sex scenes in fanfic

[norwich36]

I found these two polls about whether we read fanfic primarily for the sex interesting, because over the holiday weekend I actually ran out of my backlog of SPN/J2 stuff to read, and I was surfing around delicious looking for interesting stuff. And depending on my mood, I can read in all sorts of fandoms I've never been active in (SGA or Merlin, for example) or fandom loves of the past (Due South, Buffy)--just to name a few I was reading in this weekend--but I almost never read the sex scenes in those stories. I skim them in case they contain interesting plot developments, but I don't read them closely because --with the exception of some specific d/s kinky stuff--they don't do anything for me.

Weird, no? I mean, it's not like I'm a big OTP girl; in SPN I'm just as happy to read Dean/Castiel or Sam/Gabriel or Sam/Lucifer as I am to read Dean/Sam, and I also really love Dean/Jo and John/Jo and Sam/Jess and Sam/Ruby and John/Mary, and in all of those I rarely skim the sex scenes unless they're really badly written. Similarly, in RPS even though I mainly read J2 I'll pretty much read either of the J's with any of their former or current girlfriends or with JDM and enjoy it a lot. But for some reason I am OTshow, or something like that--it has to be SPN-related or it just doesn't do it for me. Even stuff I would have saved under my "hotlikeburning" delicious tag from prior fandoms, if I had had delicious then, doesn't really, umm, have the same effect anymore. I can still love the stories, but they aren't effective as porn anymore. I guess SPN characters (in their fictional or RPS identities) are my kink now?

Anyone else have fanfic-related TMI they'd like to share?

Comments

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if you're looking for canonical pairings + well-written sex, you're not going to find a lot of it. (I'm surprised it doesn't exist in VMars or FNL fandom, though).

The thing about slash not laying the groundwork, though, is a generational thing. I think the first wave of stories in a fandom always does that, and then after a while it gets old to readers, so it's a step that gets skipped. So maybe you just need to find the earliest writers when you move into a new fandom?

I honestly think a lot of authors get a big following not because they're good writers but because they're prolific.

[mskatej.livejournal.com]

It totally exists in VMars fandom, but there's nowhere near as much as there would be in a slash-centric fandom. Never felt any desire read FNL fic so can't comment on that, but the canon is very satisfying so I suspect there's not much fic out there.

I think the first wave of stories in a fandom always does that, and then after a while it gets old to readers, so it's a step that gets skipped. So maybe you just need to find the earliest writers when you move into a new fandom?

I'm no slash expert but I'm not sure that's entirely true. I tried reading in Merlin fandom in S1 and it was the same deal: even with first time stories there seems to be an assumption that the boys are basically already in love with each other they just don't know it yet. Which obviously works for most slash fans (and back when I first discovered Clex it worked for me), but if I don't see that in canon then I need to see them actually fall for each other, or develop an attraction to each other, in the story. So basically I wrote the Merlin/Arthur story I wanted to read then fucked off back to Smallville. \o/

I honestly think a lot of authors get a big following not because they're good writers but because they're prolific.

Word.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Huh. I didn't know that about Merlin slash. So much for my generational theory!