Extended Promo - Goodbye Stranger SPN 8 x 17
CAS is back
2013-03-05
Not so much
I clicked on a simple bdsm fic because the header noted 'it's really dirty' and it wasn't. Meh, false advertising. What is was consisted of a laundry list of actions and cliche'd dialogue you'd get from any random porn ficlet in any universe. There wasn't anything in particular that would make it unique to the character or the situation. Pretty much it was all description, no emotion, no sense of time or place or the character's inner dialogue and senses. A case of the author telling us what's happening, not showing us and allowing us to be engaged.
So a suggestion for writers of erotica, think about how your character would react in a certain situation either having all the power he/she wants, or no freedom at all and how they would react, and in the venacular they would use. Think about what they have done and expereinced in their lives and what led them here, good writing of any sort, including erotica, has every action as a form of character developement. How is this encounter changing or not changing the indivduals involved?
Avoid at all costs tropes and slang. Don't assume the audience (or even the character) knows the terminology. And use characters and universes to your advantage - If for example, you have a supernatural creature engaging in said play, what different ways could they use their abilities, how could you make it different and unique, that's what makes something really 'dirty' or 'hot' you have to have the feeling that you are there in the present with the character(s) using sensation, taste, smell, though you have to watch how detailed and specific youare, because that could also turn off a reader.
What I read wasn't dirty, it was Boring.
So a suggestion for writers of erotica, think about how your character would react in a certain situation either having all the power he/she wants, or no freedom at all and how they would react, and in the venacular they would use. Think about what they have done and expereinced in their lives and what led them here, good writing of any sort, including erotica, has every action as a form of character developement. How is this encounter changing or not changing the indivduals involved?
Avoid at all costs tropes and slang. Don't assume the audience (or even the character) knows the terminology. And use characters and universes to your advantage - If for example, you have a supernatural creature engaging in said play, what different ways could they use their abilities, how could you make it different and unique, that's what makes something really 'dirty' or 'hot' you have to have the feeling that you are there in the present with the character(s) using sensation, taste, smell, though you have to watch how detailed and specific youare, because that could also turn off a reader.
What I read wasn't dirty, it was Boring.
Meta and a sense of entitlement
I post I read was a plea to the show runners and writers to read meta as an indication of the seriousness of the fandom audience. Their take was that when show runners, writers (and actors) only look at fanfiction and fanart they'll always think of fandom as fluffy and plain bad and never realize that there are very good and 'valid' reasons to make (for example a certain ship) changes to canon.
This makes the assumption that all meta is well-thought out and considered, and not that there is as much illogical thinking and wishfullfilment in meta as there is in less serious 'fanfic' and 'fanart.'
But along with that comes the idea that internet fandom is the only fandom, that there are not many thousands or even millions who watch a show, but never make fanfic, fanart or meta, but still impact the writers and creators and actors nonetheless, through the medium of snailmail! conventions and most directly, ratings!
Here is the nature of entitlement, that if an argument is backed up by bulletpoints and time and effort, it should be listened to, over the desires of the people who make the show (or write the book, or produce the film, or the play, etc.) What meta can be is intriguing, thoughtful, funny and envigorating, just as the mediums of fanart and fanfic, what it can't do, is force anyone to do what they don't want with their own creation.
This makes the assumption that all meta is well-thought out and considered, and not that there is as much illogical thinking and wishfullfilment in meta as there is in less serious 'fanfic' and 'fanart.'
But along with that comes the idea that internet fandom is the only fandom, that there are not many thousands or even millions who watch a show, but never make fanfic, fanart or meta, but still impact the writers and creators and actors nonetheless, through the medium of snailmail! conventions and most directly, ratings!
Here is the nature of entitlement, that if an argument is backed up by bulletpoints and time and effort, it should be listened to, over the desires of the people who make the show (or write the book, or produce the film, or the play, etc.) What meta can be is intriguing, thoughtful, funny and envigorating, just as the mediums of fanart and fanfic, what it can't do, is force anyone to do what they don't want with their own creation.