tripperfunster

*flails*

I've just back buttoned on three fics. Three fics that were RECOMMENDED on the Avengers search sites. All three sounded intruiging and all three lost me in the first two paragraphs by overexplaining stuff (Tony had just returned from Tokyo Japan) Really? Not Tokyo Omaha?

Using pet names He wanted to surprise his lover. He had been away and had missed his lover. I don't know why 'lover' bugs me so much, but it does. I guess, unless I was having a torrid affair, I would never refer to someone as my 'lover.' How about he just missed Steve? Even if it was "since they'd become lovers," or something, but UGH. rant rant rant.

And finally, the dreaded epithet (which I guess 'lover' would qualify), "The Man from World War 2". Yes, they called him that. As in, "The man from world war two crossed the room and walked into the elevator."


*cries* These might actually be great fics, but I will never be able to enjoy them. I've become a fic!snob.

I might be able to stomach some of these things say ... a couple of chapters in, but all of these things happened in the first couple of paragraphs.

I also hate it when someone mentally referrs to their mate as their 'husband'. I guess it's for the same reasons as 'lover'. Partly is feels like the writer is screaming I BELIEVE IN MARRIAGE EQUALITY (which, of course, I do too, but it feels odd and forced to me) and partly because I never think of my husband as my 'husband.

I don't think : "Hey, I wonder if my husband is home." I wonder if LANCE is home. I often refer to him as my husband when I'm talking to other people (who don't know him well,) as in: "Yes, my husband is also very tall." but I never think to MYSELF, Gosh, my husband is so tall. I think that LANCE is so tall.

COMFORT ME WITH OTHER THINGS YOU AND I BOTH HATE TOGETHER. And I'll tell my HUSBAND/LOVER/THE MAN WHO WAS NOT IN WORLD WAR 2 ABOUT IT.