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06/07/2003: sigh
Yahtzee recently asked about must-reads in XMM fic, and I haven't read much X-Men fic, comic- or movie-verse, so I hadn't read most of those stories mentioned in that thread either, and decided to try some.
victoria p recced Save the Last Dance For Me by darkstar, and I could have really liked that story, had it been more carefully proofread. It's a Logan/Rogue futurefic set in a bleak future for mutants, one with registration laws where also their memories have been wiped, and while I'm not a Logan/Rogue OTP kind of person, I don't mind stories that are build around those two as OTP either. And this one is well written enough that I didn't even mind the OTP stuff that annoys me when it is done badly, motifs like the two of them meant to be together no matter the obstacles or the memory loss, completing each and healing each other etc. This kind of heavy OTP romance is not my kink, but I don't have a strong aversion against it either, at least not when it's done in an interesting story. And I really like this sort of post-apocalyptic futurefic (as well as AUs of that kind).
I never thought of myself as particularly nitpicky, and it's not like the story has mistakes in every paragraph or anything like that, yet somehow I found myself distracted this time, and the mistakes took away from my enjoyment, though I did finish reading the story. Maybe I'm getting more sensitive with time or something like that. Sigh.
Totally unrelated: I love June, it's past 9:30 p.m. and still daylight, and it's warm, but not hot. Somehow I forget each winter, when it seems like it's dark all the time, how cool it is to have that much daylight in the summer. Of course I don't really forget, not intellectually or anything, but each year around June it hits me anew that it is evening going towards night, and it's still light outside. It's strange.
