Newsnight Porn - Scary Stuff

[miss_s_b]

So, in adding Steph Flanders to They Really Do Exist I decided to google for her to see if she had a website other than her Stephanomics blog. Among the top ten google results for her name is some rather tame* smutfic.

The smut itself mayn't be that fabulous, but the disclaimer? The disclaimer is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. I hereby demand that ALL fic disclaimers henceforth be written in the form of open letters to Vince Cable.

* your definition of rather tame may differ from mine.

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Comments

[glinda]

Some days I love the internet...

I must admit that I tend to avoid rpf, but it heartens me strangely that there are people out there writing smut about economists/economics journalists, something of a niche audience I'd imagine...

[karohemd]

her kebab? o_O

[moviegrrl]

Hello darlin' this is just to remind you that I'm offering my services as grrl gamer blogger. You were going to message me, but I'm guessing that work/life/stuff got in the way, as it tends to for all of us xxxx

[(Anonymous)]

From Paul Walter

Funnily enough, I had someone searching on "Stephanie Flanders stockings" coming to a post I did called "In praise of Stephanomics" which contained the crucial phrase "Now Stephanie Flanders. The blue stocking’s blue stocking."

[miss_s_b]

Argh! I am crap mod!

Do you have a wordpress account? I need the email you signed up with, or an email address to send an invite to if you don't have an account.

Mmmmmmm

[(Anonymous)]

Funnily enough, I got 121 referrals for 'stephanie flanders stockings' last month - probably because I'm the chap that wrote the story you are talking about. That month, the page got viewed 436 times, with the disclaimer coming in a poor second at 55. I was at a loose end when I wrote this. It was part of, in a way, a blog post in 2008...

http://www.chrislight.net/weblog_archive_2008.html#henry

I was feeling truly desperate at the time - for some inspiration, that is. Newsnight and Newsnight Review always make me laugh - and the idea of someone like me hitting it off with one of the swish, rich, presenters appealed to me - I wrote it very quickly.

I published it as part of the post - dammit I was just going to stick it up there as a text file. Then suddenly, this crash came and Flanders got famous - and by some insane fluke I was hitting very high in Google. I couldn't believe it. For a while I was, like, number 2.

Most of my writing is not like that though.

It's weird though - that referral. You know, I think someone is saying something - or some rumour or joke has been propagated. Somewhere....'cause the hits ain't coming from links - they're coming from searches. Well, go figure, you can't seriously tell me there are 150 people a month cracking on to Flanders in tights. Unless, of course, it was ONE person - hitting us over and over - to freak the jesus out of us.

Anyway, nice talking to you. Wish you all well and have nice lives. :0) Chris.

Re: Mmmmmmm

[miss_s_b]

Someone once showed me some Paxman/Portillo slash which would make your eyes water. You're certainly not the only Newsnight pornographer out there. Rule 34 and all that.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ms Flanders has a large male fanbase, but maybe my post will take some of your traffic... ;)

Re: Mmmmmmm

[(Anonymous)]

Your welcome!

[moviegrrl]

You are NOT crap mod, you a busy lady with lots going on. V. different.
Anyhoo, no I don't have a wordpress account so if you can email me
moviegrrl AT gmail DOT com that would be super xxx