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[thene]

I used to be able to spontaneously jizz out revolting smut with no shame, but now, in an era when writing porn for fun is more normal thanks to a certain Twilight fanfiction I won't mention by name, I freak out at how tawdry and dull pornography and sex seems, while spinning plot threads for convoluted mission-based scenarios too hard to write to ever complete.

The problem is that the bingo is very heavily skewed towards BDSM, painplay and D/s.

You all know I have nothing against any of those, but it's awkward, because it prioritises certain fandoms and a certain way of writing smut that I find dull. For example, Thene mentioned to me that it's kind of insulting tacking '-play' onto the end of things in a fictional context, since when characters in my fandoms torture each other, they do it sincerely, with no safeword, ignoring the Geneva convention.

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Comments

[sheikah]

This is a brilliant piece of meta. I encounter the same with challenges for my fandoms too. (Also much love regarding MGS and how they ACTUAL LEGIT TORTURE WITHOUT PLEASURE IN MIND. Because yes.)

[1000kindsofrain.wordpress.com]

Hear, let me fix that for you:

...in an era when writing porn for fun is more normal truck loads of profit is highly respectable thanks to a certain Twilight fanfiction...

:-P

[thene]

TRUFAX :/ Ngl though, I think there would be a lot of fringe benefits if profit did lead to long-term respectability when it comes to porn written by women for women. There's this huge void in the mainstream, and it's allowed the sexual side of fandom to thrive but left a lot of people behind. And guess what, those women have money and they like sexy things. Who'd have thunk it.