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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

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I'm aware of all the 6A / LJ / US law stuff (I like to think of myself as being in the "not a silly teenager" 5% of fandom ;) ). I actually agree with LJ's crack down on fandom; my issues both times were with the way they handled things, rather than the substance of what they were doing.

It's the "Because it's Jilly Cooper" that makes me uncomfortable. Whether it's people writing about 14 year olds in the UK, 16s in the US or 10 year olds in Japan (ew), I have a problem with undeage sex being glamourised, with none of the related problems even being hinted at.

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

The first time? Badly done. The second time? Warnings of how things would be done were given in news posts, large amounts of fandom ignored said info.

Sadly, 'because it's Jilly Cooper' is probably the reason she can get away with it. Which is stupid.