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designated anti-moffat sideblog /j • he/they • 18+ but my blog is a solid PG-13

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What is a lemon

From what I can tell on tumblr, it's a demon that goons on trucks.

[shinesurge]

Bad sex scenes are fun to make fun of but I think one of the easy reasons they are frequently awful is that there's no narrative energy to them. I picked up on this by studying combat scenes and I think the problems that show up are really similar; there's this thing writers do where they treat these kinds of sequences differently than the rest of their work, the scenes feel like they exist outside the regular narrative and writers just pause the story while they happen. People are always complaining about fighting and sex in stories being "boring and a waste of time" and that's not an inherent function of these mechanics, that means writers aren't approaching them with the same thoughtfulness as the narrative, and the audience can feel it.

The sex is an interaction, and interactions should illuminate things! It's still beholden to the plot/characterization/worldbuilding rule, we should always be communicating some kind of new information or reinforcing what is already understood. You are having 2+ personalities strip down and communicate with their bodies what are they SAYING. It doesn't have to be anything profound, even just communicating to the audience "i think this person doing this thing is hot" counts; wanting the reader to get off to something is a perfectly respectable goal that can keep us on track if you're aware of it. But the writer so frequently has NO IDEA what they're actually trying to say, what the goal of the scene is beyond fucking or fighting, so we end up with bland interfacing between characters who could be replaced by any other characters doing the same thing anywhere else. It isn't hot or interesting to be directionless, pick an intention and go.

[stellanslashgeode]

True. Sex scenes should have narrative beats. They should have ramping action and pauses and declining tension like action scenes.

[frogayyyy]

When he heard the death rattle, Gilgamesh moaned

like a dove. His face grew dark. “Beloved,

wait, don't leave me. Dearest of men,

don't die, don't let them take you from me.”

(from Stephen Mitchell's translation of Gilgamesh)

[anotherlesbiandied]

i dont comprehend how u could ship riker and troi when ur a lesbian and troi x crusher is right there

riker and troi may be a "straight" relationship (they're both bisexual in my heart) but they are also a spirk allegory. we must never forget that they are a spirk allegory.

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

#they just have such a saw you across the bar and really like your vibe energy as a couple that they literally can't be a straight couple

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

#the true nature of their relationship is that they really are on constant alert for their third

[daggerdoggy]

settings > wound > my wound > reopen

[daggerdoggy]

do not forget this

[dykerory]

An insane mutual will have you wanting to post more insane so they feel they’ve invested well in your mutual ship

[dykerory]

I also wear black when a mutual unfollows

[anotherlesbiandied]

i dont comprehend how u could ship riker and troi when ur a lesbian and troi x crusher is right there

riker and troi may be a "straight" relationship (they're both bisexual in my heart) but they are also a spirk allegory. we must never forget that they are a spirk allegory.

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

#they just have such a saw you across the bar and really like your vibe energy as a couple that they literally can't be a straight couple

@enzymedevice

[justpicksomething]

ok yeah Kirk and Spock def hugged this week and that was nice, but also Spock jumping to conclusions that Kirk was a hallucination brought on not only by the intoxicating gas but also because a remanent of him was left in Spock during a mind meld and of course he hallucinated Kirk to “fill an emotional void” but then also in the end credits when they’re playing rock paper scissors and Kirk intertwines his two fingers with Spock’s two fingers

like fuck the hug there was much more to be flailing and screaming and throwing up about

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

Spirk scissoring pwp 500 words

[anotherlesbiandied]

i dont comprehend how u could ship riker and troi when ur a lesbian and troi x crusher is right there

riker and troi may be a "straight" relationship (they're both bisexual in my heart) but they are also a spirk allegory. we must never forget that they are a spirk allegory.

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

Penis delirious. Vageenus so clearious.

[zoesupreme]

had to look this up bc I thought it was a joke

[zoesupreme]

if he had been there it wouldn't have gone down like that

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

Jet fuel can't melt steel fists

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

it really is impossible to end a sex scene like Ok and then the goo did come out. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

People browsing the orgasm denial tag won't be

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

God gives her fattest asses to her sluttiest soldiers

[hauntedchronicler]

thank you ao3 for always delivering what i need alongside insights into strange and beautiful lands of which i have no knowledge

[sandersstudies]

I had this freshman tell me she “couldn’t” audition because she was too scared of the stage, and might have a panic attack. I asked how she felt about walking around onstage in costume and not saying any lines. That was fine. I was like okay awesome let’s lay some groundwork now and maybe senior year you can have like three lines!

[sandersstudies]

I remember this kid who came into an audition and froze up, just couldn’t speak. Competent reader and speaker but when people were watching she couldn’t do a thing.

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

Anyway as a mentor in the performing arts these things are huge wins for me. Some kids are competent and confident performers at 7 or 8 almost by nature. Others, even much older kids and adults, have to make progress by inches. But progress is exciting! The only place to go is up!

[sandersstudies]

If a student is encouraged properly, theatre is one of the best sources of self-esteem, self-reflection, and both spontaneous and rehearsed eloquence/comprehensibility that there is. It truly could be considered a cornerstone for communication disciplines of all kinds if it just attracted the right people to teach it. (Unfortunately a lot of people are attracted to directing for a sense of power over others, and not an interest in mentoring and coaching.)

[astriiformes]

SORRY, MY SEXY TOPSTITCHING I GUESS

[marlinspirkhall]

They're oppressing tops for having hobbies now

[whyenn-reader]

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

[whyenn-reader]

the more you twist yourself into a pretzel to avoid regret the harder it will hit when it eventually catches up to you.

[earhartsease]

don't be a regretzel

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

Start HRT today