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greeneyed_me in sortof_awesome

Okay so I'm not sure if anyone really frequents this community anymore...

Apr 29, 2012 19:27

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fuckery, fail, when fandom goes wrong, fanfiction

Comments 6

ladyseraph_756 April 30 2012, 00:28:02 UTC

Even thinking about this makes me irrationally angry. So I apolgise for the ensuing rant.- apparently I have a lot of feelings ( ... )

greeneyed_me April 30 2012, 22:17:18 UTC

I am so glad I am not the only one who feels this way.

It got published simply because she self-published just in e-book format. Then it gained popularity because it was a cheap, dirty read. So then it got really popular and then somehow Vintage Books Publishing House picked it up and then who knows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey

It's just ridiculous. And based on the wikipedia entry for it, E.L. James is on TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the country!!! How is this even possible?

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greeneyed_me April 30 2012, 22:20:18 UTC

Not raped, but the scene is played out that Jacob/Jacob Character keeps pushing to kiss her and mess around with her while she (the main character) is drunk and keeps telling him no over and over. So it wasn't carried out anyway...but it's still a horrible portrayal of our Jacob. Or a guy meant to be Jacob.

ladyseraph_756 May 2 2012, 01:12:04 UTC

That is actually disgusting.

delsilencio May 1 2012, 05:04:28 UTC

I thought it strange that I found out by a friend (who knew I read FF regularly) she told me all the helluva that the book stirred. She thought this was common knowledge. Most of the books blogs I'm subscribed to did a review on it (not good muahhaha!) but when I came here to see if but there weren't any entries/comments.. I found NOTHING! neither here or in other places in LJ. No one was talking about it. O.O That was weird.

Just thinking about it makes me raging mad! I just can't believe it, I cannot believe that SM hasn't done anything about it either. At the same time I fear the ramifications, should SM do something.To think that because of that opportunistic woman we may lose the freedom we have in FanFiction, in general!!
She couldn't pick a better time to do it.. when there are talks about SOPA and CIPA-whatever and God-knows what else >.<

a movie? ohgod! >.< this is getting worse

mibu_roshi August 8 2012, 06:51:45 UTC

So honestly I have mostly tired to pretend this book didn't exist and just ignore my friends when they tell me I should read it.

But I hadn't heard about the "Jacob" like character before (guess maybe I was doing too good of a job staying away from this work)

That actually makes me strong levels of disgusted and furious.