Okay people, I have a challenge for you. As some of you know I have recently lost someone very dear to me (I'm heading to their funeral later today) and desperately need to get my mind off all this death. I was reading what I thought was supposed to be pr0n and then boom one of the main characters up and dies violently. Speaking of trigger warnings as someone did earlier...
Anyway, I need smut. Yeah, yeah, smut is lame, whatever. I need to get my mind off things and I think it will help. BUT. I'm VERY picky as some of you already know. And I don't have the patience right now to do pages and pages of fic diving. I did a little but I'm not up for more right now.
So. My criteria:
Rated M obviously
Vamp Edward/human Bella
WELL written. This means proper spelling and grammar and no porn movie sex scenes with gushing caverns and acrobat sex.
Preferably canon/ canon AU.
Preferably characters fairly in character. I'm cool with dark Edward but if Bella drinks, does drugs, or smokes I'll flounce faster than you can say sparklepire.
Fluff is okay but no mutant babies please.
Preferably not very long. I'm all for building a story but I don't have time to read something 20 chapters long right now.
If Aleeab4u or latessitrice or moneybeet wrote it I've already read it because I'm their beta.
Some examples of fics I DO NOT like mentioned solely to help give you an idea of what not to rec me so neither of us is wasting time. No offense is meant to the readers and writers of these fics. I'm a strange bird and rarely like anything other people like and my reasons for disliking the following are all over the map and not at all uniform. I do not care for:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Bonne Foi
Stranger Than Fiction
A Litany At Dusk
Creature of Habit
The Deluded
There's more but hopefully that will help. Typically if something has over 1,000 reviews I won't like it. Not because I won't read something with that many reviews but because usually I just simply don't have the same tastes as everyone else. And in case you're wondering why I'm not listing my favorites it's because the three ladies listed above that I beta are my favorites.
So, help a girl out?
EDIT: Please for the love of all that is holy do not rec anything with death in it. I'm trying to ESCAPE death. Also, Edward must be vamp from the get go. Not later on. Also, minimal swearing. Did I mention I'm picky?
EDIT #2: Adjusting my criteria as things get rec'd to me. I can't read Edward with anyone else. Just can't do it. Looking for strictly ExB this time around. Thank you.
*LJ, I know you have a bunch of master lists but I wasn't sure if there were any that were specifically vamp smut and I couldn't figure out how to find it if there was. Sorry. :(