You make it sound all deep! Here I thought I was just going off about something.
I don't have a problem with well written rape!fic. It's not necessarily something I search for, but I respect it for what it's meant to be and do. What I do have a problem with is using rape as a plot device and treating it cavalierly. When someone tries to deal with the aftermath of rape with the equivalent of giving someone a lolipop to make it all better, that pisses me off.
I guess I'm just frustrated that we're finally getting something that's a good story and well told and we're bringing this in and doing it to ourselves. In my opinion it's gratuitous and unnecessary, especially since the one character that keeps getting raped in these fics has already been raped once before in canon.
And of course, there's the idea that the better a canon storyline is, the harder it is to write fic about it.
I understand that idea, and it even applies to my fic writing in some cases, but if rape is all that you can come up with, and just as a contrivance to keep characters apart of build tension, then you need to dig deeper.
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Date: 2009-06-01 03:44 pm (UTC)I don't have a problem with well written rape!fic. It's not necessarily something I search for, but I respect it for what it's meant to be and do. What I do have a problem with is using rape as a plot device and treating it cavalierly. When someone tries to deal with the aftermath of rape with the equivalent of giving someone a lolipop to make it all better, that pisses me off.
I guess I'm just frustrated that we're finally getting something that's a good story and well told and we're bringing this in and doing it to ourselves. In my opinion it's gratuitous and unnecessary, especially since the one character that keeps getting raped in these fics has already been raped once before in canon.
And of course, there's the idea that the better a canon storyline is, the harder it is to write fic about it.
I understand that idea, and it even applies to my fic writing in some cases, but if rape is all that you can come up with, and just as a contrivance to keep characters apart of build tension, then you need to dig deeper.
Sorry, apparently I'm very ranty about this.