As I re-read a LOT of my favourite fics, i’m going to start a thing called ‘currently rereading’ where I talk about the fic i’m rereading and why i chose to go back and reread it! So to start us off…
Pretty Woman
Author: triddlegrl
Rating: NC17
Summary: The new improved memoir of Kurt Hummel, former escort extraordinaire. You know that story about the pretty prostitute who gets saved by the dashing business man? This isn’t that story. This is the story about the pretty prostitute who saved himself.
This fic is pretty old - over 4 years since the first update - yet the connection created between our boys feels timeless. The dynamic and the deep, conflicted relationship is so layered and detailed that it’s pretty heart wrenching. Kurt is also written brilliantly, brave and unapologetic. There’s so many layers to the fic, from Kurt and Blaine’s friendship and denying their feelings to one another to the deeply detailed original characters.
There are moments in this fic that make you cry, that make you anrgy, that make you happy. There are plenty of moments were you just want to bang Kurt and Blaine’s heads together to perhaps knock some sense into them. But that’s what makes it so great. Kurt’s never written cheaply, the prostitution side of the fic is never written with the cliches that you may possibly expect. Blaine’s characterisation is so accurate, his support and constant need to please others is so so heartbreaking that you’re constantly wanting him to just take something for himself for once. The fic’s themes are naturally quite dark (there are a few triggers, but triddlegrl warns when present) and they easily could’ve not been given the justice they deserve - however, due to the quality of writing, amount of detail and the characterisation that triddlegrl has put into this story, that’s definitely not the case with Pretty Woman.
It’s a long fic, took me a good few evenings to re-read - quality AND quantity. It has everything, moments of fluff, a heck load of smut and a bucket load of angst. It’s a brilliant tale of highs and lows about two lost best friends and the long road towards where they should be.