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[glossing]

So there's this large gray interzone I'm beginning to discern between 'shipfic and plain gen. Romance isn't the beall and endall, but nor is playing with lifeless action figures. People have sex and do *other* stuff, too. I've been calling it porny gen; dS fic does it pretty well, and I can see Firefly being especially suited to it, but Buffyverse

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[zyre]

naw dude i feel you. well i haven't read btvs fic in a long time but i know it is a lot like that in the fandom i'm following now. honestly it's probably 95% porn and then the other 5% is crappy angst fic. and yeah, like sex is hot, but i like it when it's woven in with actual story, you know? when something (i dunno, say willow is possessed by a dancing demon of death) happens that is outside of the realm of relationships. yeah, if willow got possessed, whoever she happened to be with would be upset and hey, maybe someone could write weird dancing sex! but you know the story would be about how to solve the problem at hand, not to fuck the daylights out of everybody.

i dunno. it's early and i'm rambly today haha.

[glossing]

Totally with you - though I'm more than a little freaked out by the image of Willow and the nymphomaniacal dancing demon. ;)

in the fandom i'm following now
What is it? *needs to escape*

[zyre]

haha well it's rps good charlotte blahness. (yes i regressed fandomwise, i'm now back down around the twelve year old level.) but in all honesty i haven't really read anything in probably a couple months. i'm just not feelin' it in general, and i think a big part of it is exactly this - i'm tired of smut. i don't feel like investing any kind of energy into anything unless it's got a good story, and that is sorely lacking over there. but i could link you to a good story if you want something? i mean, it's got le smut but you know that's not the whole story.

haha dancing willow was totally off the top of my head - that is pretty scary! haha

[glossing]

Ahh, I thought you'd left Good Charlotte, so I was all excited. (Seriously, escape? GOOD.)

Smut is fun, but...yeah. It can get almost too easy, and then I read gen, and I'm fucking bored out of my skull by the wooden prose and cardboard characters, so nothing makes me happy.

Not that that is NEWS, of course. *mwah*

[zyre]

haha yeah i've been sort of adrift here lately. nothing's really caught my interest. i sort of looked at veronica mars, and tried lost for a minute, and then tried to go back to LoTR, but eh. maybe i'm just not in fannish mindset these days? either way it sucks 'cause i miss writing and reading and being really excited about things.

but yes it's hard when the things that you read are really two dimensional and dull around the edges.

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