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Post by tosney on Aug 15, 2011 10:06:36 GMT -5
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Oct 3, 2011 13:37:36 GMT -5
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Oct 3, 2011 14:35:31 GMT -5
*shall bother you constantly* |
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Post by Marina on Oct 3, 2011 16:54:03 GMT -5
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Kori
Young Armadillo
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Post by Kori on Dec 21, 2011 14:22:35 GMT -5
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Dec 22, 2011 2:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by sammybluejay on Dec 22, 2011 23:20:14 GMT -5
Yep, gonna go through and add all of you because I need more people on my goodreads. I'm almost more addicted to it than to facebook. www.goodreads.com/sammybluejay is me.  |
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Post by mykelblank on Jan 5, 2012 21:20:57 GMT -5
Okay, so I just made this 30 minutes ago. www.goodreads.com/user/show/7348324-j-mykelI can't even remember half the books I read last semester. I have more "to-reads" up than "reads". Edit: I am currently adding all the books I read between the ages of 14 and 16. Forewarning 99% of them are Romance Novels. |
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Post by sammybluejay on Jan 5, 2012 22:22:40 GMT -5
Edit: I am currently adding all the books I read between the ages of 14 and 16. forewarning 99% of them are Romance Novels. Ah, Goodreads. Forcing you to acknowledge that you read things you would rather not have other people know about. Although it can't be as bad as when my mother created an account and saw that I was reading the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, and started questioning me about what it is. I made something up. I could only hope she wouldn't click on it and go read the summary about the fact that it's basically BDSM erotica. (I don't think she did, thank goodness.) |
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Post by Kori on Jan 6, 2012 3:37:22 GMT -5
Yep, gonna go through and add all of you because I need more people on my goodreads. I'm almost more addicted to it than to facebook. Me too. XD I spent all yesterday rearranging my "to-read" shelf, so that the books are in order of how I am actually going to read them. It took forever and I only got the first 117 sorted. Good thing I'm on vacation. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jan 7, 2012 8:55:42 GMT -5
Although it can't be as bad as when my mother created an account and saw that I was reading the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, and started questioning me about what it is. I made something up. I could only hope she wouldn't click on it and go read the summary about the fact that it's basically BDSM erotica. (I don't think she did, thank goodness.) I was recommended that series by a girl who'd borrowed them from her mother (with her permission and knowledge and EVERYTHING). I read them. They were so awful. It made me physically uncomfortable with the pure terribleness of them -- not that I have any trouble with graphic BDSM erotica, but because they did it so poorly. Nonconsensual = NOT OKAY. Even in BDSM, the nonconsensualness is an act agreed upon ahead of time by everyone involved. So when the Prince is all "Imma rape you now!" and Beauty's like "NOT OKAY. I mean, it's waking up lustiness and whatnot, but still, THIS HURTS AND I AM UNHAPPY WITH IT," that is rape. Also, y'know, lack of safewords and preordained limits and all those good things. Basically, it just breaks every rule ever for BDSM, and it was really not okay, but I kept reading them anyway. They were like a trainwreck you can't stop watching. /soapbox |
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Post by thoughtsdropin on Jan 8, 2012 15:43:18 GMT -5
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Post by sammybluejay on Jan 8, 2012 20:02:02 GMT -5
