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COMMENTARY: Keep Your Clothes On

Feb 06, 2010 17:30

Title: Keep Your Clothes On (The Commentary Version!)
Author: Meg / juniperlane / betternovembers
Spoilers: Nope, none.
Rating/Warnings: NC-17
Word Count: 2961
Disclaimer: TBBT does not belong to me, nor do the other unfortunate actors that got dragged into this.
Notes: Written for the Paradox Holiday Swap, for ammorgan21. Beta by dashakay. Title is from The Avett Brother's "Laundry Room ( Read more... )

fiction, commentary, big bang theory

Comments 17

dashakay February 6 2010, 22:43:30 UTC

I have way more comments. Like WAY more, but before I forgot I had to say:

there is more oral sex performed on Penny in fic than BJs for Sheldon

Which kind of makes sense since 99.9% of fic is written by the ladies, but really DOESN'T make sense when you consider Sheldon's squeamishness about germs and bacteria and whatnot. (Not to say that ladybits are dirty and nasty. I'm a big fan of ladybits, myself.)

dashakay February 6 2010, 22:47:39 UTC

Oh, and one more thing?

WHO IS GONNA WRITE S/P 69 FIC FOR ME? WHO WHO WHO?

juniperlane February 6 2010, 23:12:36 UTC

But oddly enough from (again, general observations, not anything specific or scientific in the SLIGHTEST) what I can tell, there might be a weirdness factor for ladies writing oral sex on ladies since it involves ladybits? Maybe BBT is different, but from the other fandoms I have been in, I remember a LOT more blow jobs on male characters. (Granted, I have also been pretty heavily involved in other slash pairings in previous fandoms, so my knowledge of het ships in, oh, say, Harry Potter are a little lacking, I suppose ( ... )

dashakay February 6 2010, 23:21:13 UTC

That's interesting about the different fandoms. I've always been in fandoms that are het and femslash centered and the breakdowns of oral sex seem to be mostly equal in the het pairings in those fandoms (XF and BSG).

I think the germ-thing is something you have to at least consider as you are writing?

Absolutely. In the one fic I've written where Sheldon goes down on Penny, she states that due to the germ thing she showered down like Meryl Streep in Silkwood.

a general trend of making Sheldon awesome at sex

I'm totally guilty of that one. But I actually like it when he's not particularly awesome at it. At least at first. Fumbling and awkward can be totally hot. Just look at allthingsholy's latest. askdlakajasf, mothafuckas.

And while we're talking about BBT smut tropes, BBT is definitely the only fandom I've ever been in where it seems like 98% of all fic has the woman on top the first time there's intercourse. Which is actually pretty realistic, given Sheldon's inexperience, but not very realistic in real world terms, in my experience.

Thread 16

montycrowley February 8 2010, 06:02:23 UTC

Wow - this is making me love this fic even more.

Thank you so much for doing this, Meg! I hope it was as fun to do as it is to read. YOUR MIND IS A FASCINATING PLACE.

I ALSO LIKE HOW THIS IS ALSO A LOVE POEM TO DASH.

I think the best part of me writing this fic was the email series/live beta from Dash, in which I seriously emailed her: OMG THERE IS A MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM AND SHE WATCHES, OMG. Somehow I had almost forgotten that sort of key detail about pretty much all bathrooms having mirrors? And then I remembered, and it was glorious.

IT IS INDEED GLORIOUS. AND THIS BEHIND-THE-SCENES TIDBIT HAS FILLED ME WITH LOVE.

What I also like about it is that it's a (semi) conscious choice for him each time; he's choosing Penny in new and different ways every moment, whereas I am not really sure the rest of our brains work like that.

OH MY FUCKING GOD. YES.