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6:35 am - 11/21/2012

Bad Sex in Fiction Awards




Think you’ve had enough exposure to bad sex lit lately? (Ellen Degeneres, Kristen Stewart and your Facebook friends made sure you didn’t escape the abundance of Fifty Shades of Grey excerpts floating around the Interwebs this year.) Well, whether you like it or not, there’s more out there. A lot more. Award-worthy more.

But by award-worthy, I mean Razzie-esque awards. That’s right, authors are annually bestowed with the prize that recognizes gag-worthy writing about the bedroom. It’s an award that British magazine Literary Review started in 1993. On Tuesday, the magazine unveiled its 2012 shortlist for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Check out the list of eight finalists below:

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halawia 21st-Nov-2012 03:08 pm (UTC)
someone post that NO NO NO squid gif plz and thx

aside from that, here for this post!
warsawed 21st-Nov-2012 03:11 pm (UTC)
hobnailedboots 21st-Nov-2012 03:09 pm (UTC)
I'm so ready for this post. You could say that I'm "like a wubbering springboard" but I don't even know what that's supposed to mean so
kaiserschmarrn 21st-Nov-2012 03:10 pm (UTC)
I can't stop laughing tbh. In some cases I'm undecided whether they're intentionally hilarious or just a failed attempt at poetry.
bodyline 21st-Nov-2012 03:14 pm (UTC)
They're more entertaining if they're unintentional lbr
timmyboy100t 21st-Nov-2012 03:11 pm (UTC)
Now his big generative jockey was inside her pelvic saddle, riding, riding, riding, and she was eagerly swallowing it swallowing it swallowing it with the saddle’s own lips and maw — all this without a word.

I FUCKING CANT
ardenture 21st-Nov-2012 03:11 pm (UTC)
These are fanfics, right?
bodyline 21st-Nov-2012 03:15 pm (UTC)
I've read fanfic with better sex scenes than this.
chandyland11 21st-Nov-2012 03:28 pm (UTC)
Dobby stretches, sir.
kurtvonnegut 21st-Nov-2012 03:58 pm (UTC)
lol tom wolfe and nicola barker are critically acclaimed authors, idk wtf they were doing here
rainbow_fish 21st-Nov-2012 03:11 pm (UTC)
"My cock was barely a ghost, but I did not suffer panic.”



.....Is that the new literary way to describe having a micropeen?
superdogbiter 21st-Nov-2012 03:13 pm (UTC)
sounds like he's thrusting really fast and doesn't care if he cums or not
starbooks 21st-Nov-2012 03:20 pm (UTC)
It sounds like something put through google translate.
xdecadentx 21st-Nov-2012 03:11 pm (UTC)
She smells of almonds, like a plump Bakewell pudding; and he is the spoon, the whipped cream, the helpless dollop of warm custard. She steams. He applauds, his tongue hanging out

I think someone was writing while they were hungry.
superdogbiter DA BEST SEX SCENE EVERRRRR WRITEEN21st-Nov-2012 03:13 pm (UTC)
Then he put his boys thingy in mine and we did it for the first time
hobnailedboots Re: DA BEST SEX SCENE EVERRRRR WRITEEN21st-Nov-2012 03:13 pm (UTC)
nooooooooooooooooooooooooo you beat me
blessedbell Re: DA BEST SEX SCENE EVERRRRR WRITEEN21st-Nov-2012 03:19 pm (UTC)
omfg bless u for this
whatyawaiting4 Re: DA BEST SEX SCENE EVERRRRR WRITEEN21st-Nov-2012 05:36 pm (UTC)
"Da forest where I had lost my virility to Draco"
warsawed Re: Good erotica suggestions?21st-Nov-2012 03:15 pm (UTC)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345803485/
hobnailedboots 21st-Nov-2012 03:13 pm (UTC)
Draco leaned in extra-close and I looked into his gothic red eyes (he was wearing color contacts) which revealed so much depressing sorrow and evilness and then suddenly I didn't feel mad anymore.

And then… suddenly just as I Draco kissed me passionately. Draco climbed on top of me and we started to make out keenly against a tree. He took of my top and I took of his clothes. I even took of my bra. Then he put his thingie into my you-know-what and we did it for the first time.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! " I screamed. I was beginning to get an orgasm. We started to kiss everywhere and my pale body became all warm. And then….

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!"

It was….Dumbledore!
20727 21st-Nov-2012 03:14 pm (UTC)
lol i assumed 'i' was a guy.
mynamehere07 21st-Nov-2012 03:21 pm (UTC)
I even took off my bra.

That had to have been written by a young girl. I wonder what she thinks of it now, assuming that it was written at the height of the HP craze.
adaptation 21st-Nov-2012 03:23 pm (UTC)
I fucking can't.

