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[averygoodun42]

I should know better by now. I really should. If I think a story is going to be crappy, then why do I continue to read it? Why? I have no idea, but I do.

This last story I read was... horrible. It started out promisingly enough, but as it went on it descended into... warm stinky stuff. The last chapter was an excellent example of everything I hate about this 'ship. The reason I don't read unrecommended or incomplete fics anymore.

And yet I knew it would end that way. I didn't know how horribly it would end, but I knew that was the path it was taking.

Ach well. Sorry. I just... I wish people would think before writing.

Comments

[keladry_lupin]

*hugs you* I know exactly what you mean, and I've ranted about this kind of thing more than once. You not only wonder what the hell the author was thinking, you wonder why you finished it. (Answer to the latter: train wreck.)

*hands over a chocolate brownie and two fic recs* Reading good fics usually helps me through this: three chapters in one, one-shot in the other, both are fast reads. Even if you have read them before, here are two utterly different, yet beautifully in-character Severuses and Hermiones:

Dr Kryuchko and the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

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[junewilliams7.livejournal.com]

same stupid reason that I watch the end of a movie or look it up online: to see how it ends. I've learned to stay away from authors who have a track record of abandoned fics, rarely updated fics, and too many WIP's - i.e., stories that don't have an end. I lurve the SSHG Exchange because all the fics are completed, and because recipients can ask for a happy or hopeful ending.