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There is a Batman anonymous kinkfic request thread gathering prompts and fic (apparently this is called a "meme" because nobody knows what the word "meme" means anymore). I think I'm kind of doing it wrong because I'm just fascinated by reading through the requests and seeing what sort of things people think are too weird to ask fandom for without total anonymity.

(Not that everyone uses it as a deep dark sekrit desires thread, obviously. I think the "Comfort sex after Rachel dies, Harvey hasn't lost his face" fan probably wouldn't care if their name were attached to that request.)

QotD

Women in Refrigerators - the tendency to have female characters raped, murdered, or brutalized in order to give their male counterparts some extra motivation - is certainly a blight on the superhero genre. But it's a fixture of TV and movies, too; Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan played the "dead wife" card in two of his previous movies, and the grotesque scene from which the "Women in Refrigerators" cliche gets its name bears an uncanny resemblance to the ending of David Fincher's roughly contemporaneous Seven. Credit where credit is due: In an entertainment landscape that routinely uses female characters as disposable mechanisms to drive the actions of the their male compatriots, comic books are the one medium in which people noticed.

- toysdream

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