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!

dkjfghkd;jfhdfkl;jg
warsawed 21st-Nov-2012 03:24 pm (UTC)
lmfao it kills me when people think Twilight fic started fan fiction but HP fic was the ORIGINAL and it was iconic
adaptation 21st-Nov-2012 03:52 pm (UTC)
omg there are people who actually think that?
piratesswoop 21st-Nov-2012 04:36 pm (UTC)
um fanfic was around looooooooooong before HP
vehiclesshockme 21st-Nov-2012 03:25 pm (UTC)
The bit about the contacts just made me crack up and I don't know why omg.
winegums 21st-Nov-2012 03:46 pm (UTC)
idt I made it to that scene, the stuff that came before had me cackling so hard it induced actual wheezing so I decided to stop.
rewrittentime 21st-Nov-2012 04:06 pm (UTC)
I looked into his gothic red eyes (he was wearing color contacts) which revealed so much depressing sorrow and evilness
lordt
emmy0001 21st-Nov-2012 04:11 pm (UTC)
YESSSSSS. kills me every time.
getsinyoureyes 21st-Nov-2012 04:14 pm (UTC)
This made me bust out laughing at work.
leopard_legs 21st-Nov-2012 05:45 pm (UTC)
IT NEVER STOPS BEING FUNNY
I NEED TO MEET THE PERSON WHO WROTE THIS AND KNOW HOW CRAZY THEY ARE
DO THEY LOOK BACK ON THIS WITH EMBARRASSMENT OR PRIDE OR A MIXTURE OF BOTH?
abiding 22nd-Nov-2012 04:07 am (UTC)
I died bit by bit until I got to Dumbledore's line, and then I laughed so hard.
20727 21st-Nov-2012 03:13 pm (UTC)
reasons not to sleep with writers tbh:
Noughties by Ben Masters: “We got up from the chair and she led me to her elfin grot, getting amongst the pillows and cool sheets. We trawled each other’s bodies for every inch of history. I dug after what I had always imagined and came up with even more. She stroked my outlines in perfect synchrony until I was febrile in her hands, willingly guided elsewhere.”
starbooks 21st-Nov-2012 03:17 pm (UTC)
what is an elfin grot? It sounds like ikea furniture tbh
anddot 21st-Nov-2012 03:22 pm (UTC)
i imagined it like santa's grotto... lots on tinsel and bad wrapping paper and fairy lights idea
20727 21st-Nov-2012 03:22 pm (UTC)
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.

VII.

She found me roots of relish sweet, 25
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
“I love thee true.”

VIII.

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sigh’d fill sore, 30
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
vervain 21st-Nov-2012 03:20 pm (UTC)
this sounds like a serious voiceover for one of those old detective films set in the 1940s/50s.
vehiclesshockme 21st-Nov-2012 03:14 pm (UTC)
I hate the term "my sex"
superdogbiter 21st-Nov-2012 03:14 pm (UTC)
i hate the term pussy in fanfic for some reason
winegums 21st-Nov-2012 04:18 pm (UTC)
I'd much rather read the word cunt than pussy tbqh, pussy just sounds so twee and gross

(and ia w the hate on the 'my sex' bit too)
rewrittentime 21st-Nov-2012 04:07 pm (UTC)
ikr?
it's so jarring and odd
quiet_storm 21st-Nov-2012 04:40 pm (UTC)
Yes, wtf is that about?
portableairport 21st-Nov-2012 06:53 pm (UTC)
ugh horrible
superdogbiter i am fucking an alien princess21st-Nov-2012 03:16 pm (UTC)
http://jezebel.com/5544903/the-10-worst-sex-stories-weve-ever-heard
starbooks 21st-Nov-2012 03:16 pm (UTC)
She had never tried wu-wei in this situation before and Khünbish, hairy and slightly paunchy, she noticed now that he had his shirt off, was generating slightly more karmic energy than she had anticipated.”



what the actual fuck? It's like the author forgot what they were doing in the middle of a sentence and just wrote gibberish instead.
blessedbell 21st-Nov-2012 03:16 pm (UTC)
I came into this post looking for pointers, as I have to write a sex scene soon and I don't want it to be cliche-y and terrible.

and wow.

“And he came. Like a wubbering springboard. His ejaculate jumped the length of her arm. Eight diminishing gouts. The first too high for her to lick. Right on the shoulder.”


i don't think I have anything to worry about.
mynamehere07 21st-Nov-2012 03:38 pm (UTC)
TBH, keeping it simple is probably best. A lot of writers get in trouble when they pick up a thesaurus or try to use flowery words.
shadowpiranha 21st-Nov-2012 04:02 pm (UTC)
This is more like a "what not to do" list. Just don't go purple or exaggerated with it, simplicity and the least amount of metaphors is always for the best, imo.
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