I haven't read shalott's latest--I did like her previous SGA story a lot, but that was funny, well-plotted with the sex at the end that made sense. Maybe I'll give it a miss then.

And the plot kept getting derailed by sex scenes.

Heh. That was my problem with Iolokus--good plot, lovely writing, but by book 3, I was just sick of all the sex.

It's funny -- they don't tell you that when you become a BOFQ you start skimming the sex scenes. *g*

Hee. Sad but true.

Katie, are you around on YIM? I may need to bounce some ideas off you...

Yeah, hang on.

It's funny -- they don't tell you that when you become a BOFQ you start skimming the sex scenes.

So, if I confessed that StSS was my Secret Fandom Shame, I'd pretty much be admitting I'm a BOFQ before my time?

Only if you explain what StSS is.

On edit: Oh, duh. Skimming the Sex Scenes.

Well, if that's your secret shame, it's mine too, and that of a number of people I know. There are very few writers out there who can really make me pay attention to a sex scene. It has to say something about the characters or the plot, or be really well written.

Skimming the sex scenes.

(I'm having typing issues, and decided I was feeling too lazy to try to actually type it up there.)

(It took me three times to type it here without making horrible typos.)

I started skimming the sex scenes early in my fandom life, both because I used to read fic at work (I don't anymore) and because I figured out pretty quickly that very few of them add more to the story than saying "and then they had sex" would.

I pretty much skim the sex myself, unless it's an author I adore. I'm always harping on there being too much sex in stories, but it's more of a "does this advance the plot or characterization?" point of view. Otherwise I start feeling like somebody who watches TV with a checklist of things they're going to complain to the FCC about the next day.