It’s taking a while for my laptop to get here and all my time (and braincells) are currently expended in learning the ins and out of my new job.
So, while I only have my phone to help me write (which isn’t my favourite), I have turned to reading fanfics again.
I’m posting the ones I desperately want to make edits and art for but my graphic design abilities are 2/10 and my drawing abilities is 0/10 😂
However, I hope to offer simple reviews while I wait and firgure out how to get all these thoughts and emotions out of my head for 2 fictional people.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Disclaimer: this is one of those cheating AUs that came out after Debling was introduced. If you don’t like stories like that then this is not your cup of tea.
This author is one of my favourite Polin fanfic writers. They are the reason I fell in love with the Modern AU genre. Their other work, Cardigan, is easily one of my top 10 Polin fanfics. I have shared it to anyone I know who cares 😂 But this one above, in my eyes is another smashing success.
I stumbled upon this wonderful story after reading one of my mutuals’ cheating AUs (which I’ll post a review on after this).
I don’t know if it’s my love for Polin or how well the angst was laid out on this story that made me cry multiple times yesterday and today on my way to work. It’s 25 chapters but short ones so it’s an easy read. Chapters 22 and 23 are my favourites.
There really is this magnetic pull from friends to lovers stories where your mind is set immediately that the two main characters belong together no matter what the universe throws at them. That dichotomy between the ease of companionship and the fragility of the bridge between friends to lovers makes the angst so deeply felt. But you’re left desiring the best for them, even if they have to pick up broken pieces after.
The phrase “I’ll have you in whatever form I can” smattered all across the chapters broke my heart than any of the other angsty parts. Possibly, because I understand that from a personal perspective. Once you meet your person, it really, honestly doesn’t matter whatever storm or deluge or destruction you cross. You’ll do it for the person you love. And it is not because of the love you feel for them because that love alone won’t survive a tempest but it is the love that you share that survives a catastrophe— which is what this story had.
Can’t recommend this enough.
