I did inevitably end up reading one (the slash I stay well clear of, but time-travel OFC inserts I can take), which... actually worked quite well for me. Alexis Barden's Memoir on the Incorruptible I think because it's mainly focusing on the fish-out-of-water plot -- what happens if you take a man from 1790 and dump him into modern-day Paris with no known way of getting home -- and, of course, because she has carefully picked the Robespierre from 1790 when things had basically yet to go sour. Although I rolled my eyes when she pulled out the Fake Relationship trope followed by There Was Only One Bed :-p But it did convince emotionally, probably because you've got the development of a longterm tentative friendship and then the sudden swerve reversal just when everything seems nice and fluffily settled. The following 'explicit' chapter... no, definitely not. (Not to my taste and doesn't convince either.)
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Date: 2024-11-19 09:50 pm (UTC)I think because it's mainly focusing on the fish-out-of-water plot -- what happens if you take a man from 1790 and dump him into modern-day Paris with no known way of getting home -- and, of course, because she has carefully picked the Robespierre from 1790 when things had basically yet to go sour.
Although I rolled my eyes when she pulled out the Fake Relationship trope followed by There Was Only One Bed :-p But it did convince emotionally, probably because you've got the development of a longterm tentative friendship and then the sudden swerve reversal just when everything seems nice and fluffily settled.
The following 'explicit' chapter... no, definitely not. (Not to my taste and doesn't convince either.)