Between Dashcon and now this, it's a crappy week to work on Welcome to Night Vale.

(tw: mentions of rape)

Sodomquake is best known to WTNV fans as the co-writer of "Summer Reading Program", the episode that introduced fan-favorite character Tamika Flynn. She is also known among Persona 4 fans as the writer of "Sympathy Crime", a fanfic that features rape. Tumblr user teethforlunch points this out, and is quite critical about Sodomquake being a writer of "underage rape porn".

Then Persona fans who've read the fic speak up, pointing out the fic is victim-focused and doesn't fetishize rape at all

Sodomquake's tumblr is now password protected. ~~Teethforlunch has gutted their blog~~. (CORRECTION: Tumblr support actually did their job, teethforlunch's account was deleted, and a friend of sodomquake's has taken the URL to prevent them from getting it back) Cecilbaldwin-fan, the fan blogger that popularized the original post, has expressed her remorse over the matter. The creators of Night Vale are not happy, and Cecil Baldwin has decided to take a break from social media.

So, um...do your research, kids.

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	kaen 2014-07-18 01:34 am UTC (link)
	Things like this really make me glad that my lack of interest in the Cecil/Carlos kept me from ever getting involved in the fandom, since it wasn't worth the effort to find fic for characters/plotlines I was interested in that didn't turn out to be primarily the Cecil and Carlos show. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2014-07-18 03:08 am UTC (link)
	Personally I feel like I get enough of them on the show, so I look for stuff on Tamika or Earl Harland, or on Cecil or Carlos outside their romance with each other. Though there's this supergood Carloscentric novel-length "His Dark Materials/Golden Compass" AU I've been following that's just stellar. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kaen
2014-07-18 03:33 am UTC (link)

Ha, I went into listening to the show assuming I'd end up loving the pairing, since everyone I saw talking about the show adored it so much, and then was surprised that it totally left me cold. I'm fine with them being together, but we just don't see enough of Carlos outside of Cecil's biased accounts about him for me to really get into them (Old Oak Doors did finally made me start feeling it a little with their conversation in the first part and Carlos' voice mail in the second though).

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	seiberwing 2014-07-18 03:39 am UTC (link)
	Have you listened to the live shows? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2014-07-18 04:04 am UTC (link)
	I saw 'em live on tuesday and oh my god, Carlos' actor is so adorable. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2014-07-18 04:08 am UTC (link)
	I haven't heard Condos yet but omg in The Librarian he was amazing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2014-07-18 04:10 am UTC (link)
	that's the one I saw! Actually the part where he quotes Albert Einstein is where I cracked up. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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