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The lure of story and smut.
Jan. 16th, 2021 03:42 pmI write fanfiction when something in a property (or in the fandom's other takes on it!) makes me go "I'd really like to see X happen." It's about story. It's about the hooks that pull you in. It's about questions left unanswered in the world. What if so and so were queer? What if Equestria weren't just for kids, what if you think through the consequences of that world in an adult way? (What if a utopian place like that had sex workers? What if a changeling were a sex worker?) It's about idea.
Some fandoms, though, I just...can't help myself. ALL of those ideas spawn a sex scene!
Sometimes I write it on the side, for myself. Sometimes it's a bonus at the end, sometimes it's worked into the middle, and sometimes it's integral to the idea, like the changeling brothel idea above.
Thing is, though, in pony, most ideas don't spawn sex scenes. Know why? I'm not attracted to horses, that's why. Cartoon or otherwise. Of course when an interesting character is seen through the eyes of somebody who is attracted, say another pony, then the sexy stuff is sexy. It's written and drawn to be that way, and I can see the appeal and even get turned on! But I'm getting turned on by the depiction, not by anything inherent to the character's physical appearance. If I see a picture of Twilight Sparkle being characteristically Twilight-ish, even a super well drawn one that shows everything I like about the character... It's still a cartoon horse, and I do not think "hot damn, get in bed now!"
The fandoms where I can't help myself and all ideas also come out sexy, well... *coughs* Legend of Zelda's been the big one so far. If Link is there, I want to bang him. I want to bang all adult Links all the time. :D So the characters I write are going to want to as well, and thus nearly all my Zelda fics either are smut, or have smutty bonus content of some kind, even when it's tucked away where the readers will never see it.
Hades?
Yeah.
Oh yeah. Thanatos and Zagreus are just... Hnnnnnng. Megaera is pretty damn hot too, and most of the Olympians are all right, and some of the other Cthonians are not half bad either, though not exactly my type.
Thus far 100% of my Hades fics started (8 as of this moment) are smutty. Even the one where the plot isn't specifically about sex is going to have three sex scenes.
They're so dang hot!
P.S. Good Omens hits some middle point here, because I find Crowley fairly hot, for somebody played by a flesh and blood human being, and Aziraphale cute and attractive and self-inserty, so it's easy to go "I feel like Zira, and I like Crowley, so I will write him liking Crowley" but it's not quite the same "OMG I AM GETTING DROOL ON THE KEYBOARD" that Thanatos/Zagreus and even moreso Thanatos/Zagreus/Megaera does to me, nor the "You are my platonic ideal of the imaginary boyfriend" that Link does.
Some fandoms, though, I just...can't help myself. ALL of those ideas spawn a sex scene!
Sometimes I write it on the side, for myself. Sometimes it's a bonus at the end, sometimes it's worked into the middle, and sometimes it's integral to the idea, like the changeling brothel idea above.
Thing is, though, in pony, most ideas don't spawn sex scenes. Know why? I'm not attracted to horses, that's why. Cartoon or otherwise. Of course when an interesting character is seen through the eyes of somebody who is attracted, say another pony, then the sexy stuff is sexy. It's written and drawn to be that way, and I can see the appeal and even get turned on! But I'm getting turned on by the depiction, not by anything inherent to the character's physical appearance. If I see a picture of Twilight Sparkle being characteristically Twilight-ish, even a super well drawn one that shows everything I like about the character... It's still a cartoon horse, and I do not think "hot damn, get in bed now!"
The fandoms where I can't help myself and all ideas also come out sexy, well... *coughs* Legend of Zelda's been the big one so far. If Link is there, I want to bang him. I want to bang all adult Links all the time. :D So the characters I write are going to want to as well, and thus nearly all my Zelda fics either are smut, or have smutty bonus content of some kind, even when it's tucked away where the readers will never see it.
Hades?
Yeah.
Oh yeah. Thanatos and Zagreus are just... Hnnnnnng. Megaera is pretty damn hot too, and most of the Olympians are all right, and some of the other Cthonians are not half bad either, though not exactly my type.
Thus far 100% of my Hades fics started (8 as of this moment) are smutty. Even the one where the plot isn't specifically about sex is going to have three sex scenes.
They're so dang hot!
P.S. Good Omens hits some middle point here, because I find Crowley fairly hot, for somebody played by a flesh and blood human being, and Aziraphale cute and attractive and self-inserty, so it's easy to go "I feel like Zira, and I like Crowley, so I will write him liking Crowley" but it's not quite the same "OMG I AM GETTING DROOL ON THE KEYBOARD" that Thanatos/Zagreus and even moreso Thanatos/Zagreus/Megaera does to me, nor the "You are my platonic ideal of the imaginary boyfriend" that Link does.