Richard Rider's Blog - Posts Tagged "wtf"
Apparently Harry Styles is a fan.
Edit: when everything kicked off last time some people went to the Tumblrs I mentioned here (not by name, and not linked) and started trouble, which is 100% NOT what I intended and then led to my receiving hundreds of abusive messages and some fairly colourful death threats. Just in case things get heated again I wanted to be clear about that: NOT MY INTENTION. I don't want to fight, but I do want to make this clear.
My books are self-published, unprofessional, escapist fantasy porn. They've been read by a few thousand people in the whole world. I promise you without a doubt, nobody from 1D has read my books. Whatever links or clues you might think you can see, they're funny coincidences.
Really, that's all. Hope you enjoy the books, no matter how you discovered them.
I've deleted all the abusive comments below.
My books are self-published, unprofessional, escapist fantasy porn. They've been read by a few thousand people in the whole world. I promise you without a doubt, nobody from 1D has read my books. Whatever links or clues you might think you can see, they're funny coincidences.
Really, that's all. Hope you enjoy the books, no matter how you discovered them.
I've deleted all the abusive comments below.
~CORRUPTER OF TEENS~
The 1D flaming died right down for a while, but it started happening again a couple of days ago so I assume the children have been talking about it somewhere and riling each other up. I'm not upset by it, I just find the whole thing so weird and funny. Especially when I got a message from somebody's mother telling me off for writing unacceptable filth and poisoning her daughter's mind...!? I'd quote some parts because it's honestly unbelievable the way she ranted on, but she actually got really vile and threatening (no wonder those horrible children behave the way they do if their mothers are like this) and then stupidly went and signed her name at the bottom, so I'm considering reporting her to... I don't know who. I'll figure something out.
I honestly don't give a fuck what some tinhat children and their awful mothers say about me on the internet, because I have actual problems I'd prefer to spend my time worrying about, but I will not stand for being told to kill myself. I draw a massive line right there. Not because it bothers me, but because I've known kids who were bullied to the point of suicide, and if they're saying that shit to an adult with skin six inches thick then what's going to stop them from saying it to vulnerable 13-year-olds who don't deal with it so well? They accuse me of bullying, but I'm not sure how they don't realise there's there's a massive difference between laughing at a ridiculous situation on a personal blog and telling someone to slit their wrists.
That crazy mother called me everything in the world because she found my books on her teenage daughter's computer and apparently that's my fault. ?! Not really sure how to respond to that part in particular, except to say that when I was thirteen my mother knew what I was up to online. It was 1997 though, early internet days (AOL chatrooms and dying-robot modem screeches), plus I was still out in the fresh air climbing trees and playing Power Rangers with my cousins at thirteen. I realise kids these days ~grow up earlier~ and it's got to be more difficult for parents to keep on top of things now teenagers all have their own laptops and smartphones and stuff, but if you're seriously worried about what your kid is doing online? MONITOR IT. Don't leave her up in her room for seven hours every night writing sonnets on Tumblr about pretty boys' fictional sex lives and sending hate to their inconvenient girlfriends on Twitter, and don't come and sling vile accusations at me. I'm a paedophile, apparently. I groom children with my dirty books. ?! She's going to contact the police and make sure my pornography gets taken down and I get arrested. I'm pretty sure that writing a bit of fiction where two adults have a lot of consensual sex isn't an arrestable crime, but she's welcome to waste as much of her own free time as she wants. I've got plenty of death threats and libel I could show them in return.
The problem of how easy it is for children to get hold of inappropriate books is an interesting one, though. BBC News reported on it a while ago: Unlike television - with its nine o'clock watershed - and the age classification of films and video games, and even the labelling of explicit lyrics on music, there is no age restriction on buying books in the UK.
I was reading "inappropriate" books really early, I read things like Dracula and Lolita when I was still in primary school and they never struck me as inappropriate, they were just stories with good bits and bad bits and bits I didn't really understand until I re-read them later. Obviously there's a difference though between books with adult themes and books where you've got a 99% chance of seeing the word cock when you open up to a random page. I wouldn't stop my 10-year-old cousin from reading Dracula, but if I saw her with Stockholm Syndrome I'd rip if out of her hands and burn it in about three seconds flat. There are levels of inappropriate, but I don't see how it's ever the author's fault unless the book is a straight up hate rant or instructions on how to murder someone without being caught. Blaming me for writing a book for and marketed towards adults that's discovered and read by a child is absurd. Pay attention to your kids. I am not your damn babysitter.
I honestly don't give a fuck what some tinhat children and their awful mothers say about me on the internet, because I have actual problems I'd prefer to spend my time worrying about, but I will not stand for being told to kill myself. I draw a massive line right there. Not because it bothers me, but because I've known kids who were bullied to the point of suicide, and if they're saying that shit to an adult with skin six inches thick then what's going to stop them from saying it to vulnerable 13-year-olds who don't deal with it so well? They accuse me of bullying, but I'm not sure how they don't realise there's there's a massive difference between laughing at a ridiculous situation on a personal blog and telling someone to slit their wrists.
