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That is correct. She volunteered with a few, and somehow she is an expert on all things BDSM and PTSD. Normally bad smut fics either get a passing laugh from me, but whenever the author wants to flex her SJW credentials she will immediately grab my attention.
Speaking of, that fic got updated. The sex appears in Chapter 11.
It's established Ghost is a misogynist - or was, until he took his gender studies courses. Then we have Soap saying he's 'living with honour and integrity' despite doing something like letting wife abusers go because muh PTSD instead of sending them to prison.
But it's OK, he's unpacking all that by reading BDSM books.
It gets even funnier, because Roach gets kicked out of a funeral because he's a - get this - 'mute faggot':
So I have to wonder why no one in his immediate family sent him a text or information regarding the death, vs calling a mute person. Roach apparently doesn't use social media, but IS capable of using the text-to-speech function, and instead of calling the uncle a 'cock sucking faggot' himself, he decides to have an emotional breakdown. This happens to every male character. I get this is supposed to be a VA meeting but Jesus Christ.
Ghost is now just learning Soap was in the military because he never actually read his file. Smart thinking. And Soap apparently didn't know Simon was actually Ghost because they just so happened to wear the same skull-themed mask, go figure.
This is a direct contradiction from the first chapter, where the author made it clear that Soap was terrible at keeping social bonds and didn't connect with anyone. He couldn't even read his emails, remember? Now we ret-conned that a few chapters in to a goofball who's got ADHD who's emotionally stunted.
A few chapters earlier Soap had to confront his own internalized misogyny, meaning he didn't actually treat women as well as he did here - and it would explain his comment on Ghost being 'feminine' for keeping up his appearance. A male feminist being a misogynist? Shocker. That is also another retcon; the author can't even keep her characterizations straight.
You can join military schools at that age. You can't serve in active service but if you're the kid they're looking for they'll put you on the path to get them in their ranks. It happened in the Jubilee IQ video - the Marine Corps kid, Tyler, was in Soap's role.
I'm guessing those women Farah were talking to were either Muslim women or - dare I mention it - 'femmes', because they're the only ones who can have spaces away from men. Anyways, Soap decides he's getting horny over Ghost despite them having no chemistry these nine chapters. All they've had are a few meetings, eye contact sessions, and therapy talk. That's it. There's nothing tying them together or drawing out the urges they have. It's all so...clinical.
"Paint me like one of your French girls"
But yeah, I guess you do fit the bill of you being unable to stick to a single issue, Soap. Blame your ADHD. He eventually goes to Ghost's apartment, and take a guess as to what's on the shelves:
I'm so glad the muscly man with internalized misogyny unpacked all of that with Betty Freidan, Jessica Valenti and Judith Butler. Lemme shed a tear for him.
They're also having sexual breakdowns because Soap saw Ghost in a different shirt. You'd think this was a bachelor party.
Ghost inadvertently shows that Soap is too retarded to comprehend what he wants and what he is asking of him. Ghost is aware he can't fuck Soap as a client, but decides to tread that line anyways. That subject was dropped the moment it became convenient.
When it comes time for The Talk, Ghost aka the author goes into a tangent on how 50 Shades is not 'real' BDSM:
Vs fucking a guy who wants to abolish prisons and 'rehabilitates' men who are likely to kill their wives or girlfriends? That's not toxic at all! That's just progshit logic.
It's such a 'healthy exchange of power' these Fucking White Males are going to talk about internalized misogyny and BDSM theory and read up all on that stuff because that's how we become enlightened citizens.
What a thing to drop when they've barely had more than a few conversations together. They haven't even had a beer.
"I want you to properly research BDSM so we can feel better about violating client privacy relationships and so I won't feel bad for fucking an ADHD sped."
WOW LITERATURE REVIEWS. And the retarded author couldn't spend as much time researching the military and how it works. Priorities. Soap is so smart regarding science he can't even remember to pay his power bill via email or remember he's supposed to be bad at forming social bonds with people. Logic!
Of course he's in the subspace - he's got ADHD. What a way of having the 'neurodivergent' character be the sub, lmao.
Virgin shaming from a progshit? Who knew.
