Mar. 31st, 2010

Smut Lite

Mar. 31st, 2010 09:42 am
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(Using an icon I titled, "Love at First Sight," which is a statement appropriate to this entry. Because I like my boyslash-y icons, even though I hardly ever use them!)

A very quick, extremely slightly more fun entry: I'd like to thank the ladies of Goldenlake for making me appreciate the joys of R rated, and even PG-13 rated, smut.

This is where my fandom background makes things interesting: fans of Joss Whedon's various projects tend to like their smut hard (you even see an NC-21 tag, once in a while). And.... I'd be lying, big time, if I said I don't see the appeal. Ooh, do I!

So when Smackdown started out and people were talking about Operation: Smut, relating to a board with an R rating limit, my response was pretty much, "WTF?"

I totally get it now! It's the beauty of leaving just enough to the imagination, in literary form. And it's delicious. (And easier to do with originality, to my mind, than full-out porn fics.) This is definitely a lesson worth learning. (Have I  mentioned my extreme love for all things Goldenlake related? <3 )

Further commentary on writing, smut, and gender issues -- along with a March fic round up -- will probably be up Sunday. Which, ahem, is a great way to spend Easter.
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Has anybody ready The King of Attolia and/or A Conspiracy of Kings?

How are they?

I adore The Thief and The Queen of Attolia SO MUCH. To me, they're perfection in literature. They're on the short list of books, and Turner is on the short list of authors, that I love so much I will never look for or read or attempt to write fanfic for them -- because the books are complete, in and of themselves, and any fic that's even slightly less-perfect would be such a huge step down from the canon itself that it would break my heart in half.

So I have shiny new copies of The King of Attolia and A Conspiracy of Kings sitting on my bedroom floor (er. I might need to clean my room.), and I'm trying to decide if I'm brave enough to read them.

What if they're not as good as the first two?

Any thoughts?

No spoilers, please. Just tell me if, loving the first two so much, I'm likely to be disappointed by the next two.


The rest of that short list? Ellen Emerson White's Vietnam-era books, Edith Pattou's East, and everything by Nicola Griffith (though I'd make an exception on that if [livejournal.com profile] kitty_ryan  was the one writing). Diana Wynne Jones would be on the list, but she's written so very many widely divergent and wonderously creative things, it feels less profane to fic her work, even if you make a bosh of it.

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