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31st March 2023

Post reblogged from No Blogging Allowed with 29 notes

flakmaniak:

tuesdayisfordancing:

It’s really interesting and kinda cool (although it can get frustrating) how often different fandoms develop different standardized porn tropes. There are fandoms that follow the old 1-2-3 fingers and then cock rule, and fandoms where that sequence is Verboten, fandoms where two guys always take a mental moment to see who’s bigger and fandoms where size is never mentioned, fandoms where near-simultaneous orgasm is standard fare and fandoms where it’s exceptional… it can be really fun to observe as long as you’re not getting frustrated by a lack of variety within a given fandom.

Hmm… I wouldn’t have guessed that this would be strongly correlated with particular fandoms. Do you think there’s some seed-effect at work here, where early works in a given fandom are really really influential, and then people who are into that trope/structure are attracted to that fandom, and those who aren’t are repelled?

The same way that larger things like “Ao3 house style” presumably filter new Ao3 users for being predisposed to like that style.

Tagged: sexual media

  1. flakmaniak reblogged this from tuesdayisfordancing and added:
    Hmm... The notion of it going by era is a really interesting one. But if that's so, then should we expect that for...
  2. arbitrarygreay said: That’s fair, I was more thinking about kinks, rather than the variety of configurations that can fit within vanilla alone.
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  4. fate-motif said: soooo like a circlejerk? 🤔
  5. tuesdayisfordancing reblogged this from flakmaniak and added:
    I would absolutely bet there’s a seed effect, maybe pulling people in and repelling them or maybe just… influencing what...
  6. tuesdayisfordancing said: @arbitrarygreay Ehhh, that’s not really the kind of thing I meant? Like, whether simultaneous orgasms are common or rare isn’t a characterization thing. And I also think there are a lot of ships wherein what sex acts they might be into don’t really have limits placed on them by characterization, though others I would agree have more indicators/constraints.
  7. arbitrarygreay said: See also how doujins don’t do this, you will see smut doujins flattening their ship of choice into whatever porn trope of choice, and those doujins aren’t really worth reading precisely because they’re bad fanfic as opposed to original hentai.
  8. arbitrarygreay said: Usually it’s about a sense of if the porn trope fits the characterization and relationship dynamics. Sometimes I’ll see those compilation fics where it’s just writing oneshots of every porn trope under the sun for a particular fandom and raise an eyebrow because really? Those characters would do that sex act without 100K words of development first?
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