Rec: Look At Your Renegade Time Lord

Dec 14, 2011 04:16

Hello all! I bogarted the last reccing period using my phenomenal modly powers (actually my living space is pretty reasonable, thanks for asking). Please direct all crying/cursing the unfairness of the dark cabal that is b_e to fandomsecrets (I did just pm the mod and sign up like a pleb, but the drama will keep us young ( Read more... )

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elviaprose December 15 2011, 00:47:30 UTC
Hmm. I had a few more thoughts on the sex toy issue. And _why_ I think what I think about it. One thing I already basically implied but didn't say: I think there's something appealing about sexualizing a non-sexual object or situation or ratcheting up the sexuality of an only mildly sexual situation or object (this, I think, is part of the appeal of slash) and that can get lost when toys are involved. Toys are already only sexual. Maybe. Idk. That being said, I think more is going on there.

I once read a fic wherein Three offers to improve Jo's vibrator for her. This challenged a lot of my preconceptions: 1) Slash is hotter than het 2) No Doctor/Jo. EVAR. 3) No sex toys.

I found it absolutely, 110% believable and in character for Three to see Jo's vibrator as just another gadget he could improve. Also relevant, I think, is the fact that Jo's hypothetical vibrator is personal and specific to her in a way most sex toys in fic aren't.

I also liked that Three was _accidentally_ very intimate with Jo; it just didn't occur to him what he was suggesting. I think that often the presence of sex toys makes the eroticisim between two people feel more impersonal, more deliberate, and more "professionally choreographed," but here it did the exact opposite, and I think that's part of why I liked it. This now reminds me of that prompt on the Anon meme about Shalka!Doctor getting off on fixing the Master but being too uptight to admit it. Strikes me as the same dynamic, in many ways.

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tardiscrash December 16 2011, 01:22:18 UTC
I think you hit it on the head with "more professionally choreographed," for why I tend not to like sex toys in fic. I don't dislike them and TMI, they can be fantastic fun to use with a partner. I just don't see a lot of cross over between sex toy use and intimacy in fanfic. Like, you see the word butt plug and expect a certain kind of fic and it's not going to be something with a lot of honest emotional connection between the characters or between the text and the reader. It becomes a novelisation of a porn film, and that's not what i come to fan fic for.

(You wouldn't happen to have a link to that fic would you? I adore Three/Jo)

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elviaprose December 16 2011, 02:37:47 UTC
(Hmm, I can't seem to find it! I thought it was by Dame Syrup, but I seem to have been thinking of this fic Worth checking out, if you like Three/Jo. Okay, now I've convinced the world that I'm a closeted Three/Jo shipper, I'll just go back to my work.)

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x_los December 16 2011, 04:41:31 UTC
Oh man, now we have to take away your 'Three/Jo: just say no!' badge and everything. :(

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elviaprose December 16 2011, 06:07:31 UTC
MY BAAAAADGE!

*insert here image of me flailing like Ainley in Castrovalva*

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x_los December 16 2011, 11:22:32 UTC
*dies*

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