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kittydesadeOr, in the words of the Immortal Leary
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and FUCK YOU!"
I can't believe you people. I can't believe the shit you read and the shit you spout. I can't believe that this is the stuff you choose to represent what you believe, or that you have this little respect for what you write. Because make no mistake, that's the message you're sending out to those of us who actually take more than two seconds to read your fic and make sure you have the appropriate amount of sex in it.
I can't believe some of you people who write non-con, bondage, kink, slash, het, yaoi, yuri, femslash, mpreg (god I hate mpreg), bdsm, yukis and semes and abusive relationship. Passive rape. Gay rape. Coercion. Emotional and physical abuse. Emotional manipulation. SHIT.
If this is how you people really live your lives, I'm scared. I'm downright terrified for the future of the human race, because God knows most of you can't be over 18, possibly over 16. If you people write, believe, think you understand the crap that spews out of your fingers, your computers, your keyboards, then oh my dear sweet Goddess you people need serious mental and sexual help. You need therapy for your next three lifetimes.
I'm not kidding. Now, I enjoy a good erotica fic as much as the next sexual critter, and yes I occasionally enjoy a good erotica between two consenting adults involving bdsm. I have some friends on the bdsm scene. I've even dabbled myself. I've done my homework. For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like. (I can't remember what movie that's from, but I remember Maggie Smith said it) I don't even mind graphic rape WHEN IT SERVES THE STORY.
Let me repeat that.
WHEN. IT. SERVES. THE. STORY.
My god. You people. You have nothing in your stories but sex. And not just the normal kind of sex, oh no, you have to have the nasty-ass manipulative rapist kind of sex. The unhappy miserable dysfunctional appalling tear-jerking hand-staple-forehead angsty scar-you-for-the-rest-of-your-short-suicidal-life sex. And that's the kind of fanfic that gets the reviews. That's the kind of fanfic that seems to be popular. It's like romance novels, only worse. Much, much, ten times worse. It's like if romance novels were slings and arrows, these kinds of fics would be H-Bombs.
You people scare me. You people disgust me. Hell, I've written this crap before. I've written rape, I've written BDSM, I've written gay sex, I've written pure smut. But you know what? I actually take the time and have the self-respect to put some actual thought into the whole process. And I know lots of writers who do. And you know what? No one listens to them either.
So, would someone explain this to me? Explain it to me! Explain it to me! I want it explained to me now JESUS! What the hell is this formula? That you start out with a number of readers, and your readership and reviews go down the less you have sex and the less you have angst. Never mind that maybe you were trying to hook readers in with plot. Throw out character development. Forget intelligent conversation or philosophical exploration of issues. These days if you have a fic and your characters develop more than just an interest in someone's genitalia, it's considered well-written. Goddamn. How far our standards have fallen.
I'm not asking for Shakespeare here. I'm not even asking for Lady Chatterly's Lover or Justine. My god, people, the Marquis de fucking Sade had more plot and more skill than some of you. And that's saying something, I've read Justine, it's nearly as bad. But PLEASE. At least the Marquis went: Philosophy. Sex. Philosophy. Sex. Philosophy. Sex. You people write and read Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Lunch.
Sex. Sex. Sex. Afternoon tea.
Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex.
And the one or two fics that don't have the sex, or don't write about the two or three characters that everyone gives a shit about (Aragorn and Legolas, or Henry Jekyll, or Harry Draco Hermione and Snape, or ...) IT DOESN'T GET READ! No one cares that maybe one of the elven archers who died in the siege of Helmsdeep might have had a family... or a personality. No one wants to hear about the trials and tribulations of Colin Creevy. No one likes or wants to listen to Dorian Gray's side of the story.
I'm so sick of this. I'm so very very sick and tired of people asking when my characters are going to get to the sex, or who's going to pair off with who. GROW UP! GIVE IT UP! Or at the very least talk about something other than that, and bitch about it to each other in private. I mean, damn. This one chick had the audacity to say that I was inspired by her fic. NO, LADY. Your fic is nothing like mine. YOU have your OC and your main fanfic'd character fucking like rabbits inside of fifteen chapters. *I* have about a hundred chapters planned, thirty five written, and they'll be lucky to have two kisses in the whole damn story. But you know what? They'll have had some damn good and meaningful conversations, and if they were a real life couple they'd be the one married for sixty years and your couple would be the one getting a divorce inside of six.
