I will never read your story if…

[EmilyMiller]

…your female MC's name ends with an 'i'.

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[gunhilltrain]

10) women going commando unprompted or for nonsex reasons. I don't care if all her underwear are in the dirty laundry pile, she's wearing them for an extra day. Bifurcated garments are going to get stained by discharge or blood and a skirt with no underwear exposes the pussy to every fucking bacteria on every surface she sits on.

There's probably more but that's what's coming to mind right now.

Bacteria? Think of how much gets into one's mouth, no matter how many times one washes one's hands. If you worry too much about that, one turns into Howard Hughes.

As George Carlin said, "We used to swim in the Hudson River. Basically, we jumped into raw sewage to cool off. I guess it strengthened our immune systems, because we survived."

 

[gunhilltrain]

You can absolutely tell a story about Nazi's.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark is one of the greatest stories to feature Nazis of all time.

Now, if you're portraying Nazis in a positive light and trying to tell me they were right, that's a whole different story.

Then there is the Khmer Rouge, although they are not around any more. How about the supporters of Franco in Spain, although he's gone too? Or, frankly, the Communists in the Soviet Union or China, who were not exactly kind to their opponents. Or, if you really think about it, our own government has hardly been blameless over many decades.

Politics gets messy. It's always the other guys who are the mean ones.

 

[djrip]

Then there is the Khmer Rouge, although they are not around any more. How about the supporters of Franco in Spain, although he's gone too? Or, frankly, the Communists in the Soviet Union or China, who were not exactly kind to their opponents. Or, if you really think about it, our own government has hardly been blameless over many decades.

Politics gets messy. It's always the other guys who are the mean ones.

But everyone can agree about Nazi's, that's why they make such good bad guys.

 

[Djmac1031]

Politics gets messy. It's always the other guys who are the mean ones.

My point is certainly not to debate politics.

My point was simply: people can what whatever stories they want.

But if the point of the story is degradation or misrepresentation, or showing those who engage in such negative behavior in a positive light, I personally am gonna avoid it.

I make no claims to speak for anyone else on the matter.

 

[Djmac1031]

Haven't many of us, myself included, written stories with the sole purpose of degrading, insulting, or misrepresenting a group of people?

I certainly haven't.

Aren't we punishing tens of thousands of innocent readers because of a few hundred?

I honestly have no clue what you're talking about.

Aren't we indulging too much in wearing the preacher's cloak and feeling righteous at the expense of others?

I spoke personally for myself on the types of stories I won't read.

I never said people could not write them, nor said others couldn't read them.

 

[AWhoopsieDaisy]

Bacteria? Think of how much gets into one's mouth, no matter how many times one washes one's hands. If you worry too much about that, one turns into Howard Hughes.

As George Carlin said, "We used to swim in the Hudson River. Basically, we jumped into raw sewage to cool off. I guess it strengthened our immune systems, because we survived."

My mouth isn't prone to getting a UTI. Like yeah build up your immune system but there comes a certain point when you have to ask, is pissing lava every thirty seconds for god knows how long it takes to get immunity in that region to cover everything it could plausibly encounter on a public chair, worth it?

 

[AWhoopsieDaisy]

I was with you until I got here. I hate underwear and avoid wearing it as much as possible, but my skirts usually fall just above the knee, so the nether regions aren't touching anything but my clothes.

Maybe it's just me that gets UTIs at the drop of a hat?

 

[TxRad]

Is it the dropping of the hat or the bending to pick it up?

 

[gunhilltrain]

But everyone can agree about Nazi's, that's why they make such good bad guys.

Arguably Stalin killed just as many or more. Mao did a pretty good job too, although he claimed some of those (like his famines) were mistakes, not deliberate. I think he was deluding himself, but that's one of the advantages of being a dictator. You get to define your own reality.

So there is plenty of evil to go around.

 

[gunhilltrain]

My point is certainly not to debate politics.

My point was simply: people can what whatever stories they want.

