[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Text: I actually ENJOYED ready 50 Shades of Grey and its sequels. I’d consider myself a fan of the series! I also practice BDSM with my lovely partner and we keep ourselves very risk-aware and it’s all consensual kink. I frankly don’t see the books as anything besides wish=fulfillment fantasy (because who wouldn’t want to catch the eye of some sexy billionaire who is also your type) and anyway, in the second book onwards, Anna starts to call Christian out on a lot of his bullshit.

Plus, the third book ends with them being the world’s most typically boring embarrassing parents who have a completely normal ordinary non-abusive wife with some added steamy bedroom activities, wink wink nod nod you know what I mean. And yes, the characters the characters have issues. That’s the whole POINT of a typical romance novel though, that the plucky heroine stands up to the dramatically damaged but still cool guy and he changes himself and his bad attitude with his love for her as a motivation and so on.

Of course it’s not an amazing work of literature, but it is FUN. I see people slamming it all the time and get rather annoyed because to me it’s no more unrealistic that “oh dear me, I’ve fallen in love with a time travelling Viking firefighter, what am I to do”. I’m pretty damn sure that the average audience of both 50 Shades and other similar books is familiar enough with romance tropes that they wouldn’t see it as some kind of guide to BDSM or BDSM done well, but rather as something meant to be just titillating and stop there. I feel like a lot of the BDSM crowd that’s griping over this are acting like hipsters who are upset that their thing is now becoming more of a mainstream thing, and it feels about as silly as Scottish people whinging that they aren’t ALL broody angsting Lairds and that people should LEARN SCOTTISH CULTURE AND CUSTOMS before engaging in reading some steamy Scottish-lord-fantasies.

Obviously a secret because saying this to anyone else in fandom or into BDSM and OH NO, you’re the WORST kind of person ever, how COULD you, you’re a DISGRACE TO US ALL turn in your sub-card and get out of the club, etcetera etcetera.

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[caerbannog]

Oh thank everything you're here. White on black with so many words was a horrible idea by OP.