It's my week for coming across terrible fics.  I have just read a bit of Isabella Swan: Submissive by kitties1ffn.  This Bella must have at least a dozen inner voices, all of which are nuts and her Dom Edward, is part hysterical.    -

"Wrapping his arms around my upper body, he squeezes me to the point of pain. He clings to me so desperately, that I can scarcely breathe. When he grabs handfuls of my hair and yanks my head back, I wince as he swirls his tongue inside my mouth.

“OUCH!” Stalker harpy hisses out, “That bitch is gonna hurt!”

“What do you mean ‘gonna?” I ask. “It ‘does’ bloody well hurt! How the hell am I going to get these tangles out?”

Yep, my harpies are in extra perceptive mode today, or so it would seem. Glowering at me, she sticks her middle finger up at me and stomps off inside of the tent, zipping it up behind her."

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  Oh deary me 

It's just difficult for me to think about MotU without a bitter-sweet taste because it just reminds me of my friend Just4ALE who passed away almost a year ago...

How very un-Dom-like of him.  So she's a crappy sub and he's a wimpy dom.  Sounds to me like the harpy is the dom....

This is mostly why I avoid these types of stories.  Frankly, I doubt many of these writers have ever been in one of these relationships.  But I might read it for the humor.....

I don't particularly enjoy BDSM stories (I thought The Training Trilogy was boring to death, but it's just me), yet ironically I'm currently translating People like us, the longest fan fiction ever written on the subject, and I'm having the time of my life! Then again it has nothing to do with what has been said about Isabelle Swan, Submissive. I would not want to translate that one even if I got paid to do so...

Daria is a sub and writes very well but her fics are a little too harsh for my tastes, as are luvrofink's who is a Domme.  I like my BDSM soft and romantic.   

Yes, there's Daria Chenowith (sp?) - but I haven't read any of her stuff other than bits and pieces.   It's not really my thing.  But I understand she's one of the better ones if you do like the genre. 

Yes.  It is an Actorward so I started it.  But as I don't really do the BDSM stuff, it was a bit of a turn off for me.  They do performance stuff.  Naked in front of others? Having sex while others watch? Yuk.  The rest of the story may be good, but I would really need to skim. A lot!

And? This is probably weird, but I could maybe read it if it weren't Edward and Bella.  As a published fic where I don't have an attachment to the characters? It might be better....

That makes sense to me--especially since I've read very few good twifics of that genre. Most of the twifics seem to actually deal with something outside of BDSM erotica. Like TheSpoiltOne's The Training School--not a BDSM fic in the way that Roquelaure's Sleeping Beauty series was not. I hate it when non-consensual situations claim to be BDSM. By definition, they're not.