Poll: 33% of all stories is too much. Just too much.

[jeriendhal]

Inspired by this thread on james_nicoll's LJ.



[Poll #1857882]

Comments

Technically...

[seawasp]

... I haven't written the "threatened with rape" yet, but it's part of the last book of the Balanced Sword. I don't expect to ever write a story in which the act would be completed, and offhand I don't put it in anyone's backstory either.

Some of the fanfic I've written with my wife had some of that, but as I thought back I realized there wasn't any of THAT stuff that I wrote. I don't do sex in general unless it's absolutely crucial to the plot.

Crushing people mentally, having other horrid things happen to them, well, yes, that's part of what you do as an author to the heroes (or sometimes villains) to make them develop.

Re: Technically...

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Crushing people mentally, having other horrid things happen to them, well, yes, that's part of what you do as an author to the heroes (or sometimes villains) to make them develop.

True enough, but I wanted to cover all the angles.

[scarfman]

I was thinking primarily but not exclusively of AKOTAS as I was filling this out. Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot have each suffered and/or will suffer kidnapping and/or being held hostage. There have been allusions to rapes of princesses but I don't think any of the victims have had dialog. For question four I had to pick "Other" because you didn't offer "That's how it was in the sourcework I'm retelling." In my fanfiction, prose or cartoon, there isn't any imprisonment or sexual assault that I can think of, though in reviewing Saavik's extended universe backstory (in order to retcon it) I did invent a Vulcan word that the Doctor translated "rape".

Edit Assuming your questions were prompted by arguments over things like the Lara Croft reboot, I should make clear that Saavik's expanded universe backstory involves rape in that it's how she was conceived; it's not an experience that I've ever seen attributed to her.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

I've got two characters I write occasionally who I know have rape in their backstory, though it hasn't come up as such in anything I shared so far, one male, one female. Plus, both male and female characters who got kidnapped or similar.

Which of "Male", "Female" and/or "Male and/or female (multiple victims or different stories)" am I supposed to check?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Any and all that you think apply. I was trying to be as broad as possible.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Um. Looks like it only accepts one answer per block?

EDIT: Ah, it does save them, if just only shows one checkmark when I go to the "fill out form" page again.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

I did invent a Vulcan word that the Doctor translated "rape".

And what is that word?

I had a Vulcan (male) character tortured and raped by an evil mirror-universe Janeway. Wasn't entirely my fault.

[scarfman]

When Saavik calls herself prenn tupon farr the Doctor translates it as, "'Child of ... rape'?" It may be that none of the Vulcan words mean rape literally, only in the context of the current phrase, which may be an idiom. Here's the chapter for full context if you're that interested: http://scarfman.livejournal.com/319140.html

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Hmmm . . . not knowing the age of consent in Modern England (or Magical England, if different) I *may* have written an implied H/G statutory rape scene. But I think that's the closest I ever came to it.

[stasia]

I've written one rape; it fit the plot at the time, but I was aware of the fact that it was pushing boundaries (for me and my fiction, not for the genre and canon of fanfiction that story's set in).

There wasn't any Magickal Heeling Secks after, either.

*grrr*

Interesting poll, though.

Stasia