woe is me

[xparrot]

I am just not cut out to be a slash writer. I can't write smut! I want to write smut. But the chars, they want to talk. For 8 pages! The hell, Lex? You want Clark. He wants you. What is the problem here? Just get down on your knees, boy. Geeze. It's not that difficult.

For some reason I can only write smut very late at night. Four in the morning when I'm supposed to be asleep, then I'll have all manner of sexy bodies in my head, writhing together under the sheets/against the wall/over the desk/in the mud/what-have-you. The rest of the time, might as well be a lost cause. Talking, though. I can write endless discussion anytime. I ought to stick to gen. But I like slash, too, darn it! If only it weren't haaaard...(and not in the good way.)

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I am quite possibly the worst slash fan ever, in that half the time I don't even read the smut; I skim the sex to get to the juicy bits, which for me is the...talking. And angst. And cuteness. And basically all the relationshipping that happens in between. This is probably why I can be both a slash and a gen fan without much mental dissonance. Though it doesn't explain why I have pairings like Clark/Lex which I simply cannot see as gen (even when I don't always read and can't hardly write the slashy bits.)

Comments

[airairo.livejournal.com]

Haha! I was beginning to wonder if I was getting old because 99% of the time when I see a fic labeled as PWP I just keep on scrolling XD I wasn't always like that.. it's a recent thing. It's much more interesting to read about the how and the why than the actual act itself, so I'm mostly cool with "fade to black" type things. (Though, the problem for me is usually that the description of sex ends up being so boring and repetitive. Some authors write amazing smut - the kind that really resonates with the characters and has an element to it that is important to the plot of the fic. But, if that isn't the case it can end up being uncomfortable, like when a sex scene in a movie goes on a little too long.)

Also, UST is always going to be a million times hotter than actual porn anyway.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I read PWPs for the story. ...Um, no, really. ^^; I will happily read the beginnings and ends of PWPs for the humor/angst and skip all the smexing in the middle. Like I said, worst slash fangirl ever!

And yeah, there's a few authors I enjoy reading their smut, because it is char intensive. A well-done sex scene can say as much as a conversation (or more, with some chars...!)

UST, ah, UST I like so far, and then I start screaming OKAY, HERE'S THE SACK, JUST GET INTO IT ALREADY! XD