Last night I learned a trick. Actually, I've been thinking about that for awhile but I only did it last night.
I've been missing good fanfiction since the TVXQ demise about 5 years ago. I mean sure there were some good ones from time to time but not nearly enough after the abundance I was used to. The Alice Nine fandom had very little to offer. Aside from all the teenage crap there were only a couple of authors who could write well but somehow nearly all of them always went very OOC. I know everyone has slightly different take on things but a lot of the stories were so unimaginable that I was simply unable to enjoy them. With NEWS there was even less to read. However, to my surprise almost all the stories I did read were pretty good. But for my OTP I exhausted all resources very quickly. Then recently an awesome idea came to me. I remembered some of the OOC stories that were quite good and miraculously the characters in them corresponded with my current OTP a lot more than they did to the characters they were written for. Now, I know, it's a bizarre idea. I've see some girls do that a couple of times. You know, taking a HP fic and changing the names... it was awfully dumb. But then if you take bad!fic you can only get bad!fic. "Drastic times call for drastic measures" I thought last night and gave it a try. But... it worked. IT FUCKING WORKED! Fitted like a puzzle. I already did this to about 5 fics and looking for more. This is cheating and there's a bit of an aftertaste but I don't care. I got a bunch of stories, good stories. Christmas came early.