Here goes nothin'

[bironic]

Got my Kink Bingo card! It is… Well, I had six ideas I wanted to do or had started last year and hadn't finished, encompassing maybe a dozen kinks in all, and… none of them are on my card, heh. I am absolutely totally open to creating stories and vids and commentaries and icons and recs for kinks that don't cater to my own favorites-indeed, that is

Comments

[linaerys]

YK, I've been wondering, do the characters themselves have to have that kink, or does the story have to fulfill the kink? With body injury/modification, if you had some hot sex where one of the characters had some kind of body injury/modification, and a reader who liked that would be turned on, but the characters are not turned on specifically by that modification, would it still fit the kink?

Eh, sorry, I should probably do research before asking this. But your essay made me wonder about this thing, the gulf between character kink and reader kink, which can be narrow, or incredibly wide, especially in the case of noncon.

[bironic]

The mods request that the erotic focus of the story be on the kink(s) in the square(s). So a story where someone has a tattoo and they have sex that has nothing to do with the tattoo wouldn't fulfill the square. But a story where one character is turned on by the tattoo -- or fixated on the tattoo even if they're not turned on by it -- would. As would a gen or lower-rated story that centers on a character's relationship to tattoos, i.e. stares at people who have them, or obsesses over getting one or what it's like to get one, or works in a tattoo parlor, or...

[linaerys]

Hmmm, interesting. Thanks!

[bironic]

It would definitely be interesting to see Bingo fills that play with that line between character-kink and reader-kink the way you describe, though.

[bitter_crimson]

For tattoos, I think you could ttly do that by for example having a story where a character goes to get a tattoo, and the tattooing process is described in great great detail and focus, and it's not even about what the character thinks about that, but describing the process in loving detail for a reader who likes to read about the act of tattooing.

It seems also like the difference btwn a story about consent play where the characters are into it, and a non-con story where a character is very NOT into it (if that's the POV character anyway), but the reader presumably is.

[bironic]

To follow up on this again: the mods say it another way in the Wiki:

if you are writing Laurence/Temeraire (a dude and a dragon) for "animal play" the differences between their species should be a main focus of the story, and the thing that Laurence, Temeraire, or the writer of the story is interested in.

(italics theirs, even!)