Fandom Trope of the Day: El Jay
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seriousficEl Jay is, at present, the favored means for disseminating fanfic throughout the internets. However, of late fandom has been in contention with El Jay over three things.
1. El Jay is to customer service what Amy Winehouse is to sobriety.
2. El Jay likes to make money. Fandom does not like how they make money.
3. The following conversation:
Fandom: Why do you attempt to censor us? Do you not know we feel the stirring in our very souls to write? We can no more deny this impulse than we could turn a mighty river back in its tracks, or blind the stars in the sky.
El Jay: You write stories about having sex with children.
Fandom: Who are you to decide the subject matter of our artistic impulses? The Ancient Greeks admired the beauty of young men and my home room teacher says they were the greatest civilization on Earth. Is this the prudery of Bush's America, that open sexuality and freedom should give way to tyranny and oppression?
El Jay: You write stories about having sex with children!
Fandom: The Bard himself, William Shakespeare, wrote of those famous lovers Romeo and Juliet. But by today's standards, they're both underage! Why would you allow those timeless love sonnets and not my five thousand word PWP about Harry Potter being gang-raped by Death Eaters?
El Jay: YOU WRITE STORIES ABOUT HAVING SEX WITH CHILDREN!
Fandom: Oh, what cruel world this, that the small-minded have rein over what is done with their property simply because they own it! Alas, alark! See how poetry dies! See how freedom becomes a memory, a fluttering thing that flits from generation to generation in the hope of rebirth. And yet, like a phoenix from the ashes, it is destined to return. Return, I say! Return!
El Jay: YOU WRITE STORIES! ABOUT HAVING SEX! WITH CHILDREN!
Fandom: Have you no decency, sir? Have you, at last, no decency?
1. El Jay is to customer service what Amy Winehouse is to sobriety.
2. El Jay likes to make money. Fandom does not like how they make money.
3. The following conversation:
Fandom: Why do you attempt to censor us? Do you not know we feel the stirring in our very souls to write? We can no more deny this impulse than we could turn a mighty river back in its tracks, or blind the stars in the sky.
El Jay: You write stories about having sex with children.
Fandom: Who are you to decide the subject matter of our artistic impulses? The Ancient Greeks admired the beauty of young men and my home room teacher says they were the greatest civilization on Earth. Is this the prudery of Bush's America, that open sexuality and freedom should give way to tyranny and oppression?
El Jay: You write stories about having sex with children!
Fandom: The Bard himself, William Shakespeare, wrote of those famous lovers Romeo and Juliet. But by today's standards, they're both underage! Why would you allow those timeless love sonnets and not my five thousand word PWP about Harry Potter being gang-raped by Death Eaters?
El Jay: YOU WRITE STORIES ABOUT HAVING SEX WITH CHILDREN!
Fandom: Oh, what cruel world this, that the small-minded have rein over what is done with their property simply because they own it! Alas, alark! See how poetry dies! See how freedom becomes a memory, a fluttering thing that flits from generation to generation in the hope of rebirth. And yet, like a phoenix from the ashes, it is destined to return. Return, I say! Return!
El Jay: YOU WRITE STORIES! ABOUT HAVING SEX! WITH CHILDREN!
Fandom: Have you no decency, sir? Have you, at last, no decency?
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