I'm an atheist who did not grow up in an evangelical environment, so I am not responding from a place of personal meaningfulness. I just disagree that it's a boilerplate fanfic coming out story, because the protagonist's also learning things he didn't know about his parents and re-examining his relationship to the specific subculture in which he was raised and how that shaped him. That is ... not something I associate too much with boilerplate paint-by-numbers coming out/sexuality crisis fanfic.
Re: Fic Discussions - Recs
I'm an atheist who did not grow up in an evangelical environment, so I am not responding from a place of personal meaningfulness. I just disagree that it's a boilerplate fanfic coming out story, because the protagonist's also learning things he didn't know about his parents and re-examining his relationship to the specific subculture in which he was raised and how that shaped him. That is ... not something I associate too much with boilerplate paint-by-numbers coming out/sexuality crisis fanfic.