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.

[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.

[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.