Rape Isn't Really All That Funny
Jane and Daria stared at the latest abomination to emerge from the PPMB.
"Well," Jane said in her smoker's voice, "It looks like Shiva's hard at work at his latest one-shot."
"Unless it's the latest part of Sexy Daria I don't care." Daria replied.
Jane shrugged, "Do you find Doug Thompson/Mr. O'Neill Slash sexy?"
"Not in the slightest."
"Well it isn't completely consensual," Jane offered up as an enticement.
"You know that rape shouldn't be funny."
"It shouldn't," Jane conceded, "But more often than not when it involves dudes on dudes, all of a sudden something horrifically traumatizing can be played up for yuks."
"What about that Crossed ficlet I did and deleted without posting two years ago where a Crossed!Ted shows Daria a modified clock with the word 'Rape' pasted over the numbers, yells 'Is it that time already?' and then has his way with Daria on a pile of glass laughing all the while?" I fourth-wall to the girls.
"Oh god no!"
"What the fuck?!"
"Hey," I reply, "You were the ones who said that gay rape was hysterical."
"That isn't what I meant!" Jane protested, "You're twisting my words around."
"Not really." I reply back, "Oh sure you were being snarky about it, but it was about as funny as that Crossed ficlet that I thought was too much."
"Woah!" Trent groaned from the doorway, "If Shiva thought something crossed the line, then it must have been fucked up."
"...Yeah it was."
"...Are you going to do any more Sexy Daria stuff?" Daria asked, desperate to change the subject.
"I'm trying to get back into my serials," I inform her, "But what happens is that I'll have an idea of what to do, and then just stare at a blank screen for a while unable to articulate it and then I just give up in disgust."
"I know the feeling." Trent said, trying to comfort me.
"...How did my brother get into your house Daria?" Jane asked.
Daria shrugged, "How the hell should I know? It's Shiva's fic."
Jane scratched her nose, "So when does it en-?"
FIN