Anonymous asked:
Hey Jenna! Thank you for your help with finding fics to read! I'd like to know your opinion about smut fics. The ML fandom seems to be divided, a part of the fandom is strongly against any smut. Is it really inappropriate to write and read smut?
Anon, I was so entertained to get this ask.
Not only am I very much in favour of smut fics, I even write them myself!
But you are correct that the fandom is divided on this in a way I haven't really seen in any of my previous fandoms. For most of my extremely lengthy time in fandom, I've found smut to be much more prevalent. I got my start in Buffy fandom when I was 14 years old and when I discovered "NC-17" fics (as we called them then), well, I didn't have much interest in reading anything else.
Now, some people are going to read that I was a 14 year old reading explicit depictions of sex and they're going to clutch their pearls.
I think that's ridiculous.
I think that written fiction is a wonderful and SAFE way for people (even, no ESPECIALLY minors) to explore things that they're interested in or curious about before actually engaging with those things. And, especially in the case of sex, I certainly think it's a lot better than many of the alternatives like porn or trying things before you're ready. A lot of people will engage in sexual acts before people think they're old enough to read about those same acts and I think that's ridiculous.
I'm now old and married with kids of my own and I have absolutely no regrets or qualms about my early foray into smutty fic. Honestly, I don't even regret my TERRIBLE attempts at writing my own then because they were learning experiences.
I think that this fandom generally being a lot younger is part of the lack of smutty content, and that's okay. I'm certainly not suggesting that fans who are not interested in or not comfortable with that kind of content should seek it out. That's part of why I always make sure to put the M and E rated fics at the end of my rec lists under a warning. (But I only state minors should "beware" and not that they can't read them because I'm not actually against minors reading smut if they want to and can handle it.)
But I do want to push back against this idea that sex is somehow different than any of the other things that humans can do with our bodies, this idea that there's any kind of value or morality attached to it. I know this fandom likes to use "sin" to refer to smut, but I specifically don't do that because I think it's harmful. Some of the people using it may be joking or tongue in cheek, but I think these ideas can hurt people, make them feel guilty about their natural desires or the consensual behaviour they engage in.
People touching each other's bodies to make each other feel good isn't inappropriate, as long as everyone's consenting. People reading about this or writing about it isn't inappropriate either.
It's just sex.
Anyway, you didn't ask for recs, but I'm going to throw some on here anyway (jumping my rec list queue to boot!) because the smut writers in this fandom are amazing and I appreciate them so, so much! Frankly, I wish there was more 😘
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING FICS ARE RATED E!!!!
Kwamiswap ladrien with an amazing identity reveal. I'm reccing this first because of @kasienda's focus on sex positivity, the fact that she eschewed fandom tradition and wrote them 17 because--and clearly a lot of people aren't ready to accept this--but teenagers have sex. And because she wrote it in response to the kind of purity culture BS that had people actually sending her anons telling her to kill herself.
A game of truth or dare leads to a lot more for adrinette. Honestly, choosing just one of @ghostlyhamburger's fics was so hard. With 120 explicit fics, 63 for the love square alone, @ghostlyhamburger is single handedly feeding the smutty side of ML fandom.
PRPR that starts with a forehead kiss. The sexual tension in this one just bout killed me and then OMG does @zimtlein deliver at the end!!
2-part series ladrien with the hottest identity reveal I've ever read and I've recced this fic so many times and I will rec it so many more times because it doesn't have nearly enough kudos for how amazing it is!!! Y'all are sleeping on this one. (Read it for Adrien letting his dorky Chat side out and punning during sex if for no other reason.)
Ladynoir FWB that doesn't shy away from sharing those benefits with us. Also there's an identity reveal and it's fantastic.
Something I really love with @buggachat Bakery Enemies AU is how you can see and understand Marinette’s perspective and fears, even though she’s got an erroneous idea of what’s going on with Adrien.
We the readers KNOW she’s wrong about Adrien being the Peacock holder, or being any sort of threat to her or the people she cares about. But we understand why SHE thinks he is - and not just from an information perspective. Like in these latest updates, with her seeing Adrien after snooping through his phone. Buggachat doesn’t show us Adrien’s face, his expression, because MARINETTE doesn’t see it. She’s only paying attention to his outline, to the shape of Adrien, to his background and not to Adrien himself, as a person. And we can see what she’s looking at, with Adrien right by her sewing box, even as we can see that he’s actually paying attention to the pictures on the wall behind it.
Just… this whole comic series is a master class in how to show your main character having the entirely wrong idea, a skewed perspective, in a way where the reader can see what’s actually going on, but also understand what the POV character is concentrating on, is thinking and feeling in order to GET that wrong idea.
I’m on Team ‘Catwalker is Adrien’ solely because of the absolute absurdity of that situation. Adrien renouncing his miraculous, only for Ladybug to show up in his bathroom an hour later begging him to be the new wielder of the black cat miraculous. Plagg is released from the the ring and they share a look of complete bafflement. Uno reverse.
In an alternate universe where Kagami knows, and Luka does too:
"Thanks for the advice, again," Marinette said.
Kagami hummed, asking, "Who helped you practice, by the way?"
Marinette smiled, that blissfully oblivious smile that always had Kagami stuck between wanting to scream and wanting to be the one to have put it there.
Kagami was hopelessly -
"Chat Noir helped."
- in love. With morons. Absolute morons.
"Right," Kagami turned on her heel, "See you later."
"See you!"
She avoided her waiting car, ducking out of the back door instead, and set a brisk course for the Liberty.
Luka was unsurprised to see her.
"What did they do this time."
"Marinette practiced confessing her love for Adrien."
"Uhuh ..." "Marinette practiced confessing her love for Adrien to Adrien."
"Ah."
it pains me how much I want this to be an accidental Realization reveal on her part
chloe on a balcony trying to signal ladybug: and here’s the light i made specifically to summon her but she never comes 🥲
marinette on a balcony summoning chat noir: pspspsps
❗️cw mention of death, still not friendly but it’s getting better, they're having an unheated conversation… felix and mari centric story where adrien is a senti and he had vanished (aka dead)
will be posting more using the tag #filling space au
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here’s *THAT* trailer so you can hyperventilate again
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aot ships are getting confirmed left and right and i'm still here waiting for rivetra to be canon
i’ll be watching s4 of miraculous the same way i’ve watched every season of miraculous
out of order and in a language i don’t understand
Postcard from dystopia.
And the only way we achieved it was by not having kids in school.
