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This week we're covering the best and worst of 2011 -- everything from our favorite shows of the year to the worst Strong Like Ox entry we've ever heard -- to serenade you as you travel to wherever you're spending your holidays, and numb the pain once you get there. We're chatting about TV, terribleness, and answering a shedload of accumulated questions, so check it out,and have a very happy Death to 2011. We'll see you back on the flip side February 2012.
Click here to see this week's recs and download or stream the final episode of Season 1.
But don't be sad, /reporters! We'll still be filling the douchebag tax jar on twitter between now and the new season.
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Date: 2011-12-24 06:41 am (UTC)If you want further details, email away. I'm one of those non-lurker fans that has like, three handles that all get actively used and I have no qualms about sharing all the terrible things. Oddly enough, my other Strong Like Ox option involved a squid but it was non con which somehow seemed let upsetting than consensual fish threesome. Again, no mermaids.
To explain why I added the mermaid line? At least there would be an explanation for a live fish to be nearby if there were mermaids. There was nearly no logic for this fish.
Also, for any other slash reporters out there? I plan to keep my title for a second year running. Challenge Issued.
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Date: 2012-02-05 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-19 05:11 am (UTC)I read it years ago, and I wouldn't even know where to find it anymore. Featuring unfairly gorgeous, lyrical writing in the first part, followed by an infuriating level of mediocrity and closing out with surprise!bestiality. Seriously. (I don't know if this was before the first big serious warnings wank, but it was a couple years before I first witnessed one. And the story wasn't in the LJ community).
I should probably also specify - it was a surprise for me, but not the characters. Everyone was consenting.
It was either a shifter or werewolf AU, I'm not sure - I was seeking both out at the time, in a lot of fandoms - and it began beautifully. I never bookmarked it, but part of the reason I consider it the worst story I've ever read is because I still remember its beginning fondly. There was something like a thousand words of moody atmospheric brilliance, with werewolves skulking/stalking about and while it's never mentioned I just knew there was mist drifting through that forest and it was all mysterious and shit, you know? YES.
But then the relationship was boring and going nowhere and once the actual, you know, plot started it got boring and a bit awkward. Once the author was dealing with her story at the "stuff has to happen now" level, the werewolves ceased to be werewolves, just people - there was literally no reason for the story to be supernatural. It wasn't terrible, by any means, but it fell solidly within the type of thing that would make me shrug and click the back button these days (but this was back when I refused to leave any book or story unfinished). But even though I was bored and kind of zoning out, I wasn't pointlessly slogging through, I did want to see if the author would ever return to that interesting mood from the beginning.
The pairing was Werewolf/Human. And there was everyone-is-human sex (fairly generic, not character-driven sex - Tab A in Slot B, so again, boring but not terrible). But, uh, then there was elongating teeth. My thought processes started at "the author is totally not doing this at all, not at all, not at all, I just have to wait out the token nod to the werewolf premise" and then "okay, she's taking this a little farther than I'm comfortable with" and then "oh my god she's going there, she's really going there" immediately followed by "WHY THE FUCK AM I STILL READING CLOSE THE FUCKING WINDOW." I'll spare you a blow-by-blow, but I will mention that the last straw was the werewolf's bones breaking, something about the knee joint going the other way as part of the change.
Also! I was underage at the time. It was something like three in the morning, and I was staying up at the family computer downstairs, surreptitiously reading fic way too late into the night and my parents were sleeping peacefully upstairs and this was when I first realized I needed to figure out how to clear internet history!
The worst part? Um. I sort of went back? It was a few days later. I skipped the rest of the sex, but yeah. I was not yet at the part of my life where I could leave a story unfinished.
And no, in case you were wondering; the author never returned to that early mood.
:(
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Date: 2012-02-21 02:59 am (UTC)/waterbuffalo