Hands down one of my fave fics of the year!

Summary
Harry and Tom are a happily married couple if a slightly kinky couple. Tom wants to explore just how kinky they can be. Harry is more than willing than willing to try some new kinks out.


https://archiveofourown.org/works/15021692/chapters/34822607

Really forget 5/5, this is 10/10!

 

Please argue for the rating and actually review the thing. I looked at it, and the writing is trash, so I assume you have an excellent reason for the rating? Also, I see you're new here, but since 5/5 means good points - if you hadn't figured that out - I'd want to know why this is in "almost recommended". Focus on almost; it means ~"not entirely". Put it in the review board if it is good.

 

Pleasures is a fantastic little fic and the author is promising a puppy play chapter for the next update, which I’m just dying to read.

I didn’t have an issue with the writing myself?

 

Look I like Tom/Harry fics as much as anyone, but here I am cock in hand and not even a twitch. 1/5

 

@Earthie

Is English your first language? Genuine question. Because the 'writing' in this is fucking awful.

Also, consider reading the required guides and rules for posting before shitting all over the forums.

 

C'mon lady, are you trying to troll us with this? At least format your submission correctly like all of the others. That aside and going on to the story itself, I'm not averse to taking a dive into these treacherous waters but I am not finding myself impressed.

First paragraph, missing word. There are a plethora of more from top to bottom, or just the wrong words used. -1

No explanation for why Harry decided that his parent's sacrifice and all of Voldemort's crimes mean nothing, no explanation for how these two came together, and obviously Harry is aware that this isn't exactly on the level given the mentions about Ron and Hermione disapproving, but somehow, he's just so in love that it doesn't really matter, does it? -1.

On a related note, this doesn't read like Harry Potter and/or Tom Riddle except for a couple of instances. This reads more like a parody from Nonjon's Dimension Hopping for Beginners. I get taking some liberties to make the pairing work, and it can work, but this doesn't do it for me. An example is the shopping trip, it grinds my gears simply because it wasn't necessary other than to show off some aspect of the kink community and flavoring, Tom could have just transfigured/charmed everything that they went out of their way to buy. -1

I will give a bit of credit where credit is due for Tom's attempt at concern and care for Harry during the punishment section, the safeword stuff and I suppose the aftercare portion, but overall? This isn't good, and I don't feel it is even close to being library worthy. Maybe, somehow, everything got better in the second chapter, but I am not inclined to wade back in at this point.

2/5. I've read worse.

EDIT: Also, shouldn't this have gone in the Review Board?

 

So, erm, sorry for being a newb I guess?

I have never seen a group of people so hostile to new people of a forum before. Damn y'all.

 

Gosh, that's a lot of pent-up hostility, are you OK?

Did I read *all* the stickies? Nah, because most places are chill and friendly (I'm getting that isn't the vibe here.) As I a mod of different forums, I can't count the times I've moved threads/reformatted them when someone new joins, because damn, even if they *do* read the stickies, can't no one be perfect.

What bait driven comments? I didn't know talking about fanfic was "baiting" nowadays? Or is it more of a case that it's *slash* that makes it bait driven I wonder?

 

Fuck me. No, it's because you've rocked up with zero effort to gauge the forum you've joined. Personally, I don't care for slash, but I'm not tilted about it being someone else's preference either. I'm more tilted about you having poor judgement in good fic (as in well written) tbh. A lot of work has been done recently to ease integration of new users if you but read the threads.

 

What talking about a fanfic? You said it's good and left it at that. When called out on the terrible writing and high rating you responded with what kinks are included:

Refusing to engage in conversation - particularly when you're new and clearly haven't looked up the rules - is pretty typical of a troll.

Also, when a person enters a house an pisses on the floor and reads out homoerotic passages, the issue with it isn't necessarily the homo-eroticism. Immediately jumping to the "homophobe!" response when criticized leads me to believe that you know your story is trash and that you're in the wrong, but your ego won't tolerate it. Please lurk for a while, learn the ropes and stop embarrassing yourself.

 

@Earthie
Its clear we (you and this forum) look for different things in fics. We prefer objective quality over everything else, and occasionally like fics of lower quality that fit our personal niches. You on the other hand seem rate fics based on hitting a minimum requirement of legible and then focus on if it fits your niche. Please correct me if I'm wrong. To avoid annoying people here, and perhaps make a few friends, I'd suggest checking if you know any fics with objectively good writing that aren't int he library or any other thread. Even mediocre fics are welcomed in the right part of the forum and when reviewed well. The stickies are there for a reason.

Don't think of this site as a fanfiction forum, but a forum for good writing, it might help.

Also, I'm actually curious, what is your opinion on the writing in the fic you posted? As in, is it good considering it's fanfiction or good writing on its own? We generally prefer the second.

 

Isn't this DLP - Potter? If y'all want to be writing go for it, but I was under the impression (with Potter in the name) it focused more on the fanfic side? Tbf, the forums most active parts seem to be the fanfic side of things. *shrugs*

Anyhoo - Good writing - good writing for me, is anything that grabs me and can real me in. There are plenty of real (aka published) authors that I can't stand because I can't make past chapter one. (Dan Brown used to be such a fabulous writer and then fame went to his head and urgh, what even was his new book?! - oops, sorry, now is not the time to rant about him, lol.)

Does a writer have to be excellent to someone else standards (because again, good/great is subjective and is different to everyone) no? I'm really pretty much anything. And no, it doesn't matter if something is fanfic or not.

 

@Earthie anyone who is hyper obsessed with gay porn could get into a gay porn story. But seriously, this is actual shit. And what are your tastes man? "I'm looking forward to the puppy play chapter." What the actual fuck. I still think you are a troll that's just trying to stay unbanned for as long as you can.

 

I mean, go ahead? I don't care what you think personally.

 

I think that you're doing yourself a disservice by coming in so aggressively. Usually when one joins a new forum they take some time to lurk, see what the forum is about and how it operates. Instead you've bombarded the board with threads and have 30+ posts in a day, most of which are you arguing.
You're not making a good impression of yourself which, in turn, doesn't paint the reacting forum in a good light.

We might actually have a lot to offer each other, but going at this rate we'll never find out and you'll most likely be booted and write us off in your mind as somethingsomethinghomophobicbullies because you couldn't take the time to get to know the forum and ended up becoming a nuisance.

Chill out, slow down, wait a bit before posting new threads.

 

Jumping in head first is never usually an issue, I try to encourage people to not lurk and jump into the forum as soon as they can. (Then again, I've never been someone to back down, or be quiet.)

I don't think I've been aggressive? There has been a back and forth to be sure, but that's like, the entire point of forums.

Is 30 posts a lot? (I post, much, much more than that per day in my main forums. I think my highest post count is 25k in less than a year? Lol)