But if the point of the story is degradation or misrepresentation, or showing those who engage in such negative behavior in a positive light, I personally am gonna avoid it.

I make no claims to speak for anyone else on the matter.

I get that, although politics is a difficult fit on Lit, but it's been done. I don't know if the site has any specific rules about it. I know it's listed somewhere, but the site reserves the final right to ban things based on any or even no stated reason. I'll have to check for the exact reference.

 

[Seadog777]

I thought the "rule" was to never date or sleep with a woman, whose name ends in "i".

Tori, Kelli(personal experience), Abbi, Maci, etc, because they all nutty.

Its a fucking joke people!!!

Take your retarded, pansy ass self, and go find yourselves gravitationally challenged at Bondi Beach.

 

[Seadog777]

Anybody who thinks that Hitler is the most "evil person in human history" is a complete fucking moron.

Don't get me wrong, he was a vile and despicable piece of shit.
But he wasn't even the most evil Nazi.

Mengele and Himmler were far worse than he was.

Genghis Khan, Herod, Caligula, etc.

Society is losing it's grip on history.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Now I'm becoming paranoid about French names. I just said whatever everybody around me was saying. The middle one you have there there - "laff-aye-et" - its pretty close, I think. "Lafayette, we are here," as General Pershing said. I don't think that was recorded anywhere.

Although, British names in the U.S. aren't easy either. Why is Worcester "Wooster?" Somebody suggested that too much gin consumption - tongue-in-cheek - resulted in slurring back in the British Isles.

Sounds like pronouncing the name the same way, just with different accents for an unstressed vowel. The Hamilton musical and the guy off True Blood both sounded like laff-eye-ett to me.

Lots of English words have a u sound spelt as o, thanks to old scribes, so combine that with non-rhotic r and you've got wuss-cester. Elide the unstressed syllable in the middle and you have Wuster (and wustasher sauce)

See also Gloucester (gloster), Leicester (lester), Bicester (bister), Towcester (Toaster) and then there's Cirencester (to be fair, the old pronunciation of Sissister is dying out and people call it siren-sester or just Ciren).

 

[offkilter123]

…if you disable comments not only will I not read your story, I will 1-bomb it.

 

[Britva415]

I will never read your story if…

it's written in 2nd person.

I've also been known to nope out of a story partly because I couldn't tell the gender of the first-person protagonist/narrator after an entire page. Not entirely for that reason alone, because that's usually accompanied by other flaws in the writing.

If it's important to the story, an author who can make it compelling while not revealing it can hold my attention, especially if there's some hint that there's a reason it's being written this way. Otherwise it's just asking too much for me to keep reading without knowing until you like just accidentally reveal it.

Hypothetically, the same could be true with 2nd person too, but I've never encountered one. It would have to be, in the words of Marsellus Wallace, "one charming motherfuckin' pig."

 

[SimonDoom]

Anybody who thinks that Hitler is the most "evil person in human history" is a complete fucking moron.

Don't get me wrong, he was a vile and despicable piece of shit.
But he wasn't even the most evil Nazi.

Mengele and Himmler were far worse than he was.

Genghis Khan, Herod, Caligula, etc.

Society is losing it's grip on history.

I've long that these "who was worse" among history's most evil and destructive people debates are among the least worthwhile debates one can have.

Another thing that spoils a story right off for me: too many times confusing "its" and "it's."

 

[Seadog777]

I've long that these "who was worse" among history's most evil and destructive people debates are among the least worthwhile debates one can have.

Another thing that spoils a story right off for me: too many times confusing "its" and "it's."

I LOVE a good discussion about topics, as long as the person has some fucking knowledge!!!

I have to admit, that sometimes I'm guilty of the "it's" and "its" situation.
I try to catch it, but it'll slip through from time to time.

 

[SimonDoom]

I LOVE a good discussion about topics, as long as the person has some fucking knowledge!!!

I have to admit, that sometimes I'm guilty of the "it's" and "its" situation.
I try to catch it, but it'll slip through from time to time.

