In Which I Get a Bad Review
So, 18 chapters (though I've only posted 16) into "In Another's Eyes", I got a bad review on Archive of our Own (Ao3). Honestly, I expected one a long time ago, so I can't say I'm too upset about it.
The comment, which was left on Chapter 16, is as follows:
"I would just like to point out that women actually have the option in feeling pleasure during sex- emotions come into play just as much as the act itself, and I doubt that Toni would have felt pleasure when getting groped by a stalker since she was already emotionally attached to Steve.
It would work better for a scene in the first chapter if Tony was a man, because men can't control whether or not they get stimulated, and are actually a lot more easily raped and traumatized because of it, because they can be made to feel pleasure even when they don't want it. That is, if you want him/her to feel the pleasure, I would say go for this option.
This is just pointing this issue of mine out- you can still work the self-view issues by using the "why couldn't I defend myself against the creep" sort of thing, but the pleasure from rape bit is actually very off-putting, and not very realistic. Just saying."
So... yeah. I think I should be honest with you, dear LJ friends: I'm 25 years old and a virgin. That's right, never had sex. Honestly, not interested in it. I read smut fics, I write smut fics... but I've never had sex. Honestly, I'm going for 40 year old virgin status, that is how little I am interested in physically having sex. So, when I write this stuff, it comes from something I've read somewhere else or from porn. Yes, I've watched porn. It was the only way for me to learn how sex worked, as no one else was going to explain it to me.
I had a point here... right! So, maybe I was wrong about Toni's reaction to having her breasts played with in chapter one. My overall point, which I hope people picked up on later, was that she hasn't had sex since Afghanistan. None. At all. She was dating Pepper and they never did more than kissing. Toni didn't even want Pepper to see her naked because of what happened and her physical scars. My point was she couldn't help herself after all that time. Maybe she should have been able to, but she wasn't because that's how the story goes. If this person didn't like that, why the hell did they keep reading?
I have a grand total of 66 reviews on this story. This is between LJ, Ao3 and FanFiction.net. It also has 48 'Kudos' on Ao3 alone. Out of all that, there is only ONE bad review. And I don't fucking care :D
In other news, I really want some cookies. I think I have some in the kitchen. *toddles off*
The comment, which was left on Chapter 16, is as follows:
"I would just like to point out that women actually have the option in feeling pleasure during sex- emotions come into play just as much as the act itself, and I doubt that Toni would have felt pleasure when getting groped by a stalker since she was already emotionally attached to Steve.
It would work better for a scene in the first chapter if Tony was a man, because men can't control whether or not they get stimulated, and are actually a lot more easily raped and traumatized because of it, because they can be made to feel pleasure even when they don't want it. That is, if you want him/her to feel the pleasure, I would say go for this option.
This is just pointing this issue of mine out- you can still work the self-view issues by using the "why couldn't I defend myself against the creep" sort of thing, but the pleasure from rape bit is actually very off-putting, and not very realistic. Just saying."
So... yeah. I think I should be honest with you, dear LJ friends: I'm 25 years old and a virgin. That's right, never had sex. Honestly, not interested in it. I read smut fics, I write smut fics... but I've never had sex. Honestly, I'm going for 40 year old virgin status, that is how little I am interested in physically having sex. So, when I write this stuff, it comes from something I've read somewhere else or from porn. Yes, I've watched porn. It was the only way for me to learn how sex worked, as no one else was going to explain it to me.
I had a point here... right! So, maybe I was wrong about Toni's reaction to having her breasts played with in chapter one. My overall point, which I hope people picked up on later, was that she hasn't had sex since Afghanistan. None. At all. She was dating Pepper and they never did more than kissing. Toni didn't even want Pepper to see her naked because of what happened and her physical scars. My point was she couldn't help herself after all that time. Maybe she should have been able to, but she wasn't because that's how the story goes. If this person didn't like that, why the hell did they keep reading?
I have a grand total of 66 reviews on this story. This is between LJ, Ao3 and FanFiction.net. It also has 48 'Kudos' on Ao3 alone. Out of all that, there is only ONE bad review. And I don't fucking care :D
In other news, I really want some cookies. I think I have some in the kitchen. *toddles off*