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- If you don't send me feedback, I will sob uncontrollably for hours on end, until finally, in a fit of depression, I slash my wrists and bleed out on the bathroom floor. My death will be on your heads. Murderers
. -- Unknown, on feedback
BTS List - That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
-- pricklyelf, on why Lex goes bad
LJ - Obi-Wan has a sort of desperate, pathetic patience in this movie. You can just see it in his eyes: "My padawan is a psychopath, and no one will believe me; I'm barely keeping him under control and expect to wake up any night now to find him standing over my bed with a knife!"
-- Teague, reviewing "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"
LJ - Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
-- hwmitzy and seperis, on bead addiction
AIM, 12/24/2003 - I could rape a goat and it will DIE PRETTIER than they write.
-- anonymous, on terrible writing
AIM, 2/17/2004 - In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
-- silverkyst, on wtf
AIM, 3/25/2004 - Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
LJ, 4/2/2004 - silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
AIM, 1/25/2005 - You know, if obi-wan had just disciplined the boy *properly* we wouldn't be having these problems. Can't you just see yoda? "Take him in hand, you must. The true Force, you must show him."
-- Issaro, on spanking Anakin in his formative years
LJ, 3/15/2005 - Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
-- Summerfling, on shower sex
LJ, 7/22/2005 - It's weird, after you get used to the affection you get from a rabbit, it's like any other BDSM relationship. Only without the sex and hot chicks in leather corsets wielding floggers. You'll grow to like it.
-- revelininsanity, on my relationship with my rabbit
LJ, 2/7/2006 - Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
LJ, 4/13/2006 - Rule 3. Chemistry is kind of like bondage. Some people like it, some people like reading about or watching other people doing it, and a large number of people's reaction to actually doing the serious stuff is to recoil in horror.
-- deadlychameleon, on class
LJ, 9/1/2007 - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Fan Fiction is John Cusack standing outside your house with a boombox.
-- JRDSkinner, on fanfiction
Twitter - I will unashamedly and unapologetically celebrate the joy and the warmth and the creativity of a community of people sharing something positive and beautiful and connective and if you don’t like it you are most welcome to very fuck off.
-- Michael Sheen, on Good Omens fanfic
Twitter, 6/19/2019 - Adding for Mastodon.
-- Jenn, traceback
Fosstodon, 11/6/2022
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From:I read (and reread) the Flowers in the Attic series as a teen and... well, I'm not sure what kind of petition you're proposing, but if it's a petition stating "I know these books are retrograde crap and I liked them anyway" then hand me a pen and I'll sign.
I've felt a lot more relaxed w/r/t matters of taste since I decided that just because I like something doesn't mean it has to be good in any way. I used to plead "guilty pleasure", or spend time defending the supposed redeeming/ironic/etc. values of the things I liked, trying to justify these things as somehow "good" because how could I like something that was bad? Answer: easily. There are lots of things that I think are crappy and lame, but still give me pleasure, and I reserve the right to like whatever pleases me, even if it runs contrary to my aesthetic a/o moral judgement.
Maybe if I hadn't read rape scenes like the one in Flowers in the Attic at a formative age, I wouldn't enjoy all that AMTDI noncon fanfic now, who knows. I don't think reading skanky melodrama as teens (or still!) disqualifies anyone from frowning over skanky melodrama for teens now. I don't think it's hurting anything to engage critically with a story like Flowers or Twilight and point out all the skeevy elements. IMO, it's okay for critics to list off their problems with the story all they like, as long as it's also okay for readers to say: I recognize that Twilight's central relationship seems creepy and stalkery and controlling, but I still like Twilight. A story doesn't have to be morally sound or eloquently written for that, it just has to be enjoyable.
Anyway. Personally I think the Twilight books seem to be badly written with ridiculous plot turns, but I'll be honest, I mostly dislike them because I wish I'd had the idea to warm over some geared-down, hetted-up Ricean vampire shenanigans and serve them up to the teen market for big $$$. Going by what I've read of the books, I wouldn't even have had to edit. :P
I'm trying to stop myself from ever using the term "Like a twelve year old girl" again in any slash fic I write.
Oh god, thank you for that. That formulation really grates on me and for some reason it's extremely pernicious in SGA fandom. I'd love to see a fandom-wide intervention to get people to think twice before they use it.
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