Stupidty knows no bounds

[maderr]

Not that I actually need to say that, but I have to admit this latest attempt is especially amusing. What makes these people think they have any right to pull a stunt like this? I'm really hoping it's just one massive joke, b/c that's what it's become: fandom_scruples

In other (less amusing) news, I've been working hard core on developing my vampire story. It sucks I can't really post anything here if I want it to get published. I'm not very good at keeping things to myself...but I'm having fun attempting to use and/or destroy Vampire story cliches. I figure naming the butler Vlad was a pretty good start.

I thought it was funny. The story is called Embrace, and I don't think it's what anyone will expect. My sister seemed impressed anyway. In regards to what you people can read, I've been working on both Rainbow and Treasure. I also have the beginnings of a completely random fanfic and a great idea for a short story from my darling youngest sister.

*gets back to writing*

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Fandom scruples . . . My opinion is torn about them. On one hand, I do think that NC-17 fics should be harder to access because there are children who read fanfiction and I don't know if nannyware can stop or keep out some fanfiction.
On the other hand, NC-17 were the best source of my sex education when I was all of, oooooh, fifteen years old. XD (And then there's the issue of how some authors would put their fiction on password protected and age-excluded directories, and couldn't read their own work because they aren't eighteen yet.)


A vampire who is a butler named Vlad? I like the idea. :) I once had a vampire named Gus. He had buckteeth that always got in the way of his fangs.
I find some of the best writing, whether it is from myself or from someone else in either fiction or fanfiction, is derived from the fact that we don't like what we read, so we write what we want to read. Often, we aren't alone in what we don't like to read, so there's almost always a fanbase just waiting to explode. (Good luck in getting published and don't be like me. I've been working on the same &^%$^# novel for seven years, simply because I'm too attached to the concept and too attached to the ideas behind it and I love the characters to bits and pieces and, uh, it's hard to clean up one's mistakes when one was an eager thirteen year old.)