Why, Fandom Why?
So I found this fic this weekend...
I was surfing around rying to find something to read to avoid working on my presentation (which went fabulously BTW, even though we got cramped for time and I had to cut my Warhol spiel short). I found this SV fic recced somewhere, wherein Lionel was killed in the Meteor shower and Lex was raised by the Kents as Clark's older brother. Now I've read fics with this premise before, and without exception they have all been just really bad. I mean they all inevitably go to this incestuous squicky place (there's a reason I don't read Supernatural fic) but they're also just really poorly written.
So I started reading this fic with the intention of seeing if it was worth reading past the first few paragraphs. It turned out to be pretty good. It was well written and engaging and cute. I am a sucker for kidfic, and little Lex is especially adorable and this version of Clark was charming as well. So I sort of went into denial. I thought, "this is a really good cute story. The boys have a solid brotherly bond. Maybe it won't actually got to the horrible incestuous squicky place." Stupid, I know. But I had hoped...
So teh story goes on, Lex goes to college and has a cute little fling with his friend from prep school Bruce Wayne. He brings Bruce home for Christmas, and Clark (age 11) gets jealous. Really jealous. At first you can just pass it off as 'little brother upset that friend is monopolizing older brother's time.' Then there is a conversation wherein it become clear that Clark's jealousy stems from an extremely unbrotherly affection for Lex. Lex is kinda freaked out by it, but more freaked out that the idea doesn't upset him more.
It's Christmas, and Clark's pouting is ruining the holiday, so Lex promises him that he'll consider Clark's proposed changes to the nature of their relationship when he is older. Lex decides to hope that Clark grows out of it and it will all be as a bad dream. This is what I too am hoping.
I'm really torn. I want to keep reading. The first (almost) half (it's really really long) of the story was so sweet and good and wholesome and pleasant. And now... The Hell fandom?! Don't you people have siblings? Don't you understand that adopted family members are every bit as close and familial as biological ones? Incest is icky! It doesn't make for good porn! Also, it is possible to write just a cute story, you know, without porn. Just saying. It's my own fault for having faith in humanity.
I was surfing around rying to find something to read to avoid working on my presentation (which went fabulously BTW, even though we got cramped for time and I had to cut my Warhol spiel short). I found this SV fic recced somewhere, wherein Lionel was killed in the Meteor shower and Lex was raised by the Kents as Clark's older brother. Now I've read fics with this premise before, and without exception they have all been just really bad. I mean they all inevitably go to this incestuous squicky place (there's a reason I don't read Supernatural fic) but they're also just really poorly written.
So I started reading this fic with the intention of seeing if it was worth reading past the first few paragraphs. It turned out to be pretty good. It was well written and engaging and cute. I am a sucker for kidfic, and little Lex is especially adorable and this version of Clark was charming as well. So I sort of went into denial. I thought, "this is a really good cute story. The boys have a solid brotherly bond. Maybe it won't actually got to the horrible incestuous squicky place." Stupid, I know. But I had hoped...
So teh story goes on, Lex goes to college and has a cute little fling with his friend from prep school Bruce Wayne. He brings Bruce home for Christmas, and Clark (age 11) gets jealous. Really jealous. At first you can just pass it off as 'little brother upset that friend is monopolizing older brother's time.' Then there is a conversation wherein it become clear that Clark's jealousy stems from an extremely unbrotherly affection for Lex. Lex is kinda freaked out by it, but more freaked out that the idea doesn't upset him more.
It's Christmas, and Clark's pouting is ruining the holiday, so Lex promises him that he'll consider Clark's proposed changes to the nature of their relationship when he is older. Lex decides to hope that Clark grows out of it and it will all be as a bad dream. This is what I too am hoping.
I'm really torn. I want to keep reading. The first (almost) half (it's really really long) of the story was so sweet and good and wholesome and pleasant. And now... The Hell fandom?! Don't you people have siblings? Don't you understand that adopted family members are every bit as close and familial as biological ones? Incest is icky! It doesn't make for good porn! Also, it is possible to write just a cute story, you know, without porn. Just saying. It's my own fault for having faith in humanity.