I mess up waist and waste, which is much worse, especially in an erotic story. I've received comments on that a couple of times.

I like a good historical discussion, but in this case it's like debating the number of angels on the head of a pin. Should Mengele be on the 7th rung of hell, or should we dig 7 1/2 and put him there? All these people should burn for everlasting eternity, if one believes in that sort of thing.

 

[alohadave]

it's written in 2nd person.

I've also been known to nope out of a story partly because I couldn't tell the gender of the first-person protagonist/narrator after an entire page. Not entirely for that reason alone, because that's usually accompanied by other flaws in the writing.

If it's important to the story, an author who can make it compelling while not revealing it can hold my attention, especially if there's some hint that there's a reason it's being written this way. Otherwise it's just asking too much for me to keep reading without knowing until you like just accidentally reveal it.

Hypothetically, the same could be true with 2nd person too, but I've never encountered one. It would have to be, in the words of Marsellus Wallace, "one charming motherfuckin' pig."

I noped out of a book that looked promising because the first chapter was in 2nd person. The rest could have been great, but i'll never know.

 

[Seadog777]

I mess up waist and waste, which is much worse, especially in an erotic story. I've received comments on that a couple of times.

I like a good historical discussion, but in this case it's like debating the number of angels on the head of a pin. Should Mengele be on the 7th rung of hell, or should we dig 7 1/2 and put him there? All these people should burn for everlasting eternity, if one believes in that sort of thing.

I haven't made that particular mistake YET , though I'm sure I will at some point.

It's fun to go down these kinds of "rabbit holes" from time to time.
I don't know everything, and I LOVE learning.

TV, the internet, cellphones, etc, etc. are making people dumber and causing them to completely forget history.
It just pisses me off and makes me sad, that they'd rather watch fucking Tik-Tok, than learn about something that actually fucking matters. LOL.

 

[SimonDoom]

1. It features cruelty to puppies or otters. Cats, under some circumstances -- I can deal with that.
2. Nobody gets naked within the first ten paragraphs. Five is better, but I'm patient.
3. There are no cuss words worse than "darn."
4. You name anybody after any of the Kardashians.
5. Nobody wants to do at least SOMETHING that breaks the law.
6. It's something I could read to my ex-wife without her yelling at me.
7. I could read it on my office computer without violating company policy.

 

[mirafrida]

...the story includes I'm CummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMmMmMmMmMmMmMm<cough>MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmMmMmMmMmMmMing. anywhere.

I read one a while back that had the woman saying "OMIGOD!!" so often that I couldn't help cracking up.
But then I did read it...

 

[Altissimus]

I read one a while back that had the woman saying "OMIGOD!!" so often that I couldn't help cracking up.
But then I did read it...

There's so much good stuff out there that deserves to be read that I have a short fuse for the stuff that doesn't. But, sometimes you just wanna read whatever it is you wanna read... as evidenced by some of the dodgy crap on my kindle.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I mess up waist and waste, which is much worse, especially in an erotic story. I've received comments on that a couple of times.

I like a good historical discussion, but in this case it's like debating the number of angels on the head of a pin. Should Mengele be on the 7th rung of hell, or should we dig 7 1/2 and put him there? All these people should burn for everlasting eternity, if one believes in that sort of thing.

Also, those discussions are very rarely about what they purport to be about. When some dude who doesn't know იოსებ სტალინი from Владимир Ленин wants to talk all about how Stalin Killed More People Than Hitler, you can bet dollars to donuts it's not because he actually gives a shit about what happened in some foreign country eighty years ago, it's a way of soapboxing about present-day politics while pretending he's not, with Stalin as a proxy for [present-day person who, whatever their failings may be, is not Stalin].

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for examining how present-day politics relates to the entirety of human history before it, it's more the dishonesty that annoys me. Dudes wanting to sound Scholarly and Historical when everything they have to contribute to the conversation could be printed on a baseball cap.