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Two things this morning -

One is a post on brisingamen's journal re preventative measures against terrorism - very well reasoned and well expressed arguments against making everyone's life extremely unpleasant in the hope that you might involve the few who deserve it in the resulting misery.

The other is the existence of The Black List. Now this, on the face of it seems like a well intentioned attempt by some concerned people to make fic writers a little more careful about where they place their X rated (NC 17 for non-Brits) stories. Obviously, putting stories like that where small children can read them and go to Mummy demanding an explanation of buggery is not a good and responsible thing to do but I think that most of us realise this and take precautions. Most people rate their fics carefully and take pains with summaries etc to warn off readers who may be upset. There are a few who don't, of course, but even a cursory glance at the List of Infamy shows that it is a grand company of master writers, some of whom may have had a careless day. epicyclical for instance...her Trilogy is great fun to read. I've read (most of) it aloud to my daughter but it isn't nearly as good as her NC-17 stuff. camillabloom is normally very very careful about where she posts her sometimes quite startling stories (I beta for her and I know she wouldn't mind me saying that). I don't know where either posted the offending stories but I'd bet a kidney it wasn't with any intention to offend or corrupt. Honestly, I think that the Black List is doomed to failure. Prospective smut writers will bribe friends to nominate them and The Gold List will wither and die because who wants to be known as a Goodie Two-shoes?
So, bearing that in mind, here is my potential Black List fic which popped fully fledged into my mind as I drove the kids to school - "Why are you giggling, Mummy?". Cut to reduce space on friends list not from any (particular) sense of shame:
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Well I never said it was any good.