Is/Was @stormscourge over on Twitter, so if you see me follow you, that's why. Fandom Crone of many curiosities, right now mostly Persona 5. Catch me @chucklingchemist on AO3 and wherever the wind takes me elsewise
Every single fic update there is an author trying frantically to find the right balance between a nonchalant aside of "leave a comment if you enjoyed =)" and clinging desperately to the coat tails of a random stranger, dragging along behind them on the street wailing "Please, please! I have to know what you thought! I'm desperate to talk to people about this! Ask me about the alliterative repetition! Ask me about the symbolism!"
I suspect that it may be a common Asexual experience but when I imagine something as "sexy", I imagine something that makes your heart beat fast, that gives you goosebumps, that captures all your focus and puts a hitch in your breath and an odd tingle on the back of your neck, that is exciting and enjoyable to think about.
By extension, things that I believe are "sexy" include:
It’s funny to me that Magnus Archives started out with mostly “normal” ghost stories & held back on the really weird stuff until later seasons, whereas with Protocol we’ve gotten the following in the first twelve episodes:
- Guy Who Murdered His Wife Gets Turned Into a Tree While Running From the Cops
- Man Made of Needles
- Demon Antique Enthusiasts Who Crowd Crush People
- Janitor Runs Away From IRL Timelapse Only to End Up in a Cannibal Restaurant in the Void
- A Guy Just Straight Up Gets Run Over by a Semi Truck
- Knockoff Barney the Dinosaur Shows Up to a Strip Club and Starts Smashing Skulls
They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it.
The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.
It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered.