wait, has dysfunction become such a norm in fandom that one can just shrug it off and pay attention solely to the "sweet" parts? I worry for the state of the masses.

Sadly, I've seen that before on ff.net a lot. You write a fucked up badfic where someone's abusing someone else in the relationship and the reviewers are like "Aww, it's so romantic!" and I just want to punch them in the head. Metaphorically.

I bet you could write fluff if you tried. Most of my humorous stuff is fluffy Culture Clash is, like, the fluffiest thing this side of my FF.net page. I even had a drabble that was entirely in poetic verse. ...Well, fluffy with a side of satire.