Fic rec/pet peeve, resulting dream
I read a 100K Inception fic on Friday. It'd been months since I'd read any fic other than sporadic updates of snookiescookies' Pretty Woman AU Paper Things and toomuchplor's Steinway!verse, both also Inception, but for whatever reason, the desire struck me and there was this student/teacher high school AU I hadn't read among the fics ranked by most
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Yesterday I read a Sherlock fic that was engaging and pushed the right emotional buttons for me -- except at the critical junctures I kept finding myself saying, "No, that's not why Sherlock acts the way he does." The writer accurately depicted his behavior but gave him sad-panda, brave-little-toaster motivations for everything. So then John had to go through all this emotional pain and public humiliation for not understanding that when Sherlock behaves dickish-ly it's because of how tragic Sherlock is and therefore must be instantly forgiven. And John finally (after driving Sherlock to the brink of suicide through his thoughtlessness) makes the healthy decision to let Sherlock go, to get out of Sherlock's life so that Sherlock can be happy, even though it means John loses his job, his girlfriend, and becomes homeless and alcoholic/drug addicted. But it's ok because Molly is the friend John never was.
Yes, I was getting heavy dark-Wilson flashbacks by the end.
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Re: the ETA, for sure, I was making the assumption but hadn't stated it, and obv. it's an important thing to state. If a fic is about how character A wants to go out with character B but one (or both) of them is on the spectrum, for example, and if the story becomes about how hard it is to read signs, then that's all good! It's the deliberate obtuseness of characters who display perfectly capable social abilities the rest of the time that irks me.
Oh and I guess I'd recommend it, just with reservations. http://archiveofourown.org/works/504338?page=1&view_full_work=true
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