Iggy_lovechild

When some kind of situation strands two characters together (especially if they dislike each other or just don't know each other) and it forces them to spend time with each other and come to an understanding.

Eh, while that irritates me as well, I usually take it as a preverse sort of compliment. I figure that the reader trusts me enough as a writer to be able to make the couple interesting and believable. Or perhaps they're just bugging me for the smut. If that's the case then grrr.

Coffee and an apple. A miracle really, usually i just down obscene amounts of coffee while working on whatever peice of fanfiction I'm currently obsessing over.

Oh? Why? What happened?

I generally don't write holiday specials, though I guess I was vaguely inspired by the season with my current project involving a snowstorm. Sometimes I consider it but when i try to force my writing and the characters to bow to a certain subject matter, I freeze up. Maybe if it's a vague challenge, I'm fine but when it's like "must invole this that and the other thing" my brain freezes up.

It really all depends on the characters for me, though I tend to enjoy situations that allow me to linger over writing the little sensual details. I have the odd hesitence toward scenes involving penetration. It's just...it's not as though it bothers me, I can just never go on about it like some writers. It didn't used to be that way. It was shortly after I lost my viginity and became officially, regularily sexually active that I started to have trouble when penetration was involved. Or perhaps it's just that I feel like I can't describe it in many different ways other than how it's done. I end up just getting a bit on the vague side.

Yeah, that seems pretty on par, but I still hated the feeling that I was following the storyline around. "Go here-kill some monsters-kill a boss-get-"rewarded"-with-cutscenes that don't seem real interested in involving the player. "Look, pretty!" Ugh, to anyone who bought the walkthrough: It totally lies about the Quickenings. By all means get at least one quickly but I don't know...I feel like I got mine too early. Is it good for nearly everyone to have almost all of their Quickenings by 30 hours into the game? Well, it made the bosses easy...actually, a bit too easy....

I used to get that a lot when I regularily posted on ff.net, and I usually just rolled my eyes and move don to the next review. What irritated me more than anything is that I usually update every day if I'm posting on a multi-chaptered fic (if it's possible. "Strange Bedfellows" was a rarity in experimentation) and I'd recognize the same idiots asking me to "update soon!" over and over again. It's like, "dumbasses! Have you not noticed that a new chapter shows up every day? Are you so blind that you have not figured out the pattern yet?!

Ah yes. *nods* Vaan had revelence to the storyline until Balthier showed up and then he was kinda pushed to the background. And Balthier had relevance until Bosch showed up and then he was pushed to the background (aside from the occassional snarky comment). And Bosch had relevance until Ashe joined the party and then he was pushed to the background as well. Hmmm...I see pattern here....

Am I the only one who thinks it's freaking hilarious (in a depressing sort of way) that they couldn't wait to impeach Clinton for getting his dick sucked and other inappropriete behaviour (but all of it too personal to affect the American people, imho), but when Bush is destroying this country.... Everyone is so goddamned wishy-washy, it seems and the people who cared to try to stop him evenually gave up in disgust. *sighs* Ah America, land of the apathetic.

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. Intellectual erotica...ooohh....

Well damn. Now I must have a PSP. Good thing X-mas is coming. *laughs* I thought it was just me seein' all that funky definition on Vaan's chest and belly. I guess it's cos he's an orphan and on the streets or something....except for the fact that he seemed to be rocking that whole king-of-the-streetkids crap. I'm sure ate well when he wanted to. Shit, I overanalyze everything.

Gotcha I kinda figured all that already, but paranoia made me curious.

Oh good. Is it a private thing or something? Cos no-one else has the bar under their names. *is still a little confused*

I think that the only time I was really mean in a review was for a story on ff.net. The fandom doesn't matter but it was a shounen-ai pairing and in the beginning of the second or third chapter the authoress slammed erotica writers by saying that she wasn't interested in writing lemons because she treated the characters like real people and not like gay porn stars (or something to that effect). Whatever enjoyment I might have gotten from the rest of the story was forever marred by such a narrow-minded opinion and offensive, self-righteous statement. For the record, the story was okay...I guess, for the first few chapters. By the fifth or sixth chapter it had degenerated into a mess of melodrama and overwrought angst. The review i'd left was...icy. I praised what I could, pointed out some things that seemed a bit off in her characterizations, and coldly responded to her off-colour comments regarding erotica. So i guess...I can't really write a bad review. Anytime I would have, I'm usually too busy hitting the back button to bother with it.

Does this mean I'm considered a trouble maker?

*perks* What? Really? Which portable? GBA or DS? Eheh, right now I'm playing Disgaea 2 and am pathetically addicted. Eh...actucally the only character in FFXII that seemed yaoi pretty-boyish to me was Vaan. wtf kinda name is Vaan anyway and why can't he wear a shirt like everyone else?

I think the basic concept going is that the ardeur is bigger and beyond all her former...boundries for lack of a better word. Honestly it's ridiculous though. Why this all means she has to have sex with virtual strangers is quite beyond me. She has Jean-Claude, Jason,Nathanial, Micah, and Damian, all willing to feed her needs. You can't tell me that no one is available when the urges hit, so to speak. And what ever happened to Anita getting in control of the ardeur, like she was trying to back in "Cerulean Sins" ?(the last passably good Anita Blake novel, imho)

Actually, if I recall the early press correctly FF XII was indeed designed by the same guy who was behind FF: Tactics (and Tactics Advanced? I don't know, I only ever played Tactics, which was a damned good game, btw). I too had expected it to be great, but sadly...perhaps it was because it was not a tactical RPG?

I'm so glad all the forum's earlier days of issues-issues-issues are finally over. I love the folks here and it's nice not to have to worry about watching my fucking language.

Gah, Hamilton's concepts of sex have become disturbing. Like the physics is all off or something. I actually haven't read all of "Danse Macabre" yet. Still waiting for some idiot to return it to the local library already (I don't really want to buy it...), but I skimmed the first big slashy sex scene at a Barnes and Noble. I was floored by the fact that she had the gall to put Anita on the bottom under two grown men who are fucking. And she expected us to believe this? I mean, Anita is not a big girl and I don't care if she's super-human, it had to have been uncomfortable. I was also slightly irked that jean-Claude used Anita's wetness as lube. As if he doesn't have a tube of astroglide lying around.

Hmm...The last time I really loved a main character of an FF game was Cloud. I guess I liked the fact that he was flawed. Although I was still more into the goings-on of Shinra (especially after Rufus took over) and a Turks fangirl from the moment Reno stepped into that chapel. I'll admit, since FFX the quality of FF games have been progressively worse...

Hehe. It matches my sig. Always wanted to so something like that. To me it makes the whole presentation look so...together.

That's the basic idea that all the analytical types have when they support young women reading yaoi. It's not as threatening as het erotica or the soft-core porn of your common romance novel. There's no impossibly perfect female lead to put pressure on young women or make them fel bad about themselve, just two beautiful boys in love/lust. Of course this is just a theory and I guess a pretty good one at that. Unfortuantly, with all the good it does, it also breeds terrible stereotypes. For the record, I read an article about yaoi in one of those local free alt papers (yaoi con had just passed) and it featured the literal translations of seme and uke. I remember that seme was "predator" and while the exact wording for "uke" escapes me it was something like "submissive" or "passive".

Oh don't worry, you didn't offend me at all. Ironically, when it comes to anal practices in RL I'm just as compulsive. I guess when I'm writing erotica I can somewhat divorce myself from some of my issues (same reason I can write romance, I suppose, considering I'm one the least romantic people around). Though you totally get a cookie for the rimming. I can barely read a rimjob scene much less write it. Usually if it's in the story code I just skip over the story or if I actually decide the story's summary interests me enough to deal with it, I'll just kinda...skim that part and then move on to stuff that doesn't squick me. Sometimes I think the genre breeds a kind of paranoia among the women who write m/m erotica. Because of all the idiot fangirls and the majority of the portrayal of homosexual relationships in the fanfiction (and sometimes the fandoms themselves), yaoi has gotten a bad wrap. And if you're female and writing it, sometimes I get the feeling that there's more pressure to excel and go above and beyond, lest you get labeled as one of "those stilly fangirls". Of course, that might just be me....