This will probably be uncomfortable for all of us.

nova-bright:

wehaveallgotknives:

nova-bright:

erinkyan:

ok so I am reading 50 shades and stuff

and yes, it’s awful

but I have a question

why is everyone so up in arms over this in a way no one ever was about the gor novels

because frankly this is better than the gor novels

EVERYTHING IS BETTER THEN THE GOR NOVELS

people are up in…

so i had to google Gor because if something is shittier than 50 Shade of Poorly Written Fan Fic i want in

and apparently it’s like 40 novels of slave babes and their big dicked masters on counter earth or some balls

and i found this

Science fiction/fantasy author Michael Moorcock has suggested that the Gor novels should be placed on the top shelves of bookstores, saying, “I’m not for censorship but I am for strategies which marginalize stuff that works to objectify women and suggests women enjoy being beaten.” 

ilu Moorcock

Please note, Michael Moorcock is my favourite fantasy author.

I just

I hate gender essentialism so much. And that’s what the Gor novels are. Every single thing is about how women just crave nothing more then a strong man to rule her.

And it makes me want to punch through the sun.

Also I have started the MST3K episode that riffs the Gor movie, and have been unable to watch more then ten minutes because it is so mindblowingly awful. Just so v dull and embarrassing and baaad.

If you are at all interested in the Gor novels, instead, read these two fics.

They are written exactly in the style of the Gor books, but are much funnier.

Houseplants of Gor

Gay, Bejeweled, Nazi Bikers of Gor (affnet’s formatting has done something horrible to this! its still worth striving to read.

punching through the sun sounds about right yes

OH MAN AFFNET

HAVE NOT PUT MY ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE ON SOMETHING IN YEARS

(via mercy-misrule)