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.

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!

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

fucking boy bands, what is underneath the surface?

People.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Not necessarily very deep people, but yes, you can make Soylent Green out of boyband people if you so choose.

Okay, brief moment of 80s nostalgia -- do you realize that a former boyband person, perhaps one of the ur-boyband, is now a reasonably respected actor? He is still called Donnie Walhberg, but at least he no longer wears baseball caps sideways.

(People didn't believe me when I pointed out that was him in his tighty-whiteys in Bruce Willis's bathroom in The Sixth Sense. )

Sort of makes you wonder what Justin Timberlake will be doing in 10 years, doesn't it?

But I wouldn't dismiss BB RPS because it's BB. I'd do it because it's RPS.

True. I have issues with both, and sometimes they get clouded up, but when all is said and done, RPS squicks me, period.