BDSM Query...

[savageseraph]

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*

Comments

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I don't read RPS, so can't speak to that, but I've read and occasionally enjoyed BDSM in several fandoms (Highlander, both Stargates, Buffyverse, NCIS).

I've disliked or felt indifferent to far more BDSM fics than I've liked, though.

I think that's because BDSM in and of itself is not one of my kinks, so the mere presence of the kink or its trappings isn't enough to do it for me.

What's important to me is powerful emotion, intimacy, and character insight. Good BDSM can be almost unparalleled in its capacity to bring out all of these. In particular, BDSM (at least when it's written the way I like) is profoundly intimate, and that's a bulletproof kink.

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Thanks for taking the time to comment. Everyone was so helpful in terms of giving me a lot to think about for the presentation.