Yeah. Even the best meant warnings can't always convey just how different something might be from what you're expecting. I've had my share of fics where I wished I'd really believed the author's warnings. I think the problem is with many folks thinking their fics are darker than they actually are and labeling something "dark" that's maybe only a little muddy, so when you come across one that's really in the depths of the pits, you're unprepared for it.
I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne ,'War Stories'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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SailAweigh - Jul 10, 2009 5:38:48 pm PDT #5987 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
erikaj - Jul 10, 2009 5:50:07 pm PDT #5988 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
And, quite frankly, both the love and the pain of this particular series? is how consequence free the lead's life is...if anybody could have Happy!Fun!Prostitution, it's Vincent Chase. Which I can't decide if that is a compliment or a burn, but it's still true. So I'm not ready for him, or anyone in that show to be, you know, scary.ETA: I wanted to feel a little dirty...just not that much. Yikes.
Beverly - Jul 10, 2009 6:25:42 pm PDT #5989 of 10434
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Vanzetti wrote a Sandman/SPN crossover in which John Winchester meets Death. It was good.
Link, Suela?
this isn't about the warning thing, cause she told me
Oh gods yes. I read the warning, I did, and then I read the opening half-page to get a feel for the writing, and the writing was compelling. I knew what was going to happen. In fact I read the epilogue to make sure I had no unrealistic expectations, and then I read the whole story.
All that prep was not enough to brace me for the emotional devastation. Sometimes, even the warnings aren't enough.
erikaj - Jul 10, 2009 6:31:59 pm PDT #5990 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
No, and sometimes I overstate my non-vanilla evolution. Don't quite need the brain *bleach* but something in a nice solvent might help.
Fay - Jul 10, 2009 6:50:09 pm PDT #5991 of 10434
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I do vividly remember reading a Clark/Lex story by Te and being truly shocked by one particular line, and feeling myself slip half a dozen rungs further down a ladder I hadn't really realised I was on.
SailAweigh - Jul 10, 2009 7:04:46 pm PDT #5992 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The Face of the Crocodile. Sandman/SPN by vaznetti.
Beverly - Jul 10, 2009 7:08:39 pm PDT #5993 of 10434
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Sail is my FAVORITE!
And yes, it is lovely, and I had read it before.
SailAweigh - Jul 10, 2009 8:07:00 pm PDT #5994 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Fay - Jul 10, 2009 9:16:27 pm PDT #5995 of 10434
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oh, sweet Jesus, that was funny!
::flails::
Calli - Jul 11, 2009 8:41:41 am PDT #5996 of 10434
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Funny Kirk is Funny!