I have a confession to make:
A certain fic going around the Gravity Falls community - which I shall not name outside of tags for those who want to rightfully block out all mention of this fic - is not the most horrible thing I’ve ever read.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s gross and bad and badly written, no less, but in the conga line of depravity after depravity, any feelings of disgust I was supposed to take out of it dissolved - the narrative is just so absurd, and the writing so bad, that I couldn’t even take it seriously if I tried. It’s actually so poorly written that it circles around in to Easily-Riffable Land on occasion, but I digress.
I’ve read plenty of things that could thick men’s blood with cold, things badly written and badly conceived and filled to the brim with, uh, stuff, by people who don’t think what they’re writing is depraved at all (and this is in writing courses, written by people who plan on writing professionally, and writing something/about something depraved is not necessarily bad, but you gotta recognize that you’re handling a certain subject, you know?). It’s just the way things are.
And please, please recognize that I’m not defending This Fic (because really, it’s bad). But it’s not worth throwing all your hate in to it - this is the internet, and This Fic’s existence was inevitable, and all you can do is acknowledge that and move on. It hasn’t ruined Gravity Falls for me, it hasn’t ruined A Certain Eating Establishment for me (not that I was much of a fan in the first place), and it hasn’t (completely) destroyed my faith in humanity. It just is.
So, a tip to remove the nausea: look at all the poor writing, look at all the typos, and, most importantly, look at what’s actually happening - when you think about it, it’s an absurd, nonsensical mess.
(Still not a recommended read, though. I just read it so that I could stifle my curiosity and return to my blissful world of drawing doodles of things and stuff like that. Also, I love me some riffing.)
P.S. KNIFE AS SHARP AS A KNIFE
