Random thoughts on Rape Fic

By being a violation of the character--a physical invasion of his body, a mental and emotional humiliation--rape in slash takes on the role of transformative experience.

It is about breaking down the character: his attitudes, his confidence, his very sense of self so that the author can allow him reshape himself from the brittle broken thing into something whole and human. And rebuilding himself can be as heroic as rebuilding the whole world.

This is why hurt/comfort is a popular genre. The comfort is as necessary to the concept of hero as the hurt. The enduring of the hurt is a heroic act, true, but the rebuilding, the acceptance of comfort afterward is as well.

Subtexty thought for the day

Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." Jonathan
replied, "I only tasted a little honey from the end of the
staff I was holding. Am I to die for this?"

(1 Samuel 14:43)

Protesting in my own way

(Fezzik and Inigo are taken)

The second Spock/McCoy is taken.

Also, for all of us het folk who feel left out, there's a whackjob called Solamoralis at Dr. Laura Fugitives on that thread. He claims having sex when there is no chance of procreation is gay sodomy, regardless of gender or orifice. So, het folk: let's go, have sex with a condom and we too are committing Gay Sodomy for Marriage Protection!

Quiz whore

( So, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? )

( Told you i was sensible )

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OK, so I'm whining. I see half a dozen people downloading my vids on a nightly basis, and I've heard nothing. Is it always this thankless? or do my vids just suck? (The one piece of feedback I've had, other than jkb's comment, was rather negative: obscure song choice, lack of character set up, etc. Tht vid is under reconstruction)

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( a rather snarky SW overview I wwrote for the Slash-writers' list. What's the good of loving something if you can't be goofy about it? )