Time out for fic.

[icarus]

I am low energy right now and miss fandom, want to play.

Time to find some fic. One-shots, no time for novels till my own's done.

Read anything good lately?

Comments

[auburn]

Check out the sga kinkmeme? Some of the fills have already been tagged at del.icio.us.

here

I liked Vocal, Breaking Together and Saying No. There's also one there that creeps me the fuck out, What Games We Play. It's supposed to be skeevy, but ew, ew, ick, do not want. It's true horror to me.

[icarus]

Oh, I like the names "Vocal" and "Saying No." Must read.

Out of morbid curiosity, which one freaks you out and why?

[auburn]

The one called 'What Games We Play' with the mind control, noncon. It's rape, it's more than one monstrous person, it's the implication that it will go on, be worse, that no one will ever even realize what they're doing to him. It's the flipside of fantasy. I'm not saying it's bad, it's just that some of my hot buttons are right next to my squick buttons.

[icarus]

I had a feeling it was that one. Something about the combination of factors....

[auburn]

And yet, I read sabinelegrande's Beholden last night and was only mildly skeeved. Which is often my reaction to her stories... Does that make me a masochist? ;-)

[icarus]

You know, Beg Me For It was translated into Russian by a very talented writer (and artist). Those who could read both Russian and English said that the English (mine) was painfully stark, that they couldn't read it, but hers was much gentler, more moving.

The starkness of the story was the point.

But even the same story, if told in a different way, can have a completely different effect.

[auburn]

I thought of Beholden because it's another no way to say no scenario, but the context and intent of the person in control while a little questionable in Beholden isn't vicious/cruel in the way the kinkmeme story is. Beholden really is the story of the fantasy come true, the other one is all nightmare.

[icarus]

I had a friend who wrote nightmare non-con. One of her stories is called "And Just Plain Wrong." It's ... I couldn't get through a page.

Love her other, non non-con stuff though.

[auburn]

Uh. ::snortgiggle:: Truth in advertising! It just occurred to me I better not lob any more stones considering the scene in the Big Bang story definitely skirts dubcon/mind control territory. What would the term be for sex with another sentient species? Xenophilia?

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

::cough:: Jack Harkness's idea of a pleasant Thursday evening? ::cough::

[auburn]

That too. :-)

[icarus]

It was recc'd everywhere! People raved about this story. I just responded to these reviews with a respectful, "Um. Not my thing." Internally I thought, "!???!ee?"

Xenophilia would be a fetish for sex with another species, wouldn't it?