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Love the One You're With
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Love the One You're With |
| Author(s): | lemnlime |
| Date(s): | December 3, 2023 |
| Length: | 516 words |
| Genre(s): | Het, Canon Divergence |
| Fandom(s): | Brokeback Mountain |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | AO3 |
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Love the One You're With is a het Brokeback Mountain fanfic posted on AO3 in December 2023. The author, lemnlime, states in the work's end notes that they "made this fic as a test of my theory that there are a large number of heterophobes on AO3."
Author's Summary
Fic summary as of December 2023:
I noticed there isn't a single fic in this fandom categorized as F/M without M/M. Since yaoi is so popular in almost every major fandom regardless of whether M/M ships are canonical in them, I decided to write this. I fully expect this fic will be unpopular simply because I wrote a straight fic in a yaoi fandom (AKA, doing the reverse of what's so popular on AO3).Summary:
Jack and Ennis mutually decide to just stay friends and to work on patching up their relationship with their wives.[1]
The author later updated their summary to include a paragraph complaining that another fic of theirs was deleted by the "mods" and that they were suspended for a month. The user claims that "AO3 deletes fanworks even if they aren't in violation of their TOS."[2]
Fan Response
As of April 22, 2024, the fic on AO3 has 110 comments, 11 Kudos, 2 bookmarks, and 2,393 hits. Compared to other Brokeback Mountain fanworks on the archive, the fic has more comments and a higher hit count than average, but lower bookmarks and kudos: out of 887 fanworks, it's ranked 17 in comments, 170 in hits, 618 in bookmarks, and 773 in kudos.
The work seems to have gained more attention after a December 31 Tumblr post sharing the author's note started circulating. As of April 2024, the Tumblr post has 44,635 notes.[3]
Other Tumblr users discovered the work and dug up other posts by the author about free speech.[4] In September 2023, the user made several similar posts on Reddit.[5][6][7]
Fail_fandomanon also discovered the story in January 2024 and criticized the author's note for being homophobic:
- Re: WTF authors' notes, summaries, tags, etc. - tw homophobia (2024-01-01)
- trolling the heterophobes (2024-01-02)
References
- ^ Love the One You're With by lemnlime, Wayback Machine copy, 31 December 2023.
- ^ Love the One You're With by lemnlime, Wayback Machine copy, 22 April 2024.
- ^ This is the single funniest thing I've read in my fucking life by eldhuug, 31 December 2023.
- ^ anon ask sent to olderthannetfic, Tumblr thread, 3 January 2024.
- ^ Sites where I can discuss fanfiction that actually allow free speech? Because I'm disgusted with Reddit's censorship, Archived version by lemnlime7 in r/AO3, 16 September 2023.
- ^ Sites where I can discuss fanfiction that actually allow free speech? Because I'm disgusted with Reddit's censorship by lemnlime7 in r/FanFiction, 16 September 2023.
- ^ Sites where I can discuss Zelda fanfiction that actually allow free speech? Because I'm disgusted with Reddit's censorship by lemnlime7 in r/ZeldaFanFiction, 16 September 2023.