#29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I have decided my problem with this author is that there's never any payoff. She seems to always occupy this space where "and what happens next is ah-mazing" but there's never a next. And i am admittedly a total glutton for punishment and keep going back for the good part. But meme.

There's never a good part.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I was really into it at first but stopped reading it ages ago when it turned out that three different storylines were all about unfinished misery. Since angst and open-ending have no appeal to me, I felt that I got invested in characters without any payoff. It may have changed since then but I'm not curious enough to check.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

Robbie has started updating again and I'm so alarmed about how she says this is very close to the end.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

Hard same, I've been thinking about it since I read it this morning. If it ends all "and they were finally in a place where they could start to get over each other and heal" I'm starting a riot. This was one of only a couple of her storylines I actually liked. If they don't end up together what is the point.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

+ fucking 1

I will be so pissed if we don't get Robbie/Georgie but I'm not holding my breath. There was so much potential with this series! And I've been pretty disappointed so far.

I have a terrible gut feeling that on top of that she's going to throw Robbie/Matty on his. It's not a YCMAL story unless a supporting character she randomly introduces halfway becomes her fave and changes the entire course of the story. see: Kiro

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

na

I'm so happy there's someone else out there hoping for a Robbie/Georgie endgame. I thought I was the only one!

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

da

You're definitely not!

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

DA

You're not! And it's one of my huge criticisms with the story; them getting back together and working through it, told concurrently with how they broke up, would have been a lot better imo than the angst with a side of clinical depression and possible "wait nvm I'll just fuck my best friend" as a resolution.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

da

Oh man, that would be so good! That's what really frustrates me with a lot of her stories. So much unrealised potential.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

The college flashbacks ending partway through was so frustrating! I don't know if she didn't want to do the research or what, but it messed with the pacing a lot.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still amazed she didn't make David/Kiro endgame

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Honestly, I've been avoiding this story because after all her unsatisfying endings (I was especially pissed at how blah Vinny's ending was - I know a lot of nonnies here didn't like the story, but I really did!) I didn't trust her to actually wrap a story up in a satisfying way. So I wanted to wait until after Robbie is done to see what the endgame is, lol.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

da

Can someone come back when Robbie is done and spoil it so I can decide if I'm going to read it?? Thanks. You're all lovely.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I asked her at one point what the endgame ship would be, but it was so long ago she might have changed her mind?

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

Nonnie!! You buried the lede. What did she say??

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

Similar question, does anyone know which part the cheating was revealed in, or if she just skimmed over it? I am not interested in getting wholly back into the story but I love me some angst.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

After she took whatever 4 months off it turned out that there was no hole in my life without Robbie. So I haven't even read the latest update.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I still follow her *tumblr* but I've pretty much noped out of reading the actual fic. (I've read some Yuletide and such fanfic of her verse that's better imo than *hers* is, too.)

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

The Jake and David and the panties story was written 10,000 times better than anything in her verse.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

i really liked that one too. i also liked the one where mike's mom is thinking about what the game's cost her son, the one from mike's social worker's POV, and the one where liam reviews sex toys. (the one post-mike's death where bella his service dog gets a new job is good imo but obviously REALLY sad.)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/10455069
toy reviews

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8889814
mike's social worker POV

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8635723
mike's mom's POV

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7859620
panties

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8661769
bella gets a job

(also, yeah, they had a mini-bang for the 'verse, that's probably part of why/how there are almost 50 fics.)

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I'm kind of tempted to write fic now... there's people who would read it

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

sa

I also really liked frogy's "Crazy Emily". A lot of it resonated with me, and while I frequently have issues with non-linear stuff theirs worked. It's Emily POV and I liked getting to see her as a fleshed-out character, including how her and Kiro get to endgame status. (I will warn you that you may very well want to scream at her family, though, including her sister slut-shaming her because of the open relationship thing.)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11143152

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

Whoa, there's almost 50 fics in the tag.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I think they've had at least one exchange.

Re: Fic Discussions - YCMAL

[(Anonymous)]

I would advise sorting by kudos. It's a wild world out there.