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

[littlehollyleaf.livejournal.com]

It's ok, I don't mind a lack of smut :) I'd rather have a story with a plot/philosophical discussion most of the time myself, and you really are very very good at that!

I am v. scared about what I'm going to do when the boys get together in my AU, because I have a strong suspiction it'll turn out I'm not a smut writer either :s

You post kinda implies gen fic doesn't involve slut btw :p Is this true?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee, it's good to know I'm not alone in my tastes! And good luck with your own fic'ing (we should start a smut support group!)

Gen fic usually is "general fiction" (though some call it "genre fiction" these days) and is, by most definitions, non-pairing fic, without romance or sex (as opposed to het fic, which is male/female pairing fic). The majority of my fic is gen; my SV is more the exception than the rule!

[littlehollyleaf.livejournal.com]

Smut Support Group! Fantastic!

And yes, ignore my query about gen fic. I am a little tired and very hot and not focusing and for some bizarre reason I thought it read 'het fic.' If I'd stopped to consider the context of your post at all I would have realised exactly how much sense that didn't make :p

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

(in other news, icon! eee! the Doctor! in glasses! <3)

[littlehollyleaf.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! Indeed.

Dr Who is my first love. There are currently many pretty thoughts floating about in my head where Ten, Capt. Jack, Clark and Lex all meet up and Ten offers his glasses to Clark and they angst over being the last of their race while Lex and Jack get up to naughty stuff in a back room... Being a ridiculous PWP I know I'll never write it down though. It would offer an explanation of how Clark gets his glasses though, I wonder if Smallville will ever address that issue...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I am brand new to Dr. Who (and only the modern version) but...eee! And yes! The moment Ten first popped on the (incredibly adorkable) glasses I went "Hey, you stole those from the Daily Planet!"

Doctor Who is fantastic...

[greenlady2.livejournal.com]

... I love Doctor Who -- all of them.:-)))

Though my favourites are Three, Nine and Ten. I loved Eight as well, but he appeared only in a TV movie, and the movie was a bit odd. But I loved the Doctor in that, of course. I always love the Doctor, even if he's in one of his annoying manifestations.