...I've read a lot of fanfiction in my time. I have a problem; I'm not ashamed to admit it. Does that mean I'll stop reading fanfiction? No. Of course not. It's far too entertaining.
Fanfiction is something I turn to after reading a really good book or watching something I really like, mainly so I don't have to let go of the fandom after I've finished going through all of the canonical materials. I read fanfiction when I can't sleep and need something to do, or when I'm really bored but don't want to get off of the Internet.
I know that most fanfiction is...not good. I've read Celebrian (the TVTropes page said that if I could get through that, I could get through anything. I took that as a challenge. I did get through it, but I regret taking that challenge ever so much). I'm well aware that all of fanfiction cannot be that one fabulous X-Men: First Class fanfic that fixed the Beach Divorce in an engaging and realistic way. I'm usually as entertained by the bad ones as I am by the good ones.
But really, I shouldn't pick out fanfiction to read when I'm too tired to think cohesively. Last night, I found one where Erik Lehnsherr's cat was turned into a human. "That sounds kind of odd," one might say. "Why did you read it?" Well, it was really, really weird, and for the first part of it, kind of entertaining. The author may pick really strange stuff to write (most likely) her story about, but she was being very witty and engaging about it. In my tired state, it was making me giggle. Giggling is fun.
To explain my problem, I have to explain the Pros and Cons of the fic:
On the one had, it had Charles Xavier acting like a cat, which is pretty darn funny.
On the other hand, CHARLES XAVIER is a CAT.
If it had just been a regular story about a guy who's cat turns into a person and they fall in love because of compatible personalities, I would be fine with that. Actually, there's a book I loved as a child with that exact plot:
But this was a fanfiction. About Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. Two characters that I love and respect. It broke my brain.
I'm no stranger to kitten!fics, I am a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist, after all, kitten!fics come with the territory (for some reason); and as a fan of Doctor Who, I can turn a blind eye to the human/cat-person thing. I'll read almost any fanfic, as long as I know what I'm getting into. Which leads me to my main point:
If you're going to include human/cat-person mpreg in your hilarious, well-written fanfic, for the gods sake, please, please, PLEASE put a warning about it at the beginning before I get sucked in to reading the entire thing.
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