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vulgarweed:
ellipsical-elle:
I stopped myself from rage posting about that PWP nonsense yesterday and I’m glad I did because all of you beautiful people stepped up to the plate and defended smut so much more elegantly and ferociously than I could have. Looking at you @vulgarweed. If you haven’t yet, please read V’s post:
http://ift.tt/2m0Z13I
I’m gonna rec some of my favourite porny one shots in a little bit AND because @happierstill is an amazing friend and is encouraging me, I’m gonna try my hand at some OctoJohn/HumanSherlock tentacle porn.
This is your friendly neighbourhood smut writer signing off and reminding you to
Write whatever the fuck you want.
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oh wow, thank you! Honestly my pleasure - a good rant can be cathartic and satisfying, like a good PWP. I enjoyed it.
OCTOJOHN TENTACLE PORN FUCK YEAH!!! write it write it write it! I can’t wait!
One of my very favorite things about fandom is the way smut-shaming so often backfires because it gets writers motivated.
I’m disinterested in the relevant fandom and nearly skipped the post because it was so many images of Relevant Fandom Persons [and really I don’t need any more How To Write: I Know Cuz I Done It One Time essays in my life] but then I saw your responses and was like wait this is probably real good and scrolled back up and went on a whole emotional journey of getting mad and then getting psyched and then feeling satisfied, so, thanks for that.
Because you’re absolutely right: sex is plot. That bit was so lovely and well-explained. I’m just going to excerpt it here, if you don’t mind, because a bunch of my followers would skip out because of the reaction gifs and miss the good stuff:::::::
Sex IS a plot. There’s beginning, interaction, rising action, characterization EVERYWHERE, still more rising action, possibly conflict, yet more character details, CLIMAX ONE HOPES and then the afterward, the comedown, the resolution. That’s a classic short story plot, as taught by Creative Writing 101 teachers everywhere.
And if you think it’s not about the characters? lolwut?
No two people have sex exactly alike. If someone tries to tell you “all X are alike in bed,” you know they’re 1000% wrong, and you’re ok writing off everything else that person has to say about sex because they’ve just revealed they know less than jack shit about it. Everyone does it differently; humans have VAST variations in what turns them on and what doesn’t and how they express that. And the same person will be a little bit different with every different partner. And the same couple will be different with each other in different moods, on different days, in different stages of life, with different hopes to fulfill and issues to resolve. There are SO MANY ways people communicate with each other and reveal themselves while having sex, both consciously and not. There are negotiations. There are experiments. There are successes and failures. There are kinks and fetishes and all the things they can possibly reveal; there are tests of relationships in sexual compatibility. There are hints of past trauma and hurts. There might be positive or neutral baggage from the past. There are weird body noises and unpredictable reactions. There are misunderstandings. There are disappointments and pleasant surprises.
ALL of this is PLOT. And all of this is fascinating in the hands of a good writer.
If you’re not into stories that have sex as most of the content, that’s fine, but can we please stop pretending that sexual stories are somehow less challenging to write or less thought-out or less revealing of character than, say “two characters talk about their feelings in an empty room” type stories?
oh sorry that’s longer than I thought– but I couldn’t possibly say it any better than that. What a beautiful little essay that is.
There’s more good stuff in the original thread linked above (oh, the conclusion, where you tackle the “wish-fulfillment” stigma! so beautiful) but I thought, y’know, this is really Relatable and relevant even for people allergic to the fandom in question, so. <3 <3 <3 <3
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vulgarweed:
ellipsical-elle:
I stopped myself from rage posting about that PWP nonsense yesterday and I’m glad I did because all of you beautiful people stepped up to the plate and defended smut so much more elegantly and ferociously than I could have. Looking at you @vulgarweed. If you haven’t yet, please read V’s post:
http://ift.tt/2m0Z13I
I’m gonna rec some of my favourite porny one shots in a little bit AND because @happierstill is an amazing friend and is encouraging me, I’m gonna try my hand at some OctoJohn/HumanSherlock tentacle porn.
This is your friendly neighbourhood smut writer signing off and reminding you to
Write whatever the fuck you want.
\0/
oh wow, thank you! Honestly my pleasure - a good rant can be cathartic and satisfying, like a good PWP. I enjoyed it.
OCTOJOHN TENTACLE PORN FUCK YEAH!!! write it write it write it! I can’t wait!
One of my very favorite things about fandom is the way smut-shaming so often backfires because it gets writers motivated.
I’m disinterested in the relevant fandom and nearly skipped the post because it was so many images of Relevant Fandom Persons [and really I don’t need any more How To Write: I Know Cuz I Done It One Time essays in my life] but then I saw your responses and was like wait this is probably real good and scrolled back up and went on a whole emotional journey of getting mad and then getting psyched and then feeling satisfied, so, thanks for that.
Because you’re absolutely right: sex is plot. That bit was so lovely and well-explained. I’m just going to excerpt it here, if you don’t mind, because a bunch of my followers would skip out because of the reaction gifs and miss the good stuff:::::::
Sex IS a plot. There’s beginning, interaction, rising action, characterization EVERYWHERE, still more rising action, possibly conflict, yet more character details, CLIMAX ONE HOPES and then the afterward, the comedown, the resolution. That’s a classic short story plot, as taught by Creative Writing 101 teachers everywhere.
And if you think it’s not about the characters? lolwut?
No two people have sex exactly alike. If someone tries to tell you “all X are alike in bed,” you know they’re 1000% wrong, and you’re ok writing off everything else that person has to say about sex because they’ve just revealed they know less than jack shit about it. Everyone does it differently; humans have VAST variations in what turns them on and what doesn’t and how they express that. And the same person will be a little bit different with every different partner. And the same couple will be different with each other in different moods, on different days, in different stages of life, with different hopes to fulfill and issues to resolve. There are SO MANY ways people communicate with each other and reveal themselves while having sex, both consciously and not. There are negotiations. There are experiments. There are successes and failures. There are kinks and fetishes and all the things they can possibly reveal; there are tests of relationships in sexual compatibility. There are hints of past trauma and hurts. There might be positive or neutral baggage from the past. There are weird body noises and unpredictable reactions. There are misunderstandings. There are disappointments and pleasant surprises.
ALL of this is PLOT. And all of this is fascinating in the hands of a good writer.
If you’re not into stories that have sex as most of the content, that’s fine, but can we please stop pretending that sexual stories are somehow less challenging to write or less thought-out or less revealing of character than, say “two characters talk about their feelings in an empty room” type stories?
oh sorry that’s longer than I thought– but I couldn’t possibly say it any better than that. What a beautiful little essay that is.
There’s more good stuff in the original thread linked above (oh, the conclusion, where you tackle the “wish-fulfillment” stigma! so beautiful) but I thought, y’know, this is really Relatable and relevant even for people allergic to the fandom in question, so. <3 <3 <3 <3
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