Holy shit @markiplier this is the most well-sealed poster I've ever seen 😭🙏 My Lord, I am wearing my fingers down to the nubs trying to open this thing.
I don't think you would've had a hand in the adhesive used, but uh- yeah, 10/10 buying experience; props to the distribution team.
Detail Is Foreplay
❤︎ Don’t rush the scene. Foreplay isn’t just kissing and groping, it’s the tension that builds in the paragraphs before they touch. The look across the table, the brush of hands, the hesitation. By the time clothes come off, your reader should be begging for it.
❤︎ Focus on sensory overload: what does the air smell like, how does their skin taste, what does the floor feel like under bare knees. Ground it.
Dirty Specificity > Clinical Vague
❤︎ “He entered her” = ✒️ grammar check approved, but zero heat.
❤︎ “He pushed inside, slow, stretching her around him, dragging a shudder from her throat” = 🔪 sharp, stays in the bloodstream.
❤︎ Avoid medical textbook vocabulary (penis, vagina). Stick to words that live in the bedroom: cock, pussy, clit, tits, ass. Show no shame.
Pacing Is Rhythm
❤︎ Think of sentences like thrusts: vary tempo. Short, breathless lines in the heat of orgasm. Long, winding ones in the tease.
❤︎ Don’t sprint straight to the finish line. Let the characters play in the space. Sex isn’t linear; it’s messy, stalling, circling back, teasing.
Dirty Talk Writes Itself
❤︎ Dialogue in smut should cut like glass. Characters don’t deliver monologues, they gasp, groan, demand. A well-placed “fuck” at the right moment can do more than a whole paragraph of description.
❤︎ Tip: Put the dirtiest line in italics when you reread. If it doesn’t make you blush or smirk, rewrite it.
Don’t Forget the Body’s Chaos
❤︎ Sweat. Spit. Slick thighs. Fingers slipping. The bench creaking. The way their rhythm falters when they’re close.
❤︎ Orgasms aren’t poetic symphonies. They’re guttural, clumsy, and fucking devastating. Capture the ungraceful beauty.
🕷️ The Tension Web
To make readers ache:
❤︎ Start with denial (a kiss that stops too soon, a hand that almost slips under clothes but pulls back).
❤︎ Move to control (one person setting the pace, teasing, holding back)
❤︎ Deliver with release (when you finally let them fall apart).
🛑 Mistakes That Kill the Mood
❤︎ Overexplaining (“He put his penis in her vagina and she moaned with pleasure” — get the fuck out of here).
❤︎ Purple prose overload (“her cavern of passion” Bruh, you're doing too much. Back it off).
❤︎ Repetition of words like moan, thrust, wet without variation? Cut them down.
TL;DR: Make it filthy, make it sensory, make it uneven like real sex. Readers get wet/hard not from the mechanics, but from the anticipation, power, and loss of control.