50 Shades that Should Have Been

[gloriana]

The reason not to update daily in small tidbits? I now have a thousand things I want to talk about. So let's default to the pretty, shall we

Comments

[anna_wing]

I do not presume to have an Inner Goddess. On good days I can usually manage an Inner Empress Dowager, and on bad days it's really easy.

I loathe the filthy and ungrammatical term "slayed". It is all Joss Whedon's fault.

[gloriana]

I think the fault lies with American grammar, which is just not English. One learns to cope. Just about.

Have you read any Fifty Shades? I had the Inner Goddess quote cherrypicked for me by a friend, and after that I just couldn't contemplate even opening the thing. On the one hand, I love that a woman writing about sexual pleasure has been pounced upon by an enormous audience of other women unused to reading about sexual pleasure, be damned what the critics have to say. On the other, why why this book? Ah, it pains me, my precious.

(My Inner Goddess says your Inner Empress Dowager is a fearsome lady of whom she is planning to stay well clear...)

[anna_wing]

I flipped through one, but it was even worse written than Dan Brown, so I could not endure it. When one is correcting every other sentence for both grammar and style, it is not possible to read for pleasure of any sort. In this case I fully agree with the critics. They are not even suitable to give away to people learning English as a second language.

My self-insert in my fics is a version of Baba Yaga. I'm not sure if that counts as an inner goddess.

[the_emu]

Cumberbatch can't be in 50 Shades: he's already in everything else.

[gloriana]

Heh :) I like that one!

Now I feel so proud that I spotted him as a man worth watching way back in 2006, long before Sherlock!

[lauramcewan]

Uhhh....**THUD** Holy shit, Benedict.

[gloriana]

Oooh, sexy icon!! And yes, that was a thud-worthy photoshoot.