Okay, here is a thing I find baffling in 1940s era Steve/Bucky fic - the use of condoms. I don't have a real grasp of gay history during the war (or otherwise), but I feel like that is completely anachronistic. Condoms were for use with ladies so 1. men didn't get STDs and 2. no one ended up pregnant. (Needless to say, the armed forces were not ( Read more... )

It's funny how the hallmarks of bad het fic are different from the hallmarks of bad slash, but here is one that almost never fails - repeatedly referring to the women in the story (especially the women perceived as romantic rivals of the heroine, which btw carries its own set of pitfalls and markers of bad fic) as "females ( Read more... )

You know, I get that many media fans are not sports fans, and really have no interest in the major league American team sports, but jesus, mary and joseph, baseball does not have halftime! Hockey does not have quarters! American football is played from September to February! You can't just throw in a random jumble of sports terms and the name of a ( Read more... )

Okay, here's a question for you - how faithful do you feel something has to be to general mythology/urban legend/folklore etc ( Read more... )

This is one of those posts I'd have probably made on Saturday if technology hadn't been messing with me, and it's something I thought about all weekend, so I just need to get it out ( Read more... )