some unexpected plot twists are not good

[ratcreature]

Sometimes fanfic is really weird. See, I've been reading an X-Files story, which started normal enough. It was a Profiler!Mulder story with an X-Files twist in that Mulder forms some sort of psychic connection with the killers and victims, and so on, cue to Mulderangst. Which was the kind of story I wanted to read. Only then suddenly out of nowhere some green, winged horse shows up and brings Mulder to a blue anthropomorphic cat shapeshifter alien who starts talking about fighting interdimensional demons. What? Just, what? I have no idea how this continued, because the story rather lost me at that point.

What irks me most is was that I read over half of this long novel, which I thought was one thing, and then without warning it turned into something completely different. It had a summary and warnings for all kinds of things which indicated that this was a serial killer story with child molestation, but nothing mentioned mystical furry aliens fighting evil on psychic planes. Gah. What a waste of time.

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[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

LOL. Was this originally posted serially, as a WiP? Because sometimes long WiPs go off the rails like that, in response to comments or just because the writer got sick of what she was originally doing and thought "what I'd really like to see now is a green flying horse".

[ratcreature]

I don't know, but I don't think so. I've been reading it in the novel archive, but at least it is formatted without any additional headers for parts like there sometimes are in longer XF fiction. It's Mind Games by Spider.