Although it can't be as bad as when my mother created an account and saw that I was reading the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, and started questioning me about what it is. I made something up. I could only hope she wouldn't click on it and go read the summary about the fact that it's basically BDSM erotica. (I don't think she did, thank goodness.) I was recommended that series by a girl who'd borrowed them from her mother (with her permission and knowledge and EVERYTHING). I read them. They were so awful. It made me physically uncomfortable with the pure terribleness of them -- not that I have any trouble with graphic BDSM erotica, but because they did it so poorly. Nonconsensual = NOT OKAY. Even in BDSM, the nonconsensualness is an act agreed upon ahead of time by everyone involved. So when the Prince is all "Imma rape you now!" and Beauty's like "NOT OKAY. I mean, it's waking up lustiness and whatnot, but still, THIS HURTS AND I AM UNHAPPY WITH IT," that is rape. Also, y'know, lack of safewords and preordained limits and all those good things. Basically, it just breaks every rule ever for BDSM, and it was really not okay, but I kept reading them anyway. They were like a trainwreck you can't stop watching. /soapbox Oh absolutely. I 100% agree with your entire opinion. I was definitely made uncomfortable by the entire first scene and some subsequent scenes but I ended up reading all three of them, haha. Because you're right, it's exactly like a trainwreck. Plus, she ends each book on a nasty cliffhanger and I REALLY wanted to know what she was gonna do to them next. There was some weird shit in those books. But, true to the fairy tale, she did throw in a twisted happy ending. |
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Post by Marina on Jan 9, 2012 22:31:09 GMT -5
Although it can't be as bad as when my mother created an account and saw that I was reading the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, and started questioning me about what it is. I made something up. I could only hope she wouldn't click on it and go read the summary about the fact that it's basically BDSM erotica. (I don't think she did, thank goodness.) I was recommended that series by a girl who'd borrowed them from her mother (with her permission and knowledge and EVERYTHING). I read them. They were so awful. It made me physically uncomfortable with the pure terribleness of them -- not that I have any trouble with graphic BDSM erotica, but because they did it so poorly. Nonconsensual = NOT OKAY. Even in BDSM, the nonconsensualness is an act agreed upon ahead of time by everyone involved. So when the Prince is all "Imma rape you now!" and Beauty's like "NOT OKAY. I mean, it's waking up lustiness and whatnot, but still, THIS HURTS AND I AM UNHAPPY WITH IT," that is rape. Also, y'know, lack of safewords and preordained limits and all those good things. Basically, it just breaks every rule ever for BDSM, and it was really not okay, but I kept reading them anyway. They were like a trainwreck you can't stop watching. /soapbox Maybe she was just going along with the original story? The one in which Sleeping Beauty was actually raped by the prince, and then he leaves her and she wakes up from labor pains. I mean, these stories were not intended for children until the Grimms cleaned them up. ///Edit/// : FUCK YOU GUYS!!! You made me as curious as a cat so I looked it up and started reading it. My expression the whole time @o@ ... got to page 5 I think... |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jan 9, 2012 22:40:22 GMT -5
I was recommended that series by a girl who'd borrowed them from her mother (with her permission and knowledge and EVERYTHING). I read them. They were so awful. It made me physically uncomfortable with the pure terribleness of them -- not that I have any trouble with graphic BDSM erotica, but because they did it so poorly. Nonconsensual = NOT OKAY. Even in BDSM, the nonconsensualness is an act agreed upon ahead of time by everyone involved. So when the Prince is all "Imma rape you now!" and Beauty's like "NOT OKAY. I mean, it's waking up lustiness and whatnot, but still, THIS HURTS AND I AM UNHAPPY WITH IT," that is rape. Also, y'know, lack of safewords and preordained limits and all those good things. Basically, it just breaks every rule ever for BDSM, and it was really not okay, but I kept reading them anyway. They were like a trainwreck you can't stop watching. /soapbox Maybe she was just going along with the original story? The one in which Sleeping Beauty was actually raped by the prince, and then he leaves her and she wakes up from labor pains. I mean, these stories were not intended for children until the Grimms cleaned them up. Except it didn't stick to the original at all. He rapes her to wake her up, and then takes her off with him to his Kingdom-of-24/7-S&M (in which consent is unnecessary), where she's forbidden clothing, walking, speaking, masturbation, etc. Also, there's a good deal of spanking and whipping and whatnot. All in the (misused) name of BDSM! Plus, she doesn't get pregnant. So I'm going with "No, that's not it." |
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