Mar 6, 2020
Okay, so I’ve never watched The Witcher, but I’ve learnt enough by Tumblr Osmosis to say confidently: somewhere on AO3 there is 1000000% a Bodyguard AU, yes?
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Okay, so I’ve never watched The Witcher, but I’ve learnt enough by Tumblr Osmosis to say confidently: somewhere on AO3 there is 1000000% a Bodyguard AU, yes?
I promise, in the name of all that is good and holy, that I will never, ever write a female protagonist who isn't beautiful, exactly, no, she'll never be a beauty, but there's something about her, you know? Her mouth is too wide for beauty and her eyes are too large and she is (usually) Too Skinny, but somehow, somehow, men fall reluctantly and desperately in love with her.
No.
I will write a woman with a beautifully-proportioned face, eyes of exactly the right size and spaced exactly the right width, a perfect mouth, an ideal nose, and exquisite body parts.
And nobody. But nobody. Will give her more than a passing glance, because they're too busy panting about the skinny girl with her wide mouth and her aquamarine-cyan-flame-coloured eyes.
And then my protagonist can have naps and drink tea and solve crimes to her heart's content.
Is there an inverse correlation between actual representation of sexual/romantic attraction and the horniness of fan works?
I don't know if this is just a function of the elegant perverts who ship the same Tumblr White Boys as me, but usually, if not always, these ships are not canon* and sex isn't a big part of canon. The fic, on the other hand? Exuberantly, explicitly filthy.
Whereas on shows with fairly frank sexual activity (het and otherwise)? Well firstly there isn't that much fic and when it is it seems pretty... Tame.
Is this because fan works fix problems in canon and when representation isn't an issue fandom doesn't have to fill in the gap?
* with the honourable exceptions of Good Omens. And of course Hannibal. God bless that show's horny heart.
My AO3 bookmarks have (temporarily) disappeared and I’m all...
Whom can I inveigle into watching Elite on Netflix so I can get more fic?
Girls don't want boys girls want people to only tag the primary ship on AO3