Actual Fannish Content OMG
Apr. 23rd, 2009 11:29 pmSo I was talking[1] last night about various aspects of fanfic and women's erotic writing/art[2] in general and the topic of clichefic came up. Specifically the much-committed and almost as much derided rape/(sometimes) revenge/recovery plotline, with Bonus Magic Healing Through The Power Of True Love And/Or Amazing Sex that so many people love to hate.
A plot I will happily read, btw, if the story wrapped around it is good. Hell, I've even written it, more or less.
It's not everyone's thing, nor should it be.
But, really:
I cannot for the life of me imagine why the world is full of women[3] who are more-or-less erotically and creatively preoccupied with the fantasy that one really really good fuck from one really nice person with whom you are deeply and reciprocally in love can wipe out the effects of one or more traumatic sexual assaults, can you?
[1] I may have been ranting, actually.
[2] Hereafter defined as "that genre of work which is produced by many women and some men, and which appeals, by design, to many women and some men, instead of the genre which appeals to many men and some women." IOW, if you don't feel comfortable in this box as it is presented, I'll happily cut a window for you; no essentialism or exclusion intended or implied.
[3] And people who love women, and a few men.
A plot I will happily read, btw, if the story wrapped around it is good. Hell, I've even written it, more or less.
It's not everyone's thing, nor should it be.
But, really:
I cannot for the life of me imagine why the world is full of women[3] who are more-or-less erotically and creatively preoccupied with the fantasy that one really really good fuck from one really nice person with whom you are deeply and reciprocally in love can wipe out the effects of one or more traumatic sexual assaults, can you?
[1] I may have been ranting, actually.
[2] Hereafter defined as "that genre of work which is produced by many women and some men, and which appeals, by design, to many women and some men, instead of the genre which appeals to many men and some women." IOW, if you don't feel comfortable in this box as it is presented, I'll happily cut a window for you; no essentialism or exclusion intended or implied.
[3] And people who love women, and a few men.