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rynlingWhy do relationship discussions and sex negotiations in fanfiction often look so fake and unnatural? Sometimes they can be interesting to read about but not when 18th century pirates and medieval Chinese warriors speak like they’re quoting some 21st century safe sex pamphlet or a PsychologyToday article.
https://dracfics.tumblr.com/post/182942644738/why-do-relationship-discussions-and-sex
Here is a true thing that happened: I once wrote a few sexy Legend of Zelda jokefics, one of which includes, I shit you not, the line "Shock me with your Deku Nuts!" One of the stories (such as they were) was about how Ganondorf forces himself on Zelda for all of two paragraphs before she gets mad at him for saying something stupid, thus revealing that it was all a sex game. In a short fic collection full of pure crack and godawful puns, the comments people felt compelled to leave were, inexplicably, attempts to educate me about safewords.
Why.
https://dracfics.tumblr.com/post/182942644738/why-do-relationship-discussions-and-sex
Here is a true thing that happened: I once wrote a few sexy Legend of Zelda jokefics, one of which includes, I shit you not, the line "Shock me with your Deku Nuts!" One of the stories (such as they were) was about how Ganondorf forces himself on Zelda for all of two paragraphs before she gets mad at him for saying something stupid, thus revealing that it was all a sex game. In a short fic collection full of pure crack and godawful puns, the comments people felt compelled to leave were, inexplicably, attempts to educate me about safewords.
Why.
