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http://ift.tt/2n9W5Ez:sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “Out of all the WIPs I…”
“Sex is so lazy a trope.” …that must be why it ONLY happens in fic; clearly no one in the real world EVER bangs, in healthy or unhealthy ways. <rolls eyes>
lazaefair replied to your post “sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “Out of all the WIPs I…”
If you want to put sex in it, put sex in it. Sex as a lazy trope wtfffffffffff
I get it, the post I was looking at wasn’t meanly directed at all (I’m sure I wasn’t paraphrasing it accurately and didn’t take it in the spirit in which it was intended at all, as I only read it in passing and not in a super receptive frame of mind), and I do get occasional very heartfelt and sweet feedback from commenters who are Super Not Into That Sort Of Thing. I do seem to put sex into everything, and I tend to wind plot and character inextricably through it, so if you’re a reader who always skips the sex scenes I do tend to make that prohibitive. And, I mean, I do that on purpose, I don’t really like to have scenes in my stories that don’t serve the overarching plot. But I get that it sucks if you’re really not into that.
On the other hand, stories without sex in them really don’t get the readership that smut does. But rarepairs also tend not to, so. Six of one half a dozen of the other, and whichever I do will be wrong for somebody, but probably will be Right With Sparkly Glitter All Over It And An Exclamation Point for someone else.
(Which is a roundabout way, I suppose, of saying that if you read something and it is Right For You, it is good to say so, because I think of those things when I’m doing this kind of calculus. “One of my persistent anons delurked to squee about this,” goes this little bit of my deep consciousness, “and that was so nice, maybe I should do this again.” Unfortunately the opposite, “One of my persistent anons delurked to tell me that this was really Not Their Thing,” tends to follow up with, “maybe I’m garbage and shouldn’t write ever again,” so that’s less effective as a technique. I don’t have perfect control over the lizard brain parts, you know?)
Ace rep is tricky and sometimes a story doesn’t bend the way you want it to and sometimes you get existential about things that aren’t really that complicated.
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