[Rap] has never been my genre, to put it lightly. ditto. Celtic trad on this end. You?
Because Dave in necktie bondage is incandescently hot. Duh! Yes, that too. XD (although full disclosure: the piece that's currently in progress in that setting is Karkat♥John and there is sex in suits on top of a very nice car.)
But more seriously: my feelings for your non-canon-timeline Dave are so vast there isn't a comment block big enough to hold them all. Aww thank you! That means a lot to me.
all the How They Got Together details, I'm working on getting that together in my head, actually! It's not fast, though.
also pretty much everything about Terezi and her political crusades Terezi isn't so much "political" as just "really freaking competent." She's actually sort of a big deal, since she's the first troll to be admitted to the bar, and then on top of that she decided to go into government service with the US Attorney's office. She's sort of easy to caricature, too - she's very recognizeable, has the Daredevil thing going, and isn't mild-mannered in any way. In a lot of ways she becomes one of the most visible representatives of naturalized trolls in the US, especially after she hits the position of US Attorney later in life.
how Hasa and Samar manage to be siblings since that's not really an instinctive troll relationship It's my headcanon that the separation of troll wigglers into their own hive-equivalents is in order to discourage the Westermarck effect, and that if two Alternian-born trolls were raised together by the same lusus they might very well have a relationship humans would view as "siblinglike".
every single "experiment" Dave and Tavros tried in figuring out their preferred ways for sexing Hint: Most trolls aren't big on penetrative sex (it's a related kink to "using partner as bucket") and the fact that Dave is kinked REALLY HARD for it, is always a little disorienting to Tavros. I am planning to elaborate on this particular detail.
how everyone else perceives the interspecies couples, and... Depends on the individual's political beliefs and interactions with trolls! Legally speaking, in order to recognize trolls' relationships, certain American laws had to change (coughDOMAcough), and trolls' lack of parenting culture is a big Moral Issue to a lot of certain kinds of people. Plus, Alternian trolls ARE pretty hyperviolent! But Karkat is, essentially, a one-troll Former Alternian National Turned Naturalized American Citizen wrecking ball NGO. There are a bunch of trolls who asked for refugee status from the US government, and his life's work is pretty much yelling at Senate Committees and Hearings to stop trying to legislate discrimination against them. (Karkat is sort of like Rahm Emanuel or a maritally-faithful Anthony Weiner, although he never runs for Congress. He has a lot of internet fans.) This...didn't answer the question, did it. Whoops. Being romantically involved with a troll is pretty unusual, just because there aren't many trolls living on Earth. And it definitely raises some eyebrows, or gets some nasty remarks, no matter where you go, but a certain class of liberals believes that trolls are sentient humanoid beings and it's pretty natural for there to be someone out there who's into trolls, and for there to be a troll out there who's into humans! There's not a LOT of consciousness about troll romance, though, even after all the talk in the news about what it meant that Terezi had a MOIRAIL (Dave).
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Date: 2012-04-01 05:45 pm (UTC)ditto. Celtic trad on this end. You?
Because Dave in necktie bondage is incandescently hot. Duh!Yes, that too. XD (although full disclosure: the piece that's currently in progress in that setting is Karkat♥John and there is sex in suits on top of a very nice car.)
But more seriously: my feelings for your non-canon-timeline Dave are so vast there isn't a comment block big enough to hold them all.
Aww thank you! That means a lot to me.
all the How They Got Together details,
I'm working on getting that together in my head, actually! It's not fast, though.
also pretty much everything about Terezi and her political crusades
Terezi isn't so much "political" as just "really freaking competent." She's actually sort of a big deal, since she's the first troll to be admitted to the bar, and then on top of that she decided to go into government service with the US Attorney's office. She's sort of easy to caricature, too - she's very recognizeable, has the Daredevil thing going, and isn't mild-mannered in any way. In a lot of ways she becomes one of the most visible representatives of naturalized trolls in the US, especially after she hits the position of US Attorney later in life.
how Hasa and Samar manage to be siblings since that's not really an instinctive troll relationship
It's my headcanon that the separation of troll wigglers into their own hive-equivalents is in order to discourage the Westermarck effect, and that if two Alternian-born trolls were raised together by the same lusus they might very well have a relationship humans would view as "siblinglike".
every single "experiment" Dave and Tavros tried in figuring out their preferred ways for sexing
Hint: Most trolls aren't big on penetrative sex (it's a related kink to "using partner as bucket") and the fact that Dave is kinked REALLY HARD for it, is always a little disorienting to Tavros. I am planning to elaborate on this particular detail.
how everyone else perceives the interspecies couples, and...
Depends on the individual's political beliefs and interactions with trolls! Legally speaking, in order to recognize trolls' relationships, certain American laws had to change (coughDOMAcough), and trolls' lack of parenting culture is a big Moral Issue to a lot of certain kinds of people. Plus, Alternian trolls ARE pretty hyperviolent! But Karkat is, essentially, a one-troll Former Alternian National Turned Naturalized American Citizen wrecking ball NGO. There are a bunch of trolls who asked for refugee status from the US government, and his life's work is pretty much yelling at Senate Committees and Hearings to stop trying to legislate discrimination against them. (Karkat is sort of like Rahm Emanuel or a maritally-faithful Anthony Weiner, although he never runs for Congress. He has a lot of internet fans.)
This...didn't answer the question, did it. Whoops.
Being romantically involved with a troll is pretty unusual, just because there aren't many trolls living on Earth. And it definitely raises some eyebrows, or gets some nasty remarks, no matter where you go, but a certain class of liberals believes that trolls are sentient humanoid beings and it's pretty natural for there to be someone out there who's into trolls, and for there to be a troll out there who's into humans!
There's not a LOT of consciousness about troll romance, though, even after all the talk in the news about what it meant that Terezi had a MOIRAIL (Dave).