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Your top 5 fanfiction kinks. The plot devices you just can't resist reading and/or writing:

Dear god, five?

1. I love to write a little madness into my fics. I've got a real things for characters slightly unhinged.

2. NCS if done well. I can't read it if it's the average bodice ripper. In fact, I like it more if the violated character is unsure of their own role in the NCS act. And it's got to be believable and well written.

3. Threesomes if the chemistry is there for a triangle.

4. Well-done camp. Though traffic accidents can be amusing, it's the Rocky Horror types that get my attention.

5. Buddy-fics. A good story on friendship. They're rare.


Top ten fanfiction squicks or dislikes:

1. Epics on part 57 and still counting. Nothing needs to be that long. Cut them up into a story arc or get a new idea. 457 pages of the same thing needs to stop.

2. Breakup fics to get your favorite character in bed with someone else. In most cases the pairings are fanon - you don't have to break them up to get them to go out with someone else.

3. Mpreg.

4. Romance. I'm all for slash and characters in love, it's the genre I abhor.

5. Crossovers. I think X-files is one of the few series that can actually lend itself to this type of fic well. The rest. . . no.

6. AUs where the otherwise normal human characters are now magical beings.

7. Melodrama. When the world crashes down on a character - everyone mistakenly hates them for all the wrong reasons, it's raining and their dog dies. . . too much.

8. OTP readers. I don't mind the authors, they write what they like. But the readers that send e-mail about being distraught over you not writing what they feel is the OTP - they need to die. On the same vein, fangirls that can't cope with writers that write believable characterization rather than two dimensional mary-sued characters.

9. Scenes with alcohol written by people who have obviously never had so much as a glass of champagne at a wedding. They either give their characters toxic shock by having them drink 12 bottles of 151 Rum, or they give them the equivilant of a shot of Robitussin. The character is technically either dead or cured of congestion.

10. Bastardized characters. Unless it's explained and the reason is actually reasonable, character bastardization is what's going to get me to delete faster than anything else. With the exception of mpreg.


So then I did the googlism thing:

catscradle is. . .  )
( Nov. 7th, 2002 03:36 pm)
The Donahue transcripts for the Michael Moore appearance are up now for those interested.

From Bowling for Columbine - This is part of the interview with Marilyn Manson, which I thought was one of the most intelligent interviewees on the show:


MOORE: Do you know that the day that Columbine happened, the United States dropped more bombs on Kosovo than any other time during that war?

MANSON: I do know that. And I think that that’s really ironic, you know, that nobody said, well, maybe the president had an influence on this violent behavior. No, because that’s not the way the media wants to take it and spin it and turn it into fear.

But then you’re watching television. You’re watching the news. You’re being pumped full of fear. There are floods, there’s AIDS, there’s murder. Cut to commercial. Buy the Acura, buy the Colgate. If you have bad breath, they’re not going to talk to you. If you have pimples, the girl’s not going to fuck you.

And it’s just this-it’s a campaign of fear and consumption. And that’s what I think it’s all based on, is the whole idea that, keep everyone afraid and they’ll consume.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

DONAHUE: Well, the spiel from your movie, Michael Moore —- we should say that we’re in Flint, Michigan, home of Michael Moore, for the premiere of this movie, from which this Marilyn Manson interview was taken.

You asked him, what would you say if you had a chance? What would you say to the kids from Columbine today? And he said?

MOORE: He said, I wouldn’t say anything. I’d listen to them, and that’s what nobody did. I thought that was one of the most intelligent things said in the film.


There are some other very good moments in the interview - lots o' very passionate commentary from Michael. . .
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