I know. I've watched these marriages failing. I'm watching them fail right now.
Gyah. There was this one atrocity on AdultFanFiction.net where some fanfic characters who will remain nameless to protect the poor characters were written into going off on a raping spree, which seemed to turn the supposed protagonist on, as did later being dominated herself. What the hell kind of a sick message is this sending? That we should be turned on by rape? That it's okay? Back in the day I read these books by Nancy Friday. She had a good message... rape fantasies are all well and good, but no one WANTS to be raped. Except sick and twisted fanfic characters who should rightly stay in the back of people's brains. Other people READ this shit.
You people are so crazed. And this is a recent phenomenon. This whole concentration on sex thing. I remember back in the original days of X-Files... and I mean way back, like first and second and third season (yes, I'm practically a dinosaur. Shut up.) everything was about the UST. For those of you who concentrate on sex and have no idea what the hell I'm talking about, that's Unresolved Sexual Tension. And I don't mean tying someone up naked to a bed and leaving them there. I'm talking about the good ol' fifties, lingering glances, tiny smiles, swaying hips kind of sexual tension. The kind that can be carried throughout a whole movie or story and climaxed in a kiss. No one has that kind of writing skill anymore. And even if they did, no one wants to read it.
Now, I think I've just about ranted myself out now. And I know I'm going to get flamed for this. But you know what? I no longer give a shit. If this kind of thing doesn't improve ... I'm just going to get out of the fanfic business entirely.
I'll publish my short stories, eventually my novels, and turn into the kind of writer that gets horrible bad-porn fic written about her characters.
And if I see ANY of that, I will hunt you down and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. Not the decent fics, or even the semi-decent fics. You'll get approval. No, I'll hunt down you rape-mongers. You know who I mean.
'cause, again in the words of the Immortal Leary.
"I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and FUCK YOU!"
I can't believe you people. I can't believe the shit you read and the shit you spout. I can't believe that this is the stuff you choose to represent what you believe, or that you have this little respect for what you write. Because make no mistake, that's the message you're sending out to those of us who actually take more than two seconds to read your fic and make sure you have the appropriate amount of sex in it.
I can't believe some of you people who write non-con, bondage, kink, slash, het, yaoi, yuri, femslash, mpreg (god I hate mpreg), bdsm, yukis and semes and abusive relationship. Passive rape. Gay rape. Coercion. Emotional and physical abuse. Emotional manipulation. SHIT.
If this is how you people really live your lives, I'm scared. I'm downright terrified for the future of the human race, because God knows most of you can't be over 18, possibly over 16. If you people write, believe, think you understand the crap that spews out of your fingers, your computers, your keyboards, then oh my dear sweet Goddess you people need serious mental and sexual help. You need therapy for your next three lifetimes.
I'm not kidding. Now, I enjoy a good erotica fic as much as the next sexual critter, and yes I occasionally enjoy a good erotica between two consenting adults involving bdsm. I have some friends on the bdsm scene. I've even dabbled myself. I've done my homework. For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like. (I can't remember what movie that's from, but I remember Maggie Smith said it) I don't even mind graphic rape WHEN IT SERVES THE STORY.
Let me repeat that.
WHEN. IT. SERVES. THE. STORY.
My god. You people. You have nothing in your stories but sex. And not just the normal kind of sex, oh no, you have to have the nasty-ass manipulative rapist kind of sex. The unhappy miserable dysfunctional appalling tear-jerking hand-staple-forehead angsty scar-you-for-the-rest-of-your-short-suicidal-life sex. And that's the kind of fanfic that gets the reviews. That's the kind of fanfic that seems to be popular. It's like romance novels, only worse. Much, much, ten times worse. It's like if romance novels were slings and arrows, these kinds of fics would be H-Bombs.
