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I've decided I'm allowed to have opinions in my own journal
1. Why are so many homo-erotic (HE) fics written in the first person? After recently experiencing the great joy of the Slave Breakers and The Administration (neither of which is first person POV), I have been branching out reading more original HE fic, but the prevalence of this POV is starting to seriously bug me. Every once in a while, for a really good fic, fine, but honestly? Arghhh, enough! If people want to write Mary/Marty Sue/Stu porn fic, can it not be sent to Penthouse - I hear they have a section for that kind of thing.
2. I wish people would please stop calling HE fics Slash. Slash is a term that was coined specifically to describe fandom writing taking canon straight male characters and writing them into HE relationship / situations. I can accept it extending to canon female characters under the same circumstances. But HE original fic, and HE fic where the characters in canon are gay? NOT SLASH. They are HE or Gay fiction. This is not an 'old fuddy-duddy' thing - words have meanings, and misuse of words in describing a story genre is as bad as misuse of words within the story itself.
3. Domination/submission is NOT the same as Sadism/Masochism, and topping/bottoming in sex is not the same as D/s or S/M. Yes, there can be overlaps, yes, aspects of each can bleed into the other, but the terms are NOT synonymous and not fungible. If you don't know the difference, then please don't write them, or spend some time researching, and then talk to people who are actually involved. And yes, everyone involved has a personal take on it as well, but that's not the same as the actual meaning of the terms.
4. There's very few things as frustrating as investing serious time into and starting to enjoy a well written, well structured and interesting story, with interesting characters developing all the right chemistry between them, only to get past the very intense UST to discover as soon as they really start to make out that the sex talk is like something ripped from a truly horrific porn film. If anyone really does talk like that in real life when having sex? I just hope I never find out in person. There is sexy talk, and then there is OMGSHUTTHEFUCKUPYOURMAKINGMYEYESBLEED bad porn dialogue. It's like a lap-full of ice water.
5. I saw the Watchmen movie last night. I consider it grounds for the prompt invention of the temporal refund. And the frozen coke machine was broken. My misery was complete.
6. I'm really not interested in defending any of the above. Please see post heading if you're in doubt. If you dislike me having opinions and you can't deal, feel free to talk with the unfriending button.
2. I wish people would please stop calling HE fics Slash. Slash is a term that was coined specifically to describe fandom writing taking canon straight male characters and writing them into HE relationship / situations. I can accept it extending to canon female characters under the same circumstances. But HE original fic, and HE fic where the characters in canon are gay? NOT SLASH. They are HE or Gay fiction. This is not an 'old fuddy-duddy' thing - words have meanings, and misuse of words in describing a story genre is as bad as misuse of words within the story itself.
3. Domination/submission is NOT the same as Sadism/Masochism, and topping/bottoming in sex is not the same as D/s or S/M. Yes, there can be overlaps, yes, aspects of each can bleed into the other, but the terms are NOT synonymous and not fungible. If you don't know the difference, then please don't write them, or spend some time researching, and then talk to people who are actually involved. And yes, everyone involved has a personal take on it as well, but that's not the same as the actual meaning of the terms.
4. There's very few things as frustrating as investing serious time into and starting to enjoy a well written, well structured and interesting story, with interesting characters developing all the right chemistry between them, only to get past the very intense UST to discover as soon as they really start to make out that the sex talk is like something ripped from a truly horrific porn film. If anyone really does talk like that in real life when having sex? I just hope I never find out in person. There is sexy talk, and then there is OMGSHUTTHEFUCKUPYOURMAKINGMYEYESBLEED bad porn dialogue. It's like a lap-full of ice water.
5. I saw the Watchmen movie last night. I consider it grounds for the prompt invention of the temporal refund. And the frozen coke machine was broken. My misery was complete.
6. I'm really not interested in defending any of the above. Please see post heading if you're in doubt. If you dislike me having opinions and you can't deal, feel free to talk with the unfriending button.
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