#intimacy log

[kinmersha]

I am way late to the She-ra party and just finished the show. As is tradition, afterwards I started devouring fan content, and found myself immediately drawn to entrapdak. Then I found @spacebatisluvd‘s wonderful fic Intimacy Log which was just everything I never knew I needed. Of course, Flower Crown Hordak had to be drawn. This is not quite any “canon” moment, but something I hope happened.

[seokue]

hordak: no more "understanding and accepting others opinions." Disrespect my wife and i start barking.

[loosely based on a line of dialogue (mermista's) from the entrapdak fic Intimacy Log! i highly recommend you go check it out if you already haven't. ✨]

[nmzuka]

hey if you aren’t reading Intimacy Log like... you really need to change that hhghghg

(tbh drawing wasn’t feeling great today and I am sure I could have done these better but... am gonna post them anyway so pls enjoy)

[itsladykit]

From the ask thing: 11 for Life Cycles AND for Intimacy Log.

11: What do you like best about this fic? (LC & IL)

So. I’m going to put this under a read more, because both are smut fics—but they’re unconventional smut fics. And that’s what I like about them. So, if you want to avoid the smutty talk, don’t click on the read more.

I have an interesting relationship with smut fics. It took me a while to be comfortable writing them, and once I started, I found it was very difficult for me to write them how they’re supposed to be written.

Smut fics are supposed to be sexy. They’re erotica. It’s in the name—they’re meant to be erotic. But I found that very difficult. Partly because my character interpretations are not especially flexible—my UT folk know my interpretation of the characters follows essentially the same backstory and personality, no matter the fic—so it was essentially impossible for me to put the character in a situation that they wouldn’t enjoy and keep it sexy.

So…my smut fics are a bit unconventional. Sometimes, the characters have to stop midway through. They have to talk or re-evaluate a scene or situation. They sometimes find themselves getting triggered in the middle of things, or they’re unable to do something that their partner would really enjoy because of past trauma. Traditional smut fics are a bit like porn—they aren’t especially grounded in reality, and they can play a little fast and loose with consent. (This isn’t a dig, by the way. That unreality is part of the sex appeal. It’s a feature, not a bug. I just have difficulty writing it.)

My smut fics, on the other hand, are grounded in the reality of whatever ‘verse I’m playing with. And part of that reality is the character’s trauma and history. Exploring how that affects their sex life—how it shapes their limits and how they recover with time, patience, and care (even if many of those limitations remain)—is fascinating to me, and it’s something I enjoy exploring in fic.

Intimacy Log and Life Cycles both deal with that, and in very unique ways. They’re smut fics, but the kind that you could theoretically enjoy without ever reading the sex scenes. I suppose because both are more about emotional and physical intimacy, rather than being vehicles for erotica. And that’s the fun part for me.

(Again, I’m in no way dismissing true smut writers’ work. I’m extremely impressed with their ability to write smut and keep it interesting, without all the drama I have to infuse into my smut fics. It’s just a different style, of no less value.)

[oldventgremlin]

so i finally just started reading intimacy log and the sea hawk bromance is delightful

also hordak deserves all of the pillows

[tigerlily340]

Reading through the latest chapter of Intimacy Log like:

[dae-stuff]

“Thank you,” she said. “I’ll miss you. When I’m looking at the stars.”

“You will have my commentary. And you will know I am looking at the same stars and thinking of you.”

Inspi by "Intimacy Log" https://archiveofourown.org/works/24322372/chapters/58638283 by @spacebatisluvd

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[moralitycrisis64]

Do y'all ever just read Entrapdak fanfic until you get so cozy and sleepy that you curl up under your space blanket and bask in the Happy Vibes

(yes this is about me re-reading Intimacy Log)