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lunabee34I was just commenting in china_shop's journal that I don't write much explicit fanfic anymore and that I don't really read it much now either. When I first got into fanfic, the porn aspect was novel for me, and almost everything I read was explicit. Now if I do read explicit fanfic, I'm just as likely to skip all the sex scenes so I can get to the good parts: Draco crying in the bathroom because Harry hates him or Tony crying in the workshop because Steve hates him or, you know, some other people crying and misunderstanding each other egregiously (like in ways that stretch the limits of credulity).
And that got me to wondering about what the rest of you think about sex in fanfic. Please discuss any and all points in comments! Tangents welcome.
china_shop's journal that I don't write much explicit fanfic anymore and that I don't really read it much now either. When I first got into fanfic, the porn aspect was novel for me, and almost everything I read was explicit. Now if I do read explicit fanfic, I'm just as likely to skip all the sex scenes so I can get to the good parts: Draco crying in the bathroom because Harry hates him or Tony crying in the workshop because Steve hates him or, you know, some other people crying and misunderstanding each other egregiously (like in ways that stretch the limits of credulity).And that got me to wondering about what the rest of you think about sex in fanfic. Please discuss any and all points in comments! Tangents welcome.
Poll #22479 And then the taller man licked into the tallest man's mouth
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I often skip the sex scenes in explicit fanfic.
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yes, and I'm going to tell you why in comments
9 (25.7%)
no
12 (34.3%)
how much is often?
14 (40.0%)
Never thought I'd be reading fic that features __________, but here I am. Reading it.
OT3's
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do not solve love triangles, sheesh.
8 (25.0%)
are the best way to resolve love triangles, sheesh.
24 (75.0%)
Effective sex scenes are really hard to write.
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yes; I mean you can't just write, "she tasted like strawberries, and sugar, and something uniquely her," TWO times in a single fic
14 (42.4%)
no; you get the right combo of elements (say, spanking, some egg custard, and a little light bondage) and *somebody* out there's going to find it hot
5 (15.2%)
sometimes
14 (42.4%)
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Date: 2019-08-06 01:17 am (UTC)I know exactly what you mean about the Obligatory Consummation Scene. *dies*
I'm going to pay more attention to that because I hadn't thought of it in that way.
I mostly only read HP and MCU now with occasional forays into LotR and random things on the flist. I feel like the OCS shows up less frequently in the HP than the MCU; the HP stuff still tends to have sex, but it's not positioned in the last chapter as the moment the whole fic is leading up to.
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Date: 2019-08-06 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-07 12:54 am (UTC)I mean, that's the way every romance novel I read in the 90s goes, right? The heroine is attracted to the no-good scoundrel (or she assumes he's a scoundrel even when he really isn't) and spends the whole novel fighting her attraction only to give in at the last.
It's not my fault. I blame Rosemary Rogers and Johanna Lindsey.
LOL
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Date: 2019-08-07 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-07 01:33 am (UTC)