Bent
I saw a play by this name once. Accidentally--I had a student's season pass to the student productions at NAU my freshman year. Incredible play, but not to everyone's taste. Also one of the finest productions I have ever seen, and I've seen full-scale productions of The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. Not that this has anything to do with my post.
I've read Les Miserables, too. Abridged. I'm told the extra thousand pages is all political commentary.
Not that that's on topic, either.
Last night, I was bored. I went back and checked to see if there was any new fan fiction by someone whose work I read. Fan fiction is not really my thing, because it usually sucks. But I was bored some months ago, and had one of those Google acid trips where you start out searching for one thing and through some odd chain of links end up somewhere else entirely. And I stumbled across this story.
I had never read anything quite so hot in all my life.
Not everything she writes is like that. There's some completely harmless stuff. I finally realized that the stuff that won me over was labeled "X [V, S]." Which stands for: eXtreme [Violence and Sex]. Last night, I found something new in her archive, with the right label. I was just delighted. And, since I'm not particularly shy, I figured I'd post the link in my blog.
Then I stopped and realized . . . I don't know if I can share this. I mean, I'm open enough with telling people that I'm kinky, but come to think of it, I'm bent in a couple ways that very few of my friends are. And what little porn I read (because, let's face it, porn usually sucks, too) or look at, I seem to get something out of it in large part because it's bent in the same places. So some of my friends won't be interested because something isn't straight. And some of them will be fine with handcuff porn, but nothing with pain in it, thank you. And when I find something that I think is hot, if what's depicted is non-consensual, it doesn't bug me. It bugs a lot of my friends profoundly.
So I guess I finally talked myself out of posting the link. (Though if anybody thinks this is right up their alley, I'll be happy to send it to you). And I started thinking, instead, about those places where even to my friends, I'm a little bit a stranger. And maybe not a stranger they want to know.
I've read Les Miserables, too. Abridged. I'm told the extra thousand pages is all political commentary.
Not that that's on topic, either.
Last night, I was bored. I went back and checked to see if there was any new fan fiction by someone whose work I read. Fan fiction is not really my thing, because it usually sucks. But I was bored some months ago, and had one of those Google acid trips where you start out searching for one thing and through some odd chain of links end up somewhere else entirely. And I stumbled across this story.
I had never read anything quite so hot in all my life.
Not everything she writes is like that. There's some completely harmless stuff. I finally realized that the stuff that won me over was labeled "X [V, S]." Which stands for: eXtreme [Violence and Sex]. Last night, I found something new in her archive, with the right label. I was just delighted. And, since I'm not particularly shy, I figured I'd post the link in my blog.
Then I stopped and realized . . . I don't know if I can share this. I mean, I'm open enough with telling people that I'm kinky, but come to think of it, I'm bent in a couple ways that very few of my friends are. And what little porn I read (because, let's face it, porn usually sucks, too) or look at, I seem to get something out of it in large part because it's bent in the same places. So some of my friends won't be interested because something isn't straight. And some of them will be fine with handcuff porn, but nothing with pain in it, thank you. And when I find something that I think is hot, if what's depicted is non-consensual, it doesn't bug me. It bugs a lot of my friends profoundly.
So I guess I finally talked myself out of posting the link. (Though if anybody thinks this is right up their alley, I'll be happy to send it to you). And I started thinking, instead, about those places where even to my friends, I'm a little bit a stranger. And maybe not a stranger they want to know.
posted by Journey | 9:21 PM
3 Comments:
I think I can imagine the type of profoundly disturbing story you write about. What the heck, try me. Send me the link if you would be so kind. I have known myself to be alternatly revolted and turned-on by such a thing, and I'm curious to know what my gut reaction would be now.... if I dare read it.
--durangodave
If you're squicked, I deny all liability. But I do help discuss to decompress.
Where is it? I'm curious to see if this is someone whose work I'm familiar with.
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