Fic rec/pet peeve, resulting dream

[bironic]

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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[synn]

"I love you, a"
oh, he loves me like a brother, that is so great but" *sobs uncontrollably*
"I mean, I love you, marry me!"
he pities me... I must be so obvious! *more sobbing*

[bironic]

Head, desk.

ETA: Well, and to be fair, this particular story was good enough that I wanted it to be better, y'know? But "better" in this case is more fairly called a subjective preference for a different framework.

[thirdblindmouse]

There's being unsure you're not reading too much into the signals your crush sends, and then there's a determination to be pessimistic at all cost. The latter is in character for only a very few characters.

[bironic]

Yes! Well put.

[browngirl]

Bwee. :) <-- meaning I enjoyed reading this and nodded in agreement even though I don't have much comment.

[bironic]

*waves*

[amnisias]

You are so much more tolerant than me when it comes to fic, me thinks (which explains why I'm not reading it that much - I don't just find much that's to my liking). If the writing is bad, it puts me right out of the story within a paragraph or two, even if I know I'd love the story (based on the tags and summary). For me, to enjoy a story, I need to be able to immerse myself in it, and bad writing just jerks me back into reality with every bad turn of phrase, overused adjective or unmotivated change of direction, and instead of being inside the POV's character's head I'm in my own head growning and moaning and face-palming.

[bironic]

Generally I am in the same boat as you, which perhaps also explains why I haven't found much to enjoy in a long time. (That, and so much fic the last couple of years has felt cookie-cutter with the character names changed). There are just, as always, exceptions. Sometimes for a bulletproof kink, sometimes because the mood strikes just right, sometimes who knows. For this one I sort of turned off part of my critical brain and semi-skimmed. For parts! Other parts were good.

[deelaundry]

Thank you for the ETA. :) Would you recommend the 100K fic or only the two you have linked above

[bironic]

...There are things about certain fic characterizations I will never understand.

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

[deelaundry]

You had already implied your assumption of neurotypical social abilities with the phrasing of "refuses to see" but I appreciate your making it explicit. Doesn't hurt to remind readers that different ways of thinking exist.

[bironic]

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