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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


shrift - Dec 02, 2002 8:53:13 am PST #1075 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Something about the certainty that I would hate-hate-hate that flick if I saw it.

I'm a pathetic MR fangirl, so I had to see the movie.

(Let's just say I also have a Really Big Thing for genderfuck, and leave it at that.)

Problem is, while I was watching the movie, I wanted to hunt down the guys who wrote the movie and beat them unconscious with a large dildo.

I don't find sexual assault and verbal abuse to be all that jokey.

I guess that's what fan fiction is for -- I was either going to write a story where I addressed some things my brain was screaming about while the inner horndog was busy with Michael Rosenbaum's cute posterior in red satin panties, or I was going to land myself in jail by battering Joe Jarvis and Greg Coolidge with a large fake penis.

So I went with the Catholic schoolgirl reject.

the only other thing I want right now is to reach up under Adam's Catholic schoolgirl skirt

Who doesn't? t g

Thanks for writing that, Shrift.

Thank you kindly, and my pleasure. I mean, I'm doubtful that there'd be high-speed Internet access in prison.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 02, 2002 9:31:18 am PST #1076 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

t loves shrift

Also. Okay.

I'm reading some puppyslash, idly, because I found the writer's lj and I'm procrastinating bored; and out of a sick fascination that-- well, that anyone would write RPF, but also that anyone would ever find these people interesting enough to write about. I mean, fucking boy bands, what is underneath the surface?

I'm a virulent, intolerant bitch. I know that.

But that's not why I came here. I wanted to ask.... My irony meter has been blown all to hell, all right? I can't detect sarcasm unless it's is printed in An Ironic Font, I've been reading too many shitty fiction pieces for my day job.

So.

Is this irony?

It really is, isn't it? It's a joke? It's meta-bad-fic? Right?


amyth - Dec 02, 2002 9:31:46 am PST #1077 of 10000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

I don't find sexual assault and verbal abuse to be all that jokey.

Wrod to the wrod power. I have a hard time watching date rape played for the joke factor. And verbal humiliation played for comedy doesn't usually do it for me, either. Of course, I'm just guessing what goes on in SB, based on what I've read in people's comments and what I gleaned from PiP.

I guess that's what fan fiction is for -- I was either going to write a story where I addressed some things my brain was screaming about while the inner horndog was busy with Michael Rosenbaum's cute posterior in red satin panties, or I was going to land myself in jail by battering Joe Jarvis and Greg Coolidge with a large fake penis.

So I went with the Catholic schoolgirl reject.

Good work! I really liked how you touched on Adam's/Adina's trauma response in a subtle-but-serious way, and how that gets worked in while Adam figures out how to become comfortable with who he is. Also, avoiding a life of crime with the dildo. ;)

And, of course, The Sexy.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 02, 2002 9:37:43 am PST #1078 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

It's meta-bad-fic?

It's terrible. I have to admit I didn't get all the way through it- I gave up at "his hard maleness". I need to scrub my brain out! And the worst part is, I strongly suspect that RL's ironyometer isn't broken, and the writer is actually serious about it. Ugh!


amych - Dec 02, 2002 9:38:44 am PST #1079 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Note to self: Jesus would not want me to read puppyslash. EVER.


§ ita § - Dec 02, 2002 9:42:13 am PST #1080 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

fucking boy bands, what is underneath the surface?

People.


amyth - Dec 02, 2002 9:49:51 am PST #1081 of 10000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Re: the RPS, specifically BB, I don't get it either, RL. (Could I possibly have abbreviated more words in that last sentence?) It was one of those things that I could easily classify as something that was so very Not My Thing that I would never need to think about it. But then I noticed that there were writers who wrote an awful lot of (primarily, even) boybands slash who also wrote stuff in other fandoms that I really, really liked and respected. This made me question my worldview for a little while, (should I try reading this stuff? Is there more substance there than I think? Does it matter that I would rather eat dirt than listen to the music and I don't know who these guys are?) but I decided to just let it go. It's out there, apparently talented, smart people who share some of my interests are way into it, and I will always be mystified by it.

Oh, that fic? So, so bad. If it's real, well. If it's a joke, I think we need to be clued in a bit more. Reading fic shouldn't hurt so much.


shrift - Dec 02, 2002 9:49:56 am PST #1082 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I have a hard time watching date rape played for the joke factor.

As do I. Thus the urge to commit assault.

And, of course, The Sexy.

Mmff. There's this one moment in the movie where MR-as-Adina is self-consciously checking himself out in a mirror, and I just fell in love with her. And then Adina played football and got all muddy. Deeper in love.

Michael Rosenbaum has a very, very dangerous power, and it's unfortunate that he's usually the shining cocksickle beacon of all that's good and sexy in a steaming pile of crapulence.

He's the reason why I wrote something for a fandom that's so small that I don't need all my fingers and toes to count all the stories.

Stupid sexy geek person.

It really is, isn't it? It's a joke?

I've lost the power to know this. I've found that people are so often earnest in their endeavors that I just don't ask anymore.


§ ita § - Dec 02, 2002 9:51:32 am PST #1083 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Which is to say -- I don't get RPS. No, I get it. I just don't like it. I don't like RPF. It even bothered me in The Alienist. But I wouldn't dismiss BB RPS because it's BB. I'd do it because it's RPS.


amyth - Dec 02, 2002 9:52:19 am PST #1084 of 10000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Michael Rosenbaum has a very, very dangerous power, and it's unfortunate that he's usually the shining cocksickle beacon of all that's good and sexy in a steaming pile of crapulence.

Oh, wow. May I tag this, Shrift?