When I woke up this morning I found tinsel in my shoes. Holiday parties - they follow you home! I'm scared to open the closet in case a choir leaps out and bellows Silent Night at me. But I have my favorite seasonal decoration on the fridge: my RotK ticket. I wonder if it'll still be valid if I sketch little sparkly reindeer on it
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I love it when people sit back and really think about what they write. And I really have no issues with someone who wants to write the same story over and over in the same or a new fandom (I can live without the endless loop of partner rape, but certain types of first-time stories are like chocolate bars to me, and if I find a chocolate bar I like, I don't need for it to taste different the next time), as long as you don't deny that that is, in fact, what you're doing. Repeated cries of "it's not the same story! it's very specifically about these characters!" sometimes confuse me...
As I grow older and older and totter towards the tomb, I develop issues with more and more words, sometimes enough to react negatively to them when they're used in some other perfectly innocent context - oh no, another pucker, bud, rod, nub... Tiny Nubs and Thick Rods, a study of size issues in fannish erotic writing! At least ass and cock are still neutral, even if they've ended up being about as sexy as flowerpots for me.
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I do not have any particular hot-button words that will yank me out of the story, but the thing that gets me is when the author doesn't consider what words she's using -- for instance, if the story itself is gritty and realistic, and then it's time for the sex and it turns into a blushing, simpering virgin about its language choices. Or vice versa. Context, context, context :)
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