halfway gone!

[anamuan]

I've passed 150k words this year, which is half of my yearly goal for getyourwordsout. Obviously this means I'm volunteering to write you commentfic.

Rules:♠I will write for: Inception, Merlin, J2, Generation Kill, JE, Gundam Wing, the odd Jdrama maybe. I mightmightmight be able to be bullied into writing for Hawaii 5-0

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Re: Ariadne/Eames size!kink (2)

[neomeruru]

I was thinking that myself as I was writing the comment, trying to suss out exactly why I don't. I've rarely been wowed, stunned, turned on or otherwise by het fic -- there might be any number of reasons, here's a few I thought of and they may or may not apply to either me or you, or they might apply to varying degrees, just ideas:

- uncomfortable to have a female POV
- uncomfortable with female pleasure in general
- bored/uninterested by descriptions of female pleasure
- unwillingness to identify with the characters
- uncomfortable to read porn with women in it (objectification worries)
- no need to read about it, I can go experience it
- lack of good fic/good writers of het
- tendency for kinky fic to "read" like a porno, not an exporation of character
- writers who write het porn are able to rely on a pantheon of mainstream phrases and plots to describe female pleasure; slash feels more novel
- lack of adequate, sexy words in English to describe women's bodies
- in my experience, less rough-and-tumble sex/tendency to more loving, vanilla sex
- writer tendency to gloss over what it really feels like in favour of flowery, obtuse, cliche, or terse language

Interestingly enough, I don't read femmeslash either. I like cocks, I like reading about cocks. I'm really simple that way.

Re: Ariadne/Eames size!kink (2)

[anamuan]

hmmmm i'll have to think about these sometime when I'm not supposed to be sleeping. I can see how a lot of these could come into play. just to clarify, how do you mean 'uncomfortable to have a female POV'?

see, i do read femmeslash (and write it), and often enjoy it quite a bit--though what I like still tends towards the rough-and-tumble sex and away from sex that could be called 'lovemaking'.

I think I feel about het fic like I feel about certain pairings that I used to read and almost consistently found boring--eventually, I just don't want to read it because so many past experiences have disappointed. but i couldn't tell you why i so often find het boring.

Re: Ariadne/Eames size!kink (2)

[neomeruru]

Oh, by that I mean, one of the common explanations for 'why do women like gay porn so much?!' is that they feel safer and less objectified if there are no women present. And then there's also being uncomfortable exploring new sexual kinks (or even just porn itself) through a woman's eyes, which might be overwhelming for the reader whereas there's more of a disconnect if it's through a man's eyes.