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puddingcatHeavens, I almost forgot to submit prompts for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
springkink! I've resubmitted 6 that weren't picked last time, and dreamed up 8 new ones. I think there's some good ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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?
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?
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Date: 2007-08-29 10:18 am (UTC)As a product of a private school and a teacher (now thankfully retired) in the state system, I can say she got it all exactly right and if people /authors use sex to sell serious ideas to the general public, good luck to them! I think the story will tell a lot of people a lot about education without them realising they're being lectured to.
Her research was truly phenomenal and whilst she uses stereotypical characters she does so for a purpose. Actually, from my own teaching experiences I could almost say that the kids from the state school had been through my class... I could even give you their names.
I was perfectly comfortable with the book,and with the sex. Reality, after all.The only under-age sexy bits were between kids within a similar age range; the adult-child sex was terrifying and the perpetrators got their just deserts; the gay teachers were shown not to be paedophiles; the adult het sex was 'normal'.
I'm less comfortable with people who object to sexy pictures of Daniel Radcliffe who is over eighteen and has appeared nude in Equus.