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Was trudging through In Progress folder. Came across rough draft of rant I wrote. Quite a while ago. So, on the subject of smut, and keep in mind this is present company wholly excluded (cause the lot of you are great smut writers, those of you who write, and write smut):

THERE IS MORE TO M/M SMUT THAN ANAL SEX!

Godfuckingdammit. I mean. Look, there's plenty of gay men who rarely or even never engage in this activity. There's blowjobs, and handjobs, and frottage, and what the fuck ever else you can come up with. Be a little creative, for fuck's sake. If I'm going to read smut, I want it to be original. not just plain old average Tab-A-Slot-B stuff. Oh and hey, while I'm at it:

THERE IS MORE TO SLASH THAN SMUT!

I. Am. SICK and TIRED! Of the attitude (both from slashers themselves and from "outsiders") that a story isn't slash ("just" "pre-slash") uless they've had actual (onscreen) sex, that slash is all about putting characters in homosexual situations and bla bla bla and bla bla bla. Aaargh!

Look. I'm not one of these doofuses who delude themselves into thinking we're writing highly controversial stuff, that we're being guerillas against TPTB or whatnot. Howthefuckever. I do like to think that these stories have merit as that. Stories. Words strung together into sentences, sentences into a plot, a story, dialogue. Something with maybe less literary value than, say, War And Peace, but I never aimed for that even with my non-fanfic writing.

Yes, I write erotica, or porn, or whatever you wanna call it. Smut. Often, I don't write explicit smut. Sometimes, I write nothing but explicit smut. Can we please look beyond the smut and at the story, please? The smut is just a part of that. And not usually an essential part, either.

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BUt see, if that's what you want to write, then by all means, do! I'm not saying "Stop writing smut," I'm saying "Let me wriet without smut if I want to." Which you do. ^_^

It's just that I'm tired of seeing tons of one-line "Where's the smut?" feedback, of the (imagined?) expectation of smut, and not necessarily of the smut itself.

Oh, OH I get it now (activate the brain Jess *G*) If you write something intending all along NOT to have the smut or be explicit, but still be slash, and then for readers not to get it, and thinking it MUST have smut in it, it defeats the purpose/enjoyment of one writing it ;))

See, I can be taught LOL!

Yep, that's it exactly. I mean, like Lust? I wrote that intending it to be a smutfest. Can't active my brain right now, but there's a number of non-explicit stories that really had no need for sex, and any sex i would've written for it would've been a) bad, because I can't write smut when I'm not in the mood, and b) detached from the actual story.

And you know, part of it is also the feeling that if we (slashers) keep seeing slash as purely about the sex, then outsiders aren't gonna do that, either. And, well, that frustrates me.

*nods* Exactly. I think the more us who can come to understand that (that slash isn't just about sex), I believe that it can only be better for slash fandoms in the future.

I've wanted to write something that didn't have sex in it, and start with that in mind. This might just resurge that :)

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