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Have you seen this yet?

One of my friends wrote this, inspired by the utter loathing instilled in him by being forced by his toddler son to sit through endless showings of Thomas the Tank Engine.

http://www.onlydreaming.net/fiction/short-stories/thomas-and-the-fall-of-sodor

Have some stealth ore. It's probably enough to very lightly coat a decently sized vehicle, or make you a lot of gold.

...whether I should be laughing or bemoaning the fact that people like this are actually given the job of teaching future generations.

I already knew the answer to my question, and just wanted to have confirmation. I don't see U2 at ALL as slash partners, and I agree with you on that. It just is that I came across a fic (an apparently gen one) and I read Bono calling Edge 'love' (or the other way around, I don't remember).
I'm too of the ones who don't like non-canon relationships in any fandom, real or fictional. U2 are friends, I see them as friends. I was just pissed at the fact that not everybody can get it. I even came across fics where they waited for like 10, 15, 20, even 30 years before admitting they're in love with each other. Feck.
If only we could tell the people on U2 fanfics comms. I agree with you that writing about real people is weird. What would they think if they knew they were slashed with each other? Frak. You're right not to read that.
BTW, I love your quote. It pretty much sums up it all.

It's like Rule 34 for Mary Sues!

…if it exists, there is badfic of it. If there is not badfic of it yet, "yet" is the operative word.

i get the impression people get pissed when boys have crushes on megan fox. I hate the feeling of anyone being attainable though. I hope learning to race cars will help (But first i have to actually get some money together, which is a whole challenge in itself)

How is this possible? I always thought discworld readers were too smart to make discworld badfic. Then again, I still have a lot of bad ideas.

The author is quite right. I definitely identified with what she (he? didn't check) was saying. I never had the whole 'teenage heartthrob' thing, but I did have a six-foot poster of Orlando Bloom as Legolas on my bedroom door for about a year. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

Twilight is just another fad-- and yes, the books suck, though I don't know about the movies, but there's nothing wrong with girls having crushes on movie stars. It's just a thing, ya know? Especially the bit where she says "We imagine what we'd say to him if we were more confident," which is actually really sad, thinking about it. I can't be the only one on this 'Board who remembers middle school, and the fact that most guys were every -bit- as out of reach as Orlando Bloom or whoever the guy was at that point. There's something comforting, I think, in thinking about a guy who's unattainable to all the girls in your school, the popular and pretty girls just as much as the geeky, awkward kids.

Not all of the site is up, and the pictures are all gone... but I found it! Thank you sooooo much...

I have never heard any member of U2 -call- another 'love,' as a name. I've heard love used as an endearing nickname (or term of affection, you know what I mean), but not by them. But then, we don't know what they do when the cameras are off.

...no, I couldn't write that paragraph with a straight face. We don't know exactly what they call each other when the cameras are off, but I'd be willing to bet what they're doing is writing songs and making music, joking around like four friends who have known each other since highschool... and not having hot gay sex. And not just because they're married, but because platonic love is not romantic love. Don't get me wrong here, romantic love can spring from platonic love. But after feckin' thirty YEARS, I think it would've happened if it was going to happen. I'd bet that what they have is so strong, it kicks the ASS of whatever lust-oriented motives would result in four-ways between them. That is to say, theoretically (and if you go way, way, WAY out of context), there could be something there, th motives don't necessarily have to be lust-oriented. But... well, I've never read these slashfics (with, I think, sufficent reasons given), so I don't necessarily know. But-- tell me if I'm wrong here-- I'll bet that if you read these 'fics with an analytical eye, the motives are almost exclusively lustful. Especially if you read between the lines-- not even necessarily the author's given motives for the bandmates to be jumping each other, but the author's motives for writing it.

(Let me make this clear, too: What you want to fantasize about in your own head is your own business. Go ahead and daydream about Larry and Bono getting it on if that's what floats your boat. But writing that? Sitting down and taking the time and the words and the altogether work to type that all out? And then putting it up in public... that's, that's a little scary, to me. If you're slashing Legolas and Aragorn, okay, whatever. It's not canon, it might be horribly written, and it's completely out of character, but they're fictional characters, so... yeah, whatever. But when you're doing that to real people? I think... maybe it's just me, the writer in me, but I think actually writing that shite down is a bad move, because physically writing it out can mess with your head. And it also makes the whatever you want to call it in your head that much stronger, and, hell, they can see it. A quick google search would show any curious member exactly what their fans think of them. Eh. Personally, my fantasies run along the lines of, ya know, writing this amazing article about some vastly important news story, covering it firsthand before anyone knew about it-- maybe busting the US President for funding anti-fair-trade attacks or something-- and getting to meet Bono, winning his approval, maybe his respect. Getting to tell him he's my hero, he is part of the reason why I am who I am. It's every bit as absurd and unlikely, it's an improbable, if not entirely impossible, fantasy. And it's a fictional story about real people. And that is why you will never see me write it down as such. Because that, in my book, would be wrong. My inner writer is the truest part of my soul. It's okay for me to have stupid fantasies in my head, in the same way that it's okay to have horrible nightmarish images, because it's just a passing thing, sometimes stuff I barely control. But to write it down? To consciously put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and make that vision, a fictional story about a REAL PERSON into a concrete thing... that would be a violation of my inner core, in a way... I don't know. Anyway. More than you needed to know. That's why I reacted to you mentioning that there are U2 slashfics out there by a suppressed scream, followed by laying my head on my desk for several minutes. Because that feels... wrong, in my twisted little soul, at least.)

So. WAY too much information, but to answer your question, no. No, I don't think most friends call each other 'love.' They might feel a deep love for each other, but I doubt it would be vocalised quite like that.

(Another thing, one which slipped my mind when I was talking about platonic love versus romantic love earlier, and yes, another paraphrased Lewis quote: Friends are shoulder to shoulder, they look in the same direction. Lovers are face to face, they look at each other.) Or something like that.

Some people are obsessed. Upholstering your room in Pedowolf is perhaps even more pointless than covering it with Rapeface!Edward.

True.

But IMHO, he could have left out the fart jokes.

I enjoy the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was a man after our own hearts, if you ask me. According to my lit professors, most of what he was doing was snarking at the foolishness of the Catholic Church and the upper classes (and other mock-worthy people, like alchemists), which makes the whole experience funnier.

Disclaimer: I have nothing against Catholics or the Catholic Church. But you have to admit that they've done some things worth mocking over the course of history.

~Neshomeh

I don't have a problem with it. It places the Twilight movies' stars in the context of movie history as the next generation of teen heartthrobs, which is exactly what they are. I've got no issue with that.

I think the writer of the article probably doesn't know what these teens get up to in fanfic, but why should she?

~Neshomeh

Consider it in the public domain, for whatever little it might be worth.

The PPC don't have anything to do with this other than some of our members may be joining in the protest. Can I copy-paste that example you wrote and send it? You said what needs saying better than I could.

However, I think if you squint a little as you read and imagine the writer having a sarcastic voice...

I don't think it meets the level of professionalism that the onion demands

I think I'll just bash my head on the wall, it will be less painful then reading them!
That said the first one is being sporked over on Deletrius... and yes it is horrid!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/apence/usfilmtwilight_heartthrobs

Anyone else think that there's something wrong with this article?