noooooooooo -.-
Apr. 9th, 2005 11:59 pmSeeker, who writes my idea of the best H/S smut like, -ever-, apparently wrote H/D on a challenge.
...Where Snape is Harry's father.
...lifesohard!!
See, most people don't seem to understand this point of view, but I think smut should actually be more precisely and professionally written than uh, 'normal' fic. It is not, or shouldn't be, easier to get 'right'. There's this overwhelming philosophy that it's all about the kink-- that if you say act/situation X is going on and that's what the reader wanted to imagine, that's all any reader could hope to ask for. Argh. This is the sort of attitude that makes 95% of all smut suck so bad 'cause it's written even more sloppily than 'normal' fics. And all it really takes is a little genuine feel for language in general, I think. I suppose this is like railing at the horrible abuses of basic anatomy in a lot of manga; just because you're an artist doesn't mean you can draw well, etc. Well, but at least I can tell when I've messed up and wouldn't publish it if I thought it sucked....
In other news, sometimes I get so frustrated I want to like, ban usage of certain terms for sexual organs in fics. Especially when they're overused (as in, five times per paragraph and sometimes 2 per sentence), words like 'arousal' and 'wetness'... why do people use them?! Why? I do not understand! Why do you hurt me so? Why-- why, god? I mean, smut-writer!
Leaving aside the glorious simplicity of using 'penis' and 'vagina' if you're feeling really uninspired, I've decided that the really cool people will just use Japanese. Nothing beats "chinko". (Plural, "chinkos".)
And you can call people "chinko-head!!" in public so easily. Just think of it! The freedom!
...This post brought to you by rather odd sleep patterns and too much sugar. And really bad porn everywhere, from sea to shining sea.
...Where Snape is Harry's father.
...lifesohard!!
See, most people don't seem to understand this point of view, but I think smut should actually be more precisely and professionally written than uh, 'normal' fic. It is not, or shouldn't be, easier to get 'right'. There's this overwhelming philosophy that it's all about the kink-- that if you say act/situation X is going on and that's what the reader wanted to imagine, that's all any reader could hope to ask for. Argh. This is the sort of attitude that makes 95% of all smut suck so bad 'cause it's written even more sloppily than 'normal' fics. And all it really takes is a little genuine feel for language in general, I think. I suppose this is like railing at the horrible abuses of basic anatomy in a lot of manga; just because you're an artist doesn't mean you can draw well, etc. Well, but at least I can tell when I've messed up and wouldn't publish it if I thought it sucked....
In other news, sometimes I get so frustrated I want to like, ban usage of certain terms for sexual organs in fics. Especially when they're overused (as in, five times per paragraph and sometimes 2 per sentence), words like 'arousal' and 'wetness'... why do people use them?! Why? I do not understand! Why do you hurt me so? Why-- why, god? I mean, smut-writer!
Leaving aside the glorious simplicity of using 'penis' and 'vagina' if you're feeling really uninspired, I've decided that the really cool people will just use Japanese. Nothing beats "chinko". (Plural, "chinkos".)
And you can call people "chinko-head!!" in public so easily. Just think of it! The freedom!
...This post brought to you by rather odd sleep patterns and too much sugar. And really bad porn everywhere, from sea to shining sea.
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Date: 2005-04-10 05:22 am (UTC)But damn, the amount of shota showing up on
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Date: 2005-04-10 05:51 am (UTC)Hoshino Lily's the only one who makes shota seem... sexy to me. I'm mostly thinking of Nakama's recent release, Kawaii Gatte, what with the android kitty-bois and such, ehehe. I think it's 'cause she draws them more like dolls than like little boys, maybe? I dunno. Well more like sex-bots than like little boys, and in this last case she went literal. Also, 'course the art is gorgeous. And also I liked Yamato Nase's Magical Travel Boy, but didn't find it sexy. Ahaha I kept reading Minami Haruka's stuff after the last chapter of Liking You (which was tres hot), hoping she'd achieve the same level of hotness sometime-- but Attractive Body just doesn't compare after that bit with the exhibitionism & the masturbation kink and the... yes -.-
Hahah I haven't been following yaoi_daily since I'm already swamped with stuff on my to-read list ^^;;;