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[puddingcat]

Heavens, I almost forgot to submit prompts for springkink! I've resubmitted 6 that weren't picked last time, and dreamed up 8 new ones. I think there's some good daegaer and louiselux bait in there to ease my first few weeks in my new job... < / puppydogeyes > ;)

This time, I will be good. I know I can't do more than a couple of short fics, especially with a move & everything associated with it. Please feel free to kick me if I appear to be doing otherwise.

ETA the bit I originally meant to write:

With all the LJ fuss about underage characters in fanfic / fanart, I'm not sure quite what to think of Jilly Cooper's latest (Wicked). I *like* Jilly Cooper, with all her 2-dimensional expositions and lack of understanding of anyone without a £200k house in the country. It reminds me of growing up during the Eighties :)

I'm less sure how to take sex scenes (not graphic, but certainly R-rated at times, in comparison with much of the fic out there) between schoolchildren. I *know* a large percentage of kids have sex before they're 16, but I'm still not comfortable with it being made sexy in a bestselling book. And, of course, why is it ok for a published author to write things that would get the user kicked off LJ?

Comments

[scribblemoose]

I think because she's published in the UK, primarily. If the LJ servers were in this country, things would be a lot saner, imho.

Except the site would probably go down at 4pm each day for tea. ^_^

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

*Points up* What I said to madwitch.

Posisbly I've been spoiled by getting into the grown-up side of fandom, but where issues like underage sex have been a part of fics I've read, they've been dealt with intelligently. The "sex is great, nobody gets upset or regrets it, STDs don't exist and single motherhood at 13 is fun" spin that Cooper put on it is, IMO, irresponsible.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it wouldn't matter if the site went down. All its readers would be havng tea as well ;)

(Quote from an ex-partner at work: "A server is something that goes down on you on a Friday afternoon.")

[scribblemoose]

*laughs* I must share that one with my IT colleagues ;)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Is that meant to sound so dirty or is it just me?

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, it had a whole room of accountants falling off their chairs :) I don't think she intended it, though!