Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
Feb. 26th, 2015 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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superhero_musesI was in the air pretty much the whole end of last week (both literally and figuratively, I guess!) and so this slipped by me! But I'm back, and even got some good writing done this week, yay! I also sat down and outlined the next nine or ten chapters of both of my long stories, so I feel a little less like I'm going by the seat of my pants, which is a good feeling. I hope the last two weeks have been good to both you and your writing!
--What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
Oh, well. Hm. I suppose the first thought is that people often say there's no real difference between noncon and dubcon, and I agree absolutely in reality. However, in fiction dubcon covers a huge gray area of things that don't exist in reality, like sex pollen or "aliens made them do it," which are frankly some of my favorite tropes. "Forced to do what I want to do" is one of my favorite themes in smut, and one that can only exist in fiction and fantasy, really. Straight-up noncon does very little for me most of the time, but I have no problems with its existence (I'd rather not run across it unwarned, however).
--What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?
Oh, well. Hm. I suppose the first thought is that people often say there's no real difference between noncon and dubcon, and I agree absolutely in reality. However, in fiction dubcon covers a huge gray area of things that don't exist in reality, like sex pollen or "aliens made them do it," which are frankly some of my favorite tropes. "Forced to do what I want to do" is one of my favorite themes in smut, and one that can only exist in fiction and fantasy, really. Straight-up noncon does very little for me most of the time, but I have no problems with its existence (I'd rather not run across it unwarned, however).
