The Light at the End of the Tunnel? That Is a TRAIN, My Friends

[strina]

You know how you can be reading a series and enjoying it and then you start looking at the summaries or tags for some of the future stories and it feels like the Jaws theme should start playing?

That "ugh, please don't...crap...please?...you're totally going to...no...DO NOT WANT, WHY WOULD YOU, ARGH" thing.

For reals, 2/3 of the way through, more than 800,000 words in, and it's going to go Suddenly, Threesome! And that is legit one of my least favorite Suddenlys (Suddenly, Kidfic! = surprisingly good in a lot of cases) because except in the case of Neal Caffrey and the Burkes, I really don't like poly ships that include an established long-term couple and the Other One. There's a lot of awkwardness and potential inequality built into that configuration and most fic does not really deal with that well/at all.

Also, the author has talked way too much about two of the threesome participants' bond as (step)brothers for me to dig this.

IT IS LIKE CLARK AND LEX AND CORNERS OF THE WORLD ALL OVER AGAIN. EXCEPT THE PSEUDOINCEST IS LESS CREEPY.

Comments

[kopernik]

I think I've liked about two poly fics in my entire life. There aren't even words to describe how pissed I would be about Suddenly Threesome! after 800,000 words.

[strina]

I am going to try and delete it from my mental landscape, so on that note it's better that it happens so late? The tag shows up on story 45 of 75 (so far), but stories 51 - 75 look more like tags and timestamps and such than a continuous storyline. It is entirely possible my version of this 'verse will draw the curtains after story 44, though.

But for real, I'm on story 20 and there has been a LOT of talk about "no one even says the "step" anymore! They've really chosen to BECOME BROTHERS" and "Finn is such a great STRAIGHT ALLY, you guys" that I just can't even.

And I even like poly! Just not Suddenly! poly. BUT IT IS THE BIGGEST THING FOR THIS SHIP ON THE WHOLE AO3. And there's some really cool stuff about politics and the glee club and there was a five-story arc that was actually a pretty good Puck bildungsroman and I REALLY WANT TO BE ABLE TO READ THIS, WHY YOU GOTTA MAKE IT SO HARD, AUTHORS?