XD It's college. They don't do guidance counselors, the Professor just talks to you at the end of class and makes you aware of the fact that they can turn over your paper as criminal evidence if the police ask for it. I mean, there are still guidance counselors, but you choose to go to them, they don't go after you.
That and I'm not much of a morbid person. I may have a dry sarcastic sense of humor, but people cutting themselves isn't my style (unless the joke is in the morbidity, like in Modest Proposal by Swift).
Permalink Reply by Xuut on January 18, 2010 at 8:58am
O.o Criminal evidence? Woah. Collage sounds like magic. Asides from the fact that you have to pay for it.
I meant morbid like, lots of guns, grotesque murder, torture, you know those fun illegal things. When you do it in my school it's like you're mentally unstable.
Everything's ok aside from murder or sexual harassment when the characters involved perfectly, or similarly resemble real-life people. As an example, you could write a graphic rape scene-- no problem, you write a piece on wanting to go at the girl who sits on the other side of your class-- that's when they take you aside.
I haven't done anything take-you-aside worthy, ever. Last time I killed someone for a school fic, it was as part of a satire and a suicide.
Permalink Reply by Xuut on January 18, 2010 at 9:18am
We can't write a graphic rape scene that due to the fact that we're all fourteen and under, so it'd definitely get us a call home.
Suicide and fights are allowed because we read, "The Outsiders" last year in English, so we could go all, "you guys are hypocrites!" and claim that they're being unfair. And fist fights happen a lot 'round here...
Everyone eats it up at my high school. It shows our "understanding of human nature." A guy stabs his wife. It wasn't even well written, it had heavy and rather misplaced LotR references, and it got votes to enter the school magazine. Luckily, the editor spoke of copyright issues or some such thing and the piece didn't get in.