> I'm noticing a lot of 景元/丹恒 shippers are really afraid of emotional torture for some reason.
IMO, I think that's because the fangirls who are into that all went into the Blade/Dan Heng ship, because that one is much more suited to torture, both emotional and literal.
> fandom's over focus on Dr. Ratio's advanced degrees and flattening his personality to "stereotypical nerd" is kind of a put off
Really? My experience is that the fans tend to gloss over Ratio's credentials most of the time. Maybe mention it in lip service but never actually feature anything relevant in the story. Because they don't have the context for someone of that level of intelligence. It's the same problem that they also often forget this is a scifi/fantasy setting.
Like, one of my pet peeves with Ratio/Aventurine fics is that whoever bottoms in the fic gets stuffed into the "domestic" role, complete with automatically becoming a 5 star chef, doing the house cleaning, etc. But, no one thinks someone like Ratio who has both engineering and comp sci degrees wouldn't have any robots to do his cleanup and/or cooking? Or that Aventurine couldn't afford to *buy* an advanced roomba? -_-
> Ratio's most defining character trait is that he's an educator, yet I've not seen fic deal with what he sees as his duty to his students in terms of educating them into productive members of society.... Yet fandom doesn't touch this aspect at all.
Hm, actually, I see a lot more of this featured in stories. Especially fics that include slice of life usually do a lot of portraying Ratio doing grading or lectures (remote and in person), getting into bad moods when coming across particular stupid assignments (or excuses for late assignments), the occasional POV from a student who's panicking over a deadline or grateful to have survived his class, etc. I mean, education is generally not the *focus* of fics, because the focus is the romance CP and Aventurine isn't a college boy except in AUs. But Ratio being a professor (and researcher) is definitely featured prominently in the background of the fics I've read.
Maybe we're reading different fics?
> Yet most fic would rather depict him as someone who shows off his smarts or is just bad at reading the room and responding to social cues. Having Dr. Ratio caustically taking down people a peg is like the worst possible depiction.
...I definitely think we're reading different fics. These sound like the kind of fics I close out after the first paragraph for being too OOC.
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Date: 2024-09-19 04:31 (UTC)IMO, I think that's because the fangirls who are into that all went into the Blade/Dan Heng ship, because that one is much more suited to torture, both emotional and literal.
> fandom's over focus on Dr. Ratio's advanced degrees and flattening his personality to "stereotypical nerd" is kind of a put off
Really? My experience is that the fans tend to gloss over Ratio's credentials most of the time. Maybe mention it in lip service but never actually feature anything relevant in the story. Because they don't have the context for someone of that level of intelligence. It's the same problem that they also often forget this is a scifi/fantasy setting.
Like, one of my pet peeves with Ratio/Aventurine fics is that whoever bottoms in the fic gets stuffed into the "domestic" role, complete with automatically becoming a 5 star chef, doing the house cleaning, etc. But, no one thinks someone like Ratio who has both engineering and comp sci degrees wouldn't have any robots to do his cleanup and/or cooking? Or that Aventurine couldn't afford to *buy* an advanced roomba? -_-
> Ratio's most defining character trait is that he's an educator, yet I've not seen fic deal with what he sees as his duty to his students in terms of educating them into productive members of society.... Yet fandom doesn't touch this aspect at all.
Hm, actually, I see a lot more of this featured in stories. Especially fics that include slice of life usually do a lot of portraying Ratio doing grading or lectures (remote and in person), getting into bad moods when coming across particular stupid assignments (or excuses for late assignments), the occasional POV from a student who's panicking over a deadline or grateful to have survived his class, etc. I mean, education is generally not the *focus* of fics, because the focus is the romance CP and Aventurine isn't a college boy except in AUs. But Ratio being a professor (and researcher) is definitely featured prominently in the background of the fics I've read.
Maybe we're reading different fics?
> Yet most fic would rather depict him as someone who shows off his smarts or is just bad at reading the room and responding to social cues. Having Dr. Ratio caustically taking down people a peg is like the worst possible depiction.
...I definitely think we're reading different fics. These sound like the kind of fics I close out after the first paragraph for being too OOC.