letter. chocolate.

[certainthings]

Dear Writers of Fiction,

Please stop using "cum" in your fics.

It looks bad and sounds even worse.

Sincerely,
Me

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Comments

[iamnotkris.livejournal.com]

Oh, ew.

It sounds like really really bad cyber-sex.

[breathe-me27.livejournal.com]

A-fuckin-GREED.

[fromyourashes.livejournal.com]

You know, I NEVER used to use "cum". And then someone who writes wonderful stuff got me to start using it - and I actually went through some of my fics to change it back from "cum" to come.

However - when I write ABSOLUTE FILTHY stuff? I use "cum". It is very gross. And sometimes necessary - if you're writing a loveless sex scene that's full of nasty debauchery.

But for the most part, yeah.

Cum is gross - in more ways than one.

[jamesinboots.livejournal.com]

*shudders*

[fiddleyoumust.livejournal.com]

I'm revealing far too much about some of my reading habits here...

But... you know, never mind, I just tried to write this like a million times and every way made me sound like a perv. Let me just go on record and say I agree to infinity and beyond. It's not a good word.

[mosgirl9.livejournal.com]

Cool. We'll just sanitize everything. Cause sex isn't dirty or messy or anything.

[frala.livejournal.com]

I kind of tend to use come as in the act of it, and cum as in the actual liquid, I dunno!

[resounding-echo.livejournal.com]

As in you don't like the word period or that spelling of it? Because I have no issue with come and long as it isn't cum. :)

[fullycompletely.livejournal.com]

Oooh, what's Caramlik Deluxe?

They don't have Caramilk here, unless I want to schlep all the way to the Canada shop and pay a pound a bar. :( There's something called a Galaxy bar with caramel that isn't bad though.

[jheaton.livejournal.com]

But I write all my fan fiction in Latin! How can I be expected to not use the word "with" in any of my stories?

[ames1010.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind that I added you! Feel free to add me back, too! :)

[keeplistening.livejournal.com]

Biggest. Fic pet peeve. EVER. It actually makes me close the fic, if I see it, I hate it so much.

[lalita82.livejournal.com]

yeah! I think it's does when I read certain fics.

[douxquemiel.livejournal.com]

It immediately and totally illegitimizes the entire fiction. Sometimes, I'm okay with that, if I'm out for PRON and don't really give a damn, but GOOD GOD. More often than not it makes the writer appear about fourteen years old, illiterate, and totally inexperienced when it comes to sex. Yeah, it's fantasy and fiction and AU and whatever, but it should still be accurate. I mean, come ON.

/rant