When Fan Fiction Takes a Sharp Turn - Off a Cliff (aka, To Thelma and Louise or not to Thelma and Louise?)
Has this ever happened to you? Most of my fandom buds know I am more of a FF writer than reader, but I DO enjoy diving in every now and then as a reader. During my train commute yesterday, I located what I though was a mostly-in-canon-but-rather-tropey-fluff fic about one of my non-DA pairings. It was all going so sweetly for a dozen or so chapters. It even had the “Oh we are sharing a bed but not SHARING a bed or ARE We?!?!?!?” going on. My shipper heart was feeling it. There was a clever, nicely set up first kiss. And THEN OMG MY EYES MY EYES! It became HARDCORE, TOTALLY OOC SMUT. I WAS LIKE “I THINK I NEED A RESPONSIBLE ADULT PLS HALP ME.” Listen, I like me some smut. But that DEFINITELY isn’t what I was shopping for when I started reading this particular fic. It was like going to the grocery store and finding out you had to slaughter your own cow to get the ground beef you came for.
I set my phone aside and grabbed myself a can of rose to chill out and regroup. And though there are many chapters waiting, I am not sure I want to drive off that particular cliff or not.
