User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Fanfiction Pains: annoying things I've noticed related to Merlin fanfics/@comment-5102537-20130125233445

I agree with you. I'm not a fan of fanfiction at all but I must admit that  I happen to have read two stories that were really, really good, absolutely professionally written with great character description and such amazing stories. No slash, of course.

I understand that some fans have a certain fantasy about the characters. Naturally, if you love an actor or character, which means, if you think they're attractive, it can easily encourage your own personal fantasy, especially when fans are young/at a certain age.

Writing porn - and yes, that's what I found when looking for stories after a friend recommended a story to me which I couldn't find immediately on the internet - especially by minors is just not right. One of the reasons, aside from the fact that minors should neither write or read porn, is the fact that we picture the actors behind the characters. This means, whenever someone reads a slash story about Merlin, Arthur, Morgana, Gwen, Uther or whoever, we see the actors in our head. So we actually see the actors doing things that are totally out of line and absolutely not suitable for kids and teens.

I for one don't want to read incest-porn or even rape-stories about Uther and Morgana or Arthur and Uther, neither do I want to read any slash about any character that oversteps the line of mere erotical situations (which don't interest me either, but okay, if others like it, it's fine) but turns into explicit sexual intercourse or, as mentioned above, even into incest and rape.

There's also the problem that minors have access to such stories whenever they want, reading about violence during intercourse, rape and incest.

I don't mind if fans bring Arthur and Merlin together as a couple in an appropriate way, without explicit stuff. If it's explained logically and free from porn and/or violence, alright. Not my taste but alright. Making Merlin pregnant or Uther raping Arthur, sorry, that's too much - and I wonder if this is still normal.

By the way, Adelina, since you're writing such interesting blogs, I'd like to read a story of yours if you don't mind. In case you don't want to give away what fan-writer you are, I understand it, of course.