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Although I have another post almost complete and it's much chewier overall (currently titled: [Moya] "It's really the mechanical troubleshooting side of kink that gets me hottest"), I was going to wait to finish it 'til tomorrow anyway, and this one is much easier in most ways.

I have a long history with slashfic. It's some of the earliest porn I ever sought out and actively pursued finding; I still have a giant binder of old text stuff printing from the days of internet by Gopher and text-only sharing on Usenet (I keep it for sentimental reasons -- most of it is Pendorwright stuff). It connects for me for a number of reasons and our very amusing household discussion of a few minutes ago, about various pairings in Whovian slash, gives me a good example and a good motivation to write about it.

First and foremost, I'm a scifi geek. And slash is, largely, SFF territory. Also, I'm a sex geek. And I love scifi specifically for its ability, as a genre, to set aside the currently possible and just imagine. Great sexual territory there, as well as the more commonly acknowledged sociological/scientific/etc, and I have a good deal of scifi/fantasy erotica that isn't necessarily slashfic. Sometimes it's fun to find porn that's about seeing reflections of what my own sex is like, and I often like that in videos, but when it comes to written, animated, in other ways unlimited by practical reality mediums, let's toss the rulebook and see what's imaginable!

And fantasies of fucking aliens? Sure, why not? If everyone can negotiate consent in a meaningful way and come up with ways to play together, have fun. My issues with actual beastiality aren't about species limits, but about consent limitations and power imbalances, and therefore irrelevant to fantasy sentient-fucking. Fundamentally, I am generally most interested in exploring in fiction those things least possible for me to explore in reality. And that goes double for sex fiction.

Here, have a plug for my favorite SFF erotica press

So, that gets me to the two other points I actually came in here to write about (or at least I think it does... can't focus to read back over it)

Whose head I'm in (imagining myself in the scene vs imagining what it's like to be one of the characters), and how that relates both to maintaining some sexual functionality even when very deeply depressed, and to fun stuff like gender play and exploration of various experiences that wouldn't work for me, in my own body and psyche. I like both general forms (my head/their head), but they work pretty differently, in ways I find fascinating and sometimes very telling.

Why I love Slashfic particularly as a form of erotic fiction, and why it gets complicated because I'm protective of my particular personal canon (individual fanon? Whichever) about some characters.

Each of these are pretty long posts of their own, so I think I'll post what I've got so far, and come back and work on them individually.

Also need to finish the almost-complete post on sexual communication and kink fun and toy ideas, and finish up some toy review stuff and post links to that. Oh, and have several porns to review if I get around to it. I am backlogged in sex writing. I am thoroughly ok with this; it's the cheeriest distraction from crap that I can imagine, and a nice reminder that not everything's gone to hell in a handbasket recently; at least my libido seems to have been on a return trip back from there (whether by handbasket I could not tell you).

For additional SF geekery, see this old post: Why this icon? (it's about why I use Moya from Farscape as a sex icon, and why my sex filter on LJ is named "Moya")

I don't think I've written about it yet, so here's a quick rundown...

It was wonderful. Really, really so.
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