dvd commentary meme

[marguerite_26]

dvd commentary meme

Name one of my fics in comments and I will tell you what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the characters' heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

okay... no guarantees that these will be funny or entertaining in any way, but if you are interested or had specific questions I will try to um... talk about my writing a stuff.

HP and Merlin fics are both welcome.

stolen from sheswatching
[I don't do tagging and stuff... so if you'd like to do this meme. DOOOO IIIIIT!!]

Okay. I did Savage - The Marking Scene OMG! tl;dr - totally self-indulgent. but I had fun. :)

I will get to the others tomorrow. I'm off for the night. Cheers!

Comments

[myashke.livejournal.com]

Clarifying Ownership

I can't even *think* about this fic without getting weak knees. *happy sigh*

Specifics? I would love to know what inspired this fic, what made you decide to have Arthur be so... presumptuous. That's not the right word, but - in your mind, did you he even consider Merlin's reaction to the exhibitionism? Did he want to prove something to Merlin as well as the knights? When I read it, my brain is already fizzling out by the time I could wonder about these things, but afterwards, I wonder. Also, *how* are you so brilliant?

/fangirling

I can't help it. ♥

♥

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

will do. tomorrow though. ♥

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Some thoughts on Clarifying Ownership (http://marguerite-26.livejournal.com/463777.html). I’ve always been really surprised at its popularity. I’ve written rather a lot of 2k pwps and I can’t honestly say that when I was writing this one it felt any different. And actually, I thought it was crap when I posted it to KMM (and it got all of 5 comments), so I fiddled with it a bit and gave a bit more depth to the Merlin/Arthur dynamic but really only added a handful of sentences and gave it a new name (it was previously ‘Interrupted’ which was dead boring). But more than any other of my short fics in Merlin fandom, this one gets a bit of extra love.

As for what inspired it, Dreamdustmama made a joke out of a title of one of my posts being “COME PLAY” and prompted me to write a ‘come play’ fic. And I have a huge kink for fingering post-sex and the hole is all sensitive and sloppy with come. >.> um.. yeah.

So, then I saw the KMM prompt for: Arthur/Merlin Arthur is fucking Merlin--in his chambers or in his tent while they're on campaign--and a servant or guard or knight walks in to give Arthur a message or report. Instead of stopping, Arthur continues fucking Merlin while casually listening to the report and giving orders. Merlin is both humiliated and turned on.

And I loved the idea because writing embarrassed/turned on is SO MUCH FUN. But I have a humiliation squick, so I needed it to be ‘embarrassed’ and not ‘humiliated’ – and Arthur continues to fuck Merlin while talking to someone is just too much for me. Far too degrading. And yeah – SQUICK. But being fingered (almost out of sight but not) while Arthur is talking to someone was just the right balance of embarrassed exhibitionism with a hint of power play that hits all my buttons. IDEK. So I combined the two prompts. Made it not only fingering, but post-sex sloppy-hole fingering + Knight standing there giving a report.

Then it had to be Leon because he’s so straight-laced and honourable that he’d do his best to pretend not to notice while getting horribly embarrassed and turned on. Also my kink! [Clearly, I only write porn to turn myself on. LOL]

The funny thing about this fic is that while I think people enjoyed the kink that prompted it, the part that I tacked on later to round out the ‘story’ such as it is (the whole keeping quiet in the tent out of respect for the knights/not keeping quiet this time because Arthur wanted to make a point) is what people liked most about the fic.

Which says a lot about PWPs – it’s the emotion behind the porn that captures the reader as much as the act itself. In this case, the sex was there and kinky, but it wasn’t anything special without the depth that the (albeit tiny) backstory of ‘keeping quiet’ that gave something more to the Arthur/Merlin relationship.
did you he even consider Merlin's reaction to the exhibitionism? Did he want to prove something to Merlin as well as the knights?
Hmm... that’s a good question. In my mind, Arthur knows Merlin very well. They’ve been lovers for a long time. Lots of trust and understanding there (shown by the fact that they both understand the need to not flaunt their really fabulous sex life in front of the knights). So Arthur knows Merlin’s limits. I don’t think Merlin would want to be ‘fucked while Arthur was talking to a knight’ but to touched (under the covers) while Arthur was talking to a knight said showed Merlin that ‘I’m not embarrassed by us’ and ‘I want everyone to know you are mine’ as much as ‘I kinda love making you squirm in front of other people.’ So yes, Arthur actions said a lot to both the knights and to Merlin. And he did it knowing that Merlin would understand. And the knights would understand he was staking his claim (a one-time thing), rather than flaunting (you guys have to hear this every night).

GAH!!! This is longer than the silly fic. /o\ I hope this was sorta what you were looking for. I’m so honoured that you liked that bit of porn so much! ♥

[bohemiabythesea.livejournal.com]

Clearly, I only write porn to turn myself on.

Don't we all. Ourselves, and by extension, our friends.

[red-cortina.livejournal.com]

I think you've hit the nail on the head about PWPs. If it's just the mechanics that's quite boring - there definitely needs to be backstory/emotion/something else to make it more. I even often find myself only skimming sex scenes in longer fics because in a lot of ways I'm interested in what's led them there and what happens afterwards, and the fact that they had sex, but when it comes to the "and then he did x to him" I don't really care all that much. You could say, well, clearly, those aren't well-written sex scenes, but I don't think that's actually the problem - the sex scenes are at least as well-written as the rest of the fics. Maybe it's partly because after a while of reading things on LJ you get a bit desensitised.

Anyway, thanks for writing this, it's really interesting!- and it also led me on to reading the fic, which was also really good!