That crazy mother called me everything in the world because she found my books on her teenage daughter's computer and apparently that's my fault. ?! Not really sure how to respond to that part in particular, except to say that when I was thirteen my mother knew what I was up to online. It was 1997 though, early internet days (AOL chatrooms and dying-robot modem screeches), plus I was still out in the fresh air climbing trees and playing Power Rangers with my cousins at thirteen. I realise kids these days ~grow up earlier~ and it's got to be more difficult for parents to keep on top of things now teenagers all have their own laptops and smartphones and stuff, but if you're seriously worried about what your kid is doing online? MONITOR IT. Don't leave her up in her room for seven hours every night writing sonnets on Tumblr about pretty boys' fictional sex lives and sending hate to their inconvenient girlfriends on Twitter, and don't come and sling vile accusations at me. I'm a paedophile, apparently. I groom children with my dirty books. ?! She's going to contact the police and make sure my pornography gets taken down and I get arrested. I'm pretty sure that writing a bit of fiction where two adults have a lot of consensual sex isn't an arrestable crime, but she's welcome to waste as much of her own free time as she wants. I've got plenty of death threats and libel I could show them in return.
The problem of how easy it is for children to get hold of inappropriate books is an interesting one, though. BBC News reported on it a while ago: Unlike television - with its nine o'clock watershed - and the age classification of films and video games, and even the labelling of explicit lyrics on music, there is no age restriction on buying books in the UK.
I was reading "inappropriate" books really early, I read things like Dracula and Lolita when I was still in primary school and they never struck me as inappropriate, they were just stories with good bits and bad bits and bits I didn't really understand until I re-read them later. Obviously there's a difference though between books with adult themes and books where you've got a 99% chance of seeing the word cock when you open up to a random page. I wouldn't stop my 10-year-old cousin from reading Dracula, but if I saw her with Stockholm Syndrome I'd rip if out of her hands and burn it in about three seconds flat. There are levels of inappropriate, but I don't see how it's ever the author's fault unless the book is a straight up hate rant or instructions on how to murder someone without being caught. Blaming me for writing a book for and marketed towards adults that's discovered and read by a child is absurd. Pay attention to your kids. I am not your damn babysitter.
Wow.
I've been talking a lot to a friend recently, a retired lawyer, about how to keep on top of online bullshit like these stupid death threats. I should probably stop mentioning them because every time I do there's another mini-deluge of ugly messages, but I'm not being chased out of my own blog. It's calmed right down now, everybody seems to have moved on except these few persistent trolls. Really? Nothing better to do...? I honestly wish I had that much free time!
Anyway, she sent me a link to a really horrifying and depressing article: The Killer Crush: The Horror Of Teen Girls, From Columbiners To Beliebers
Anyway, she sent me a link to a really horrifying and depressing article: The Killer Crush: The Horror Of Teen Girls, From Columbiners To Beliebers
Again?!
SAVE ME from 1D fan idiots and their overactive sense of entitlement! I woke up this morning to a couple of emails from friends who still use Tumblr, saying someone's copy/pasting chapters from Stockholm Syndrome into posts there, and doing it completely shamelessly. Do they honestly not know that's not okay? Or do they just not care?
Not sure where else to rant about it. This is driving me mad now, this illegal sharing keeps on happening and those grabby little dipshits are like cockroaches that I can't get rid of no matter what I try. RAGE. The times I've looked into it and asked people to stop I've either got flat out hostility (remember those delightful death threats?) or a load of whiny excuses. "I can't afford to buy books!" Tough shit, live within your means. "I'd have to borrow my mum's credit card and I don't want her to know what I'm buying!" Then you're too young to read dirty books. This is simple.
If I sound like a dick I really don't care. I've been working twelve to sixteen hour days this week in my "real" job to pay bills, and every book I sell is half an hour less overtime I have to do to keep on top. It's not that I don't sympathise with people who don't have unlimited book budgets because I totally do, I can't afford everything I want either. I've given the files for free to loads of people who were friendly and polite about asking, I'm happy to do that. It just pisses me off when people are this blatant about thieving my stuff, and I hate the thought of children reading these stories.
ETA: reported to Tumblr and promptly deleted. Hopefully it'll be at least a week before I have to get on someone's case again...
Not sure where else to rant about it. This is driving me mad now, this illegal sharing keeps on happening and those grabby little dipshits are like cockroaches that I can't get rid of no matter what I try. RAGE. The times I've looked into it and asked people to stop I've either got flat out hostility (remember those delightful death threats?) or a load of whiny excuses. "I can't afford to buy books!" Tough shit, live within your means. "I'd have to borrow my mum's credit card and I don't want her to know what I'm buying!" Then you're too young to read dirty books. This is simple.
If I sound like a dick I really don't care. I've been working twelve to sixteen hour days this week in my "real" job to pay bills, and every book I sell is half an hour less overtime I have to do to keep on top. It's not that I don't sympathise with people who don't have unlimited book budgets because I totally do, I can't afford everything I want either. I've given the files for free to loads of people who were friendly and polite about asking, I'm happy to do that. It just pisses me off when people are this blatant about thieving my stuff, and I hate the thought of children reading these stories.
ETA: reported to Tumblr and promptly deleted. Hopefully it'll be at least a week before I have to get on someone's case again...