Did Soap find the bits about trans brains? I bet he did, just to give the fic some more progshit point.
"Legal definitions of sex"
Rape, you can say rape. You've got content warnings and all these resources around rehabilitative justice but you can't say the word 'rape'. Earlier in the fic Ghost was written to have engaged in reckless sex with multiple men - entirely at his discretion. But it is somewhat implied he was raped, hence the loose sexual mores. In any case, the 'instincts towards domination' and the internalized misogyny do go hand in hand.
Luckily, they don't have rectal gonorrhea or HIV. Phew!
Very nice. It would be better if they actually had some form of a bond or chemistry aside from therapy talk.
Just a reminder that Soap's cartilage in his knee is completely disintegrated and he has to walk with a cane. He magically recovered enough to engage in floor wrestling in a tight area. Logic.
Must be that ADHD talking.
With all this talk about body dysmorphia, I really wondered if Ghost was a pooner, but no, he's still a dude in this fic.
Not to mention if Soap was getting fat, that's only going to fuck up his knee even further. Imagine an obese Soap - nevermind, I've already seen art of that.
Oh, that's one way to sell a gay smut fic: erectile dysfunction.
She's got all the resources for sex talk and therapy, but nothing on whether people with ADHD can join the military (they can under certain circumstances, but you absolutely cannot if you are an open psychopath, which this author casually forgot she wrote Ghost as). The type of person to throw out gender theory and feminist theory, but who absolutely shuts down when presented with the hard sciences. You know, how it usually goes.
What better way to start off a smut scene than by admitting you have a tiny dick?
Oh yes, we're all salivating over this.
Don't worry, the therapy talk goes on.
Soap basically acts like a child when the author intends for him to be a man dealing with physical limitations. Please note that in the last chapter he was wrestling with another man. Now he is destroying shower caddies in testiscular rage. There isn't much emphasis placed on said disability, when you think about it.
Totally not possessive behaviour.
I've cut most of this because it's just them doing after care talk, and this is already getting long.
Yes, that was the sex scene: Ghost leering at Soap giving him commands when to come, in a strangely clinical and most unsexual sex scene I've ever read. It read more like a therapy session's take on sex vs actual smut. People, when they see there will be smut in your fic, will stick around for that and that alone. Sad, but true. Ladies can get very horny.
Progshits have some of the most quote-worthy lines, I swear.
They also had no chemistry before this. They didn't have lunch, didn't have walks in the park, didn't bond over shared disabilities or struggles. It was just a few therapy sessions and BAM - they're fucking. Even one-shots put far more effort into the chemistry than this woman does.
She managed to take a BDSM fic and make it the tamest thing possible. And there are some nasty BDSM fics out there, lemme tell you. Full blown literal shit fests. Even the bunnypuppy fic had more smut.
Oh yes, we're all salivating over this.
Don't worry, the therapy talk goes on.
Soap basically acts like a child when the author intends for him to be a man dealing with physical limitations. Please note that in the last chapter he was wrestling with another man. Now he is destroying shower caddies in testiscular rage. There isn't much emphasis placed on said disability, when you think about it.
Totally not possessive behaviour.
I've cut most of this because it's just them doing after care talk, and this is already getting long.
Yes, that was the sex scene: Ghost leering at Soap giving him commands when to come, in a strangely clinical and most unsexual sex scene I've ever read. It read more like a therapy session's take on sex vs actual smut. People, when they see there will be smut in your fic, will stick around for that and that alone. Sad, but true. Ladies can get very horny.
Progshits have some of the most quote-worthy lines, I swear.
They also had no chemistry before this. They didn't have lunch, didn't have walks in the park, didn't bond over shared disabilities or struggles. It was just a few therapy sessions and BAM - they're fucking. Even one-shots put far more effort into the chemistry than this woman does.
She managed to take a BDSM fic and make it the tamest thing possible. And there are some nasty BDSM fics out there, lemme tell you. Full blown literal shit fests. Even the bunnypuppy fic had more smut.
On a lighter, funnier note, here is a short Twitter fic (author is also on AO3) about Pooner!Soap dealing with transphobia.
