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Can we discuss this travesty?

2012-04-02T07:16:17Z

Posted by: putmeinamovie

Copies of Fifty Shades of Grey have been flying off shelves and into the hands of millions of women — and possibly tens of men. EW has the first Stateside interview with press-shy author E L James (that’s a nom de plume, by the way), as well as the full story behind how the sexy novel went from unpolished Twilight-inspired fan fiction to a full-on phenomenon.

From her perspective, creating a runaway word-of-mouth success wasn’t all that difficult. “I came up with a story and I wrote it,” James told EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum. “I read an interview with Stephenie [Meyer] where she said, ‘You’ve got to start at the beginning.’ So I did that.” Now Universal and Focus Features have picked up the movie rights for reportedly close to $5 million. It may seem a bit unbelievable, but James understands her book’s appeal. “It’s fantasy,” she says. “It’s a romantic fantasy story. That’s it. It’s just a fun read. I don’t see it as erotica. I see it as a contemporary romance. Yes, it’s quite graphic, but when people fall in love they have sex. Well, actually, they have a lot of sex. In the beginning. So that’s what this is about. It’s for ordinary women who like some spicy sex.”

How did this to become a thing? Why are people allowing it? How is this not in some way illegal? WHY

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Elizabeth Moon: Proto-Fascist?

2010-09-18T05:06:45Z

Posted by: brigid

http://e-moon60.livejournal.com/335480.html

I know–I do not dispute–that many Muslims had nothing to do with the attacks, did not approve of them, would have stopped them if they could. I do not dispute that there are moderate, even liberal, Muslims, that many Muslims have all the virtues of civilized persons and are admirable in all those ways.

In a dense wordvomit, Elizabeth Moon argues that:

1) Everyone who immigrates to a new country should immediately try to become just like everyone else in the country they've joined

2) If they don't, they're basically terrorists and in league with terrorists

3) How dare Muslims try to do anything in NY don't you know there was terrorism there!!!

4) The negative actions of any non-White person reflects poorly on every non-White person ASSIMILATE GOD DAMN YOU

5) She is tired of BENDING OVER BACKWARDS to accommodate filthy Muslims with their crazy moon religion what the HELL PEOPLE

6) Every single person who isn't Christian is a violent fundamentalist out to OPPRESS women like her

7) Every single Muslim the world over was filled with evil glee over 9/11

Here are some interesting comments.

Here are some response links.

Here are some more blog comments, including discussion over whether or not Moon should have her GOH status at WisCon revoked.

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Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm on mental health

2010-06-10T16:28:12Z

Posted by: damned_colonial

Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm (same person) on mental health and medication.

meganbmoore summarizes:

Short version: Taking medication for mental illness, neurological disorders, or anything that may result in a person not being "normal" mentally means that the are stifling your creativity and being untrue to your genetic self.

Some responses: rachelmanija here, yhlee here, recessional here, forthwritten here.

This is of course the same Robin Hobb who really hates fanfic.

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Because gay sex is icky, but Wil Wheaton's sweater is just fine.

2010-06-01T20:56:42Z

Posted by: damned_colonial

jmtorres puts it better than I could:

Dear John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton:

Perhaps if you didn't want people to write slash about you, you should not have named your RPF contest Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest to Benefit the Lupus Alliance of America.

But I guess writing unicorn-pegasus-kitten non-con scat play would be fine as long as said kitten is female? annotated_em has some thoughts on the homophobic undercurrents of the "no slash" request.

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Rules post

2010-05-17T06:35:09Z

Posted by: ontd_authors_mod

The rules will go here when I figure them out. Feel free to make suggestions.

If you've got any queries, etc. feel free to ask here or PM me.

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