kalpurna

I read some badfic yesterday, and oh my god, it was really effing bad. It was the kind of thing where you're suckered into believing it's not THAT bad, just a little melodramatic, maybe! And then you get to part 38 and literally everyone in the story except the main characters is homophobic/a child abuser/a gay homophobic child abuser. And also one of the main characters hits the other one sometimes but that's okay because they're in love and it's for his own good and he didn't hit him that hard really. And also lube is just something people use when they don't love each other enough to go without. God, and by then you can't just STOP, you need to see what HAPPENS, and so you keep reading it and reading it and crying a little in your soul. You know?

And then you have a fourteen-email conversation with a friend about how bad it was and how you read the whole thing.

ALSO, WHAT.