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2 years ago
Just got done rereading the masterpiece that is the Dragon Ball fanfic The Complex Mathematics of Self.
Not to compare everything to Kevin Can Fuck Himself, which I will continue to do, but it *is* a deconstruction of an archetypal marriage, showing how stressful and unsatisfying it is to be the housewife holding down the mundane aspects of life while the husband engages in the more fantastical genre stuff.
But whereas Kevin uses "Aw look, they really do love each other!" as a cover to be a narcissistic abusive monster, Goku in TCMoS demonstrates how even an authentic happy-go-lucky kind and selfless protagonist can be a terrible husband to the "naggy" wife.
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dbz fanfiction
It's the ideal combination of the best fanfic prompts
“What if this character abandoned by the narrative had self-determination” and “what if this character's obvious PTSD was explored”
I think I'm close to rereading the Inuyasha fanfic When No Lover Comes
Which was the first femslash fic I ever read and is probably why I can't stand codependent breakup stories
Because the first one I read nailed it