There are so many dark "episode tag" possibilities in this fandom that the rape is really just unnecessary. There's torture, murder, loss, betrayal, confusion, conflict... Yet we get rape!fic...
"What kind of fic does teh gf like to read? *iz curious*" Not that kind of fic, lol. Like I said, no warnings. She'll read pretty much any genre if it looks interesting from the description. The summary was a very vague blurb on how unicorn/human relations aren't what they seem. No bloody kidding... o.0
You don't even want to know who Kam ships Hermione with... She's got almost as unique a way of looking at the world as i do ;p
"That contrast between rape and whump- very articulate and I get that. I was kinda floundering before knowing there was a difference but not how to express it. And omg, poor Will! Sounds like you're really gonna put him through the wringer, yikes..."
There's a reason I need to be eloquent in my defense of whump ;p I'm feeding the boy to a succubus in the WiP I told you about and, in another one, he ends up mainlinging the Source. It's dark and nasty stuff, but it's to a purpose and it's being handled realistically (as realistically as one can handle soul-sucking demons and vampire blood....)
"oh, what the hell, it's a romance fic, I shouldn't nitpick"
You haven't read any of my romance fics, have you? They all deal very strongly with what a character could realistically expect to feel (I'm especially proud of my Henry/Ashley because he's just got so much confusion and conflict over the fact that they were raised together). A reader should not have to sacrifice realism for warm tinglies.
If you liked the fic, you liked it. At least you acknowledge its faults. It probably says something about the author;s skill that s/he makes it enjoyable *shrug* But, seriously, it's okay to focus on how much pain he'd be in, but how can you fail to focus on HER?
Don't get me started on the Potter!verse. It's enjoyable but I could complain all night and well into the next morning. I'll settle for "overly simplistic" and "inherently backwards in how it presents the characters" and leave it at that...
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Date: 2009-09-14 03:03 am (UTC)"What kind of fic does teh gf like to read? *iz curious*"
Not that kind of fic, lol. Like I said, no warnings. She'll read pretty much any genre if it looks interesting from the description. The summary was a very vague blurb on how unicorn/human relations aren't what they seem. No bloody kidding... o.0
You don't even want to know who Kam ships Hermione with... She's got almost as unique a way of looking at the world as i do ;p
"That contrast between rape and whump- very articulate and I get that. I was kinda floundering before knowing there was a difference but not how to express it. And omg, poor Will! Sounds like you're really gonna put him through the wringer, yikes..."
There's a reason I need to be eloquent in my defense of whump ;p I'm feeding the boy to a succubus in the WiP I told you about and, in another one, he ends up mainlinging the Source. It's dark and nasty stuff, but it's to a purpose and it's being handled realistically (as realistically as one can handle soul-sucking demons and vampire blood....)
"oh, what the hell, it's a romance fic, I shouldn't nitpick"
You haven't read any of my romance fics, have you? They all deal very strongly with what a character could realistically expect to feel (I'm especially proud of my Henry/Ashley because he's just got so much confusion and conflict over the fact that they were raised together). A reader should not have to sacrifice realism for warm tinglies.
If you liked the fic, you liked it. At least you acknowledge its faults. It probably says something about the author;s skill that s/he makes it enjoyable *shrug* But, seriously, it's okay to focus on how much pain he'd be in, but how can you fail to focus on HER?
Don't get me started on the Potter!verse. It's enjoyable but I could complain all night and well into the next morning. I'll settle for "overly simplistic" and "inherently backwards in how it presents the characters" and leave it at that...