I don't know how many of you were aware of the kerfuffle over that mpreg fic with the trans* Medic that I pointed out problems with, but one of the main complaints about my criticism of it was that I had not admonished the author of this fic at all. Admittedly the first time I tried to read this fic the formatting threw me off and I stopped reading after a couple of paragraphs. But since it's been bumped I tried to read it again. And I can't read this. I just can't. This is the most vile fan fiction I've ever read in my life. I could not even complete the first chapter because of the blood rushing to my face and my vision blurring and my stomach feeling sick. Just reading the comments I am to understand that this is basically "PYRO GETS RAPED ALL THE TIME: THE FAN FICTION." I really wish I could read this fic more to give an objective opinion but all I see are the mercenaries reduced to one-dimensional rape machines that exist only to torment the possible self-insert Pyro for no other reason than that they're evil or maybe it's just Medic that's evil I don't even know. And it sucks. I mean it. This is awful. It lacks subtlety and depth and every last one of you calling this "cerebral" has demonstrated that you wouldn't know "cerebral" if it whacked you upside the head with a Godspeed You! Black Emperor vinyl and a copy of Johnathan Livingston Seagull. This is the literary equivalent of an exploitation film that seems to have taken way too long for any kind of pay off unless you really enjoy a character being raped over and over. I really do feel like that this fic is not being criticized because you are trans*, EggWhites. If you weren't trans* and writing this same fic the entire chan would be shredding into this, and rightly so. I mean I know this is you working out issues and all but seriously. It reads like a sleazy exploitation novel except you want it to be DEEP and EMOTIONAL but you can't have it both ways. You can't have your graphic depictions of rape paired with flat, cartoonish characterization and expect to be taken as anything other than what it is: sleaze. I don't mind sleaze at all but nothing pisses me off more than sleaze and shock paired with pretentiousness. You have no concept of what tone to use for something supposed to be this heavy and it shows in just the very first installment. Somebody's gotta say it. I feel like reading this is like watching a snuff film.