A bit late, but maybe still on?

Title: Donut Verse
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Puck/Finn, Puck/Kurt, Finn/Kurt, Finn/Kurt/Puck, Puck/OMC/OFC, Finn/Carl Howell, Adam Lambert/Puck, Finn/Blaine, Blaine/Puck, Blaine\Kurt and a whole lot of other pairings.
Categories/Genres: BDSM, Drama, Romance,
Length: Epic (of epics, over 1,749,058 and still a wip )
Warnings: Heavy BDSM, mentions of abuse, derogatory language, minor character death, Polyamory negotiations, Multiple Partners/Poly Fidelity, Betrayal, Spanking, Blood (not bloodplay, but drawing blood from a spanking), Homophobia, Drug Use (off screen), HIV Discussion, Sexual Slavery, Crossdressing, Body Punishment in the context of a disciplining relationship, eating disorders, age difference.

Author/Artist on AO3: elexusniall (”http://archiveofourown.org/users/elexusniall/pseuds/elexusniall”), flinchflower (”http://archiveofourown.org/users/flinchflower/pseuds/flinchflower”), knittycat99 (”http://archiveofourown.org/users/knittycat99/pseuds/knittycat99”), nubianamy (”http://archiveofourown.org/users/nubianamy/pseuds/nubianamy”)
Author/Artist Website: AO3

Summary: Finn, Puck and Kurt navigate through a relationship based on love, discipline, honesty and open relationships. It’s a verse, that follows closely to season 1 and following, peeking into later seasons and the future. As of right now there are 41 works, plus a second series, Donut Verse 50 Kinky Ways, with more 17 kinky fills.

Review:

This verse is really huge, 1,8m, more or less, if you count both The Donut Verse and 50 Kinky Ways and it’s still not over. When starting to read this verse you have to be open to the idea of Polyamory and the fact all relationships in this verse are deliciously hard and complex, and that some of them may change with time. I got frustrated many times, and I stopped reading it many times, but I always came back, because each story, while amazingly cohesive, also brings many issues to the table.

When you like both plot and smut, it’s quite hard to find good fic, specially when you look for well thought and well written BDSM. This verse inspired me quite a lot and made me think hard about a lot of subjects, not only d/s relationships, but introducing experiences from transgendered characters, characters of color, jews, christians, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, gender-fluid people, people that link sex with discipline and the ones that don’t, heterosexuality in a non traditional way and lot’s of other experiences.

What surprised me the most about this verse is the maturity in which such dedicated matters are dealt and the fact that they all have lot’s of points of views to consider. I also loved that authors introduced many Original Characters, that only served to enrich the plot and that in more than one occasion made me strive for the fic, hooking me up and bringing me back to it, just to see how and what would happen to them. Another things I find it genius is the fact that they use original canonical dialogue from the show and subvert it, making their own (always very well identified) and bringing something new to it.

On the Original Characters, Toby and Timmy are my favorites, they are so unbelievably well written! And they are side characters. I really recommend not skiping and reading one of the side stories, Just that side of True: A Donut Verse Interlude (”http://archiveofourown.org/works/249076”), to see the goodness of Toby/Will, and a marvelous tale of discovery of one’s sexuality, even with internalized homophobia and prejudice. Timmy in this story is Puck’s brother and he is introduced to bdsm relationships having to deal with this own issues with abuse. In this league, don’t forget Sarah Puckerman, if you enjoy gen, and read 1,000 Sarahs.

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