Snowflake Challenge #6
Jan. 6th, 2012 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21Challenge #6 In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) and that you ended up loving.
If you count Star Trek novelizations as fanfiction (which, really, they sort of are. Just fanfiction that someone got paid to write), I've been reading fic since I was twelve. I've been reading fic on the interwebs since I was, mmm, 15ish. Maybe slightly later, but definitely somewhere in the middle-ish, almost late 90s, when I was in high school. I'm certain the first fic I read was Due South, but I have no recollection as to how I even stumbled upon fanfic in the first place. I do know I was reading on a shared computer, which meant my parents could, if they chose to, find out what I was up to (although, I did figure out how to clear a history, so I could have been sneaky if I wanted to, I suppose). I don't know if they did. They never mentioned anything to me. I do remember telling them what fanfic was at one point, but I don't think that's because they asked me what I was up to on the computer. I think I was just excited that I'd found this thing and wanted to share.
That being said, since I was still a fairly youngish teenager and since I knew full well my parents could find out what I was reading, I stuck to the rules we already had about my reading. See, I was reading adult books by the time I was ten, which is really too young to be digging into some adult themes, even if I could read the words. So, while my parents weren't really super strict about some things, I knew that I wasn't supposed to be reading stuff with sex or a lot of gratuitous violence (they didn't give a flying fuck about language). Therefore, it was a very long time in my fannish history before I read anything involving sex "on screen", and even longer before I read kink or slash (it wasn't homophobia- I didn't care who was having the sex- it was just that most slash I came across was usually NC-17 type stuff and I just didn't read that). Even after I was no longer sharing a computer with my parents and little brother (who *did* get nailed for looking up porn because he wasn't savvy enough to clear the history), I still didn't read porn at all, because I was in dorm rooms and people were always able to look over my shoulder (this was well before laptops were inexpensive enough for most people to own one. Yes, I am old. Get off my lawn :o). It wasn't until I had my own apartment that I felt comfortable enough to branch out at all into the wide world of erotic fic.
I wish I could remember what the first explicit fic I read was- it would have been about 10 years ago, so even if I could remember, I probably couldn't find it. I'm not even sure which fandom it would have been in, because I can't really remember what I was reading back then.
I think the first slash story I ever read (and I had to go digging here) was possibly Different by Bob J. Montonelli. It's CSI:Miami, so maybe from 2003? 2004? It's a little dark, and I believe we have established that I like my angst, so that's probably why I tried it. I don't know if I'd say I wound up loving it, but I did like it quite a bit and it did expand my horizons, so there you go.
Even after I jumped on the slash train I stayed pretty vanilla (and don't get me wrong, I'm an equal opportunity erotica reader. I read het, too, and I read both m/m and f/f. It just seems that most of the writers I particularly like and that I think write particularly well are largely m/m slash writers). Didn't do kink, didn't often even read hard NC-17 stuff, and I definitely didn't do mpreg. Until Ten Aprils by Busaikko. Which I read because it was by Busaikko and I had loved the rest of her stories and so I said, "oh, what the hell, at least it's Harry Potter and therefore could be realistically conceivable in that universe" (realism is my hangup on mpreg). I am so, so glad I did, because I think it's one of the best things she's written. It's Snape/Lupin, and it does contain rape/non-con (which was *not* Snape/Lupin. OC perpetrator), so it could be potentially triggery, but if that's not one of your tripwires, give it a go.
I have no idea how I even got to this next fic- I think I read something by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telesilla that was not kink (something in her Ventura Highway AU, maybe?) and liked it and went looking for her other fic. Which landed me here, at I Can Have This, which is a SGA, OT4 (aka, The Team, aka, Sheppard, Rodney, Teyla and Ronon) kink fic. The summary is "John's lovers give him the gift of a nice, safe, sane, consensual gangbang", so you can probably figure it out from there. Emphasis on the safe, sane and consensual part- there is no non-con or dub-con whatsoever here. On the surface, it did not look like something I would enjoy. In actuality, it's hot. And made me wonder what else might be hiding out there that I didn't know I would like. Turns out there's quite a bit (although, I do still like my kink to be safe, sane and consensual. I *like* it when they sit there and negotiate safewords and whatnot).
Not much of this is stuff I would actually *write*- I am not good at sex scenes, I get too bogged down by logistics, although I have written a few- but I am glad I grew into being a little more adventurous and a little more likely to click on something that might not float my boat. I can always close the tab if I don't like it.
