Fic rec request
Flist. I am reading JR Ward's Lover Ahvhenged. Please save me from this book with fic recs where no one speaks in a lame, poser copy of gangsta rap slang (in a book where all the people using said "street" slang are several hundred year old white guys. I'm not sure if it's cultural appropriation, or just stupidity. Can you appropriate stereotypical speech patterns that I kind of doubt anyone actually uses quite that way in real life?).
Rec me Terribly Misjudged fics. The misjudged character getting Beat Up Real Good is optional, but appreciated. Long fics extra appreciated.
You know those fics -- the ones where character X screws up or does something that can reasonably be interpreted as bad (sometimes not very bad, like appear to be a shallow, slightly douche-y playboy a la Bruce Wayne's "Brucie" persona, and sometimes very bad, like blow up a star system or support the SHRA) and other characters are angry and betrayed and think the worst of him. Except they lack the vital information that would explain or mitigate character X's actions, like that he's undercover, or secretly Batman, or was actually trying to do X and not Y and it just backfired horribly, or has terrible angst and is secretly dying, OMG (but gets better). And then they find out the truth, usually after character X has suffered and gotten all beat up and possibly been raped by Norman Osborn or something.
Writing quality is appreciated, but not required by any means.
*icon vaguely thematically related*
Rec me Terribly Misjudged fics. The misjudged character getting Beat Up Real Good is optional, but appreciated. Long fics extra appreciated.
You know those fics -- the ones where character X screws up or does something that can reasonably be interpreted as bad (sometimes not very bad, like appear to be a shallow, slightly douche-y playboy a la Bruce Wayne's "Brucie" persona, and sometimes very bad, like blow up a star system or support the SHRA) and other characters are angry and betrayed and think the worst of him. Except they lack the vital information that would explain or mitigate character X's actions, like that he's undercover, or secretly Batman, or was actually trying to do X and not Y and it just backfired horribly, or has terrible angst and is secretly dying, OMG (but gets better). And then they find out the truth, usually after character X has suffered and gotten all beat up and possibly been raped by Norman Osborn or something.
Writing quality is appreciated, but not required by any means.
*icon vaguely thematically related*