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May 19, 2008 01:57

So, while scrolling through some fic that had the whole 'sex slave' schtick going on, I couldn't help but be struck by the glorification of what was rape - a trope most wildly popular fiction engages in when it deals with that issue; that if it feels good, it isn't a bad thing to be forced into sex; that if the rapist is kind and gentle, the ( Read more... )

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slob_child May 20 2008, 04:03:52 UTC

*excitement* You think? That would be the epitome of awesomeness. But it sort of feels like it needs to be longer - as it is, it feels like the outline to a more complex work.

Heee. *twirls* I like it when you read what I write. It gives me a happy. XD

anorthosite May 23 2008, 20:05:50 UTC

Wow! This is a great story, just as is. The sketchy-ness of it, the outline feeling, is a good structure, actually. It has more of a prose feeling, and is stripped down to the specific powerful emotional moments. I'll admit my bias - that I was pleased that the controlling force/person gets it in the end. And it is wonderful irony that that person is so 'bonded' to the 'first' that it does not matter if it was a murder or a suicide, nor on whose part, that the act kills them both. Very compelling read ( ... )

slob_child May 24 2008, 06:28:46 UTC

I'm so glad you enjoyed this~! It was a very spur-of-the-moment write; Potatoe had sent me the link to a original fiction fantasy series that dealt semi-seriously with the sex slave aspects but made the rape okay, in a sense; made it permissible because of a handful of different rationalizations, and it was almost as bad as reading a blatant sex-slave story. Something in my head went all, "Wait, but no..." Part of the reason why I decided to write this story from the perspective of the 'owner' of the sex slaves was because the most common viewpoint in the other stories I've read containing the sex slave trope has been that of the sexually exploited, how that individual(s) makes him/herself complicit, makes the rape okay, twists the narrative around and around and tangles the issues of consent and ethics. I sort of want to write this really epic sex slave story that doesn't glamorize, that does confront the fact that no, whenever there's issues of ownership, true consent cannot exist. But... I'm lazy, and I don't like too much to the ( ... )

songless_psiren June 24 2008, 21:56:28 UTC

Oh wow. No words. No words.

Okay some words. But they may not be coherent.

I love... the point of view. Reading this through the words and thoughts of the dominant figure, the aristocrat was- amazing. To be the antagonist was fabulous ( ... )

slob_child July 6 2008, 07:27:40 UTC

I love your words! Because they are my words, too. Shared words? Or something along those lines. Yes.

The irony of this is that I just read a sex!slave fanfic that actually didn't hit all my squick buttons regarding rape/consent/power/domination/etc. (It was Stargate SG1 fic, and I'm not sure if you run in that fandom, but it was astonishingly done.) But the reason why it didn't hit my squick buttons (though at times did make me uncomfortable and uncomfortably thinky) was because it was so self aware of the issues, it didn't just handwave them away; it brought them up and didn't quick fix them into some socially acceptable sphere but instead used them as incisive character study tools as well as a method to create a very complex dynamic. That said, I have read other sex!slave fic where, though incredibly well-written, made me want to curl into a ball and never leave my room because I didn't feel safeAs for your comments (which I adored) ~ the mechanics of this story were actually trickier than I'd expected them to be. I've attempted ( ... )