I am not a menace to society!

[gement]

Okay, this is really silly, but I've written one utterly gruesome story that, until yesterday, only the supremely unsquickable meowse had read. (I told passionandsoul and perhaps a couple others the premise, though.) I only gave myself permission to put it down on paper because I'd seen passionandsoul write something just as scary. But I still didn't feel entirely settled about it. Proud of it personally, but not sure what anyone else would think.

I have been cringing internally, waiting for my other readers to hit that story and say something like, "That was... different. Not my kink, and I'm afraid it weakens the rest with its overdramatic gruesomeness. Aside from these two lines of dialogue that might be good somewhere else, it should really go. Also, EW AND YOU SHOULD BE LOCKED UP AND I WILL HAVE NIGHTMARES AND EW!"

Yesterday, I got a comment on it. And it did not say that. And I am happy.

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[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

I have slept (in both senses, and in total confidence of my safety) with a person who has human sacrifice fantasies.

It feels good to think that maybe one is not such a freak after all. I never thought I was a dangerous freak, but I suspected that I might be an ugly and non tres chic freak.

[gement.livejournal.com]

And this is why I will not excessively mock anyone's tastes. They can have their Lucius Malfoy as a wereleopard and I can have my human sacrifices. And the more of us publish without blushing, the less people have to hide.