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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2008-01-06 09:15 pm

THE HORRIFYING THINGS SCALE

What follows is a meticulously calibrated scale of Levels of Horror generated by particular tropes and elements of a story. Every story falls somewhere on this scale. Examples at each point provide convenient references!

10. CHILD RAPE is more horrifying than
9. a MAFIA SEX HOUSE is more horrifying than
8. a PENIS SHRAPNEL injury is more horrifying than
7. SURPRISE VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER is more horrifying than
6. SURPRISE lubeless FISTING is more horrifying than
5. SURPRISE secret EATING DISORDER is more horrifying than
4. background DEAD!MIKEY [aka background dead!main character] is more horrifying than
3. COMPLETELY OOC DIALOGUE is more horrifying than
2. EVERYBODY'S GAY (even Andy and Joe) [aka even the really straight ones] is more horrifying than
1. TRIVIAL CANON ERRORS (such as meat-eating Frank).

A 0, of course, is not horrifying at all.

An appropriate comment for anything between 1 and 9 on the scale is "Well, at least it's not child rape."

[identity profile] hollsh.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...surprise lubeless fisting what the FUCK??? Well, I suppose the massive anal bleeding might soften things up a bit, but geez! I hope they have rubber sheets and a surgeon handy!

But at least it's not child rape.

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Not only is it not child rape, but the surprise lubeless fisting actually cured his erectile dysfunction! :O!!!!!!!

[identity profile] hollsh.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! It's a fisting miracle!!

[identity profile] wax-jism.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Tbh, there was lube, but not a lot (suitable for regular fucking, not shoving your entire arm up the poor dude's ass) and srsly no prep, just WHAM I IZ FISTIN U HEE HEE. It was plenty horrifying, and not just because this was what finally healed the bottom's erectile dysfunction...

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[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Jinx.

[identity profile] hollsh.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
At least there was some, though a trip to the hospital was still probably necessary.

Maybe he hit a button when he was up there...
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[identity profile] emmuzka.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I have never bumped into a mafia sex house, so I will replace it with Illogical Sexual Slave Whore House.

And, uh. Andy could be bisexual, and Joe just too stoned to care? Yep, because situational gayness is *so* common.

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
There's room for SO MANY DUBIOUS CONSENT SITUATIONS at Level 9 Horrifyingness!
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[identity profile] emmuzka.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
BECAUSE DID YOU KNOW THAT DUBIOUS CONSENT IS ACTUALLY ROMANTIC?

[identity profile] pixxers.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm printing this out and hanging it over my desk.

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-06 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes it helps to remember that it isn't child rape YET.
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[personal profile] brownbetty 2008-01-07 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
penis shrapnel. Do I want to know, or will it be more delightful if I leave it my imagination?

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ummmm... it's probably more delightful in your imagination. It's a penis disfigured by shrapnel, as revealed in a COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY TMI conversation in the story I was reading last night. Or, I dunno, maybe it's about equally delightful, unless your heart was set on the shrapnel coming from the penis.
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[personal profile] brownbetty 2008-01-07 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I was somehow hoping for penis-shaped shrapnel. I'm gonna keep mine, actually, if you don't mind; I think it's better.

[identity profile] overloved.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
I LOVE HOW IT SAYS CHILD RAPE REAL BIG ON MY FLIST.

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah... um... warning?

[identity profile] overloved.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
it's okay it's not like a have a job. :)

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Silver lining!
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[personal profile] vass 2008-01-07 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
I find 8 less horrifying than 7. Unless the shrapnel came from the penis, in which case argh.

As for 1... so far I haven't read any meat-eating Frank, but I've read a whole fucking lot of fic in which people who aren't vegan are vegan. Including Frank (who in a story I read recently ate something called a 'vegan, honey-crust pizza', which... what?) Including stories in which MCR are all vegan and this is Gerard's idea, and he nags his bandmates about it when they eat animal products, and again I say *what*? (Edited to add that this was not an au, it was just a background detail in a regular MCR fic.)

2. I dislike 'everybody's gay' heartily, but quite like Andy/Joe. Am I a bad person?

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Penis shrapnel is just that significant margin more horrifying. There's the grossness and the completely inappropriate TMI element as well as the endless potential for conversations about His Manhood and Functioning as a Man in addition to the SURPRISE and the 'Why is this statistically improbable injury even in this badfic?' element from SURPRISE VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER.

[identity profile] overloved.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
honey is so not vegan. lol, i'm going to start adding "vegan" to everything i eat. i gotta go make a vegan sausage biscuit for brunch.

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[personal profile] brownbetty 2008-01-07 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
vegan meatlover's pizza! Vegan cheese-cake! Vegan meat-Popsicle! You're right, this is awesome.

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Or vegan-meat lover's pizza? Vegans just taste better!
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[personal profile] brownbetty 2008-01-07 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
And so romantic!
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[personal profile] vass 2008-01-08 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
The Buddhist-run vegetarian supermarket near where I live sells 'vegetarian intestines'. I've never quite dared to investigate more closely.
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[personal profile] vass 2008-01-08 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
The thing is, there *is* a vegan cheesecake. You make it with tofu. It's... well, it probably isn't exactly like the real thing, because I never liked anything with real cheese in it, and I *do* like tofu cheesecake. It's the baked sort, and it's light and firm and smooth and just the right mixture of sweet and sharp.

But vegan honey? No such thing. There are things vegans use as substitutes for honey, but you don't call them 'vegan honey', you call them agave nectar or maple syrup or rice syrup or whatever you used. (None of them tastes like honey, ftr.)

Now I want a vegan meatlover's pizza. No cheese (I've never managed to like fake cheese any better than I like the real thing.) Just seitan and tofu and tempeh and fake bacon and vegie-smoke all over. It'd be yum.

*is aware I'm probably grossing you out here*
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[personal profile] brownbetty 2008-01-08 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yes, I am-- well, dimly aware that there are such abominations as vegan "hotdogs" and such. (I call them abominable on account of their connection to hotdogs, not vegans, in case that is unclear.) How does one do veggie smoke, though?
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[personal profile] vass 2008-01-08 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
How does one do veggie smoke, though?

Either get some vegie 'meat' and smoke it the traditional way, like you would with real meat, or else just add some smoke flavouring while you make it.

Oh, and the advantage of vegan 'hotdogs' is that they're just the right shape for wrapping in a slice of bread and devouring, and they don't have hair or feces in them, like I've heard some real hotdogs do.
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[personal profile] brownbetty 2008-01-08 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but the disadvantage to them is that they taste like hotdogs