You know, it's not that I want to defend those writers who can't actually write

[dragovianknight]

But speaking as someone who enjoys and, yes, sometimes gets off on emoporn, trauma porn, and torture porn, please stop conflating "the things you enjoy squick the hell out of me" with "clearly, you have something wrong with you" and "you are a bad writer and possibly a complete sociopath."

You may feel free to continue to poke at the complete inability to spell, punctuate, and use paragraph breaks, however. I personally would welcome better quality in my torture porn.

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[recessional]

You may feel free to continue to poke at the complete inability to spell, punctuate, and use paragraph breaks, however.

I dunno, I don't think much is gained by the nastiness and snobbery that winds up there, either.

[dragovianknight]

I hate the really nitpicky "ohh, they used an extra comma!" poking, but I also really hate it when I'm trying to read and I can't figure out what's going on amidst the tense changes, misspellings, and complete lack of punctuation.

I do weary of the constant Judgy McJudgerson crap fandom so delights in, though. No, you are not really a better person just because I write about raping and eviscerating fictional puppies and you think that's gross (and can get twenty of your friends to say how gross and wrong and disturbed I clearly must be).

[niqaeli]

I have, on occasion, come across stuff that prompted me to say "Your kink is not my kink, and your kink actually creeps me the hell out, I'll just be over here," and that was... um. The end of it.

Because unless there's any reason to believe any actual real people are being harmed (which in this context is... really pretty much never, let's be honest), it's not actually my fucking business and this is why Ghu gave us the goddamn back-button. I hit the goddamn back-button, twitch, and then go looking for things that don't cause visceral reactions on my part.

But I also find a hell of a lot of stuff that is not at all my kink (and actually plenty of stuff that IS) to be fucking hilarious because human tricks tend to be, so probably I'm a bad person by those sorts of standards, too.

[dragovianknight]

Fandom: Where we rise up in RIGHTEOUS RAGE if someone from outside dares to call Snarry fans pedophiles or question Wincest, and then turn and devour the next teenage girl to post a rape fantasy because clearly she has something WRONG with her.

And you know, I read and sometimes write porn involving giant robots; I don't get to claim anything is srs bsnz.

[maureenlycaon_dw]

I try to make that distinction always as well. After all, I did come from alt.sex.stories. ;)

However, a handful of times over the past 16 years, I've come across stories written in such a way that the author's viewpoint seemed to seep through -- and made my skin crawl.

More often, it's the author's response to criticism that makes me think they've got more than a few wires crossed.

[dragovianknight]

Yeah, this was...not that kind of a situation. This story came across more as, "I'm fifteen and have just discovered my rape kink." As someone who wrote her share of such stories after reading Clan of the Cave Bear, I recognized the signs of, "I'm young, I think this is both HOT and TRAGIC, and I have given no thought beyond that."