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yaoi_daily, someone said that Asami Tohjoh's got 'the highest record for random expulsions of blood from girls' noses', hehe, and suddenly I thought of the book I'd found once on the street, recently unearthed as I pack [...slowly]. It's supposed to be a women's erotica anthology [called 'Pleasures'] and... man. I won't say it -sucks-, but it definitely isn't going to cause any nose-bleeds anytime soon. It just struck me that if you read 'women's erotica' in the het or published lesbian flavors, it's like, you'll get a sad, limp little idea of what women writers are actually capable of (though even historical romances seem more inventive to me... possibly 'cause novel-length allows for the character development that makes smut interesting to me. Most of the time. :> :> Heh.)
Anyway, I don't just mean slash or fanfic... I mean, yaoi seems equally important if you're going to make some sort of report on 'women's erotica today' or something [and more than half the time it's definitely not in-depth character development]. I dunno.
As much as people have done studies on slash by now, there's not as much research tying it together with yaoi & historical romances & more literary stuff, is there? Man, my fingers are definitely itching. I definitely think that there's a lot stuff I find boring, personally, 'cause it's modeled on traditional het dynamics-- but there's also lots of slash -and- yaoi just based on homosocial male friendship stuff, making it blatantly sexual.
There's also lots of more extreme power-play in m/m stuff [yaoi or slash] that is either lacking from published het erotica or relegated to 'themed' anthologies or stories, specifically out for that kink. I mean, my favorite story [which I only skimmed] in that anthology was based around the woman pretending she had a penis & fucking her [macho/dominant] partner 'like a guy'. It seems so weird & obscene when I just say it like that, but it's really emotional standard for slash, I think. There's the flipside of greater het conformity-- role-rejection and/or subversion all going on at once, sometimes within the same story, which many reviews of yaoi, at least, tend to miss. Ahhh, I love analyzing porn <3.
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In other news, uh... I think my neighbors stole my debit card from my mailbox & went on a shopping spree [well, I don't have to pay, anyway]. Even that made me think of fandom, which is pretty sad, I realize that. I was like 'see, I bet if it was one of those I K331 U, HOW DARE U ST331 MY PR0N SNIPPET!! :O! type people, they would've gone upstairs to kill someone by now'. I'm barely peeved, though a bit disturbed. ^^;;
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EDIT - You know, if I could destroy one injustice in the world, it wouldn't be racism or violence, probably. No. It would be purple prose. :))
yaoi_daily, someone said that Asami Tohjoh's got 'the highest record for random expulsions of blood from girls' noses', hehe, and suddenly I thought of the book I'd found once on the street, recently unearthed as I pack [...slowly]. It's supposed to be a women's erotica anthology [called 'Pleasures'] and... man. I won't say it -sucks-, but it definitely isn't going to cause any nose-bleeds anytime soon. It just struck me that if you read 'women's erotica' in the het or published lesbian flavors, it's like, you'll get a sad, limp little idea of what women writers are actually capable of (though even historical romances seem more inventive to me... possibly 'cause novel-length allows for the character development that makes smut interesting to me. Most of the time. :> :> Heh.)Anyway, I don't just mean slash or fanfic... I mean, yaoi seems equally important if you're going to make some sort of report on 'women's erotica today' or something [and more than half the time it's definitely not in-depth character development]. I dunno.
As much as people have done studies on slash by now, there's not as much research tying it together with yaoi & historical romances & more literary stuff, is there? Man, my fingers are definitely itching. I definitely think that there's a lot stuff I find boring, personally, 'cause it's modeled on traditional het dynamics-- but there's also lots of slash -and- yaoi just based on homosocial male friendship stuff, making it blatantly sexual.
There's also lots of more extreme power-play in m/m stuff [yaoi or slash] that is either lacking from published het erotica or relegated to 'themed' anthologies or stories, specifically out for that kink. I mean, my favorite story [which I only skimmed] in that anthology was based around the woman pretending she had a penis & fucking her [macho/dominant] partner 'like a guy'. It seems so weird & obscene when I just say it like that, but it's really emotional standard for slash, I think. There's the flipside of greater het conformity-- role-rejection and/or subversion all going on at once, sometimes within the same story, which many reviews of yaoi, at least, tend to miss. Ahhh, I love analyzing porn <3.
~~
In other news, uh... I think my neighbors stole my debit card from my mailbox & went on a shopping spree [well, I don't have to pay, anyway]. Even that made me think of fandom, which is pretty sad, I realize that. I was like 'see, I bet if it was one of those I K331 U, HOW DARE U ST331 MY PR0N SNIPPET!! :O! type people, they would've gone upstairs to kill someone by now'. I'm barely peeved, though a bit disturbed. ^^;;
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EDIT - You know, if I could destroy one injustice in the world, it wouldn't be racism or violence, probably. No. It would be purple prose. :))
