![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Profile
seperis
Links
Quotes
- 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
no subject
From:That said, I accidentally convinced my aunt to stop allowing my twelve-year-old cousin (how appropriate to this debate!) to read the books, insofar as she confiscated them and returned them. Accidentally, because I'd been talking to my aunt over lunch about how horrible they are, with emphasis on the OM NOM NOM I DELIVER BABY THIS WAY scene, and hadn't actually expected her to act on it.
Afterwards, I had to rethink the book I was about to give my cousin, since it involved falling into a world of rewritten fairy tales, and had one non-explicit scene where Little Red stalked and seduced the wolf, then lured in more women to lie with wolves -- and they all got eaten. I ended up unable to give it to her in good conscience in case it got confiscated as well.
Basically? If you start censoring reading material, fuck you. My mother refused to let me read Sweet Valley High and disapproved of Sweet Valley Twins, but let me tear through Greek Mythology at the age of six (which is full of incest, rape, bestiality, homosexuality, and other things my mother would not approve of). I read them anyway.
Do I think Twilight sucks? Definitely. Do I think it depicts healthy relationships? Nope. Would I want my twelve-year-old cousin reading it? No, but she's already an avid reader -- like me -- so for her, it's time wasted that could be spent reading something better. Like Discworld.
And ultimately, if I can't convince her to read something better, if I can't offer her alternatives that'll drag her in and make her forget that Twilight exists -- then yeah, let her read it. Because the other option is censoring the book by confiscating it, and speaking as a kid who had that happen to her a lot while growing up, it's as annoying as fuck and doesn't accomplish anything. If anything, forbidden fruit will only make it all the more appealing, and then your kid won't even discuss it with you and give you a chance to check she realizes that Stalking Is Not Cool.
(- reply to this
- top thread
- link
)