes were narrowed, his fists clenched once again.

“I do, in fact.” After a few seconds of stunned silence, he continued. “I’m Iron Man, sure, but outside of the suit, I’m just a regular, unenhanced civilian. You are trained to withstand interrogation - I’m not. We’ve got no idea what they want, or which one of us can give it to them, but I say we send in anyone but me.”

It keeps going like that, and I’m really proud of the double layers, the way they’re performing for the (hidden) cameras, and the way Steve (as the POV character) doesn’t know exactly what is going on, but slowly starts realizing that something definitely is.

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve come up with?

Hmmm…. That would probably have been either Hate Me or some of my Whumptober shorts.

The first one is a lot of internal angst, with Tony hating himself and also hiding the fact that he’s Iron Man (because Iron Man is good, and Tony Stark isn’t). The second one has more external angst, with people getting hurt a lot.

That being said, angst is relative for me, because I’m terrible at unhappy endings (reading and writing both) and my stories either outright end well, or the implication is that they will (in the case of the Whumptober ones, where I didn’t have time to write entire fics).

Thank you very much for your questions!! 💙💙💙

For as long as he was able to remember, Tony had known that being ill made him a nuisance to others. It was better to deal with it alone, without bothering anyone else.

Bucky disagreed.

This fic fills a number of bingo squares:

011 - "JARVIS" -  Winteriron - All Ages for the @tonystarkbingo​ flash event

Square G2 - Sickfic for the @winterironbingo​, which gives me a bingo just in time!

Square B1 - Height Difference for the @buckybarnesbingo​.

I hope your days are wonderful!

There’s always a lingering question that I ask myself, which is why do I, a cis bisexual woman, enjoy romance between two men so much?  

There are easy answers, like that it’s just fetishizing.  And like, I find men attractive, yes.  But I also find women attractive.  I don’t have a problem with enjoying het romance, assuming I can find good ones.  I enjoy stories with female characters I can relate to.

But there’s something much deeper at play, IMO.  A friend of mine who is a gender studies professor was the first person to point this out to me, but a lot of women enjoy m/m romance and gay porn because of the lack of women.  It removes a source of pressure and sexism.  Without any women present, you don’t have to constantly evaluate the sexism of their portrayal, or be reminded of negative experiences in your own life.  It allows women to experience romance and especially sexuality without all the baggage that comes with it in our patriarchal society.

This was recently illustrated to me rather dramatically.  I read a recommendation for a het romance.  And it sounded cute, and came highly recommended.  The tropes at play were fun.  Until I read a snippet and realized this was a romance between a woman and her boss.  I had a visceral negative reaction.  

Instantly I’m thinking of sexual harassment stories I’ve read and heard from other women. I’m thinking of how uncomfortable it would be to have your boss develop feelings for you.  How icky the power dynamics would be, etc.  

And then I realized…this wouldn’t bother me if it were two men.  Now, there’s no logical reason for that.  Sexual harassment is just as wrong when its object is a man.  But I know I’ve read fics with a similar premise and never thought about it.  Because when it’s two men I can accept this is just a light romance, a fantasy, meant to be fun and sexy and not to represent the real world.

But I can’t when it’s a het relationship.  There’s too much baggage there.  Too much societal history of abuse.  I can’t relax enough with the premise to enjoy that story.  

Now some people can.  And that’s fine.  And some people are never going to be okay with power imbalances like that regardless of gender.  That’s also fine.  I don’t think having either reaction makes one morally superior.  It’s okay to just enjoy light entertainment for what it is without going into deep analysis.

But it’s much more difficult for me, and I think for many women, to relax and enjoy romantic and sexual stories when they involve female characters.  We’ve been burned too many times by shitty depictions, by shallow role models, by abuse portrayed as romantic.  We have developed a stress response, a trauma response to heterosexual romance.  We are hyper-reactive to a wide variety of triggers in regards to it.   But removing women from the equation makes stories safer for us.  And maybe it shouldn’t?  In an ideal world?  But for many of us, that’s the truth.

Eirlyssa’s Bucky Barnes Bingo Masterlist

For the @buckybarnesbingo. In case anyone wonders about the pairing of any given fill - just assume WinterIron or pre-WinterIron...

B1 - Height Difference Inconvenience - fic - Rating: Gen

B5 - AU: Fantasy World In Your Eyes - fic - Rating: T

U1 - AU: Fairytale Tale As Old As Time [chapter 1] - fic, unfinished - Rating: T

C1 - Abandonment Issues Never Let Me Go [chapter 3] - fic - Rating: T

C2 - Protectiveness One Call Away - fic - Rating: T

C3 - FREE SQUARE Force (Be With Us) - fic - Rating: T

C5 - WinterIron (Bucky/Tony) Show Me The Stars - fic - Rating: Gen

K1 - Recovering Bucky Mrs. Polkin - fic - Rating: Gen

K2 - Bed Sharing Loneliness Can't Touch Me (When You Are) - moodboard and snippet - Rating: Gen

K3 - Science and Magic Got Me So Crazy In Love - moodboard and snippet - Rating: T

Y1 - AU: Wings Beautiful Soul - fic - Rating: T

Y4 - Hurt/Comfort Hold Me Close - fic - Rating: T

Y5 - Magic Bewitched - moodboard and snippet - Rating: Gen

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