FIC: Things You Remember (Lotrips, Viggo/Bean/Maria Bello, NC-17)

[telesilla]

Things You Remember
Author: telesilla
Fandom/Pairing: Lotrips, Viggo/Bean/Maria Bello
Rating/Warnings: NC-17
fanfic100 Prompt: 085 -- She
Disclaimer: Not RL; didn't happen. If you think this has anything to do with the real actors involved, then you need to put down the crack pipe.
Summary: There's one thing Sean remembers about Viggo.

Notes: I've wanted to do a

Comments

[helena_s_renn]

brilliant. thank you for writing some slash/het, and such an appropriate three-some that. it didn't loose the s/v vibe at all, visitor or no. 2nd person worked well for this short piece.

[telesilla]

Thank you! One of the things I work at when bringing an unusual third party (as opposed to Liv or Orli, for example), particularly a female one, into a slash pairing, is both maintaining the pairing as the focus of the story and doing my best to maintain a queer vibe to the whole thing. I'm glad it worked here and that you liked it.

[helena_s_renn]

*blushes* to date, the only female i've managed to actually get between s/v is liv. not for lack of trying, believe me, but i just can't do it! your suggestion about 'keeping the queer vibe' might be extremely helpful, so thanks for that.

[telesilla]

Glad I could help! I think there are a several problems involved in bringing female characters into a slash pairing. First of all, you lose readers; people are often very vehement about not wanting girl cooties in their slash. And then you get the fact that, once you bring a woman into it, you open yourself up to accusations that you're using whoever the woman is as a Mary Sue, which isn't always true, but a lot of fans see it that way. And finally, there's a certain distance we as women can manage when we're writing about men. While some of our experiences do come into play, it's easier to be more objective about a story if we can stand outside it.

I personally like het; the very first story I posted 11 years ago when I first got online was a het story and I've been writing them ever since. But then I write femmeslash as well, so I'm pretty broad in my fandom tastes.

[helena_s_renn]

that's cool. you didn't strike me a het type at all based on your slash, but i guess i was totally "off" on that account. i wrote oc het erotica long before i read slash, or wrote it. i do have a few lotr het stories out there too... my readers are nice about it, but yes, they get 1/2 to 1/3 of the comments one would get for slash. i relate to your comment about 'standing outside' the slash. everyone has kissed and done foreplay, but even some of that, and teh sex is different between two men, something women won't experience for themeselves. too bad. in my version of heaven, there's an orgy going for the next several millenia and we're all hermaphrodites. :D