janedavitt

I get an idea and I write it and that's never going to change, but I'm curious (and counting down the minutes until David's plane lands; he's been away since last Thursday in England and France; too long.) Plus; poll. Polls are cool.

ETA There is no option to say you don't like any of them. I forgot that box. I'm sure there's a deep and meaningful reason why.

Yis.

TICKY BOX TIME!


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Last night, after much work, I tracked down a very old story I'd seen a reference to that sounded interesting, only to find the webpage had the stories on a really distracting, patterned background. Nothing daunted, I cut and pasted into Word and settled back to read with a happy sigh.

Then I saw that the author used 'cumming' and winced, jolted out of the story completely.

The devil made me do it. I have no excuse for what happened next but it was there, in Word, and the find/replace called out to me, so I changed them all, and while I was at it, went through and gave it a quick and dirty betaing, eliminating any of my personal cannot stands like repeated use of 'the older man' and fixing some typos. Tiny stuff; nothing major.

Then I read it in one smooth, uninterrupted session and enjoyed it very much indeed.

I'll never share this copy with anyone. I'd never tell the author I did it (I'm not even going to say what fandom it is; I read in four or five, so it's a wide field). But I still felt a twinge of guilt because it wasn't up to me to change her words. Moving it to Word so I could read it without squinting; that I have no guilt over, but the editing, hmm...

So tell me; have you ever done this? How do you view it? Mortal sin or gentle hand slap required?

ETA. For the record, I'm perfectly fine with anyone doing this to one of my fics as long as they didn't do anything with it/share it, but kept it on their own computer to read. I'm possessive/protective of my stories in some ways, but this, no; edit them all you want if it means you enjoy them more.




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David and I own no cell phones. We're pondering one but good grief. COMPLICATED. So, just out of curiosity...

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Because I'm curious:

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Just out of curiosity (and because I like to do a poll now and then, just because I can).

[Poll #706589]

This isn't wholly serious (I have a serious discussion and it annoys people and you know me, I'm the peaceful type so I won't do that ever again. Promise ::looks sincere and crosses fingers surreptitiously::), but it's something that I've been meaning to ask for ages, and if I can't ask all of you, who can I ask?

In fics, lube is usually right there. Stretch out a hand and it's slick and slippery time about two seconds later. Fine, I get that it's an accepted convention in smut fics that lube is all around - do it myself - but what puzzles me is when a man who hasn't got laid in like for ever has it, and the explanation is that they used it when they were masturbating.

I've never known a man who did that/thought it was an improvement. As my sample size is in single figures, I thought I'd get my ignorance enlightened rather than assume that because none of the men I've had sex with used it like that, few do.

(And yes, I get that it's a handy thing to have in the house for many reasons - I'm not that sheltered ::g:: but I'm just talking about this one application).

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