I'm a regular at the Godawful Fan Fiction site, where we devote our time to ripping on the absolute worst pop culture has to offer, from movies to music to media...and, of course, the most horrible fan fiction around. Sometimes the fics we rip on are disgusting, plagaristic, wildly out-of-character with their respective fandoms, or just plain stupid, but usually we're able to laugh at them all the same.
However, there's one fan-fic author whose stories can't be laughed at, simply because they're so inhuman, so vile, and so unbelievably evil that all they inspire in you is utter horror. This guy goes by the pen name "PRED," and he's an author of fan-fic that celebrates and promotes rape as something that should be the male cultural norm. (His stuff is so repellent that he was once investigated by the FBI, or so the story goes.) One long-running series of stories he does revolves around a Mary Sue/Marty Stu (slang term for "fantasy self-insert") character named Nick Bent, who can only be described as a misogynist serial killer for hire. The sickest part is, PRED portrays this guy as a HERO, which really burns the hell out of me.
In addition to the Nick Bent series, PRED has also written other pro-rape pieces like "Tiny Toy" (about the sexual abuse of a concentration camp cancer victim), "An Ode to Uday Hussein" (celebrating the Taliban's treatment of women), and an especially horrific manifesto in which he claims that any men who DON'T approve of raping and mistreating women are mentally ill. (There were also several Nick Bent stories that never made it to the 'Net because his homepage was shut down for reasons unknown. I'd like to say we're all the better for it, but too many of his works still exist....) Since every one of PRED's fics reflect his twisted worldview, it goes without saying that they'd probably give even Adolf Hitler bad dreams. But there's one section of narrative in "Tiny Toy" that really horrifies the shit out of me in particular:
Quote:
That night, I had nightmares .. happy laughing couples making
love under amber sunsets in lush fields of succulent clover. Children
skipping and playing over fields of tall grass with nary a predator in
sight. I saw myself old and in a large room with an old woman at my
side, looking adoringly into my eyes while a crowd of our children and
grandchildren encircled us in the cozy warmth of love.
This section he describes as a "nightmare" is actually everything I've ever dreamed about and wanted. To me, this is the stuff that makes life worth living. But to PRED, things like love, happiness, and family are the essence of evil, while rape, mutilation, torture, and murder constitute what he thinks should be every man's good life. I don't know about you, but this scares me to death. What kind of man would think that love and family is nightmarish? This line of thinking is so depraved that I can't make heads or tails of it.
At any rate, here are the GAFF discussions of the PRED fics (complete with links to the offending articles and quoted excerpts), including his notorious manifesto:
http://www.godawful.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=135427#135427
http://www.godawful.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=247&highlight=
http://www.godawful.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=239
Read these threads all the way thru, especially the one on his manifesto. It contains some pretty horrific information on the man and his worldview, and it's probably the best explanation as to why of all the authors roasted at GAFF, he's the one everybody hates with all their being. This man is a sad excuse for a human being, and I pray to God that there are few in the world like him.
