#painfully heterosexual

[fansong-tournament]

Round 1B.19

We Are Who We Are

Fandom: Fandom Itself? Multiple? Yes?

Artist: Vixy and Tony

Propaganda: "This is about all of us" -submitter

Painfully Heterosexual

Fandom: Supernatural

Artist: tastyboots

[eternallyfatedjadedspaded]

I said something so true today, pls use it on the painfully het things you were forced to watch.

[scribe-of-monsters]

Someday I'll make a hate post for dark descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein but not today

[curiousorigins]

This might be about Dean Winchester. But some of it definitely fits House.

House M.D. (2004-2012) I 4.12 - Don't Ever Change

[randomminty]

He’s telling everyone increasingly horrifying bug facts

[cristhine-inkwell]

Rainflower mutual yearning save me...rainflower...save me rainflower's mutual yearning

[shondhamaloti]

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[not-poignant]

Sorry this is so long I literally cannot help myself:

I’ve been a reader on ao3 for a long time. This year, for the sake of giving my brain something new and in order to be a mysterious hottie on the metro, I’ve challenged myself to read some published books. It has been a really fun and very interesting experience. I could write essays of personal and literary reflections.

But, favorite author mine, one difference I did not expect, and in hindsight it should have been obvious, was the vast, essentially ideological difference in what is called smut.

I started reading the Court of Thorns and Roses series and it’s good, I’m having a good time. But the thing is, everyone calls it faerie smut. And I guess it must be. When I heard faerie smut and decided to give the series a try, my faerie smut background came from ao3, namely fae tales and the ice plague.

“With each thrust I felt his love and saw the stars” really has nothing on “my entire family burnt and now my lover has his hands in my mouth and up my ass while he heats me up so thoroughly I’m basically delirious and then our sex mentor wine aunt was hungry and told me I was doing good while he drank my blood and his lover who is also the king casually reads nearby likely with bits of flesh stripped off him as an act of sacrificial love.”

The thing is, the sex scenes I’ve read in Sarah J. Maas’s series don’t really… do much. Regardless of crazy scenario, essentially every of the many erotic scenes in the fae tales verse either moves the plot forward, is essential to character development, or showcases emotional intimacy. (Which, tangent, is why you’re more recent works that generally showcase way less sexual content still feel so similar because the plot is still moving forward, characters are still developing, and the emotional intimacy is still so delectable.)

So anyway, reading book books has been really nice and a surprisingly reflective experience. I kinda forgot how little is considered scandalous by so many.

(And also, compared to ao3 which I usually read on my phone, it’s very difficult to read physical books while horizontal. Another plus for ebooks?)

Hi hi anon!

I'm glad you're enjoying the experience of reading 'book' books! :D I've heard many good things, and while I'm not likely to read it (I don't read cishet m/f if I'm not being forced to), I think it's awesome that it's going so viral and getting lots of folks into fantasy :D

As for the ACOTAR sex scenes, I haven't read them, but I feel like they fall into a certain kind of spicy sex scene being written right now that falls under 'explicit' for readers not used to seeing this stuff in fantasy, but absolutely kind of doesn't for people used to reading smut on AO3.

I find for myself, I can't handle these kinds of sex scenes because they're often over in like one or two pages and they feel very empty to me. They're not empty to many readers and I'm not trying to say they're empty overall, I just need a lot more emotionality, meatiness, and often character-based stakes.

Or I think about it this way: I've written sex scenes that are easily 6,000-9,000 words long. That's a tenth of a written standard-length novel. That's too long for novels. This is why you never see these kinds of sex scenes published anywhere except for erotica, and in erotica there's pressure to make the sex scenes shorter anyway. The only place where I know I can safely write sex to the length and breadth I want to is in serials, on AO3.

Authors in the mainstream book-writing world are kind of forced into a shape that fits the length of the book they're writing. If they write three very deep/lengthy sex scenes of the length that I write at, firstly they'd be thrown into the erotica dungeon (can no longer be searched for on most distribution websites), and secondly, that means they lose a lot of space for writing story, which for many of these writers does not happen during or because of sex scenes.

Authors can still sometimes write very hot sex scenes in a few hundred words, or one or two pages, don't get me wrong! But the vibe is different. I've never really liked sex scenes in anything published except for erotica, because it often feels... idk, like for example this line:

"“With each thrust I felt his love and saw the stars”"

Idk if this is canon to the book, but for me this means nothing. Why is the character feeling this way? What is it about the thrusts? What is it about the pose? Is it about eye contact? (And is this innately comfortable? How neurotypical is this character?) Undulation? Does he linger at the end? Is it because he circles his hips a certain way? Because that's not love, that's just talent.

I suppose for me, as a reader, I need explanations that let me understand why emotional shifts are happening in a sex scene. In the same way that I would need them in any other character change.

Other people I think can suspend their disbelief better and think 'wow that sounds amazing and hot.' I'm like 'I don't get it.'

And that's very much a me-problem! It's just a me-problem that I think I share with quite a lot of other readers, which is why we're all out here enjoying much longer sex scenes and then realise we can't really find them anywhere except for like... AO3, and some manhwa and manga and published erotica lmao. (I do think you're actually also more likely to find it in like f/f and m/m of any genre).

Anyway, on the flipside, some people find my sex scenes way too long and don't see the point. So all this stuff needs to exist for everyone! I just yeah, really like sex scenes where character stuff is happening. I can't write them otherwise, likely because I'm ace, and don't really find 'look at hot body = want to have sex' a thing that's relatable.

[rainia]

Introducing a new character to my older sister's dnd campaign this evening and i Know in my Heart that this character is a they/them monach or at least a she/they queen. Unfortunately I have in fact made Flare she/her. Because I do not think this particular group to be well accustomed to they/them pronouns. lol. Anyways I'll probably just refer to Flare as they and then see if it over time, it'll just be normalized to the group lmaoo

[kirkwallguy]

the witcher 3 is so funny. there are like 2 gay people in the entire game but the first area is full of people being period accurate homophobic about a dead guy

[kikuism]

the posts in the gojo tag omggg stop making him sexy i need him tortured!!!!!!

[quillkiller]

watching nobody wants this and im sad to report its one of the worst shows ive ever seen

[seasononeklaus]

i hated the ending as much as the next guy but even without that. like. the plot holes, the abandonded plot lines and character archs and relationships – and the ocean of lost possibilities on that front, and the way the writers don’t even seem to watch their own show by how many details about the characters and the world building they’ve seemingly forgotten??? this shit sucked ass man

[lesbx]

cass having dialogue for couriers with cherchez la femme where she stumbles over herself trying to be like you know i’m not homophobic. i’ve thought of maybe having sex with women when i’ve been so drunk i can’t think. and just literally not hearing herself when she says that

[raventrigonsdaughter]

Hear me out, Mizu x Butch chick she will meet in london... i miss caitvi ok?

[peach-s0up]

i need more h2g2 content do i watch the movie guys