More bad_rpers_suck wank.
The original post looks harmless enough: I hate the word 'smirk'..

Then hiverfleur adds Speaking of words that I never, never want to see again...'member' used in reference to male bits. *shudders*

And clearedtruth jumps in with a defense of the word 'member'. Including the phrases 'as an English academic', 'I'm just going to quote from one of my papers.', and 'Apparently, Princeton disagrees with you.', as well as some worrying examples of what she considers 'elegant' language:

For instance, if you have a character who has brilliant green contacts in, and you're in a dark scenario, and you want to describe this character with an air of mystique, you might want to describe him as having a "gaze that hung like green orbs luminating the atramentous silk of night"


I present you with a few ways of writing the same things:

EXAMPLE A
1. He held his big cock in his hand.
2. He wrapped svelte digits around a thickened length.

EXAMPLE B
1. XYZ's lips wrapped around ZYX's cock.
2. XYZ's lips descended upon the concupiscent slickness of a throbbing desire.

I just came up with those two examples on the spot. In all honestly, the second choice in both examples is far more elegant than the first.


herongale, becky_h, and sarawise wank back, over proper use of language, the meaning of verbose, Lolita, erotica vs. porn, and so on.

ETA: It's growing! Now includes rape!wank, and examples of clearedtruth's writing. Apparently she 'had a few things published recently'. My vanity publisher sense is tingling...

ETA2: The examples she linked to were collaborative works, that comment has been removed, and on request of one of her cowriters so has the quote that was in this entry. Only seems fair, since her cowriters haven't been splooging all over brps. The example she subsequently links to here is also not entirely her own, something she just accidentally failed to mention earlier. somebody bring up the Cassie Claire comparision, and the wank will be complete.

ETA3: And baleeted. Sorry folks, show's over. Or is it?