noooooooooo -.-
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reenkaSeeker, 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 08:44 am (UTC)i didn't mean you recced it, i said that for shit and giggles. and of course there's things worth to be taken seriously in fandom and fanfic writing, but something as silly as snape being harry's dad just isn't to me -- which i am saying just to explain why i cracked a joke in the first place. maybe we just have different perspective on the whole harry and snape relationship and snape? i know a lot of people only can see draco as the funny guy, and well, i feel almost the same about snape. so when they told me about the severitus challenge the first time i just laughed and laughed and laughed. YMMV. well, that's a tangent.
to sum it up, maybe it's not good to mock anything in sight, but you're taking all too seriously, or maybe just what i say. lighten up!
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Date: 2005-04-10 08:57 am (UTC)I do think I take the things you say too seriously 'cause I get defensive when I'm teased unless it's really overtly light-hearted. Your jokes are more deadpan/mocking than silly...? It works better if I'm RPing Harry (sometimes) 'cause he can be biting/mock right back or whatever, whereas I just don't go into that mode. I'm pretty light-hearted most of the time, I think, actually-- it's just that my sense of humor is pretty silly (the chinko thing is a prime example-- but then you rarely respond to the parts -I- was joking about). And by silly I actually mean cutely silly, which is what that word makes me think of. I think it clashes with a certain type of sarcasm.
What I'm trying to say is, I can seem oversensitive, but it's not something I can control by lightening up, because in all actuality I'm already nearly constantly amusing myself or being amused. And I think I said 'Severus' because I kept seeing 'Severitus' over & over. ^^;
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Date: 2005-04-10 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-10 09:16 am (UTC)there's no shame in taking things too seriously. it makes you a gray character!! i take sasuke's fangirls too seriously, for example.