depressing realisations

[tielan]

There are 140 stories on AO3 tagged "Maria Hill & Natasha Romanoff" and I wrote 20 of them. And most of that 20 aren't even focused on Maria and Natasha's friendship.

*sigh*

Today, I'm tired of fandom. But I'll keep writing because that's all I know how to do and everyone thinks I'm sucker anyway.

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[shorti]

Do we want to be masochistic and ponder how many of the 6943 fics tagged as Maria Hill are actually about Maria?

I'm watching Cleverman on iView. Do we really sound like that??

[tielan]

I argued, back in 2012, that almost none of the fics tagged as having Maria were actually about Maria to get her into a rare character fic exchange.

By the time she appeared in Cap2, she got a little more play. But, yeah. Someone over on the other journal just said "she's barely a person". Oddly, nobody ever seems to have trouble by assigning characterisation to men who aren't fleshed out in canon - only women.

LOL. Yes, we sound like that. Particularly when you've been listening to too much American TV.

[shorti]

Huh. There are 2000 mostly slash fics about Brock Rumlow and 500 about Jack Rollins. Fics that actually involve them. I remember Rollins having one line in TWS and he was a bad guy. Tell me that's not barely a person. Maria saved Captain America, Black Widow and Falcon. But no fics for her.

I don't notice the accent phenomenon when I watch the news or say Insight or 7:30 report. Only TV shows and movies. Weird.