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teleen_fiction) wrote2010-12-16 05:26 am
teleen_fiction) wrote2010-12-16 05:26 am
What Is This? I Don't Even! ACK!
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trauma_rec_fic actually has a rule against magical healing cock anything? Yeah, I'm thinking that I just read the fucking story that the rule was made for.
It's a Snarry, in which Harry gets cursed with something that disfigures and blinds him.
Yeah, the curse is LITERALLY cured by having everyone love and accept him for who he is in spite of the scars. To say it's incredibly offensive to me is an understatement on the order of saying that the next galaxy is only a short hop away.
What makes this even weirder is that I usually like this author - I remember the name, anyway.
Just, the level of fail present in this story makes me want to throw up. If someone is blinded and disfigured, the love and acceptance of everyone in the world isn't enough to wipe away their scars and restore their sight. I realize that it was a Dark curse from Voldemort and this is a magical healing world, but seriously? I mean SERIOUSLY? And what about those who are disfigured and blinded and DON'T happen to be the heroes of the wizarding world, where everyone loves and accepts them? Yeah, Harry was the only one hit with the curse in the story, but - ACK!
It's nearly enough to make me take up drinking.
I would leave a comment, but honestly, I wouldn't have any idea of where to start. The level of disrespect it shows to those who actually have to live with disabilities is staggering. Not to mention that the story isn't all that long. If it had happened over the course of many months with lots of love and acceptance from Severus, well, I'd still think it sucked, but to have it be all better after just a few cross words followed by cuddling and some parties?
FAIL
Fail on a level so massive I honestly don't have the words to express it adequately. Fail to the point where I want to weep that someone not only wrote this, but posted it. Fail at myself at a niggling suspicion that I might have read this in the distant past and not thought it was quite so full of fail. Again, I recognize the author...
Just checked the reviews. If I read it in the distant past, I didn't review, but the ones that did are all so fucking glowing.
Just.
Fail.
It doesn't help that I've recently read a series where the blinded and disfigured character DIDN'T magically get healed in the end and he still has a full and love-filled life, which is probably why the fail hit me so hard here.
Scars don't make the man and losing a sense or an arm doesn't make someone less of a human being. Ironically, that was exactly the point that the story was trying to make - too bad it failed miserably, :(.
I almost linked to it, but in the end I decided I wanted to leave this entry public, so I'm not going to identify the title of the story or the author by name. The fandom is big enough that it might not be the only story with a similar plot (though, dear FSM, I HOPE it is). And the fact remains that if you post something online regarding a subject that might be triggery to others and you don't treat that subject with respect, you have to accept that one day someone else might come along and point out your fail publicly.
Again, I'd send an e-mail or leave a comment, but I honestly have no clue where to start. I mean, seriously. Any thoughts?
Thought I'd look and see why I recognized the author's name and found a slave fic that was nearly as full of fail as this one.
And this is a very popular author. I've seen them recc'd other places (which is a more likely reason I remembered the name, now that I think of it), not to mention that the reason that I found the first fic in the first place was that someone was actually searching for it. As in, they wanted to read it again. Guess I was wrong in this post, *headdesk*.
I weep for humanity.
trauma_rec_fic actually has a rule against magical healing It's a Snarry, in which Harry gets cursed with something that disfigures and blinds him.
Yeah, the curse is LITERALLY cured by having everyone love and accept him for who he is in spite of the scars. To say it's incredibly offensive to me is an understatement on the order of saying that the next galaxy is only a short hop away.
What makes this even weirder is that I usually like this author - I remember the name, anyway.
Just, the level of fail present in this story makes me want to throw up. If someone is blinded and disfigured, the love and acceptance of everyone in the world isn't enough to wipe away their scars and restore their sight. I realize that it was a Dark curse from Voldemort and this is a magical healing world, but seriously? I mean SERIOUSLY? And what about those who are disfigured and blinded and DON'T happen to be the heroes of the wizarding world, where everyone loves and accepts them? Yeah, Harry was the only one hit with the curse in the story, but - ACK!
It's nearly enough to make me take up drinking.
I would leave a comment, but honestly, I wouldn't have any idea of where to start. The level of disrespect it shows to those who actually have to live with disabilities is staggering. Not to mention that the story isn't all that long. If it had happened over the course of many months with lots of love and acceptance from Severus, well, I'd still think it sucked, but to have it be all better after just a few cross words followed by cuddling and some parties?
FAIL
Fail on a level so massive I honestly don't have the words to express it adequately. Fail to the point where I want to weep that someone not only wrote this, but posted it. Fail at myself at a niggling suspicion that I might have read this in the distant past and not thought it was quite so full of fail. Again, I recognize the author...
Just checked the reviews. If I read it in the distant past, I didn't review, but the ones that did are all so fucking glowing.
Just.
Fail.
It doesn't help that I've recently read a series where the blinded and disfigured character DIDN'T magically get healed in the end and he still has a full and love-filled life, which is probably why the fail hit me so hard here.
Scars don't make the man and losing a sense or an arm doesn't make someone less of a human being. Ironically, that was exactly the point that the story was trying to make - too bad it failed miserably, :(.
I almost linked to it, but in the end I decided I wanted to leave this entry public, so I'm not going to identify the title of the story or the author by name. The fandom is big enough that it might not be the only story with a similar plot (though, dear FSM, I HOPE it is). And the fact remains that if you post something online regarding a subject that might be triggery to others and you don't treat that subject with respect, you have to accept that one day someone else might come along and point out your fail publicly.
Again, I'd send an e-mail or leave a comment, but I honestly have no clue where to start. I mean, seriously. Any thoughts?
Thought I'd look and see why I recognized the author's name and found a slave fic that was nearly as full of fail as this one.
And this is a very popular author. I've seen them recc'd other places (which is a more likely reason I remembered the name, now that I think of it), not to mention that the reason that I found the first fic in the first place was that someone was actually searching for it. As in, they wanted to read it again. Guess I was wrong in this post, *headdesk*.
I weep for humanity.