On rapefic
I am not sure whether to laugh or cry when I read a bad rapefic. (If anyone's out there, links to good ones would be appreciated to restore my faith in humanity.) Usually, the only purpose that the rape serves in the fic is to highlight the purity and virtue of the Sue OC before she (and it is usually a she, unless it's yaoi and the rapist then gets together with the victim) is ruined FOREVER by the eeeeeeebil man. And then, one way or another, romance and Magical Healing Sex ™ find their way into the plot. Sometimes, there is not even any logic, as when our OC is forced into slavery, then brought to a chamber and made to bathe, then to put on "nicer" clothes. This in itself is not bad - it's when the author forgets about things like underwear and period-appropriate clothing. I'd just like to state right now that not everything is bad. A rapefic can, in theory, be done well; so can enslavement. So can OCs. I read a very, very good enslavement fic with no...