idfic summer
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neveralarchOkay, so - I have spent the last academic year under the thrall of grad school, and now I am free for the summer. Mostly. Except for three projects and a conference. Like 80% free of grad school.
And the thing is, I've spent all of this spring reading other people's fic and thinking about writing my own fic and not having time and going 'but this summer, dude, you can do it this summer.' And I've also been thinking about what kind of things I find really compelling in fic that I hardly ever write myself, because it's too embarrassing or too self-indulgent or too ooc or WHATEVER. But fanfic is supposed to be fun, right? Which means I should be able to write some of my bullet-proof kinks without feeling guilty.
So I'm declaring an idfic summer. And I always wanted to do a fanfic bingo, so I made myself a bingo card.
Some of these are things I write or used to write all the time, some of these are things I just want to do, and quite a few are things I love when someone else does them but I've just never tried. Also I would like to try and make a fanvid.
I figure I'll just count all of the relevant spaces as marked for each fic/fanwork - none of this one work per square stuff, I'd like to make this reasonably doable. If anyone wants to join me, that would be rad! I will even make you a card if you want (though it will be based just on what I think you like, so probably not super accurate). But either way, when I reference the idfic summer in the future, this is what I'm talking about.
And the thing is, I've spent all of this spring reading other people's fic and thinking about writing my own fic and not having time and going 'but this summer, dude, you can do it this summer.' And I've also been thinking about what kind of things I find really compelling in fic that I hardly ever write myself, because it's too embarrassing or too self-indulgent or too ooc or WHATEVER. But fanfic is supposed to be fun, right? Which means I should be able to write some of my bullet-proof kinks without feeling guilty.
So I'm declaring an idfic summer. And I always wanted to do a fanfic bingo, so I made myself a bingo card.
| b_e fill | robots/cybernetics | hair pulling | extremely explicit consent | fencing AU |
| fistfight | arguing during sex | circus/ren faire AU | vampires or bloodplay | height difference |
| awkward/bad sex | anger management | any kind of fanvid | predicament bondage | clothes porn |
| ghosts | caregiving dom | food | M/F/M threesome | drug/alcohol use |
| roadtrip | sickfic | trainee/inexperienced dom | historical AU | collars |
Some of these are things I write or used to write all the time, some of these are things I just want to do, and quite a few are things I love when someone else does them but I've just never tried. Also I would like to try and make a fanvid.
I figure I'll just count all of the relevant spaces as marked for each fic/fanwork - none of this one work per square stuff, I'd like to make this reasonably doable. If anyone wants to join me, that would be rad! I will even make you a card if you want (though it will be based just on what I think you like, so probably not super accurate). But either way, when I reference the idfic summer in the future, this is what I'm talking about.
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Date: 2013-05-23 01:29 am (UTC)*sits down with many sodas and chips and a blanket*
*camps out forever*
Considering that I a.) like everything you write and I really should comment on your stuff more often even if my only coherent response is something like "!!!!!<3<3!!!!!!!!" and b.) like (most of) the things you got on this bingo card, I am super excited to see what you do with this.
omg GHOSTS. GHOSTS. *opens arms* THOU ART MINE KITH.
Question: by "clothes porn," do you mean where Character A is wearing clothes so fiiiiine and results in shenanigans with Character B, or do you mean where the clothes are having sex?
Because I already wrote the latter because I'm a crazy.Other Question: curious, but could you define what a "predicament bondage" situation sort of is? (Because my brain is conjuring up something like 'OH NOES CHAINED TO THE WALL IN A RAPIDLY FLOODING DUNGEON BUT OMG SO TURNED ON BY DANGER' in which case you need to go Indiana Jones on that, man, totally. Indiana Jones meets MacGyver in circus/ren faire AU with predicament bondage go go go.)
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Date: 2013-05-24 12:52 am (UTC)By clothes porn I mean much more the first scenario - it may not even involve actual sex, I may just write a drabble about how good Lucy Liu's Watson looks in heels. But, who knows, clothes having sex may also occur.
Predicament bondage is kind of complicated - it's when someone's restrained such that they have a choice between a couple of unsustainable positions. So like if someone's tied to a ceiling hook such that they can either stand uncomfortably on their toes (which they can't do for long) or they can hang their weight from their arms (which they definitely can't do for long). They're in a predicament. (Wikipedia has a page on this if the above explanation didn't make any sense.)
It's a little more pedestrian than you were expecting, but RAPIDLY FLOODING DUNGEON COULD TOTALLY ALSO WORK. I will think about this, haha.
