yeah, i know that's a thing. lots of people find the "sex is dirty/naughty/gross" feeling appealing, i realize. i've dated a lot of catholics. but seeing sex as something dirty is at best a major turn-off for me, and always takes me right out of the moment. Spoiler: tmi, nsfw, real life sex shenanigans one time in college i was having sex with someone who, mid-act, whispered "do you feel dirty." i just responded "no, not really" in a normal conversational tone. (we didn't see each other much after that.)
yeah, it's not my kink either. and god help anyone who tries to humiliate me as part of domming, they're gonna get punched. but i recognize that my particular attitude toward subbing (i am a Worthy Opponent whom you have conquered by being Just That Good) is not the usual, so i try not to squick too hard about fic. still, it's a bit weird to me just how ubiquitous it is to treat "you're a dirty slut" as sexy talk. it always sounds to me like it's coming from a rapey redneck holding a tire iron frankly.
I like it more after realizing I've been sexually abused, but I am still kind of eh about it. I did have more of an interest in it when I was actively religiously Buddhist, though? It was very much a reaction to how sex is viewed in the religion thing for me.
New fandom is plagued with fics that are one chapter from completion but haven’t been updated in over a year
Bear does not mean buff if you can see every inch of his chest and there ain't a speck of hair then he. Ain't. A bear.
I'm having flashbacks to alignment charts with Bear - Twunk - Twink... that fully ignored the joke that a 'twunk' was the between phase of a twink and a hunk. THAT IS A HUNK RIGHT THERE. GLISTENING SHAVED CAREFULLY SCULPTED MUSCLES DO A HUNK MAKE.
minor gripe but: i cannot BELIEVE this ship i just got into doesnt actually...seem to exist?? like, these movies have been out for years, its a two main characters ship, how has NO ONE written ANYTHING for it?? the clear answer here is for ME to write it but like....man.
maybe they're pretending he's hairy when not rendered by computers? he's beardy enough that he probably would be. ps i'm bear dad not bc i'm hairy but bc i'm fat and i hibernate
potential alternative to hanahaki: deafmic on tumblr has thought up an AU where when you feel strong emotions for someone (doesn't necessarily have to be love), you grow flowers in your hair. (a lot of the post is BNHA-themed but i think it's a neat idea regardless of fandom) (i like elements of regular hanahaki in theory but in practice hanahaki fics tend to be too angsty and the worldbuilding implications too unintentionally horrific for me to like, most of the time.)
When a person's fics are otherwise really good but you feel a creeping annoyance upon reading them, because they seem to be for some version of canon that only exists in the author's head and thus everyone's just a little OOC, all the time.
reading the ooc fics in new fandom because it's better than the UNRELENTING ANGST HURRICANE that is everything else i mean it's all very high quality angst and i look forward to reading it at some point but seriously how did half the fandom catch up with canon and collectively decide that what we need here is MORE suffering
fic tag: “the wholesome dorky romance fic you’ve been waiting for” me: normally you would be wrong but for once I was actually very much waiting for that, please heal my soul
i finally got around to reading 'two two one bravo baker' and it would be so, so good if they would just... lay off the porn. not that it's bad porn. and not that i object to porn. but it doesn't fit there. this is not a romantic environment. they don't have time to fuck that much. they don't have privacy, everyone can hear everything, the walls are canvas, there will be sand in places, it's not porn time you guys. it was porn time maybe twice, but the author decided it was porn time twice per chapter and there's 27 chapters and it does not work. the bit where john is injured and wants to watch sherlock jerk off before he goes to do the heroic stupid thing made me say "oh come the fuck on" out loud. i mean, you could blame the morphine, but then the writer tried to make it sexy. that's not sexy. it's sad and creepy. why would you write that. but if you just scroll past all the elaborately detailed fucking, it's a very exciting story. argh. ps i'm pretty sure forward operating base sangin does not have showers so uhhh welcome to spending the final half of the story crusty and smelling like spooge and butt ROMANSU
Ok opposite of a gripe I love it when people write fic that's basically just "my favorite character exposits about my special interest" like I'm reading a short series rn that's mostly just a character telling his friends about reptiles and snakes and it's adorable
everyone complains about moby dick because ishmael keeps going off on digressions aboout whales but i'm like "nerd on, sailor!"
Does that count as competence porn, or would you have to call it knowledge porn or something? Either way I love it.
Regarding "dirty" and assorted slut-shaming... Spoiler: noncon I love it coming out of the mouths of the character who is the abusive raping asshole who is clearly supposed to be wrong. Significantly less as standard sexy talk.
