White Collar Fic: I’ll take it, as much as you have

[afiawri]

Title: I’ll take it, as much as you have
Prompt: Take it
Story for: coffeethyme4me for the wcpairings challenge
Author: afiawri
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Smut
Warnings: Explicit Sex, D/s
Characters: Neal/Peter(/Elizabeth)
Summary: It seems whenever Neal makes a promise, he also makes a mistake.
Thanks: HUGE thanks to photoash. HUGE, HUGE, HUGE. She was my cheerleader, my idea-bouncer, my

Comments

reply to anon part 2

[anonymous]

Maybe you feel that the bdsm community is misrepresented in popular culture, and you think fandom is part of the problem, but you would like it to be part of the solution. You think that fics should do their best to fairly and accurately portray these relationships.

Maybe you think that people being miseducated about safe bdsm practices leads to people getting hurt. Maybe you think that this miseducation encourages people's unfair and negative stereotypes of the bdsm community. Maybe you feel personally offended or attacked since you started reading a bdsm fic thinking "these characters are like me" and were disturbed when the characters did something you would never do. Maybe you feel that not enough ppl speak up for bdsm and its accurate portrayal.

Again, giving you the benefit of the doubt, big time, anon. But if the above really are your reasons, then I will try to say something constructive.

I would like to point out:

-First, most writers and readers understand the difference between reality and fic. People do not imitate what they read in fanfic very often.

-I don't know if there are ppl who think that fanfic-bdsm is the way the AVERAGE real-life bdsm works, or that EVERY bdsm relationship is the same. But this is fiction. And again, some of us LIKE reading things they wouldn't like in real life. Including me. BECAUSE IT IS HOT TO READ ABOUT. Please don't imply that there should not be any stories like this.

-Some people do like edge play in real life. Should all fic be about the typical average bdsm relationship? On that note, should all law TV shows be about typical legal proceedings, complete with watching hours of people filling out paperwork? Fiction is about drama and conflict and the not-ordinary. Not every fic is going to be a kink version of The Bicycle Thief, showing the oft-neglected story of the average kinkster. Fiction - even completely gen fiction - should provoke or incite thoughts or feelings or have something unusual or interesting to offer. P.S. In real life, agents don't fall in love with their CIs'. Good thing this fic is fiction.

-I personally do not think fic writers have an obligation to turn their fics into a kind of Aesop's fables for dominance and submission, where every fic has a positive lesson imparted to the reader about how the world should work. Honestly, I have read fics like that - ones that are clearly designed to show the world what good, responsible loving bdsm practices are like - and many of them leave me with the same feeling as other fictional works that try to be morally edifying - bored and condescended to. Fiction does not have an obligation to be nice and sweet.

And finally, if you are sincere about the things you seem to care deeply about (when I am giving you A LOT OF CREDIT because I am trying HARD to be open minded that you may actually have had good intentions despite appearances), then here are things you could have done instead of telling the author to do a different fic, one that serves as a manual for a healthy bdsm relationship instead of a piece that explores complex psychologies, imperfections, and ambiguities: