Oct 07, 2008 01:06
C. Mun Prompt - Five Questions:
1. Do you feel looked down on or unfairly criticized by other players in the game because you write sexual themes or roleplay sexual scenes?
To be honest I feel it some times for the exact opposite reason. I have several characters that are not sexual for one reason or other. Peninnah is a prime example of this. The fact that she is curious about relationships but not interested in sexuality and I’m not that interested in making her sexual at the moment has rubbed some muns the wrong way. I’ve been criticized over it and couldn’t care less. On the other hand Snake and his like of 16-25 year olds while being 40 fans some hellacious flames with some people. Yes, I understand it’s inappropriate in some countries and no I don’t condone it but canon is canon. What can I do besides delve into it and explore the character?
2. Do you feel inhibited from writing kink, non-con or other violent/graphic sexuality, because others put you down for it?
I don’t get inhibited but I have been called out for writing it. Particularly Snake’s involvement with a 16 year old and it should be with his involvement with Taslima which is implied but never explicitly stated in canon. She’s 17. That has got me a lot of flack even a BRPS post. It’s canon. Though I can say it has inhibited my writing of Mike some what. If Snake, whose sexuality is relatively normal, gets crap I can only imagine non-con necrophilia with underage girls. Mike really bends that way but I haven’t wrote it. I don’t feel like there is an environment where I could write it and be unjudged, even his own lj. Maybe it’s my own fear of being criticized or whatever but I sit here with several very graphic necrophilia pieces I’ve wrote for Mike and just can’t bear to post.
3. Do you feel pressured to “romanticize” your muse’s sexual behavior, to make it more palatable?
I haven’t really. This is one area where I don’t feel the peer pressure for sexually based writing.
4. Do you feel that because you do write sexual content, your muse is viewed only as a “slut” muse, and that their other prompts/roleplay is disregarded?
I don’t exactly feel the slut muse opinion but related to that I do feel like there can’t be such a thing as a faithful/loyal and very sexual muse. It seems like the way you have to go is if a muse likes sex they must be unfaithful/slutty/fucking everything that works with their body parts. I’m not sure it makes me feel disregarded but it is rather frustrating when the concept of “faithful and horny” can’t be accepted. It causes a lot of problems with playing Snake sometimes and to a lesser degree some of my other male characters. Is it wrong for a male to just really have the hots for his wife/girl/playmate, want to bang the hell out of her and still be there in the morning? God, I hope not. What a sad world that would be for everyone.
5. Do you feel there is a “double standard” regarding sexual behavior based upon muse gender? Fandom/canon versus OC?
I think there is a definitely bad stigma put on older male characters and young female characters who like sex, talk about sex often, engage in it etc. I can only assume it is worse with OCs. There is this idea that I have seen expressed too often that “so and so only created that OC that likes sex because they can’t get any in real life.” Whether or not that is the case it’s crappy to say that about someone and honestly I don’t think that is often the case. I do think there are fandoms more prone to being accepting of random sexual behaviors than others, even those that fly way out of anything canon within the next twelve galaxies. Other fandoms are ruthless about protecting what is canon for the characters so far that logical relationships can’t be explored.
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