Re: Not sure where to post this...joyfulJune 1 2011, 01:05:03 UTC
For future reference, the best place to contact the mods with a question like this is the page-a-mod post.
Was this your prompt: The first time Blaine slaps Kurt, Kurt punches Blaine in the face. Because it's not abuse if he hits back, right? Besides, after some tearful apologies they make up, and Kurt's sure it'll never happen again.
Only it does. It becomes a cycle - Blaine hits Kurt, Kurt hits him back, they fight, they apologize, they make up. The scale of the violence keeps getting worse and worse, and it takes a huge fight and bruises that neither Kurt nor Blaine can cover up before other people start to take notice of how unhealthy their relationship has become.
Ending is up to author. I would love to see ND's reactions - how they react is up to the author, but I would like at least one member who wrongly thinks it's okay because Kurt's hitting him back, so 'it's not abuse, it's just fighting'.This prompt was screened because currently the ship "Kurt/Blaine," that you put in the subject line is a spoiler for 2.16
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Re: Not sure where to post this...
anonymous
June 1 2011, 01:14:57 UTC
This was my prompt! I'm sorry I forgot about spoiler warnings - you'd think I'd be used to it, since I live in the UK and I always have to watch what I say around my friends who don't watch on the internet, but I'm always forgetting haha.
Triggery discussion: what is rape?joyfulJuly 29 2011, 07:33:39 UTC
As writers, how do we distinguish what is rape from what isn't? If a character is in a situation that could be classified as rape, but doesn't feel like they've been raped, how do we label? How do we show the difference between what a character believes and what we believe? Is it okay to write a character reacting to rape in an unexpected way?
Let's keep all comments having to do with rape under this thread, and not on the meme.
Re: Triggery discussion: what is rape?joyfulAugust 8 2011, 02:19:14 UTC
The best thing I could recommend is to simply warn for dubious consent. As a writer, it isn't necessarily your job to know what we (the readers) will think of rape as. Some people think it is strictly penetration, some think it's strictly a matter of consent, etc, etc. You seem to have a plan to write about a character with a "strange" definition of/reaction to rape. That reaction and definition can be equally valid as what is considered rape by the mainstream audience. Go ahead and write. write, explore the psyche of a fictional character.
Just wondering....
anonymous
August 15 2011, 02:17:52 UTC
if this bothers anyone else when it happens. When you're watching a movie or TV show set in a certain time period and they play a background song that either wasn't released back then or a version of a song by an artist that wasn't born in that time. There's an indie movie(I forget the name) that was set in around the 50's I think and they played Michael Buble's version of I Got The World On A String. It took me right out of the movie.
Finn accuses Kurt of cheating on Blaine
anonymous
August 18 2011, 21:23:33 UTC
There's a prompt, hopefully on this meme where Finn accuses Kurt of cheating on Blaine. He has a proof: photos of Kurt kissing stranger. Truth is, this "stranger' is Blaine without hair gel and out of Dalton uniform.
Re: Puck, Lauren, and "Shallow Hal"chirpingemuAugust 27 2011, 15:00:58 UTC
Another thing that bothers me about such themes (the idea that a large or otherwise not-conventionally-beautiful woman can't find love from a handsome man without her changing or something literally impossible happening, as in Shallow Hal) is that it's actually a double standard.
It's not unusual, especially in comedy, for an overweight male character to snag a standard Hollywood beauty because of his character. He makes her laugh, he's a sweet-natured guy, etc..
In other words, men aren't expected to do anything but adhere to standards of conventional beauty. Women, on the other hand, are expected to look beyond those standards. Why don't we expect both sexes to stop thinking what Hollywood and fashion designers tell them to think?
Re: Puck, Lauren, and "Shallow Hal"raven_myope400August 27 2011, 17:48:11 UTC
I'd just like to say that to a certain extent I agree with you, that thinking that a woman who's larger than the socially idealised size makes you a bit of a jerk... but that's how Puck was
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Was this your prompt:
The first time Blaine slaps Kurt, Kurt punches Blaine in the face. Because it's not abuse if he hits back, right? Besides, after some tearful apologies they make up, and Kurt's sure it'll never happen again.
Only it does. It becomes a cycle - Blaine hits Kurt, Kurt hits him back, they fight, they apologize, they make up. The scale of the violence keeps getting worse and worse, and it takes a huge fight and bruises that neither Kurt nor Blaine can cover up before other people start to take notice of how unhealthy their relationship has become.
Ending is up to author. I would love to see ND's reactions - how they react is up to the author, but I would like at least one member who wrongly thinks it's okay because Kurt's hitting him back, so 'it's not abuse, it's just fighting'.This prompt was screened because currently the ship "Kurt/Blaine," that you put in the subject line is a spoiler for 2.16 ( ... )
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Let's keep all comments having to do with rape under this thread, and not on the meme.
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A discussion based on some potentially hurtful messages that could come from using Puck and Lauren in a "Shallow Hal" AU.
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It's not unusual, especially in comedy, for an overweight male character to snag a standard Hollywood beauty because of his character. He makes her laugh, he's a sweet-natured guy, etc..
In other words, men aren't expected to do anything but adhere to standards of conventional beauty. Women, on the other hand, are expected to look beyond those standards. Why don't we expect both sexes to stop thinking what Hollywood and fashion designers tell them to think?
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