When I read the latest "Lois dies" story, I told the author that she needed to get ready for an "interesting reaction." Well, here it is.

Look, people, if you don't like to read Lois Lane deathfic, then don't flippin' read them! No one is making you take in those stories. You have every right not to like such tales, and you have every right not to read such tales.

But you DO NOT have the right to criticize such stories solely because you don't like their content, nor do you have the right to try to intimidate writers to stay away from content you don't like. Ann, Carol, ML, we all know that y'all don't like stories where Lois dies. There are FOLCs on the board who don't read ANY story where someone dies. That is their right, just as you have the right to dislike stories where Lois dies.

But you don't have the right to insist that everybody cater to your preferences. You don't have the right to tell people what to post or not post, as long as it's within the board's guidelines. If you really, really, REALLY believe that no Lois deathfics should be posted, then you should get the guidelines changed on the board instead of wasting time protesting (however indirectly and elegantly) a story theme you don't like.

Kill them all! And let Deborah Joy Levine sort them out!


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing