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I usually post about this earlier, but for obvious reasons I haven't... so anyway the Porn Battle prompt post is open. EDIT: Here it is on Dreamwidth, btw.
So there it is if you want to prompt for some porn.
So there it is if you want to prompt for some porn.
I would greatly welcome that! And I do consider alluding to sex good enough, actually, for the porn battle, if you want to go fuzzier. I understand feeling weird about writing about sex... I used to feel weird about it, and sometimes still do when writing out-of-my-comfort-range sort of stuff. It's tricky, and, for a while, sort of uncomfortable at first. (That's what she said!) And I noticed your prompts! Well, I assumed they were yours, since it was one-third of your username and Jack/Liz prompts. (I think you might be the only person besides me to leave Jack/Liz prompts... Well, I may have missed something, because I don't think I scrolled through every page. But every 30 Rock prompt I saw was Liz/Wesley.)
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Yeah -- I participated once, several battles ago, with this Duchovny/Anderson RPF prompt that only alluded to implied sex (yes that is the distance I require in my Duchovny/Anderson RPF), which is the sort of off-screen trick I could imagine doing again. We'll see! Funnily enough it's just embarrassing to admit in "public" that I have imagined the specifics of characters/actors having sex, despite the fact that I *read* it obviously and constantly and everybody else here does it. Heee.
I saw all those Liz/Wesley prompts, and I glared a little at them.
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I hope you can make that happen! (Incidentally, I once wrote Duchovny/Anderson fic for a porn battle... I can't remember how explicit it was. I've gone through this thing where I find sexually explicit RPF increasingly uncomfortable, to the point now where I don't think I could read it, and I think I had started on that path at the time.)
I don't get the Liz/Wesley thing gaining popularity. And this is where I stress that people don't get a lot of stuff I like... so I'm not saying 'I'm objectively right, they're objectively wrong.' (I suppose Liz/Wesley has a better chance of being endgame than my silly ship.) I'm really only saying I don't get it. And don't want it to happen on the show. But we've discussed this before, so we don't need to again. But what I mostly want to add is that I feel kind of guilty for writing the few Liz/Wesley things I have, not as a Jack/Liz shipper but as a non-Liz/Wesley shipper. I feel like a poser, even though I never said I shipped them... like I had no business writing them at all, or something.
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30 Rock might very well be in that same comedy-show-difficulty if not for you and, well, was anybody else writing it before you? I think I remember seeing some early leiascully stuff that was good, but certainly I would never have been able to write fic for it without the model of other people.
I remember your Duchovny/Anderson RPF! I remembered it at the time, and thought it was great, and then a couple years later ran across it again and was like, woah, that was Michelle! It was funny... to me. (And I also don't remember how explicit it was.)
I feel like a lot of the Wesley popularity must be based on a liking for Michael Sheen that I don't have... I like Michael Sheen, but don't really find him attractive... and I thought he was funny on the show but didn't even make as much sense as Dennis. In fact, whenever I talk about this pairing, I find myself defending Dennis Duffy way more than I ever thought possible.
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The first 30 Rock thing I remember reading was by dollsome, and I think that's all I had seen around before I wrote my first fic. (And, speaking of 'being intimidated by sitcoms,' I was apprehensive about trying to write it.) I'm pretty sure I wrote the first sexually explicit Jack/Liz fic... and that it was for the Porn Battle. I mention that just because I realized it, and this post is technically about the Porn Battle.
I find that amusing, too, I must say.
It's the sort of dynamic I'd always be reluctant to ship, but I think it would probably would have a better chance to win me over in the long haul if I found Michael Sheen super cute/hot. (Note: I think he's good-looking, but he's not someone I find super sexy.) As I think there is a Michael Sheen love-level correlation for a lot of people. Like, I see posts at Tumblr that are all, "He's so adorable and they have to have babies!" and I think, "Is he? Do they? I am unconvinced." And, ha! I've defended Dennis while talking about Wesley/Liz, too. And, you know, out of all the sad ways Liz's life could end -- in context of the show -- I think 'married to Dennis' is way less depressing than 'married to Wesley.'
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In reading your entire corpus several times (ahem), I've often gone down and read the comments, and it's fun to read people being all, "I didn't know Jack/Liz sex could be okay but you have made me believe" and "wasn't it cute last week I think they are going to happen!" and other stuff we people used to think.
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Semi-recently I got a comment for a post-'100' ficlet I wrote that said, "I thought something was going to happen between them in the episode," and I felt like I had gone back in time. I couldn't remember the last time I got such a comment, honestly. I never thought I'd get a comment like that again!
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