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[beccaelizabeth]

There is a lot of Leonard Snart / Barry Allen fic to read
but it needs to work around canon pairings
near canon partnerships
and whatever other intense Things other characters have
and even when I can see Len and Barry going beyond flirting
I keep finding stories where I can't buy the reactions of supporting cast.

Like, my Mick/Len loving heart can't see the two of them being neutral professional partners who just cheer each other's love lives on
even when I can easily imagine them shagging other people.

In order to write one happily monogamous couple in the middle
stories keep leaving out huge chunks of other people's emotions, from my read of them
and I just can't roll with it for long.

What's a word for OTP you can see being happily poly?

or complexly poly

but not just not there.





I shall go back to my usual pairings even if long and plotty lives elsewhere.

Comments

[melannen]

I have been reading Barry/Len fic because I needed a pairing with lots of longfic that I hadn't read before to distract me, and I knew from you talking about Mick/Len and therefore me going to look for it, and not finding nearly enough of it, that there was a vast trove of Barry/Len just over the next hill. And it's great as a Generic Slash Ship that hits a lot of my favorite tropes!

I am quite sure I would stop being into it if I ever made the mistake of watching canon, though.

(The Barry/Len/Mick stuff is all much better, I went through that first, but there is so much less of it. The Len/Mick stuff is mostly...super tragic, and really tied up in twisty LoT canon, from what I can tell not having watched that canon either? So I like the ship better but it mostly doesn't work for me as an any-two-guys comfortread. Unless you know of a hidden pile of longfic for them where nobody is dead or brainwashed at any point.)

[sophia_catherine]

I feel all of this, for many of the reasons you give and a few others. There is some good in-character works-well-with-canon coldflash out there, but there’s not a lot. All the same, I sometimes enjoy it for utter tropey escapist fluff. But I quickly want to go back to Mick/Len and other ships that feel a bit less... unbelievable.

[lokifan]

Yeah, I know just what you mean (though this isn't my fandom). I've seen that a lot with fic.