Mostly, the tie-in was because for once, my brain was thinking fannish thoughts and I didn't want to lose them. They're loosely connected, but there's definitely not a linear trajectory their:)
Unless you mean to create a backhanded point about how particular flavors of slash also make women absent the same way that plot stories can.) - Although that is a point that I often think in my head, so if I were smart, I'd have used that as a tie-in:)
And anyway, I can only assume we read for different reasons, or with totally different protocols. Because I usually find sex stories (het or slash) boring, the moreso the more of them I read in a row.
Yeah, I think that's where reader needs come in, and reader desires. There's so little that I read in fic AT ALL anymore that I feel like I shouldn't even be proclaiming, but I find that I want a little bang for my buck when I do read fic these days. I see the adventures on screen, I want the stuff I'm not seeing in my fic. Doesn't mean I'll turn down a good, plotty story, or that I'll read every single repetitive sex-based fic (and yes, totally legitimate point about that. I like fics with set-up far more than just straight fucking, or queer fucking, or simple fucking. I want the set up to have resonance too, but that's a different story, right?), but I'm definitely looking for something with more of a...physical and emotional rush than an intellectual one in fic:) Except, of course, for the few times that I'm not:)
It's curious, though. The novels I read are generally picked up and followed through for entirely different reasons( plot, character, etc) than the fics that I read. In that case, it's definitely more about story (partly because sex becomes something else entirely in a lot of lit fic, and often just isn't that much fun. I can't remember the last time I read a sex scene in a regular novel that made me physically and emotionally breathless in the way that certain fic does).
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Unless you mean to create a backhanded point about how particular flavors of slash also make women absent the same way that plot stories can.) - Although that is a point that I often think in my head, so if I were smart, I'd have used that as a tie-in:)
And anyway, I can only assume we read for different reasons, or with totally different protocols. Because I usually find sex stories (het or slash) boring, the moreso the more of them I read in a row.
Yeah, I think that's where reader needs come in, and reader desires. There's so little that I read in fic AT ALL anymore that I feel like I shouldn't even be proclaiming, but I find that I want a little bang for my buck when I do read fic these days. I see the adventures on screen, I want the stuff I'm not seeing in my fic. Doesn't mean I'll turn down a good, plotty story, or that I'll read every single repetitive sex-based fic (and yes, totally legitimate point about that. I like fics with set-up far more than just straight fucking, or queer fucking, or simple fucking. I want the set up to have resonance too, but that's a different story, right?), but I'm definitely looking for something with more of a...physical and emotional rush than an intellectual one in fic:) Except, of course, for the few times that I'm not:)
It's curious, though. The novels I read are generally picked up and followed through for entirely different reasons( plot, character, etc) than the fics that I read. In that case, it's definitely more about story (partly because sex becomes something else entirely in a lot of lit fic, and often just isn't that much fun. I can't remember the last time I read a sex scene in a regular novel that made me physically and emotionally breathless in the way that certain fic does).