Well everybody has their own tastes... For some what you think is gross, is actually sexy... Its exactly same situation as Female bodybuilding in general. Most people find it gross... Thats what he likes, and he enjoys writing about it... Same as I enjoy HUGE ripped vascular females with overmuscled sex organs (lol) i make them in 3d (well without sex organs part simply because i cannot in poser)... And to be honest its not fair to criticize someones tastes... IMHO criticizing is a way to help others become better technically, not to change their tastes to our likings... My 5 cents

Is why it is fiction. Like watching horror movies, there's a visceral, naughty thrill. Some people like them, some don't, but the ones that enjoy horror movies generally don't put ourselves in the position of the stupid cheerleader who gets chainsawed.

Actually, there are LOTS of people "on the side" of the chainsaw killer out there. That's why you have sequels with the same nasty character doing the same nasty things over and over. And yes, if I throw in enough verbage about what makes someone physically irresistable to us readers here -- muscles! -- and even go as far as to appeal to the S&M segment as well, I bet that a fair number of people would grant a Yea to the question: "Is she sexy?"

Lupus, ya gotta come to grips with the idea that there are people who don't think like you do, and more importantly, don't have to, either. While you can accurately state that you're only expressing your own opinion, a lot of your comments have the tone of a SHOULD statement, which flavors your opinions unnecessarily with the (perhaps inadvertant) persuasion that people need to see things your way. They don't. And it raises their hackles. I'm coming out and saying this not because I dislike you or to attack you personally, but as a half-baked explanation why you've elicited strong reactions to your postings at times.

I'm with Lupus on happy endings, but allow that some others appreciate the non-happy ending. And what the happy ending is also subject to debate. A happy ending for someone might just be to see Mercy arrested, convicted, and sentenced...or simply killed. While others would find their happy ending having her wreck absolute carnage to the cops, and walk away unscathed.  Me, I like happy endings too, which is why I find it creatively satisfying to write things that oppose my normal tendencies...

Best wishes (and hope I haven't been too hard on you, Lup)
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No, my friend, not disruptive at all (at least to me), and nothing's "happened". This discussion continues, and with all due civility.

I thoroughly welcome your intelligence and how articulate you are, Lupus... As for what I'm referring to as tone, it is my belief that the written word does convey its writer's underlying approach, that subtle clues are eviden as to whether someone's enthusiastic, bored, narcisstic, humble, brittle, perjorative, easygoing, incredulous, and so forth. (I probably come across as hopelessly pedantic at this point!) And of course that's subjective as well.

It was my observation that sometimes forthright opinions, even those with solid knowledge behind them, cut a broad swath... if it's without the warmth, smoothness or light touch that would make those comments more effective by being less evocative. (And here's my own bias: I admit that I have taken pride in "being direct", and only lately have come to see that my comments/opinion could have been massaged into a more communicatively-successful form. The niceties and politics that I once deemed extraneous bring a disproportional weight to bear on getting my content listened to. Now I really am sounding pedantic, so I'll shut up.)

Again, only what I've seen here and elsewhere. I'm not offended, and hope you are not as well.

Onwards,
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P.S. My ability to reconstruct my file has hit a... snag.