Not to mention all the ickiness that goes along with saying rape is okay if you do it passionately.
oh! Yes, yes and yes! Thankfully, lately I've rarely stumbled on such "gems" but that's when I usually rebel and write one of my two-page bunnies (which never get written) on how I'd have done it. :D
Hm, yes, one of the important details is to show how and why - that goes for most things, btw, especially mpreg (another of the lenghty rant-bunnies, which actually got written, but let's not go into that) and why Harry turns out to be gay, or why is Draco suddenly a Veela? (Btw, I loved One Year's Temptation because that story had every requirement and showed all the things I needed to see to believe it.) But believing it and being able to feel it are two different things - which I didn't know! Until recently. I thought, all would be right if I could believe how they could turn out that way, but apparently there are stories in which you believe everything and still, that part of the story just fails to become "real". Or perhaps I just can't stand excessive fluff. *shrugs*
Well, the basic rule of fests is that every request is optional, except squicks. I guess I've been lucky that I only got "I'd love to see this and that but it's okay if it isn't in there" type of prompts rather than specific requests. But I know I got fics written for me that didn't resemble any of my likes or prompts (okay, so I always make those optional) and I still liked them because the author managed to create something worth reading in her own style and inside her own boundaries. As I say, luck. I know there are always some very specific requests. (And I cheat and edit my dislikes so that I'd not get those before signing up. :P)
I think it would be a good idea if most fests had a rule that a request had to include plot prompts as well as kink prompts.
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Date: 2008-06-04 07:16 pm (UTC)Not to mention all the ickiness that goes along with saying rape is okay if you do it passionately.
oh! Yes, yes and yes! Thankfully, lately I've rarely stumbled on such "gems" but that's when I usually rebel and write one of my two-page bunnies (which never get written) on how I'd have done it. :D
Hm, yes, one of the important details is to show how and why - that goes for most things, btw, especially mpreg (another of the lenghty rant-bunnies, which actually got written, but let's not go into that) and why Harry turns out to be gay, or why is Draco suddenly a Veela? (Btw, I loved One Year's Temptation because that story had every requirement and showed all the things I needed to see to believe it.) But believing it and being able to feel it are two different things - which I didn't know! Until recently. I thought, all would be right if I could believe how they could turn out that way, but apparently there are stories in which you believe everything and still, that part of the story just fails to become "real". Or perhaps I just can't stand excessive fluff. *shrugs*
Well, the basic rule of fests is that every request is optional, except squicks. I guess I've been lucky that I only got "I'd love to see this and that but it's okay if it isn't in there" type of prompts rather than specific requests. But I know I got fics written for me that didn't resemble any of my likes or prompts (okay, so I always make those optional) and I still liked them because the author managed to create something worth reading in her own style and inside her own boundaries. As I say, luck. I know there are always some very specific requests. (And I cheat and edit my dislikes so that I'd not get those before signing up. :P)
I think it would be a good idea if most fests had a rule that a request had to include plot prompts as well as kink prompts.
Again, all I can say is: yes.