Stop Microwaving Steaks

[butterflydreaming]

I'm reading the little bit of BatB fanfic that is on AO3, rather than on the established archives. (There is even a lending library of Fanzines. On paper! Sent by snail mail!)

Observations:
Tagging, what is tagging.
"This was originally printed in [fanzine] in [pre millenial year]"
"She microwaved the steak"

:D

D:

Comments

[igenlode]

BatB -- B and the B.
*long thinks*
Beauty and the Beast?

Some of us were writing fanfic in pre-millenial years :-P

Why shouldn't you microwave steaks?
(I'm not exactly au fait with steak cookery, as they tend to be out of my budget, but microwaving sounds like a reasonable proposition...)

[butterflydreaming]

*grin* Microwaving anything is one of the most unromantic dinner preparations I can think of. Nevermind that microwave ovens can do high quality cooking now, or that the steaks were only being defrosted. It was a minor detail in several fics, presented with such normalcy that I found it notable. I've already come across some expected tropes. I hope microwaving steaks isn't an unexpected one. (It can't possibly. Too weirdly specific.)

There is nothing actively wrong about any of my three observations above. (A few tags would be nice to have but I'm also from a time/fandom(s) before the wall-of-tags culture.) They just stand out. I'm constantly amazed at how different each fandom is about how they tell, present, and share their fanworks.

I'm always a bit sad that I missed out on-paper fandom. I bought an art zine on occasion once I was older, but I sure didn't know fanzines existed.