Res ipsa loquitur

pauraque - "Something fannish (a character, a ship, a show, a trope) that you initially disliked, but that grew on you. What changed?"

I came into fandom totally kinked for best-friend romance. I would read strangers or newly assigned partners or whatever, but a good long friendship was my very favorite thing. I started out reading Data/Geordie (Next Generation was only playing in reruns) and moved seamlessly into Paris/Kim and Fraser/Kowalski (Voyager and Due South were still releasing episodes).

I'd only encountered enemies-to-lovers type tropes in romance novels, and I didn't care for it. I wanted people to like each other!

But you know how it happens. The amount of fic that I'm capable of reading is apparently much greater than the amount of fic the fandom is capable of producing for me, and, reader, tragically, I ran out of best-friend stories. And I was already reading Voyager, and trusted writers like torch were writing Paris with Chakotay as well as with Kim. So I dipped my toe in and was gradually won over.

It seems pretty funny to me now that I was more hesitant to read enemies-to-lovers stories back then than I am now to open, say, a Venom story with a cannibalism tag. (It's dira_sudis. It's really good. Don't be scared.)




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