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?
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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P.M. Marc - Mar 08, 2005 9:13:27 pm PST #9569 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Consuela - Mar 08, 2005 9:20:03 pm PST #9570 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
P.M. Marc - Mar 08, 2005 9:22:16 pm PST #9571 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.)
Lyra Jane - Mar 09, 2005 4:25:12 am PST #9572 of 10000
Up with the sun
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.
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2005 4:26:35 am PST #9573 of 10000
brillig
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.
Steph L. - Mar 09, 2005 4:28:42 am PST #9574 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Huh. I pretty much read Batfic *only* for the sex.
I won't say I skim the plotty stuff, because Batfic writers (the good ones) manage to advance the plot through Teh Sex, mostly b/c the Batfam is so incredibly emotionally fucked-up.
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2005 4:30:49 am PST #9575 of 10000
brillig
I pretty much read Batfic *only* for the sex
All right, I'll confess to that foler on my computer that holds the *special* stories (see authors I adore remark above). Sadly, there are few of those.
And now I'm thinking of Batman's suit as being a giant condom. I think I need caffeine.
Lyra Jane - Mar 09, 2005 4:31:15 am PST #9576 of 10000
Up with the sun
Well, there are fics you read for the sex, and then there are fics you read for the story that happen to have sex in them. Like, I'll read (total secret shame, here) PWP Buffy/Faith entirely because I think it's teh hott. But if I'm reading a 200 page Spike/Buffy epic, and the first sex scene doesn't either ring my bells or advance the plot, or I'm in a situation where bell-ringing would be inconvenient, I'll skim the rest of the sex.
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2005 4:39:24 am PST #9577 of 10000
brillig
"You can ring my be-e-ell, you can ring my bell."
Where's my disco CD?
Nutty - Mar 09, 2005 5:11:20 am PST #9578 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think I was born a BOFQ. Or, to be fair, I think I'm just attracted to a lot fewer of the fanfic principals than everyone else in the world. I'll actually read a sex scene if I actually, like, wish I were in it; but that's a smallish percentage of sex scenes for me.
I have my standards, yo.