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[graculus]

Don't you just hate it when you're happily reading a slash story and it's interesting, with well-written supporting original characters and a clever premise and then suddenly the protagonists are exchanging rings and getting married/bonded? Or is it just me that objects to grown men (or at least mostly-grown) losing all their semblance of a backbone and turning into blushing wannabe brides?

[Poll #750600]

Comments

[katyabaturinsky.livejournal.com]

That is my bulletproof squick, guaranteed to make me insta!delete the fic in question. Just -- no. (The best is when the characters in question are cops or members of the military, and yet somehow this is just fine and hunky-dory with all their colleagues and TPTB. Shyeah, that's gonna happen.)

Of course, I think weddings are a flaming waste of time and money for everyone -- you're no more committed to the relationship with the official piece of paper than you were without it, and honestly, you could put that money to much better use by investing it to help you pay for the inevitable divorce lawyer -- so really, I'm not the target audience for this type of fic. Obviously.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I think it's all the more annoying when the fic starts off well and then suddenly the emo brainsuck monster takes them all... ;)

[katyabaturinsky.livejournal.com]

I agree -- easier when the whole fic is complete crap, and you can just shrug it off. But to have it go all Mills-and-Boon on you halfway through is really frustrating.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Like I said earlier in the thread, I should have known I was heading into dangerous territory when the protagonists' work took them into contact with a jeweller... ;)