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posted by [personal profile] malnpudl at 09:10pm on 05/06/2013
Once upon a time I read someone's rec for The Least of All Possible Mistakes, a Sherlock (BBC) fic by Rageprufrock, and since she's usually terrific, I downloaded it and plunked it onto my Kindle, and then promptly got distracted and read a bunch of other things and forgot all about it.

Then yesterday I was poking through my Kindle to see what I hadn't read yet, and hey, coolness, a nice long fic by a good writer, yay! I dove into it and found it utterly delightful, and I was all kinds of happy until suddenly I had a horrible premonition that it might just possibly end up in a threesome including Holmes!cest, which would make me all kinds of wretched (possibly including actual retching), incest being a Very Not Okay thing for me to read.

So I pop immediately back to the header info and see that the author has chosen not to warn, and the author has also chosen not to include any pairing info. Under Categories it says "M/F" and also "Multi" which is just vague enough to tell me pretty much nothing.

All of which is leading up to my request: Have any of you lovely people read this fic? If it ends up including an incest pairing or even hints of it, would you be so kind as to let me know so I don't end up in an unhappy place?

And yes, I know I could ask the author, but no. Some authors are fine with that, but others... let's just say they don't take kindly to it. So when an author chooses not to follow fannish convention and deliberately withholds information that is almost universally present in fic headers, I assume they've done it for a reason, and that if they wanted readers to have that information, they would have provided it in the first place. Which, okay, is understandable; maybe they've written it in such a way that the plot development hangs on the reader not knowing which way certain things are going to go, who's going to pair up with who, or whatever. But that still leaves me not knowing if this story is safe for me to read, and so I turn to y'all.
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posted by [personal profile] green_grrl at 04:25am on 06/06/2013
I have read this story, I love this story, and there is absolutely no Holmescest whatsoever in it! I can't think of anything to really warn for in it except general Reichenbach Falls angstiness in the middle, spiraling out to impact everyone.
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posted by [personal profile] malnpudl at 04:34am on 06/06/2013
Oh, bless you! Angst is cool. Angst can be yummy. *g*

Yay for safe reading! Thanks so much! :-D
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posted by [personal profile] green_grrl at 05:44am on 06/06/2013
I totally get needing warnings! Major character death unwarned WRECKS me. "Oh, but it ruins the surprise." Feh.
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posted by [personal profile] malnpudl at 05:50am on 06/06/2013
Right there with you, girlfriend. We're in this because our hearts are invested. Not good to have them shattered without warning. Not good at all.
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posted by [personal profile] vickita at 02:18am on 07/06/2013
This. This, exactly. I LOVE this story.

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