American Gothic Posthuman Romance
Mar. 2nd, 2019 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI mentioned earlier that I've had a tab constantly open on my tablet browser, and I think the time has finally come to talk about it.
*deep breath*
I've been reading an epic ongoing Five Nights at Freddy's fanfic series titled Everything Is All Right. I know fuckall about the Five Nights at Freddy's games, but the fic's author, R. Lee Smith, is a prolific and extremely interesting writer who happens to share one of my more arcane interests, interspecies romance. Smith's writing style and subject matter resemble those of Stephen King - and I say this as a fan of Stephen King, if that needs clarification - except if all of King's protagonists were female and also down to fuck monsters. The only book of hers I've read is Cottonwood, but I liked it so much that I'm saving her other books for summer, when I know I'll have time to enjoy and appreciate them.
Smith's work came highly recommended by @corseque on Tumblr, whose taste in fiction I've grown to trust over the past two or three years. Corseque mentioned that this author has been writing fanfic, so I clicked on the link and started reading her story, which is mainly about an OC romancing Bonnie, a rotting animatronic rabbit without a face. People say of writers they admire that they would read anything they wrote, up to and including a shopping list, but I think the real test of how much you like a writer is whether you'd be willing to read their erotic Five Nights at Freddy's fanfiction. For me, regarding R. Lee Smith, I guess that answer is "yes." I'm not sure that this is the sort of thing I could recommend to most people, but it's quite good. Like, really good. I'm taking my sweet time reading the series, but I'm hooked.
By the way, I want to take this opportunity to comment on how amazing fanfiction is. It's so cool that so many fantastic writers put their work up online for free, and that anyone can access it at any time from anywhere. Sometimes I hate fandom, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not grateful to every single fanfic author on this planet.
*deep breath*
I've been reading an epic ongoing Five Nights at Freddy's fanfic series titled Everything Is All Right. I know fuckall about the Five Nights at Freddy's games, but the fic's author, R. Lee Smith, is a prolific and extremely interesting writer who happens to share one of my more arcane interests, interspecies romance. Smith's writing style and subject matter resemble those of Stephen King - and I say this as a fan of Stephen King, if that needs clarification - except if all of King's protagonists were female and also down to fuck monsters. The only book of hers I've read is Cottonwood, but I liked it so much that I'm saving her other books for summer, when I know I'll have time to enjoy and appreciate them.
Smith's work came highly recommended by @corseque on Tumblr, whose taste in fiction I've grown to trust over the past two or three years. Corseque mentioned that this author has been writing fanfic, so I clicked on the link and started reading her story, which is mainly about an OC romancing Bonnie, a rotting animatronic rabbit without a face. People say of writers they admire that they would read anything they wrote, up to and including a shopping list, but I think the real test of how much you like a writer is whether you'd be willing to read their erotic Five Nights at Freddy's fanfiction. For me, regarding R. Lee Smith, I guess that answer is "yes." I'm not sure that this is the sort of thing I could recommend to most people, but it's quite good. Like, really good. I'm taking my sweet time reading the series, but I'm hooked.
By the way, I want to take this opportunity to comment on how amazing fanfiction is. It's so cool that so many fantastic writers put their work up online for free, and that anyone can access it at any time from anywhere. Sometimes I hate fandom, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not grateful to every single fanfic author on this planet.
