Okay so I have grandparents that are like, Greek Christians which makes them very, very, conservative. Like every time I go over to their house with my parents I have to pretend I’m straight, (they know I’m a lesbian they just want me to pretend I’m not when I’m in their house) I can’t wear anything above my knee because it makes me look like a “slut” and I have to be super polite and not talk about anything controversial or anything.
So I was at their house last week with my parents and they were having a go at my mum because she isn’t talking to my aunt, and just being really horrible. Anyway they asked me what I was reading on my phone, and I don’t remember what I was doing, but I said I was reading a fanfic, which is a novel written online by writers-in-training, and would you like me to read it to you? And they said, oh sure, dear, so I read them the whole first chapter of the grinch x tony fic, and when they I was finished I looked up at them both and they were just staring at me like I was crazy. It was the best.
and they said to my mum ‘‘what is god’s name was are you letting your daughter read?!” And my mum said,
“oh, I don’t know, but the more you tell her not to get mixed up with things the more she’ll want to do it. Maybe you should calm down a bit.”
So they just awkwardly offered us some lunch and I pretended like everything was fine, and we went back to their house yesterday and they were actually a lot more opened and understanding and it’s all because of your freaking crack fic. Your freaking grinch x tony tiger fic has made my grandparents more accepting and open.