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If any of you all have a few extra minutes today or tomorrow and you are inclined to take pity on the Sick!Seraph, please reply to this and talk to me a little about what you think about BDSM fics, and if you know other readers/writers who like/dislike them, encourage them to drop by too.
Your answers can be free form, of course, but I'm particularly interested if you respond differently to BDSM fics if they are FPS vs RPS. Like them better in one form or another? Why? The same thing for writers. Are you more likely to write BDSM in FPS or RPS? Why? What is it about BDSM fics that you particularly enjoy? Or if you are one of those people who see a BDSM warning on a fic and think, "I'll pass," why? Are there any cliches or trends in BDSM fics that bother you? What are they and why?
I'm mostly focusing on the LOTR fandoms here, because saying anything specifically that applies to a single fandom is near impossible. It becomes even more so when extended across fandoms.
*toddles off to medicate self*
Your answers can be free form, of course, but I'm particularly interested if you respond differently to BDSM fics if they are FPS vs RPS. Like them better in one form or another? Why? The same thing for writers. Are you more likely to write BDSM in FPS or RPS? Why? What is it about BDSM fics that you particularly enjoy? Or if you are one of those people who see a BDSM warning on a fic and think, "I'll pass," why? Are there any cliches or trends in BDSM fics that bother you? What are they and why?
I'm mostly focusing on the LOTR fandoms here, because saying anything specifically that applies to a single fandom is near impossible. It becomes even more so when extended across fandoms.
*toddles off to medicate self*
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I'm much more tolerant of unsafe sex in FPS because I know it's a different world, and that these people are fake. I can't stand RPS rape fic, but if it's done well in FPS, then I'll read it. I can disengage more when it's Aragorn raping Boromir and not Viggo raping Sean. The sexual and relationship politics are different and RPS is not FPS. Different ideaologies and different ideas, so the schism (that's not the right word, but I can't think of the right one) between them is very clear, even if it can overlap.
I think that it's where my paper is heading because there is a difference there for me too, and it seems for a lot of people, even if they aren't conscious of it, based on what they are writing. Any thoughts about why you respond this way?
Really liked what you had to say about issues of consent as well. And much that is labelled BDSM being something else entirely.
*takes medicine, coughs and wheezes a little*