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Date: 2013-05-23 07:41 am (UTC)but anyway! this one is irresistible. i'm glad you are embracing your id! although funny enough (even though i really like your fic and we are drawn to very similar characters and pairings across the fanzone) very few of your card things would be on my card also - at least... i assume not. historical AU, obviously. and arguing during sex.
i am also intrigued that... you like vampires. but hate cannibalism? intriguing... (as i said).
perhaps you should write some BY THE SWORD fic. since we all went (justifiably) crazy over that yuletide fic. and 'by the sword' (except not justifiably).
talking about kinks - since you wrote that post about cannibalism i've been thinking about liking fandoms where you really dislike something as well - and i don't think i've ever liked a canon that i didn't like something in, but... there are fandoms that embrace a certain reading of canon that i don't like. too much BDSM mostly, and i consider myself to like BDSM in some circumstances. i guess that's what happens when you're interested in pairings with massive power struggles - but i don't feel this necessarily needs to be played out with whips... and in a club.
more than that i've been i've been thinking that maybe what i don't like is PWP stuff - in a lot of doctor/master, we'd label stuff as 'PWP' but then there'd be this massive deal about whether the doctor should sleep with him at all and the master resneting him and stuff and basically - there was almost always a plot, even if it took place within the confines of kink. even in the relatively similar world of blake's 7 fic - there is a tonne of what i consider to be unframed sex stuff. i mean - there's also using sex to work out the plot, but... often too much sex for too little plot, etc etc.
i don't know. there's clearly more to this (i was interested in what the longest and/or most popular fics in doctor who on the AO3 were last night and accidentally stumbled into a/b/o stuff - mostly because the guide to this trope is the most popular doctor who fic. even though as far as i can see there's only only a/b/o fic in doctor who fandom)(though it is in our pairing...)(anyway - as i understand it, this trope is pretty much all the random sex i do not want. with some additional weirdnesses. ho hum.)
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Date: 2013-05-24 01:12 am (UTC)But yeah, we are definitely into very different tropes. Which is cool! The goal is always to write fic that someone can enjoy even if they are not 100% on board with my id. (Except for when I write historical fic. There the goal is just to feed my historical-obsessed brain.)
The thing with the vampires is that I imprinted on Terry Pratchett at a very early age, and his vampires don't eat people so much as snark at them and act vaguely threatening. And I do like (the idea of) bloodplay. Idk. I am a mass of contradictions. But I know I don't like bloodplay or vampire fic where somebody actually dies, so maybe that's the line between vampires and cannibalism for me.
I SHOULD write some By the Sword fic. I should write roadtrip BtS fic where the maestro and whatsisface ex-con guy have split into rival clubs and they both go to The Nationals to coach their students and inevitably fight with each other and both of them get black carded and have to sit outside the gym and coach via messengers and/or cell phones. I should do that.
Man, I def agree about the pwp and random sex clubs thing. I just find a little boring - I'll skim it once and maybe get something out of it, but I'll never go back to it. This is why my pinboard is mostly teen-rated fics, I guess, even though I do read a lot of adult and pwp fanfic.
And a/b/o, idk, I have read some brilliant stuff in that trope but it is all fic that really looks at the internal mechanics and society supporting the more ridic pwp fic. More meta, really. The fic that plays a/b/o completely straight always seems pretty skeevy to me, but maybe that's just because it is basically just random sex with as little set up as possible + some uncomfortable implications re: sexuality and society.
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Date: 2013-05-25 02:51 pm (UTC)OMG, I WOULD READ IT SO HARD. YES.
also - i see what you mean about the vampires and the not dying=ok. although the bloodplay... is still confusing to me. still - interesting.
btw - if you have the inclination, i'd be interested in you making me an id bingo base don what you think i like (i will try not to be too embarrassed when things like 'kidfic' show up). and i would try and at least make a one-line bingo on it.
but yes - you should write that by the sword fic.
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Date: 2013-05-25 11:29 pm (UTC)And I can def make you a card! The only things I can think of off the top of my head are indeed 'kidfic' and possibly 'pretending to be married' or 'actually being married' but I will make a run at coming up with a full bingo card's worth of stuff. (It will probably only be sort of accurate, but we'll see.)
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Date: 2013-05-26 09:25 am (UTC)to both parts, but particularly to the 'by the sword' fic! it was suggested to me yesterday that i could help tag-wrangle 'by the sword' on the Ao3, but there is one fic. i think it's fine ;)
but soon - two!!
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Date: 2013-05-26 09:26 am (UTC)although i don't want to give you too many hints, obviously, as i am deeply interested to see what you would say based on my fics.
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Date: 2013-05-28 03:45 am (UTC)I used a sort of okay bingo card generator - here is a text-version link, and here is the card as a .png:
IDK, I tried. Also I can't stop writing this BtS fic, I think I'm going to end up with 7k words that maybe two people will ever be interested in reading.
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Date: 2013-07-23 04:11 pm (UTC)Does that make sense? I'm happy to answer any specific questions you have, and I'm sorry the original post wasn't super clear - I was mostly writing it for my own reference. Let me know if you do end up making a bingo card, I've been really interested so far to see what other people have come up with using this framework!
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Date: 2013-07-25 03:46 am (UTC)That totally makes sense.
I will let you know if i make up a card.