Irony is the Shackles of Youth

So I was reading a fanfic the other day, and while it had interesting parts, there was one aspect that wound up annoying the ever loving crap out of me. I'm not going to say for what fandom because really, the characters were so OOC that they might as well have been original. However, they were interesting characters in their own right, which was why I kept reading. And also why I kept being annoyed.

Sometimes, you start reading a fanfic/story, and you immediately know it's going to be crap. Either the writing is terrible (or just not to your taste), the characters are annoying, the plot has all the depth of a parking lot puddle, or there's just a general smell of shit floating around that you can't quite put your finger on. So you stop reading. Other times you only realize 13 chapters in that there is a huge, glaring, ginormous issue and it is slowly driving you insane because it's dragging everything else into turd land.

This fic was the latter. The problem? The main characters were in a fairly adventurous, kinky, polyamorous relationship which several other people found out about (sometimes by walking in on them) and everyone was not only fine with this, they were generously supportive of their choices. So supportive that in my head every time someone mentioned how supportive they were I pictured them looking like Buddy Jesus.

Keep in mind, when I say everyone, I mean everyone. Sixty year old grandma who is the neighbor? Yep. Middle aged conservative police officer? Yep. People who generally hate the main characters in the series? Yep. Random people off the street? Hell, they're dispensing advice! The author even mentioned people that might have a problem with what was going on, but they were always shadowy, "those other people" kind of characters that were only mentioned in passing. If they existed somewhere in the large city where the story took place, our protagonists certainly never ran into them.

I think I could have swallowed this if it was supposed to be set in a futuristic, sci-fi, fantasy, or alternate world kind of setting. But no. This was supposed to be set right now. And while I hope in the future we are all a little more open minded and accepting, we sure as hell ain't there yet. Even if we do get there, I can't imagine random strangers giving advice about the best bondage gear sources in the middle of the street to people they've just met 100% of the time.

I'm not a big angst fan or anything, but I felt like the author missed an opportunity to ass ADD some dramatic tension to the story by always making everyone okay. That was my other biggest issue. A lack of tension in the story. There was some, but it was usually resolved fairly quickly until the next bit came up. Even the over-reaching tension/plot of the story wasn't that tense. It was disappointing.

Ah well. There was kinky bondage threesome, which there is a distinct lack of in fandom. At least the author managed to handle that semi-decently.

I just wrote this in a dictionary I'm putting together for one of my other stories.

Antarekarab n.: Mythology A warrior who famously vowed to avenge the death of his family by seeing the last of the Bheran clan die without heir. He became the husband/partner of the male prophet Aknara asKharal, paired to a blue unicorn with sight and last of the Bheran clan, thus fulfilling his vow.

Now I want to find out how that happened, and I'm the one that came up with it. I kind of wish that this world I'm writing about was real just so I could read the stories from it.

Note to self: in the STFU universe, you can graduate from STFU with egregia cum laude as that can be translated as "with outstanding praise" or as "with hysterical praise."

I still kind of wish I could graduate with hysterical praise.

EDIT: According to Wikipedia, in France you can graduate with the notation assez bien ("good enough"). I know that the humor comes from how that's translated into English in the article, but I think I'd be pretty peeved if I graduated and my degree read "Good enough."

I am not on campus today. My throat is raw, my head hurts, I'm stuffed up, and my body aches. I am sick. I cannot afford to be sick, especially not tomorrow when I'm meeting up with my manager from my internship and the DNR. Ugh.

In sixteen more minutes, I am going to make myself take a shower instead of dozing on the couch.

If people have questions about the world the dragon threesome is set in, let me know. Since I'm doing the stories kind of piecemeal, I'm not putting into it the careful world-building I usually do. It's not that I don't have it planned out. It's just there's no good way to put it into the parts I'm writing, because really, no one wants me to go into several pages of world building right in the middle of getting to the porn. And I, for one, don't particularly feel like having people camping at my doorstep with pitchforks demanding that I make with the porn already.

This statement brought to you by this question and my response.

miome and I went to one of the local farmer's markets today where we cleaned out their bruised tomato stash. This place usually has a box full of fruit that got bruises or is slightly damaged in transit, so they are half off. Seven pounds of tomatoes for $7. Miome then cut these up, added some white wine and bullion, and is letting them cook down in the crockpot right now. Tomorrow we shall have delicious marinara sauce.

Also, I'm working on the Desert Marriage story again. I've added some notes, wrote a bit of what will probably become a side story (which is currently tacked onto the end and will get moved to a separate document as soon as I have enough of it to justify one), and decided that I didn't like how it was starting in the middle of things. So I'm backing up a few scenes and am going to write the build-up to Osmond actually getting kidnapped. Might even back up even more in the story and write Amenan going through the ritual at the temple and talking about the kidnapping. I think that'll set up the whole story better.

Right now it looks like crud because of this, but I'll clean it up when I get what I need to done. Also added a line at the top with the date of when it was last updated since I realize Google Docs doesn't automatically tell people this information.

I think I'm also going to include an email in case people stumble across it and want to contact me.

I desperately want to write Nankah's story. I will remain strong and wait until I've got Osmond and Amenan's done. Or mostly done. Because really, I have the willpower of an eggplant.

Wow. I really missed out in school. I learned about gods such as Osiris, Thoth, Set, Anubis and Isis but somehow didn't hear anything about the Egyptian god Min. I can't imagine why I wasn't taught about him in either elementary or high school. It is a mystery.

Best Egyptian god name goes to Huh. I have a sinking feeling I'm going to have to name a deity that in my stories. And maybe give him a sister called Oh and a maybe a partner named Ah-hah.

I have the sinking feeling that someone is going to read this and go "Did you just use random Greek and Latin words for all the people and countries in this story?" Meanwhile, I'll be all like "No." while secretly dying inside.

Maybe the nifty battle scenes and the promise of a threesome distract people from this.

I hope.

Seriously, though I have about three pages with nothing but possible names for me to use in this story. I know when I get to that point that this will be a fic that ate my life kind of thing. At least I am secure in the fact that I can totally write it in any sort of order I so choose, and no one will call me on it. Kind of like STFU.

Argh. I realized I contradicted myself on something in the third part of the Witch King. Which means I not only have to fix it in the word docs but also on my page. *grumble* At least I was able to get my glasses fixed for free.

Also I wrote 3/4 of the fourth part of Witch King. It went pretty fast. I could end the fourth part here, but I think you'd all rise up and smite me. It's not a cliff hanger but it would make this part much shorted than the other three. I think I'll see if I can add one more scene.

Maybe I'll be really evil and end if on a cliff hanger. I just had an evil, evil, EVIL idea for doing just that. WHAHAHAHAHA. Might get it done by tomorrow. That would be a nice way to start the school year. Post the fourth part of the Witch King story.

Right then. I think that's enough writing for today. I'm going to crochet for awhile and then go to bed.

EDIT: Error fixed on website. Win!