One of the things in fandom that sometimes manage to annoy me a little is the focus on pairings and sex-scenes. *Offers a big "WHOOP WHOOP!" (fist-waving included) for the beginning of this ramble.*
Totally with you here. The others have said all that I would have said, only better--which is one of the many reasons I love my flist. (:
Sometimes it makes me sad that much of the fic I write would interest most people and that the fic I write that does contain sex-scenes mostly wouldn't interest people either, because it's character-specific with each person (alright, mostly 'woman') involved different: pleasure process, interests, confidence, whatever. It's not going to work to change a few names, some hair colour and some eye colour to have different characters or a self-insert--not in the way that seems common, anyway. And some of my scenes don't even sound particularly sexy, I guess because there are times when, to an outsider, the sex won't look/seem/be that sexy unless one is invested in the pleasure of each character rather than on specific acts, metaphors, euphemisms, vagueness, ambiguity, or the phrase 'down there'.
Down there. I'm a scientist! In the land of science, things have names--especially anatomy. Granted, they aren't very sexy names. But things can be sexy with the right guttural inflection...
(I know you understand this, because I recall a line with the anatomy of fingers and other interesting locations. :B)
I like my readers to know what's up, perhaps sometimes more than they would like to know. Many others seem to like a few name drops, some hair descriptions, a few vague acts, and some metaphors for the body at climax--and pillow talk in which the fluff is in the dialogue and not in the headrests.
And, again, that's only if I get into the sex at all. Which is only if the characters decide, or decide to let me in rather than giving me teasing looks and disappearing behind some object or another that inevitably slams in my face. There was one fest I signed up for that required sex and I completely forgot, so I ended up writing another story following a similar line to the first. Thankfully I like having two similar stories that focused on slightly different things; it reminded me of the "tragedy vs. comedy" idea and the fact that there can be endless ways to focus a similar story--or even the same series of events (however unfortunate or fortunate).
That turned into a bit more of a rant. Alas, earwax. (Sorry, I've started saying that when things turn out differently from my expectations.)
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Date: 2012-09-21 12:39 am (UTC)*Offers a big "WHOOP WHOOP!" (fist-waving included) for the beginning of this ramble.*
Totally with you here. The others have said all that I would have said, only better--which is one of the many reasons I love my flist. (:
Sometimes it makes me sad that much of the fic I write would interest most people and that the fic I write that does contain sex-scenes mostly wouldn't interest people either, because it's character-specific with each person (alright, mostly 'woman') involved different: pleasure process, interests, confidence, whatever. It's not going to work to change a few names, some hair colour and some eye colour to have different characters or a self-insert--not in the way that seems common, anyway. And some of my scenes don't even sound particularly sexy, I guess because there are times when, to an outsider, the sex won't look/seem/be that sexy unless one is invested in the pleasure of each character rather than on specific acts, metaphors, euphemisms, vagueness, ambiguity, or the phrase 'down there'.
Down there. I'm a scientist! In the land of science, things have names--especially anatomy. Granted, they aren't very sexy names. But things can be sexy with the right guttural inflection...
(I know you understand this, because I recall a line with the anatomy of fingers and other interesting locations. :B)
I like my readers to know what's up, perhaps sometimes more than they would like to know. Many others seem to like a few name drops, some hair descriptions, a few vague acts, and some metaphors for the body at climax--and pillow talk in which the fluff is in the dialogue and not in the headrests.
And, again, that's only if I get into the sex at all. Which is only if the characters decide, or decide to let me in rather than giving me teasing looks and disappearing behind some object or another that inevitably slams in my face. There was one fest I signed up for that required sex and I completely forgot, so I ended up writing another story following a similar line to the first. Thankfully I like having two similar stories that focused on slightly different things; it reminded me of the "tragedy vs. comedy" idea and the fact that there can be endless ways to focus a similar story--or even the same series of events (however unfortunate or fortunate).
That turned into a bit more of a rant. Alas, earwax. (Sorry, I've started saying that when things turn out differently from my expectations.)
Yay gen!