I horrified my 10th grade lit professor when I told her quite frankly that were I stranded with my class Lord of the Flies style on a jungle island, I would kill myself before my brain and body began to deteriorate without medication. She gave me a detention, and it took me a lot of explaining to convince her I wasn't suicidal.
*Blinks, rereads question, and blinks again* okay... I like to think that I like what I like based primarily on quality, but hah, we all know that's not true (and what defines quality anyway?) I like things that hit my non sexual, literary kinks. I love slavery/captivity fic, but not the fluffy crap a lot of people like. I don't want to see good masters and happy slaves. I want to see being a master ruin someone who might have been good. I want to see slavery and power differentials taint and slowly destroy what might have been real love. And most of all, I want to see people with everything against them fight. Win or lose, I want to see them fight, and get free, or negotiate a place for themselves in the screwed up world they find themselves in. I also love anything starring characters with disabilities that isn't about those disabilities, where they are treated like any other person with this challenge. I love Fantasy written from atypical cultural perspectives, and I have a special love for fantasy from a Jewish cultural perspective. I love smart, sarcastic, depressed main characters who fight like hell, especially when they're girls, but I like the boys too. I like reading about people working through trauma, or failing to work through trauma, or looking back on trauma. I like fiction where I get the feeling the side characters have thoughts and feelings that don't revolve around the mains. I like fiction that says it's okay to be afraid, to be angry, to be hurt and not to forgive. I like fiction that says it's okay to choose who you love and who you don't love, and that it's okay not to love someone who has hurt you, even if that person is related to you, even if it's your parents, or your sister, or somebody everybody else loves, that shows that some relationships can't be saved, and there's nothing wrong with cutting ties. Oh, and I like seeing bisexual characters where it isn't anything special. I like to see myself in what I read.
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Date: 2013-01-25 02:55 am (UTC)*Blinks, rereads question, and blinks again* okay... I like to think that I like what I like based primarily on quality, but hah, we all know that's not true (and what defines quality anyway?) I like things that hit my non sexual, literary kinks. I love slavery/captivity fic, but not the fluffy crap a lot of people like. I don't want to see good masters and happy slaves. I want to see being a master ruin someone who might have been good. I want to see slavery and power differentials taint and slowly destroy what might have been real love. And most of all, I want to see people with everything against them fight. Win or lose, I want to see them fight, and get free, or negotiate a place for themselves in the screwed up world they find themselves in. I also love anything starring characters with disabilities that isn't about those disabilities, where they are treated like any other person with this challenge. I love Fantasy written from atypical cultural perspectives, and I have a special love for fantasy from a Jewish cultural perspective. I love smart, sarcastic, depressed main characters who fight like hell, especially when they're girls, but I like the boys too. I like reading about people working through trauma, or failing to work through trauma, or looking back on trauma. I like fiction where I get the feeling the side characters have thoughts and feelings that don't revolve around the mains. I like fiction that says it's okay to be afraid, to be angry, to be hurt and not to forgive. I like fiction that says it's okay to choose who you love and who you don't love, and that it's okay not to love someone who has hurt you, even if that person is related to you, even if it's your parents, or your sister, or somebody everybody else loves, that shows that some relationships can't be saved, and there's nothing wrong with cutting ties. Oh, and I like seeing bisexual characters where it isn't anything special. I like to see myself in what I read.