When did plotbunnies evolve suckered tentacles?

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For three days now my brain hasn't stopped trying to make me write Dave/Tavros xeno smutfic! With ALL of the angst!

I cannot distract myself because I have already read all of the Dave/Tavros; there is no more distraction material available until somebody updates a WIP!


HELP. Send links?

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Celtic trad on this end. You?
Actually? Pretty much anything except rap and very heavy metal.

Karkat♥John and there is sex in suits on top of a very nice car
Eh. Ties, suits; it's just a matter of degree! :D

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

<3. I adore Terezi, especially when she's being competent (and especially in her own, inimitable, razor-smile brand of competence -- "Daredevil" is a good comparison!) all over the place regardless of how bigots feel about that. *beaming* I'm also a phenomenal sucker for pale Dave/Terezi, so. Yeah. Dave's moirail being awesome all over the U.S. legal and political system makes me smile like mad and cheer her on!

the separation of troll wigglers into their own hive-equivalents is in order to discourage the Westermarck effect

That makes a lot of sense. And now I'm wondering about trolls who grow up in communal hivestems, like Sollux -- not quite the same as having the same lusus, but to get along without just killing everyone on your floor must involve some kind of desensitisation/acquired feeling of kinship, right?

Hint: Most trolls aren't big on penetrative sex
I had picked this up from Dave and Tavros's interactions, so it's nice to hear confirmation! I have a *thing* about couples whose tastes/preferences aren't always compatible, so I really enjoyed the subtle shades of backgrounding in that exchange.

Actually, some of the Dave/Tavros I don't admit to having started writing :D involves that element -- the contrast between 'penetrative sex is normal for my species' and 'penetrative sex is a giant kink and I'm not sure I have it'. Complicated by other issues going on in the background, but definitely there. It's just fun!

Depends on the individual's political beliefs and interactions with trolls!

Admission: by 'everyone' I mostly meant the circle of friends Dave and Rose have built up. (Are any of the others in interspecies relationships?) I figured the rest of the world would have vastly differing views from one person to another. :D Troll presence is clearly a pretty volatile subject nationwide, at the time of the fic.

Karkat as a one-troll wrecking ball makes me giggle. If anyone can do it, he can! The more conservative members of any given committee might just faint dead away the third time he resorts to "bulgemunching nookstain"... :D It'd let the rest of the Committee get on with having their minds changed, at least!

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I'm also a phenomenal sucker for pale Dave/Terezi, so
Yesssss.

"Daredevil" is a good comparison!
I suspect that some political cartoonists draw her in Daredevil's outfit as a matter of course. Also as a shark.

(sudden mental image of, during a high-profile case, someone drawing a SHARK WEEK AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING political cartoon with the shark having horns and glasses)

must involve some kind of desensitisation/acquired feeling of kinship, right
Depends on the structure of the hivestem, probably. Also I think Sollux is probably...less in-person social than most.

It's just fun!
Yes. It is. When that fic is done I'd love to see it!

(Are any of the others in interspecies relationships?)
John and Karkat are together but Karkat refuses on principle to get married (and by "principle" I also mean "he expects to die before forty human years and mistakenly thinks that it'll save John grief").
Sollux is pretty non-discriminating in terms of sexual partners (he discovers twins), Nepeta is constantly falling in and out of flushcrushes on Japanese and Korean pop stars, and Terezi has a massive caliginous thing for a human she meets in law school (though nothing ever comes of it).

he resorts to "bulgemunching nookstain"
He gets better at being creatively offensive without being obscene.