If you count Star Trek novelizations as fanfiction (which, really, they sort of are. Just fanfiction that someone got paid to write), I've been reading fic since I was twelve. I've been reading fic on the interwebs since I was, mmm, 15ish. Maybe slightly later, but definitely somewhere in the middle-ish, almost late 90s, when I was in high school. I'm certain the first fic I read was Due South, but I have no recollection as to how I even stumbled upon fanfic in the first place. I do know I was reading on a shared computer, which meant my parents could, if they chose to, find out what I was up to (although, I did figure out how to clear a history, so I could have been sneaky if I wanted to, I suppose). I don't know if they did. They never mentioned anything to me. I do remember telling them what fanfic was at one point, but I don't think that's because they asked me what I was up to on the computer. I think I was just excited that I'd found this thing and wanted to share.
That being said, since I was still a fairly youngish teenager and since I knew full well my parents could find out what I was reading, I stuck to the rules we already had about my reading. See, I was reading adult books by the time I was ten, which is really too young to be digging into some adult themes, even if I could read the words. So, while my parents weren't really super strict about some things, I knew that I wasn't supposed to be reading stuff with sex or a lot of gratuitous violence (they didn't give a flying fuck about language). Therefore, it was a very long time in my fannish history before I read anything involving sex "on screen", and even longer before I read kink or slash (it wasn't homophobia- I didn't care who was having the sex- it was just that most slash I came across was usually NC-17 type stuff and I just didn't read that). Even after I was no longer sharing a computer with my parents and little brother (who *did* get nailed for looking up porn because he wasn't savvy enough to clear the history), I still didn't read porn at all, because I was in dorm rooms and people were always able to look over my shoulder (this was well before laptops were inexpensive enough for most people to own one. Yes, I am old. Get off my lawn :o). It wasn't until I had my own apartment that I felt comfortable enough to branch out at all into the wide world of erotic fic.
I wish I could remember what the first explicit fic I read was- it would have been about 10 years ago, so even if I could remember, I probably couldn't find it. I'm not even sure which fandom it would have been in, because I can't really remember what I was reading back then.
I think the first slash story I ever read (and I had to go digging here) was possibly Different by Bob J. Montonelli. It's CSI:Miami, so maybe from 2003? 2004? It's a little dark, and I believe we have established that I like my angst, so that's probably why I tried it. I don't know if I'd say I wound up loving it, but I did like it quite a bit and it did expand my horizons, so there you go.
Even after I jumped on the slash train I stayed pretty vanilla (and don't get me wrong, I'm an equal opportunity erotica reader. I read het, too, and I read both m/m and f/f. It just seems that most of the writers I particularly like and that I think write particularly well are largely m/m slash writers). Didn't do kink, didn't often even read hard NC-17 stuff, and I definitely didn't do mpreg. Until Ten Aprils by Busaikko. Which I read because it was by Busaikko and I had loved the rest of her stories and so I said, "oh, what the hell, at least it's Harry Potter and therefore could be realistically conceivable in that universe" (realism is my hangup on mpreg). I am so, so glad I did, because I think it's one of the best things she's written. It's Snape/Lupin, and it does contain rape/non-con (which was *not* Snape/Lupin. OC perpetrator), so it could be potentially triggery, but if that's not one of your tripwires, give it a go.
I have no idea how I even got to this next fic- I think I read something by
telesilla that was not kink (something in her Ventura Highway AU, maybe?) and liked it and went looking for her other fic. Which landed me here, at I Can Have This, which is a SGA, OT4 (aka, The Team, aka, Sheppard, Rodney, Teyla and Ronon) kink fic. The summary is "John's lovers give him the gift of a nice, safe, sane, consensual gangbang", so you can probably figure it out from there. Emphasis on the safe, sane and consensual part- there is no non-con or dub-con whatsoever here. On the surface, it did not look like something I would enjoy. In actuality, it's hot. And made me wonder what else might be hiding out there that I didn't know I would like. Turns out there's quite a bit (although, I do still like my kink to be safe, sane and consensual. I *like* it when they sit there and negotiate safewords and whatnot). Not much of this is stuff I would actually *write*- I am not good at sex scenes, I get too bogged down by logistics, although I have written a few- but I am glad I grew into being a little more adventurous and a little more likely to click on something that might not float my boat. I can always close the tab if I don't like it.