The Gough article is pretty dumb imo w/many faulty premises
if even straight white males, often with major publishers behind them, are going to be humiliated for writing about sex, then is anyone going to be able to at all
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 29 November 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
I read the first one, then I stopped reading. If any of the rest are worse than that, I most emphatically do not want them in my head. Alas, this debars me from voting.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 29 November 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
Can someone make a browser plugin that adds a Goughian 'wow' to random ILX posts?
"Alas, this debars me from voting.
Wow."
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 29 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Decoin one is fine, with a few mildly effective jokes that might be on the character. The Gilbert one is fine, bar a handful of lit-major eyerolls that might be the character’s voice, not the novel’s.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 30 November 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
The other three feel more like they’re indicative of bad books but not especially egregious.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 30 November 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
I never knew a penis could taste insipid.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 30 November 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Decoin one feels like it's probably quite racist in an exoticising way? But I don't know enough about the author or book to know if that's just my own "ick" feeling or grounded in reality.
Gilbert one I do think is okay, it's a character voice - not one I care for particularly, but recognisable as such.
Voted for Harvey, despite feeling like in his case it's not the sex part of the writing that makes it bad. A lot of bad sex writing is more like the Costello one with too much specificity and not enough sense, and certainly no sexiness. But with Harvey, he actually doesn't go into crazy TMI detail about the sex, he just seems like he would write badly about anything.
― emil.y, Sunday, 1 December 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
Did any of the organizers write sex or say what sex writing they enjoyed?
Just watched a youtube video called Girls Describe Their Favorite Hentai Scenes, shot at a convention with mostly cosplayers being interviewed and it was kind of funny.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 2 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Went the same way as the official award
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link