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[redbrickrose]

So I finished Origins and now I'm playing Dragon Age II. (I'm a completist, I can't just skip to Inquisition, so I will be playing all of them. I played ALL of the DLC in Origins too. Also, my brother gave me all of Mass Effect for my birthday. HELP. There is a reason I have spent years only playing Halo. That reason is my time-management

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[kita0610]

Dude if you figure that book thing out let me know. Any of us could do so much better than the crap that's out there. Otoh, crap apparently sells. I don't understand. /old

[a2zmom]

I was going to write the same thing. I have never read 50 shades, but I have read some hysterical reviews of it on Amazon and I don't understand why it's so popular. It just seems bad in every respect.

[kita0610]

Because women neither know or believe they deserve/have access to actual decent porn.

[redbrickrose]

Will keep you both posted on my "get rich off mediocre fanfic" plan. It's in the works.

So I read 50 Shades - the whole trilogy. It's...just a bad Twilight AU (bad as badly written, and also bad as in, however one feels about Twilight, the 50 Shades characterizations are completely off). Like, had I encountered the original in it's fanfic context, I'd have back-buttoned, but it wouldn't have fazed me at all. (Even stuff like the infamous tampon scene, which only even sort of works in a vampire-AU context). So it's a bad Twilight AU, but it's also a pretty standard romance novel (at least the old-school ones), except for the explicit bdsm (which isn't nothing, but is also not...actually that kinky as portrayed, but is kind of telling in the way foregrounds that romance-novel dynamic