mad_andy | *Yawn* *Blink*

Feeling somewhat better this morning.

Have huge zits erupting on face. Will probably still have them when I go to see Man-Raze next week. *Grrr* Stupid hormones.

EddieFic going well. Although I did realise last night that I've called the damn thing the same as Kelpie's Eddiefic. Oh well. No rule to say that you can't have more than one fic with the same title, although if I'd realised I would have called it something else. I'm not sure whether I'm more alarmed that I'm writing this sort of vengeful violence so easily, or that people like it so much. Hmmm.

BIL kept texting me last night. He has a day off and would like to come over and... er... well, I don't think he wants to drink tea and chat. If he weren't married to my sister I'd take him up on his offer. Trouble is I'm a terrible liar, and it would be sure to get out - and as much as my sister drives me up the pole, I wouldn't do that to her.

Just my luck that my husband is a libido-less lump, and my BIL is oversexed. *Sigh*

I was really evil in my past life, I reckon.

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I think that the reason people like it so much is probably because most of your readers are women, and the plot appeals to an atavistic sense of outrage in them all. Okay, so maybe that's a generalization. Truth is, rape is a touchy subject. It's a very real threat that, on some level, constrains who we are and how we behave. Justice is rarely served in such cases, particularly in a case of date rape, so to see the perpetrators, even in fiction, dealt with so deliciously well, is very satisfying. Who wouldn't want to see Justice served so well, if they were attacked in such a brutal fashion? There are not many people who would be forgiving of such a violation, though granted, some of us might have evolved enough not to wish it done so violently. That any of us can feel like that is disturbing but it doesn't make us any less human. It is what happens when whole groups are made to feel that Justice will always be qualified when it comes to crimes committed against them.

Still, it would be interesting to hear a guy's perspective.

*nod, nod, nod* Yeah, I hear you. Very true.

And another thing that occurred to me was that in its own twisted way, I reckon Andy's fic could be classed as a fairytale of sorts, and everyone loves a fairytale, right? In fact, if anything it's fairytale mythology revamped and improved, cos one of the faults of a lot of fairytales if you consider them as wish-fulfilment is that the heroine winds up having to abandon one desire in order to fulfil the other. The Princess can't marry the Prince and hang out with the dragon, can she?

But what Andy's done is to get rid of the dichotomy by making her actual villains completely disposable and instead using the Beast (in whatever sense you will ;) ) for her hero. The heroine (and therefore the reader) doesn't have to choose between the noble protector and the terrifying-but-fascinating monster, because in this instance they're the same guy. Perfect fantasy, basically. *grins*

...and all of this is why we love our Eddie. And why we bow before Andy. *gets back to the bowing* :)

*Boggles at the big words and learned discourse*

Dude. I was just telling a story.

...honest...

*grins* I'm sorry. Trust me, first and foremost I appreciated it as such. Bloody good story it is too!

I just like to let my inner intellectual get a word in edgeways sometimes - got to make the bugger earn its keep somehow now that I'm not doing my degree any more... ;)

No no, go for it. I just find it utterly mindblowing when such...cleverness... is applied to my own work! As you say, I still wonder (in the deep dark recesses of what passes for my brain) if in fact I can write at all.

Guess I can, at that. ;-)

In no way was it a dig at anyone, Rhi!

In fact, it was incredibly liberating to just let all the brakes off and write a character that does as he damn well pleases, no matter how violent or, to us, 'wrong'. I think it's why it all flowed so well...

Still, always a little worrying to discover the capability for such unreconstructed savagery, even if only within one's mind... I guess the Beast is within us all, after all.

Lots of fun to let it out to play, sometimes!

I didn't think it was a dig, Andy. This is what my brain coughs up when I'm barely awake and random thoughts fire across the grey matter. I was just trying to say that maybe it appealed to some kind of general ancestral/race memory?

Bottom line - it's a great story.

I wholly agree with Rhi. 100%. I think rapists should be dealt with slowly and painfully, in the most degredating fashion possible. Then have their balls and dick cut off and made to eat them raw.

And...and...can you tuck me into your pocket when you go see Man-Raze?

*sniffle*

Neither he nor his Celtic partner in crime are coming anywhere near me...

*sobsniffle*

I definitely need an Eddie icon. ;) Will have to look into that. And I admit it, I've been saving your Eddiefic for reading when I'm not totally exhausted, at work, or multitasking... and, um, when it's daylight lol. But I'm looking forward to reading it this weekend!

Hugs to you regarding hubby, BIL and zits. But Man-Raze concert is good!

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