dekedangle_rpfanon | #29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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the first one in remyjane's "how do you like me now" tarasenko/shattenkirk seres is gen with enough if-you-squint subtext to have made past me want the full-blown slash sequel *badly*, and i'd rec the series as a whole.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/5132225
(pre-slash one)

http://archiveofourown.org/series/371189
(rest of 'verse)

(series cw: tarasenko gets gay-bashed in sochi and has occasional panic attacks afterwards, and has some depression issues prior to that. the tags on the last one are accurate--the overall series mood is hopeful but that *fic* isn't.)

This series is so bad and I can't believe how many times it has been recced on this meme.

+1

I don't understand it. Maybe it's just because it's the Blues, and there's not much fic for them? But the writing is not strong.

NA

You're right that the writing isn't strong, but it's not terrible grammatically and it doesn't hit any of my personal writing peeves, so I don't mind it. I understand why not everyone likes it, but I think for some people it just hits all the necessary buttons for it to be one of those fics you keep coming back to. It definitely hits those buttons for me.

I honestly thought it was the author self-reccing for a while but there seems to be more than one person.

na

lol this is how i felt about that wilson/latta bachelor au.

Is it as horrendous as it looks? Because I was tempted once or twice to start reading this monster.

na

I don't care about Wilson/Latta or The Bachelor, and I loved it. I would say give it 20k, and if you're not into it by then, it's probably not for you.

I found the pacing terribly slow and frustrating, but I liked the fic overall.

Ayrt

It's very fanfiction.net imo.

LOL the one I always felt personally victimized by was that churchy Avs fic, although I reread it recently and realized it wasn't quite as terrible as I thought it was the first time around. I think it was just that it got recced to high heaven plus people got so touchy and defensive about anyone not liking it, and I'm a contrarian.

Haha I genuinely love that one. I always try to take it in stride when people don't like my recs, though. God knows I've had some stuff recced to me where I was like ????? why would you think I would like this.

Some of the criticisms got really weird, though. I love that fic and recognize that I love it for personal reasons that not everyone is going to share, but just because someone doesn't like it doesn't mean it's "tropey," as someone tried to argue on here. Not everything is a trope!

Huh, I would absolutely call it tropey. Not that that's a criticism or the reason I disliked it, but it's 100% a formulaic sexuality crisis/coming out fic, just with more (and more boring) religious veneer than most.

na

I wouldn't categorize it as a formulaic fanfic coming out story. It's too focused on the religious subculture/someone re-examining their relationship to that subculture/one person's personal growth away from their love interest for that.

It's pretty standard "How can this be so wrong when it feels so right????" gayngst, and his personal growth amounts to, "Wait so it's okay to bone my love interest after all!!?". That doesn't make it bad and I get that the religious stuff makes it personally meaningful to people or whatever, but that's it, that's the story.

DA

You can break any story down to its basic themes and dismiss it as, oh, just another one of those. Its impact related to a specific circumstance is exactly what makes or breaks any piece of work.

ayrt

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.

yeah, +1.

Re: Fic Discussions - Recs

(Anonymous) - 2017-05-16 23:52 (UTC) - Expand

Also, not everything tropey is bad.

ayrt

No, that is definitely true as well.

I like this series. It made me feel a lot of feelings, regardless of the punctuation issues.

da

This is how I feel about somethingnerdythiseaycomes' 10,000 part bdsm verse.

Has that really been recced a lot tho?

I guess it's kind of a bad penny, it pops up just often enough for me to notice and think "ugh. That was bad."