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[apiphile]

So I was all about to write an LJ post about the Eleventh Doctor's rather charming sexual ineptitude and childish "ew" response to intimacy of the physical variety, and how I love it. And then I thought "I bet this is an unpopular opinion in fandom because we're supposed to be striving toward everyone being totally at ease with and open about all

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[wolfy_writing]

I have a terrible tendency to try to Make A Statement About Issues in my fic. I know it's cheap and lectury and obnoxious, but all of my ideas are for cheap lectury issuefic, or cheap fangirly character-torture, or cheap derivative writing-a-cliche (don't even ask about my love for pseudo-Tolkien), or cheap and shallow and funny (which is what I should stick to, as it involves having one good quality, but I keep wanting to go either "Let me explain that slavery is wrong, in fanfic form!" or "I bet it would be awesome if I really made that guy suffer!" or "I should do yet another Groundhogs-Day-derived AU!")

Anyway, I haven't been able to write in months, so everyone's being spared.

[apiphile]

See, the latter of those examples seems like a perfectly valid idea to me. "I saw/read thing, it made me want to write thing based on what would happen if thing". That's the complete opposite of "I wish to tell people all about how it's bad to be rude to your parents, I shall do so through the medium of interpretive dance this fic about cardboard cut-outs".

[wolfy_writing]

Maybe it seems different from the outside? From the inside, it's all just wantiness.

[apiphile]

I guess I've been fortunate in avoiding the internalisation of "you can't do something just because you want to", I think. It's the best sodding reason to do something!

[wolfy_writing]

It's not exactly that. It's just that everyone else seems to have a good point with the "That plot's been done to death" or "You know that's going to turn out tediously preachy" or "Those over-the-top angst fic just get tedious after a while", and I don't have logic or counterarguments or anything like that, I've just got wantiness.

[apiphile]

You could always use the fic as a counterargument. :D

[wolfy_writing]

Using fic to make a point is the whole problem in the first place.

Maybe I can switch brains with someone who can write properly?

[apiphile]

See I'm tempted by that proposition too, because wouldn't it be great if we could find someone who can write properly and switch brains with them? But then, idk. I hear you have to work at it or something.

[wolfy_writing]

Plus, they'll probably either be fond of their brains or have some sort of serious mental problem.