speaking of disk horse
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… I just got a comment on one of my extremely raunchy BuckyNat fics by someone lauding how wholesome the sex was, and what a good example it was. “what good sex is supposed to be like” …. it’s an orgy fic with male multiple orgasms in it, iirc. (In other words, Not Exactly Realistic.)
Now, all told, it *is* a fairly wholesome smutfic! Everyone in it has a lovely time and feels sexually gratified and emotionally supported! It might actually be a threesome fic, I haven’t reread it in a while– I think it’s BuckyNatSteve– and it’s just good communication and hot sex and everyone being cared for all around, orgasms for everyone. I like writing stories like that.
But this comment was like… lauding me for bringing the tone of “the culture” up with this wholesome smut.
And I’m not specifically offended by the comment? but it makes me… hmmm… a little…
Listen, there’s definitely a need for Wholesome Smut Fics. I absolutely have a need for this, myself, and I do enjoy writing them, and I write them for me and I write them for other people who are having a hard day and just want something nice but not saccharine, and that’s fine.
But I write trash too, I write bad communication and angst, I write self-destructive bullshit and a whole spectrum of stuff. [To be perfectly honest, the only reason I don’t write more miscommunication angst and such is that I get too anxious and can’t make it work because I’m too afraid of Bad Things. That’s not morally-driven at all, that’s Anxiety babey. I read far darker than I write, that’s for sure.] There is room, and need, in “the culture” for all of that kind of thing. And I am certainly not writing wholesome poly smut fic as a how-to for impressionable young readers. Whatever else that stuff is for, it is absolutely not sex ed. Oh my gosh. You are going to be so disappointed, young reader, by the fact that I gave supersoldiers ridiculously absent refractory periods, among other things. [In real life nobody communicates like that either and if you expect it you are going to cry a lot, a lot a lot. the Infinite Bomb Dick is fantasy but the bit where everyone Knows What Bucky Needs And Gives It To Him Without Him Asking is absolutely entirely fantasy, that will never happen to you, my sweet summer child. never.]
Please, children, please, don’t read my fics looking for moral guidance. Oh my god. I do write wholesome filth sometimes, I do, because I like wholesome shit sometimes, but I also write bad things, and I sometimes pepper things with convincing realism (I am fond of writing good awkward sex, that’s a trope I like) but they are not real. My real sex life is nothing like this. Your real sex life will never be anything like it either. Oh my god.
My writing is neither moral nor immoral. It is stories I am driven to tell, because I want to read them, and they are imperfect mirrors of my observations at bestI have no particular agenda in any of them and please don’t infer one.
I don’t know how to respond to this comment, though. Like… uh… glad you found what you needed but uhhhh i also write stuff that you’d probably think drags “the culture” down so maybe don’t keep clicking? IDK man. What do you say?
… I just got a comment on one of my extremely raunchy BuckyNat fics by someone lauding how wholesome the sex was, and what a good example it was. “what good sex is supposed to be like” …. it’s an orgy fic with male multiple orgasms in it, iirc. (In other words, Not Exactly Realistic.)
Now, all told, it *is* a fairly wholesome smutfic! Everyone in it has a lovely time and feels sexually gratified and emotionally supported! It might actually be a threesome fic, I haven’t reread it in a while– I think it’s BuckyNatSteve– and it’s just good communication and hot sex and everyone being cared for all around, orgasms for everyone. I like writing stories like that.
But this comment was like… lauding me for bringing the tone of “the culture” up with this wholesome smut.
And I’m not specifically offended by the comment? but it makes me… hmmm… a little…
Listen, there’s definitely a need for Wholesome Smut Fics. I absolutely have a need for this, myself, and I do enjoy writing them, and I write them for me and I write them for other people who are having a hard day and just want something nice but not saccharine, and that’s fine.
But I write trash too, I write bad communication and angst, I write self-destructive bullshit and a whole spectrum of stuff. [To be perfectly honest, the only reason I don’t write more miscommunication angst and such is that I get too anxious and can’t make it work because I’m too afraid of Bad Things. That’s not morally-driven at all, that’s Anxiety babey. I read far darker than I write, that’s for sure.] There is room, and need, in “the culture” for all of that kind of thing. And I am certainly not writing wholesome poly smut fic as a how-to for impressionable young readers. Whatever else that stuff is for, it is absolutely not sex ed. Oh my gosh. You are going to be so disappointed, young reader, by the fact that I gave supersoldiers ridiculously absent refractory periods, among other things. [In real life nobody communicates like that either and if you expect it you are going to cry a lot, a lot a lot. the Infinite Bomb Dick is fantasy but the bit where everyone Knows What Bucky Needs And Gives It To Him Without Him Asking is absolutely entirely fantasy, that will never happen to you, my sweet summer child. never.]
Please, children, please, don’t read my fics looking for moral guidance. Oh my god. I do write wholesome filth sometimes, I do, because I like wholesome shit sometimes, but I also write bad things, and I sometimes pepper things with convincing realism (I am fond of writing good awkward sex, that’s a trope I like) but they are not real. My real sex life is nothing like this. Your real sex life will never be anything like it either. Oh my god.
My writing is neither moral nor immoral. It is stories I am driven to tell, because I want to read them, and they are imperfect mirrors of my observations at bestI have no particular agenda in any of them and please don’t infer one.
I don’t know how to respond to this comment, though. Like… uh… glad you found what you needed but uhhhh i also write stuff that you’d probably think drags “the culture” down so maybe don’t keep clicking? IDK man. What do you say?