You people scare me. You people disgust me. Hell, I've written this crap before. I've written rape, I've written BDSM, I've written gay sex, I've written pure smut. But you know what? I actually take the time and have the self-respect to put some actual thought into the whole process. And I know lots of writers who do. And you know what? No one listens to them either.
So, would someone explain this to me? Explain it to me! Explain it to me! I want it explained to me now JESUS! What the hell is this formula? That you start out with a number of readers, and your readership and reviews go down the less you have sex and the less you have angst. Never mind that maybe you were trying to hook readers in with plot. Throw out character development. Forget intelligent conversation or philosophical exploration of issues. These days if you have a fic and your characters develop more than just an interest in someone's genitalia, it's considered well-written. Goddamn. How far our standards have fallen.
I'm not asking for Shakespeare here. I'm not even asking for Lady Chatterly's Lover or Justine. My god, people, the Marquis de fucking Sade had more plot and more skill than some of you. And that's saying something, I've read Justine, it's nearly as bad. But PLEASE. At least the Marquis went: Philosophy. Sex. Philosophy. Sex. Philosophy. Sex. You people write and read Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Lunch.
Sex. Sex. Sex. Afternoon tea.
Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex.
And the one or two fics that don't have the sex, or don't write about the two or three characters that everyone gives a shit about (Aragorn and Legolas, or Henry Jekyll, or Harry Draco Hermione and Snape, or ...) IT DOESN'T GET READ! No one cares that maybe one of the elven archers who died in the siege of Helmsdeep might have had a family... or a personality. No one wants to hear about the trials and tribulations of Colin Creevy. No one likes or wants to listen to Dorian Gray's side of the story.
I'm so sick of this. I'm so very very sick and tired of people asking when my characters are going to get to the sex, or who's going to pair off with who. GROW UP! GIVE IT UP! Or at the very least talk about something other than that, and bitch about it to each other in private. I mean, damn. This one chick had the audacity to say that I was inspired by her fic. NO, LADY. Your fic is nothing like mine. YOU have your OC and your main fanfic'd character fucking like rabbits inside of fifteen chapters. *I* have about a hundred chapters planned, thirty five written, and they'll be lucky to have two kisses in the whole damn story. But you know what? They'll have had some damn good and meaningful conversations, and if they were a real life couple they'd be the one married for sixty years and your couple would be the one getting a divorce inside of six.
I know. I've watched these marriages failing. I'm watching them fail right now.
Gyah. There was this one atrocity on AdultFanFiction.net where some fanfic characters who will remain nameless to protect the poor characters were written into going off on a raping spree, which seemed to turn the supposed protagonist on, as did later being dominated herself. What the hell kind of a sick message is this sending? That we should be turned on by rape? That it's okay? Back in the day I read these books by Nancy Friday. She had a good message... rape fantasies are all well and good, but no one WANTS to be raped. Except sick and twisted fanfic characters who should rightly stay in the back of people's brains. Other people READ this shit.
You people are so crazed. And this is a recent phenomenon. This whole concentration on sex thing. I remember back in the original days of X-Files... and I mean way back, like first and second and third season (yes, I'm practically a dinosaur. Shut up.) everything was about the UST. For those of you who concentrate on sex and have no idea what the hell I'm talking about, that's Unresolved Sexual Tension. And I don't mean tying someone up naked to a bed and leaving them there. I'm talking about the good ol' fifties, lingering glances, tiny smiles, swaying hips kind of sexual tension. The kind that can be carried throughout a whole movie or story and climaxed in a kiss. No one has that kind of writing skill anymore. And even if they did, no one wants to read it.
Now, I think I've just about ranted myself out now. And I know I'm going to get flamed for this. But you know what? I no longer give a shit. If this kind of thing doesn't improve ... I'm just going to get out of the fanfic business entirely.
I'll publish my short stories, eventually my novels, and turn into the kind of writer that gets horrible bad-porn fic written about her characters.
And if I see ANY of that, I will hunt you down and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. Not the decent fics, or even the semi-decent fics. You'll get approval. No, I'll hunt down you rape-mongers. You know who I mean.
'cause, again in the words of the Immortal Leary.
"I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it."
